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{ "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40328b3d831d6a00612b" }, "answer" : "{Lightning} or {Thunder}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 98.12081660004333, "num" : 14, "question" : "The Incan god of this was the chief priest of the moon god Coniraya, and one Shinto diety of this phenomenon cried so loudly at birth that he had to be sailed around Japan to calm him down. The Chinese diety of this phenomenon acquired his powers after eating from a heavenly peach tree, and has claws, bat wings, and a birds beak. Along with his bag-carrying brother, another god of this lost a protracted battle with 33 gods and has a companion who hides in the navels of children. In addition to Ajisukitakahikone and Lei Gong, an implement used to create this phenomenon was buried by Thrym, forcing its owner to dress up as Freya in order to retrieve it; that object is Mjollnir. For 10 points, name this atmospheric phenomenon controlled by Raijin, Thor, and Zeus.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 11.doc", "seen" : 67, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40038b3d831d6a0055e3" }, "answer" : "\"The {Waste Land}\"", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 361.1765353190713, "num" : 20, "question" : "The third section of this poem features the Smyrna merchant Mr. Eugenides (yoo-JEN-id-eez). Other characters in this poem include Tiresias, who is described as having \"wrinkled dugs,\" and Madame (*) Sosostris. Its final section, \"What the Thunder Said,\" ends with the repetition of the Sanskrit word \"shantih.\" It also contains sections titled \"The Burial of the Dead\" and \"A Game of Chess.\" For 10 points, name this poem which begins by characterizing April as \"the cruellest month\" and was written by T. S. Eliot.", "round" : "tourn11-13.pdf", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f528b3d831d6a002c51" }, "answer" : "{Extreme Unction} [accept: {Anointing} of the {Sick}; {Unctio Infirmorum}; prompt on “Last {Rites}”]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 49.63551533618011, "num" : 4, "question" : "At the 554 synod of Seleucia, Patriarch Joseph condemned the Nestorians for performing this ceremony on people who were not eligible for it. The biography of St. Hypatius is cited as proof that in the ancient Church, this ceremony could only be performed by a priest. James 5:14-15 is cited to defend the existence of this ceremony, which John Calvin condemned as “histrionic hypocrisy”. This fifth of the seven sacraments is often followed by Viaticum, a special giving of the Eucharist whose Latin name translates as “provisioning”, referring to the metaphysical journey that often follows this sacrament. For ten points, name this Catholic sacrament administered to the ill or dying.", "round" : "Round 08.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40728b3d831d6a007049" }, "answer" : "The {Dumbwaiter}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.8590205111541, "num" : 11, "question" : "Steven H. Gale noted that the personas of this work's protagonists fluctuate because one incident they experience “reflects order, predictability” while another incident “does not.”   One character is trying to understand the content “down in black and white” of a newspaper, while another character recollects that the Tottenham soccer team defeated the Birmingham Villa team because of a controversial penalty.  The protagonists are given notes that read “Macaroni Pastitsio.  Ormitha Macarounada.” and “Scampi.” through the titular machine.  Wilson, who never manifests himself, summons the hit men Ben and Gus, in, for 10 points, what absurdist dramatic piece by Harold Pinter?", "round" : "NNT_Packet_10.doc", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "NNT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f748b3d831d6a00342e" }, "answer" : "A {Handful} of {Dust}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.5218335841782, "num" : 14, "question" : "Reverend Tendril makes constant references in this novel to his time in India, and its protagonist owns Hetton Abbey, whose rooms are named for characters in Le Morte d'Arthur. The protagonist's wife feigns an interest in economics classes to facilitate an affair with a worthless son of an interior decorator named John Beaver and later marries (*) Jock Grant-Menzies. After refusing to divorce Brenda, this novel's protagonist joins an expedition led by Dr. Messinger to find a lost South American city, but ends up imprisoned by the half-caste trader Todd. Tony Last is subjected to the brutal torment of ceaselessly reading aloud works of Charles Dickens in, for 10 points, what work by Evelyn Waugh?", "round" : "Round 20 Finals II.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40448b3d831d6a00655f" }, "answer" : "{Little Miss Sunshine}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 847.4631663993932, "num" : 7, "question" : "One character in this movie is addicted to heroin, but his daughter Sheryl doesn't notice because she is more concerned about her brother Frank, for whom she has taken responsibility after his romantic woes bring him to a suicide attempt. Edwin instead concerns himself with his granddaughter, while her parents struggle with Dwayne's obsession with Nietzsche and unwillingness to communicate. All these troubles come to a head on a family road-trip when granddaughter Olive decides to participate in the titular beauty contest of, for 10 points, what 2006 independent film?", "round" : "Round 5 - Vandy 4.doc", "seen" : 564, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40648b3d831d6a006d21" }, "answer" : "{Eugène Delacroix}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.9464779689442, "num" : 12, "question" : "The lower right portion of this artist's painting Ovid among the Scythians depicts the milking of a dark mare. Virgil leads the title figure across the Acheron in his The Barque of Dante. The title figure of another painting by this artist reclines on a bed and orders officers to cut the throats of various horses and women. In addition to The (*) Death of Sardanapalus, this artist painted a work that includes a boy wielding two pistols and a bare-breasted female carrying a musket and the French flag. For 10 points, name this artist of Liberty Leading the People.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405b8b3d831d6a006acd" }, "answer" : "{Ghana} [prompt on {Gold Coast} before it is read]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.8028769218363, "num" : 17, "question" : "This country's president Hilla Limann was overthrown in a 1981 military coup by Jerry Rawlings. An empire centered in this country's city of Kumasi was founded by Osei Tutu and based on allegiance to the Golden Stool. It first gained independence with the support of the Convention People's Party in 1957, making it the first African country to become independent from England. For 10 points, name this country whose first president was Kwame Nkrumah, once known as the Gold Coast.", "round" : "Round_14_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f288b3d831d6a002205" }, "answer" : "{seder} [do not accept “{Passover}” or “{Pesakh}”]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 49.27113032899797, "num" : 2, "question" : "A lesser-known version of this type of observance is called Hemdat ha-Yamim, and takes place on the holiday of Tu Bishvat. Songs commonly sung during this observance include “Had Gadya” and “Daiyenu.” Steps of its most well- known version include urchatz, the ritual washing of the hands, and maror. Like Yom Kippur, this ritual is concluded with the words “Next year in Jerusalem,” after the afikoman is found. This ritual features the discussion of the Four Sons, the recitation of the Four Questions, and the drinking of four cups of wine, which are symbolic of the four distinct redemptions promised by God to the Hebrews in the book of Exodus. For 10 points, the consumption of matzah highlights this ritual Jewish meal, conducted on the first and second days of Passover.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Eden Prairie + Maryland B.pdf", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40898b3d831d6a0075a2" }, "answer" : "{Reinhold Messner}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.4822165495716, "num" : 21, "question" : "From 1999 to 2004, this man was a representative to the European Parliament from Italy's Green Party.  His writings include Antarctica: Both Heaven and Hell, and a work subtitled Expedition to the Ultimate.  His \"unauthorized biography\" titled a 1999 album by Ben Folds Five, and he was the subject of a 1984 Werner Herzog film about his tackling of Gashenbrum I and II.  He first came to prominence after losing several toes at Nanga Parbat, but he became the first man to ascend Everest without supplementary oxygen.  FTP, identify this Italian mountain climber who pioneered an Alpine climbing system and was the first man to climb all fourteen peaks taller than 8,000 meters.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Chicago B Harvard C.doc", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40008b3d831d6a005537" }, "answer" : "Cadmus", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 681.3853662977926, "num" : 16, "question" : "According to legend, this man brought Greece the alphabet. When Illyria was destroyed, Zeus turned this figure and Harmonia into black serpents and sent them to the Elysian Fields. This man was ordered by the oracle at Delphi to cease his quest to find his sister (*) Europa and to settle at the spot where a cow lay down. This man created a race of armed men known as Spartoi after planting dragon's teeth. For 10 points, name this founder of Thebes.", "round" : "tourn11-05.pdf", "seen" : 456, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401f8b3d831d6a005c61" }, "answer" : "{Gaius Valerius Catullus}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.7560868454166, "num" : 9, "question" : "This man wrote two poems about his girlfriend's pet sparrow, one bemoaning the fact that the sparrow got to play with her and he didn't, and another about the death of the bird. He also penned some scathing poems about acquaintances he had, a less obscene one of which involved a napkin stolen by Asinius Marrucinus. Some of his nicer poetry was addressed to his special lady asking to “Let us live” and “Let us love”, in addition to requesting exactly 3,300 kisses, then requesting that they all be mixed up so no one will be jealous of “how many kisses [they] have shared”. Penning the famous words “Odi et amo”, identify this Golden Age Roman poet who wrote of his love for Lesbia.", "round" : "02 TU.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402d8b3d831d6a006017" }, "answer" : "The {Sickness Unto Death}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.66838568286039, "num" : 21, "question" : "Chapter 2 of this work cites a line from Macbeth, “All is but toys: renown and grace is dead,” to show how the selfish culmination of ambition leaves one grasping at grace, and thus one cannot even enjoy his own achievements. One appendix focuses on the modo ponedo form of an offense, as the affirmation of Christianity as a falsehood confers the same on Christ. Proposing that sin is a ‘position' and not a ‘negation,' this work begins with the elliptical definition of the self as “a relation which relates itself to its own self.” It takes its title from a verse in the Gospel of John and was written under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. Concluding that despair is homologous with sin, for ten points, name this “Christian Psychological Exposition” written by Soren Kierkegaard.", "round" : "Round1.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef88b3d831d6a001744" }, "answer" : "{Sepoy Mutiny}; or {Sepoy} Revolt [or {India’s} First {War} of {Independence}; accept any {plausible} answer {involving} the {year 1857} and a word like {revolt} or {uprising} prior to the mention of that {year}; prompt on {Indian Mutiny} or equivalent before the mention of the word “{India}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.3698626693804, "num" : 23, "question" : "The Battle of Morar in this conflict allowed Hugh Rose to conquer Gwalior. Henry Lawrence died trying to defend a besieged city ultimately relieved twice during this conflict, once by Henry Havelock and once by Colin Campbell. This conflict began in Meerut and featured a massacre at Bibi Ghar. Mangal Pandey was the first person to die in this conflict. Tatya Tope [“toh-pay”] led the troops that conquered (*) Kanpur during this conflict, which also involved two sieges of Lucknow. It was sparked in part by the Enfield rifle, whose cartridges contained animal fat, and it led to the demise of the British East India Company. For 10 points, name this 1857 revolt of Indian officers.", "round" : "Packet 3 - Prelims 3.doc", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40928b3d831d6a0077a1" }, "answer" : "{Bartolome Esteban Murillo}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 60.02266982244328, "num" : 18, "question" : "His two altarpieces, the Virgin with Saint Bernard and Saint Ildefonsus Receiving the Chasuble, were probably painted for the convent of Saint Clemente, and his Flight Into Egypt resides at the Detroit Institute of Art. His first documented works are the Vision of Friar Lauterio and the Virgin Presenting the Rosary to St Dominic. Palomino wrote that he first worked as a festival painter and in 1645 he married Beatrice Villalobos. The Ecstasy of Saint Francis reflects the influence of Zurburan and Boy De-Lousing Himself was the first of his canvasses depicting children, another of which is the Grape and Melon Eaters. FTP, name this seventeenth-century Spanish realist best known for his numerous versions of the Immaculate Conception, especially that of the Escorial.", "round" : "Michigan A.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f448b3d831d6a0028f0" }, "answer" : "{Ronald Wilson Reagan}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.1602596112061, "num" : 6, "question" : "His presidency saw the passage of the Simpson-Mazzoli Act that granted amnesty to some illegal immigrants. This president's tenure also saw the bombing of air defense networks and barracks in Libya, an air traffic controllers' strike, and the U.S. invasion of Grenada. Seeking to stimulate the economy, his policies emulated supply-side economics. John Hinckley Junior attempted to assassinate, for 10 points, what U.S. President who once served as the president of the Screen Actors Guild?", "round" : "FKT 2010 Joe FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40168b3d831d6a005a30" }, "answer" : "{Mark Morris}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 125.746076599462, "num" : 19, "question" : "An essay by Roland Barthes inspired this man's Championship Wrestling and he choreographed a dance to Yo-Yo Ma's performance of Bach's third Cello Suite for the Barbara Sweete Wilson film Falling Down Stairs.  More recent works of this man include All Fours and V, as well as a dance version of Four Saints in Three Acts.  Christine Van Loon designed costumes for a production in which paired male dancers kiss and slap each other and which ends with the chorus \"Mirth, with thee we mean to live\" from the titular Handel work, L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato. Maile Okamura recently played Belinda in his dance production of Dido and Aeneas and he collaborated with Mikhail Baryshnikov to found the White Oak Dance Project as well as on the ballet Three Preludes. For 15 points, name this relatively heavyset American choreographer and dancer.", "round" : "KLEE - Round 9.doc", "seen" : 80, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc28b3d831d6a0046c7" }, "answer" : "{Seven Gothic} Tales [accept “The {Monkey}” before the {seconed} sentence is read]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.63016633200459, "num" : 12, "question" : "One character in this work notes that he can't trust anyone who hasn't either given birth or been in an orgy, justifying his distrust of Pastor Rosenquist.  Another part of this work details the history of the privateer ship Fortuna II, and another sees several characters watch the marionette play Revenge of the Truth the night before Nino and Prince Pozentiani duel.  Other sections see Baron von Brackel reminisce about how he thought he'd seduced a stranger  before realizing in the morning she was a prostitute; soprano Pellegrina Leoni (*) lose her voice and switch identities; and Calypso and Miss Malin exchange tales with a Cardinal who finally reveals himself to be the actor Kasparson just before they drown in a freak deluge.  For 10 points, “The Monkey,” “The Dreamers,” and “The Supper at Elsinore” are among the novellas included in what collection by Isak Dinesen that, despite its name, takes place in the nineteenth century?", "round" : "Rd06.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8d8b3d831d6a003a5b" }, "answer" : "{Shiva} [or {Shankara}; do not accept “{Rudra}”]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.73185729049146, "num" : 7, "question" : "The city of Hampi contains a temple with 1008 structures dedicated to this deity, while other temples dedicated to him include one at Trimbakeshwar, which commemorates the formation of the Godavari River, and the Mallikarjuna Temple at Srishailam. A festival is celebrated to mark the devotion of the consort who stayed up all night to care for this deity after he swallowed poison that came from the churning of the ocean. This deity is depicted performing the Tandava dance in his Nataraja form, and temples dedicated to him feature phallic structures called lingams. For 10 points, name this husband of Parvati who accidentally beheaded his son Ganesh, the Hindu destroyer deity.", "round" : "Editors 5 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 67, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb78b3d831d6a0007e6" }, "answer" : "{Pentecostalism} [or {Pentacostal Holiness Church}, {International}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 392.3510310889687, "num" : 20, "question" : "Members of this religion took part in the Azusa Street Revival. The first sermon delivered by radio was given by Aimee Semple McPherson, a member of this religion. The best-known preacher of this religion converted from this faith to (+) Methodism in 1968 and later claimed that God threatened to take him \"home\" unless the congregation donated eight million dollars to build a hospital. One debate in this sect concerned whether xenolalia or (*) glossolalia was the correct term for its practitioners' speaking in unlearned tongues, and it also places emphasis on faith healing. For 10 points, name this faith once proselytized by Oral Roberts, which takes its name from the date on which the Apostles received the Holy Spirit.", "round" : "16.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408d8b3d831d6a00767a" }, "answer" : "{Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.80878026667051, "num" : 5, "question" : "He depicted a small-scale insurrection in The Crimson Island and wrote a play about the life of Moliére, A Cabal of Hypocrites. One of his was a reworking of his play The Day of the Turbins, and in one of his shorter works a testicular transplant turns Sharik into a monster named Polygraph Polygraphovich. In a novel by this author, the naked woman Hella and a shady clown named Koroviev-Faggot learn that “manuscripts don't burn” while performing in the stage show of the magician Woland, in a story running parallel to an interpretation of Faust and the crucifixion of Jesus. For 10 points, name this author of Heart of a Dog and The Master and Margarita.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - VCU A.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3faf8b3d831d6a004241" }, "answer" : "{Hans-Georg Gadamer}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 40.4387850468047, "num" : 7, "question" : "This thinker wrote about the poet Paul Celan in the essay “Who Am I and Who are You?\" He investigated the art of medicine in The Enigma of Health Care, while his first important book focused on Plato's dialectical ethics. In another work, this author explored the ability of art to transport the reader or viewer from ordinary time to “fulfilled” or “autonomous” time, an idea that relates to the subtitular concept of art as “festival.” That essay, which further posits art as “play” and as “symbol,” is entitled “The Relevance of the Beautiful.” His most famous work, which criticizes Wilhelm Dilthey for his “entanglement in the aporias of historicism” and which led to various debates with Jurgen Habermas, describes the process of the “fusion of horizons” and argues for the importance of “historically-effected consciousness” in understanding and interpreting texts. For 10 points, identify this German developer of a philosophical hermeneutics, whose magnum opus is Truth and Method.", "round" : "r11- Stanford.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f158b3d831d6a001dc1" }, "answer" : "{Pirenne thesis}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.33036640635692, "num" : 6, "question" : "Among the nine main reasons its formulator laid supporting it were the observations that tax collection was disorganized and lending money at interest was prohibited. Its formulator also argued on behalf of the significant achievements of Cassiodorus and particularly Boethius. Britain was exempted from it as was Venice due to their isolation and multiple trade routes respectively. It was introduced in the book Medieval Cities and became crystallized in its formulator's follow-up Mohammed and Charlemagne. Arguing that the break with antiquity and the decline of Western civilization was due not to Germanic invasions but the advance of Islam, for 10 points, identify this theory of European development named for the Belgian historian who proposed it.", "round" : "Editor's Round (Finals 1).docx", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef08b3d831d6a00155e" }, "answer" : "{central limit} theorem", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.3911375503522, "num" : 14, "question" : "The amount of error created by applying this theorem to intermediate values is the subject of the\n Berry-Esseen theorem. The Cramer-Wold theorem can be used to generalize this in a multivariate manner.\n The de Moivre-Laplace theorem is a special case of this. One statement of this is named for Feller and\n Lindeberg and this is true when Lyapunov's condition holds. A rule of thumb resulting from this is that one\n should have a minimum of 30 in a sample when the population is non-Gaussian. When sampling, this\n theorem implies a distribution with standard deviation sigma over square root n. For 10 points, name this\n theorem that implies as sample sizes get larger, the distribution of sample means approaches a normal\n distribution.", "round" : "18.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb88b3d831d6a000848" }, "answer" : "{Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.6190841651988, "num" : 3, "question" : "In one story by this author, the narrator becomes hopelessly lost before stumbling on a group of boys telling local legends about drowned men around a campfire. This author collected that story, \"Bezhin Meadow,\" along with \"My Neighbor Radilov\" in his A Sportsman's Sketches. This author wrote a novel in which Anna (*) Odintsova entertains several of the main characters, one of whom is a nihilist. For 10 points, name this Russian author who created the Kirsinovs and Bazarovs in his novel Fathers and Sons.", "round" : "02.pdf", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3feb8b3d831d6a005039" }, "answer" : "Treaty of {Versailles}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 343.0180591850076, "num" : 11, "question" : "This document's solution to the Shandong Problem led to the May Fourth Movement in China. This document established the Free City of Danzig and a Polish Corridor to the Baltic Sea. The reparations demanded by this treaty were revised by the Young and Dawes Plans. Henry Cabot Lodge prevented this treaty's passage in the United States Senate. Vittorio Orlando left during this treaty's negotiations, in which George Clemenceau called for harsh punishment of Germany. For 10 points, name this peace treaty that ended Germany's participation in World War I.", "round" : "4q1-13.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406b8b3d831d6a006eb1" }, "answer" : "A {Connecticut Yankee} in {King Arthur's Court}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.0140317415353, "num" : 4, "question" : "In this work, the title character repairs the masonry in the bottom of a well, and that character eventually marries Sandy, and has a child named Hello-Central, whose illness forces a trip to France. The protagonist of this work finds himself backed into a cave with his protégé Clarence, with whom he makes a final stand against all the knights of England with a few Gatling guns and electrocuted fences. For 10 points, name this novel in which Hank Morgan travels back in time to Camelot, a work by Mark Twain.", "round" : "Round_15_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fac8b3d831d6a00419f" }, "answer" : "Of {Love} and Other {Demons} or {Del Amor} y {Otros Demonios}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.68062990508043, "num" : 13, "question" : "This work features an atheist doctor who procures numerous books, including Amadis of Gaul, in an attempt to liberate the mind of a future curator of the Vatican Library. At one point in this novel, a family celebrates the Feast of Saint Ambrose, which is presided over by the de facto head of the household Dominga de Adviento. Later chapters include the escape of the insane Martina Laborde, and the recitation of Garcilaso de la Vega's sonnets in a cell. It is prefaced by a quote from Aquinas's “On the Integrity of Resurrected Bodies,” and a note by the author that details his inspection of a 200 year old tomb in Cartagena that revealed a corpse with still growing hair. It opens with the twelve year old daughter of the Marquis de Casalduero, a mulatto girl raised by slaves, being bitten by a rabid dog and subsequently sent to the Convent of Santa Clara. It ends with her dying after the secret passage, which once allowed her betrothed to visit, is closed. For 10 points, identify this novel about the relationship between a young girl thought to be possessed, Sierva Maria, and the priest, Cayetano de Laura, who is sent to help, but falls for her, a work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.", "round" : "r04- VCU.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5f8b3d831d6a002f0a" }, "answer" : "{Maxim Gorky} [or {Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.11751973349601, "num" : 13, "question" : "In one work, this man wrote about a group of pretzel workers that Tanya visits every morning. The title character of another of his works hides Andrey after a spy is found dead in the streets, and later dresses up as a peasant to distribute some pamphlets. This author of “Twenty-six Men and a Girl” and Mother wrote about the hunchbacked Nikita, who gives up being a monk, in The Artomonov Business. Another of his plays begins with Nastya reading Fatal Love. That play by this author describes the dingy residences owned by Kostilyoff, whose residents are comforted by the tramp Luka. For 10 points, name this Russian pioneer of Socialist Realism, the author of The Lower Depths.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - EP Gaurav - Done.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40088b3d831d6a00570b" }, "answer" : "{Zulu} Empire [or {amaZulu}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1477108539548, "num" : 1, "question" : "This empire moved north of the Tugela River after losing a devastating battle to forces commanded by Andries Pretorius. This empire expanded by using a new weapon, the assegai, and used impi to defeat its neighbors during the Mfecane. Under Cetshwayo, this empire destroyed British troops in the Battle of (*) Isandlwana, although it suffered a significant setback in 1838 after losing the Battle of Blood River to Boer settlers. For 10 points, name this empire that controlled most of southern Africa in the nineteenth century under the leadership of Shaka.", "round" : "tourn8-13.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406c8b3d831d6a006efc" }, "answer" : "Mexico", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.6063403589651, "num" : 10, "question" : "One artist from this country painted The March of Humanity and founded the radical magazine Machete. Another artist from this country painted The Epic of American Civilization on the walls of Dartmouth's Baker Library. A third artist from this country painted several self-portraits with monkeys, which also display her notable unibrow. Yet another artist from this country painted murals like Man at the Crossroads and The Day of the Dead. For 10 points, name this country home to David Siquieros, Jose Orozco, Frida Kahlo, and Diego Rivera.", "round" : "Round_03_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eef8b3d831d6a001533" }, "answer" : "Bokononism", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 391.7967434589285, "num" : 17, "question" : "This religion reveres a young woman who “understands the simplicity of all” and it uses the term\n \"vin-dit\" to describe a religious epiphany. Its adherents proclaim “Now I destroy the world” shortly before\n dying and its scriptures are divided into sections called calypsos. This religion's most important ritual\n involves two practitioners joining the soles of their feet. This religion, founded by Lionel Boyd Johnson,\n holds that each person unknowingly does God’s will with the help of a group called a karass, though there\n exist false karasses known as granfaloons. For 10 points, name this religion illegally practiced by every\n citizen of San Lorenzo in Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.", "round" : "16.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff28b3d831d6a0051ea" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Berlin}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.7376982546411, "num" : 29, "question" : "Meliton Kantaria was the subject of a famous photograph taken at the conclusion of this battle. Vasily Chuikov (CHWEE-koff) accepted the losing side's surrender at this battle's conclusion. The Volkssturm (FOLKS-shturm) played a major role in this battle. This battle ended with the raising of the Soviet flag above the Reichstag and with Karl Dönitz (DUHr-nitz) becoming the last Führer (FYUHr-er) of the Third Reich. For 10 points, name this battle that concluded World War II in Europe, during which Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker underneath the namesake city.", "round" : "4q2-11.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401f8b3d831d6a005c6a" }, "answer" : "{Irwin Allen Ginsberg}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9933001997415, "num" : 18, "question" : "One of this poet's collections contains a poem inspired by a sunflower in a railyard and another poem describing himself as nearsighted and psychopathic addressed to America. Another one of his poems begins “Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes” and was composed in memory of his mother. Another poem by this man sees Garcia Lorca “down by the watermelons” and Whitman “eyeing the grocery boys”. Penning that poem, “A Supermarket in California”, as well as the line “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…”, identify this man who wrote, among other things, the poems “Kaddish” and “Howl”.", "round" : "02 TU.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc48b3d831d6a004757" }, "answer" : "Euripides", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.94157723803073, "num" : 12, "question" : "In one play by this author, Odysseus and Diomedes kill Dolon before stealing the horses of the title character, while he wrote another play in which Theseus and the Athenians invade Thebes in order to bury the dead bodies which Creon refused to bury.  In addition to Rhesus and The Suppliants, he wrote a play in which Demophon and Iolaus protect the title characters from Copreus and Eurystheus, and one in which Pylades and Electra capture Hermione in revenge against their betrayal by Menelaus.  This author of Heracleidae and Orestes wrote a more well known play in which Dionysis punishes Pentheus by dressing him as a woman.  For 10 points—name this author of The Bacchae.", "round" : "2.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3a8b3d831d6a002664" }, "answer" : "{Commonwealth} of {Massachusetts}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "MS", "inc_random" : 2303.922918066848, "num" : 16, "question" : "This state was the only one to vote against Richard Nixon in the 1972 general election. In 2010, its Attorney General, Martha Coakley, lost in the race to fill a vacant Senate seat. That seat was won by Scott Brown, who replaced long-time politician Ted Kennedy. For 10 points, 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry is a senator from what state whose capital is Boston?", "round" : "CMST_Round07.pdf", "seen" : 1527, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40928b3d831d6a0077a0" }, "answer" : "{Antioch} or {Antiochus} or {Antakya}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.95817993348464, "num" : 17, "question" : "One ancient city of this name, in Pisidia, was the largest Roman veteran colony in Asia Minor. In the Book of Acts, Paul preaches a sermon there on Jesus as the successor of David before the leaders of the synagogue run him and Barnabas out of town. The larger one, on the Orontes, was captured three times by Persians, after itself having been annexed by Pompey in 64 BCE. It had early served as the capital for the Seleucid kings, many of whom shared its name. FTP, a college near Dayton, Ohio shares the name of what city now in Turkey that was the capital of Roman Syria; the third-largest city in the Empire and, according to Acts, the place where Paul and his associates were first called Christians.", "round" : "Michigan A.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40438b3d831d6a006519" }, "answer" : "Mexico", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5224255628418, "num" : 20, "question" : "One writer of this nationality used the second person to tell of Felipe Montero, who is editing the memoirs of General Llorente, and desires a relationship with the title character, Aura.  A Nobel Prize winning author from this country adapted Hawthorne's \"Rappaccini's Daugther\" into a play and also wrote \"The Bow and the Lyre\" and a poetry collection containing \"The Day of the Dead\" and \"The Labyrinth of Solitude\".  The nationality of the author of The Death of Artemio Cruz, Carlos Fuentes, for 10 points, identify this country home to an Aztec Sunstone described by native son Octavio Paz.", "round" : "Round 12 - UMD 4.doc", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5f8b3d831d6a002f1c" }, "answer" : "Poseidon", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.67993557732552, "num" : 10, "question" : "This figure's daughter Benthesikyme rescued and raised his son Eumolpos. Zeus convinced a group of centaurs to trample to death a figure once raped by this deity, who changed that maiden into the invulnerable male warrior Caeneus after ravishing her. This figure's tryst on the floor of Athena's temple convinced Athena to turn Medusa into a hideous Gorgon. This deity loses a contest to Athena after she creates the first olive tree, making her the patron of Athens. He had sons like Polyphemus and Triton, who could control the waves with a conch shell. For 10 points, name this wielder of the Trident, the Greek god of the sea.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - EP Tony - Done.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f458b3d831d6a002905" }, "answer" : "alcohols", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.4592909251805, "num" : 5, "question" : "Grignard reagents can react with carbonyl groups to form these compounds. Their primary type can be oxidized to aldehydes and then to carboxylic acids, but their secondary type normally terminates the process at the ketone stage. In Fischer esterification, they are reacted with carboxylic acid to form the namesake compounds. Having a general formula of C-n-H-2n-plus-1-O-H, for 10 points, identify these organic compounds in which a hydroxyl group is bound to a carbon atom that include methanol and ethanol.", "round" : "FKT 2010 Lei FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fee8b3d831d6a0050f0" }, "answer" : "{Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.4351582895032, "num" : 2, "question" : "This writer wrote about being imprisoned on false evidence in his memoir The Man Died. This author wrote about the clash between Oba Danlola and the title dictator in his work Kongi's Feast . In another work by this man, Simon Pilkings causes a panic in the village of Oyo when he prevents Elesin from fulfilling his duty towards the alafin. He also wrote about Sidi, a beautiful girl lusted after by the village chief Baroka. For 10 points, name this first African winner of the Nobel Prize, a Nigerian playwright of Death and the King's Horseman and The Lion and the Jewel.", "round" : "4q2-04.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40218b3d831d6a005cec" }, "answer" : "Odysseus", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.3756280071102, "num" : 15, "question" : "This mythological figure fathered Agrius and Latinus, and he defeated one enemy by first giving him wine from the priest Maron. This man captured Helenus, who told him how to end the siege of a walled city. This figure was killed by one of his less famous sons, Telegonus, whose mother transformed some of this man's crew into swine. Name this mastermind of the Trojan horse, father of Telemachus, and husband of Penelope, who reigned at Ithaca and was the subject of a Homeric epic.", "round" : "09 TU.pdf", "seen" : 450, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9c8b3d831d6a003de4" }, "answer" : "{Perpetual} Peace: A Philosophical Sketch [or {Zum ewigen Frieden}: {Ein philosophischer Entwurf}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 40.69606307893991, "num" : 12, "question" : "The footnotes to this essay convey the author's disappointment that a question by \"the wise and acute\" Count von Windischgrätz was never answered. It notes that with regards to conquered enemies, the chief difference between European and American savages was that the latter dined on them. Less \"outdated\" views presented in this essay included the distinction between a \"form of sovereignty\" and \"form of government,\" which together comprise civitas and which are further developed in the two supplements and two appendices to this work. Modern debate on this work conjectures whether or not its author intended to discuss universal male suffrage as a means to its end. Containing six preliminary and three definitive articles on the title subject, this essay subtitled \"A Philosophical Sketch\" discusses \"world citizenship\" of members of \"republican states\" giving rise to hospitality, and thus the title concept. For 10 points, identify this work which sparked democratic peace theory, written by Immanuel Kant.", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40858b3d831d6a00749c" }, "answer" : "{Eid al-Adha}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.37260421407409, "num" : 13, "question" : "It is preceded by the \"'Arafah\" and like a similarly named event it should be opened with two \"rakahs\" with a few additional takbirs. Often known as the \"Big\" or \"Greater\" one, it can last for three days during which a major meal is cooked but only one third of it is eaten while the other two thirds are given away. Occuring 70 days after the end of Ramada on the 10th day of Zul-Hijjah, its Quranic source is form the surah entitled \"The Cow\", which is appropriate as rams and cows are often slaughtered for this event. Celebrated by those who cannot complete the Hajj that year, for 10 points identify this festival that commemorates the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son, an Islamic holiday known as the \"Festival of Sacrifice.\"", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7a8b3d831d6a0035da" }, "answer" : "{Gabriela Mistral}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.52384209237061, "num" : 16, "question" : "In one work by this author, the author recounts the sadness surrounding her mother's death and longs for her to come back from the dead to provide her with a maternal feeling while another work continually references the color gold to describe two souls interacting in Heaven. Those two poems, “Lapida Filial” and “Paraiso” are contained in the poetry collection Tala, while other poetry collections include a poem detailing the suicide of the author's former lover which stresses the theme of suffering and another which sees the speaker telling its addressee “From the frozen crypt where men put you away, I'll lower you to the humble, sunny ground.”. For 10 points, identify this first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, a Chilean poet who wrote Desolation and Sonnets of Death.", "round" : "Maryland A.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec78b3d831d6a000b8e" }, "answer" : "{Japan} [or {Nihon-koku}; or {Nippon-koku}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.8131947794464, "num" : 16, "question" : "One author from this country wrote about a criminal whose climb to heaven is ended when he refuses to let others follow behind him on the title object. This home to the author of \"The Spider's Thread\" had an author write about a group of children confined to a plague-stricken village. Another writer from this country wrote a work titled after a mechanical toy about (*) Toru Okada. For 10 points, name this nation home to Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle authors Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami.", "round" : "tournament17-08.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff38b3d831d6a005212" }, "answer" : "the {USS Maine} [prompt on {ACR-1}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.4295219106134, "num" : 4, "question" : "This vessel was commanded by Charles Sigsbee. One theory regarding this vessel's most famous event considers actions in Bunker A16. This ship was the subject of Hyman Rickover's 1976 investigation that echoed the findings of Del Peral and De Salas that a coal bunker caused its demise. A call to \"remember\" this vessel was rhymed with \"To hell with Spain!\" in the \"yellow\" press following its destruction. For 10 points, name this ship that exploded in Havana harbor in 1898, sparking the Spanish-American War.", "round" : "4q2-13.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9e8b3d831d6a00028d" }, "answer" : "A {Room} with a {View}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.02528582373634, "num" : 20, "question" : "In one scene from this work the protagonist listens to a recitation of a Joseph Emery Prank novel before realizing a passage about a rendezvous in a field of violets is based on herself. The protagonist faints in a public square when she sees blood pouring out of the mouth of a man being stabbed over an unpaid debt. One character in this novel rents the decrepit Cissie Villa from Harry Otway as part of a cruel joke, and later the rector Mr. Beebe consoles the main character after she breaks off her engagement with Cecil Vyse. At the beginning of this novel the protagonist travels with Charlotte Bartlett to Florence where she meets her future husband George Emerson in the titular apartment overlooking the Arno. For 10 points, name this novel about Lucy Honeychurch by E. M. Forster.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Editors 3 final.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef08b3d831d6a00156b" }, "answer" : "wavefunction", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.8805562895723, "num" : 4, "question" : "In the particle-in-a-box model, this quantity is equal to the sum of A sin k x plus B cos k x quantity times\n e to the i omega t, and for the hydrogen atom model this quantity contains the product of a spherical\n harmonic and a Laguerre polynomial. The norm of these quantities is necessarily equal to 1, and the square\n of the magnitude of this quantity at any given state is the probability of the system existing at that state. In\n one interpretation, observation of a system causes the eigenstates of this value to be replaced by a single\n eigenstate. The Hamiltonian operator of this quantity is equal to the total energy of the system times this\n quantity; that equation is named for Schrodinger. For 10 points, name this quantity symbolized psi and used\n to describe the state of a quantum mechanical system.", "round" : "19.pdf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea98b3d831d6a0004cb" }, "answer" : "{AT&T} (or {American Telephone} & {Telegraph Corporation} )", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 41.45027905399911, "num" : 3, "question" : "This company gained an early operating advantage by purchasing Lee De Forest’s vacuum tube technology. This company was led by Thomas Vail, who agreed to the Kingsbury Commitment regulating this company. This company was the subject of a lawsuit which saw this company penalized for using its Western Electric subsidiary to support the rest of the company, requiring the establishment of regional operating companies. A more recent event involving this company is opposed by the Computer and Communication Industry Association, thought this company argues that it would allow for more effective use of bandwidth. For 10 points, name this company that is currently seeking to merge with T-Mobile after being broken up due to its monopoly on phone service.", "round" : "2011 CO History Blaszkiewicz Hang.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408e8b3d831d6a0076c9" }, "answer" : "{rite} of {passage}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.93039504694752, "num" : 17, "question" : "The characteristic communitas, which was influenced by Robert Merton's definition of society as “patterned,” was attributed to Ndembu practitioners of this anthropological phenomenon in works such as The Drums of Affliction and The Forest of Symbols. The term for it was first used by Arnold van Gennep, whose work in rural France formed the basis of a model with three-phases: separation, liminality, and incorporation. In the previously named works, Victor Turner elucidated theories to explain the process of first humiliating, secluding, or testing before allowing a new societal role to be taken. Exemplified by the Norwegian russefeiring, Lakota vision quest, and Jewish Bar Mitzvah, this is, FTP, what phrase used to refer to any ritual symbolizing a change in status?", "round" : "ACF Editors 3.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40358b3d831d6a0061e6" }, "answer" : "A {Season} in {Hell}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.27841500146315, "num" : 18, "question" : " One part of this work notes that “I can explain myself no better than the beggar wth his endless Aves and Pater Nosters.” That section, “Morning,” also notes tht “we are slaves, let us curse not life!” Two sections of this work include one that notes that the author made the world stand still and write down what is unutterable and another that describes the experience of being the slave of Infernal Bridegroom. Those are the two “Delirium” sections, which appear before a sonnet which assigns a color to each of five letters, “Vowels.” A more famous section begins by noting that the author has inherited from the Gauls a narrow brain and awkwardness in contest. For 10 points, name this collection of poetry containing “Bad Blood” and “The Drunken Boat,” written by Arthur Rimbaud.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 7 - Final.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405f8b3d831d6a006bba" }, "answer" : "Yugoslavia", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.2432911302894, "num" : 13, "question" : "It was divided into nine banovine prefectures by king Alexander I, and the country that became this nation was the site of murders during a Skupstina session in 1928. The Magyars here were given autonomy in the Vojvodina province, and this country's third incarnation was the site of a NATO bombing campaign after an “ethnic cleansing” campaign occurred here. Falling apart into nations like Macedonia and Slovenia, for 10 points, name this defunct nation, once ruled by Josip Tito and Slobodan Milosevic, which was home to Serbs and Bosnians.", "round" : "Round_10_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40008b3d831d6a005549" }, "answer" : "London", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.7669792835135, "num" : 13, "question" : "One building in this city consists of a white dome with yellow towers holding cables up protruding from the top. A banquet house in this city has a Peter Paul Rubens-painted ceiling and was designed by Inigo Jones. Richard Rogers designed the Millennium (*) Dome in this city. St.-Martin-In-The-Fields is a church found in a square that commemorates Lord Nelson in this city. The Crystal Palace burned down in this city, which is also the site of Trafalgar square. For 10 points, name this city that Christopher Wren worked in, the site of Westminster Abbey and Big Ben.", "round" : "tourn11-06.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efc8b3d831d6a00182b" }, "answer" : "Aeneas <WD>", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 682.3854022314772, "num" : 13, "question" : "This figure was a son of Aphrodite and a minor prince, a nephew to King Priam. He was attacked by Diomedes and later by Achilles, and killed 28 people. One of his lovers burnt his belongings and then killed herself on the pyre, cursing him forever, while Juno sent that lover an easy death. He killed Turnus and married Lavinia, and this man became the ancestor of Remus and Romulus, who eventually founded Rome. For 10 points, name this prince of Troy, who shacked up with with Dido for a year before leaving her to go to Italy.", "round" : "Round06.doc", "seen" : 452, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f088b3d831d6a001af4" }, "answer" : "Vitamin {D}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.9470332381316, "num" : 20, "question" : "Poisoning by this substance causes azotemia, polydipsia, and itching, while deficiency can cause genu varum, Harrison's groove, and tetany. Forms of this vitamin include lumisterol, sitocalciferol and cholecalciferol. Mushrooms are a vegan source of this vitamin. Naked mole rats lack this vitamin entirely, because it is naturally produced in response to [*] UV radiation, which explains why humans should get at least 20 minutes of sunlight per day. Helping in the reabsorption of calcium and found in dairy products, for 10 points, name this vitamin which in adults prevents osteomalacia and in children prevents rickets.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8d8b3d831d6a003a74" }, "answer" : "{Green Goblin} [prompt on {Goblin}, accept {Norman Osborn}, either part, until mentioned]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 121.5135180677753, "num" : 11, "question" : "This man once framed his partner, Mendel Stromm, for embezzlement. When he was thought to be dead, he was leading the Scrier cabal. The famous anti-drugs storyline in The Amazing Spider-Man used him as the villain, while the creators of Spider-Man broke up because they couldn't agree on his public identity. In Dark Reign, this man was appointed as S.H.I.E.L.D. director. The Sins Past storyline revealed that this man had children with a woman he would later kill, Gwen Stacy, while One More Day revived his son, Harry. For 10 points, name this Spider-Man villain whose real name is Norman Osborn and who rides around on a glider throwing pumpkin bombs.", "round" : "EPHS + OSU - T Party 2010 (1).doc", "seen" : 80, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd58b3d831d6a004b24" }, "answer" : "The {Rose Tattoo}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.23937806836329, "num" : 9, "question" : "The author of this play was inspired to write it by a sailor known as “The Little Horse.” Shortly after a man who is “the grandson of the village idiot” and has “the face of a clown” is introduced, the main character learns that the driver of a (*) banana truck, whose ashes sit in an urn on stage, was an unfaithful drug smuggler. For 10 points, name this play in which Serafina falls in love with Alvaro because he has the same mark on his chest as her late husband, a work by Tennessee Williams.", "round" : "06_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9c8b3d831d6a000201" }, "answer" : "{8 1/2} [accept {Otto e Mezzo} ]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 58.68331360560842, "num" : 11, "question" : "In one scene from this film a man meets a cardinal in the steam room of a spa who asks, “Who told you we come into the world to be happy?” Earlier, the mind reader Maurice has his assistant Maya speak his customers’ thoughts aloud. At the end of this film the main character hides under a table after being questioned by a horde of journalists visiting an artificial spaceship made of 400 tons of concrete. In the opening scene the protagonist floats through the sky holding a rope from a helicopter, after he escapes from his car trapped in a traffic jam. The protagonist of this film sees all the women in his life rebel against him in the harem scene, which is one of his many fantasies as he is harassed about the progress of his ninth movie. For 10 points, name this film about Guido Anselmi’s creative block directed by Fellini.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Berkeley and Miami C final.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f268b3d831d6a0021a1" }, "answer" : "Calgary", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.40565355867147, "num" : 6, "question" : "The host of the International Festival of Animated Objects, this city located east of Banff National Park benefits during the winter from the warming effect of the Chinook winds. A recent issue in this city is the delay of highway construction due to concerns about the Tsuu T'ina. An oil boom peaking in the late 1980s led to the development of a downtown area that features the Plus 15 Skyway network and the Stephen Avenue pedestrian mall. Home to a Chinese Cultural Center that is the largest of its kind in North America as well as the Eau Claire Market, this city also runs a namesake Stampede that is the largest outdoor rodeo show in the world. The third largest city in Canada and home to the National Hockey League's Flames, for 10 points, name this host of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games located south of Edmonton in Alberta Province.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Yale B + McMaster + Matt Bollinger.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed28b3d831d6a000e55" }, "answer" : "{Federal Democratic Republic} of {Ethiopia} [or {Ityop'iya Federalawi Demokrasiyawi Ripeblik}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.3990697758272, "num" : 2, "question" : "This country was the location of the Ogaden War, which occurred during the time when Colonel Mengistu led this country as the head of a committee called the Derg. Many of its forces in the nineteenth century were organized by Ras Gobena, an ally of its emperor (*) Menelik II. It fought a series of wars against Italy that included the Battle of Adowa. For many years during the twentieth century this country was ruled by Haile Selassie. For 10 points, name this African nation, sometimes called Abyssinia, with capital Addis Ababa.", "round" : "01.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc08b3d831d6a004643" }, "answer" : "{John Balliol} [or {John} de {Balliol}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.93867067806423, "num" : 21, "question" : "This ruler had to appear in court due to a predecessor's unpaid wine bill, and his name appeared on the first Ragman Roll. Forces loyal to this man burned a nunnery in Lambley and possibly schoolchildren in Hexham under the command of the Earl of Buchan. This ruler was forced to raise troops in a move that broke the Treaty of Birgham, and he failed to prevent the sack of Berwick. This man signed a treaty with Philip the Fair to form the first (*) Auld Alliance, but his rule came to an end shortly afterward at the Battle of Dunbar. This man's reign came following a period dominated by the Guardians after the death of the Maid of Norway, and this Competitor overcame opposition such as Robert Bruce to resolve the Great Cause. For 10 points, name this man who tried to rebel against Edward I, a short-reigning king of Scotland nicknamed “empty tunic.”", "round" : "Packet 13 - Cheyne of Fools.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9c8b3d831d6a003df2" }, "answer" : "The {Martyrdom} of {St. Sebastian}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.05724489246494, "num" : 5, "question" : "One depiction of this scene includes a man with a pointy hat on the right and was the largest engraving by the first master printmaker, the so called “Master of the Playing Cards.” Hans Memling placed this scene on the left in his crucifixion triptych and painted the central character's gilded red cloak at his feet in another depiction. Guido Reni painted a series of seven versions of this scene, and some paintings of this scene also include the characters Castulus and Irene of Rome. One artist painted a version of this scene in which the shape of a rider can be seen in a cloud, and another version includes a castle on a cliff in the upper right and the broken sculpture of a foot in the lower left. In one of the three paintings Andrea Mantegna did of this scene, the central character has his arms and legs tied to a column. For 10 points, name this scene in which the saint of athletes and soldiers is pierced with arrows.", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f208b3d831d6a00204b" }, "answer" : "{Argentina} [or {Argentine Republic}; or {Republica Argentina}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.73910241597332, "num" : 1, "question" : "One ruler of this country had a secret police force whose name meant “The Ear of Corn,” the Mazorkas. In addition to that caudillo named Juan Manuel de Rosas, another ruler of this nation was supported by the Descamisados. This country was the site of the “Dirty War,” which was instigated by Jorge Rafael Videla. This nation, along with Brazil and Uruguay, defeated Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance. It was once ruled by Juan Peron, whose wife was known as Evita. For 10 points, name this South American country whose leaders reside in Buenos Aires.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 9.pdf", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f148b3d831d6a001d7c" }, "answer" : "{brown dwarf}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.20536889624782, "num" : 14, "question" : "Two of these stellar objects are located in the Epsilon Indi system.  One type of these objects have 1.7 and 2.2 micrometer methane signatures in their spectra, while one important test for them is the presence of the indication of lithium in their spectra.  One example of this type of star is Gliese 229 B.  They include cooler members of the L spectral class and all objects in the T class.   For 10 points, name these substellar objects that are less than 0.08 solar masses and are not hot enough to start thermonuclear reactions.", "round" : "Yale B and Washington.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8e8b3d831d6a003ac9" }, "answer" : "{Yasunari Kawabata}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.05869694892317, "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" : 30, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd98b3d831d6a004c0a" }, "answer" : "{Quantum Tunneling}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.4838247883599, "num" : 7, "question" : "This phenomenon is at the center of a phenomenon in which particles below the Fermi level exhibit cold emission. It also explains how SQUIDs work because of the Josephson effect, in which there is electron flow between superconductors connected, and it also explains how enzymes work. For ten points, name this  phenomenon in which the probability distribution of a particle's presence is partially beyond a classically forbidden barrier, present in a certain type of scanning microscope.", "round" : "FHTE R1 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40048b3d831d6a005611" }, "answer" : "The {Qur'an} [or {al-Qur'an}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 392.832444966305, "num" : 3, "question" : "The only woman named in this text also titles this work's 19th chapter, and another chapter contains a letter to Solomon from the Queen of Sheba. In addition to \"Miryam\", another section of text contains the throne verse and is called \"The (*) Cow\". The chapters of this text are arranged in length from shortest to longest and are called suras. This text is supplemented by oral records of its transmitter's deeds, the hadith, and was first given on the Night of Power by Gabriel to Muhammad. For 10 points, name this primary religious text of Islam.", "round" : "tourn8-01.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6a8b3d831d6a0031e6" }, "answer" : "{Paul Joseph Goebbels} ({GUR-bulz})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.4803445790894, "num" : 12, "question" : "Parts of this person's diaries were stored in a secret Russian archive until 1992, when they were transcribed by David Irving. In February 1945, this man wrote an article titled The Year 2000 predicting that the Bolsheviks would take over Europe and that a better alternative would be an alliance between Britain and Germany. A few months later, he ordered that his six children be killed with morphine and cyanide and then committed suicide together with his wife. Nicknamed at one point the Marat of Red Berlin, he was eventually appointed General Plenipotentiary for Total War and, for his final few hours, was the Reich Chancellor of Germany. Name this man who spoke during book burnings and who was the Reich Minister of Propaganda.", "round" : "01.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f238b3d831d6a0020fa" }, "answer" : "{Mossbauer} effect", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.75773976556957, "num" : 7, "question" : "Spectral lines generated by this effect are moved when one nuclear isomer is replaced by another, and in order for this effect to occur E sub R must be less than one-half of the linewidth for the corresponding transition. Spectral lines of molecules undergoing this effect display a characteristic namesake \"wing\". One quantity important in this effect is equal to the exponential of a polynomial involving the absolute value of the scattering vector q, and gives a ratio of transitions via this effect to purely resonant transitions, known as the Debye-Waller factor. Originally discovered in a block of Iridium, this effect was used via a pair of samples of iron attached to loudspeakers in order to prove the existence of gravitational redshift by Pound and Rebka. For 10 points, name this effect in which solid atoms absorb and emit gamma rays in a recoil-free manner, named for a German.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Michigan + Penn.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f208b3d831d6a002043" }, "answer" : "urea", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.72801085375249, "num" : 15, "question" : "Industrially, this compound is created from the reaction of dry ice and ammonia to produce ammonium carbamate, which decomposes into this compound. This compound is produced in a namesake cycle, also known as the ornithine cycle, which converts ammonia into it. Friedrich Woehler was the first chemist to create this compound, which consists of two amine groups bonded to a carbonyl. Elevated levels of this compound in the blood are present during kidney failure. For 10 points, name this first organic compound to be made synthetically, which is found in urine.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 8.pdf", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd48b3d831d6a004ad5" }, "answer" : "{Euler totient} function", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.41578214126639, "num" : 21, "question" : "Along with the divisor function, it appears in the denominator of the summation used to determine Silverman's constant. The statement that all integers occur as multiplicities of its variance function is the basis of Sierpi?ki's (*) conjecture. Carmicheal's conjecture states that it is possible to have two integer inputs that yield the same output from this function. It can be used to generalize Fermat's little theorem. For 10 points, name this function that gives the number of positive integers that are relatively prime to given number.", "round" : "03_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40468b3d831d6a0065eb" }, "answer" : "{False Neros} or {Pseudo Neros} (3) [accept equivalents that mention {people pretending} to be {Nero}; prompt on {just} \"{Nero}\"]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 56.46289176819846, "num" : 1, "question" : "One man of this name was killed when his ship was boarded by Calpurnius Asprenas, although he had earlier made plans to take Syria and had actually succeeded in taking the island of Cythnus and arming its population. Another man of this name was recognized by Parthian king Artabanus III out of disrespect for Titus and was also known as Terentius Maximus.  Tacitus reports that the first one of these was a slave from Pontus. They are associated with the Anti-Christ, as that word derives from the Greek spelling of their namesake, a man who ordered the Second Temple of Jerusalem to be destroyed. Their existence was helped by the general populace not believing that their namesake had stabbed himself with ? Epaphroditos's help, and they all tended to be good at playing the cithara. FTP, identify these people who pretended to be a Roman emperor notorious for fiddling while Rome burned.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 2.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40268b3d831d6a005e3b" }, "answer" : "{Moses} [accept {Moyses}; or {Moshe}; or {Musa}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 392.3730148361064, "num" : 17, "question" : "Ernst Sellin's theory that this figure was murdered at Shittim features in a book that claims that he was a priest of Akhenaton. This figure sweetened the waters of Marah by throwing a tree into it, and his sister was stricken with leprosy after his wife was accused of being Ethiopian. He married that wife after defeating shepherds at a well, earning the good will of Jethro. For 10 points, name this Biblical figure, the husband of Zipporah whose brother erected a Golden Calf, noted for being a Red Sea parter, Burning Bush communicator, and Ten Commandments receiver.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 2.doc", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3faf8b3d831d6a00425b" }, "answer" : "{Estonia} [or {Eesti Varbariik}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.74427501880564, "num" : 10, "question" : "Shortly after this nation achieved independence, Sir Stephen Tallents settled the border with its southern neighbor, dividing the city of Valga. A major foreign policy concern for this country is reacquiring the former Petseri County, which had been granted to this country in a 1920 treaty. Friedrich Kreutzwald was the first to document the Setu people found in its Voru County, and on this country's eastern coast and islands, the Rannarootslased, ethnic Swedes, form a small minority. With important ports like Sillamae, Ida-Viru County is this country's chief industrial area, though more economically and environmentally important are the facilities and power plants associated with this nation's oil shale reserves near the city of Narva. The home of the city of Tartu, it is located to the west of the Leningrad Oblast and to the north of Latvia. For 10 points, name this Baltic republic, whose economic hub is the capital Tallinn.", "round" : "r12- Rutgers.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f518b3d831d6a002c08" }, "answer" : "{Chicago-style} Pizza [accept “{Deep Dish Pizza}” before mention]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 121.1113047031686, "num" : 10, "question" : "Searching for this food on YouTube brings up a video in which journalist Joe Bennett wears a Steve Perry wig while saying a limerick about dog droppings. Cookbooks for this type of food have been authored by Pasquale Bruno, Jr. and Penny Pollack. A former University of Texas football player named Ike Sewell has been credited with first making this food. An organic version of this food is marketed by a chain called Edwardos, while more notable makers of this food include Ginos East, Giordannos, and Lou Malnati's. Allegedly invented at Pizzeria Uno, for ten points name this style of pizza made with a deep dish and associated with a large Midwestern city.", "round" : "Round 04.doc", "seen" : 80, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f978b3d831d6a003cdb" }, "answer" : "{Simon Jose Antonio} de la {Santisima Bolivar} [prompt on “The {Liberator}” or “{El Libertador}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 342.9597195307725, "num" : 4, "question" : "After meeting a fellow leader at the Guayaquil Conference, he won an easy victory at Junin (hoo-NEEN). While in exile, he received the backing of Alexadre Sabes Petion. This author of the Cartagena Manifesto wrote a letter outlining his grand plan while exiled in Jamaica. Elected as President at Angostura, he oversaw the creation of a constitution at Cucuta, and after its expiration, he assumed dictatorial powers. His partner Manuela Saenz had to save him from a subsequent assassination attempt. The victor at the battles of Carabobo and Boyaca, for 10 points, identify this South American military leader known as \"The Liberator\" who lends his name to a country with two capitals.", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9f8b3d831d6a003e82" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of the {Philippines}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.2393223233521, "num" : 17, "question" : "This country's plight was represented symbolically in a depiction of Roman soldiers dragging gladiators off the field of battle painted by Juan Luna and called the Spoliarium. Its independence was advocated in the newspaper La solidaridad which was run by Galicano Apacible and other members of its Propaganda Movement. A battle sometimes known as the “Thermopylae” of this place occurred at Tirad Pass and saw the death of Gregorio del Pilar. Members of its Katipunan society tore up their mandatory documents in an event known as the Cry of Balintawak, which was led by Andres Bonafacio. Another of its leaders was captured by Frederick Funston after working in concert with George Dewey during the Spanish American War. For 10 points, name this island nation led by Emilio Aguinaldo.", "round" : "The Finals 1.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb98b3d831d6a004489" }, "answer" : "{ChloroFluoroCarbons} [accept {CFC}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.3056669717189, "num" : 19, "question" : "They were first developed in the 1930s as an alternative to Sulfur dioxide, and became popular because they are generally non-flammable, non-toxic, and non-reactive. Inhalation of them will affect the nervous system and may lead to sudden death, a method by which many teenagers committed suicide. In 1987 the Montreal Protocol was signed in an effort to reduce the production of these substances, and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol identified their replacement as one of the leading greenhouse gasses. DuPont has trademarked the name Freon which contains these types of materials. For 10 points, name these chemicals found in refrigerator coolant, air conditioners, and in plastic foams and aerosols that are responsible for 80% of ozone depletion. ", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40638b3d831d6a006caf" }, "answer" : "{Leonhard Euler}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.0759118825663, "num" : 13, "question" : "In graph theory, this man lends his name to a closed path that traverses every edge precisely once. The topological formula named for this man states that faces minus edges plus vertices equals two for any polyhedron, giving the surface a value of two for his namesake characteristic. Another equation named for him relates the complex (*) exponential function to cosine of x plus i times sine of x. For 10 points, identify this namesake of a “phi” function, a prolific Swiss mathematician for whom the number e was supposedly named.", "round" : "Round_06_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f458b3d831d6a002930" }, "answer" : "Sikhism", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 393.2441162858158, "num" : 6, "question" : "This faith's symbols include the stylized words “Ek Onkar” and an emblem of three blades surrounding a circle. Sugar water is stirred in its amrit baptism ceremony, through which believers join the Khalsa order. Known for its Golden Temple in Amritsar, its holiest book is the Adi Granth, and its “five Ks” include long hair and ceremonial daggers. For 10 points, name this monotheistic Indian religion founded by Guru Nanak, whose male adherents often wear turbans.", "round" : "Packet 1.doc", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f348b3d831d6a002506" }, "answer" : "{Euler totient} function [accept {Euler phi function}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.25750984577462, "num" : 16, "question" : "Given integers a and b, this function on the quantity a to the n plus b to the n is divisible by n. The values of this function are given by the Möbius transform on the sequence of positive integers. For all n greater than 1, the splitting field of the polynomial [x to the n] minus 1 equals this function of n. This function on n can be calculated as the product of n and the quantity 1 minus p for all primes p which divide n. For any integer a relatively prime to n, a to the power of this function of n is equivalent to 1 mod n by a corollary of Lagrange’s theorem. For a prime number p, this function is equal to p minus 1, since p has no divisors except 1 and itself. For 10 points, name this function on an integer n representing the number of integers less than and relatively prime to n.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-BrownFinal.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5e8b3d831d6a002ec6" }, "answer" : "The {assassination} of {Thomas} à {Becket} [accept \"{murder} in the {cathedral}\" or any {clear knowledge} equivalents]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.84072902332992, "num" : 8, "question" : "One of the parties involved in this event addressed the Augustianian Foundation in St. Mary Overie a few days prior to this event. Edward Grim's account of this event is the best known and Grim was himself injured during this event. The perpetrators of this action fled to Yorkshire where they took refuge at the Knaresborough castle. Following this event William de Tracy, Reginald FitzUrse, Hugh de Moreville and Richard le Breton were (*) excommunicated by Pope Alexander III, later being sentenced to 14 years in the Holy Land as penance, and one of the catalysts for this event was its victim's refusal to crown Henry the Young King. It occurred after the assailants retrieved weapons from under a sycamore tree. For 10 points name this 1170 beat-down of a “turbulent priest” by knights loyal to Henry II.", "round" : "zzExtra - Toronto.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f688b3d831d6a003173" }, "answer" : "{Der Rosenkavalier} [or The {Knight} of the {Rose}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.7797432709485, "num" : 12, "question" : "This opera parodies the bel canto style of singing in the serenade \"Di rigori armato di seno,\" which is cut short by a character arguing with a notary about a dowry. This opera's main love triangle is resolved in its third act trio \"Hab' mir's gelobt,\" which is followed by two young lovers singing the duet \"Ist ein traum.\" This opera's mezzo-soprano is assisted by the intriguers Valzacchi and Annina, and disguises himself as the maid Mariandel to avoid being caught in the chambers of the Marshallin. Hugo von Hofmansthal wrote the libretto for this opera, in which the lecherous Baron Ochs is foiled in his plans to marry Sophie, who instead falls in love with Octavian. For 10 points, name this comic opera by Richard Strauss, whose title refers to Octavian's presentation of a silver flower.", "round" : "5.pdf", "seen" : 276, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb48b3d831d6a000755" }, "answer" : "Rutherford Birchard {Hayes}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 343.929536430398, "num" : 13, "question" : "In his Inaugural Address, this President recommended extending the term length to six years and forbidding re-election. A section of the Chaco was named after this President after he arbitrated a territorial dispute between Argentina and Paraguay in Paraguay's favor. When informed of his running mate, he allegedly quipped, \"Who is Wheeler?\" This man's wife established the Easter egg roll on the White House lawn and was known as \"Lemonade Lucy\" for her refusal to serve alcohol at White House Parties. He was known as (*) \"His Fraudulency\" after a party-line vote of an Electoral Commission gave him a victory over Samuel Tilden. For 10 points, name this nineteenth President of the United States who ended Reconstruction.", "round" : "10.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f178b3d831d6a001e4e" }, "answer" : "{Vicente Ramon Guerrero Saldana}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.48725917655975, "num" : 17, "question" : "Under his leadership persons of European descent were disenfranchised and those of pardo descent were favored.  Swept into power after the Parian Market was destroyed during the Acordada riots, his tenure ended after he was kidnapped by an Italian ship captain and executed.   At one point this man, who would go on to abolish slavery in his homeland, missed hooking up with the forces of Javier Mina, who would have boosted the army he had been put in charge of when Morelos named him commander of the South.  In addition to leading his army to victory at such battles as Huetamo and Santa Fe, this man who helped Iturbide draft the Plan of Iguala took power in 1829, but was deposed under the Plan of Jalapa that saw the rise of the conservatives under Lucas Alaman.  For 10 points, identify this revolutionary hero and early president of the Mexican republic.", "round" : "Editor's Round (PO 5).docx", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f948b3d831d6a003c08" }, "answer" : "{shortest path} subgraph", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.93635476450436, "num" : 17, "question" : "One of these objects gives its name to a protocol which consists of making a distinction between not so stubby areas and stubby areas and is an example of a protocol that uses link state routing. A dynamic programming approach to finding one returns the minimum of two recursively defined functions, and is used to find the “all-pairs” variety of this entity in “big O of V cubed time”; that is the Floyd-Warshall algorithm. The possibility of one of these objects with a finite number of vertexes can be determined by the Bellman-Ford algorithm. The problem of finding them was first solved with a model of ant colonies, while a different way of finding them is to use a heuristic function that takes into account distance and cost. If there are no negative edge cycles, one uses A* or Djikstra's algorithm to produce them. For 10 points, name this subgraph that consists of the smallest sum of edge weights between two points on a graph.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 7.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fad8b3d831d6a0041c0" }, "answer" : "{Julius Kambarage Nyerere}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.12982084811665, "num" : 22, "question" : "One of his first executive offices was as Chief Minister of the Internal Self-Government Administration, in which role he negotiated with Richard Turnbull. During his rule, over nine million people were transported by trucks into a new system of villages. This man led a one-party state through his Chama Cha Mapinduzi, or Party of the Revolution, and instituted the \"parastatal\" boards to control trade in each major good. In 1978, this founder of the Organization of African Unity sent his country's army to depose Idi Amin. His Arusha Declaration introduced a policy of agricultural collectivization known as “familyhood,” or \"ujaama.\" For 10 points, name this man who, from independence to 1985, was the president first of Tanganyika and then Tanzania.", "round" : "r05- Illinois-Maryland.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f688b3d831d6a003142" }, "answer" : "{Zeppelin} [prompt on {airship}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.3241298550274, "num" : 9, "question" : "The first successful usage of one of these objects took place in 1900 at Lake Constance. One of these objects was destroyed by Egbert Cadbury. A propaganda poster developed by the British shows one of these objects being destroyed with the caption “The End of the Baby-Killer,” reflecting its important role in the military under Peter Strasser. William Randolph Hearst placed reporter Grace Marguerite on one of these objects as it went around the world in 1929 under the command of Dr. Hugo Eckener. The destruction of one of these objects was notably described on the radio by Herbert Morrison at Lakehurst, New Jersey. For 10 points, name this type of airship named after a German general, the most famous example of which is the Hindenburg.", "round" : "3.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f728b3d831d6a0033a2" }, "answer" : "{Osiris} [or {Usiris}; or {Asari}; or {Aser}; or {Ausir}; or {Wesir}; or {Usire}; or {Ausare}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 682.4857518880162, "num" : 14, "question" : "This figure was born a day before Harmachis and was educated by his first prophet, a man named Pamyles. This deity's ba was worshipped separately as the ram god Banebdjet. The oxyrhyncus fish was cursed due to its interference in a ceremony involving this god who, like his precursor Andjety, wears the Atef crown. He was once (*) rescued from a palace in Byblos, where a pillar had been made of the cedar tree he had become trapped in. This god became the ruler of Duat, the underworld, after being imprisoned in a box and then cut into thirteen pieces by his rival. Wielding a crook and flail and killed by his brother Set, for 10 points, identify this Egyptian god who fathered Horus with his wife, Isis.", "round" : "Round 14.doc", "seen" : 454, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4b8b3d831d6a002a9d" }, "answer" : "{Huntington's} disease [accept {Huntington's chorea} before mention] [{AF/MJ}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.8802969998214, "num" : 14, "question" : "Due to the founder effect, this disease has a higher frequency among Dutch Afrikaners. It results from an error located on the short arm of chromosome 4, the trinucleotide repeat CAG, and is characterized by buildup of the protein mHTT. [*] Symptoms of this autosomal dominant genetic disorder include erratic movement known as chorea; unlike Alzheimer's, it causes subcortical dementia and usually manifests as people reach middle age. For 10 points, name this hereditary neurodegenerative disease.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 2 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa38b3d831d6a003f86" }, "answer" : "{Antonin Dvorak}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.62841294519603, "num" : 13, "question" : "He used the poems of Karel Jaromir Erben as the basis of his first four tone poems, including one where an evil stepmother and her daughter are eaten by wolves after their true identities are revealed by a titular Golden Spinning Wheel. He published a collection called “Nature, Life, and Love” which included his Carnival Overture, and his earliest surviving work for orchestra commemorates the two years he spent studying under Joseph Toman and Antonín Liehmann in the town of Zlonice. His best known piano work is in G Flat major and is the seventh of his (*) 8 Humoresques, and his best known string quartet is his 12th, the American. For 10 points, name this composer of the Slavonic Dances whose time in the Americas inspired his ninth symphony, “From the New World.”", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2a8b3d831d6a002287" }, "answer" : "{Raney} nickel", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.47839154326357, "num" : 6, "question" : "Pattison and Degering prepared a version of this catalyst using an alloy of magnesium and acetic acid to remove inactive portions of its structure, and that catalyst improved significantly on Mozingo's W-2 version. Formaldehyde is entirely disproportionated within seventy minutes in the presence of it, and it catalyzes other Cannizzaro-type pathways effectively. Its preparation involves alloying aluminum and silicon and dissolving using sodium hydroxide. Its industrial applications include complete reduction of benzene and desulfurization processes. For 10 points, name this catalyst whose mesh surface structure allows for high catalytic activity, named for its discoverer and the metal it contains, nickel.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Michigan State + South Carolina A.pdf", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe58b3d831d6a004ebe" }, "answer" : "Canada", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.0666436136235, "num" : 16, "question" : "In this nation, the Métis led a rebellion under the leadership of Louis Riel, but were absorbed into this country in 1870. Etienne Cartier helped found one party in this nation. The kidnapping of James Cross and Pierre Laporte set off the October Crisis in this country. Wilfrid Laurier led a liberal government in this nation. This nation was the site of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Home to Francophone separatists, this nation was once led by Pierre Trudeau. For 10 points, name this country whose provinces include Saskatchewan and Quebec.", "round" : "4q1-01.pdf", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f798b3d831d6a003596" }, "answer" : "{View} of {Delft}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.08988631889224, "num" : 10, "question" : "A shadow on the left side of this painting is depicted out of proportion leading some scholars to believe it is actually a reflection of the tavern The Parrot. In the background an arsenal called The Armamentarium is seen, while a clock on the Kethel Gatehouse reveals the time is 7 am. A towing barge appears next to three burghers in the left foreground in a non-functional position from which it would be impossible to embark. In this painting surprisingly the bell tower of the New Church is empty. On the right side of this painting a double drawbridge appears next to the Rotterdam Gate, which is one of many buildings reflecting in the water of the Schie Canal. For 10 points, name this painting of a Dutch city by Jan Vermeer.", "round" : "Harvard A.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400b8b3d831d6a0057c2" }, "answer" : "{Washington Crossing} the {Delaware}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.9145265743136, "num" : 6, "question" : "This painting was defaced in 2003 when someone glued a picture of the September 11 terrorist attacks to it. Three women stand in front of this painting in Grant Wood's Daughters of Revolution. The title figure stands with his left leg forward, while behind him James (*) Monroe carries a flag and several figures attempt to navigate through ice floes. For 10 points, name this painting which depicts a famous event of December 25, 1776, by Emanuel Leutze.", "round" : "tourn9-06.pdf", "seen" : 286, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40818b3d831d6a0073d3" }, "answer" : "{Constantin Brancusi}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.3937317244708, "num" : 12, "question" : "Attempts to build a temple to house his works died with the Maharaja of Indore. Other works include a disembodied head, his Sleeping Muse, and the phallic shaped Princess X. A tribute to the fallen of World War I in his home country took the form of stacked rhomboids, Endless Column, while one of his most famous works was an attempt to capture the essence of flight. For 10 points, name this Romanian sculptor, best known for his series Bird in Space.", "round" : "Round3Final.doc", "seen" : 280, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402c8b3d831d6a005fbd" }, "answer" : "{Immanuel Kant} [{SJ/DU}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.6804100959562, "num" : 6, "question" : "This man commented on Emmanuel Swedenborg in Dreams of a Spirit Seer and discussed ratiocination in The False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic Figures. He proposed that the maxim Sapere aude is the answer to the title question, “What is Enlightenment?” Moreover, he asserted that humans should be treated as an end rather than a means to an end and that all people should act as universal legislators in Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. He famously distinguished between synthetic-analytic and a priori-a posteriori and introduced the categorical imperative. For 10 points, name this German writer of The Critique of Pure Reason.", "round" : "Packet 6.doc", "seen" : 313, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f338b3d831d6a0024ba" }, "answer" : "The {Yellow Christ} (or Le {Christ jaune}, for the {semi-pretentious})", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.49442086135969, "num" : 13, "question" : "This work is paired with a work set near Le Pouldu, and its central figure is derived from a sculpture in the Trémalo Chapel. This painting also appears in a work behind a mustachioed man in a blue sweater. The artist's signature appears on the white headdress of one of the women depicted. In the top right hand corner of this painting is a row of three houses with blue roofs, and another is obscured by some (*) red bushes. Two trees are separated by a stone wall in the middle, and a man dressed in blue steps over that wall in the background. The foreground of this painting is dominated by a figure standing with one foot over the other, with his genitals covered by a white cloth. For 10 points, identify this depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus in the title color, a work by Paul Gauguin.", "round" : "Lully 12.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40118b3d831d6a00590e" }, "answer" : "{Philip Roth}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.6248156165238, "num" : 7, "question" : "3 boy scouts are shot when they accuse the President of U.S. of supporting intercourse, and Trick Dixon runs against Satan to become President of Hell in this author's Our Gang. This author's wrote about Marcus Messner in his most recent novel, Indignation, and created the friend of Paul Herz, a man who likes Henry James in his second novel. In addition to writing about Gabe Wallach in Letting Go, this man created a dean of Athena College, Coleman Silk in addition to writing about Amy Bellette and E.I. Lonoff in his novel The Ghost Writer. This man pictured Henry Ford as the Secretary of the Interior and Charles Lindbergh as President in The Plot against America. For ten points, name this author of The Human Stain and Portnoy's Complaint, who probably will never win a Nobel Prize because the committee hates Americans.", "round" : "PRELIMS ROUND 1.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef78b3d831d6a0016e9" }, "answer" : "{Bacon’s} Rebellion [or {Bacon’s Revolt} or {Bacon’s Uprising} or equivalents that mention {Bacon}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.3230671037455, "num" : 1, "question" : "Some of the participants in this event were captured at the Arthur Allen House by troops deployed from the Young Prince. The first signatory to a peace treaty that followed this event was Cockacoeske, the so-called Queen of the Pamunkey. Early skirmishes in this event included the killing of Robert Hen, probably in retaliation for a debt owed by Thomas Matthew. That killing prompted a subsequent massacre of Doeg Indians. At the June Assembly, this event’s namesake complained of recently added (*) property requirements for voting. John Ingram became the leader of this conflict after its namesake died of dysentery, and that leader had earlier been elected to the House of Burgesses. For 10 points, name this rebellion against Governor William Berkley in colonial Virginia.", "round" : "Packet 23 - Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f978b3d831d6a003cb1" }, "answer" : "The {Right Honourable Margaret Thatcher}, {Baroness Thatcher}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.069029228529, "num" : 19, "question" : "This politician's opposition to labor strikes in the coal industry led the Archbishop of Canterbury to accuse this figure of a \"politics of confrontation\". This politician's term saw the unpopular Community Charge tax introduced, and John Nott proposed cutting navy funding during this politician's term which saw the Falkland Wars occur. Her namesake economic policy involved the privatization of many industrial monopolies, including British Petroleum and British Airways, and this leader was targeted by an assassination attempt at the Grand Hotel in Brighton. For 10 points, name this first female to hold the office of British prime minister, a conservative known as the Iron Lady.", "round" : "Round 14.doc", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f078b3d831d6a001aca" }, "answer" : "{Han} Dynasty [or {Han Chao}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.7989117908292, "num" : 20, "question" : "This dynasty sent Zhang Qian on exploring missions, and it was confronted by the Rebellion of the Seven States. The Records of A Grand Historian were written by Sima Qian during this dynasty, and after the Battle of Jushi, Emperor Wu forced the Xiongnu to become its tributaries. An interregnum by Wang Mang’s Xin dynasty divides this dynasty into [*] “Eastern” and “Western” parts. It was founded by Liu Bang after the Qin dynasty and was followed by the Three Kingdoms period. Challenged by the palace eunuchs and the Daoist Yellow Turban Rebellion, for 10 points, name the Chinese dynasty after which the primary ethnic group of China is named.", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40248b3d831d6a005d8e" }, "answer" : "equilibrium or {saturation vapor} pressure [prompt on partial answer]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.4155935544986, "num" : 5, "question" : "Some methods for computing this quantity include the Lee-Kesler correlation, the Wagner functions, and the DIPRR equation, and one method of measuring it uses a Knudsen Cell. The Arden-Buck and Goff-Gratch equations are used to compute this quantity for water, and comparing this quantity between different components gives the relative volatility. For an ideal mixture, it is dependent upon the mole fraction of each component, and the boiling point is defined as when this equals atmospheric pressure. For 10 points, name this value calculated by Raoult's Law, the pressure at which a gas is in equilibrium with its liquid and solid phases.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 13.doc", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403a8b3d831d6a006305" }, "answer" : "{Wystan Hugh Auden}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.27577210683376, "num" : 12, "question" : "This poet wrote about a figure, who “when he cried the little children died in the streets” in “Epitaph on a Tyrant.” One of his poems asserts that the “The death of the poet was kept from his poems,” and another poem juxtaposes a lover's naïve comment that “love has no ending” against the clocks that “began to whir and chime” pronouncing “You cannot conquer Time.”  This author of “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” and “As I Walked Out One Evening” wrote “We must love one another or die” in a poem that begins, “I sit in one of the dives / on Fifty-second Street.” For 10 points, name this poet, who wrote “September 1, 1939” and “The Unknown Citizen.”", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Harvard B.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb88b3d831d6a00083e" }, "answer" : "“Chicago”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.4529302250594, "num" : 16, "question" : "The title entity of this poem is “cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness” and laughs as “an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle.” The speaker believes it when he is told that the title entity is wicked, for has seen its “painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.” This poem’s first three lines are repeated in its last line, which states that it is proud to be the “Stacker of (*) Wheat” and “Hog Butcher for the World.” For 10 points, name this poem by Carl Sandburg which is about various opinions on the Windy City.", "round" : "01.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f348b3d831d6a0024f9" }, "answer" : "The {Frederick C. Robie} House", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.60608927789144, "num" : 19, "question" : "This work's architect's tendency to avoid high attic spaces and dormers for ventilation required him to use interior ceiling grilles and exterior cave vents for air circulation. It was influenced by a work alternatively known as “The Ship.” As is with all of its architect's works of a similar style, its architect designed all of the light fixtures of this location, and it includes a billiards and children's playroom at opposite sides. It is located across the street from a work designed by (*) Rafael Viñoly. Additionally, it is essentially composed of two parallel rectangles, and its third floor is known as its “belvedere”. Influenced by its architect's earlier Ferdinand F. Tomek House and its architect's final Prairie school house, this is, for 10 points, which location at 5757 South Woodlawn Avenue, located in Hyde Park and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright?", "round" : "Lully 4.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400a8b3d831d6a0057a3" }, "answer" : "{Tom Stoppard} [or {Tomas Straussler}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.291156034451, "num" : 21, "question" : "In one play by this author, Lady Muldoon's estate is the setting of a play seen by Moon and Birdboot. This author wrote a play that switches between the present and 1809, involving the phrase \"carnal embrace,\" which is pondered by Thomasina Coverly. Besides The (*) Real Inspector Hound and Arcadia, this author wrote a play wherein the two title characters play Questions, watch The Tragedians, flip a coin several times, and meet their end in England. For 10 points, name this playwright of the Hamlet spinoff Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.", "round" : "tourn9-04.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcb8b3d831d6a0048d5" }, "answer" : "Zealots", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.52348726941273, "num" : 6, "question" : "This group took as their role model the Biblical Phinehas, who killed Zimri with a spear, and counted among the chief crimes the theft of a certain cup. They first rose up against a census, and forty of them were later burned to death for responding to a call to destroy a statue of an eagle. Those who informed and collaborated against this group were killed by their dagger-men, the Sicarii. Some members of this group held off the Tenth Fretensis legion for three years during an attack by Flavius Silva, though Eleazar ben Jair ultimately decided that they should kill themselves rather than surrender. For 10 points, the defenders of Masada were part of what political group in ancient Judea that worked against Roman rule with great passion?", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Editors 3 final.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f438b3d831d6a002890" }, "answer" : "Japan", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.11011475301348, "num" : 19, "question" : "One sociological study of this country featured the author, Anne Allison, becoming an employee at a hostess club in the mid-eighties; that book is entitled Nightwork. Theodore Bester has published several anthropological works about a fish market in this country, and one work about the psychology of this nation puts forth the idea that many interactions among its people are essentially parent-child relationships. That work is The Anatomy of Dependence. A recent sociological phenomenon in this nation is the explosion of parasite singles, who remain living in their parents house throughout adulthood, and a more famous study of this country stated that it was an example of a shame culture, rather than a guilt culture. For 10 points, name this country, the subject of Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.", "round" : "Round 14 updated.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405e8b3d831d6a006bb1" }, "answer" : "titration", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.0765764140524, "num" : 4, "question" : "Electrophoretic light scattering can be used to determine the optimal rate of flocculation in the zeta potential form of this process, and triethanolamine is applied to mask other substances prior to the addition of EDTA in the complexometric version of it. Trace amounts of water are analyzed in the Karl Fischer version of it, and the second derivative of its namesake curve can easily determine the equivalence point of this process. For 10 points, name this method of determining unknown concenentrations by slowly buretting a reagent into an indicator.", "round" : "Round_10_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebe8b3d831d6a0009ca" }, "answer" : "{Cepheid Variables}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.36160912388, "num" : 21, "question" : "Subclasses of this type of object are named for Delta Scuti and W Virginis. Doubly ionized helium converts to singly ionized helium in the atmosphere of these stars as they expand and contract, creating its characteristic “shark fin” light curve. Henrietta Leavitt used large populations of these stars in the Magellanic Clouds to develop a (*) period-Luminosity relation for them, and Edwin Hubble used this relationship to calibrate his namesake constant of universe expansion. For 10 points, name this class of intrinsic variable stars used as standard candles .", "round" : "03.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403e8b3d831d6a006405" }, "answer" : "{Fear} and {Loathing} in Las {Vegas}: A {Savage Journey} Into the {Heart} of the American Dream", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.81045064283535, "num" : 8, "question" : "The epigraph to this work quotes Samuel Johnson's assertion “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” The narrator calls himself “a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger,” and recalls the “sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil” before stating that the reader can “see the high-water mark--that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.” The narrator calls the title location “a society of armed masturbators,” and searches for a building called The American Dream, only to learn that it had burned down in a fire. One character orders the narrator to throw a radio into a bathtub when the song “White Rabbit” peaks, and is based on Oscar Zeta Acosta. The protagonists attempt to cover the Mint 400 and pose as policemen to infiltrate a conference on \"dangerous drugs\" in the title city. Beginning “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold,” FTP, name this novel about Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo, written by Hunter S. Thompson.", "round" : "Packet_11.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408a8b3d831d6a0075c5" }, "answer" : "{Gustavus Adolphus} of Sweden ({Gustav II Adolf})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.70235353522003, "num" : 13, "question" : "This ruler, the subject of a biography by Michael Roberts, signed the Treaty of Barwalde that contained an unusual provision placing a five-year moratorium on peace negotiations. Over 20 years into his reign, he developed the Form of Government that helped create the Gymnasia and set out plans to create leagues designated as Corpus Bellicum and Corpus Evangelicorum. He negotiated the Treaty of Knared with Christian IV, surrendering a port as security, and used the name Captain Gars in travel. With aid from his chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, he was victorious at the Battle of Breitenfeld but soon died at the Battle of Lutzen. FTP, name this “Lion of the North,” a dominant king of Sweden at the start of the Thirty Years War.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Harvard A Brown B.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec88b3d831d6a000bf8" }, "answer" : "{Pauli exclusion principle}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.4381994109135, "num" : 13, "question" : "The term raised to the negative twelfth power in the Lennard-Jones potential accounts for this rule. White dwarfs exhibit electron degeneracy pressure, a factor limiting how much they can compress based on this rule. In general, this rule applies to half-spin particles called fermions meaning two particles can occupy the same region if and only if they have opposing (*) spins. For 10 points, name this rule of quantum mechanics typically stated as no two electrons can have the same four quantum numbers.", "round" : "tournament17-13.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40788b3d831d6a00717e" }, "answer" : "{Sir Thomas} \"{Tom}\" {Stoppard} (accept {Tomáš Straussler} before mentioned)", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.9222880084999, "num" : 17, "question" : "(JG) Some of his lesser-known works include Undiscovered Country and Professional Foul. His fa- ther, a doctor, was killed in the German invasion of Singapore, and his mother raised him in England. He also wrote On the Razzle and Hapgood. One of his more recent works is set alternately in the early 1800s and 1989, and explores the interactions between the past and future, invoking particle physics to study Lord Byron and the certainty of knowledge. This play is named for a quote that also titles a Poussin paint- ing, Arcadia. He was born in Czechoslovakia with the name Straussler. His best-known play is probably still his first, which opens with two characters from another work flipping a coin. Identify this British playwright of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.", "round" : "r9tossups.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4c8b3d831d6a002aec" }, "answer" : "{Hermes} [prompt “{Mercury}” since {he} first clue {doesn't} apply to {him} but all the {rest} do]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 681.4819908044301, "num" : 11, "question" : "A figure with this deity's name and the epithet Trismegistus wrote alchemical texts while syncretized with the Egyptian god Thoth, and another epithet describes this father of Autolycus as “conductor of souls”, Psychopompus. He lulled the hundred eyes of [*] Argos to sleep before slaying him to save Io, and rescued a certain great-grandson by giving him moly on Aiaia and saving him from Ogygyia, Calypso's isle. The rod of Asclepius has one less snake than Caduceus, his staff, and he aided Perseus by lending his characteristic winged sandals. For 10 points, name this Greco-Roman messenger god with a winged cap.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 6 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 459, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffd8b3d831d6a005464" }, "answer" : "David", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.5679187006317, "num" : 15, "question" : "One work of this name includes a feather that aroused great controversy. Another work with this title was executed while its creator paused in his Apollo and Daphne, which was then abandoned for months while Bernini undertook projects for the Pope. One work of this title replaced Donatello's sculpture of Judith and Holofernes at the entrance to the (*) Palazzo Vecchio. Florence's role as an upstart power opposing Milan was symbolized by Michelangelo's statue of, for 10 points, what Biblical king, about to fight Goliath?", "round" : "tourn10-10.pdf", "seen" : 275, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f048b3d831d6a001a1f" }, "answer" : "{Pablo Neruda} [or {Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.771062462125, "num" : 16, "question" : "This man’s third wife, Matilde Urrutia, was the dedicatee of his 100 Love Sonnets. This poet claimed that “love is short, forgetting is so long” in a poem that appears in the same collection as one beginning “The memory of you emerges from the night around me.” This man wrote odes to everyday things, like tomatoes, salt, “a [*] large tuna in the market,” and his socks. One poem by this man urges the reader “Arise to birth with me, my brother.” “The Heights of Machu Picchu” is the second part of this man’s Canto General. For 10 points, name this Chilean poet of “Tonight I can Write the Saddest Lines,” which appears in his Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd68b3d831d6a004b5b" }, "answer" : "{Horatius Cocles} [accept {Horatius} the {one-eyed}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 96.68540627844632, "num" : 12, "question" : "This man kills Lausulus and Picus in one blow. Earlier, this “Captain of the Gate” requests permission from the Consul for his most famous task, during which he is initially accompanied by (*) Lartius and Herminius. Later awarded as much land as he could plough around in one land and a statue in the likeness of Vulcan, he swims back unscathed after his army's destruction of the Pons Sublicius. For 10 points, name this hero who defends the sole bridge leading to Rome from some angry Etruscans.", "round" : "08_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec98b3d831d6a000c10" }, "answer" : "{Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy} [or {Bobby} Kennedy, {Robert F. Kennedy}; or {RFK}; prompt on {Kennedy}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.3509145896882, "num" : 14, "question" : "This man gained prominence while questioning Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters Union about their use of Union funds. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, he closely advised the president while serving as the Attorney General. His run for the Democratic nomination in the (*) 1968 presidential election was cut short in the Ambassador Hotel after the Palestinian nationalist Sirhan Sirhan assassinated him. For 10 points, name this brother of John F. Kennedy.", "round" : "tournament17-14.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff28b3d831d6a0051e5" }, "answer" : "{shield} volcanoes", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.0188767181244, "num" : 24, "question" : "Pahoehoe is produced by many of these geological features, which generally do not generate pyroclastic flows. A fissure in one of these geological features can create a curtain of fire. These features are usually formed through effusive eruptions and have very low-viscosity, fluid lava that can spread over long distances, making some of these features the largest mountains on earth. For 10 points, name these gentle-sloped volcanoes that include Mauna Loa and Kiluaea.", "round" : "4q2-11.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f308b3d831d6a00241e" }, "answer" : "{MOdified Newtonian Dynamics}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.49534490890801, "num" : 13, "question" : "In 2010, R. Reyes et al. found that the relativistic form of this theory proposed by Jacob Bekenstein falls outside of the error from comparing galactic distance with E sub g. One alternative to that tensor-vector-scalar generalization of this theory is the f-of-R theory, and this theory originated from changing Poisson's equation by changing the potential function. This theory features a strange function mu of x that approaches x when x  is much less than 1 and approaches 1 when x is much greater than 1. That function makes it so that at one extreme, the square root of a constant a-nought times the gravitational acceleration gives the changed gravitational acceleration predicted by this theory, and recent evidence against this theory has come from observations of the Bullet Cluster. For 10 points, identify this theory proposed by Mordecai Milgrom to account for galactic rotation that competes with Dark Matter and says that acceleration is not proportional to force at low accelerations.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 13 - Speculative Hipsters.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40318b3d831d6a0060e5" }, "answer" : "{Wudang} School [accept: {Wu-Tang School}; {Wudangquan}]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 119.912795383716, "num" : 5, "question" : "According to legend, this school was founded at the same location as Tai chi chuan, and notable masters of this school include Sung Wei-I, Fu Chen Sung, and General Li, who is known as the god of this school's weapon. This school is described as being “internal” rather than “external” like its rival. This school emphasizes the use of the sword, as opposed to the staff of its rival Shaolin school, and is often depicted as villainous in kung fu movies. For ten points, name this school of Chinese martial arts, that also lends its name to a Staten Island based rap clan.", "round" : "RoundTRASH.doc", "seen" : 79, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea68b3d831d6a000421" }, "answer" : "{production} functions (accept {Cobb-Douglas production} functions until \" relationships \")", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 37.45552713586949, "num" : 5, "question" : "A paper by Anwar Sheikh critiques this relationship by showing how it could model a “humbug economy.” Joan Robinson’s analysis of this relationship with regard to the theory of capital gave rise to the aggregation and reswitching problems, which were the basis of the Cambridge Capital Controversy. The terms Hicks-neutral, Harrod-neutral, or Solow-neutral describe ways in which the choice of technique can be incorporated into these relationships. An isoquant family map can be implemented to find cost-minimizing optimizations for these kinds of relationships. Isoquants can also reveal whether these functions model increasing or decreasing returns to scale. Examples of them include the Leontief one and the Cobb-Douglas one. FTP, name these functions which relate capital and labor to output.", "round" : "PACKET08Lafer.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee48b3d831d6a00128c" }, "answer" : "{estrogen} [or estradiol before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1326657827012, "num" : 27, "question" : "GPR30 is a receptor primarily for this messenger. It is antagonized by tamoxifen. It is created by through the conversion of a similar compound by aromatase. Stilbestrol is an analogue of this. This is actually a class of hormones including estradiol. Along with progesterone, it is the most common substance used in hormone replacement therapy for post-menopausal women. It For 10 points, name these hormones associated with female reproductive traits.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f318b3d831d6a00244e" }, "answer" : "the {Burned Over District}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.4373414083384, "num" : 2, "question" : "An extensive study of the history of this region was conducted by Whitney Cross, who connected the activity in this region to an overabundance of women and an increase in educational uniformity. In opposition to activities in this region, John Williamson Nevin founded the Mercersburg movement, and one famous individual active in this region was opposed at the 1827 New Lebanon Conference by Nathaniel Berman and Lyman Beecher. Berman and Beecher were in opposition to what they called the “new measures,” being employed in this region, which focused on plain speaking, direct address, and titles like “The Wages of Sin is Death.” The name of this region was popularized by Charles Grandison Finney, who sparked the activity that this region is famous for with sermons at Rome, Utica, and Rochester. Lying west of the Catskills and the site of intense evangelical preaching from 1825 until about 1850, for ten points, identify this region of western New York, whose name comes from the fact that religious revivals spread through it like fire.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 16 - Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402b8b3d831d6a005f83" }, "answer" : "{Edvard Munch}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.8322237168904, "num" : 6, "question" : "In one of his paintings, a smiling young woman in a white dress with brown spots stands on the left and a somber old woman in a black dress stands on the right while dancing couples fill the rest of the painting. The moon and its phallic reflection in the water appear in several of his paintings including Moonlight and The Dance of Life. His Madonna is nude and has long black hair and is surrounded by a red halo. It appears in his series, Frieze of Life, along with a painting called which depicts his sister dying of tuberculosis, The Sick Child. For 10 points, name this Norwegian painter whose most famous painting depicts the titular action beneath a swirling red sky, The Scream.", "round" : "Packet 3.doc", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec68b3d831d6a000b61" }, "answer" : "{Death Valley}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 595.5465942742303, "num" : 16, "question" : "This location is the site of an evaporated glacial lake that was once over 80 miles long and 600 feet deep called Lake Manly. The highest point in this desert is located at Telescope Peak. The highest temperature in the (*) Western hemisphere was recorded at Furnace Creek in this desert. Another point of interest located in this desert can be found in the Badwater Basin. For 10 points, name this American desert that contains the lowest point on land in the Western hemisphere, at 282 feet below sea level.", "round" : "tournament17-06.pdf", "seen" : 391, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40808b3d831d6a0073a3" }, "answer" : "filibuster", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.3727930559311, "num" : 4, "question" : "These actions can only take place when a Unanimous Consent Agreement is not in place. One notable example was executed by someone dubbed “Kingfish” and included recipes for “pot-likkers”, while Thomas Hart Benton and John Calhoun used this to prevent Henry Clay from passing a bank bill. The longest individual one, which exceeded 24 hours, was executed by segregationist Strom Thurmond against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Thwartable by a supermajority of sixty votes for cloture, this is for 10 points what practice of delaying a vote on a bill by not relinquishing the floor in a Senate debate?", "round" : "Round1Final.doc", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7a8b3d831d6a00359d" }, "answer" : "{Arthur Rimbaud}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.53316916059703, "num" : 17, "question" : "One of this author's poems notes that the title author, “wrote romance about lives in the great desert, where an exiled Freedom thrives,” while another of this author's poems refers to a brain as “That white green fatty package.” In addition to writing “The Seven Year Old Poet” and “Shame,” this author wrote a collection beginning with the poem “After the Flood,” and ending with “Genie.” In addition to writing Illuminations, one of this author's poems recalls the release of an object, “fragile as a May butterfly” and later notes that, “Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves.” This author referred to another work as a “notebook of one of the damned,” and in that work this author notes, “I invented the color of the vowels,” in the section “Alchemy of the Word,” which followed that work's section “Delirium I.” The author of “The Drunken Boat,” for 10 points, name this French symbolist author, a lover of Paul Verlaine who wrote A Season in Hell.", "round" : "Harvard A.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f938b3d831d6a003bfb" }, "answer" : "classical {guitar}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.76095867785625, "num" : 4, "question" : "This instrument's repertoire includes Johann Mertz's Bardenklange and Narciso Yepes's transcription of Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord sonatas. Ferdinando Carulli composed over four hundred pieces for this instrument, and wrote a treatise on playing this instrument entitled “harmony applied to” it. Heitor Villa-Lobos composed twelve etudes for this instrument. Although it was originally composed for piano, Isaac Albeniz's “Leyenda” is most often played on this instrument, whose renowned performers include Julian Bream and (*) Francisco Tarrega. Fernando Sor's compositions helped elevate the concert profile of this instrument, which rose still further thanks to the efforts of Andres Segovia. For 10 points, name this instrument prominent in the classical music of Spain, which is played by plucking its six strings.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 7.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebd8b3d831d6a000964" }, "answer" : "The Gospel of {Luke} [accept the Gospel According to {Luke}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 391.805879087979, "num" : 11, "question" : "According the Farrer Hypothesis, this book was written last out of a certain group of three \"synoptic\" books. Its use of medical language and dedication to Theophilus is evidence that its author also wrote (*) Acts of the Apostles. The Beatitudes are stated in the beginning of its Sermon on the Plains, and it is the only Gospel that contains the parables of the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan. Coming after Mark, this is, for 10 points, what third and longest of the canonical Gospels?", "round" : "14.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f238b3d831d6a0020f5" }, "answer" : "{Tisha b'Av} [or {Ninth} of {Av}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.20765294479206, "num" : 2, "question" : "The period leading to this holiday is termed Bayn Ha-Metsarim, during which marriage is prohibited, and in the Shabbat Hazon preceding this holiday, the blessing of wine during havdalah is postponed to Sunday night. The eve of this day sometimes sees the consumption of a boiled egg sprinkled with ashes. As during any period of shiva, it is prescribed to sit on low stools during this holiday, and studying any but a few sad tractates is forbidden as it is an enjoyable activity. This holiday sees the reading of the Kinnot and of Aycha, the book of Lamentations, in the afternoon, and it commemorates, among other calamities, the destruction of the First and Second Temples of Jerusalem. For 10 points, name this mournful summer holiday occurring on the namesake ordinal day of a certain Hebrew month.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Michigan + Penn.doc", "seen" : 60, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd58b3d831d6a004afd" }, "answer" : "Elegabalus", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.46991045144387, "num" : 66, "question" : "Born Bassianus, this boy emperor of Rome changed his name to reflect his devotion to a Syro-Roman Sun God, he came to power in 218 AD and was assassinated at age 18 by members of his Praetorian Guard.", "round" : "04_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401b8b3d831d6a005b88" }, "answer" : "King {John} of England [or {John Lackland}, or {John Soft-Sword}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.3971853191033, "num" : 10, "question" : "Prior to becoming king, this man displaced William Longchamp, the Bishop of Ely who had been appointed the king's justiciar. His forces were overcome at the Battle of Bouvines and the siege of Rouen, and he lost Normandy and many other territories to Phillip II Augustus. He was excommunicated and his kingdom placed under papal interdict after he opposed Stephen Langton, Innocent III's choice for Archbishop of Canterbury. This monarch was cornered by his barons at Runnymede, where he succumbed to their demands. For 10 points, name this King of England who signed the Magna Carta, the successor to Richard the Lion-hearted.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff08b3d831d6a00513b" }, "answer" : "{atomic orbital} [prompt on {orbital}; do not accept or prompt on \"{molecular orbital}\"]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.7835907908157, "num" : 13, "question" : "The splitting of sets of one type of these objects is the subject of ligand field theory, and that type being partially filled defines the properties of the transition metals. The linear combination of these entities can generate molecular ones. By the Pauli Exclusion Principle, these entities can contain at most two electrons. For 10 points, name these mathematical descriptions of the location of electrons in an atom, examples of which include the s, three p ones, and five d ones.", "round" : "4q2-06.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f658b3d831d6a003084" }, "answer" : "In {Search} of {Lost} Time [or {Remembrance} of Things {Past}; or A la {Recherche du Temps Perdu}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.6909123910591, "num" : 3, "question" : "After the grandmother of this novel's narrator dies, his mother begins obsessively reading the letters of Madame Sevigne. This novel's narrator joins a salon consisting of the \"faithful,\" whose members include the polish sculptor Ski, Dr. Cottard, and the author Bergotte. In the fifth section of this novel, the narrator's jealousy that his lover may be secretly having lesbian affairs causes him to attempt to keep that lover, Albertine, in his room. This novel's third volume describes the narrator's disenchantment with the Duchess of Guermantes. In its opening volume, the narrator recalls his childhood in Combray after tasting a madeleine. For 10 points, name this novel whose sections include Sodom and Gomorrah, Time Regained, and Swann's Way, the masterpiece of Marcel Proust.", "round" : "14.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40588b3d831d6a006a3e" }, "answer" : "{Henry Clay}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.7392654835712, "num" : 5, "question" : "In 1806, this man served as counsel for Aaron Burr, and he was a member of the Ghent commission that negotiated peace with Britain. He fought a duel with John Randolph in which neither man was wounded, and he helped solve the nullification crisis with his support of the Tariff of 1833. Nicknamed the Great Pacificator for his shepherding the Missouri Compromise, for 10 points, name this Kentucky stateman who was known for his American System of economic development.", "round" : "Round_08_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fca8b3d831d6a0048a5" }, "answer" : "{Porifio Diaz}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.3766580461524, "num" : 18, "question" : "His participation at the Battle of Tecoac led this individual to successfully overthrow the government regime Sebastian Lerdo. Lerdo subsequently did return to Mexico with support from Tammany Hall in attempts to overthrow this leader who was becoming increasingly unpopular for his support of the vigilante Pancho Villa. His Tuxpetec Plan attempted to retake Texas via a rebellion initiated by Mexican immigrants who crossed the border illegally. For 10 points name this unpopular late 19th century of Mexico who was deposed and died in exile in Paris", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 09 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efb8b3d831d6a0017db" }, "answer" : "{Shi'a} Islam [accept {Shi'ite}; prompt on {Islam} or {Muslim} until “{successor} to {Muhammad}”]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 392.6978534569498, "num" : 13, "question" : "One branch of this religious sect is the Zaidis. Members of this sect believe in eight practices in place of the five pillars. Another of its sects believes that Muhammad al-Mahdi is the twelfth imam, is alive and hidden, and will help Jesus bring the day of judgement. That sect, this religion’s largest, is the Twelvers. Its adherents believe Ali was the true successor to Muhammad. Many adherents are found in Azerbaijan and Iraq, and it is the dominant religion in Iran. For 10 points, name this second largest branch of Islam after Sunni.", "round" : "Round02.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb78b3d831d6a000809" }, "answer" : "{Kingdom} of {Hawaii}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0836871082428, "num" : 9, "question" : "Lorrin Thurston led a group in this polity known as the Committee of Safety, which worked with U.S. Minister John Stevens. In the mid-1800’s, it was briefly occupied by the British in the Paulet Affair. Walter Gibson was one of the chief proponent’s of its 1887 constitution known as the (*) “Bayonet Constitution.” Grover Cleveland commissioned the Blount Report to investigate abuses in this polity, although its overall conclusion would be rebuked by the later Morgan Report. Sanford Dole was the first governor of this polity, using his power to establish large pineapple plantations. For 10 points, name this polity annexed as a U.S. territory in 1898 following the overthrow of Queen Lili’uokalani.", "round" : "18.pdf", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9f8b3d831d6a0002b3" }, "answer" : "{Henri Marie Raymond} de {Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 60.36969827651046, "num" : 16, "question" : "One of his works features a woman in a black robe with her hair up pouring water into a basin containing a yellow cloth. Another of his works portrays a red-haired woman in a blue robe with a man's hat resting atop a pile of clothing in the foreground. Those works are parts of this artist's Elles series, a collection of lithographs depicting the daily life of prostitutes. In one of his best-known paintings, a group of people sit around a balcony table on the left, while on the right, a woman's white face powder gleams greenish under a gaslight. He created a number of works depicting lesbians, such as The Two Girlfriends and The Kiss, while his best-known works depict dancers like Yvette Guilbert, La Goulue, and Jane Avril. For 10 points, name this artist who depicted the nightlife of Montmartre in paintings like At the Moulin Rouge.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Maryland A and Boise State final.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9b8b3d831d6a003dad" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Bennington}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.3496389365755, "num" : 1, "question" : "The encirclement strategy of the winning side in this battle was supported by the efforts of Colonels Nichols and Herrick as well as the tactic of disguising themselves as the enemy's supporters by attaching pieces of paper to their hats. The losing side's commander had halted his advance at the Walloomsac River after realizing that he was outnumbered; once he realized his imminent defeat, he led a futile sabre charge during which he was slain. That man, Friedrich Baum, was not in time to receive reinforcements led by Heinrich von Breymann, who might have been able to turn the tide had it not been for the timely arrival of Seth Warner and his Vermont militia. Those militia were also known as the Green Mountain Boys, and Molly Stark would have slept a widow if her husband John had not won this American victory in eastern New York. For 10 points, name this battle from the Revolutionary War.", "round" : "Round 13.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40708b3d831d6a006fc8" }, "answer" : "the {Domesday Book}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.2940941702109, "num" : 22, "question" : "Its “great” version excludes Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, and its components include the “Exon” version and the Inquisition of the County of Cambridge. The portions dealing with Winchester and London are missing. It includes accounts of ponds, mills, and number of workers, and is organized by the concept of “barony,” which was introduced twenty years before its compilation. Researched by around seven groups of commissioners in 1086, for 10 points, name this exhaustive record of all lands held by the chief tenants of William the Conqueror.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb68b3d831d6a0043e7" }, "answer" : "The {Division} of {Labor} in {Society}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.77675637113862, "num" : 1, "question" : "This book's third section argues that unjust contracts are a necessary consequence of castes, which its author describes as forced types of the title phenomenon. It asserts that the number of types of crimes have decreased throughout history in a section about the evolution of the collective consciousness. Its author posits that the title phenomenon is directly proportional to the volume and density of civilizations. Its first section contrasts repressive laws to restitutive laws, and divides civilizations into ones characterized by mechanical and organic types of solidarity. For 10 points, name this classic sociological text by Emile Durkheim about social specialization.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Orth-Bentley.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40638b3d831d6a006ce4" }, "answer" : "Ireland", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.7024380378425, "num" : 20, "question" : "A papal approval for a crusade prompted the Desmond rebellion in this polity. Its National Land League sought rights for tenant farmers, and its “National Invincibles” killed Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Cavendish in this country's Phoenix Park murders. One event here hit its low point during “Black '47” and saw its citizens escape via (*) “coffin boats.” The Troubles, a terrorist struggle over six counties in its north, led to the formation of its namesake Republican Army. For 10 points, name this island, home to the Easter Uprising and a namesake potato famine.", "round" : "Round_08_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f108b3d831d6a001c8f" }, "answer" : "The {Tin Drum}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.50005630147643, "num" : 8, "question" : "One character in this novel is killed while trying to make love to the figurehead of a wooden ship. Another character in this work dies after seeing eels being pulled from a dead horse. In addition to Herbert Truczinski, another character in this novel becomes a lover of Roswitha Raguna after joining Bebra's group of performers. Jan Bronski steals a necklace for Agnes in this novel. Its protagonist can shatter glass with his voice and refuses to grow any more at the age of three. It is followed by Cat and Mouse and Dog Years in its author's Danzig Trilogy. For 10 points, name this novel about Oskar Matzerath, who cherishes the title instrument, written by Gunter Grass.", "round" : "Lisle and Maryland B.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3f8b3d831d6a0027a9" }, "answer" : "Telomeres", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.63555693603121, "num" : 1, "question" : "Facio-scapulo-humeral dystrophy is believed to be caused by these structures' namesake position effect,  which Baur et al showed could be relieved by Trichostatin A. Their size can be assayed via Flo-FISH or a TRF southern blot, and they are protected from non-homologous end-joining by the shelterin complex. The SIR2/3/4 complex relocates to these structures, which form G-quadruplexes in humans. Their existence solves the end-replication problem, and Greider and Blackburn discovered a reverse transcriptase that lengthens these structures. Their length sets an upper limit upon the number of divisions that a given cell can undergo, and they consist of the sequence TTAGGG. For 10 points, name these ends of chromosomes.", "round" : "Round 01 updated.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f238b3d831d6a0020d3" }, "answer" : "{Seleucid Empire}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.44138442119583, "num" : 10, "question" : "This kingdom capitulated to client-state status, surrendering an annual roster of hostages per the Treaty of Apamea, in the wake of a crushing loss to the Attalid Euemenes II and Lucius Scipio. It descended into chaos after an ambitious Nabatean stab Alexander Balas, whose son was used to engineer the brief reign of Tryphon after conflicts with the Hasmonean dynasty destabilized this kingdom's rule. One of its greatest kings lost the Battle of Magnesia after earlier winning at Raphia over a ruler of this dynasty's major rival; that rival king bore the epithet \"Philopator\". With the aid of Lysimachus, this kingdom's founder defeated Antigonus the One-Eyed and himself earned the epithet \"Nicator\" by winning the Battle of Ipsus, possibly thanks to selling his daughter to the Mauryans in exchange for elephants. For 10 points, identify this dynasty which warred with Ptolemaic Egypt to control the territory held by Alexander the Great.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Editors 3.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40308b3d831d6a00609d" }, "answer" : "{Baruch} or {Benedict} de {Spinoza}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.13805557601154, "num" : 1, "question" : "This thinker's development of a non-dialectical path to social organization and liberation stands as a radical exception to bourgeois trajectory of thought according to Antonio Negri's analysis of his thought, The Savage Anomaly. A 1780 public dispute between F.H Jacobi and Gotthold Lessing centered on this man's philosophy. like Hobbes this thinker adopts an amoralist stance regarding “natural right” but unlike Hobbes concludes in one work that democracy and not monarchy is the most natural form of state. In a major work he articulates a substance-monism wherein modes and attributes of that infinite substance give rise to variety and attempted to organize those arguments relating God, substance and humanity in a “Geometrical Manner.” For 10 points, name this author of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and Ethics a Dutch Jewish philosopher.", "round" : "Round8.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f268b3d831d6a002199" }, "answer" : "{Edmund Husserl}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.85084164165892, "num" : 19, "question" : "After publishing an essay in the journal Logos critical of Willhelm Dilthey's view of history, this philosopher entered into a notable correspondence with Dilthey. Students of this thinker include the author of The Literary Work of Art, Roman Ingarden, as well as Eugen Fink, who was for a long time the possessor of this thinker's Bernau manuscripts. This philosopher's early works were attempts to base mathematics in psychology, while a later work addressed intersubjective experience with the concept of \"lifeworld\". In addition to Philosophy of Arithmetic and a series of speeches entitled The Crisis of European Sciences, his work Ideas defined the concept of noesis. That work also introduced his idea of the eidetic reudction, which employs a suspension of judgment he called epoche, or bracketing. For 10 points, identify this thinker who advanced the science of phenomenology in his Logical Investigations.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Yale A + Miami B.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3d8b3d831d6a002708" }, "answer" : "“{Because} I {Could} Not {Stop} for {Death}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.16467328416184, "num" : 2, "question" : "The speaker of this poem describes his final destination as a house which seemed but “a swelling of the ground,” with a roof that was “scarcely visible,/The cornice but a mound.” Previously the speaker described passing “fields of gazing grain” and the “setting sun,” all this after surmising that the “horses' heads/Were pointed toward eternity.” Having “put away/[his] labor, and [his] leisure too” for his host's civility,  the speaker notes that the title figure had “kindly stopped for [him].” FTP what is this poem by Emily Dickinson in which the Grim Reaper picks up the speaker to take him to eternity?", "round" : "DB 2010 round 2.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef68b3d831d6a0016c7" }, "answer" : "{geometric} series", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.8092649613973, "num" : 13, "question" : "A curious one of these entities, which can be said to be equal to 1 or 0, is named for Grandi. Archimedes used one of these objects to calculate the area of the title conic section in his treatise The Quadrature of the Parabola. The St. Ives riddle can be restated as solving a finite one of these. The (*) “hyper-” form of these entities involves summing rational functions of k; that is, the quotient of polynomials P(k) and Q(k). These converge if the absolute value of the power of each term is less than 1, in which case they are equal at infinity to 1 over the quantity 1 minus the first term. For 10 points, name these series which consist of terms r to the k summed over k, which are often contrasted with arithmetic series.", "round" : "Packet 21 - TB 5.doc", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efd8b3d831d6a001845" }, "answer" : "Steppenwolf <MA>", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5649865260348, "num" : 19, "question" : "This novel’s protagonist contemplates a small tree in a planter in his apartment as a symbol of the bourgeoisie. The protagonist is given a treatise in which the title entity is defined as a \"suicide,\" someone who simultaneously loathes and respects the bourgeoisie. This novel’s protagonist has an affair with Maria and imagines himself to be the title animal. At a lavish ball, the protagonist is led by the saxophonist Pablo into the Magic Theater, where he kills Hermine. For 10 points, name this semi-autobiographical novel about Harry Haller written by Herman Hesse.", "round" : "Round07.doc", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f048b3d831d6a0019f5" }, "answer" : "{Whig} Party [or {Whigs}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.3043071634601, "num" : 16, "question" : "One member of this party founded the Massachusetts Board of Education before attempting to ban corporal punishment in school, while another spoke for two hours before Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Horace Mann’s “Conscience” faction of this party was opposed by Edward Everett’s “Cotton” faction, and this party’s founder designed the American [*] System. This party was succeeded by the Free Soil and Republican parties. For 10 points, name this American political party which ran war heroes for president, including Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, and William Henry Harrison, and which formed thanks to Henry Clay’s opposition to Jacksonian Democracy.", "round" : "Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404b8b3d831d6a006708" }, "answer" : "{Robert Frost}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.645303962985, "num" : 19, "question" : "This author wrote about Job being sainted for emancipating God in his play A Masque of Reason. The narrator of one of his poems says he cannot “rub the strangeness from [his] sight” after “looking through a pane of glass” that he “held against the world of hoary grass,” and he began one poem “the land was ours before we were the land's.” He wrote a poem about a boy “too far from town to learn baseball” who becomes “a swinger of birches,” and he observes that “he is all pine and I am apple orchard” and “good fences make good neighbors.” FTP, identify this poet of “After Apple-Picking,” “The Gift Outright,” “Mending Wall,” and “The Road Not Taken.”", "round" : "HFT Round 04.doc", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaa8b3d831d6a0004d0" }, "answer" : "{Parthian} Empire", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 42.25164736178704, "num" : 8, "question" : "This kingdom was surveyed by Isidore of Charax. The House of Karen and House of Mihren are the only two of the seven clans supposedly descended from this Empire. One city of this empire was Hatra, while it had its capital at Asaak. One ruler of this empire was Parthamaspates, who was placed upon the throne by Trajan, and a defeat of this kingdom by Mark Antony allowed Herod the Great to take the throne of Judea. This kingdom ended with the death of Artabanes IV at the hands of Ardashir I, thus ending its Arsacid Dynasty. For 10 points, name this empire succeeded by the Sassanids which defeated Crassus at Carrhae, famous for the namesake “shot” of its mounted archers.", "round" : "2011 CO History Blaszkiewicz Hang.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8e8b3d831d6a003ab2" }, "answer" : "{Thoth} [or {Djehuty}; or {Tahuti}; or {Zehuti}; or {Techu}; or {Tetu}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 98.30855499883182, "num" : 9, "question" : "This deity helped resolve a dispute that brought a water goddess back from Nubia and oversaw three major battles between order and chaos. One creature that served this god was a guardian of a lake of fire named Astennu. He gave Isis the words that would resurrect Osiris and once alleviated Nun's sterility by gambling with Khonsu to secure the intercalary days. One of his forms is the god of equilibrium, the baboon-headed A'an. He oversaw the ceremony in which the feather of Ma'at, his feminine counterpart, was weighed by Anubis against the heart of the deceased. For 10 points, name inventor of writing, an Egyptian god of wisdom and magic who is depicted with the head of an ibis.", "round" : "Sofa Kings - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 67, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4a8b3d831d6a002a76" }, "answer" : "apartheid [SR]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9238990598824, "num" : 18, "question" : "This policy was originated by Daniel François Malan, and its legality was questioned at the Rivonia Trial. One demonstration opposing it became the Sharpeville Massacre, and it was the impetus for a fourteen-year arms embargo and for the [*] Soweto Uprising. In 1990, Frederik Willem de Klerk started work on ending this policy, under which affected people were forced into Bantustans.  For 10 points, name this policy which caused Blacks and peoples of color to become completely segregated, a South African policy famously protested against by Nelson Mandela.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 12 [Finals 1] COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40908b3d831d6a00772d" }, "answer" : "{echidna} (prompt of {spiny anteater} before it's mentioned)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.80946096940897, "num" : 11, "question" : "Flannery and Groves discovered a new species and subspecies of these in 1998. Belonging to either the tachyglossus or zaglossus genus, they are endangered in some regions because of their edible meat. Different species are distinguished by the length of their beaks, which contain electroreceptors, and the length of their spines. Living in New Guinea, Tasmania, and Australia, they outwardly resemble the hedgehog, though they are in a different order from it. FTP, name this creature sometimes known as the spiny anteater; one of two varieties of monotreme, along with the duck-billed platypus.", "round" : "Florida State - Harvard A - Yale.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd88b3d831d6a004bc4" }, "answer" : "Baha'i", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 49.1655602469109, "num" : 15, "question" : "One text of this religion mentions Arthur Henderson's apathy. In addition to God Passes By, another work calls for further participation in the Second Seven Year Plan, Citadel of Faith. A more famous text commands those of age 15 to 70 to pray towards the shrine of this religion's (*) founder, who wrote about the landmarks of search, love, and unity in The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys. For 10 points, name this religion whose teachings are collected in the Kitab-i-Iqan and the Kitab-i-Aqdas, founded by Bahaullah.", "round" : "13_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed28b3d831d6a000e53" }, "answer" : "the {Red Brigades} [or {Brigate Rosse}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.1039386838675, "num" : 23, "question" : "This group worked to set up cells in automobile plants, and issued frequent communiques explaining their killings, including that of American NATO officer James Dozier. Arrests and a 1984 split into the Fighting Communist Party and the Union of Fighting Communists led to the decline of this group, which to that point had killed about fifty people and “kneecapped” many others. This group was first organized at the University of (+) Trento by a couple that included Margherita Cagol, and, under the leadership of Renato Curcio, participated in the Years of Lead by killing former prime minister (*) Aldo Moro. For 10 points, name this Communist militant group which was active in Italy.", "round" : "11.pdf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f518b3d831d6a002bf5" }, "answer" : "{Winter Palace}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 60.06475882744417, "num" : 10, "question" : "An occasional dining room in this building was named for four large black bodyguards assumed to be Ethiopians who guarded its owner; that room connected to a Concert Hall with life size plinths of the Muses. The Concert Hall, in turn, is part of the three room enfilade designed by Giacomo Quarenghi for this building, which contains Malachite and Gold drawing rooms. Domenico Trezzini designed its third incarnation, while this building's rotonda is lit by an oculus and was designed by Auguste de Montferrand, who also designed the Field Marshal's Hall. The Jordan Staircase and the Grand Church still have Rastrelli's rococo styling, much of which was destroyed by an 1837 fire, after which native architects such as Vasily Stasov were hired. For 10 points, name this building whose Great Throne Room is connected to the Hermitage, once the official residence of Russian tsars.", "round" : "Round 03.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40768b3d831d6a007135" }, "answer" : "Iceland", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 594.2860319206957, "num" : 14, "question" : "(RS) The powerful waterfall Dettifoss is located here, and some of its cities are Keflavik, Husavik, and Vik. Its volcanoes include Hekla and Eldfell, and it also contains several geysers. Its only native mammal is the arctic fox. This island nation's parliament was founded in 930. Name this island nation whose parliament is known as the Althing and whose capital is Reykjavik [RAYK yah vihk].", "round" : "r5tossups.pdf", "seen" : 390, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407b8b3d831d6a00724c" }, "answer" : "gamma", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.8781131389551, "num" : 18, "question" : "The Erlang distribution is a special case of a distribution named for this letter, and has free parameters alpha and theta, while in special relativity, it represents the quantity one over square root of one minus beta squared, or the Lorentz factor. This letter is sometimes used to denote the Euler-Mascheroni constant, and the function denoted by this extends the factorial to real and complex numbers. For 10 points, identify this letter which is used to denote electromagnetic radiation whose wavelength is shorter than X rays.", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f498b3d831d6a002a25" }, "answer" : "{Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.8497401052155, "num" : 20, "question" : "This author notes that “each man kills the thing he loves” in the poem “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.” He wrote a play in which Algernon and Cecily marry while Gwendolen marries a man known as Jack Worthing. In this author's most famous work, the title character is corrupted by Lord Henry Wotton and owns a portrait that does not age. For 10 points name this Irish author of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray.", "round" : "Packet 9.doc", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdb8b3d831d6a004c63" }, "answer" : "bacteriophages", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.0987801651936, "num" : 3, "question" : "The most studied form of these creatures use was studied by rightward and leftward transcription and use Q Antitermination. That creature of this sort was denoted with the letter lambda.. They can reproduce by adding there DNA into a vector and forcing that vector to reproduce, or the alternate to the lysogenic cycle, the lytic cycle. For ten points, name these viruses that infect bacteria, named for their appearance of eating them up.", "round" : "FHTE R6 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecb8b3d831d6a000ca2" }, "answer" : "{Tennessee Williams} [or {Thomas Lanier Williams}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.2101712161676, "num" : 13, "question" : "In one work by this man, Doctor Cukrowicz (kew-KROH-vihts) is offered a grant to perform a lobotomy on Catharine Holly due to her telling stories about Sebastian Venable. That work by this man is Suddenly, Last Summer. The former Episcopal preacher Larry Shannon is a tour guide for a Sunday school class in Mexico in this man's Night of the Iguana. Another of his plays sees Stanley Kowalski abuse his wife Stella and her cousin, Blanche DuBois. For 10 points, name this author of A Streetcar Named Desire.", "round" : "districts-04.pdf", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9b8b3d831d6a0001e0" }, "answer" : "{Tajikistan}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 122.683816234814, "num" : 2, "question" : "The Marguzor lakes lie along the Archimaydan River in the Fann Mountains in this country. This nation contains the world’s tallest artificial dam, the Nurek Hydroelectric Dam, which lies on the Vakhsh River, and its Yakshu Valley was once the site of substantial gold mining. This nation’s eastern region, serviced as of 2004 by a single main road, is its poorest; that region is Gorno-Badakshan. This nation is home to multiple organizations, such as the Hizb-ut-Tahrir and the Islamic Renaissance Party, agitating for the establishment of an Islamic state. Historically, power in this nation has been concentrated around Khojent, which is closer to a neighboring state’s Fergana Valley, and this nation shares its southern border, defined by the Panj River, with Afghanistan. This nation is also home to a mountain system whose central massif is dominated by the Fedchenko glacier, and which drains much of its melt into the Amu Darya. For 10 points, identify this Central Asian nation also home to Mt. Isamil Samani, formerly Communism Peak, in the Pamir Range, which has its capital at Dushanbe.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-YaleFinal.doc", "seen" : 79, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0f8b3d831d6a001c8b" }, "answer" : "{Sepoy Mutiny} [or First {War} of {Indian Independence}; or {Indian Mutiny} before “{India}”; or {Revolt} of {1857} before mention]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.28080309298821, "num" : 4, "question" : "This event led to the renouncement of the Doctrine of Lapse, which disallowed the adoption of heirs into a line of succession and was introduced by Lord Dalhousie. This event started after an incident on the parade ground at Barrackpore, on which a superior officer was attacked by Mangal Pandey. One reluctant leader in this event was the final Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II. One cause for this event was the introduction of the Enfield rifle, whose cartridges were greased with a mix of cow and pig lard. For 10 points, name this 1857 uprising of the namesake native soldiers in the employ of the British East India Company that took place in India.", "round" : "Lisle and Maryland B.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe38b3d831d6a004e38" }, "answer" : "The {Prince} [accept {Il Principe}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.6997758557554, "num" : 8, "question" : "This work claims one must strive to gain \"virtu,\" which would help one win the good graces of a female figure called Fortuna. In this work's introduction the author claims he will not discuss republics because he had written about them in his work Discourses on Livy. This work warns against the dangers of flatterers and in another section praises Cesare Borgia. This work is dedicated to \"Lorenzo de Medici\" and it asserts that leaders must work as both a fox and a lion. For 10 points, name this 1513 work of political philosophy written by Niccolo Machiavelli. ", "round" : "10 HFT.doc", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40268b3d831d6a005e4f" }, "answer" : "the {center} of {mass} [or {barycenter}; {grudgingly} accept {center} of {gravity}; prompt on {CoM}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.1762353938538, "num" : 9, "question" : "The use of this entity's namesake coordinates reduces a two-body problem to two one-body problems because all motion can be decomposed into rotation about and translation of this entity; consequently, the so-called effective force and moment on a body act at this location. This point can be found for a planar body at the intersection of plumb lines for different orientations. For 10 points, name this point coincident with the centroid for a constant-density body and equal to the weight average of the position divided by the total weight.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 21 (mini).doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffc8b3d831d6a00544a" }, "answer" : "Auguste {Rodin}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 422.2193883468863, "num" : 10, "question" : "This artist frequently used his lover Camille Claudel as a model. He depicted three fused figures looking at the ground in The Three Shades. This man was accused of casting models from life for the extreme accuracy of his (*) Age of Bronze. This artist also sculpted a group of dejected politicians handing over a key to British forces, and the passionate embrace of Paolo and Francesca. For 10 points, name this French sculptor of The Burghers of Calais and The Kiss, who also sculpted a thoughtful man in The Thinker.", "round" : "tourn10-09.pdf", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8f8b3d831d6a003ada" }, "answer" : "anaphase", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 65.46899869339541, "num" : 6, "question" : "The onset of this event is regulated by levels of RCS1, and a complex key to this event is activated by the Cdc20 cofactor. This event proceeds when a complex alternatively called the cyclosome degrades securins, leading to the activation of separases which cleave residual cohesin; that complex is an E3 ubiquitin ligase, the APC/C. Spindle poles begin to move apart during the later part of this stage, and its early portion sees the shortening of microtubules due to depolymerization at the plus ends. For 10 points, identify this event in which sister chromatids begin to move towards opposite poles of the cell, a stage of mitosis which precedes telophase.", "round" : "UMN 1 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc18b3d831d6a004677" }, "answer" : "'{Tis Pity She's} a {Whore}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.04662857856601, "num" : 12, "question" : "One character in this play claims that \"he's seen an ass and a mule trot the Spanish pavin with better grace\" after watching his dim-witted master dance, while another character declares that \"a life of pleasure is Elysium,\" just before he receives a letter written in blood. The husband of one character pretends to be a doctor after faking his death to spy on his wife; that character is Richardetto, whose wife Hippolita herself was mistress to the title character's husband. The title character rejects (*) Donado's simple-minded nephew Bergetto. Vasques learns of the title character's secret from her tutor, Putana, while earlier, the title character confesses about her condition to Friar Bonaventura. The title character's husband is also violently murdered after her heart is displayed on a dagger by her brother. For 10 points, identify this play wherein Annabella has an incestuous relationship with Giovanni, written by John Ford.", "round" : "Rd02.doc", "seen" : 18, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa98b3d831d6a0040f4" }, "answer" : "{Ramadan} [or {Ramazan}; accept {vowel omissions} and {also} accept {Eid al-Fitr} on the first clue]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.53442907799035, "num" : 16, "question" : "According to scripture, the rituals of this observance chain up the demons of hell and require niyyah, or intention. The extra Tarawih prayers are performed during the nights of this holiday, which is bounded by the Suhoor and the iftar. The Laylat al-Qadr, or Night of Power, occurred during the final ten days of this holiday, whose end is traditionally celebrated just prior to the month of Shawwal with the Eid al-Fitr meal. Mandated by the pillar of Sawm, for 10 points, name this holiday of the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, which involves day-long fasting.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - St. Anselm's + Truman State A.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401f8b3d831d6a005c4c" }, "answer" : "The {Stranger} [or The {Outsider}; or {L'etranger}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.6871626202482, "num" : 6, "question" : "At the end of this novel, the narrator reflects on the “little robot lady” and Celeste's café after fighting the chaplain. Thomas Pérez was the so-called “fiancée” of the mother of the narrator, who has a neighbor named Salamano who beats his dog. Masson invites people to his beach house, Raymond Sintés has the narrator write a letter to his cheating girlfriend, and Marie is the narrator's girlfriend in this book which begins, “Maman died today.” Name this work about the murder of an Arab on a sunny Algerian beach by Merseult, a work by Albert Camus.", "round" : "01 TU.pdf", "seen" : 244, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4c8b3d831d6a002ad3" }, "answer" : "{Columbia} River", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 595.6844849807676, "num" : 6, "question" : "Home to the Wallula Gap, this river's geologic history included a mudslide called the “Bridge of the Gods,” for which a modern cantilever bridge over it is named. Two of its major hydroelectric dams, equipped with ‘fish-ladders' to help salmon climb, are the John Jay and [*] Bonneville Dams. It forms its infamous ‘bar' of shoals near Astoria, its confluence with the Willamette River is in the city of Portland, and its largest tributary is the Snake River. For 10 points, name this Pacific Northwest river which forms the border between Oregon and Washington State.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 5 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 399, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa08b3d831d6a003ea0" }, "answer" : "“The Second {Coming}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 32.53503662999719, "num" : 3, "question" : "The narrator of this poem knows, as “the darkness drops again,” that a long wait was “vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle.” One figure in this poem “is moving its slow thighs” and is surrounded by “the wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.” The second stanza of this poem describes “a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun” and the disrupting of “twenty centuries of stony sleep” of a “vast image out of (*) Spiritus Mundi.” After “the blood-dimmed tide is loosed,” the narrator describes how “the best lack all conviction/and the worst are full of passionate intensity.” For 10 points, identify this poem that describes “mere anarchy” being “loosed upon the world,” a “rough beast” “slouch[ing] towards Bethlehem to be born” and a “turning and turning in the widening gyre,” a poem by Yeats.", "round" : "Round 1.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40058b3d831d6a005662" }, "answer" : "{Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9875507056713, "num" : 21, "question" : "One of this author's title characters fears that a guard will discover a hidden piece of steel in his mitten. This author wrote novels about the mathematician Gleb Nerzhin and Oleg Kostoglotov, who is confined in the title hospital. This author of The First Circle and (*) Cancer Ward created a character with the last name Shukov who works for group 104, and wrote a book exposing the conditions of the Russian prison camps. For 10 points, name this Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.", "round" : "tourn8-04.pdf", "seen" : 248, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40178b3d831d6a005a81" }, "answer" : "Ahab", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.88693152205087, "num" : 17, "question" : "During the reign of this king, Hiel of Bethel rebuilt the city of Jericho, which resulted in the deaths of two of his sons. One of this man's enemies was Micaiah, who predicted that the nation would be “scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd” after this man's death. Despite wearing a disguise, he was killed by a random arrow at Ramoth Gilead while fighting alongside Judah's king Jehoshaphat. An earlier incident in this man's reign comes in 1 Kings 21, which details his murder of Naboth in order to obtain a vineyard. The son of Omri, this king's main nemesis was Elijah, who defeated his prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. For 10 points, identify this extremely wicked king of Israel and husband of Jezebel, whose name is alluded to in Moby-Dick.", "round" : "MUT II - Finals Packet 1 (intended for championship round).doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff48b3d831d6a005255" }, "answer" : "{Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7417576811276, "num" : 7, "question" : "This author wrote Nana as part of his twenty-volume series titled Les Rougon-Macquart. That series contains this author's novel about a coal mining strike called Germinal. This author is best-known for an letter to Felix Faure published in Georges Clemenceau's newspaper. That letter by this author states that an act of espionage was committed by Major Esterhazy and that anti-Semitism resulted in the banishment to Devil's Island. For 10 points, name this French author who defended Alfred Dreyfus in his letter J'Accuse.", "round" : "4q2-15.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa98b3d831d6a0040ee" }, "answer" : "cycloid ", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.35760699361562, "num" : 10, "question" : "The curtate variety of this figure contains a fixed point on its inside, which contrasts with its prolate variety. Huygens used its isochronous properties to design the first pendulum clock guaranteeing regular swing independent of pendulum height. This figure is represented parametrically by the equations x equals r times the quantity one minus sine of t, and y equals r times the quantity one minus cosine of t. It provides the solution to the problem of finding the curve of fastest descent, also known as the brachistochrone problem. For 10 points, name this figure traced out by a point on a rolling circle.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - St. Anselm's + Truman State A.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebc8b3d831d6a000945" }, "answer" : "Book of {Psalms} [or {Tehillim}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 392.3693810559343, "num" : 3, "question" : "The speaker of one section of this book will “tear you to pieces, with none to rescue” if you don’t consider his proposal. The “sons of Korah” are responsible for portions of this book. Other subsets of this book include the Song of Ascents and the Hillel. Orthodoxy highly regards the portion that begins with “Miserere.” Another portion describes a figure who “leadeth me beside the still waters” and notes “my (*) cup runneth over,” comparing the lord to a shepherd. For 10 points, identify this book which was largely authored by David and consists of 150 songs.", "round" : "13.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401a8b3d831d6a005b3b" }, "answer" : "{Abraham Lincoln}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.31155608315021, "num" : 14, "question" : "In one play featuring this character, he is first seen naming the “Five Moods” under the tutelage of Mentor Graham. In a poem about this character, “the sins of all the war-lords” burn his heart. He was the subject of a Richard Hofstadter essay that described the “self-made myth.” This subject of a play by Robert Sherwood and a poem by Vachel Lindsay that sees him “walk at midnight,” was also the subject of a six-volume biography covering his “Prairie Years” and his “War Years” by Carl Sandburg. For 10 points, name this literary character who is the implied subject of the Walt Whitman poem “O Captain, My Captain!,” the sixteenth President of the United States.", "round" : "MUT II - Minnesota 5.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40638b3d831d6a006cbb" }, "answer" : "The {Raft} of the {Medusa} [or Le {Radeau} de la {Meduse}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.6819548010826, "num" : 2, "question" : "One person at the right of this painting grabs the thigh of a man who sits above him on some barrels, and that man is looking away from the viewer and waving a shirt. The artist of this work allegedly holed up with (*) cadaver parts to produce this work. A man looks over his shoulder and points to the right below a sail in this painting, and dead bodies are scattered all around this canvas. For 10 points, name this work featuring survivors of a shipwreck drifting on the titular conveyance, a painting by Theodore Gericault.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb68b3d831d6a0043d1" }, "answer" : "{Canizzarro} reaction", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.39558821311221, "num" : 1, "question" : "A 2008 paper from Ishihara et al found that anhydrous phenylglyoxal is a solution to the problem of low reactivity of an asymmetric variety of this reaction with alcohols. A similar reaction to this one involves using aluminum alkoxide catalysts and instead of its normal products produces ethers and is named after Tischenko and Claisen. The first step of this process involves the nucleophilic addition of a base to a carbonyl group to give an alkoxide which is then deprotonated to create a namesake di-anion intermediate. One version of this reaction utilizes formaldehyde as a reducing agent to yield a higher output of an alcohol product and is known as the crossed version. Producing both an alcohol and a carboxylic acid, FTP, identify this disproportionation reaction discovered in 1853 by an Italian chemist.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Missouri State + Louisville (final).doc", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5c8b3d831d6a002e81" }, "answer" : "The {Corrections}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.57968247355893, "num" : 2, "question" : "In this novel, a character with a “Foucaultian mind” uses the email address “exprof at gaddisfly.com”. Another character in this novel hallucinates that he is wrestling a turd while taking a cruise on the Gunnar Myrdal. The first aforementioned character from this novel loses his job after having an affair with a student and carries out a scheme of cyber-fraud in Lithuania with his ex-girlfriend's husband Gitanas. The patriarch of this work's central family takes the drug (*) Correktall in an attempt to cure his Parkinson's disease. This work centers on Chip, Denise, and Gary's attempts to attend a family reunion in the Midwestern city St. Jude, where their parents Alfred and Enid Lambert live. For 10 points, name this 1999 novel by the author of Freedom, Jonathan Franzen.", "round" : "Round 12 - Editors 3 + Virginia.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f388b3d831d6a002606" }, "answer" : "{Gone} With the {Wind}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "MS", "inc_random" : 2229.84943161183, "num" : 2, "question" : "In this novel, Bonnie Blue dies while trying to jump a fence with her horse. Its protagonist stays in love with the owner of the Twelve Oaks plantation, Ashley Wilkes, even while she is married to the Confederate blockade runner Rhett Butler. It largely takes place on the plantation Tara. For 10 points, name this Margaret Mitchell novel about the Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara.", "round" : "CMST_Round03.pdf", "seen" : 1495, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9b8b3d831d6a0001d8" }, "answer" : "{Rings} of {Jupiter} [or the {Jovian ring} system; accept {clear knowledge} equivalents]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 49.42182655399665, "num" : 15, "question" : "When the entities that compose these objects enter their planet's shadow, photoelectric processes shut down and those entities become more negatively charged. That results in a coupled oscillation between those entities orbital eccentricity and their semimajor axis, which is known as shadow resonance and explains the Thebe extension to one of these objects. A significant decrease in the brightness of one of these objects is known as the Metis notch. These objects include the toroidal halo interior of the main one and the two gossamer ones. They straddle the orbits of Amalthea and the other three inner moons of the planet that was hit by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet. For 10 points, name these features of the largest planet in our solar system, discovered by Voyager I and studied extensively by the Galileo mission.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-VCUAandBFinal.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405b8b3d831d6a006af1" }, "answer" : "{Stanley Milgram}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 336.8876979020424, "num" : 9, "question" : "With Lance Shotland, this man studied the antisocial effects of television. He also created a method of gaging public opinion through response to addresses in his lost-letter technique. The author of The Individual in a Social World, he tracked packages from Omaha to Boston in his small world experiment, and found that sixty-five percent of “teachers” would continue to operate his machine even after actors feigned great pain from electric shocks. For 10 points, name this Yale researcher, known for his obedience experiment.", "round" : "Round_01_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 223, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5a8b3d831d6a002e1d" }, "answer" : "{Kill Bill} [accept {Kill Bill}, {Volume} One or {Kill Bill}, {Volume Two} at any point]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.2025628092233, "num" : 8, "question" : "In one scene in this movie, a character muses how she likes the word “gargantuan,” but so rarely has a chance to use it in a sentence. In the first scene of this movie, the antagonist notes he can fry an egg off one character's head before saying “this is me at my most masochistic.” The theme from the TV show Ironside plays at various points, such as when the main character recognizes someone's “Auld Lang Syne” ringtone. The protagonist kills  a hospital orderly named (*) Buck who sexually abused her while she was in a coma and later manages to escape being buried alive in a coffin. The heroine of this movie confronts O-Ren Ishii and Elle Driver, both members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. For 10 points, name this film about Beatrix Kiddo's quest for revenge against the title character, a movie released in two parts and directed by Quentin Tarantino.", "round" : "Round 07 - Chicago B.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40688b3d831d6a006dec" }, "answer" : "{Their Eyes Were Watching God}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.4901738879271, "num" : 17, "question" : "At one point in this novel, the narrator is jealous of Nunkie before escaping from a storm with her husband and a man named Motor Boat. Much of this novel takes place in Eatonville, where the narrator's second husband Jody Starks becomes mayor, and where the protagonist meets Pheoby Watson. Eventually the narrator is forced to shoot her third husband Tea Cake after he is bit by a rabid dog in the Everglades. For 10 points, name this novel in which Janie Crawford recounts her life, a work of Zora Neale Hurston.", "round" : "Round_05_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd88b3d831d6a004b9a" }, "answer" : "{bullet trains} or {shinkansen} [prompt on {high-speed rail} and the like]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 121.2551119832788, "num" : 25, "question" : "The latest design for these uses a pink stripe on the side of a teal paint scheme and has been dubbed the “super green car.” Its first model, the 0 Series, used a modified Romancecar body, and stayed in service for fifty years, with the last one being rotated out in November 2008. While its native-language name means “new (*) trunk line,” English signage for these entities usually calls them “super-express,” referring to their nearly 200 mile per hour speed. For 10 points, name these advanced Japanese rail services.", "round" : "10_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 83, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406c8b3d831d6a006ed6" }, "answer" : "{Charon} [accept {Pluto} I]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.5016696217936, "num" : 20, "question" : "Robin Canup suggests that this body was formed from a giant impact of a Kuiper Belt object. Similar objects to this entity include Nix and Hydra, and this object was discovered in 1978 by James Christy when he noticed a periodic bulge in photographs of the body it orbits. This body is located in a system in which the center of gravity is not located within the object this body orbits, one of the reasons that orbited body is no longer a planet. For 10 points, name this object that orbits Pluto, named for the Greek ferryman of the dead.", "round" : "Round_01_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f318b3d831d6a002432" }, "answer" : "{Dante Gabriel Rossetti}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.19240951817483, "num" : 13, "question" : "In one poem he described the sonnet as being \"of its own arduous fullness reverent\" and imagined it as a coin in Charon's palm to \"pay the toll to Death.\" In another sonnet in the same collection, he described the titular time as \"This close-companioned inarticulate hour / When twofold silence was the song of love.\" In addition to \"Silent Noon,\" he wrote an internal monologue in which the speaker imagines the title character waking with his gold coins in her hair. That poem, in which the speaker contemplates the \"lazy laughing languid\" title prostitute, is entitled \"Jenny.\" The parenthetical \"I saw her smile\" and \"I heard her tears\" begin and end the final stanza of his most famous poem, in which the title character \"lean[s] out / From the gold bar of heaven,\" gazing at her earthbound lover. For 10 points identify this poet and painter who wrote the sonnet sequence The House of Life, as well as \"The Blessed Damozel.\"", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 14 - The Gorilla Wrestles With The Superman.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403a8b3d831d6a006328" }, "answer" : "{Mishima Yukio} [accept in either order]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.32987450179644, "num" : 5, "question" : "In one of this man's novels, the owner of the After the Show Retreat is married to the radical politician Yuken Noguchi. Another novel sets the Daphnis and Chloe story on Uta-Jima and stars the lovers Hatsue and Shinji. In addition to After the Banquet and The Sound of Waves, this author wrote a novel in which Fusako falls in love with Ryuji, the titular Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. More famously, he wrote a series of novels about Honda and Kiyaoki's births and rebirths, as well as a novel about Mizoguchi, a young monk who sets fire to the titular building. For 10 points, identify this author of The Sea of Fertility tetralogy and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Illinois B.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f468b3d831d6a002954" }, "answer" : "{endoplasmic reticulum} [or {ER}; prompt on {sarcoplasmic reticulum} or {SR} before “{steroids}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.8256267220713, "num" : 21, "question" : "SRPs move signal-sequence-bearing polypeptides from the cytosol to this structure, and a special form of it stores and releases calcium ions in muscle cells. One type of this organelle synthesizes steroids in adrenal cells and metabolizes glycogen in the liver, while another synthesizes proteins from structures on its surface. For 10 points, name this cellular organelle with \"smooth\" and ribosome-rich “rough” varieties that aids in the transport of cellular materials.", "round" : "Packet 10.doc", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f128b3d831d6a001d29" }, "answer" : "Dubliners", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.7088601407595, "num" : 15, "question" : "One story from this collection ends with the copyist Farrington beating his son Tom, while in another story Mr. Duffy causes Mrs. Sinico great pain. In addition to “Counterparts” and “A Painful Case,” this collection includes a story about canvassers hoping to elect Richard Tierney. In addition to “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” this book contains a story in which a boy buys a gift for Mangan's sister at the title bazaar. In its final story, Gretta's memory of Michael Furey causes a devastating epiphany for Gabriel Conroy. For 10 points, “Araby” and “The Dead” are found in what short story collection by James Joyce which takes its name from the residents of the Irish capital?", "round" : "UCSD.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406a8b3d831d6a006e68" }, "answer" : "{Lemuel Gulliver}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.3448002808727, "num" : 14, "question" : "This character sails aboard the Adventure being taken in by a farmer's nine-year-old daughter. This character inspects the Grand Academy of Balnibari, where he discovers impractical solutions to agricultural problems. He serves as a physician aboard the Antelope before he is taken to Mildendo, and this character argues in favor of the Blefuscu prisoners of war during his time in Lilliput. For 10 points, name this character whose “Travels” title a novel by Jonathan Swift.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f188b3d831d6a001e87" }, "answer" : "{Nazca} or {Nasca}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.60057307826355, "num" : 9, "question" : "They fully exploited such indigenous sources of food and energy as the Huarango Tree, but were ultimately conquered by the Wari.  They produced a distinctive polychrome pottery and their settlements, which were located in the Chincha and Acari regions, were centered around underground irrigation systems called puquios.  First studied by Max Uhle at a place now called Ocucaje, their civilization practiced human sacrifice as evidenced by a series of extant preserved heads on ropes, as well as the altars found at the Great pyramid at their capital, Cahuachi.  Their greatest creations still exist and most can now be found in the Ingenio Valley.  For 10 points, identify these ancient people of Peru that preceded the Inca and are known for their namesake “lines” that are visible from the air.", "round" : "Editor's Round Tiebreak 1.docx", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffd8b3d831d6a005485" }, "answer" : "{Luigi Pirandello}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.8395127241965, "num" : 6, "question" : "One play by this author sees a character dress up as an abbot's attendant only to be mistaken for Peter Damian. He also wrote a play in which a child drowns in a fountain and a boy shoots himself. That play begins at a rehearsal which is swiftly interrupted, to the (*) Manager's consternation, by the title figures, of whom only Madame Pace is named. For 10 points, name this Fascist-supporting Italian author of Enrico IV and Six Characters in Search of an Author.", "round" : "tourn10-12.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40378b3d831d6a006251" }, "answer" : "{Saul Bellow}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7351356830914, "num" : 5, "question" : "One work by this author includes the political analyst Teddy Regler, who is loved by the dissatisfied Clara Veldt. In addition to A Theft, this author depicted Tommy Wilhelm's alienation from his father in Seize the Day. In another novel by this author, the title character recounts his marriage to [*] Madeline and writes a number of letters, while the protagonist of another novel is raised by Grandma Lausch. That novel opens with the line “I am an American, Chicago born.” For 10 points, identify this author of Herzog and The Adventures of Augie March, a Jewish-American winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 6 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404d8b3d831d6a006780" }, "answer" : "“The {Bride Comes} to {Yellow Sky}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.5886191064492, "num" : 4, "question" : "At one point in this work, the talkative drummer is offered shelter behind an armor-plated bar at the Weary Gentleman Saloon. As this story opens, that title character is embarrassed by her dress, but her mood is quickly improved by her companion, who declares that they'll get the “finest meal in the world” at a diner. Meanwhile, they are observed by a porter with an “amused and superior grin.” One character shoots at the protagonist's house, though he is not home, and everything is called off once Scratchy Wilson sees the woman the protagonist married in San Antonio. FTP, identify this Stephen Crane story about Jack Potter's return, newly married, to the title location.", "round" : "HFT Round 09 ADV FINISHED.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40858b3d831d6a0074c6" }, "answer" : "{reification} [accept: {Verdinglichung}; {Versachlichung}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.43212539330125, "num" : 13, "question" : "Frankfurt School member Axel Honneth wrote a recent book on this concept subtitled “A New Look at an Old Idea”, in which he rejected the idea that it is caused by structural characteristics of social systems. In his critique of Mismeasure of Man, Harvard Medical School professor Bernard Davis claimed that Stephen Jay Gould wrongly defined this concept. The Kyoto School philosopher Keiji Nishitani paired this concept with nullification as part of a dilemma that must be overcome before Absolute Nothingness can be reached. Gershom Scholem uses this term to describe the emergence of Kabbalistic mythology from the Midrash. This concept can lead to the pathetic fallacy, and in Marxism this phenomenon leads to fetishism and and alienation when social relations and labor become treated as commodities. For ten points, name this term that refers to representing an abstraction as if it were a concrete object.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40138b3d831d6a00599b" }, "answer" : "\"{Mood Indigo}\"", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.25910224160179, "num" : 8, "question" : "The main tune for this work was a theme song for Armond Piron's New Orleans Orchestra, and the tune was proposed to one of this piece's composers by Lorenzo Tio. As with \"Stardust,\" Michael Parish claimed to have been the true lyricist even though Irving Mills took official credit. In this work's original recording, the composer swapped the usual registers of the clarinet and trombone to create a \"mike-tone.\" The singer ends this work by claiming that \"I could lay me down and die,\" and describes how \"in the evening when the lights are low/ I'm so lonesome I could cry.\" Originally titled \"Dreamy Blues,\" for 10 points, identify this collaboration between Barney Bigard and Duke Ellington whose title emotion the singer \"always gets... since my baby said goodbye.\"", "round" : "KLEE - Round 2.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f898b3d831d6a00398a" }, "answer" : "{Remmet} “{Rem}” {Koolhaas}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 119.8565201791935, "num" : 7, "question" : "This man drafted a project along with Elia Zenghelis which would have provided London with a ceremonial strip and was to be called “Exodus.” One of his buildings, designed in collaboration with Ole Scheeren, lies in the Beijing central business district and consists of two towers leaning towards each other and merging in a bent cantilever. This creator of the CCTV headquarters also designed a multifaceted concert hall for the National Orchestra of Porto, and this architect of the Casa da Música was also the head editor of the anthology S, M, L, XL. He also wrote a work which evaluated the “culture of congestion” in the title city and is subtitled A Manifesto for Manhattan. For 10 points, name this founder of O.M.A, an architect who designed the Seattle Central Library and wrote Delirious New York, who hails from the Netherlands.", "round" : "Round by Matt Weiner Eric Mukherjee Aaron Rosenberg and Editor.docx", "seen" : 82, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb18b3d831d6a0042cc" }, "answer" : "Le {Samourai} or {Jef Costello} (either name is acceptable)", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 124.1039091479033, "num" : 5, "question" : "He memorably declares that he never loses at cards before he first sets foot in Martey's and uses the bathroom. Later he is involved in an elaborate exchange of clothes, primarily rain coats and hats, as the police try to pin him down. His eccentricities involve drinking only Evian, wearing white gloves, and carrying about an enormous ring of car keys. He keeps a bird in his room and, although he cares for his long time girlfriend and accomplice Jane, by the end of the film it is clear that he has fallen for Valerie, the piano player, who it turns out Olivier has hired him to kill. His story opens with a long take of him smoking in bed accompanied by a quote from a text invented by the director of the film in which he appears, The Book of Bushido. Played by Alain Delon, for 10 points, identify this fictional hit man with a warrior's code, the namesake of a 1967 film by Jean Pierre Melville.", "round" : "r17- Editors 3.doc", "seen" : 85, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb88b3d831d6a004464" }, "answer" : "Penicillin", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.4779601334594, "num" : 2, "question" : "A pathway in its production involves ketoglutaric acid with aminoadipate as an intermediate. Containing a central ring of three carbons and one nitrogen, its G variety contains a benzyl ring and its structure was determined by Dorothy Hodgkin. Margaret Rousseau would play a key role in the mass production of this, which was aided by a cantaloupe found in Peoria, Illinois. Since it works by preventing the formation of peptidoglycan in the cell wall, its effectiveness is directly related to the result of a Gram test on the sample. It was discovered in a sample of staphylococcus aureus, when its discoverer noted its ability to hinder bacterial growth. FTP, this antibiotic discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming.", "round" : "Round 2.doc", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40908b3d831d6a00772f" }, "answer" : "{Fermat's} last {theorem}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.67053869878873, "num" : 13, "question" : "Kummer showed that early attempts at proof of this depended on the faulty assumption that factorization is unique in all rings of integers or algebraic number fields. The correct argument uses L-functions, which are generalized zeta functions; a combination of Kolyvagin-Flach theory and Iwasawa theory; and Hecke algebras. In 1983, Ribet noted that a counterexample to it would imply the existence of a non-modular elliptic curve, contradicting a special case of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture. In 1995, Taylor and Wiles proved that special case of that conjecture and thus proved, FTP, what centuries-old math problem named for a French margin-scribbler?", "round" : "Florida State - Harvard A - Yale.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9e8b3d831d6a000274" }, "answer" : "{Course} in {General} Linguistics [accept {Cours} de {linguistique générale}]", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.08496051710099, "num" : 16, "question" : "This work cites the fact that it’s impossible to cut the front side of a piece of paper without also cutting the back side to explain how sound and thought are connected. It discusses how someone can perfectly understand the board of a half-finished chess game without knowing any previous moves to differentiate between “synchronic” and “diachronic” approaches. It argued “value” can only be determined by comparing an object to something similar or dissimilar and it includes the famous “talking heads” diagram. This work explains the link between the signified and the signifier is arbitrary and it distinguishes between “langue” and “parole.” Compiled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye based on lecture notes, for 10 points, name this foundational work of strucuralist linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Editors 2 final.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd18b3d831d6a004a1b" }, "answer" : "{Ambrose Gwinett Bierce}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9884919826873, "num" : 7, "question" : "In one of this man's works, he calls a rebel “a proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.” This man also wrote a short story about a man who sees gravel as precious jewels and swims away from a rifle volley and cannon shot; that man seemingly escapes hanging when the noose snaps over a bridge. For 10 points, name this author of The Devil's Dictionary who wrote about Peyton Farquhar in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”", "round" : "round07.doc", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f548b3d831d6a002ca6" }, "answer" : "{William Howard Gass}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.06693483470008, "num" : 12, "question" : "In one story by this author, Professor Logrus and Madame Betz are visited by the clairvoyant Ella Bend Hess and in another story a woman's house is invaded by black bugs, but the mother comes to find them fascinating. In addition to writing The Cartesian Sonata, “The Order of Insects,” and “Icicles,” this author wrote a story in which a poet retires to write caricatures of elderly citizens in a town referred to as “B.” He wrote a novel about a history professor who writes Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany and uncovers facts about his lovers “Mad Meg” and Martha while working on the title project. In another novel Henry Pimber injures himself shooting a fox in a well, but hangs himself after he recovers since he is unable to relate to the title character. This author of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country wrote about a man named Brackett, who moved with his wife Lucy to the town of Gilean, Ohio in the 1890s. For 10 points, identify this author of The Tunnel and Omensetter's Luck.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f258b3d831d6a00216e" }, "answer" : "{Francois Mitterrand}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.9232259306591, "num" : 18, "question" : "Jack Lang served as culture and education minister under this man, who famously replied \"so what\" when confronted with the fruits of an extramarital affair. Before serving in his most famous position, he served among others as interior minister for the UDSR, and became the leader of the PS. After two failed attempts, this man was able to win the presidency on the strength of his 110 propositions program. He became mired in controversy over his secret order to sink the Green Peace ship Rainbow Warrior, and earned early enmity by opposing de Gaulle in the 1958 Algiers Crisis. He appointed Fabius, Rocard and Cresson to the office of Prime Minister, and prior to his death from prostate cancer was forced into the so-called \"cohabitation\" with his longtime rival, Jacques Chirac. For 10 points, identify this President of France from 1981-1995 who was notably socialist.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Stanford.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff68b3d831d6a0052d3" }, "answer" : "{Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.8009627312422, "num" : 78, "question" : "This composer wrote the movement \"Montagues and Capulets\" for his ballet Romeo and Juliet. He claimed that his first symphony was written in the style of Josef Haydn, had Haydn been alive in the twentieth century. An opera by this composer sees the King of Clubs' son cursed by Fata Morgana to seek after the title fruit. Another piece by this composer of the Classical symphony and the opera Love for Three Oranges uses the bassoon to represent the grandfather and the oboe to represent the duck. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-all.pdf", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f988b3d831d6a003d18" }, "answer" : "{Sepoy} Mutiny [accept {Indian Mutiny} until the end, {then} prompt]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.7651326439809, "num" : 3, "question" : "Immediately following it, the Legislative Council was revamped and allowed for natives to join. In reaction to the murder of women and children in this event, some participants were fired from cannons. Beginning in Meerat, it was wiped up by Sir Hugh Rose, and Sir Colin Campbell oversaw the operation in Lucknow. The pretext for this event was the use of the Enfield rifle, which used a cartridge allegedly lubed with pig and cow lard, thus insulting Muslim and Hindu users. Resulting in the abolition of the English East India company, for 10 points, identify this 1857 mutiny by the namesake Indian soldiers.", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407d8b3d831d6a0072af" }, "answer" : "The {Gleaners} [or {Des glaneuses}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.5943843619898, "num" : 20, "question" : "In the back-right of this painting, some bluish gables poke up from a depression and a man on horseback looks on. Saint-Victor dubbed the central figures of this painting as the “three Fates of pauperdom,” and its setting is similar to its artist's earlier canvas The Angelus. The central figures wear headscarves and clutch a bunch of stalks, and two of them reach a single hand to the ground. An exemplary work of the Barbizon school, for 10 points, name this work that depicts three women picking up stray grains of wheat, by Jean-Francois Millet.", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9d8b3d831d6a000253" }, "answer" : "{cyclops} [or {Cyclopes}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.34645730932243, "num" : 5, "question" : "When Aeneas's crew visited a location formerly inhabited by one of these creatures, they picked up the marooned sailor Achaemenides. Euripides's play Alcestis describes how Apollo was forced to serve Admetus for a year after killing these figures in retaliation for Zeus's killing of Asclepius. They supposedly built the mortarless fortifications of Mycenae and Tiryns, and their other creations include the invisibility-granting helmet of Hades. After Campe was slain, they were released from Tartarus along with their brothers the Hecatoncheires. The most famous individual one, a son of Thoosa, of them crushed Acis with a rock out of love for Galatea and was fooled by a warrior claiming that he was named “No man”. For 10 points, Brontes, Steropes, Arges, and Polyphemus are all examples of which race of mythical one-eyed giants?", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Editors 1 final.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe08b3d831d6a004da2" }, "answer" : "{luminosity} [accept word forms]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.5601020487957, "num" : 5, "question" : "The Schechter function gives the number of stars or galaxies with a given value for this property. Some stars that emit especially powerful stellar wind are in excess of four pi times big G times big M times proton mass times speed of light over sigma, the Eddington limit for this quantity. This quantity is equal to four pi R squared times sigma times temperature to the fourth power by a law derived from the Stefan-Boltzmann equation. The type of this quantity that considers all light wavelengths is called bolometric. For 10 points, give this astronomical quantity measured by a star's absolute magnitude.", "round" : "03 HFT.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8f8b3d831d6a003aec" }, "answer" : "Amerika", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.18714269832708, "num" : 4, "question" : "This novel's protagonist meets Fanny dressed as an angel and gives his name as \"Negro\" shortly before his second encounter with the scrawny Giacomo. This work's protagonist learns horseriding from Mack, whose fiance Clara Pollunder tries to rape him, while the fondness of Grete Mitzelbach and Therese nets him a job at Hotel Occidental. Delamarche and Robinson abuse the protagonist of this novel, who goes to the Nature Theatre of Oklahoma. Early on the protagonist is taken in by his wealthy Uncle Jacob and endures the Stoker's complaints after seeing the Statue of Liberty with a sword. For 10 points, name this novel about Karl Rossman's adventures in the title country by Franz Kafka.", "round" : "USC + Editors 4 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f598b3d831d6a002dea" }, "answer" : "{Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's} Symphony {No.} 1 in G Minor [accept {linguistic} equivalents, accept “{Winter Dreams}”, “{Winter Daydreams}”, or “{Zimniye Gryozy}”; accept {Tchaikovsky's Opus 13}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.58579032751732, "num" : 20, "question" : "semitone, and also features the addition of a trio that plays a waltz, its composer's first setting of that dance. In its last section the violins play an adaptation of the folk song “The Garden Blooms” before the piece shifts abruptly from andante lugubre to allegro maestoso. Its second movement is highlighted by a melody played by a solo oboe and takes music from its composer's incidental music for Ostrovsky's The Storm, and the theme of weather is seen again in that movement's title, (*) “Land of Gloom, Land of Mists”, as well as in this symphony's nickname. For 10 points, name this symphony in G minor that precedes its composer's Little Russian symphony, a work by the composer of The Nutcracker.", "round" : "Round 04 - Laferbrook Vintler.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea88b3d831d6a000480" }, "answer" : "Melanie {Klein}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 36.78497030446306, "num" : 1, "question" : "This psychologist’s methodology was expanded by Donald Winnicott’s “squiggle” exercise in which a patient is given a squiggly line and told to turn it into something meaningful. This thinker describes how people try to expel a negative personal belief onto another person and act as though that belief were true in a process called “projective identification.” Roger Money-Kyrle and Susan Isaacs led a group of this psychologist’s followers in a series of psychological debates called the “Controversial Discussions.” Children were given a box of unmarked toys and observed as they acted out violent fantasies, in this psychologist's implementation of “play therapy.\" This thinker argued that the “paranoid-schizoid position” develops into the “depressive position” when children can recognize entities as a whole, and no longer differentiate good and bad aspects of something as separate objects. This pioneer of \"object relations\" theory authored the book The Psychoanalysis of Children. FTP, name this female psychologist who split with Anna Freud in arguing that the superego exists from birth.", "round" : "PACKET13Gioia.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404e8b3d831d6a0067b3" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Sterns Eliot}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.7890941356309, "num" : 18, "question" : "In one of his works the psychiatrist Henry Harcourt-Reilly reconciles Edward and Lavinia by convincing them to host the title event, and another poem offers the bleak image, “Tenants of the house / thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.” He calls the river “a strong brown god” and is satisfied with “the life of significant soil” in “The Dry Salvages,” part of a work whose other sections include “East Coker” and Burnt Norton.” The refrain “HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME” appears in the section “A Game of Chess” in a poem that begins “April is the cruelest month.” FTP, identify this author of “Gerontion,” The Four Quartets, and “The Waste Land.”", "round" : "HFT Round 10 ADV FINISHED.doc", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406a8b3d831d6a006e79" }, "answer" : "The {Magic Mountain} [or {Der Zauberberg}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.6755491970106, "num" : 10, "question" : "In this novel, a duel takes place in which Settembrini refuses to fire at a Jesuit who was converted from Judaism, thus leading the character Naphta to shoot himself. The Dutch planter Mynheer Peeperkorn comes to the title location after working in Java, and he loves Clavdia Cauchat. Joachim Ziemssen is the cousin of the main character, who visits for three weeks and discovers that he has tuberculosis, before going skiing against doctor's orders. For 10 points, name this Thomas Mann novel about Hans Castorp's stay in a Swiss sanatorium.", "round" : "Round_12_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40098b3d831d6a00576d" }, "answer" : "Sophocles", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5932485072408, "num" : 13, "question" : "Only fragments survive of this man's comedic play The Tracking Satyrs. He wrote a play in which Deianeira (DIE-uh-NARR-uh) accidentally kills Heracles with the shirt of Nessus, The Women of Trachis. One of his plays is the middle part of a trilogy and is set \"at (*) Colonus.\" His two plays about the outwitter of the Sphinx make up a trilogy, along with a play about a niece of Creon, who insists on burying Polyneices (PALL-ee-NEESE-eez) despite Creon's decree. For 10 points, name this playwright whose \"Theban Plays\" include Antigone (an-TIG-uh-nee) and Oedipus Rex.", "round" : "tourn9-02.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa38b3d831d6a003f83" }, "answer" : "{East Germany} [accept {German Democratic Republic}; accept {GDR}; accept {Deutsche Demokratische Republik}; accept {DDR}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.6860191768501, "num" : 10, "question" : "One early leader of this polity failed in his attempt to modernize the hi-tech industry via the Economic System of Socialism while also failing with the New Economic System. That leader's rule also saw the creation of Intershops and the Karl-Marx Alley. Its penultimate leader created vertically integrated production systems called combines along with heavily sponsoring sports to boost prestige. Bertolt Brecht spent his final years in this polity and Egon (*) Krenz was its last leader. Its end came via Die Wende or The Change. The secret police in this country were the Stasi and its leaders have included Eric Honecker and Walter Ulbricht. For 10 points, name this polity centered at Berlin, unlike its counterpart centered at Bonn.", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eee8b3d831d6a0014ec" }, "answer" : "\"La {Belle Dame Sans Merci}\"", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.0492243634072, "num" : 15, "question" : "The largely ignored published version of this poem substitutes \"wild sad eyes\" for the eighth stanza\n phrase \"wild wild eyes.\" The protagonist of this poem makes an accessory called a \"fragrant zone.\" One of\n its characters has a lily on his brow and a fading rose on his cheeks. Its opening stanza describes a lake\n where sedge has withered and no birds sing. Its tenth stanza describes \"pale kings and princes\" who sing\n that the title character \"hath thee in thrall.\" It describes the encounter between a knight and an elusive lady\n referred to as a \"faery’s child,\" and partially takes place in an \"elfin grot.\" For 10 points, name this poem\n by John Keats whose French title translates as \"The Beautiful Lady Without Pity.\"", "round" : "13.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd58b3d831d6a004b02" }, "answer" : "gravitational {redshift} (prompt on {redshift})", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.65034545050003, "num" : 4, "question" : "Alfred Schild argued that it could only occur if Minkowski space-time's geometry was violated. The presence of this phenomenon in the CMBR due to the differential scattering of photons within a potential is given by the (*) Sachs-Wolfe effect. It was observed in the emissions from iron 57 atoms in the Pound-Rebka experiment and its existence, along with time dilation, was used as a test of the equivalence principle. For 10 points, name this phenomenon that arises due the energy loss a photon experiences as it passes through a gravitational field.", "round" : "05_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f318b3d831d6a00243a" }, "answer" : "prior probability distribution", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.09698459436186, "num" : 1, "question" : "A method devised by Jaynes selects these functions based on the principle of maximum entropy. Three major classes of these functions are the density ratio class, the neighborhood class, and the conjugate class. When this function is chosen to be proportional to the square root of the determinant of the Fischer information matrix, it is known as a Jeffreys one of these. If this function is picked on the basis of representing no useful information, it is called objective and is usually improper, while subjective ones represent some independent knowledge of the probability distribution. Frequently criticized by frequentists, for ten points, identify this quantity which, when multiplied by the likelihood function gives the posterior probability, according to Bayes' theorem.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 15 - Autobiography of a Lungworm.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2e8b3d831d6a0023a1" }, "answer" : "The {Way} of All {Flesh}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.98852423788048, "num" : 4, "question" : "The letters in chapters 8 and 25 of this work were based on its author's own correspondence with his family, which resulted in this work only being published posthumously.This work includes a chapter about the Simeonite movement in which it is mentioned that among the works that attract the attention of the main character are Bishop Colenso's Criticism on the Pentateuch and Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. The main character of this work is swindled out of his inheritance from his grandfather by his friend Pryer, and marries the alcoholic Ellen, who is later revealed to have had an illegitimate child with the coachman John. Though ordained as a minister at Cambridge, after inheriting his aunt Alethea's trust fund of seventy thousand pounds, this work's protagonist becomes a writer. Mr. Overton relays the narrative of this novel as if from the papers of the central family, which includes members such as George, Christina, and Theobald. Centering primarily on Ernest Pontifex, for ten points, identify this most famous novel of Samuel Butler.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 07 - The Way a Ghost Dissolves.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe28b3d831d6a004e1b" }, "answer" : "knowledge", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 467.2243272026535, "num" : 21, "question" : "Alvin Goldman added a “causal condition” to a common three-part definition for this concept. Moore's paradox considers assertions made in spite of this concept. Foucault writes about power-hyphen-this in The History of Sexuality, and Foucault's major methodological work analyzes the basic unit of discourse, which he calls the statement, and is titled after the “archeology” of this concept. Edmund Gettier gave scenarios such as “The Cow in the Field” to suggest that this concept was different from justified true belief. For 10 points, name this philosophical concept, the subject of epistemology, which one gains by learning.", "round" : "08 HFT.doc", "seen" : 308, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9a8b3d831d6a003d7e" }, "answer" : "{John Milton Hay}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.3476439199876, "num" : 20, "question" : "For five years in the 1870s, this man was employed by the future losing Vice-Presidential candidate of Benjamin Harrison, Whitelaw Reid, as an editorial writer for the New York Tribune. Hurt feelings from one of this man's subsequent endeavors were mended eighteen years later by the Thomson-Urrutia treaty, and another of his achievements included the important phrase “on terms of entire equality.” Based on his time as private secretary to the President during the Civil War, he published the first standard volume of the works of Abraham Lincoln as well as a biography of that man. Shortly thereafter, he praised the conflict with Spain as a “splendid little war” and issued a note to Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Japan, and Russia regarding access to trade in China. For 10 points, name this architect of the Open Door Policy and American control of the Panama Canal, both achieved during his tenure as Secretary of State to Theodore Roosevelt.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403c8b3d831d6a00637c" }, "answer" : "{Sergei Prokofiev}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.85786755406298, "num" : 5, "question" : "One of his works contains the movement “The Evil God and the Dance of Pagan Monsters” and a section depicting the sun god Ala. He evoked the 18th century with a down-bow on the strings and D-minor triad arpeggio at the start of a symphony created “as Haydn might have written it.” This composer of the Scythian Suite and Classical Symphony wrote a troika in a work about the advisors of Emperor Paul, who create a fake military hero. This creator of the Lieutenant Kije Suite wrote a work in which the clarinet plays the cat and the bassoon represents the Grandfather. For 10 points, name this composer of the ballet Romeo and Juliet and Peter and the Wolf.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Penn + ULL.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40018b3d831d6a00555f" }, "answer" : "{Oriental Republic} of {Uruguay} [or {Republica Oriental del Uruguay}]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 594.4750743771438, "num" : 14, "question" : "Unusually for a Spanish-speaking South American nation, this country is less than fifty percent Catholic. Part of this country's border with Brazil runs through Lake Mirim, and this country is itself bisected east to west by the Rio Negro. Its capital sits on the north side of the estuary separating it from (*) Argentina, the Rio de la Plata. For 10 points, identify this country in the southeastern part of South America, whose capital has a name meaning \"I see a mountain,\" Montevideo.", "round" : "tourn11-07.pdf", "seen" : 403, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f908b3d831d6a003b39" }, "answer" : "{Gottlob Frege}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.90958018763922, "num" : 18, "question" : "Michael Resnik's work on this philosopher suggests a “platonic taxonomy” to classify “abstract objects” that he formulated. Crispin Wright has popularized a school of thought named after this thinker, defending the so called Principle of Unrestricted Comprehension or this man's “Basic Law V.” One work by this man describes the derivation of the Dedekind-Peano axioms from Hume's Principle, which is a result now known as his namesake theorem. Another work discusses the differences between (*) “morning star” and “evening star” and attacks the notion that the equality operator is not inherently true when referring to two mathematical expressions that are equal. For 10 points, identify this 19th century logician who wrote The Foundations of Arithmetic and On Sense and Reference.", "round" : "THUNDER Finals 1.docx", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40128b3d831d6a005966" }, "answer" : "{Luigi Pirandello}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.8175746854395, "num" : 15, "question" : "This author of Renanian Elegies and Playful Evil depicted the veil seeking Ersilia in the work Clothing the Naked. Leone challenges a group of men to a duel at his wife's room when he interrupted Guido and Silia lovemaking in this author's The Rules of the Game. This author also wrote about Giorgio Salvi committing suicide in a work where Diego Cinci and Doro Palegar engage each other in a duel. A fictional performance of Trovatore, wherein the audience director and actors are part of the performance is the focus of one of his plays. In addition to writing Tonight We Improvise and Each in his Own Way, a man thinks he is a Holy Roman Emperor in his Henry IV. This author  is better known for having The Producer rehearse Mixing it Up in a drama featuring The Stepdaughter, The Mother, et al. For ten points, name this author of Six Characters in Search of an Author.", "round" : "PRELIMS ROUND 5.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef98b3d831d6a001776" }, "answer" : "{Siddhartha Gautama} [or the {Buddha}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 393.1209385218099, "num" : 4, "question" : "The myth surrounding the birth of this figure holds that he was conceived when a white elephant touched his mother's side in a dream. After this figure's birth, the seer Asita predicted that he could become great in one of two ways. A sick man and a corpse were among the four sights that inspired this man, also known as (*) Shakyamuni, to become an ascetic. This man taught for the first time at the Deer Park in Benares, where he put forth the Four Noble Truths after meditating under a Bodhi tree and becoming enlightened. For 10 points, identify this Indian founder of an Asian religion whose sects include Theravada.", "round" : "Packet 6 - Playoffs 1.doc", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff68b3d831d6a0052d7" }, "answer" : "{partitions} of {Poland} [or equivalents; or {partitions} of the {Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth};", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.4424698005896, "num" : 82, "question" : "One of these actions was completed after the victory of the Confederation of Targowica (TAR-go-VEE-kah), which also undid the Third of May Constitution. Another one of these actions brought an end to the actions of the Bar Confederation. The third one of these actions was preceded by an uprising led by Tadeusz Kosciuszko (tah-DOZSH kahs-YOUS-koh) in 1794. The first was conducted by Maria Theresa, Catherine the Great, and Frederick the Great. For 10 points, name these events of the eighteenth century that gave to Austria, Prussia, and Russia land from a neighboring country with a capital at Warsaw.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-all.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee48b3d831d6a0012a7" }, "answer" : "{Mao Zedong} [or {Mao Tse-tung}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.290921788197, "num" : 20, "question" : "One policy instituted by this leader was the Rectification Movement. This leader's wife was a member of a group known as the Gang of Four. One event that marked this ruler's ascent to power was a military action in which this leader's forces relocated away from those of the Kuomintang (KWO-min-tang). That action was known as the Long March. Opposed to the Chinese Nationalist Party led by Chiang Kai-Shek, for 10 points, name this first leader of Communist China whose quotations were collected in the \"Little Red Book.\"", "round" : "colonia-01.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcc8b3d831d6a004927" }, "answer" : "{Justinian} I or {Justinian} the {Great} or {Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.4321869825944, "num" : 10, "question" : "This leader signed a peace treaty with Khosrau I in 532 to end his empire's Iberian War with the Sassanid Empire. The partisans of the chariot racing factions in his capital rose up against him in the Nika riots, and he appointed Tribonian to review and draft new laws. He waged wars against the Visigoths and the Vandals and gained Italy and parts of North Africa, with much thanks to the ability of his general, Belisarius. Rebuilding the Hagia Sophia and rewriting Roman laws, for 10 points, identify this 483 to 565 ruler of the Byzantine Empire.", "round" : "FKT Editor 2.rtf", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6f8b3d831d6a0032ea" }, "answer" : "{Joan Miró} i {Ferrà}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.7227814916987, "num" : 6, "question" : "This artist worked with Josep Llorens Artigas to build the Wall of the Sun and Wall of the Moon murals for the UNESCO building in Paris. One painting by this artist shows a bird in the upper left corner above a yellow, red, and white ladder. In another painting by this artist with a ladder on the left side, the title figure is next to a jack-in-the-box and wearing a mask that is half purple and half red. This European built a tapestry that was displayed in the World Trade Center, and one of his works is a mosaic in the middle of Las Ramblas in Barcelona. This artist famously said, “I want to assassinate painting.” Name this Catalan creator of Harlequin's Carnival and a sculpture originally titled The Sun, the Moon, and One Star located near the Chicago Picasso, in addition to Dog Barking at the Moon.", "round" : "finals phase 1.pdf", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0e8b3d831d6a001c53" }, "answer" : "{Philip Glass}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.20426053344272, "num" : 12, "question" : "This composer set lyrics by David Byrne in his collection, Songs from Liquid Days. He set the titular Allen Ginsberg poem in his sixth symphony, “Plutonian Ode,” and he used tunes from David Bowie and Brian Eno's albums in his second and third symphonies, subtitled “Low” and “Heroes” respectively. He is better known for an opera which involves Tolstoy, Tagore, and Martin Luther King; and one whose sections “Prematurely Air-Conditioned Supermarket” and “I Feel the Earth Move” follow the third “Knee Play.” For 10 points, name this American minimalist composer whose “portrait trilogy” includes Satyagraha and Einstein on the Beach.", "round" : "Chipola.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec88b3d831d6a000bdf" }, "answer" : "{Arab Republic} of {Egypt} [or {Misr}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.967103150906, "num" : 8, "question" : "One author from this country is known for his autobiographical work The Days. In addition to Taha Hussein, this country has produced an author who wrote about the assassination of this country's president in The Day the Leader Was Killed. That author also wrote novels such as The Thief and the Dogs and (*) Palace Walk. For 10 points, name this home of Naguib Mahfouz whose literature also includes The Book of the Dead and was often written on papyrus.", "round" : "tournament17-12.pdf", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40668b3d831d6a006d80" }, "answer" : "1919 World Series", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 847.4436915449332, "num" : 16, "question" : "This event marked the only postseason appearance of Hall of Famer Edd Roush, and the only home run hit during it was in the series-clinching Game 8 by a player who would never play another game. Cincinnati second baseman Morrie Rath was plunked by Eddie (*) Cicotte with the first pitch of Game 1 to signal that “the fix” was on. For 10 points, name this World Series after which eight members of the Chicago White Sox, including Buck Weaver and Shoeless Joe Jackson, were banned for life for having accepted bribes to throw the series.", "round" : "Round_15_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 564, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40858b3d831d6a0074b5" }, "answer" : "{Rebuilding} the {Temple} in {Jerusalem} [accept {clear} equivalents]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 49.59295741631649, "num" : 17, "question" : "According to the Bah'ai faith, this action was rendered unnecessary by the writing of the Suriy-i-Haykal, which is seen as a metaphorical performance of this task. “11QT” or “11Q19” are designations given to one of the Dead Sea Scrolls that, among other things, gives instructions on how to perform this task. A man made out of bronze appeared in a vision to one prophet and explained how to perform this action; that vision is recounted in Chapter 40 of Ezekiel, and Zechariah explains that this action will be performed by “the Branch”. This action is the goal of the organization Revava, and the Mizrak is one of many objects created by a namesake Institute dedicated to performing this action. After this action is performed, one might see the sacrifice of red heifers and the restoration of the privileges of the Cohanim. For ten points, identify this action which, if done now, would probably mean the destruction of the Dome of the Rock and the building of a new Holy of Holies, the revival of a place of worship first built by Solomon.", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f968b3d831d6a003c82" }, "answer" : "{Sir Robert Peel}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.8980625162367, "num" : 14, "question" : "Queen Victoria stated that his political party, next to turtle soup and insects, was her least favorite thing in the world. A ship named for him was involved in the Caroline Incident in America. He became Home Secretary in 1822, during which term he established the Metropolitan Police Force in London, lending his name to the term \"bobby\". He opposed the Great Reform of 1832, while part of the opposition in Parliament. During his term as prime minister, he repealed the Corn Laws shortly before his resignation. For 10 points, name this man who succeeded Wellington and later Melbourne, and is considered the founder of the Conservative Party.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff68b3d831d6a0052e2" }, "answer" : "cosine", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.1483198802453, "num" : 93, "question" : "This function's Taylor series approximation begins 1 - X2/2! + X4/4! (\"One minus X squared over two factorial plus X to the fourth over four factorial\"). In Euler's Formula, this function added to i(sin(x)) (\"I times the sine of X\") is equal to eix (\"E to the I X\"). This function is also equal to the square root of 1-sin2 (theta) (\"One minus sine squared of theta\") and approaches zero as theta approaches p/2 (\"pi over two\"). Name this function equal to a triangle's adjacent side over its hypotenuse.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-all.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f408b3d831d6a0027f4" }, "answer" : "Albania", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.47322137793526, "num" : 10, "question" : "One of this country's kings nearly killed his would-be assassin with a handgun just after watching I Pagliacci. The League of Prizren attempted to unify four provinces of this country. A 1951 massacre in this country saw the death of Jonuz Kaceli. It obtained its independence when Ismail Qemal led a Congress to issue the Vlorë Proclamation. Italy's invasion of this country caused an opponent of Fan Noli to flee to Greece. The introduction of communism to this country saw the destruction of the bajraktars that had previously ruled it, while another ruler of this country used the Sigurimi secret police here. For 10 points, what nation was formerly ruled by King Zog and Enver Hoxha?", "round" : "Round 05 updated.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb88b3d831d6a00445b" }, "answer" : "{Buffer solutions/agents}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1025995276868, "num" : 13, "question" : "Cacodylate is often used as one to avoid the precipitation of calcium phosphate while monopotassium phosphate is often used as one in food products. Universal ones can be made with Borax and potassium acetate and are often used on glass electrodes. When choosing one it is critical to know at what range it works best, known as their namesake “capacity”. Essentially using the common ion effect to obtain its effectiveness, a common one is a 1,3 diol known as Tris. Found in a bicarbonate form in human blood, their effectiveness can be measured by using the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation. FTP, identify these solutions that are often composed of a weak acid and its conjugate base and resist changes in pH.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401e8b3d831d6a005c19" }, "answer" : "{Akira Kurosawa}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 847.7015678178053, "num" : 15, "question" : "One of this film-maker's movies features a usurping warlord being shot by his own archers, while another depicts a frenetic search for the stolen gun of a police detective. In addition to Throne of Blood and Stray Dog, this man made a movie in which a thief impersonates a dying warlord to preserve the power of the clan. In another, several characters huddling under a gatehouse in a downpour listen to conflicting stories about a murder. This director also depicted Kambei disguising himself as a priest before being recruited, as well as the peasant-born samurai Kikuchiyo. For 10 points, name this Japanese director who created Rashomon and Seven Samurai.", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 443, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2e8b3d831d6a00238f" }, "answer" : "otters", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 99.00708405626938, "num" : 10, "question" : "The fourteenth Fargard of the Vendidad describes an atonement process after killing one of these sacred animals which involves killing ten-thousand tortoises, land-frogs and corn-carrying ants. In Scottish folklore, there exist kings of these animals that can only be killed by attacking them below their chin and are accompanied by seven black versions of this animal. The inability of this animal to deliver a message at the request of a creator god results in the imperfections of humanity in an Ainu myth. In order to pursue Gwion who had become a salmon, the sorceress, Ceridwen took the form of one of these creatures. The skin of one of these animals was filled and covered with gold at request of Hreidmar. For 10 points, identify this playful river mammal whose name sounds similar to a Norse dwarf slain by Loki while in the form of this animal.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 06 - An Orderly Universe of Discoverable Laws.doc", "seen" : 67, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff78b3d831d6a005315" }, "answer" : "House of {Hanover}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.6440658012871, "num" : 28, "question" : "One ruler of this royal house ordered the arrest of the radical John Wilkes. Another ruler of this royal house appointed his obese son the Duke of Cumberland to suppress a rebellion that ended after the Battle of Culloden Moor. Because the first king of this royal house spoke no English, he appointed Robert Walpole the first Prime Minister of England. This royal house was succeeded by the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (sacks-EH KOH-burg GOTH-eh) after the reign of its final ruler, Queen Victoria. For 10 points, name this English royal house which succeeded the House of Stuart and included four kings named George.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-history.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea08b3d831d6a0002e4" }, "answer" : "{Anna Karenina}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 359.5458138003014, "num" : 8, "question" : "The protagonist of this novel meets characters like Sappho Sholtz and Madame Stahl, who never leaves her bed in fear of showing her legs. One character in this novel is injured when his horse Frou- Frou trips while racing Gladiator. The protagonist of this novel has a son named Seryozha and a brother named Stepan Oblansky. A subplot in this novel concerns the sister of the title character, Kitty, who marries Konstantin Levin. For 10 points, name this novel about a woman who shacks up with Count Vronsky and throws herself in front of a train, written by Leo Tolstoy.", "round" : "Round_01_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9c8b3d831d6a003de7" }, "answer" : "The {Bostonians}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 32.35863009933382, "num" : 15, "question" : "This novel ends with its heroine crying and the narrator worrying of her tears that “these were not the last she was destined to shed.” That character is interviewed by the young journalist Matthias Pardon and is courted by Henry Burrage. In the climactic scene of this novel, its protagonist decides against giving a much anticipated speech at the Music Hall. The hardworking Dr. Prance is contrasted with the heroine's father, the mesmerist quack Dr. Selah Tarrant. That heroine is immediately accepted into this novel's central social circle after delivering an enthralling address at a gathering hosted by the septuagenarian Mrs. Birdseye. In this novel, Verena Tarrant is groomed by Olive Chancellor to be a spokesperson for the feminist movement, but runs away with the lawyer Basil Ransom. For 10 points, name this Henry James novel named for the residents of a New England city.", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed98b3d831d6a001000" }, "answer" : "moon", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.335015265597, "num" : 1, "question" : "This astronomical body was visited and orbited by the Clementine spacecraft. This object features a large crater called the South Pole - Aitken basin. One hypothesis of its creation is the Giant Impact Hypothesis. It has basaltic plains called maria such as the Sea of Tranquility. The gravitational interaction between this and the Earth is responsible for tides. For 10 points, name this object that orbits the Earth.", "round" : "20.pdf", "seen" : 346, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40238b3d831d6a005d67" }, "answer" : "ketones", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5107257056516, "num" : 12, "question" : "One method of reducing these compounds enantioselectively is known as the Corey-Bakshi-Shibata reaction, and in aqueous solutions, they usually exist in equilibrium with enols. Applying the Jones oxidizing agent to secondary alcohols is a more common way of creating these compounds. The simplest example of one is often used in cleanup following organic experiments due to its rapid evaporation, and these compounds are distinguished from a similar type of compound by the presence of two alkyl groups bonded to the central carbon. For 10 points, name this type of carbonyl compound, the simplest type of which is acetone.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 11.doc", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdd8b3d831d6a004d05" }, "answer" : "{Progress} and {Poverty}: An {Inquiry Into} the {Cause} of {Industrial Depressions}, and of {Increase} of {Want} with {Increase} of Wealth. The Remedy", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.68107319273986, "num" : 9, "question" : "[TM] The Preface to this work notes that its views were previously expressed in a pamphlet entitled \"Our Land and Land Policy.\" The last chapter of this work asserts that \"Liberty means justice, and justice means the natural law,\" while an earlier chapter notes that mental poewr is a finite resource and that one can only devote so much of it to the pursuit of one of the title concepts. Another chapter in this work notes that some profits are spurious and therefore sometimes mistaken for interest. The sixth chapter of this work asserts that a greater number can be collectively provided for than a smaller number more efficiently, in its noted \"Disproof of the Malthusian Theory,\" while the chapter of this book entitled \"The True Remedy\" proposes that the solution to the problem of one of the title concepts ? is to make all land common property.  For ten points, identify this work advocating a more equitable distribution of wealth which was written by Henry George.", "round" : "Packet 4.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Gaddis II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401b8b3d831d6a005b80" }, "answer" : "{Finn MacCool} [accept {Fionn MacCumhail}; accept {Demne} until mentioned]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.7355299002957, "num" : 2, "question" : "This figure met his wife in the form of a deer while he was out hunting and eventually gave up on another woman promised to him, Grainne, so she could marry Diarmuid. This figure defeated the fire-breathing fairy Aillen at Samhain and his father was killed by a member of the Morna clan, leading him to be raised by Bodhmal and Liath Luachra and tutored by a Druid. The Giants Causeway was formed during a dispute between him and a Scottish giant and this father of Ossian was originally called Demne. For 10 points, name this Celtic figure who attained wisdom after he burned his thumb cooking the Salmon of Knowledge.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 457, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2f8b3d831d6a0023dc" }, "answer" : "{Mahmoud Darwish}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.95596659719013, "num" : 6, "question" : "This man's collection Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone is considered his most autobiographical writing, a departure from book-length poems like “Another Year” and “That is Her Image and This is The Lover's Suicide.” His best-known prose poetry describes being “killed in a flash,” the comforts of cigarettes and coffee and the sounds of war planes. One poem by this man was published in translation in Ma'ariv in 1988, giving this man overnight celebrity thanks to Shefi Gaabi mistranslating expressions like “from the sea to the Jordan River.” Those works are Memory for Forgetfulness about Lebanon in 1982 and the “Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words.” With Arabic poetry collections like Birds are Dying in Galilee and Writing in the Light of the Gun, FTP, identify this man who wrote “record!/I am an Arab” in his “Identity Card,” a Palestinian poet.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 10 - A Blue Sky Out of the Oresteia.doc", "seen" : 19, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405c8b3d831d6a006afe" }, "answer" : "Pygmalion", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1434839724097, "num" : 12, "question" : "The epilogue to this play reveals that one character outgrew the pompousness of Largelady Lane by reading the novels of H.G. Wells. This play opens during a torrential downpour in Covent Garden, where the “Note Taker” is suspected of being a policeman. Characters in this play include the scolding but upright housekeeper Mrs. Pearce and the protagonist’s love interest (*) Freddy Eynsford Hill. In this play, a professor of phonetics makes a bet with his colleague Colonel Pickering that he can change a Cockney girl into a duchess. For 10 points, name this play about Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle written by George Bernard Shaw.", "round" : "Packet 3 - Prelims 3.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40668b3d831d6a006d79" }, "answer" : "{Jorge Luis Borges}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1103778763209, "num" : 9, "question" : "In one of his stories a gunman uses mystic Jewish symbolism to trap and shoot the detective Erik Lonrot. In addition to “Death and the Compass,” this man wrote a story in which a French writer attempts to write a word-for-word recreation of a Cervantes novel in “Pierre Menard, Author of the (*) Quixote.” His other works include thought experiments like “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” and one that explores an infinite collection of books. For 10 points, name this man who included “The Aleph,” “Library of Babel,” and “The Garden of Forking Paths” in his collection Ficciones.", "round" : "Round_15_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f748b3d831d6a003434" }, "answer" : "The {Hay Wain}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 58.65335622639395, "num" : 4, "question" : "In the foreground of this work, a brown and white dog walks along the banks of a clear body of water.  A boat is half obscured in the rushes on the right of this work, while smoke emerges from the chimney of a house with a crumbling roof on the left side of this work.  Two black oxen pull a rickety conveyance across a shallow stream in the center of this work, and two young men ride in the title vehicle.  For 10 points—name this landscape painting by John Constable.", "round" : "1.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f148b3d831d6a001d98" }, "answer" : "Gorgias", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.46204674220644, "num" : 11, "question" : "At one point in this work, a character is praised for his short responses to questions. In another section of this work, which inspired Olympiodorus to author a namesake Scholia, its participants consider what it means to have honor. The title character of this work was well known for positing that even if something exists, that nothing could be known or communicated about it in his work On Non-being.  Another character argues for a definition of real politics as a style of leadership that compels “hunger and thirst,” a viewpoint contrasted to those politics that are sweet. Characters in this work include Chaerephon, who is blamed for delaying the start of the feast, as well as the “coltish” Polus. It features Callicles telling Socrates to debate himself and its final conclusion is that “rhetors” are tyrants.  Named for a disciple of Protagoras, for 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue, titled after a Sophist.", "round" : "Carleton UCLA - Final.docx", "seen" : 19, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40068b3d831d6a0056aa" }, "answer" : "{Oklahoma State} University [accept {OSU}]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 847.8278543174732, "num" : 9, "question" : "One running back at this university ran for over seven yards per carry as a junior and scored five touchdowns in the 1988 Holiday Bowl. In 2007 this school's current head football coach tiraded at reporters to go after him, claiming, (*) \"I'm a man! I'm forty!\" Those alumni are Barry Sanders and Mike Gundy. In 2009 it defeated Georgia to earn a top five ranking before losing at home to Houston. For 10 points, name this university whose stars include wide receiver Dez Bryant, and which plays an in-state rivalry game with the University of Oklahoma.", "round" : "tourn8-08.pdf", "seen" : 567, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40298b3d831d6a005f10" }, "answer" : "{Fullmetal Alchemist}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 847.6266085614916, "num" : 12, "question" : "A one-off episode of this series features Lieutenant Havoc courting the piano-lifting sister of his muscle-bound colleague, who apparently emits pink sparkles whenever he poses. Their mutual superior is an ambitious army man, Roy Mustang, who recruits this show's main character. The hero's brother, Alphonse, had his soul transferred into a suit of armor on the same fateful night that the main character attempted to resurrect his mother and lost an arm and a leg. For 10 points, identify this anime series that centers around the automail-sporting Edward Elric's quest to restore his limbs and his brother's body with the help of the Philosopher's Stone.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Trash All Star Round.doc", "seen" : 561, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ece8b3d831d6a000d5e" }, "answer" : "electron {affinity}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.1273493894842, "num" : 31, "question" : "When performing the Born-Haber cycle for sodium chloride, the steps solely involving chlorine are the breaking of the chlorine-chlorine bond and a process whose energy gain is equal to this quantity. For nitrogen, this quantity is close to zero; that is a result of Hund’s rule since nitrogen has a single electron in each of the three P orbital subshells. The largest values for this quantity are found in the halogens, since they are one electron short of forming a complete octet. For 10 points, name this quantity equal to the amount of energy given off when a neutral atom gains an electron.", "round" : "regionals-01.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eec8b3d831d6a00148b" }, "answer" : "{Friedrich August von Hayek}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 337.0780686005019, "num" : 10, "question" : "This economist was also interested in neurology, and published a brain science book titled The Sensory\n Order. This economist’s early work focused on how information was conveyed to consumers by the cost of\n goods, the price signaling mechanism, which this economist argued created a “spontaneous order.” Late in\n his career, this economist argued that banks should be able to issue their own money, which he said would\n create a competition to create the best currency. This man’s political views can be found in the book The\n Constitution of Liberty. His most famous book includes chapters like “why the worst rise to the top.” For\n 10 points, name this Austrian economist who critiqued government central planning in The Road to\n Serfdom.", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40078b3d831d6a0056fa" }, "answer" : "Book of {Leviticus}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 392.0369286101777, "num" : 5, "question" : "This book recommends leaving a scapegoat in the desert for Azazel. This book opens with instructions regarding the nature of burnt sacrifices, and its sixteenth and twenty-third chapters discuss rites for Yom Kippur. This book places seafood that lacks (*) fins and scales on a list of things that are abominations to God. Chapters seventeen through twenty six of this book are often referred to as the \"Holiness code.\" For 10 points name this book which precedes Numbers and follows Exodus, the third book of the Old Testament.", "round" : "tourn8-12.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fde8b3d831d6a004d1d" }, "answer" : "{George Ritzer}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.47443449962884, "num" : 13, "question" : "[JM] This thinker drew on the work of Baudrillard and DeBord to analyze the way implosions of time and space create spectacles in a book about modern \"cathedrals of consumption,\" Enchanting a Disenchanted World. This thinker defined the desire of nations and organizations \"to impose themselves on various geographic areas\" as \"grobalization.\" Along with Don Slater, this social scientist founded the Journal of Consumer Culture, and this author of the seminal textbook Sociological Theory described the expansion of \"nonplaces\" like shopping malls and casinos, as well as \"nonthings, nonpeople, and nonservices,\" in The Globalization of Nothing. This sociologist updated Weber's theory of rationalization to describe how the forces of \"Efficiency, Calculability, Predictability, Increased Control, and the Replacement of Human by Non-human Technology\" increasingly make aspects of modern life resemble a ? fast-food chain. For 10 points, name this American sociologist, the author of The McDonaldization of Society.", "round" : "Packet 5.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Gaddis II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb28b3d831d6a0042eb" }, "answer" : "Taipei", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 124.1576898267958, "num" : 13, "question" : "The north part of this city extends up the foot of Mount Chihsing, while recreational areas near this city include Pi Lake and the park on Mount Yangming. Banciao, Sanchong, and Wanhua are some of its central districts, while tourists are more likely to see the Lungshan Temple or the nearby night market at Snake Alley. The National Palace Museum in this city preserves the extensive art collection of Emperor Qianlong. This city is located fifteen miles southwest of Chilung nad about ten miles east of the port and resort town of Tanshui, on the river of that name. For 10 points, name this city which became a national capital in 1949 following the flight of the KMT from the mainland, the largest city of Taiwan.", "round" : "r18- Editors 4.doc", "seen" : 78, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd98b3d831d6a004be8" }, "answer" : "The {Prophet}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.7826758301817, "num" : 12, "question" : "This work contends the heart finds its morning in the dew of little things, and that to overthrow a tyrant, the throne erected within us must be destroyed. This work also contends that It is life in quest of life that bodies fear the grave in its final portion, The Farewell. It begins with The Coming of the Ship in which after spending 12 years in the city of Orphalese, the title character offers advice on beauty, marriage, eating and drinking. For ten points, name this work about Almustafa, written by Kahlil Gibran.", "round" : "FHTE Finals 1 -- Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe88b3d831d6a004f62" }, "answer" : "{Alfred Lord Tennyson}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9689627171028, "num" : 20, "question" : "In one work by this writer, a soldier bitterly remembers his unrequited love for his shallow-hearted cousin Amy and asks that a thunderbolt fall on \"Locksley Hall.\" Another work by this poet compares dying to setting out on the sea; the narrator of that work wishes to see his \"Pilot face to face.\" He wrote an elegy for Arthur Henry Hallam, in which he famously noted that \"Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all.\" For 10 points, name this author of In Memoriam, who wrote about a battle in the Crimean War in “The Charge of the Light Brigade.\"", "round" : "4q1-06.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40838b3d831d6a00742c" }, "answer" : "collagen", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.3450148850679, "num" : 1, "question" : "The biosynthesis of one type of it involves binding by the chaperone protein Hsp47, and it stains blue in Masson's trichrome stain. Auto-antibodies bind to the alpha-three chains of the type four of it, and mutations that alter the C-terminal globular domain of certain type-IV-alpha chains can lead to Alport's syndrome. Possessing an unusually high percentage of the amino acids glycine and proline, it can be denatured to form gelatin. Consisting of three polypeptide chains arranged in a triple helix, it is related to elastin. For 10 points, name this protein that is a major component of connective tissues, including tendons and cartilage.", "round" : "Round8Final.doc", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7f8b3d831d6a00370c" }, "answer" : "{South Korea} [or {Republic} of {Korea}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.95987377269194, "num" : 4, "question" : "The transition in this country from military rule to democracy occurred partly due to the 386 generation, and one junta that ruled here was known as the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction. One leader of this country took power in the Coup of December 12th and was later deposed in the June Democracy Movement. Its first leader used a secret police known as G-2 and was overthrown in the April 19th movement, while a more recent leader of this country adopted a policy of reconciliation with China and the USSR known as Nordpolitik. The 2000 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a leader of this country for his promotion of the Sunshine Policy, and this country continuously feuds over the Liancourt rocks with China. Syngman Rhee was the first president of, for 10 points, what nation whose current president is Lee Myung-bak and whose capital is Seoul?", "round" : "Editors2.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405d8b3d831d6a006b69" }, "answer" : "{Gustav Robert Kirchoff}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.4969006839673, "num" : 18, "question" : "Along with Piola, this man names two stress tensors. He theorized that hot gases produce discrete spectral lines, and that hot solid objects surrounded by cool gases produce spectra with gaps in his namesake laws of spectroscopy. This man's namesake law of thermal radiation states that at thermal equilibrium, the emissivity of a surface equals its absorptivity. For 10 points, name this German physicist who coined the term “black body” and has a namesake “loop rule” and “junction rule” for circuits.", "round" : "Round_06_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407d8b3d831d6a0072c9" }, "answer" : "“grass”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.8450481840409, "num" : 23, "question" : "Hamlin Hannibal Garland wrote the line “O to dream of the plain” in a poem titled “In\" this entity.” Another poem titled after this substance urges the reader to “shovel them under” and ponders whether in two or ten years, passengers will ask the conductor “What place is this? / Where are we now?,” unaware that they are at Gettysburg, Ypres, Verdun, Austerlitz, or Waterloo. For 10 points, name this plant that “covers all” in a work by Carl Sandburg, and which \"is singing\" in a novel by Doris Lessing.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40538b3d831d6a0068e8" }, "answer" : "{Nathaniel Hawthorne}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.3642056488898, "num" : 18, "question" : "In one of his stories, the young Robin eventually finds the title relative tarred and feathered, while in another work, passengers on the title mode of transportation realize that Satan is its conductor. In addition to “My Kinsman Major Molineaux” and “The Celestial Railroad,” he wrote about Aylmer's attempt to remove the title blemish from his wife's face and a man who realizes that his wife Faith is participating in devilish rituals with his whole town. For 10 points, name this author of “The Birthmark” and “Young Goodman Brown,” who also wrote The Scarlet Letter.", "round" : "Round_09_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f838b3d831d6a003800" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Midway}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.125667675864, "num" : 18, "question" : "Floyd B. Parks was an early casualty in this battle. One side planned this battle to occur simultaneously with the bombing of Dutch Harbor. The Enterprise and the Hornet sunk the Mikuma in this battle. It was decided by many sorties flown by dive bombers of the Dauntless. The Americans knew that the Japanese were preparing for this battle thanks to Station Hypo cracking the JN-25 code. At its end, the Hiryu's planes damaged the Yorktown, but the former was soon bombed, leaving Japan with no carriers remaining. For 10 points, name this battle which took place near a namesake atoll, the decisive naval battle of the World War II Pacific Theater.", "round" : "Round 04.doc", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecc8b3d831d6a000cf6" }, "answer" : "The {Elements} of {Style}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.0765357573982, "num" : 29, "question" : "This work quotes Robert Louis Stevenson in asking the reader to aim for \"one moment of felicity.\" One edition of this text was illustrated in 2005 by Maira Kalman. Gregory Pullum has derided this work as \"the book that ate America's brain\" due to its prescriptivist commands to \"omit needless words\" and avoid the passive voice. For 10 points, name this slim volume of advice on grammar and form, edited by E.B. White and first written by William Strunk.", "round" : "districts-06.pdf", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f778b3d831d6a0034d7" }, "answer" : "{Matthew Arnold}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 361.4163188794628, "num" : 4, "question" : "The title figure of one of this author's poems laments, “She left lonely for ever, / the kings of the sea.” This author of “The Forsaken Merman” addressed a Swiss maiden in works like “Isolation: To Marguerite” and espoused his admiration for Victorian civilization in Culture and Anarchy. He described “the dark Iberians com[ing]” in a work that begins with “Go, for they call you, Shepherd, from the hill,” this author's “The (*) Scholar-Gypsy.” He described “the eternal note of sadness” heard by Sophocles on the Aegean in a poem set in a location where the “Sea … meets the moon-blanched land.” For 10 points, name this poet who noted how “ignorant armies clash by night” in his poem “Dover Beach.”", "round" : "Round 6.doc", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40408b3d831d6a006458" }, "answer" : "Flatland [AR]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.67827952420339, "num" : 11, "question" : "On the eve of the second millennium, the narrator's unnamed wife asserts that “Feeling is believing” when a mysterious stranger enters their home. Pantocyclus defeats a rebellion led by Chromatistes in its chapter “Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition,” and the narrator calls fog “the Nurse of arts, and the parent of sciences” in its sixth chapter, “Of Recognition by Sight.” In this book, women must warn of their presence by issuing a “peace-cry,” and after the Grand Council passes a law targeting those who claim to receive “revelations from another World,” the narrator is arrested for propounding the doctrine of “Upward, not Northward.” The narrator has a vision of a Point which believes itself to be the entire universe after talking to a Sphere. Subtitled “A Romance of Many Dimensions,” for 10 points, name this book by Edwin Abbott narrated by A. Square.", "round" : "Packet_5.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdb8b3d831d6a004c6a" }, "answer" : "Moonraker", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 847.2526375143789, "num" : 10, "question" : "Part of this movie sees the protagonist investigate hexagonal glass cylinders made in Venice and an amazingly rare orchid from South America that only kills humans. The main character of this movie fights for a parachute from an airplane pilot in midair, kills a man by impaling him through a piano, is nearly strangled by an anaconda and investigates the disappearance of the titular vehicle from Hugo Drax, who employs Jaws. For ten points, name this James Bond movie which takes place in outer space.", "round" : "FHTE R6 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 570, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407b8b3d831d6a007247" }, "answer" : "A {Brief History} of {Time}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.2768166633323, "num" : 13, "question" : "Chapter 10 of this work references the 100,004th Congress of Alpha Centauri and Marty McFly from the Back to the Future Series. The foreword in later editions states that one copy had been sold for every 750 people in the world. The author makes the recommendation “if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light” in the fifth chapter entitled “Elementary Particles and the Forces of Nature”. For 10 points, name this nonfiction work about astrophysics-made-simple by Stephen Hawking.", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efb8b3d831d6a0017f7" }, "answer" : "{Leaves} of {Grass}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 361.1699381566141, "num" : 1, "question" : "In this collection’s sixth book, Salut au Monde!, the speaker “see[s] ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations” and “[mixes] indiscriminately” and “[salutes] all the inhabitants of the earth.\" Ralph Vaughan Williams set to music this collection’s “Passage to India” and “On the Beach at Night Alone,” and another work in this collection includes the line “O powerful western fallen star.” Including the poems “O Captain! My Captain!” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,” for 10 points, name this collection of poetry including “Song of Myself,” by Walt Whitman.", "round" : "Round04.doc", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9c8b3d831d6a0001f7" }, "answer" : "War of the {Pacific}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 56.30218863580376, "num" : 1, "question" : "An attempt to end this war with a twenty million dollar indemnity failed at the Lackawanna conference. According to Wikipedia, weekly editorials in one country’s leading newspaper still press for a reversal of this war’s outcome. During the first phase of this war, the naval battle of Inquique resulted in the death of Arturo Prat and the destruction of the frigate corvette Esmeralda. The victor at that battle was defeated in the Battle of Angamos, allowing the invaders to land troops at Pisagua. Miguel Grau’s ship Huascar was a key player in those battles. The Tarapaca province was ceded at the end of this war over saltpeter deposits, in the Treaty of Ancon. For 10 points, name this war, fought fought between Chile and a Peruvian-Bolivian alliance, in which Bolivia lost its access to the ocean.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Berkeley and Miami C final.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40208b3d831d6a005c8d" }, "answer" : "{thyroid} gland", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.0159753011539, "num" : 15, "question" : "Baber described parenchymatous cells in this organ of a dog, and in humans, one deficiency associated with this organ is cretinism. Four glands surrounding it secrete a hormone that raises the level of calcium in the blood, opposing the calcitonin produced by this gland. It has two lobes connected by an isthmus and is the main gland affected by a disease that can cause the eyes to protrude, Graves' disease. This gland's namesake hormone is produced from tyrosine and iodine. Name this endocrine gland located below the larnyx, whose malfunction can lead to a goiter.", "round" : "04 TU.pdf", "seen" : 268, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400c8b3d831d6a005811" }, "answer" : "Adonis", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 682.68405230809, "num" : 17, "question" : "This figure's mother was turned into a tree that produced the Balm of Gilead. This figure was conceived after Cinyras was seduced by his daughter Myrrha. Drops of this man's blood turned into anemone (ah-NEH-mow-nee). Aphrodite killed Orpheus to spite Calliope (cuh-LIE-oh-pee) for giving this man to (*) Persephone (per-SEF-uh-nee) for half of the year. This figure's beauty was so prized that he was hidden in a chest until his violent death. For 10 points, name this beautiful mortal who was killed by a boar sent by a jealous Ares.", "round" : "tourn9-09.pdf", "seen" : 451, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40118b3d831d6a005932" }, "answer" : "{Willa Cather}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.7007541588973, "num" : 3, "question" : "This author created a boarding house for sailors run by La Grenouille in a work where Jacque Gaux stays with Cecile, the daughter of the Canadian apothecary Euclide Auclaire. In another story, this author wrote about the title character drowning in a freezing lake after being taught the piano by Paul Auerbach and refusing the marriage proposal of Harry Gordon. In addition to Shadows on the Rock and Lucy Gayheart, the friend of Julius Erlich voyages across the Atlantic on the Anchises and perishes in World War I in her novel about Claude Wheeler. This author imagined Maria Shabata in love with Emil, whose sister eventually marries Carl Linstrum at the end of a novel about Alexandra Bergson.. For ten points, name this author of One of Ours and O Pioneers that created Jim Burden in My Antonia.", "round" : "PRELIMS ROUND 3.doc", "seen" : 244, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff58b3d831d6a005295" }, "answer" : "bone", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.9126670323312, "num" : 16, "question" : "Wolff's Law governs the circumstances that cause density of this tissue to increase or decrease. Precursors to this tissue are generated at the epiphyseal (EPP-ih-FIZZ-ee-uhl) plate. Since estrogen causes cells that resorb this tissue to undergo apoptosis, this tissue becomes noticeably weaker in post-menopausal (men-oh-\"PAWS\"-uhl) women. Blood is supplied to this tissue through Haversian (huh-VER-zee-uhn) canals, and the hydroxyapatite (\"high\"-DROX-ee-APP-uh-tite) in this tissue's matrix is a major site of calcium storage. For 10 points, name this tissue that comprises the majority of the skeleton.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-all.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40488b3d831d6a00663b" }, "answer" : "{Pensees} (3)", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.0014667022042, "num" : 19, "question" : "In this work, a discussion of vanity concludes that had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, \"the whole aspect of the world would have been altered.\" Other sections of this work deal with prophecies and proofs, and its author defines reason, custom, and inspiration as the three sources of faith in his treatment of the means of belief. The author \"cannot forgive Descartes\" for being \"useless and uncertain\" in his philosophical works, and also muses that \"I look on all sides, and I see only darkness everywhere.\" The author states that he is frightened by \"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces,\" before arguing that \"The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.\" Its defense of ? God's existence includes a section describing a choice between infinite happiness and infinite misery, known as it's author's namesake wager. FTP, name this unfinished collection of ideas by Blaise Pascal.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 5.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40868b3d831d6a0074ee" }, "answer" : "{Lugh} [accept {Lu}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 98.15496202209033, "num" : 11, "question" : "This being's dog was described as “better than any other property” and as “the hound of mightiest deeds”. He was raised by Manannan, the god of the sea. He avenged his father by sending his killers, the sons of Tuireann, on impossible quests that they unexpectedly completed only to die of their wounds. One of his nicknames was “Samildanach”, or “the many-skilled”. He owned the spear Bionac, which thirsted for blood and wielded itself. This one-time follower of King Nuada slew Balor, his tyrannical grandfather, at the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, where he led the Tuatha De Danann. For his constant fighting of darkness, he eventually became the solar deity and he sired Cuchulainn. For ten points, name this warrior god of Irish mythology.", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1b8b3d831d6a001f45" }, "answer" : "of {Lechfeld} (accept of )", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.19388335105032, "num" : 21, "question" : "In the aftermath of this battle, one monarch gave Riwin the office of his father Dietpald, who had died in the fighting; that episode is discussed in one of the major contemporary sources on this battle, Gerhard's Life of Bishop Ulrich.  Two months after this battle was fought, Stojgnev, the king of the Obotrites, was killed at the battle of Recknitz. The winner of this battle commanded eight legions, one under the control of Boleslav I and a Swabian line under Duke Burchard. It ended with many losing soldiers killed in the namesake river while the winning general was soon after crowned emperor by Pope John XII.  For 10 points, name this battle fought in August 955, a triumph for Otto the Great over the Magyars.", "round" : "Stanford - Final.docx", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fca8b3d831d6a00489b" }, "answer" : "{24th} Amendment", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.52622108371, "num" : 8, "question" : "Virginia modified its law in anticipation of this legislation's passage, but that new law was struck down in Harman v. Forssenius, which ruled that requiring a witnessed certificate of residency introduced a burden prohibited by this legislation. Because it only applies to federal elections, it wasn't until the 1966 Supreme Court decision Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that this legislation's provisions were effectively extended to state elections. For 10 points, name this amendment ratified in 1964 that prohibits the levying of a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in federal elections.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 09 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40448b3d831d6a006554" }, "answer" : "{Oliver Goldsmith}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1691197277978, "num" : 4, "question" : "In a novel by this author, Ephraim Jekinson scams Moses out of his money and cheats the protagonist out\n of a horse. That novel ends with George’s marriage to Arabella Wilmot and the revelation that Sophia is\n actually married to Mr. Burchell’s alter ego, Squire Thornhill. In one of this author’s plays, two men at the\n Three Pigeons pub are tricked into staying at a mansion that they believe is an inn, causing them to treat the\n owners like servants. In that play, Hastings and his lover Constance steal some jewels with Tony Lumpkin,\n and Charles Marlow is wooed by a woman disguised as a barmaid. For 10 points, name this author who\n created Dr. Primrose and Kate Hardcastle in The Vicar of Wakefield and She Stoops to Conquer.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 244, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdf8b3d831d6a004d5b" }, "answer" : "If on a {winter's night} a {traveler}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.23422921914607, "num" : 19, "question" : "The protagonist of this novel meets Irnerio, a man who builds sculptures out of books, on his way to find Professor Uzzi-Tuzii. The professor reads him a story about a man on vacation who takes weather measurements for Mr. Kauderer in Petkwo. That book, Learning from the steep slope, is the unfinished work of Ukko Ahti, who wrote in the (*) Cimmerian language. The protagonist later visits a publisher who is thrilled to have someone talk about what they read and not what they wrote, Mr. Cavedagna, who blames the recent typesetting errors on the translator Ermes Marana, the former lover of Ludmilla, the Other Reader. For 10 points, name this novel by Italo Calvino alternating between the beginnings of fictional novels and a story with a protagonist of you, the Reader.", "round" : "FINAL_Chicago A.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee48b3d831d6a0012a0" }, "answer" : "{Jorge Luis Borges}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1087856334635, "num" : 13, "question" : "In one story by this man, Johannes Dahlmann reads his copy of the Arabian Nights and gets into a knife fight after almost dying in a hospital. This author wrote a story about the struggles of a man with a limitless memory. This author of “The South” and “Funes, the Memorious” wrote about the German spy Yu Tsun leaving a message through murder in another story. His story about a building with endless hexagonal rooms was collected in Ficciones [feek-see-OH-nays]. For 10 points, name this author of “The Garden of Forking Paths” and “The Library of Babel.”", "round" : "07.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40898b3d831d6a007586" }, "answer" : "{Rupert Brooke}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.84979075216688, "num" : 14, "question" : "He wrote about a place in which “Fat caterpillars drift around / And Paradisal grubs are found” in a poem which imagines what Heaven must seem like to fish.  “And Henry, a stockbroker, doing well” is the last line of a poem he wrote about a married couple, “Sonnet Reversed,” though he is better known for a sequence of more conventional sonnets, the first of which concludes that “the worst friend and enemy is but Death.”  Those five sonnets appeared in New Numbers in 1915 and include one that claims that a corner of a foreign field is forever England.  FTP, name this British poet who died before 1914 and Other Poems, which includes “The Soldier,” could be published.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Chicago A.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9f8b3d831d6a0002be" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Leipzig} [or Battle of the {Nations]}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 55.20486529078335, "num" : 5, "question" : "This battle saw an early skirmish in which surprise fighting broke on in the streets of Wachau, but its beginning occurred as Austrian forces advanced on a Polish-held mill in Dölitz. Usually considered the successful execution of the Trachenburg Plan, this battle saw the French expulsed from a school house by Poniatowski and the Polish forces in the town of Markkleeberg. One important turning point in this battle was Murat’s disastrous use of cavalry arranged in columns at Liebertwolkwitz, followed shortly by Blücher’s routing of Marmont’s French forces at Möckern. Though Napoleon’s side was bolstered by men from the Confederation of the Rhine, the Prince of Schwarzenherg’s coalition of six nations emerged victorious. For 10 points, name this October 1813 battle that resulted in Napoleon’s abdication and exile on Elba.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Northwestern final.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f218b3d831d6a002094" }, "answer" : "{John Everett Millais}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.5701566641219, "num" : 10, "question" : "An injured soldier holds a newspaper while his daughters play with a lion, bear, turkey, and rooster in this artist's Peace Concluded, and he illustrated several works of Anthony Trollope.  A man leans forward on a green chair, pointing his white leg at a pair of lovers on the other side of a banquet table in his Isabella, while a melancholy girl holds an apple as her older sisters gather the title objects in his Autumn Leaves.  A young boy holds a bowl of water on the right side of a painting which shows the title figure raising a bleeding hand while a door is being made behind him in this man's controversial depiction of biblical figures, while another of his works is known for its depiction of vegetation along a creek side, and shows the title figure wearing an embroidered silver dress as she floats in the water.  For 10 points, name this Pre-Raphaelite painter of Christ in the House of His Parents and Ophelia.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - CMU+Harvard.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee28b3d831d6a00121b" }, "answer" : "{latent heat} of {vaporization} [or {enthalpy} of {vaporization}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.7522871021647, "num" : 16, "question" : "In the Riedel equation, this quantity divided by RT makes up one half of the equation. A characteristic exponent of 0.38 is used in Watson's equation for calculating this quantity given its value at another point. This can be derived from a combination of the B and C Antoine constants along with the second virial coefficient. It looses its meaning beyond the critical point. This energy is used to overcome the intermolecular interactions between molecules. For 10 points, name this energy required to convert a unit of liquid into a gas at the boiling point.", "round" : "03.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40518b3d831d6a00685f" }, "answer" : "{Hermes} [accept {Mercury} before “{Zeus}” is read; do not accept or prompt afterwards]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.1404076367617, "num" : 26, "question" : "In one of his roles, he is known as diemporos and as empolaios, and in that role he presided over the first game of dice. He sometimes served as a psychopomp, and in a more famous role, he stated that two cow hides were a sacrifice to the twelve Olympian gods, surprising Zeus and Apollo, who only knew of eleven. He fathered a man who joined together with Salmacis, and he went with Zeus to the house of Baucis and Philemon. He also slayed the watchman Argos and gave Perseus his slippers. For 10 points, name this Greek messenger god.", "round" : "Round_04_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 458, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402c8b3d831d6a005fa6" }, "answer" : "the {Philippines}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9480414954015, "num" : 3, "question" : "Colonialism in this nation was attacked in the novels The Reign of Greed and Noli me Tangere. One key leader exiled himself in Hong Kong having secured independence with the Pact of Biak-na-Bato, but it was actually the Tydings-McDuffie Act that led to its independence. The revolution began with an uprising led by Katipunan, although after the Tejeros Convention, its leader Andrés Bonifacio was killed. Apolinario Mabini served as Prime Minister under the first President, who later collaborated with Japanese. For 10 points, Macapagal-Arroyo is the current leader of what Asian nation, where Emiliano Aguinaldo struggled against the Spanish and the Americans?", "round" : "Packet 5.doc", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f938b3d831d6a003bf2" }, "answer" : "{Wounded Knee Massacre} [accept equivalents]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.19924583192915, "num" : 16, "question" : "After this event, Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy arrived to provide medical assistance and L. Frank Baum wrote in his newspaper that “one more wrong” was needed “to protect our civilization.” The Kent-Baldwin commission investigated this event, but ultimately exonerated the actions of James W. Forsyth. Twenty-three Medals of Honor were handed out for this event though a petition drive is seeking to get them removed. The Big Foot Memorial Riders honor some of the participants in this event. A 1971 incident at the same location as this event saw a town taken over by Russell Means and other members of AIM. This event was triggered by military fears over the spreading of Wovoka's “Ghost Dance” and occurred shortly after the death of Sitting Bull. For 10 points, name this 1890 incident in which 150 Lakota Sioux were killed by the U.S. Army in South Dakota.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 6.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f768b3d831d6a0034cd" }, "answer" : "{Thornton Wilder} [accept The {Eighth Day} before mentioned]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.7735904899892, "num" : 14, "question" : "John Barrington Ashley is accused of murdering his neighbor Breckenridge Lansing in this author's The Eighth Day. He described a miraculous traveling salesman who comes to Newport, Rhode Island in Theophilus North, while many characters write letters to Lucius Turrinus in his epistolary novel The Ides of March. This author wrote about the maid (*) Sabina, who describes an imminent ice age approaching New Jersey in the first act of his play about the Antrobus family. In addition to The Skin of Our Teeth, he wrote a play in which Simon Stimson runs the town choir in Grover's Corners, where George Gibbs and Emily Webb get married. For 10 points, name this author who created the Stage Manager in his play Our Town.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 244, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f578b3d831d6a002d63" }, "answer" : "Arcadia", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.05675515835173, "num" : 17, "question" : "A literary academy of this name was founded in 1690 by Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, among others. It is the name of Tom Crane's ship in T.C. Boyle's World's End, as well as the title of a poem about the lovelorn Sincero by Jacopo Sannazaro. It is also the name of a long work by Sir Philip Sidney sometimes named after the Countess of Pembroke. A play of this title includes the character Hannah Jarvis, the author of a book about Lord Byron's mistress, Lady Caroline Lamb. For 10 points, name this word which titles a play about Septimus Hodge and Thomasina Coverley by Tom Stoppard.", "round" : "Packet 07.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40038b3d831d6a0055fe" }, "answer" : "{Ezra Weston Loomis Pound}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.7590326634235, "num" : 5, "question" : "One section of a work by this author compares the Bank of England's charging of interest to the production of bad Baroque art. This author wrote a poem that compares people to \"petals on a wet, black bough\" called \"In a Station of the Metro.\" This poet translated \"The River Merchant's Wife,\" a poem by (*) Li Po. One work by this author was written partially in Pisa, Italy, where he lived due to Fascist sympathies that led to his confinement after World War II in an American mental hospital. For 10 points, name this author of the Cantos.", "round" : "tourn11-15.pdf", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400b8b3d831d6a0057d3" }, "answer" : "{superconductors} [prompt on {superconductivity}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.3912280886434, "num" : 23, "question" : "One type of these devices includes perovskites. An alloy of lead and bismuth was not recognized as one of these until the discovery of the Meissner Effect. Cooper pairs are involved the BCS Theory that describes how another type of these devices work. Those (*) Type I devices exhibit perfect diamagnetism, and can only work below a low critical temperature. For 10 points, name these devices that lack electrical resistance.", "round" : "tourn9-06.pdf", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403c8b3d831d6a00637e" }, "answer" : "the {Paris Commune}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.07669277233072, "num" : 7, "question" : "This entity shares its name with one controlled by the astronomer and investigator of mesmerism, Jean Sylvain Bailly.  It saw the execution of General Lecomte, and Marshall MacMahon led a campaign against it that culminated with a mass execution at the Wall of the Federalists.  Its aftermath saw a mass deportation to New Caledonia, and it was opposed by Adolphe Thiers.  Louis-Auguste Blanqui was its nominal leader despite being imprisoned at the time, and it ended in the “Bloody Week” amidst fierce barricade fighting.  Growing out of the Franco-Prussian War, for 10 points, name this socialist government that held power for two months in 1871 in the French capital.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Penn + ULL.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8a8b3d831d6a0039c2" }, "answer" : "{Carl Nielsen}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.37816009111702, "num" : 4, "question" : "This man never wrote more than one movement for his first attempt at a symphony entitled, Symphonic Rhapsody for Orchestra. This composer included “Dance of the Prisoners”, “The Festival March”, and “The Marketplace at Isaphan” in his Aladdin Suite. During this man's psychological period he composed the cantata Hymnus amoris and the opera Saul and David.  He adapted a work of Holberg for his other opera, Maskarade.  After the sinking of the Titanic, this man composed a Paraphrase on Nearer my God to Thee, while his 3rd symphony begins with an allegro espansivo movement. This man's 6th and 2nd symphonies are entitled Semplice and The Four Temperaments respectively. For 10 points, name this Danish composer of The Inextinguishable.", "round" : "Round by Will Butler Evan Adams and Matt Bollinger.docx", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40348b3d831d6a006194" }, "answer" : "{Prague Spring}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.53843215899542, "num" : 20, "question" : "The beginning of this event was heralded in a speech on the twentieth anniversary of Victorious February which claimed that Klement Gottwald had failed in his handling of the trial of Rudolf Slansky. Ota Sik's “third way” was the underlying economic policy of this period, and a meeting at Cierna nad Tisou failed to put an end to it. The weakness of the Action Programme during this period led Ludvik Vaculik to publish a document which called for the resignation of inept leaders, the “Two Thousand Words”. This event began after the resignation of Antonin Novotny, and in response to the end of it, Jan Palach set himself on fire in protest. Gustav Husak became President after this event was crushed by a Warsaw Pact invasion, which was justified by the Brezhnev Doctrine. This period was led by Alexander Dubcek, who attempted to create “socialism with a human face”. For 10 points, name this period of liberal reforms in Czechoslovakia in 1968.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 3 - Final.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402e8b3d831d6a006055" }, "answer" : "The {Praise} of {Folly}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.93789820163511, "num" : 17, "question" : "In one section, this work groups the Athenian Timotheus as an adherent of Caesar's saying “The die is thrown” who is inexplicably favored by fortune.  The author uses the example of a man eating rotten stockfish in the belief that it is fine dining to illustrate “how cheaply happiness is purchased”.  Another section analyzes the “common people” who are willing to starve at home to preserve their wealthy public image and criticizes patriarchs who abandon their families to go on pilgrimages without reason.  Superficial quarrels over the color of garments and the vanity derived from self-imposed asceticism are criticized in the section on “Monks that Call Themselves Religious”.  This work opens with a preface explaining the pun in its Latin title and consists largely of orations delivered by the title figure.  Dedicated to Thomas More, FTP, name this satirical tract by Desiderius Erasmus.", "round" : "Round4.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402c8b3d831d6a005fa1" }, "answer" : "Olmecs [TC]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.0313250639941, "num" : 16, "question" : "So-called human-jaguar copulation scenes can be found in the art of this people. A sacred bog in El Manati provides evidence of child sacrifice and also yielded figurines in this civilization's “elongated man” style, while stelae found in La Venta possibly indicate that site as a ceremonial center of the San Lorenzo phase, placed in the Early Formative Period. Depictions of these people are reminiscent of African or Chinese physiognomy, causing much speculation about these people's origins, who suddenly disappeared around 400 BCE. For 10 points, name this early Mesoamerican civilization most famous for 17 colossal stone heads carved from basalt.", "round" : "Packet 4.doc", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fff8b3d831d6a0054da" }, "answer" : "{Ulysses Simpson Grant}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 342.9386621231679, "num" : 7, "question" : "Under this President, the Force Acts were used to prosecute Ku Klux Klan members. He used the slogan \"Let us have peace\" in his campaign against Horatio Seymour. This President's secretary, Orville Babcock, was indicted for participating in the (*) Whiskey Ring. This President was in power during the Panic of 1873 and headed the second half of Reconstruction. For 10 points, name this man whose two White House terms were plagued by corruption, tarring the reputation he had earned as the victorious Union commander in the Civil War.", "round" : "tourn11-01.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f498b3d831d6a002a09" }, "answer" : "{Constantine} I [or {Constantine} the {Great}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9938053234947, "num" : 13, "question" : "This man waged war against Maxentius and Licinius and he's not Octavian, but he was promoted to the rank of Augustus at Eboracum. One year after this Tetrarch's vision at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, he issued the Edict of Milan. This man called the First Council of Nicaea and was baptized on his deathbed. For 10 points, name this first Christian Roman emperor, a man who moved the capital to a self-named city in Byzantium.", "round" : "Packet 8.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0e8b3d831d6a001c39" }, "answer" : "operons", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.49377181078307, "num" : 7, "question" : "A famous example of these objects, studied by Ellis Englesberg, uses a protein called C to bind to two sites at once, blocking access to the PBAP site. Like bacteriophages, they may use anti-termination. CAP bound to cAMP can activate another more famous example of them in the presence of inducers like IPTG or allolactose. These objects include both promoter sites and namesake stretches of DNA that bind repressors and activators. For 10 points, name these systems of gene regulation investigated by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod, famous examples of which include ara, gal, trp, and lac.", "round" : "Bellarmine and UCLA.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f318b3d831d6a002449" }, "answer" : "{Auguste Rodin}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.5245233431924, "num" : 11, "question" : "The works of this artist inspired Rilke to write \"thing-poems\" such as \"The Panther.\" He used a handyman as the model for his realistic The Man with the Broken Nose, and created an enormous statue of the novelist Balzac. Another of his works includes The Three Shades and a sculpture of Paolo embracing Francesca inspired by The Divine Comedy. That work, The Gates of Hell, includes The Kiss, as well as a sculpture of a seated man resting his head on his fist. For 10 points, name this French sculptor of The Thinker.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40758b3d831d6a007109" }, "answer" : "The {Arnolfini Portrait} (accept \"{Marriage}\", \"{Wedding}\", or \"{Double Portrait}\" for \"{Portrait}\") or", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.2447493225336, "num" : 6, "question" : "(JG) The single lit candle among the brass chandelier's several has resulted in widely-varying interpre- tations, but the most common is that it represents the titular event. Indeed, it is often argued that the paint- ing was created as a legal document to validate that. However, this is called into question by the left fig- ure's use of his left hand instead of his right. The woman looks pregnant, but this was probably simply due to the predominant style of 1434, when it was made. A dog sits at her feet, and an observer of the ceremony can be seen in the mirror. The painting is now in London's National Gallery. Name this oil painting that depicts the marriage of a Lucca merchant, a work by Jan van Eyck.", "round" : "r3tossups.pdf", "seen" : 285, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3f8b3d831d6a0027ad" }, "answer" : "The {Tale} of {Genji} [or {Genji monogatari}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.19698563567363, "num" : 5, "question" : "Ivan Morris has made a study on the historical content of this novel, titled after the protagonist's \"World,\" while a definitive translation of this novel has been made by Royall Tyler. Part of this work is set nearby waterfalls whose lack of noise led some to believe it is under the spell of a sorceress. One chapter in this book sees its protagonist release a cloth bag of fireflies from his bag in the presence of a prince. A later blank chapter called \"Hidden in the Clouds\" suggests the death of the title character.  Several women in this work are possessed by the protagonist's mistress Rokujo, including Yugao and Aoi, but not his pre-teen war, which shares her name with the author of this work. For 10 points, name this book about  the title shining prince, a work of Murasaki Shikibu.", "round" : "Round 01 updated.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401c8b3d831d6a005bb0" }, "answer" : "Le {Chatelier's} principle [accept {law} of {mass action} until “{pressure}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.1785675971769, "num" : 10, "question" : "Increasing the yield of a Fischer esterification by means of a water trap relies on this statement, which also explains why deoxygenated blood has a preference for carbon dioxide. This statement justifies the use of low pressure environments when freeze-drying materials. If pressure is increased in a reaction with the same number of molecules on each side, nothing will change, as predicted by this statement, which also states that the addition of more reactant will tip a reaction towards the product side. For 10 points, identify this principle that states that the position of any equilibrium moves to counteract a change, as proposed by its namesake French chemist.", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400d8b3d831d6a00584e" }, "answer" : "{Portugal} [or {Portuguese Republic}; or {República Portuguesa}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.1178257912397, "num" : 10, "question" : "One ruler of this nation was killed during an attempted invasion at the Battle of the Three Kings. This nation received a new constitution during the long dictatorship of economist António (*) Salazar. One dynasty in this country was started by John IV, who ended Spanish rule of this nation and created the Braganza dynasty. Alexander VI gave this country rights to lands east of a line of demarcation in the Treaty of Tordesillas (TOR-day-SEE-yass). For 10 points, name this Iberian nation, whose explorers included Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco de Gama.", "round" : "tourn9-12.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e958b3d831d6a000066" }, "answer" : "Nelson {Aldrich}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 42.44795476924628, "num" : 12, "question" : "David Graham Phillips argued that this politician and Arthur Gorman were the leaders of the \"political trust\" in \"The Treason of the Senate.\" This senator became the chairman of the National Monetary Commission after the passage of an emergency currency act passed in response to the Panic of 1907, which was named for him and Edward Vreeland. In 1911, that commission produced this Republican's namesake economic plan, which became the basis for much of the Federal Reserve. His dominance of American economic policy during the 1890s and 1900s caused him to be nicknamed \"the General Manager of the Nation.\" A politician named for this senator served as Governor of New York from 1958 to 1973 and was appointed as the vice president of Gerald Ford. For ten points, name this Republican senator from Rhode Island who wrote a 1909 tariff bill that was combined with a bill sponsored by Sereno Payne.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors1Final.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408f8b3d831d6a0076eb" }, "answer" : "transubstantiation", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 49.00563597399741, "num" : 9, "question" : "In a discourse against this concept, John Tillotson claimed that a man could do “nothing more unworthily towards a friend.” In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the notion of metousiosis forms the basis for this concept and Ignatius of Antioch defended it in 106 CE in his Epistle to the Smyrnaean. Exegetical support for it can be found in First Corinthians 11:27, Matthew 26:26-28, and especially John 6:26. Its justification rests on the distinction between accidents and substance and an analogous Anglican doctrine is known as Real Presence. FTP, identify this dogma confirmed by the Fourth Lateran Council that states that the wine and wafer of the Eucharist literally become the blood and body of Christ.", "round" : "Brown.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff18b3d831d6a0051b5" }, "answer" : "searching", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.2589139030315, "num" : 7, "question" : "This procedure is accomplished in square-root-of-n time using base-two-log-n space on a quantum computer via Grover's algorithm. Varieties of this algorithm on graphs include best-first, breadth-first, and depth-first. A great improvement on naïve methods for doing this assumes that the list is sorted and eliminates half the list on each pass, the \"binary\" algorithm. For 10 points, name this class of algorithms, the simplest of which simply reads through a list from top to bottom and compares each element to the target.", "round" : "4q2-10.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6b8b3d831d6a003223" }, "answer" : "{Emily Dickinson}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.7658429285511, "num" : 16, "question" : "In one work by this writer, a book is described as a “bequest of wings” allowing somebody to dance “along the dingy days,” while in another, this poet's “interrupting tears” have obliterated a deceased friend's etchings in a book. This poet also said it is “a precious, mouldering pleasure…to meet an antique book” and said that no frigate is “like a book to take us lands away.” One work by this poet begins, “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” This poet also claimed to “pause before a house that seemed a swelling of the ground” while on a carriage ride with immortality and death. Identify this writer who claimed to hear “a fly buzz” when she died, one of whose works is usually called “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”.", "round" : "04.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff28b3d831d6a0051ee" }, "answer" : "{cochlea} [or inner ear before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.2831944443752, "num" : 33, "question" : "This organ is divided into the scala media, scala tympani, and scala vestibuli (ves-TIB-you-lee). Vibrations on the basilar membrane in this structure are transduced into electrical stimuli by this organ's inner hair cells, which are located in the Organ of Corti (CORE-tee). This snail-shaped organ is the primary sense organ of hearing. For 10 points, name this organ also known as the \"inner ear.\"", "round" : "4q2-11.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea88b3d831d6a00046a" }, "answer" : "The {Man Who} Was {Thursday}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.58096883282997, "num" : 18, "question" : "In one scene in this novel, no matter how fast the protagonist runs away, a seemingly paralytic character catches up to him seconds later and orders a glass of milk. One character declares that “Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they might more perfectly respect it.” Colonel Ducoix helps the protagonists escape an army of men clad in black masks, after the Marquis de St. Eustache reveals that he's really Inspector Ratcliffe. Earlier, Professor De Worms reveals that he's an actor named Wilks impersonating the professor. In the opening scene, the protagonist claims that the London Underground Railway is the most poetic thing in the world in an argument with Lucian Gregory, before defeating Lucian in an election for the title position on the council of anarchists. FTP, Gabriel Syme becomes an undercover police agent to try to infiltrate the Council of Days in what novel by G.K. Chesterton?", "round" : "PACKET11Weiner.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f168b3d831d6a001df9" }, "answer" : "Aime {Cesaire}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 31.03442872986196, "num" : 20, "question" : "The title of one of this author's works is taken from the last line of Guillaume Appollinaire's “Zone” and is called Solar Throat Slashed.  This author, who would abandon Surrealism, worked in odd formats such as his “oratorio” for the stage, And the Dogs Were Silent.  Other works include the elegies “The Tomb of Paul Eluard” and “Statue of Lafcadio Hearn” which were collected in this author's volume Ferraments, whose title refers obliquely to the shackles that once bound his ancestors.  His overtly political works include a play about a ruler of Haiti and another about the execution of Patrice Lumumba.  Those works, The Tragedy of King Christophe and A Season in the Congo, were written after he helped found a literary movement alongside Leon Damas and Leopold Senghor.  For 10 points, identify this author of “Notes From a Return to the Native Land,” a Martinique born founder of Negritude.", "round" : "Editor's Round (PO 1).docx", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcc8b3d831d6a004903" }, "answer" : "{Pablo Neruda}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.0473519456573, "num" : 19, "question" : "Sections of his most famous work include A Lamp on Earth, The Sand Betrayed, and The Conquistadors and the second section is the most famous out of the fifteen. He writes of the Tiger's Eye in a section titled after an Incan ruin, The Heights of Macchu Picchu, and made his name as a poet with his second work, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Best known for his Canto General, this is, for 10 points, what Chilean winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature?", "round" : "FKT Dmitriy Chernyak.rtf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebc8b3d831d6a00093b" }, "answer" : "{Miranda} v. {Arizona}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.078326161718, "num" : 16, "question" : "This case was decided jointly with Vignera v. New York and Westover v. United States. This case revised an earlier decision from Illinois that was based on the Sixth Amendment rights of Danny Escobedo. The defendant in this case confessed to raping an eighteen-year-old woman, but the Supreme Court ruled his confession (*) inadmissible because his Fifth Amendment rights had not been upheld. For 10 points, name this Supreme Court case, which requires officers to read apprehended suspects their rights.", "round" : "12.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40708b3d831d6a006fb4" }, "answer" : "{Sun Yat-sen} [or {Sun Yixian}; or {Sun I-hsien}; or {Sun Wen}; or {Sun Zhongshan}; or {Deming}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 342.9563548155129, "num" : 2, "question" : "This man issued a namesake statement with Soviet delegate Adolf Joffe on the role of communism in his country. This leader of the March 29 Revolution aired his views in the People's Journal, the organ of the United League that he founded. He promoted the Plan for National Reconstruction and the goals of “nationalism, democracy, and people's livelihood,” or Three Principles of the People. He founded the Kuomintang, which initially supported Yuan Shikai. For 10 points, name this Chinese nationalist leader, succeeded by Chiang Kai-Shek.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f088b3d831d6a001b01" }, "answer" : "{resistance} [accept {impedance} until “{siemens}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.5306087951176, "num" : 13, "question" : "The increase in this quantity due to high frequency caused by Foucault currents manifests itself as the skin effect. Cooper pairs appear when this quantity goes to zero. The reciprocal of this quantity is measured in siemens, and, when working with AC circuits, it is known as impedance. A circuit consisting of four of its namesake devices with a galvanometer in the middle, known as a Wheatstone Bridge, can be used to measure this quantity. Joule’s First Law states that current squared times this is equal to power. For 10 points, name this electrical quantity which, when multiplied by current, yields the voltage drop across its namesake device.", "round" : "Sample Packet.doc", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f168b3d831d6a001dea" }, "answer" : "{Rembrandt's Self-Portraits} or {Self-Portraits} of {Rembrandt} (accept equivalents)", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.91467847744934, "num" : 5, "question" : "Among the most exotic in this series was the one featuring a “Potentate” and a “Kris,” a kind of sword, and among the most humorous was the depiction of Zeuxis, an ancient Greek painter.  One of them is an interpretation of St. Paul and at least two feature a gorget [gore-JIT]. Some of them were initially given the title of conterfeycel, but not the late ones such as the penultimate, which utilized a doublet featured in the works of Dirk Bouts and Rogier van der Weyden. They include thirty-two etchings and number at least ninety-nine but only two of them feature Saskia, the artist's wife. Spanning a forty-year period between 1629 and 1669, For 10 points, name this series of depictions of the artist of The Night Watch.", "round" : "Editor's Round (PO 1).docx", "seen" : 25, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef08b3d831d6a001548" }, "answer" : "{Plessy} v. {Ferguson}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0268899786752, "num" : 15, "question" : "This decision was extended in Cumming v. Richmond and Berea College v. Kentucky. A plaque on\n Press Street commemorates this decision, which was brought about by the action of a PBS Pinchback-led\n citizens committee. David Brewer was absent during this case due to the death of his daughter. The sole\n dissenter in this case believed the law in question amounted to a “badge of servitude;” that dissenter was\n John Marshall Harlan. Albion Tourgee represented this case’s plaintiff, who violated Act 111 by boarding\n a train car designated whites-only. For 10 points, name this case overturned by Brown vs. Board of\n Education that established the doctrine of “separate but equal.”", "round" : "17.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40498b3d831d6a006677" }, "answer" : "{dung} [accept equivalents] ({1})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 55.2244885484688, "num" : 16, "question" : "Andrew Hill, a member of Mary Leakey's research team, discovered ancient elephant footprints in 1977 while avoiding a fight involving this substance. This substance was the stated cause of mutiny of the Somaliland Camel Corps in 1937. Antonio Rinaldeschi, who was arrested at the church of Santa Maria degli Alberighi and hanged after committing a crime involving this substance. The travelogue of Nasir i-Khosrow mentions a Christian church named for this substance in Jerusalem called the Bai'ya al-Kumama. According to Muthir, the caliph Omar crawled through this ? substance while entering the Gate of Muhammad in Jerusalem and forced to Nabataeans to work in it, and the Rock of the Prophet could not be the site of prayer until three rain showers had passed due to this substance. FTP, name this substance which has recently found use by Inca historians studying mites who live in the llama variety of it.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 8.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f778b3d831d6a0034e7" }, "answer" : "{Bertrand Russell}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.5348993495572, "num" : 20, "question" : "This thinker criticized the naiveté of J. B. S. Haldane in a work warning against unchecked technological progress, Icarus, or The Future of Science. He drew a threefold distinction between definite descriptions with clear, nebulous, and no objects in a work rejecting Frege's distinction between sense and reference. This author of On Denoting argued against the “superlative” wisdom and morality of a religious figure in his tract (*) Why I Am Not a Christian. His best-known work posits a \"theory of types\" to reconcile why the the set of all sets cannot contain itself, his namesake paradox. For 10 points, name this philosopher who attempted to derive all mathematics from axioms of symbolic logic in a work co-written with Alfred Whitehead, Principia Mathematica.", "round" : "Round 6.doc", "seen" : 310, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f018b3d831d6a00195b" }, "answer" : "Stockholm", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.09286262327805, "num" : 12, "question" : "On August 10, 1628, the largest warship in the world was launched from this city and foundered one mile from its mooring. A critical event in this city’s growth was the prohibition of all export trade through Gaevle, thus giving this city a hinterland consisting of the entire Norrland. That policy was the work of the Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, who aimed to turn this into an imperial city. A notorious event named for this city occurred when Archbishop Gustavus Trolle, King Christian II’s agent in this city, took violent revenge on the Sture faction, a policy that was the beginning of the end for the Kalmar Union. For ten points, name this site of a famous “bloodbath” which was ruled in the early seventeenth century by Gustavus Adolphus, the capital of Sweden.", "round" : "Packet 05.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f068b3d831d6a001a7d" }, "answer" : "{Achille-Claude Debussy}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.7905348686036, "num" : 5, "question" : "This composer’s Egyptian-themed ballet is entitled Khamma. This man included the pieces “Jimbo’s Lullaby” and “Golliwogg’s Cakewalk” in his suite Children’s Corner, and one of his operas sees Prince Golaud caught in a love triangle with the two title characters; that work is adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mélisande. This man’s [*] Suite Bergamasque includes a movement titled after moonlight, and another work by this man was inspired by a Stephane Mallarmé poem describing the title creature chasing after nymphs and naiads. For 10 points, name this French composer of “Clair de Lune” and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 276, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb88b3d831d6a000829" }, "answer" : "{Sun Yat-sen}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 342.9822726272977, "num" : 18, "question" : "This man's political philosophy included a platform of nationalism, democracy, and social reform known as the (+) Three Principles of the People. Even though he was not personally involved in the Wuchang Uprising, he is credited for supporting the revolution which overthrew the (*) Qing (CHING) Dynasty. This ally of Chiang Kai-shek was the first provisional president of the Republic of China. For 10 points, name this leader of the Kuomintang or Nationalists.", "round" : "sample.pdf", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6f8b3d831d6a0032f9" }, "answer" : "{Timon} of {Athens}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.3145748290699, "num" : 2, "question" : "In one scene in this play, the title character is called a beast, a toad, too bad to curse, and the cap of all the fools alive. A servant in this play who claims that he bleeds inwardly for his lord is eventually recognized as a singly honest man. This contrasts with a man freed from jail who is referred to early in this work as Honest Ventidius. This work opens with a poet, painter, and jeweler selling their goods to the title character, and it ends with the title character, af- ter he has gone broke and then found gold, being praised by Alcibiades (al-sih-BIE-uh-dees). Name this Shakespeare play set in Ancient Greece.", "round" : "finals phase 2.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f558b3d831d6a002cef" }, "answer" : "“{Where} Are {You Going}, {Where} Have {You Been?}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.31878713169135, "num" : 5, "question" : "The protagonist of this story has a sister named June who is described as “plain and chunky and steady.” The protagonist first sees the antagonist while on a date with Eddie, and she is listening to XYZ Sunday Jamboree before their second meeting. The antagonist of this story drives a jalopy with the phrase “man the flying saucers” on the front fender, and threatens the protagonist by describing her house as “nothing but a cardboard box.” At the end of this story, Arnold Friend succeeds in coercing Connie to get in his car. For 10 points, name this oft-anthologized story by Joyce Carol Oates which was inspired by three murders committed in Tucson.", "round" : "Packet 02.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec28b3d831d6a000a9a" }, "answer" : "inflation", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 336.9912560344674, "num" : 22, "question" : "The IS/LM model assumes that this value is zero. A sharp drop in supply results in the \"cost-push\" variety of this phenomenon, which is contrasted with the \"demand pull\" variety. The nominal interest rate and real interest rate are computed before and after adjusting for this phenomenon, particularly high values of which were experienced by the (*) Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe. For 10 points, identify this phenomenon quantified by the change in the Consumer Price Index, a decrease in purchasing power corresponding to an increase in prices.", "round" : "12.pdf", "seen" : 222, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9a8b3d831d6a003d76" }, "answer" : "Jacquerie", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.41975699993782, "num" : 12, "question" : "Two knights returning from Lithuanian crusades, Gaston Phebus and Captal de Buchand, inflicted a decisive defeat on this movement by relieving the siege of Meaux where a number of notable ladies were hiding. Amiens and Rouen were two sites that received speedy royal pardons after it concluded, thanks in part to their loyalty to the Navarre family. A one-sided battle at Mello crushed its organized military wing after its main leader, Guillame Cale, was murdered at a parlay with Charles the Bad and the Mayor of Paris, Etienne Marcel, was killed for lending tacit support to it. This uprising was prompted by higher taxes levied on the lower estates to help pay for the ransom of John the Good. For 10 points, identify this 1358 peasant rebellion in France termed after a generic name given to French peasants.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7e8b3d831d6a0036b4" }, "answer" : "{Edward Albee}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.23529858747497, "num" : 21, "question" : "One character suggests that a father shoot his daughter, his wife, and her, a request that perhaps foreshadows a later scene when that daughter, Julia, brings out a gun in anger against Harry and Edna's occupying of her room. In another play by this man, one character is miffed when the other says that he is happy doing nothing, and in its second act, two couples discuss the differences between humans and the reptilian species of Leslie and Sarah. Another work by this man sees one character suggest that if the parakeets carried disease, then another man could have the cats eat them and be rid of them all. Later, that man talks at length about his landlady's advances on him, and eventually Jerry impales himself on Peter's knife. For 10 points, name this American absurdist dramatist, who besides writing A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and The Zoo Story also wrote about Martha and George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "round" : "ColumbiaA.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405f8b3d831d6a006bd4" }, "answer" : "Priam", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.5591376617085, "num" : 17, "question" : "One of his sons was turned into a bird for the love of the dead nymph Hesperia. In one story, this figure is ransomed with a golden veil. In addition to Aesacus, his other children included a daughter who was swallowed by a chasm, Laodice, and the Creusa that was the wife of Aeneas. In most stories he is killed by Neoptolemus. Hermes assisted this figure in sneaking through the Greek lines to plead with Achilles for the body of his son. For 10 points, name this father of Paris and Hector, the old king of Troy in the Iliad.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 457, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0f8b3d831d6a001c5d" }, "answer" : "The {Miser} [or {L'Avare}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.9698491434101, "num" : 1, "question" : "In this play, one character claims he is a son of Thomas d'Alburci of Naples and has survived a shipwreck on the way to Paris. Characters in this work include the matchmaker Frosine and one who is supposed to be wed to the older Anselme. The central character of this play has a cook named Master Jacques who falsely attributes a theft to Valère, the lover of Elise. In this play, Cleante loves the young Mariane, who is to be wed to Cleante's father, the title character whose hidden “best friend” is a casket of gold. For 10 points name this Molière comedy in which Harpagon is the title money saving character.", "round" : "Claremont and Michigan.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd28b3d831d6a004a6c" }, "answer" : "{Magna Carta} [accept {Great Charter}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.8206674084067, "num" : 9, "question" : "The signing of this document was preceded by Stephen Langton's election as Archbishop of Canterbury. The Battle of Bouvines preceded the signing of this document that set up a council of 25 nobles to enforce its provisions. This document ensured freedom of religion, and it was forced upon its signer by his barons. Signed at Runnymede in 1215, for 10 points, name this document signed by King John that checked the power of the English king.", "round" : "round11.doc", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa48b3d831d6a003fac" }, "answer" : "Frigga", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 98.22386211762205, "num" : 7, "question" : "Among this deity's servants are the attendant Fulla, the guard Syn, who watches over the doors of her water-filled palace Fensalir, and the messenger Gna, who once delivered one of her apples to King Rerir. One of the two beings allowed to sit on the throne Hlidskialf, she once stole the gold from another god's statue and slept with a dwarf (*) in order to conceal the secret, prompting her husband to go into exile, during which time she may have had affairs with her brothers-in-law Vili and Ve. This fertility goddess often used a spinning wheel to create clouds. As a seer of all destinies, she was able to extract promises from all living things, except mistletoe, to not harm her son Balder. For 10 points, name this Norse goddess, the wife of Odin.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 65, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8e8b3d831d6a003ab0" }, "answer" : "undecidable", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.73214132199064, "num" : 7, "question" : "One problem in this class involves determining if dominoes can be configured so that the concatenation of strings along their tops matches the one along their bottoms and is known as the Post correspondence problem. One problem in this class is related to Chaitin's constant and asks whether a given Turing machine, given an input, will ever return a definite answer, known as the halting problem. Objects with this property can be framed as subsets of natural numbers that can't be reproduced by an algorithm. For 10 points, name this kind of problem such that no single algorithm can give the correct binary answer for all possible inputs.", "round" : "Sofa Kings - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed78b3d831d6a000f87" }, "answer" : "{capital} [or {Das Kapital} or {capitalism}]", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.761853865115, "num" : 4, "question" : "Robert Putnam talked about the decline of the “social” type of this resource in Bowling Alone. This concept names a work which introduced the idea of “commodity fetishism”, and along with land and labor, it is one of the factors of production in classical economics. Startup firms can benefit from the “venture” form of this. For 10 points, name this concept that gives its name to an economic system where goods are privately produced and owned, the title subject of a four-volume work by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.", "round" : "16.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f388b3d831d6a0025fa" }, "answer" : "{Jesus Christ} [accept either]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 2194.085757941939, "num" : 10, "question" : "During his execution, this figure was pierced by the Lance of Longinus. In addition to yelling at a fig tree for not bearing fruit, this figure healed a pig-eating man from Gerasa possessed by a horde of devils named Legion. This man was put to death by Pontius Pilate, and drops of his blood fell into the Holy Grail. For 10 points, name this Messiah and only son of God according to Christianity.", "round" : "CMST_Round02.pdf", "seen" : 1465, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40098b3d831d6a005770" }, "answer" : "{Solidarity} [or {Solidarnosc}; or {Independent Self-Governing} Trade Union]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9689285426866, "num" : 16, "question" : "This organization's political wing lost its coalition partner, the Freedom Union, which rendered it politically defunct. Its leaders often wore black Madonna buttons, and its early programs were tied to the Catholic Social Teaching policies. This organization went underground when it was outlawed by the Sejm (SAME), and it teamed with the PUWP to elect (*) Tadeusz Mazowiecki (TAD-oysh maz-uh-WISH-kee) as its nation's first non-Communist premier in forty years. This organization began during a strike in the Gdansk shipyards. For 10 points, name this trade union, founded by Lech Walesa, that broke Soviet power in Poland.", "round" : "tourn9-02.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcc8b3d831d6a00490c" }, "answer" : "{Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali} I {Domènech}, 1st {Marquis} of {Púbol}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.6913514595944, "num" : 5, "question" : "He shows three integral signs in his last work, The Swallow's Tail – Series on Catastrophes. He paints Edward James and himself in Swans Reflecting Elephants, and shows a spider-legged horse and elephants in The Temptation of St. Anthony. He designed a lobster telephone and may have recreated Venus de Milo in his The Hallucinogenic Torreador, though he is perhaps better known for a painting with a dead horse and some melting timepieces. For 10 points, identify this Spanish surrealist of The Persistence of Memory.", "round" : "FKT Editor 1.rtf", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40588b3d831d6a006a26" }, "answer" : "{halogens} [or {Group} 7A; or {Group} 17]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.2183884743135, "num" : 2, "question" : "In a namesake reaction, some of them can react with the bases of methyl ketones to create carboxylic acids. The heaviest example is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth, and the deficiency of another member is often the cause of a goiter. Normally featuring odd-numbered oxidation states, these elements all have an outer shell electron configuration of ns 2 np 5  (N S 2 N P 5). For 10 points, name these elements that lack one electron in their outer shell, examples of which include bromine, chlorine, and fluorine.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee58b3d831d6a0012e7" }, "answer" : "fountains", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.92031670873985, "num" : 16, "question" : "One of these structures was commissioned by Pope Paul V from Dominico Fontana and Flaminio Ponzio, and that structure was the first to stand to the west of the Tiber River. The central feature of that work dominates the center of its triumphal arches and the semi-circular structure directly in front of it. Leonardo Sormani designed a much-ridiculed statue of Moses that stood at the center of one of these structures. The Palazzo Poli forms the backdrop to one of these, whose two central Corinthian columns flank a standing figure of Oceanus. For 10 points, name these structures, the largest one of which in Rome stands at Trevi and marks the terminus of the Aqua Vergine.", "round" : "Packet 1 - finalized (updated).doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f568b3d831d6a002d36" }, "answer" : "“This Be the {Verse}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.4374934474472, "num" : 14, "question" : "This poem takes its title from Robert Louis Stevenson's poem “Requiem.” Its middle stanza discusses “fools in old-style hats and coats, who half the time were soppy-stern and half at one another's throats.” Focusing on a pair of figures who “fill you with the faults they had and add some extra, just for you,” this poem appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows. Ending by telling the addressee to “get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself,” for 10 points, what is this Philip Larkin poem which notes “They fuck you up, your mum and dad”?", "round" : "Packet 05.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9a8b3d831d6a000188" }, "answer" : "{Prime Minister} of {South Africa} [do not accept “ {President} of {South Africa} ”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 56.10416793380864, "num" : 21, "question" : "Two different holders of this office were criticized for youthful membership in the \"ox-wagon sentinel,\" a pro-Nazi group of saboteurs who had attacked the Allied war effort. Another occupant of this office attempts to come to a non-interference accord with Leabua Jonathan. Another of these people founded the newspaper Die Burger and the Purified National Party. The only person to be assassinated while serving in this office was killed by Dimitri Tsafendas on the floor of Parliament and was succeeded by Balthazar Vorster. The last person to hold this office pushed through a constitutional reform that created the new position of State President. For 10 points, Hendrik Voerword and P.W. Botha were two people who promoted apartheid from what executive position?", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Editors 3 final.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40688b3d831d6a006e0f" }, "answer" : "{recursion} [accept {divide} and {conquer} until it is read]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.4132652294356, "num" : 10, "question" : "The runtime of algorithms that employ this paradigm can be found with the Akkra-Bazzi method or the Master theorem, and it can be less efficient than other methods due to the need to store the call stack. It is utilized by divide and conquer algorithms such as binary search, and it can be used to solve the Towers of Hanoi problem or implement the factorial function, which can be defined as “n time n-1 factorial.” For 10 points, name this programming model, the opposite of iteration, in which a function's definition includes a call to itself.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2f8b3d831d6a0023e6" }, "answer" : "Book of {Jonah}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 51.10718892072327, "num" : 16, "question" : "This book is the prophetical text read on Yom Kippur during the afternoon services. This book's namesake covers himself in sackcloth and sits in ashes, and causes a commandment to be issued that “neither man nor beast, her nor flock, taste any thing.” The prayer that ultimately saves the namesake of this book claims that “they that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.” That man, the son of Amittai, is last seen pledging to be angry until the day that he dies after God sends a worm that withers the gourd that man was sitting under for shade. This book sees that man flee by way of Joppa to Tarshish to escape God's instruction to preach against Ninevah, and is eventually thrown overboard, where his best-known fate befalls him. FTP, identify this book of the Hebrew bible where the namesake prophet is eaten, then barfed up, by a whale.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 10 - A Blue Sky Out of the Oresteia.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0a8b3d831d6a001b59" }, "answer" : "{Venus} and {Mars} [{both} answers required, {obviously}; {you should certainly} accept {Aphrodite} and {Ares}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.60164044634439, "num" : 14, "question" : "In Veronese's depiction of these two figures, a putti wrangles a horse at right while one of them inexplicably milks herself as they are “united by love.” A gilded, white building with four rows of columns is visible in the background of another work depicting these figures, which sees the Graces amuse themselves with their possessions at right. Doves chastely kiss in that work, which sees one of these figures prepare to lustily crown the other with flowers as they lie on a bed in the (*) clouds. Mischievous satyrs abscond with the lance of one of these figures – the subject of the last major work by Jacques-Louis David – in a Botticelli work that shows one of them sleeping peacefully after getting seriously down with the other. Those works reflect the “disarming” of one of these figures by the other, while in a Boucher painting they are discovered mid-tryst by poor Hephaestus. For 10 points, name these Roman deities of love and war.", "round" : "FINAL_Columbia A+Toronto.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff28b3d831d6a0051f0" }, "answer" : "{Mormons} [or {LDS}; or {Church} of {Jesus Christ} of {Latter-Day Saints}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 391.7723771301098, "num" : 2, "question" : "A military expedition against these people became known as \"Buchanan's Blunder\" and was led by Albert Sidney Johnston. That expedition came after some of these people allied with the Paiute (pie-YOO-tay) Indians to perpetrate the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The massacre took place in a state that these people called Deseret, where they fled after being driven out of Illinois and Missouri. For 10 points, name this religious group which inspired the enmity of eastern Americans for their practice of polygamy, and fled to Utah after the death of their founder, Joseph Smith.", "round" : "4q2-12.pdf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef08b3d831d6a001559" }, "answer" : "{Karel Capek}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.5156818591059, "num" : 9, "question" : "This author wrote a novel about the chemist Prokop, who creates a dangerous explosive which he names\n Krakatit, after the volcano Krakatoa. His best known work concludes when Alquist declares Primus and\n Helena are the new Adam and Eve. He wrote an allegorical play that begins when a Tramp meets a Pedant\n chasing a butterfly. This author of The Insect Play also wrote a satirical science fiction novel describing the\n sex life of the newts, who are at war with humanity, while he wrote a play that begins when Helena Glory\n arrives at an island factory hoping to incite a rebellion agaisnt Harry Domin. For 10 points, name this\n Czech writer who coined the word \"robot\" in his play R.U.R.", "round" : "18.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404c8b3d831d6a00672d" }, "answer" : "{James II} (or {James VII})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.0638666867745, "num" : 17, "question" : "During the reign of this husband of Mary of Modena, a zealous judge named Jeffreys sentenced many people to death or exile to Barbados in an event known as the Bloody Assizes, which was in reaction to a rebellion against this king led by the Duke of Monmouth. A political controversy ensued when he dropped an important object into the Thames, but Parliament ruled that the Royal Seal was not needed since this man's escape constituted an abdication. FTP, name this Catholic monarch replaced by William and Mary in the Glorious Revolution.", "round" : "HFT Round 06.doc", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efa8b3d831d6a0017a2" }, "answer" : "{Leviathan}: Or, the {Matter}, {Forme}, and {Power} of a Commonwealth {Ecclesiasticall} and {Civil}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.815217072377, "num" : 2, "question" : "This work defines liberty as “absence of external impediments” but later claims liberty depends on “the silence of the laws.” Its introduction originated the metaphor of a “body politic.” This work claims all men are naturally equal since differences in natural talent let any man kill another, and claims that a (*) commonwealth is the only solution to war of all against all. For 10 points, name this work, which claims life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” without absolute sovereignty, written by Thomas Hobbes.", "round" : "Packet 8 - Playoffs 3.doc", "seen" : 305, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f428b3d831d6a002850" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Pharsalus}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.220173682319, "num" : 6, "question" : "The victor at this battle exclaimed “They would have it so”, referring to the dead on his enemy's side. The winning side anticipated the defeat of their right wing and advanced on the losing cavalry using their javelins as stabbing spears. One month before this battle, its victor had lost after the two sides had spent several months building up fortifications at Dyrrhachium. The losing leader in this battle was backed by the Optimates. This battle was the last in a war begun when its eventual winner crossed the Rubicon. The subject of an epic by Lucan, for 10 points, name this 48 BC battle at which Julius Caesar defeated Pompey, causing the end of the Roman Republic.", "round" : "Round 11 updated.doc", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40528b3d831d6a00689d" }, "answer" : "{magnetic monopoles}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.872966962168, "num" : 1, "question" : "The Hedgehog is one of these and reduces to the Dirac one sufficiently far from the origin, and they are examples of topological solitons, and some Grand Unified Theories posit that dyons are merely excited ones. Their existence leads naturally to a condition also named for Dirac, which explains why charges are quantized; moreover, if they exist, then Maxwell's equations may be written symmetrically, having introduced a new kind of point charge. For 10 points, identify these hypothetical objects that lack distinct north and south ends.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6a8b3d831d6a0031b2" }, "answer" : "War of the {Spanish Succession}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.4029517984018, "num" : 6, "question" : "An early battle in this war saw the Irish Brigade defend the Po gate of the namesake city following the capture of the Duc de Villeroi. The talks that ended this war gave Britain the right to import forty eight hundred slaves to the Americas and were negotiated at Rastatt and Baden. This war included the early battle of Cremona, which preceded a attempt to take Vienna thwarted by the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy. One theater of this war was Queen Anne's War, and its outcome required that Philip of Anjou give up his position as son of the Dauphin in order to inherit the lands of his father Charles II, as determined by the Treaty of Utrecht. For 10 points, name this conflict fought to prevent the house of Bourbon from uniting the thrones of France and Spain.", "round" : "8.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0f8b3d831d6a001c69" }, "answer" : "{Rayleigh scattering}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.43066223338246, "num" : 13, "question" : "Coulson solved Chandrasekhar's X and Y functions for this process when a Lambert surface was underneath.  The Babinet point is an example of a neutral point predicted by the theory of this effect. It is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the wavelength of the light. This process predominates when the size of the particle is much smaller than the wavelength. This effect is seen as light travels through transparent solids and liquids, but is most noticeable in gases. This effect is enhanced for short wavelengths. For 10 points, name this elastic process named for British scientist that causes the sky to appear blue.", "round" : "Claremont and Michigan.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f598b3d831d6a002db2" }, "answer" : "{David Lloyd George}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1460481223185, "num" : 10, "question" : "This man emerged as prime minster following the so called “coupon election”. Lord Milner had earlier served as this man’s War Secretary. As Chancellor of the Exchequer he developed the People’s Budget, which taxed luxury goods to fund social programs. This man served between Andrew Bonar Law and Herbert (*) Asquith in his highest post, where his rule saw the issuing of the Balfour Declaration and the Anglo-Irish War leading to the Irish Free State. For 10 points, name this British prime minister during the latter half of World War I, who represented his country at the Versailles Peace Conference.", "round" : "02.pdf", "seen" : 223, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f198b3d831d6a001eb9" }, "answer" : "{Oliver Ellsworth}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.33262259606272, "num" : 17, "question" : "Along with William Vans Murray and William Richardson Davie, this man was one of the three commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Mortefontaine. He was accused of fastening “chains of slavery” on children with a “birth-duty of allegiance” for his decision that Isaac Williams could not renounce citizenship without the consent of the community. John Taylor of Caroline was horrified at a secession proposal produced by this man and Rufus King. He wrote the Letters from a Landholder urging adoption of the Constitution, chaired the conference committee for the Bill of Rights, and was the chief author of the Judiciary Act of 1789. For 10 points, name this Connecticut Federalist and third Chief Justice of the United States.", "round" : "Harvard - Final.docx", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff48b3d831d6a005277" }, "answer" : "{Tintoretto} [or {Jacopo Robusti}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.3540386403911, "num" : 9, "question" : "An armor-wearing knight almost falls out of a boat while kissing a nude Egyptian princess in this painter's The Liberation of Arsinoe. This artist painted portraits of Antonio Cappello, Nicolo Priull and other procurators of his city. After a 1577 fire devastated the Palazzo Ducale, he was commissioned to create the ceiling panel Defence of Brescia. At the center of another painting by this artist, a bearded, turbaned man holds up broken instruments of torture after a man lying on the ground is freed by St. Mark. In his painting of the Last Supper, a blazing lamp in the upper left lights up a dark room depicted on a diagonal. For 10 points, name this Renaissance artist from Venice who painted The Miracle of the Slave and whose nickname means \"little dyer.\"", "round" : "nasat-sample-01.pdf", "seen" : 278, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408a8b3d831d6a0075b4" }, "answer" : "A {Bend} in the {River}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.04514544457197, "num" : 18, "question" : "Late in this novel, a group distributes leaflets encouraging action against \"the enemy,\" which is identified with the \"powers of Imperialism, the multi-nationals, and the powers that be.\" A war being fought in the background of this work leads to a copper boom in the second section, \"The New Domain,\" and the title character of the third section starts a Madonna cult to honor his mother. The main character has an affair with Yvette and later beats her, before leaving for London to marry Kareisha, the daughter of Nazruddin. With the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko represented in the character of the “Big Man,” for ten points, identify this novel about the merchant Salim and the travails of an African town situated in the titular location, written by V. S. Naipaul.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Dartmouth A.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f008b3d831d6a0018f6" }, "answer" : "{Elias James Corey} (Accept “{Seebach}” until “{enantioselectively}”)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.06908862781711, "num" : 2, "question" : "One reaction named for this man permits an inversion of the normal reactivity of acyl carbon atoms, which combine only with nucleophiles, in a phenomenon known as umpolung.  He is the first namesake of another reaction in which an achiral ketone is enantioselectively reduced to produce the corresponding chiral, non-racemic alcohol. He controversially claimed that he inspired the development of the Woodward-Hoffmann rules, and he won a Nobel Prize for pioneering a method of transforming a molecule into simple precursor structures, retrograde analysis. The earlier mentioned reactions are co-named with Seebach and with Bakshi and Shibata. For ten points, name this man who names a reaction that transforms aldehydes into alkynes along with Fuchs.", "round" : "Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407f8b3d831d6a007351" }, "answer" : "{tuberculosis} (accept {TB} before the end of the {question})", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.3027867319528, "num" : 1, "question" : " Hippocrates wrote that it was the most widespread disease of his time, and called it phthisis. Edvard Munch's sister, the subject of The Sick Child, died of it. The bacteria that causes it multiplies only about once a day, so infection is easily prevented by those with normal immune systems. Inmates of Georgian prisons are known to swap sputum to be tested positive for this disease and transferred to (*) quarantine prisons with better facilities. In March 2007, Andrew Speaker became the first individual to receive a CDC isolation order since 1963 when he entered the United States while infected with the multi-drug-resistant type of this disease. FTP, name this disease caused by mycobacteria, also known as TB.", "round" : "Round 8.rtf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4e8b3d831d6a002b32" }, "answer" : "Lake {Baikal}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 594.437429235084, "num" : 18, "question" : "About every four years at this geographic location, most recently in 2009, space observations find three-mile-wide dark circles on its surface ice. In this body, golomyanka fish are fed on by its namesake seals, which are also known as Nerpa. Also containing the Ushkani Islands and [*] Olkhon Island, the Selenga River flows into this body of water, while the Angara River, on which the town of Irkutsk is located, flows out of it. Containing about 20 percent of the world's surface freshwater, for 10 points, name this eastern Russian lake, the oldest and deepest in the world.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 9 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 403, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40548b3d831d6a006926" }, "answer" : "electric {field}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.432688575238, "num" : 22, "question" : "The Stark effect sees the splitting of spectral lines of atoms due to the presence of these, and a time varying one necessitates the introduction of a displacement current in Ampere's law. Their energy density is equal to their magnitude squared times half of the permittivity constant. It is the gradient of the electric potential, and a test charge will experience a force when placed in these regions, whose magnitude is given by k q over r squared. For 10 points, identify these regions, whose lines point in the direction where a positive charge will travel.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea88b3d831d6a00046e" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Ain Jalut} (or Battle of the {Spring} of {Goliath} )", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 41.30187561106868, "num" : 2, "question" : "A losing force in this battle escaped with only one commander Pedra left alive, and that force retreated to re-equip itself at the court of king Hethum I. Prior to this battle, a group known as the \"100 Princes\" were publicly flogged in front of a crowd - at the same time, four men and a child were sent as envoys to ask for peace, but those messengers were decapitated and their heads were hung on the Bab Zuweila as a warning. The losing force included a group of Cilician troops from Armenia, and was driven back after a helmet-less charge at dusk was made by Qutuz. The losing general marched south from Baalbek at the outset - that general, Kitbuqa Noyan, had been forced to make do with a paltry force after the death of Mongke Khan. FTP, name this 1260 battle in which Baybars and the Mamelukes defeated the Mongols and halted their advance into Egypt.", "round" : "PACKET12Jordan.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4a8b3d831d6a002a5f" }, "answer" : "{Calvin Coolidge}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.1840066451113, "num" : 16, "question" : "This man vetoed the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill; like Franklin Roosevelt, his Secretary of Agriculture was named Henry Wallace. As Governor, he supported Edwin Upton Curtis and Mayor Andrew Peters by sending the state militia and denouncing the [*] Boston Police Strike. His Vice President won the Nobel Peace Prize for a post-World War I restructuring plan. The Vice President during the Teapot Dome Scandal, he was sworn in by his father when Warren Harding died. For 10 points, name the thirtieth US President known as “Silent”, succeeded by Herbert Hoover.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 11 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecc8b3d831d6a000cd3" }, "answer" : "{Birth} of a {Nation}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.6092740271706, "num" : 28, "question" : "In this movie, Silas Lynch seeks vengeance for the death of Gus, who is killed for making Flora leap off a cliff. Criticism of this movie led its director to make Intolerance the next year. At its end, Elsie forgives Ben Cameron for founding the Ku Klux Klan. For 10 points, name this 1915 silent film by D.W. Griffith, remembered for its pro-Confederate message as much as its pioneering of many cinema techniques.", "round" : "districts-05.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406b8b3d831d6a006ea9" }, "answer" : "Haruki {Murakami} [accept names in either order]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 360.2069461704232, "num" : 17, "question" : "This man's nonfiction works include a collection of interviews with people involved with the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attacks called Underground. His short story collections include after the quake and The Elephant Vanishes, and his most recent novel, set in a Denny's, is entitled After Dark. His \"Trilogy of the Rat\" concludes with A Wild Sheep Chase, and he referenced western songs in the novel Norwegian Wood. He also wrote a novel about Toru Okada's search for a missing cat. For 10 points, identify this Japanese author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.", "round" : "Round_14_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 246, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1f8b3d831d6a002020" }, "answer" : "{Jean Piaget}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.40958670969121, "num" : 2, "question" : "This man distinguished between physical, social, and logical-mathematical knowledge in his theory of genetic epistemology. This psychologist performed an experiment involving tall and short beakers, which demonstrated the concept of conservation. He postulated that adaptation occurs through accommodation and assimilation of knowledge into internal schemas. He theorized periods characterized by magical thinking and object permanence. For 10 points, name this Swiss psychologist who posited the sensorimotor and preoperational stages of development in children.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 7.pdf", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2b8b3d831d6a0022b6" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Guadalcanal}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.27587236161344, "num" : 11, "question" : "Landings on Tulagi and Tanambogo preceded the main invasion in this campaign, during which the transport George Elliot was sunk and the escort fleet defeated at Savo Island. One side set up the “Cactus Air Force” and another used the “Tokyo Express” route to bring supplies to its troops. Naval skirmishes during this battle off Cape Esperance and the Santa Cruz islands were indecisive. Henderson Airfield came under attack from two battleships during this battle. It saw heavy fighting along the Matanikau River before Operation Ke resulted in the final withdrawal of all Japanese forces. For 10 points, name this battle fought over the course of six months from August 1942 to February 1943, a major American victory fought on a namesake island in the Solomon Islands.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - UCSD + Penn.pdf", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40068b3d831d6a005695" }, "answer" : "{Pieter Bruegel} the {Elder}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.9427994566504, "num" : 9, "question" : "This artist created a cycle of paintings called The Months, which included such paintings as The Harvesters and The Return of the Herd. He also depicted a ploughman who is oblivious to a boy falling from the sky in Landscape with the (*) Fall of Icarus. He painted two servants carrying a tray of porridge during the titular celebration in Peasant Wedding, and created a work illustrating literal representations of Flemish proverbs. For 10 points, name this sixteenth century Dutch painter of Hunters in the Snow.", "round" : "tourn8-07.pdf", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee78b3d831d6a001345" }, "answer" : "{John Smith}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.12592396005056, "num" : 16, "question" : "This man won a coat of arms from Sigismund Bathory after he killed three Turks in duels. He later was captured and worked as a slave for a woman in Constantinople. This man replaced Matthew Scrivener in one post and was earlier arrested by Christopher Newport, who regarded him as a troublemaking mutineer. He eventually set up such policies as “He who does not work, will not eat.” After his injury in a gunpowder accident, forcing his return to England, his colony underwent the horrific “Starving Time.” Much of his exploits are revealed his Generall Historie of Virginia, including his capture by Chief Powhatan. For 10 points, name this leader of Jamestown, who is remembered today for apocryphally having his life saved by Pocahontas.", "round" : "Packet 4 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40458b3d831d6a006578" }, "answer" : "{Wuthering Heights}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.8464307843242, "num" : 11, "question" : "A final event in this work involves one of the characters spotting his name and the date 1500 engraved above a door. Another event involves the character, Hindley forcing his sister's love interest to work the fields after his father dies. This work begins ‘en medias re' when Mr. Lockwood sees a ghost of a woman named Catherine in the middle of the night on his way to Thrushcross Grange. Following two generations of the Earnshaw and Linton families, for 10 points, identify this novel by Emily Bronte set in the title Yorkshire manor.", "round" : "Round 6 - UMD 2.doc", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4c8b3d831d6a002ae6" }, "answer" : "{Saul Bellow}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.8007993341889, "num" : 5, "question" : "One work by this author includes the political analyst Teddy Regler, who is loved by the dissatisfied Clara Veldt. In addition to A Theft, this author depicted Tommy Wilhelm's alienation from his father in Seize the Day. In another novel by this author, the title character recounts his marriage to [*] Madeline and writes a number of letters, while the protagonist of another novel is raised by Grandma Lausch. That novel opens with the line “I am an American, Chicago born.” For 10 points, identify this author of Herzog and The Adventures of Augie March, a Jewish-American winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 6 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6c8b3d831d6a003258" }, "answer" : "William {Somerset Maugham}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.0122759861406, "num" : 12, "question" : "One protagonist created by this author is a World War I vet from Chicago who spends two years in India study- ing under Shri Ganesha (shree ga-NESH-uh). Another of this author's protagonists, who has an affair with Blanche Stroeve after moving from London to Paris, is Charles Strickland. A different novel by this author is about a boy who moves in with his Uncle William and Aunt Louisa after his parents die. That boy, who spends time studying in Hei- delberg, was born with a clubfoot. Identify this author who used the life of Paul Gauguin as the inspiration for The Moon and Sixpence and created the characters Larry Darrell in The Razor's Edge and Philip Carey in Of Human Bond- age.", "round" : "07.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec48b3d831d6a000b11" }, "answer" : "{Eugène Ionesco} [or {Eugen Ionescu}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1787363784388, "num" : 3, "question" : "The protagonist of one of this man's works finds several identical pictures of a colonel and attempts to find the title character, who murdered his lover Dany. This author of The Killer wrote about two elderly characters who jump out of a window near the end of his play The Chairs. Daisy leaves Berenger to join the title (*) animals in another play by this author, who also wrote a play about an odd dinner between the Smiths and Martins. For 10 points, name this Romanian-born author of Rhinoceros and The Bald Soprano.", "round" : "tournament17-03.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f968b3d831d6a003c99" }, "answer" : "Cello", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.8094866729807, "num" : 16, "question" : "An incomplete concerto for this instrument was found on the back of Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony, though he had already written the Rococo Variations for it. Edward Elgar wrote a concerto for this instrument in E minor which was popularized by Jacqueline du Pré, and another concerto for it is Antonín Dvorák's in B minor. Representing the title character in Richard Strauss' tone-poem Don Quixote, Pablo Casals popularized this instrument with his discovery and recording of J.S. Bach's six suites for it. For 10 points, name this instrument, the second-largest string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, that is played by Yo-Yo Ma.", "round" : "Round 13.doc", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb78b3d831d6a0007f8" }, "answer" : "Savannah", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.8165389022324, "num" : 15, "question" : "This city was founded after the landing of the ship Anne at Yamacraw Bluff. Eli Whitney developed the cotton gin while tutoring the children of General Nathaniel Greene at their plantation outside this city. After it was taken by the British in 1788, a siege to retake this city was led by Benjamin Lincoln and saw the death of Casimir Pulaski. It was presented, with “about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton,” as a (*) Christmas gift to Abraham Lincoln. For 10 points, name this terminus of Sherman’s March to the Sea, a Georgia port city.", "round" : "17.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40758b3d831d6a0070d3" }, "answer" : "Apollo", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.4063207430299, "num" : 9, "question" : "He once fell in love with a nymph, the mother of Tarquitus, and in a version of that story he seduced her by turning into a tortoise and then, once she took him into her lap, turned into a snake and raped her. While Timolus judged, Midas received the ears of an ass for dissenting in a contest between this god and Pan. This god traveled to the Castalian Spring at Delphi to kill the Python, and one of his more notable love interests rejects him until she morphs into a bay laurel tree. This would-be lover of Daphne and twin brother of Artemis is, for 10 points, what patron of music, the Greek successor to Helios as god of the sun?", "round" : "NNT_Packet_9.doc", "seen" : 456, "tournament" : "NNT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc18b3d831d6a004687" }, "answer" : "{New Historicism}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.64315344183706, "num" : 8, "question" : "Brook Thomas linked this movement with Pragmatism in a book about [It] and Other Old-Fashioned Topics, while Catharine Gallagher applied it to Victorian women's writing in Nobody's Story and co-wrote a book about Practicing it along with its most famous theorist. The first anthology named for this movement was edited by Harold Vesser and featured work by Stephen Bann, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and Louis Montrose. Its name was coined for a special issue of Genre focusing on the (*) Renaissance, the editor of which later founded the journal Representations and proclaimed “I began with a desire to speak with the dead” to describe his work on Shakespeare, which later produced Will in the World. For 10 points, name this movement associated with Stephen Greenblatt, who calls it “cultural poetics,” which opposes formalisms in its attempt to renew the examination of literature's chronological context.", "round" : "Rd03.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40798b3d831d6a0071b5" }, "answer" : "{oranges} [accept {navel oranges} before \"{Maltese}\" is read]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.5122074520681, "num" : 6, "question" : "They are native to Malaysia, and almost all of those produced in the United States are descended from the farm of Eliza Tibbets. They were first brought to the U.S. by the same man who started the American wine industry, William Wilfskill. The deep red color of the Maltese variety has led it to be known as the \"blood\" kind of these; other types include the Jaffa. The Seville kind is notably sour, but is often processed into marmalade. For 10 points, name this citrus fruit which also comes in \"Valencia\" and \"navel\" varieties.", "round" : "Round 11.doc", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff18b3d831d6a0051a7" }, "answer" : "{Patrick Wayne Swayze}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 847.3157568168826, "num" : 25, "question" : "This actor played Darrell Curtis, older brother of Sodapop and Ponyboy in The Outsiders. As Jed, this actor led a teenage militia in battling Russian invaders in Red Dawn. He played the lovely Vida in To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar and turned dancing skills into martial arts moves as Dalton in Roadhouse. His final role was Chet Barker in the television series The Beast, which he filmed while receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer. For 10 points, name this actor who danced with Baby in Dirty Dancing.", "round" : "4q2-09.pdf", "seen" : 559, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40038b3d831d6a0055f4" }, "answer" : "{David Hume}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 467.6099633642007, "num" : 16, "question" : "This philosopher alleged that man could conceive of a shade of blue he had never seen, and he also claimed that no miracle had ever been proven. His distinction between matters of fact and relations among ideas is known as his (*) \"fork.\" He explored rational belief in a discussion between Cleanthes (clee-AN-theez), Philo, and Demea (DEH-mee-uh) in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. His publication awoke Immanuel Kant from a \"dogmatic slumber.\" For 10 points, name this Scottish thinker who wrote An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.", "round" : "tourn11-14.pdf", "seen" : 309, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405d8b3d831d6a006b6b" }, "answer" : "Emma", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7362614420708, "num" : 20, "question" : "One character in this novel eventually marries a vulgar Bristol actress named Augusta Hawkins. A character assents to marry Robert Martin in this novel, which also contains a secret affair between Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill. The title character attempts to play matchmaker for Harriet Smith, and ends up married to Mr. Knightley. For 10 points, name this novel whose title character is the meddling Ms. Woodhouse, written by Jane Austen.", "round" : "Round_06_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f428b3d831d6a002848" }, "answer" : "“{Song} of {Myself}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.51134472712874, "num" : 16, "question" : "One part of this poem notes that the speaker witnesses   “suicide's” corpse with “dabbled hair,”  and he “note[s] where the pistol has fallen” Another section sees the speaker claim that “I am the teacher of athletes.” This poem repeats the words “Twenty-eight” for three straight lines as the narrator describes a group of bathers. It sees the speaker claim that “...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you” and that the speaker “contains multitudes.” It begins with the statement “I celebrate” the titular figure and ends with the speaker claiming that he “stop[s] somewhere waiting for you.” Also describing a \"barbaric yawp,\" for 10 points, name this often-revised poem from Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman.", "round" : "Round 10 updated.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f018b3d831d6a001945" }, "answer" : "{William Graham Sumner}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.29661100986414, "num" : 6, "question" : "Noah Porter nearly forced this leader of the Young Yale movement to resign. This proponent of free trade called protectionism “The –Ism Which Teaches That Waste Makes Wealth,” and he noted that the adoption of imperialism might result in “The Conquest of America by Spain.” He argued that the formula “A and B decide what C shall be made to do for D” describes the exploitation of the Forgotten Man. He praised laissez-faire policy and warned against state interventionism in What Social Classes Owe Each Other. In his most famous work, he discusses in-group and others-group before introducing the term ethnocentrism. For 10 points, name this sociologist who discussed the evolutionary process through which mores and other social norms develop in Folkways.", "round" : "Packet 04.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f388b3d831d6a002608" }, "answer" : "{Mohs} scale", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 2884.421027130214, "num" : 4, "question" : "Alternatives to it include the Knoop test, the Vickers test, and measurement with a sclerometer (“sclair- AH-meh-tuhr”). Although decimal values are allowed, it is more common to say that an object's value is between that of two reference materials based on the scratch test. Corundum has a value of nine and talc has a value of one on, for 10 points, what scale that measures a mineral's hardness?", "round" : "CMST_Round03.pdf", "seen" : 1930, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd68b3d831d6a004b43" }, "answer" : "{Helen Hunt Jackson}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.33101528207771, "num" : 14, "question" : "This writer's poetry includes the twelve-part \"Calendar of Sonnets.\" Animals star in her Mammy Tittleback and Her Family and Letters From a Cat, while she depicted her friend Emily Dickinson in Mercy Philbrick's Choice. Father Gaspara agrees to perofrm a marriage between the shepherd (*) Allesandro and the biracial title character of one of her novels, who thwarts the anti-Indian Señora Moreno. For 10 points, name this author of Ramona and the history of abuses towards Indians, A Century of Dishonor.", "round" : "07_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f788b3d831d6a00354d" }, "answer" : "{Ramses II} [or {Ramesses} the Great; or {Ozymandias}; prompt on {Ramses}; prompt on", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9320859704167, "num" : 1, "question" : "This man's capitol near Qantir, abandoned shortly after his death, was excavated by Manfred Bietak. Most of this man's sons were buried at a site known as KV5. Succeeded by Merneptah, this ruler along with Hattusili III of the Hittites signed what is considered the first peace treaty in history. The son of Seti I, this ruler with temples dedicated to him at (*) Karnak and Abu Simbel was the victor at the Battle of Kadesh. For 10 points, name this New Kingdom Egyptian pharaoh often referred to as \"the Great.\"", "round" : "15.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f848b3d831d6a00384d" }, "answer" : "Phobos <LC>", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.2485549554694, "num" : 11, "question" : "This object is thought to be made of carbonaceous chondrite like the Kaidun meteorite, which is hypothesized to be a piece of it. Its orbit is faster than the rotation of its parent planet, since it lies below the radius of synchronous orbit. Captured from the nearby asteroid belt, one of its prominent surface features is named after its discoverer's wife, Stickney crater. When this satellite passes the Roche limit, it is expected to be broken up by tidal forces and form a ring system around its planet. For 10 points, name this largest moon of Mars, the partner of Deimos.", "round" : "Round 08.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fae8b3d831d6a00420d" }, "answer" : "Battle of the {Boyne}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.47174891736358, "num" : 3, "question" : "It was somewhat overlooked in its time due the naval Battle of Beachy Head, which occurred at the same time. A large amount of troops here were separated from each other by a deep ravine near Roughgrange, a landform that neither side knew existed. That mistake cost the losing side its cannons. The actual fighting broke out at Oldbridge, where George Walker and the second-in-command of the winning side, the Duke of Shomberg, were killed. The Dutch Blue Guard managed to force its way across this battle's namesake feature. The winning side had the help of infantry from the region of Ulster known as Inniskillingers, while much of the losing army in this battle had been raised by Richard Talbot, First Earl of Tyrconnel in an attempt to reclaim the landholdings lost by Catholics in Ireland during the event which this battle prevented from being reversed, the Glorious Revolution. For 10 points, name this 1690 battle that took place in Ireland, in which William III of England crushed the former James II near the namesake river.", "round" : "r09- UCLA-South Carolina.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f618b3d831d6a002f6f" }, "answer" : "{Luigi Pirandello}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.06446526199579, "num" : 9, "question" : "This man wrote a one-act dialogue in which a man who has missed his train converses on a terrace with a man dying of epithelioma. That play was aired by the BBC as a TV experiment and is called The Man With the Flower in His Mouth.  In one of his plays, Frida dresses like Matilda in an attempt to cure an aristocrat who believes himself to be a medieval king. One of this author's characters employs seamstresses and prostitutes and is named Madame Pace. In his most famous play, the Father, the Boy, and the Stepdaughter interrupt a work to tell their story to a stage Manager. For 10 points, name this Italian playwright who wrote Henry IV and Six Characters in Search of an Author.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - Minnesota 2 - Done.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f858b3d831d6a003874" }, "answer" : "{Heinrich Böll}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.0327434462961, "num" : 8, "question" : "This author wrote about a man who can smell through the telephone, whose wife Marie elopes with Zupfner; that man is Hans Schnier from The Clown. He wrote about a war widow Leni and her bastard son Lev who protest the destruction of their Cologne apartment building in Group Portrait with Lady. In another work the title character shoots the journalist Werner Tötges. In his most famous work, the bellhop Hugo is adopted by Robert Faehmel, who routinely plays the title game. For 10 points, name this author of The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, and Billiards at Half Past Nine.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f708b3d831d6a00334a" }, "answer" : "{Johannes Brahms}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.9666294087656, "num" : 4, "question" : "A poem by Goethe beginning “But who is that apart?” provided the text to t his composer's Alto Rhapsody. A surprising cello solo begins the third movement of his Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, while an aria from his Harpsichord Suite No. 1 provides the basis for his Variations and Fugue on a Theme by (*) Handel. One of his choral works had portions of Messiah inserted between its movements in performance and uses text from Luther's translation of the Bible, while Hans von Bulow labeled this man's first symphony “Beethoven's Tenth.” For 10 points, name this composer of A German Requiem and the Academic Festival Overture, who also created a famous lullaby.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f248b3d831d6a002124" }, "answer" : "The {Bacchae}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 45.06793420179747, "num" : 7, "question" : "At one point in this play, a character claims the head of a man is actually the head of a slain lion. In the second scene a servant says he saw chains miraculously disappear from prisoners after he discusses arresting a man who did not resist and voluntarily offered his wrists. One character foils the protagonist by summoning an earthquake to allow him to escape prison. One character in this play dresses like a woman and hides in pine branches after hearing rumors of women suckling wolves and girdling themselves with tame snakes. At the end of this play Agave leads a group of women who tear apart her son Pentheus. For 10 points, name this Euripides play titled for the frenzied maenads who worship Dionysius.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Minnesota B + Dartmouth A + Miami C.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1b8b3d831d6a001f2c" }, "answer" : "Saint {Andrew}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.82396126026288, "num" : 18, "question" : "According to an old German tradition, single women who want to marry should sleep naked on the eve of this man's feast day.  This man's remains were brought to the cathedral of Amalfi by Peter of Capua after Constantinople was taken by the French.  In The Golden Legend, Voragine tells of this man's meeting with an old lecher and his subsequent fast for the Lord to forgive Nicholas' sins.  According to some accounts, he was said to have traveled to the land of the anthropophagi, though Origen describes Scythia as his mission field.  In the Bible it was this man who asked how five loaves of bread and two fish would feed so many.  This disciple of John the Baptist was martyred at Patras on an X shaped cross.  For 10 points, identify this apostle, the first disciple of Christ and the patron saint of Scotland.", "round" : "Rutgers Yale - Final.docx", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f988b3d831d6a003cf6" }, "answer" : "The {Rite} of {Spring} [or Le {Sacre du Printemps}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.6530441385694, "num" : 11, "question" : "Wagner tubas and guiros are used in this work's original score, and it drew inspiration from Lithuanian folk songs and a vision of \"sage elders, seated in a circle.\" Its composer used octatonic harmonies and the A-flat harmonic minor scale in the second movement, and this work contains sections such as \"The Evocation of the Ancestors\" and \"The Kiss of the Earth.\" It begins with a bassoon solo one octave above Middle C, and this work, which used asymmetrical rhythms to depict pagan rituals, caused rioting at its premiere. For 10 points, name this ballet that ends with a girl dancing herself to death, composed by Igor Stravinsky.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3faa8b3d831d6a004129" }, "answer" : "{Zoroastrianism} [accept {Amesha Spentas} before “{this religion}”]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 49.92781273345463, "num" : 7, "question" : "“Desirable Dominion” and “Good Purpose” are names of two divinities in this religion, whose adherents cross the Chinvat bridge after death. Members of one sect of this religion bury themselves and are eaten as carrion in “towers of silence,” and practitioners of this religion pray in fire temples and revere the Amesha Spentas. The holy book of this religion includes the Vendidad, Yashts, and Yasna, and details the conflict between Ahriman and good. For 10 points, name this religion whose holy book is the Avesta and whose primary god is Ahura Mazda, a religion from Iran.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Vanderbilt + Iowa + Brown A.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40218b3d831d6a005cd3" }, "answer" : "{Gustav Mahler}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.5608224044554, "num" : 9, "question" : "This composer's unfinished symphony separates pairs of scherzos with a Purgatorio third movement and has been disappointingly completed by Joseph Wheeler, Deryck Cooke, and others. This composer was inspired by Friedrich Ruckert poetry for a five-song cycle, ending with “In this weather!”, and he called for three hammer blows in his sixth symphony. This composer used poetry from Li Po in an attempt to sidestep the “ninth symphony” curse, and this composer of Songs on the Death of Children and the Tragic Symphony set the hymn “Veni, Creator Spiritus” in a symphony featuring hundreds of choristers. Name this Austrian composer of The Song of the Earth and the Symphony of a Thousand.", "round" : "08 TU.pdf", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fef8b3d831d6a00510e" }, "answer" : "{gold} [or {Au}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.02541620587, "num" : 32, "question" : "In 1920 Fritz Haber began a secret project to extract this element from seawater, after learning of Arrhenius's calculation that there must be eight million tons of it in the oceans. The pure form of this element is the most ductile and most malleable metal. Like platinum, it is most commonly dissolved using aqua regia (AH-kwuh REE-jee-uh). The amount of this metal in an alloy is expressed using units of karats. For 10 points, name this metal, into which alchemists attempted to convert lead.", "round" : "4q2-04.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407c8b3d831d6a007273" }, "answer" : "{Hera} [or {Here}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.3410997104365, "num" : 12, "question" : "The Argives claim that this character was raised by the three daughters of the river Asterion. The lighting of a funeral pyre for this figure's stepson angered her, and in retaliation she caused a snake to bite Philoctetes. She promised Paris the kingship of all Europe and Asia in an attempt to win his judgment, and her sacred animal was the peacock. For 10 points, identify this goddess of marriage, mother of Hebe, Hephaestus, and Ares, wife of Zeus, and queen of the gods.", "round" : "Round 6.doc", "seen" : 454, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40808b3d831d6a007389" }, "answer" : "{Time Transfixed}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.7230156932492, "num" : 19, "question" : "In the explanation for this work, which is now part of the permanent collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, the artist describes painting the central image and then in order to evoke its mystery he chose to place it in an immediately familiar setting, a sparsely decorated and austere living room. Only one of the two candelabras, which are both empty and are sitting on the mantle, is reflected in the mirror and the clock between them reads 12:44. In the living room fireplace, something reminiscent of a coal-burning stove has been transformed into, for 10 points, a charging locomotive traveling on no tracks in this surrealist painting by Rene Magritte.", "round" : "FINALS.rtf", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40768b3d831d6a007123" }, "answer" : "Ariel", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1557330826763, "num" : 15, "question" : "(DR) A historian with this first name teamed with her husband Will Durant to write The Story of Civi- lization. It also is the name of the poetry collection containing \"Lady Lazarus\" and \"Daddy\" by Sylvia Plath. The name is shared by the narrator of \"The Rape of the Lock\" and the moon designated Uranus One. In Shakespeare's The Tempest, a character by this name is a sprite who serves Prospero, and this is also the first name of the former Israeli Prime Minister who has been in a persistent vegetative state since a 2006 stroke. Give this name meaning \"lion of God\" that, according to Disney, is the protagonist of The Little Mermaid.", "round" : "r4tossups.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40848b3d831d6a007469" }, "answer" : "{Discipline} and {Punishment}: {Birth} of the Prison [accept: {Surveiller et punir}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.61931113675236, "num" : 4, "question" : "Kathryn Remen compares David Henry Hwang's Madame Butterfly to this work, especially in relation to “vision” in it and a Georges Vigarello essay discusses the “Life of the Body” in this work.  Keith Hoskin and Barry Smart both cite this work's discussion of schools and classroom management, found in the section “Docile Bodies.” Better known is the contrast of a symbolic approach to the title actions with the carceral approach, with the Medieval method exemplified by the opening discussion of an attempted regicide in “Body of the Condemned” and “Spectacle of the Scaffold.” Most famous for its discussion of Mettray as an example of a Jeremy Bentham-designed structure, FTP, identify this work that discusses the Panopticon prison design, a work of Michel Foucault.", "round" : "Round 1.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40618b3d831d6a006c58" }, "answer" : "{Macedonia} [or {Macedon}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.5355205202941, "num" : 18, "question" : "The independence of this polity was the goal of the terrorist komitadji groups, and Stephen Dusan once conquered it. It was the site of the Salonica campaigns during World War I, and a man seeking independence of this polity assassinated King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934. The Congress of Berlin gave this polity back to the Ottoman Empire, thus nullifying the Treaty of San Stefano, which had awarded it to Bulgaria. It was ruled by the (*) Antigonids from 306 to 168 BC. For 10 points, name this region led by men such as Philip II and Alexander the Great.", "round" : "Round_02_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f708b3d831d6a003342" }, "answer" : "{hydrogen bonding} [prompt on {dipole-dipole interaction} until mention]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.7986953144427, "num" : 18, "question" : "This phenomenon confers stability to the enol tautomer of beta-keto ketones as well as to dimerized carboxylic acids, while the strongest, symmetric form, occuring at around forty kilocalories per mole, is illustrated by the bifluoride ion. Different numbers of this phenomenon account for why the human genome contains about as many C bases as G bases. Responsible for (*) protein secondary structure like beta sheets, it lowers the volatility of and raises the heat of vaporization of water. For 10 points, name this type of extremely strong dipole-dipole interaction “accepted” by nitrogen and oxygen and “donated” by its namesake, the lightest element.", "round" : "Round 1.doc", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7d8b3d831d6a003670" }, "answer" : "Rodeo", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.70784169924445, "num" : 14, "question" : "Heavy drums and brass appear in a song from this ballet that its choreographer envisioned to be “like thunder.” Another number is adapted from a  version of a popular song recorded by Alan Lomax and performed by William Hamilton Stepp. Oliver Smith designed the sets for this ballet, from which “four dance episodes” were later published in a separate suite. This ballet contains the pieces “Sis Joe” and “I Ride an Old Paint,” during which the heroine of this ballet is dismayed to not find a (*) dance partner. A tune based on “Bonaparte's Retreat” plays during the end of this ballet, which contains a “Texas minuet” in “Saturday Night Waltz.” The Cowgirl and the Wrangler kiss in this ballet, which opens with “Buckaroo Holiday” and ends with “Hoe-Down.” Agnes de Mille choreographed, for 10 points, what ballet by Aaron Copland set in the American Southwest?", "round" : "THUNDER Round 8.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f598b3d831d6a002de0" }, "answer" : "{UCLA Bruins} [accept either, accept {University} of {California}, {Los Angeles}]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 124.4978878297843, "num" : 10, "question" : "One basketball coach for this school was a full-time tax attorney, who could only coach in the evenings and had little fundamental knowledge. Besides Caddy Works, one basketball coach for this school, Fred Cozens, was also its first football coach. Besides Kansas, this was the only other college Larry Brown has taken to the NCAA championship game. This school was notably upset by Pete Carill's (*) Princeton Tigers in a game that may have ended Jim Harrick's tenure here. Recent Nets head coach Kiki Vandweghe attended this university, as did more recent players Reggie Miller and Baron Davis. Its last title game saw this school lose to Florida despite the best efforts of star Jordan Farmar and coach Ben Howland. For 10 points, name this college which won seven consecutive NCAA titles under the “Wizard of Westwood,” John Wooden.", "round" : "Round 04 - Laferbrook Vintler.doc", "seen" : 83, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f498b3d831d6a002a26" }, "answer" : "{benzene} [accept {C6H6} until read]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.6853639625479, "num" : 1, "question" : "This substance is reacted with sodium and an alcohol in the Birch reduction, and it is acylated through the use of a Lewis acid catalyst in the Friedel-Crafts acylation. This substance is produced through the catalytic reforming process, and linking two molecules of this substance forms biphenyl. When a [*] methyl group is attached to this substance, toluene is formed. With a structure famously described by August Kekulé, this substance's alternating double bonds make it the simplest aromatic hydrocarbon. For 10 points, identify this ring-shaped hydrocarbon with formula C6H6.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 1 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 268, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f408b3d831d6a0027da" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Jefferson}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.90417813439853, "num" : 1, "question" : "This politician advanced the idea of his nation as the “Empire of Liberty”, and one of his letters states that there should be a “Wall of Separation” between church and state. One of the more poetical images this politician created was that of “the tree of liberty” which “must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” He wrote an encyclopedic work that contains his racist views on the inferiority of African-Americans despite his belief in integration. In addition to writing Notes on the State of Virginia, he signed the Embargo Act but he might be better known for designing his estate in the style of Andrea Palladio's buildings. For 10 points, name this historical American statesman that wrote “we hold these truths to be self-evident” as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.", "round" : "Round 04 updated.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f698b3d831d6a003178" }, "answer" : "David {Cameron}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.5311077649239, "num" : 17, "question" : "Steve Hilton works as a strategist for this man, who defeated David Davis in a 2005 party election. Opposition to this man refers to him as a chameleon and he generated controversy after it was revealed he made a 1989 vacation trip to apartheid era South Africa. His cabinet consists of individuals as William Hague and Kenneth Clarke. In 2005, he succeeded Michael Howard as head of his party. Nick Clegg serves as this man's deputy, and he reached his highest position after a coalition was formed between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. For 10 points, name this new Prime Minister of Great Britain.", "round" : "5.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403b8b3d831d6a006350" }, "answer" : "{Bernard Malamud}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.05338482162915, "num" : 3, "question" : "He wrote about One Blossom's romance with the Russian immigrant Yozip Bloom, who inadvertently becomes chief of the titular Indian tribe in The People, and in another work Lily Hirschorn is misled by the marriage broker Pinye, who determines his matches by picking cards from the title object and is later dismayed when Leo Finkle wants to meet his daughter Stella. Along with The Magic Barrel, he wrote about Frank Alpine, who takes over Morris Bober's failing grocery shop, and in another novel Harriet Bird shoots the title character after he strikes out “The Whammer.” For 10 points, name this author of The Assistant, who wrote about Roy Hobbs in The Natural.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Missouri.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9e8b3d831d6a000263" }, "answer" : "{Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s court-packing plan} [or the {Judicial Procedures Reform Bill} of 1937]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.05846881330945, "num" : 21, "question" : "A Clifford Berryman cartoon lampooning this proposal depicted two skyscrapers added to a Classical Revival building. One of the most energetic advocates of this program was Joseph T. Robinson, who expected to gain one of the new positions it was to create. It specifically called for a ten-year term limit and a mandatory retirement age of seventy and one half years. It was averted by a matter involving the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation and another about the West Coast Hotel, in which Owen Roberts performed the “switch in time that saved nine.” It targeted Roberts along with James McReynolds and others in the “Four Horsemen,” who had opposed New Deal policies. For 10 points, identify this 1937 scheme to change the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Editors 1 final.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f368b3d831d6a002558" }, "answer" : "{Louis Malle}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.76528234709986, "num" : 1, "question" : "In one of this man's films, Glory, the daughter of the shrimp merchant Wally, befriends the Vietnamese people in a Texas town and supports them when the Ku Klux Klan comes. Another film was scored by Miles Davis, and besides that story about Florence Carala, another film of his was based on a Queneau novel and sees the title character fall under the care of Uncle Gabriel. This director of Alamo Bay, (*) Zazie on the Metro, and Elevator to the Gallows directed a film where Lou falls in love with the young Sally, who inherits a large amount of drugs. This director of Atlantic City made a film where Jean, a Jew, befriends Julien at a Catholic school during the Holocuast. For 10 points, identify this director of Au Revoir, Les Enfants.", "round" : "Lully Finals Packet.doc", "seen" : 19, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40208b3d831d6a005cbf" }, "answer" : "{Hardy-Weinberg} principle [or {Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1679673332255, "num" : 8, "question" : "This law was first discovered in 1908 by a German physician who pioneered the analysis of ascertainment bias in biology, due to his work studying twins. Another scientist, who described this theory as “very simple”, independently introduced it in order to disprove an argument by Udny Yule against Mendelian inheritance. Deviations from it are quantified as the inbreeding coefficient. Assuming no selection or mutation and purely random mating, name this principle of Mendelian genetics derived from a binomial expansion.", "round" : "07 TU.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4f8b3d831d6a002b6c" }, "answer" : "{Taiwan} [accept {Formosa} early]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 102.3905395385809, "num" : 13, "question" : "One island off the coast of this larger island was the home of a nuclear waste facility at Dragon Gate, is located north of the Bashi channel, and is governed by Lanyu. In addition to Orchid Island, the Penghu archipelago is located to the west of this island. The Batanes Islands and the (*) Babuyan Islands are located south of this island, and this island's Ali Mountain contains sites called the Grand Sea of Clouds and the Flamboyant Cherry Blossom. This island's highest peak is at Yushan, and it is located north of the island of ?  Luzon. Separated from the mainland by the Strait of Formosa, for 10 points, identify this island whose capital is Taipei.", "round" : "GM2 round3.doc", "seen" : 68, "tournament" : "Geography Monstrosity 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed88b3d831d6a000fe1" }, "answer" : "blue", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.309684750624, "num" : 1, "question" : "One group put this adjective in its name because of paintings by George Rodrigue, which hung in the offices of the Louisiana congressmen who helped found it. Those conservative Democrats are known as this kind of \"dog.\" Restrictions against doing business on Sunday are known as these kind of \"laws,\" after the paper on which they were originally printed. For 10 points, give this color, which also was used in the uniforms for soldiers who served under Joseph Hooker and Ulysses Grant, opposing the Confederates in gray.", "round" : "19.pdf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa88b3d831d6a0040b1" }, "answer" : "{articles} [prompt on {determiners} before “{partitive variety}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.80587280564941, "num" : 12, "question" : "In Scandinavian languages, these words typically take the form of suffixes, such as the Icelandic suffix inn. French uses the partitive variety of these where English would use a quantifier such as “any” or “some.” In Romance languages, one type of these commonly derives from the Latin demonstrative ille. A second type of these is frequently identical with a language's word for “one.” Those two types are definite and indefinite. For 10 points, name this category of words, examples of which include German der, Spanish una, and English the.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Princeton A + Cornell.doc", "seen" : 46, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff08b3d831d6a005151" }, "answer" : "{El Nino} [{ENSO} or {El Nino} Southern Oscillation]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.9301172283012, "num" : 3, "question" : "Madden-Julian Oscillation usually occurs a year before these events though rarely during these events, and Walker Circulation tends to be weaker during these events. These events have also coincided with decreases in hurricane formation in the Atlantic and these events cause a decrease in upwelling off the Pacific coast of South America. This event is the warm phase of Southern Oscillation on the tropical Pacific Ocean. For 10 points, name this phase of a periodic atmospheric and oceanic cycle that is paired with the La Nina.", "round" : "4q2-07.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb38b3d831d6a004326" }, "answer" : "The {Common} Law", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.91922221537679, "num" : 2, "question" : "It takes issue with the ideas of Karl von Savigny and his fixation on Roman antecedents. It cites Julien Lehuerou on the importance of proceeding theoretically and quotes Hankford at length on the responsibilities of bailors. One of this work's key themes is the relationship between form and substance, illustrated in its discussion of the Peerless case. Although it adopted the same historical approach as an earlier work by Henry Summer Maine, it originated from a series of twelve lectures its author prepared for the Lowell Institute, and was probably inspired after a reading of C.C. Langdell's work on Contracts. Including such notable sections as \"Successions,\" \"Early Forms of Liability,\" and \"Trespass and Negligence,\" it famously begins by asserting, “The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.” For 10 points, identify this 1881 work named for the body of principles and rules that originates not from the legislature, but from judicial decisions, the masterpiece of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "round" : "r21- Editors 7.doc", "seen" : 47, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f118b3d831d6a001ce3" }, "answer" : "{Henri Toulouse-Lautrec}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 60.05011175153777, "num" : 8, "question" : "A woman in blue-green rides a chestnut horse in the title position of this painter's Side-Saddle. He served as illustrator for Georges Clemenceau's book, At the Foot of Sinai. Two women lie in bed, locked in embrace, in his depiction of The Kiss. A stern ringmaster whips a gray horse ridden by a red-haired woman in his At the Circus Fernando. He painted the title nightclub owner dressed in a black jacket and hat and red scarf in his paintings of Aristide Bruant. For 10 points, name this French Post-Impressionist known for his paintings of Jane Avril and La Goulue dancing at the Moulin Rouge and for his short stature.", "round" : "Oxford.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40818b3d831d6a0073b3" }, "answer" : "{Alexander Dumas}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7616188279353, "num" : 20, "question" : "The title character of this author's 1843 novella Georges is, like its creator, of mixed race. His son, also a writer, is best known for the novel The Lady of the Camelias, which was adopted for Verdi's La Traviata. One of his novels traces the revenge of the title character after being framed by Fernand Mondego before he is able to wed his beloved Mercedes, while another was followed with the sequel Twenty Years After, which is featured in the D'Artagnan Romances. For 10 points, name this creator of Edmond Dantes and a titular swashbuckling trio, the French author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.", "round" : "Round1Final.doc", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f408b3d831d6a0027eb" }, "answer" : "Amines", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.31473927665502, "num" : 1, "question" : "Both methyl orange and methyl red contain a diazo bridge para to one of these functional groups. Benzenesulfonyl chloride is used in a chemical test to detect this functional group named for Hinsburg, and a method of removing this functional group involves adding excess methyl iodide and heat. A popular method of synthesizing them involves the addition of an alkyl halide to potassium phthalamide. Adding one of them to formaldehyde is the first step of the Mannich reaction, and the previous reactions are the Hofmann elimination and Gabriel synthesis. Quaternary ones carry a positive charge, and aniline is a simple aromatic one. Primary, secondary, and tertiary ones have a lone pair. For 10 points, name this functional group which contains a nitrogen atom single bonded to carbon chains.", "round" : "Round 05 updated.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8a8b3d831d6a0039a7" }, "answer" : "ghrelin", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.06263932958245, "num" : 17, "question" : "This protein is responsible for the activation of the endothelial isoform of nitric oxide synthase in a pathway that includes Akt by acting as a ligand for GHSR, a growth hormone receptor. When found in the hippocampus this hormone contributes to neurotrophy, and its active form has a notable octanoylated form.  Patients with Prader-Willi disease are found to have increased levels of this hormone. Produced by P/D1 cells, it was first discovered by Kojima et al. in 1999. One function of this hormone features the suppression of fat utilization in adipose tissue. Antagonistic to leptin, for ten points, name this hormone also found in the epsilon cells of the Islets of Langerhans that is produced in the stomach and stimulates appetite as its main function.", "round" : "Round by Ruthlumbia and South Carolina.docx", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9a8b3d831d6a000182" }, "answer" : "{Medea}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 36.28771690581925, "num" : 7, "question" : "A 1907 depiction of this woman portrays her adding a mysterious substance to a golden goblet while a man with a spear looks on. Anselm Feuerbach painted her four times, including an 1870 work that shows her on a beach seated next to a grieving shrouded figure. A lithograph by Alfonse Mucha depicts this woman, as played by Sarah Bernhardt, dressed in violet robes and brandishing a knife as she stands over some corpses. An 1838 painting depicts her as “furious,” wearing a regal headband; in that painting, she is topless and stares determinedly out into the sun while holding two struggling youngsters. That painting by Eugene Delacroix portrays her holding a dagger right before she commits infanticide. For 10 points, name this Colchian princess who murdered her own children after being spurned by Jason.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-PennChicagoBCarletonFinal.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8a8b3d831d6a0039be" }, "answer" : "{Chola} dynasty", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.91500496305525, "num" : 20, "question" : "A Sumatran inscription mentioning the merchant guild Nanadesa Tisaiyayirattu Ainnutruvar attests to this polity's trade with Srivijaya. Their artistic productions included the frescoes at Brihadisvara Temple, as well as their lost sculptures and the Airavateswarar Temple. Durings its reign, Kamban wrote the Ramavatharam, and this polity was known for its port city Poompuhar, a center of the powerful navy that allowed them to defeat the Pandya. They overthrew the Pallava and saw the coexistence of Shaivism and Vaishnavism under the rulers who conquered the Kalinga and built temples at Thanjavur, namely, Rajendra and his father Rajaraja. For 10 points, name this Tamil dynasty that united South India.", "round" : "Round by Shantanu Jha and Chris Ray.docx", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f348b3d831d6a002502" }, "answer" : "{serenade} [accept {serenade} for {strings} before ‘{speech}’]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.95575014478527, "num" : 9, "question" : "One composition of this type in E minor consists of three short movements opening with an Allegro piacevole, and was dedicated to the philosopher W.H. Winfield. Another of these compositions opens with a first-movement “piece in the form of a sonatina” and was written a style based on the composer’s idol, Mozart. Another composition of this type is a setting of the speech “How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank” from The Merchant of Venice. Benjamin Britten composed one for tenor, horn, and strings, while Vaughan Williams composed one “to Music.” Dvorak and Tchaikovsky wrote ones for string orchestra in E major and C major, respectively, the latter of which closes with a “Tema Russo.” They are often performed in someone’s honor at night or outdoors. For 10 points, identify this typically calm musical form exemplified by Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-BrownFinal.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f918b3d831d6a003b4e" }, "answer" : "{Paul Dukas}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.56310072401538, "num" : 18, "question" : "Following this composer's death, his students such as Manuel de Falla and Olivier Messiaen wrote piano pieces for a “tombeau” dedicated to him. Marc-André Hamelin has strongly promoted this composer's neglected forty-five minute piano sonata in E flat minor. Like Ernest Chausson and Cesar Franck, this composer wrote three movements instead of the usual four for his only symphony, which is in the key of C major. This composer became instantly famous for an orchestral scherzo beginning with the strings playing soft descending thirds, which is based on (*) Goethe's poem “Das Zauberlehrling.” That piece climaxes with trumpets playing the spell motif, interrupting a motif depicting the marching of a broomstick. For 10 points, name this French composer of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.", "round" : "THUNDER Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eca8b3d831d6a000c70" }, "answer" : "Pennsylvania", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.2139785154723, "num" : 32, "question" : "This state's Whig and Democratic parties clashed in the \"Buckshot War.\" A strike in this state led to the Lattimore Massacre. A plant in this state experienced a partial core meltdown in the Three Mile Island accident. \"Lighthorse Harry\" Lee led troops into this state's west to end the Whiskey Rebellion. It was the location of the Battle of Brandywine and was founded by a namesake Quaker. For 10 points, name this U.S. state whose capital houses Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.", "round" : "districts-02.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f458b3d831d6a00292f" }, "answer" : "{Otto} von {Bismarck}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.2038912521675, "num" : 5, "question" : "A ship named for this man sank the HMS Hood and was hunted by the British Navy. Succeeded by Leo von Caprivi, this man proposed the Three Emperors' League, declared war on Denmark over the province of Schleswig-Holstein, eliminated Catholic influence during the Kulturkampf, and edited a telegram to provoke the Franco-Prussian War. Serving during the rule of Wilhelm I, for 10 points, name this “Iron Chancellor” who led Prussia through the unification of Germany.", "round" : "Packet 1.doc", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f268b3d831d6a00217d" }, "answer" : "{Appalachian Spring}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.75385433784686, "num" : 12, "question" : "Howard Pollack argues that the changing rhythms in this work's first six measures from 4/4 to 3/2 to 3/4 to 5/4 are meant to reflect the cadences of speech. The final version of this work did not include the sections \"Moment of Crisis\" and \"The Day of Wrath\". In the movement \"The Lord's Day\" the \"pioneer woman\" advises her new neighbors after they encounter a Revivalist preacher and his congregation. Isamu Noguchi designed the original set for this ballet, which took its title from a Hart Crane poem after it was originally titled Ballet for Martha. Quoting the Shaker hymn \"Simple Gifts\", for 10 points, name this ballet written for Martha Graham about a couple building a farmhouse in Pennsylvania, composed by Aaron Copland.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - UCSD.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40438b3d831d6a006505" }, "answer" : "{Welfare} [accept {added words} like \"{State}\" and \"{Economics}\" to {this}]", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.2102730269544, "num" : 21, "question" : "The economics of this concept attempts to maximize the results of an equation that contains seven parts for the simplest possible economy.  Amartya Sen wrote about “Distribution, Transitivity, and Little's [Criteria of this concept.]”  William Temple used this term to compare Great Britain to Nazi Germany during World War II.  The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act passed during Clinton's first term largely reformed this in the United States.  For 10 points, identify this term that also identifies a certain type of state often associated with health care and food stamps.", "round" : "Round 11 - UMN 4.doc", "seen" : 223, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2d8b3d831d6a002375" }, "answer" : "{L. G. Darley}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 32.26352729857899, "num" : 4, "question" : "In the last novel in which this character appears, he saves another character by hacking off her hand after that character is accidentally pinned underwater by a harpoon. This character pens a manuscript about a former lover only to have another character insert his own commentary into it known as the Interlinear. When first introduced, this character is living on a Greek island and recalling his affair with the prostitute Melissa, for whose child he is caring. This character becomes the friend of Pursewarden, who commits suicide after revealing a conspiracy to David Mountolive, and his other friends include the Jewish mystic Balthazar. This character becomes enchanted with the woman who is the subject of the novel Moeurs and is herself the wife of Nessim, and witnesses the shooting of Capodistria during a duck hunt. The lover of two characters that title novels in which he appears, Justine and Clea, and a representation of his creator Lawrence Durrell, for ten points, identify this main character of The Alexandria Quartet.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 05 - The Great Slime Kings.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e968b3d831d6a0000bb" }, "answer" : "{ubiquitin ligases} [or {ubiquitin E3 ligases}; prompt on answers like {ubiquitinylating proteins} or {ubiquitinating proteins} that {don’t specify} that the {proteins} are {ligases} but DO {indicate} that they are {involved} in {ubiquitinylating}; prompt on {ligases}; prompt on {E3}; DO NOT ACCEPT OR PROMPT ON “{ubiquitin}” {alone}; DO NOT ACCEPT OR PROMPT ON any answer {containing} the word “{SUMO}” or “{sumoylation}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 48.96512014861219, "num" : 19, "question" : "These proteins are responsible for the recognition step of the N-end pathway, and Meetei et al discovered that FANCL (fank-ell), rather than BRCA1 (bra-cah-one) plays this role in the Fanconi anemia pathway. Members of the catalytic subtype of these proteins have a HECT domain and perform their namesake action directly through a thioester intermediate, while the scaffold subtype of these proteins includes SCF-type complexes and the anaphase promoting complex. U-box-containing elongation factors can further modify the targets of these proteins, and all known scaffold-type proteins of this class contain, or bind to a protein containing, a RING finger domain. These proteins may bind their substrates by recognizing “destruction boxes,” and they are preceded in their pathway by activating and conjugating enzymes. For 10 points, name this class of enzymes responsible for marking target proteins for nuclear localization or proteolytic degradation by covalently attaching a 76-amino acid protein to them.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors5Final.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebf8b3d831d6a0009f2" }, "answer" : "{Gross Domestic Product}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 336.9073895181064, "num" : 15, "question" : "Changes in this quantity are related to changes in the unemployment rate by Okun's Law. Its namesake deflator can be used to compare values of it across time accounting for inflation, a statistic which can be useful in contrast to the consumer price index. It differs from a similar statistic by excluding products manufactured by a given country's citizens in (*) foreign countries. Often calculated by summing consumption, investment, government spending, and the difference between exports and imports, for 10 points, name this measurement from economics that rates how much activity occurs within the borders of a given country.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40478b3d831d6a00661e" }, "answer" : "{Zuleika Dobson} (3)", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.69105587597005, "num" : 11, "question" : "Extremely minor characters in this novel include Mrs. Suetonius X. Meistersinger and the Grand Duke Salamander Salamandrovich. In the eleventh chapter of this novel, the narrator describes how Zeus granted him the powers of invisibility, inevitability, and psychic penetration out of love for Clio. At a dinner for the Junta, Abimelech V. Oover is attacked by the ghost of Humphrey Greddon, and Sir John Marraby and The MacQuern resolve to die for the title character, after learning that the Duke of Dorset intends to commit suicide. Set in Judas College, this novel relates how all the undergraduates of Oxford drown themselves out of love for the title ? woman. FTP, identify this novel by Max Beerbohm.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 4.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407d8b3d831d6a0072b3" }, "answer" : "{second} law of {thermodynamics}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.2283621612006, "num" : 1, "question" : "Its apparent violation of T-symmetry was resolved with the H-theorem developed by Boltzmann. It can be mathematically stated as the indefinite integral of the reciprocal of temperature with respect to heat is always positive, while a thought experiment in which it is violated is called Maxwell's Demon. Equivalent to the statement that not all heat of a system can be converted to useful work, it was first posited by Rudolph Clausius. For 10 points, identify this law which states that the entropy of the universe always increases.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9e8b3d831d6a000260" }, "answer" : "{sulfuric} acid [or H2SO4 before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 65.25538764195517, "num" : 18, "question" : "In the first step of the Marsh test for arsenic, this compound is combined with zinc in a Woulfe bottle. Basil Valentine invented two ways to produce it, including the reaction of copperas with silica, but believed the products of those reactions to be different compounds. This compound is added to cumene hydroperoxide in the first step of the industrial synthesis of phenol and acetone. The Glover tower further refined a process that uses nitrogen dioxide as a catalyst for producing this compound; that process was replaced by one that uses a vanadium(V) oxide catalyst. Those processes are the lead chamber process and contact process. This compound is the “acid” found in lead-acid batteries, such as car batteries. For 10 points, name this strong acid with formula H2SO4.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Editors 1 final.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40228b3d831d6a005d16" }, "answer" : "{beryl} [do not accept {variations such} as “{beryite}” or “{beryllium}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.6433937882539, "num" : 19, "question" : "This mineral comes in several varieties including goshenite, heliodor, and bixbite, the last of which is also known as “red emerald”. The blue variety of this silicate is named for sea water, though the green variety is the most sought- after and expensive. While some varieties are used as gemstones, in general, the mineral is best-known as the source of its namesake rare element. Identify this mineral whose varieties include aquamarine and emerald, the namesake of element number four.", "round" : "finals 1 TU.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9e8b3d831d6a00027b" }, "answer" : "A {Theory} of {Justice}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 47.6848375054542, "num" : 2, "question" : "This book distinguishes between general jealousy towards all richer social classes and particular jealously towards an individual in its section “The Problem of Envy.” This work’s second part concludes with a section “The Role of Civil Disobedience” and the title of the first chapter equates the title concept with fairness. Allowing inequalities in the distribution of goods only if it will benefit the needy is called the difference principle, which was countered by the entitlement theory in a notable critique. This work discusses the “original position” in which people decide society’s principles unaware of their social position blinded by a “veil of ignorance.” Critiqued by Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia, for 10 points, name this 1971 work by John Rawls.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Editors 3 final.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f458b3d831d6a00290c" }, "answer" : "protons", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.0840490465052, "num" : 14, "question" : "This particle is theoretically predicted to decay into a neutral pion and a positron, but this has never been experimentally observed; however, it can undergo the inverse beta decay by capturing an electron. They make up 90% of cosmic rays and contain two up quarks and one down quark, which makes them lighter than the other particle that, with it, makes up the alpha particle. Also known as the hydrogen ion, its number in an element is the atomic number. For 10 points, identify this particle that is found in the nucleus and makes up the atom along with neutrons and electrons.", "round" : "FKT 2010 Lei FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ede8b3d831d6a001134" }, "answer" : "{New Zealand}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 594.0315804663114, "num" : 21, "question" : "The Franz Joseph and Fox Glaciers can be found in this nation, notable for existing at low altitudes. Its largest lake, found in the caldera of Mount Tauhara, is drained by the Waikato River and is called Lake Taupo. Its region known as the Canterbury Plains is found to the south of Christchurch, while its tallest mountain is Mount Cook. Also including the city of Auckland, the Cook Strait separates its two constituent islands, which are called North and South Island. For 10 points, Wellington is the capital of which island nation found east of Australia?", "round" : "29.pdf", "seen" : 394, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f688b3d831d6a003156" }, "answer" : "{flux} [accept {more specific} answers {such} as {neutron flux}, {electric flux}, {magnetic flux}, etc.]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.5887072447221, "num" : 6, "question" : "A quantity of this name for neutrons is multiplied by the macroscopic fission cross-section to give the fission reaction rate in a nuclear reactor. In a type-II superconductor, the usual version of this quantity is quantized for the H field when the applied field is between two critical values; the inverse of that quantum is the Josephson constant. For electromagnetic energy, this quantity is represented by the Poynting vector. Fick's first law states that this value for a given quantity is equal on net to minus the diffusion constant times the gradient of that quantity. For the electric field, this quantity through a closed surface is proportional to the enclosed charge according to Gauss's Law. For 10 points, name this quantity, equal to the rate at which some physical quantity passes through a location per unit area.", "round" : "4.pdf", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40448b3d831d6a00654b" }, "answer" : "liver", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.3218146592844, "num" : 4, "question" : "In first trimester fetuses, this organ is the primary producer of red blood cells. As blood flows into this organ through the portal vein, sugars are converted into glycogen which is stored until needed. These organs in polar bears contain toxic amounts of retinol. It secretes about a quart of bile, and a yellowness of the skin called jaundice can occur when it malfunctions. Excessive alcohol consumption can cause cirrhosis of this organ. For 10 points, name this largest gland in the body, which removes toxins from the blood.", "round" : "colonia-04.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40178b3d831d6a005a78" }, "answer" : "The {Silent Cry} [or {Man'en Gan'nen no Football}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.59546686667017, "num" : 8, "question" : "One character traveled to New York with a theatre group performing a play called “Ours Was the Shame”, and meets a friend of his brother's while buying medicine for his gonorrhea. A supermarket magnate has been slowly running the village stores out of business in this novel, and the narrator's brother starts a soccer team as a ruse to gather the village's young men to revolt against the “Emperor's” Korean store. Takashi reveals that he had had an affair with his retarded sister before committing suicide in this work. This novel chronicles Mitsu's return to his village home, and it begins with an episode recalling a friend who paints his face red and inserts a cucumber in his anus before hanging himself.  For 10 points, name this novel titled for an unheard plea, by Kenzaburo Oe.", "round" : "MUT II - Finals Packet 1 (intended for championship round).doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f078b3d831d6a001aa8" }, "answer" : "{Michelangelo Buenarroti} [or {Michelangelo Buenarroti}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.9038612695877, "num" : 7, "question" : "One of this man’s sculptures is incomplete in such a way that its head appears to be sealed in marble, leading to its nickname of Blockhead Slave. Another of his sculptures depicts a man with bulging veins and a furious gaze running his fingers through his long beard. That work, based on a mistranslation of the Old Testament Hebrew, depicts Moses with horns and was made for the tomb of Pope Julius II. For 10 points, name this Renaissance Italian sculptor, who also depicted Mary cradling the dead Jesus in his Pietá.", "round" : "08.pdf", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc18b3d831d6a00467b" }, "answer" : "{John Anthony Burgess Wilson} [accept either]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.9941358990036, "num" : 16, "question" : "Denis Hillier and Edwin Roper are foils in this man's Soviet spy novel Tremor of Intent, and the pompous title character Francis Xavier writes poems while taking dumps in a series of novel by this writer, the first of which was published under the pseudonym Joseph Knell. His first three published works were collected into a trilogy sometimes called The Long Day Wanes, but is better known for a work that begins “It was the afternoon of my 81st birthday” and centers on a writer named Kenneth Toomey. He also wrote novels based on William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe titled (*) Nothing Like the Sun and A Dead Man in Deptford, respectively. His magnum opus follows a group of boys who frequent the Korova Milkbar and who are lead by a fifteen-year old who loves Beethoven. For 10 points, name this English author of the Inside Mr. Enderby, Malayan Trilogy, Earthly Powers, and a dystopian novel in which the Ludovico Technique alters Alex, titled A Clockwork Orange.", "round" : "Rd02.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407a8b3d831d6a0071fa" }, "answer" : "{slave narratives} [accept obvious equivalents]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7424862342886, "num" : 7, "question" : "An early example of this genre describes an attempt to rescue John Annis, and was written by an employee of the Quaker merchant Robert King. An example of this genre was written by a man who mailed himself to Philadelphia, Henry “Box” Brown. Another work in this genre ends with Linda Brent escaping from Dr. Flint. Important works in this genre were written by Henry Bibb, Olaudah Equiano, and Harriet Jacobs, and include My Bondage and My Freedom. For 10 points, name this pre-Civil War genre that usually ends by describing its author's escape to the North.", "round" : "Round 14.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5f8b3d831d6a002f1b" }, "answer" : "{cash} [prompt on {money} or equivalents]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.91752194962464, "num" : 9, "question" : "This stuff appears in the name of a 1994 scandal, investigated by the Nolan Committee, in which the Guardian alleged that Conservative MPs agreed to table parliamentary procedures at the behest of Mohamed al-Fayed. This substance is found in the colloquial name of an act that created the NMVTIS. A policy that required this stuff replaced the Neutrality Acts in 1939, and was replaced by an act under which the British gave up control of military bases in Bermuda and Newfoundland. This commodity was paired with “and carry” in a World War II program replaced by “Lend-Lease.” For 10 points, name this commodity, which was given “for clunkers” in 2009.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - EP Tony - Done.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa48b3d831d6a003fa8" }, "answer" : "{Scotland} [prompt on “{United Kingdom}”]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 40.97893874393776, "num" : 3, "question" : "One thinker from this country published a rebuttal of Mandeville's fable of the bees and attacked Hobbes in his essay Thoughts of Laughter after establishing an influential ethical philosophy in An Inquiry Concerning Moral Good and Evil. Another thinker from this country advocated “direct realism” in attacking the idealism of Berkeley and championed the “vulgar” or the “sensus communis.” Another philosopher from this country proposed that each person is made up of a “bundle” of attributes and argued that although it is necessary in everyday life, a justification of (*) induction is impossible. That philosopher's criticism of those who offer prescriptive instead of descriptive theories is called the “is-ought” problem and found in his A Treatise of Human Nature. For 10 points, name this home of Frances Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, and David Hume.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb18b3d831d6a000693" }, "answer" : "Chief {Seattle} [or {Sealth}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9544565102551, "num" : 3, "question" : "This signer of the Port Elliott Treaty made a speech in 1854 to greet superintendent Isaac Stevens. Dr. Henry Smith's recollections have spawned several false versions of what he supposedly said in that speech, many emphasizing an ecological theme. This man was a chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish. For 10 points, name this man, the namesake of a major city in the Pacific Northwest located on the Puget Sound.", "round" : "02.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2d8b3d831d6a002343" }, "answer" : "{Parade's} End", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 32.21952654607594, "num" : 24, "question" : "One character in this novel compares her husband to a white purebred bulldog that she had once whipped raw and left out in the weather to freeze. Minor characters in this novel include O Nine Morgan, whose wife has run off with a boxer who wants to kill him, and the soldier turned classical scholar Lieutenant McKehnie, and the protagonist is constantly reassured in this novel by the recurring image of George Herbert composing poetry on a hill. The protagonist's brother Mark marries his mistress Marie Leonie Rioter in part four of this novel, The Last Post, while part three of this novel, A Man Could Stand Up, features a flashback in which the protagonist saves the lives of two fellow soldiers only to be berated for his dirty uniform by General Campion. Title to the protagonist's family estate at Groby is carefully kept away from his repeatedly unfaithful wife Sylvia, whom he eventually divorces to marry Valentine Wannop. For 10 points name this cycle of four novels about Christopher Tietjens by Ford Madox Ford.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 02 - Great Unaffected Vampires.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3feb8b3d831d6a005022" }, "answer" : "{cumulonimbus} clouds", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7369072402362, "num" : 20, "question" : "These formations are associated with ascending part of a Hadley cell and the boundary of the Intertropical Convergence Zone. They develop from congestus, and can form mammatus clouds at their base in the presence of strong updrafts. An overshooting top will appear when these reach the tropopause, giving them their classic anvil structure. For 10 points, name these tall clouds that can reach several kilometers in height that are associated with thunderstorms.", "round" : "4q1-12.pdf", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef78b3d831d6a0016f0" }, "answer" : "multi-dimensional {arrays}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.870098550804, "num" : 8, "question" : "When these data structures have a low stride they are stored contiguously in memory, which increases throughput. One of these objects is created after determining the min and max of the items to be sorted when implementing counting sort. A form of these objects are implemented using either row-major or column-major order, and full heaps can efficiently be stored using one of these data structures. Dynamic forms of these data structures allow for their size to be increased while still maintaining close to the (*) constant time needed to read and write from them. Multi-dimensional forms of this data structure can be used to represent matrices, and they are often iterated through using for loops. For 10 points, name this simple data structure declared using square brackets in languages with C syntax.", "round" : "Packet 23 - Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f248b3d831d6a002112" }, "answer" : "{Hadrian} IV [or {Adrian} IV]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.51524466252886, "num" : 24, "question" : "During his time as a papal legate in Scandinavia, this man established Trondheim as the metropolitan see of Norway. Cardinal Boso wrote his biography and Matthew Paris doubted the authenticity of a papal bull supposedly issued by this man, Laudabiliter. This successor to Anastasius IV placed an interdict on Rome until that city got rid of the problematic Arnold of Brescia, and he was forced to call the Diet of Beascaon after signing the Treaty of Benevento with William I of Sicily. Even though this man renewed the Treaty of Constance, he developed a hostile relationship with Frederick Barbarossa, whom he had earlier crowned as Holy Roman Emperor in 1155. Succeeded by Alexander III and born Nicholas Breakspear, for 10 points, name this only English Pope.", "round" : "r10- Dartmouth-Truman State.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f758b3d831d6a003489" }, "answer" : "House of {Plantagenet} [prompt on {Angevin} before mention]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.3465682314709, "num" : 6, "question" : "One member of this dynasty married Margaret, Maid of Norway, who soon died and sparked a competition for the throne of one country under its auspices; that competition was won by John Balliol. An early succession crisis in this dynasty was sparked by the death of William Adelin aboard the White Ship. The Treaty of Aberconwy ended a quick war between a member of this dynasty and Llywelyn the Last. Another member of this dynasty captured the (*) Stone of Scone and won the Battle of Falkirk before his son lost the Battle of Bannockburn to the Scots. Ending with its deposition by the House of Lancaster and founded by the father of Henry II, for 10 points, name this Angevin English dynasty.", "round" : "Round 25 Emergency.doc", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404f8b3d831d6a00680c" }, "answer" : "angle", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.2892873473465, "num" : 1, "question" : "The magic type of this quantity helps reduce line broadening and dipole interactions in NMR spectroscopy. Phi and psi are letters used to denote one type of these in amino acids, and they are plotted on the Ramachandran plot. One named after Brewster is involved in polarization. Formed by two rays with a common vertex, the one associated with incidence is equal to the one associated with reflection. For 10 points, identify these entities which can be acute, obtuse, or right.", "round" : "Round_02_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 257, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb98b3d831d6a000884" }, "answer" : "{Louis XIV} of {France} [prompt on {Louis}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.5821862884331, "num" : 17, "question" : "This ruler's commander Marshall Turenne lost at the Battle of the Dunes. The attempts of the Grand Alliance to undermine this ruler during the Nine Years' War ended in the Treaty of Ryswick. His country’s economy was managed by Jean-Baptiste Colbert. His schemes to extend the House of Bourbon sparked the War of Spanish Succession. He solidified his power following the death of Cardinal (*) Mazarin. This ruler claimed \"I am the state\" and moved his court to the palace at Versailles. For 10 points, name this long reigning French monarch known as the \"Sun King.\"", "round" : "04.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404e8b3d831d6a006793" }, "answer" : "{irrational} numbers", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.9251594066155, "num" : 3, "question" : "Beatty's Theorem applies to a pair of numbers of this type. They form a set of measure one in the interval (0,1), and their indicator function can therefore be Lebesgue integrated, but not Riemann integrated over this interval, as illustrated by a function which is continuous only on these named for Dirichlet. They can be generated from another set of numbers by employing Dedekind cuts. The square root of any integer that is not a perfect square is, FTP, one of what class of real numbers that cannot be expressed as the quotient of two integers, such as pi and e?", "round" : "HFT Round 09.doc", "seen" : 257, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6a8b3d831d6a0031c3" }, "answer" : "the {Cantos}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.5097640296444, "num" : 23, "question" : "One of the last of these poems asks \"I have brought the great ball of crystal; who can lift it?\" The eighty-first of these poems concludes by repeating the phrase \"Pull down thy vanity.\" The forty-fifth of them repeats the words \"with usura,\" and was originally published as part of the \"Fifth Decad\" of these poems. Some of these poems are largely a collage of the writings of John Adams, while others were published under the title \"Section: Rock Drill.\" A group of these poems praising Confucianism and including Chinese characters is usually known as the \"China\" ones. In 1948, the first Bollingen Prize was awarded to a group of these poems known as the \"Pisan\" ones. For 10 points, name this group of long, allusive modernist poems written by Ezra Pound.", "round" : "8.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdf8b3d831d6a004d4d" }, "answer" : "{Japan} [or {Nippon}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.89000839553773, "num" : 2, "question" : "[JM] This country's women's liberation movement was jumpstarted on October 21, 1970, when female demonstrators marched through its capital carrying signs like \"A housewife and a prostitute are raccoons in the same den.\" This country's police attacked members of the feminist Red Wave Society during a May Day parade in 1921. After World War II, this country's feminist movement was led by the National Federation of Regional Women's Organizations, while this country's Fighting Women Group was formed in the 1970s to protect abortion rights. During the 1920s, this country's New Women's Association successfully lobbied for the repeal of article five of its Peace Police Law. This country legalized birth control pills because of protests from groups like the Pink Helmet Brigade, and feminists in this country use an system of communication outside the mass media called the minikomi. Feminists in this country often protest against the ideology of \"good wife, wise mother,\" or ? Ryosai kenbo. For 10 points, name this country which granted women's suffrage in 1945 thanks to the efforts of Fusae Ichikawa, where feminists fight against the image of women as geisha.", "round" : "Packet 8.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Gaddis II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f678b3d831d6a0030fd" }, "answer" : "{ideal gas} constant [or {universal gas} constant; prompt on {R} before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.3837533574551, "num" : 9, "question" : "This quantity is equal to the molar mass times the difference in specific heat between a constant pressure and constant volume process. The specific heat capacity of a crystal can be approximated by three times this quantity, divided by the molar mass, according to the Dulong-Petit Law. It is equivalent to the product of Avogadro's number and the Boltzmann constant, and equals 8.314 joules per mole Kelvin. It is multiplied by temperature in the Arrhenius equation, the Nernst equation, and the equation that describes its namesake fluids. For 10 points, what fundamental constant symbolized R is used to unify such equations as Charles' Law, Gay-Lussac's Law, and Boyle's Law?", "round" : "19.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40518b3d831d6a006849" }, "answer" : "Indonesia", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.0177683338989, "num" : 4, "question" : "The colonizers of this nation instituted a welfare program called the Ethical Policy, and the Padri War was fought in what is now this country. Budi Utomo was this country's first independence movement, and the non-aligned movement was formed here at the 1955 Bandbung Conference. The Christopher Koch novel The Year of Living Dangerously follows the overthrow of this nation's President Sukarno in 1965, after which it was led by Suharto. For 10 points, name this archipelagic nation, home to the world's largest Muslim population.", "round" : "Round_04_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403a8b3d831d6a006320" }, "answer" : "{diodes} [accept early buzz of {Gunn diodes}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.27607761835679, "num" : 18, "question" : "Transferred electron devices are a form of these components that utilize negative differential resistance and are generally named for Gunn.  A law giving their current is named for transistor-inventor William Shockley.  One of these and a MOSFET is used to form a synchronous rectifier, and four of these devices are arranged in a namesake bridge in full-wave rectifiers.  If these have a large enough negative voltage drop, they go into breakdown, though reverse-bias operation is possible in their Zener variety.  For 10 points, name these devices that normally consist of a p-n junction and only allow current to pass in one direction, and which also come in light-emitting types.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Harvard C.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f118b3d831d6a001ce7" }, "answer" : "palladium", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.1568830399774, "num" : 12, "question" : "A catalyst with this element and four chlorine atoms catalyzes the oxidation of ethylene in the Wacker process.  This element is used in the catalyst in a reaction of aryl boronic acid and aryl halides called the Suzuki coupling.  Another coupling reaction involving aryl halides and a catalyst of this element is the Heck reaction.  Lead acetate and quinoline are used to poison a catalyst of this element used to hydrogenate alkynes. That catalyst is named for Lindlar. This metal can store large amounts of hydrogen, and like platinum, which is in the same group, it is used in catalytic converters. For 10 points, name this group ten element named indirectly after Athena, with symbol Pd.", "round" : "Oxford.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403d8b3d831d6a0063d6" }, "answer" : "{Oedipus Rex} [or {Oedipus} the {King} or {Oedipus Tyrranus} or {King Oedipus}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.72853854694404, "num" : 1, "question" : "Max Reinhardt revived interest in this play in 1910, and Jean Cocteau collaborated with Stravinsky to create an operatic version of it. Dodds argued that this work illustrates the “desperate insecurity of the human condition” instead of justifying the gods in an essay titled “on misunderstanding” this play. This play begins with people carrying tree branches wrapped in wool, and ends with the Chorus asserting that “mortal man must always look to his ending.” The protagonist resolves to die on Mount Cithaeron after talking with a shepherd, and accuses Tiresias of plotting against him with Creon. In this play, the protagonist's desire to know the source of a pestilence afflicting his city eventually leads him to gouge out his eyes. FTP, name this tragedy about a ruler of Thebes who learns that he killed Laius and married his mother, written by Sophocles.", "round" : "Packet_1.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f168b3d831d6a001e02" }, "answer" : "The {Life} of {Marie de'Medici}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.01204388495535, "num" : 6, "question" : "Before this group of paintings could begin their artist negotiated terms with Claude Maugis settling for a total of 20,000 crowns. The first entry depicts the Fates at work with their accoutrements, minus Atropos's scissors, while Zeus and Hera watch from above. The most discordant painting in this cycle shows a gathering on Olympus and was titled The Council of the Gods and Time uncovers Truth while a wreath is presented above them in the final entry, The Triumph of Truth. The “Destiny,” “Birth,” and “Education” of the central figure precede such historical scenes as The Flight From Blois and The Disembarkation at Marseilles and the happiness of the final reconciliation with the Dauphin.  Numbering 24 paintings in all they were produced to decorate the Palais de Luxembourg.  For 10 points, identify this cycle of paintings by Rubens named for their subject, the widow of Henry IV of France.", "round" : "Editor's Round (PO 2).docx", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe68b3d831d6a004ef0" }, "answer" : "{presidential assassinations} [or {presidential assassins}; or equivalents; or {assassinating James} A. {Garfield} before", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9340299982578, "num" : 2, "question" : "One man who performed this action claimed he was \"a Stalwart of the Stalwarts\" after committing this act in the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station. Another performer of this action received medical assistance from Samuel Mudd and interrupted a performance of Our American Cousin. One performance of this action led to the creation of the Warren Commission. For 10 points, name this action most recently committed from a book depository in Dallas, which made famous such men as Charles Guiteau, John Wilkes Booth, and Lee Harvey Oswald.", "round" : "4q1-03.pdf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e938b3d831d6a00001a" }, "answer" : "{dyneins}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 48.9781212110538, "num" : 1, "question" : "Like the ribosome biogenesis protein midasin, this protein contains on a single polypeptide six versions of the AAA ATPase domain. A 6-Angstrom resolution crystal structure of a portion of this protein by Carter et al. suggests a model for propagation of a conformational change of a linker region and down a coiled-coil “buttress” and a 15-nanometer-long stalk.This protein interacts with nuclear distribution protein E, and interacts through a complex containing p150Glued and Arp1with beta-III spectrin. One form of this protein is found in 96-nanometer repeats containing outer-arm and inner-arm versions of this protein along a structure that adopts a 9+2 arrangement of microtubules. For 10 points, name this motor protein that comes in cytoplasmic, intraflagellar transport, and axonemal varieties, and which moves toward the minus end of microtubules, unlike kinesins.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-ChicagoAFinal.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f548b3d831d6a002cac" }, "answer" : "{Andamanese} [or {Andaman} Islanders]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.64935720269568, "num" : 18, "question" : "Customs observed by this people include a “sacred silence” following a successful hunt and the avoiding of particular fruits during the rainy season, which can be explained by the vengeance of Puluga following the death of Tomo, the first man. These people hold that spirits haunt the thickets of the thorny Calamus leaf and are known to encyclopedic detail by the oko-paiad or oko-bumu. This people connects the singing cicada with the origin of night and day and is divided into autonomous “local groups,” including the Aka-Kol, which are present in both the “Great” division of their home, which includes the Jarawa, and the “Little,” which includes the staunchly isolationist Sentinelese. Considered alongside the Malayasian Semang and other negritos, for 10 points, name this group of islanders who were studied by Radcliffe-Brown.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3c8b3d831d6a002701" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Thermopylae}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.6649007559754, "num" : 14, "question" : "Today, its location is unrecognizable from its historical descriptions thanks to silting from the Spercheosis River.  This engagement occurred at the same time as a naval battle to the north, which prevented the winners' fleet from entering the Gulf of Malis, along which this battle occurred.  The losing side, when ordered to surrender their weapons, responded with “Molòn Labé,” or “Come and Take Them.”  After three days, the Persians finally passed through, FTP what “hot gates,” site of a battle that resulted in the death of King Leonidas and 300 Spartans at the hands of the Persians?", "round" : "DB 2010 round 13.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f508b3d831d6a002bb7" }, "answer" : "A. {R. Ammons}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.43247506790794, "num" : 7, "question" : "This poet wrote, “our home which defines / us is elsewhere but not / so far away we have / forgotten it: / this is just a place” in his poem “In Memoriam Mae Noblitt.” the speaker comments, “I have a life that did not become” in his poem “Easter Morning” from his collection A Coast of Trees. This poet concluded “the heart moves roomier” and “the dark work of the deepest cells is of a tune with May bushes / and fear lit by the breadth of such calmly turns to praise” in a poem that begins “When you consider the radiance”. He comments, “today I / decided to write / a long / thin / poem” at the beginning of a book he wrote on adding machine tape that takes the form of a year long diary. This poet of “City Limits” and “Corsons Inlet” won the National Book Award for his collection Garbage and wrote the book-length poem Tape for the Turn of the Year. For 10 points, name this American poet known for his use of colons.", "round" : "Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f548b3d831d6a002cbe" }, "answer" : "{Bartolome Mitre}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.53568386426196, "num" : 17, "question" : "After leaving office, this man attempted to launch a rebellion against one of his successors, Nicolas Avellaneda. As a general, this man won the Battle of Pavon, which followed the San Jose de Flores Pact. This man had earlier lost the Second Battle of Cepeda against his rival, Justo Jose de Urquiza. During his country's civil war, this man led the Unitarian Party. During this man's Presidency, he expanded his country's territory all the way to the Pilcomayo river by signing an alliance with Venancio Flores and Pedro II. That alliance was victorious at the Battle of Riachuelo and defeated Francisco Solano Lopez, this man's northern neighbor. For ten points, name this President of Argentina during the War of the Triple Alliance.", "round" : "Round 13.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe18b3d831d6a004dce" }, "answer" : "{van der Waals} equation", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 395.3377176704817, "num" : 7, "question" : "One of its principle failings comes at gas-liquid equilibria, since it does not predict that at constant temperature, pressure is constant as volume varies; however, it is still better under those conditions than a generally-superior modification, the Redlich-Kwong equation, does even worse with vapor-liquid equilibria. Its two parameters account for particle size and nonzero interparticle interaction strength and are typically written as a and b. It shares a namesake with the forces arising from particles developing instantaneous dipoles. For 10 points, identify this equation of state, an improvement on and generalization of the ideal gas law.", "round" : "05 HFT.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa98b3d831d6a0040da" }, "answer" : "{Luigi Pirandello}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.20671234629117, "num" : 11, "question" : "One work by this author centers on a play about the pilot Rico Verri directed by Dr. Hinkfuss's. The protagonist of one of this author's novels abandons his wife Romilda and wins big at Monte Carlo before trading identities with a dead man. This author of Tonight We Improvise and The Late Mattia Pascal wrote about a man who falls off of his horse and believes he is the title Holy Emperor. One of his plays is partially set in Madame Pace's shop and sees the Father, the Mother, the Stepdaughter, the Son, The Boy, and the Little Girl ask the Stage Manager to put them in a play. For 10 points, identify this Italian author of Henry IV and Six Characters in Search of an Author.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - RPI + MSU A.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f708b3d831d6a003347" }, "answer" : "{William Butler Yeats}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 361.323604978621, "num" : 1, "question" : "This man's death occurred “on a dark cold day” according to another man's poem consisting of three sections of disjoint elegiacal styles. The speaker of one of this author's own poems describes how, while “on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,” he hears the sound of “water lapping with low sounds by the shore.” That poem also relates the speaker's desire to “live alone in the bee-loud glade” of the titular (*) secluded location. Another of this man's poems wonders “what rough beast … slouches towards Bethlehem to be born” and describes how “mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” after noting that “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” For 10 points, name this Irish author of “The Lake-Isle of Innisfree” and “The Second Coming.”", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff28b3d831d6a0051e6" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Ruggles Pynchon}, {Jr.}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.5806440571322, "num" : 25, "question" : "This author's newest novel is about a private detective who travels to the lost continent of Lemuria from the fictional California town of Gordita Beach, named Doc Sportello. In an earlier novel by this man, a secret postal system called WASTE is run by Pierce Inverarity, whose death leads Oedipa Maas to attend the titular auction. In addition to writing Inherent Vice and The Crying of Lot 49, this author described Tyrone Slothrop's search for the V-2 rocket in another novel. For 10 points, name this famously reclusive author of Gravity's Rainbow .", "round" : "4q2-11.pdf", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff48b3d831d6a005250" }, "answer" : "Faust", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.0012934678234, "num" : 2, "question" : "One character in this work shows a chest of jewelry to her friend Martha. The title character of this work has an assistant named Wagner, and is challenged to a duel by Valentine. In the second part of this drama, the protagonist has a son named Euphorion with Helen of Troy. This work opens with a prologue set in heaven describing a wager. The first part of this drama ends with Gretchen imprisoned after the title character is tempted by Mephistopheles. For 10 points, name this Wolfgang von Goethe (GUr-tah) play about a man who sells his soul to the devil.", "round" : "4q2-15.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407f8b3d831d6a007331" }, "answer" : "Pragmatism", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.6535868560895, "num" : 7, "question" : "The last section of this work talks about the monistic and pluralistic ways of reading Whitman's poem ÒTo You,Ó and earlier its author asserts that there are two types of people: tender-minded and tough-minded. The second section of this work discusses a man chasing a squirrel around a tree and posits the question ÒDoes the Man go round the squirrel or not?Ó Subtitled ÒA New Name for Some Old Ways of ThinkingÓ this work was published after its author's previous works (*) Varieties of Religious Experience and Principles of Psychology. FTP, identify this work, which names the philosophical movement led by C. S. Peirce and John Dewey, written by William James.", "round" : "Round 5.rtf", "seen" : 311, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff18b3d831d6a00518d" }, "answer" : "cartilage", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.3710987730883, "num" : 31, "question" : "This type of tissue can be divided into hyaline and fibro- types based on the amount and distribution of proteoglycans (PRO-tee-oh-GLY-cans) and collagen fibers. The fibro- type is found in intervertebral (IN-tur-vur-TEE-bruhl) disks, and the hyaline (HI-uh-line) type is replaced in rheumatoid arthritis. A third, elastic type of this highly nonvascular tissue gives structure to the external ear. For 10 points, give this type of connective tissue found in the nose and on the surface of bones.", "round" : "4q2-08.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40438b3d831d6a0064f9" }, "answer" : "The {Tennis Court Oath} [or {serment du jeu} de {paume}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.723525834037, "num" : 9, "question" : "This event was depicted with several people throwing their hats as the central figure raises his right hand on a platform, while the winds of change blow through the windows at upper left.  This agreement was hammered out after discussions by Jean-Sylvan Bailly and Jean-Joseph Mounier.  Its signatories promised to remain together until a constitution was drafted, and a week later a meeting of the Estates-General was called by Louis XVI.  It was signed after the Menus Plaisirs was locked, leaving the 577 members of the Third Estate without a meeting place.  For 10 points, name this agreement of the French Revolution signed in a recreation area.", "round" : "Round 11 - UMN 4.doc", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f788b3d831d6a003515" }, "answer" : "{Frigg} [or {Frigga}; do not accept “{Freya}”]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 681.4913667843211, "num" : 6, "question" : "This goddess told the women of the Winnili to cover their faces with their hair so her husband would grant them victory over the Vandals. One of this deity's servants runs errands using the horse Hofvarpnir and is called Gna. This resident of the marshy hall Fensalir is also attended by her sister Fulla. After (*) Thokk thwarted a campaign by this goddess, Hermod offered Hel a ransom at the behest of this figure, who had overlooked mistletoe while seeking oaths to protect her son. Loki once accused this goddess of sleeping with her husband's brothers Vili and Ve. For 10 points, identify this mother of Hodr and Baldur who rules over the Aesir alongside her husband Odin.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 455, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f118b3d831d6a001cc8" }, "answer" : "{Samuel Taylor Coleridge}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.05804605036974, "num" : 2, "question" : "This poet asked “would you learn the spells that drowse my soul” in a poem about an concept that “draws nectar in a sieve.” He talks of a “secret ministry” and icicles “Quietly shining to the quiet Moon” in another work. In addition to writing “Work Without Hope,” and “Frost at Midnight,” this poet wrote about “viper thoughts” and “grief without a pang” in a poem about a glum emotion. He described a location by the sacred river Alph. For 10 points, identify this poet of “Dejection: An Ode” who wrote of a “stately pleasure-dome” in Xanadu in “Kublai Khan” and depicted the shooting of an albatross in his long poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.", "round" : "Ohio State.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40568b3d831d6a0069a6" }, "answer" : "{Two-Face} [prompt on {Harvey Dent} before it is read]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 848.3266533494461, "num" : 5, "question" : "Two of his former allies suspected him of being the “Holliday” figure. He sought the aid of those allies in tracking “The Roman”, whom he later shot in the head. He once tried to seduce a lesbian whom he was attracted to, Renee Montoya, until she fought back and was rescued by Batman. Poison Ivy attempted to kill him for running over a rare flower at the construction site of Stonegate Penitentiary, and Billy Dee Williams played him as DA Harvey Dent in one film. For 10 points, name this dualistic villain played by Aaron Eckhart in “The Dark Knight”.", "round" : "Round_01_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 570, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f038b3d831d6a0019b7" }, "answer" : "{William Congreve}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.20646907831542, "num" : 10, "question" : "In one play by this author, Wittol is thrown out by Fondlewife after being accused of sleeping with Laetitia, and Bellmour plans a mock marriage between Silvia and the title character. In addition to writing that play about Heartwell, The Old Bachelor, this man also wrote a work in which Maskwell tries to convince his friend’s uncle that Mellefont is sleeping with his aunt. In his only tragedy, the King of Granada tries to part Almeria and Alphonso, and in another play, Waitwell pretends to be Sir Rowland in order to get Lady Wishfort to consent to the marriage of Millamant and Mirabell. This author penned the line “Music has charms to soothe a savage breast” in The Mourning Bride. For 10 points, name this Restoration playwright of The Way of the World.", "round" : "Packet 11.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f068b3d831d6a001a93" }, "answer" : "{Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Justinianus} I [or {Justinian} the {Great}; prompt on “{Justinian}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9927040147595, "num" : 6, "question" : "This man’s namesake plague prevented further expansion after his conquests of Carthage, Gibraltar, and Ravenna. After this man’s forces won at Dara, he signed the “Eternal Peace” with Khosrau I, and this man’s advisors included John of Cappadocia and Peter Barsymes. This man attempted to end Monophysitism by imprisoning Pope Vigilius. Procopius lambasted this man in his Secret History. Tribonian revised this man’s policies, and his generals Mundus, Narses, and [*] Belisarius put down the Nika Riots. Creator of the Institutions of Civil Law, or Corpus Juris Civilis, for 10 points, name this husband of Theodora, the Byzantine emperor who constructed the Hagia Sophia.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f368b3d831d6a002556" }, "answer" : "Piano {Quintet}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.59787972201593, "num" : 18, "question" : "Giuseppe Martucci's Opus 45 in C minor is a work for this ensemble, while a scherzo in 9/8 time distinguishes the Opus 25 in D minor of Charles Viliers Stanford, which was dedicated to Joseph Joachim. Sergei Taneyev's Opus 30 in this genre is frequently recorded with his Opus 22 Piano Trio, and Gabriel Fauré's opus 89 in D minor was his first attempt in this genre, while his second added an E-flat minor scherzo and was his opus 115 in C minor. Cesar Franck's work in this genre opens with the strings playing dramatico and fortissimo and is in F Minor, much like the Opus 34 of (*) Johannes Brahms, which is his only work of this type. The most famous work for this ensemble has an Allegro Giusto fifth movement and a fourth movement consisting of six variations on a theme from the composer's song “Die Forelle.” For 10 points, name this ensemble that plays Schubert's “Trout.”", "round" : "Lully 9.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40858b3d831d6a007496" }, "answer" : "{Ray Luo} [accept {Meadow Boy}; if {anyone asks}, {Ray Luo's fiction} and {non-fiction work} is {freely available} at {http://rayluo.bol.ucla.edu/opinions/writings/index.html}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.05347657948732, "num" : 7, "question" : "This man describes writing as a form of metaphysics in which universal facts can be uncovered in his work On Writing Fiction and Biography. Another of this man's works includes a chapter titled “Our World”, which begins by stating that human beings form a cosubject whose members possess differing will and knowledge and ends by stating that Rawls is preferable to Hegel and that liberalism is a theoretical limit for what conservatism is trying to achieve. That work seeks to outline a language for reasoning and communicating about general problems in ethics and is titled Studies and Applications of Pure Ethics. This man compared a graduating high school class to three sprites named Liberty, Burden, and Hermit in a speech titled An Allegory, which he delivered in front of the Class of 1998 at the Glen A. Wilson High School as the valedictorian speaker. For ten points, name this biology grad student at UCLA, formerly of Berkeley, whose notable quizbowl work includes an India theme packet and a Chicago Open movie tournament with Yogesh Raut.", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3b8b3d831d6a00268f" }, "answer" : "{Uncle Tom's Cabin}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "MS", "inc_random" : 2230.446124802576, "num" : 1, "question" : "In this novel, shelter is provided by the Halliday and Bird families. At the beginning of this novel, the Shelby family sells their property to the St. Clare family. At the end of this novel, George and Eliza Harris escape north. The husband of Aunt Chloe is killed by Simon Legree in, for 10 points, what American novel, depicting the life of slaves, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe?", "round" : "CMST_Round10.pdf", "seen" : 1503, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f238b3d831d6a0020f3" }, "answer" : "{Diet} of {Japan} [or {Kokkai}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.24275114387274, "num" : 21, "question" : "Under the 1889 constitution this body was divided into the House of Peers, modeled after the Prussian Herrenhaus, and the House of Representatives, but the former has been replaced by the House of Councilors. The earlier incarnation of this was dominated by parties like the Association of Friends of Constitutional Government and the Constitutional Association of Friends. Laws passed by this body must be promulgated by the sovereign, who is obligated to do so by article 7 of the Peace Constitution. The Social Democratic Party and People's New Party have only ten seats total in the upper house, but have been quite outspoken in the current coalition, and the New Komeito Party lost all its local seats in the election of August 2009. For 10 points, name this legislative body which recently saw the Liberal Democratic Party lose to the DJP, led by Yukio Hatoyama.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Illinois A + USC.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb78b3d831d6a0007e9" }, "answer" : "{Edward} the {Confessor} [prompt on {Edward}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 342.9596807288472, "num" : 23, "question" : "One legend tells that this king gave his ring to a poor beggar who was actually St. John the Evangelist. The replacement of his archbishop Robert of Jumièges by Stigand angered the pope. Through his marriage to (+) Edith of Wessex, this monarch’s early reign was dominated by Godwine, the earl of Wessex. He warred with the historical Scottish king Macbeth. He ultimately provoked an invasion by promising the crown both to his advisor’s son (*) Harold and to the Norman Duke William II. For 10 points, name this saintly king of England whose 1066 death led to the Battle of Hastings.", "round" : "16.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff88b3d831d6a005351" }, "answer" : "{Spanish} Language [accept {Español}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7266841619276, "num" : 62, "question" : "One author used this language to write a novel about the quest of two students who call themselves the Visceral Realists. This language was used by that author to write the novels 2666, and The Savage Detectives. Another author used this language to write a short story about a man who sees a point that contains all other points showing him the entire universe. For 10 points, name this language used to write \"The Aleph,\" and \"The Garden of Forking Paths,\" as well as similar works by Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Luis Borges, and other authors from Argentina.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-literature.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb18b3d831d6a0042ca" }, "answer" : "{Kingdom/Empire} of {Kongo}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.11651709373109, "num" : 3, "question" : "This empire was the site of a heretical movement that legalized polygamy and opposed the use of crucifixes, Antonianism, led by native prophet Donna Beatrice. It declined following a loss at the Battle of Mbwila. A long civil war in this empire was ended by an agreement to alternate the kingship between the Kimpanzu and Kinlaza. Other problems befell it in 1568, when this empire was occupied by the Jagas, and its ruler Álvaro I had to seek foreign help to reconquer its territory. Its capital was at a city renamed São Salvador under colonization, which has since reverted to its original name of Mbanzaa. Founded by its first \"mani,\" Lukeni lua Nimi, this land was Christianized in 1491 but was ultimately absorbed into the Portuguese colonial empire following a souring of relations with Angola. For 10 points, name this empire which existed from 1390 to 1914 in southwest Africa and shares its name with two modern-day countries.", "round" : "r17- Editors 3.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb68b3d831d6a0043d9" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Biafra}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.37960689933971, "num" : 9, "question" : "Peter Sedgwick criticized the British left for failing to aid residents of this nation, an attack which prompted an anti-starvation project directed by John Hunt. Phillip Effiong served as its first vice-president, and a former leader ran for the presidency of another nation on the All Progressive Grand Alliance ticket in 2003. Ralph Uwazuruike leads an organization named for this nation. Its war for independence led to the founding of Doctors Without Borders and featured an invasion of its Owerri region by the FMG. Later incorporated into the East Central State after Odemegwu Ojukwu surrendered its presidency, for 10 points, name this Ibo-dominated state that is again a part of Nigeria after its brief independence from 1968 to 1970.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Missouri State + Louisville (final).doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e978b3d831d6a0000d2" }, "answer" : "{solvation}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 49.40181408892386, "num" : 2, "question" : "The Abraham parameters for this process can be combined into quantitative structure-activity relationships. The Eisenberg-McLachlan equation for finding the free energy of this process relies upon weighted input from five atom types. The Lee-Richards and Connolly accessible surface models, are, like molecular mechanics, used as the bases for the implicit or dielectric continuum models of this process. Such models, including the generalized Born model, tend to fail to predict the effects of molecules in the namesake “shell” or “cage” that this process causes to be formed around charged or nonpolar species. The enthalpy of this process is equivalent to the enthalpy of sublimation minus the enthalpy of solution. For 10 points, name this chemical process, the formation of attractions between solvents and solutes.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors7Final.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa18b3d831d6a003ef6" }, "answer" : "{Rob Roy}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.2530213885475, "num" : 1, "question" : "One character in this novel learns of the imprisonment of the clerk Mr. Owen when a mysterious figure approaches him in church and arranges a meeting on a bridge. The protagonist of this novel is forced to defend himself at Squire Inglewood's court when he is accused by Morris, whom he had met at the Black Bear Inn. After he is arrested with the gardener Andrew Fairservice, the protagonist is rescued by Helen, the wife of the title character. This novel ends with its protagonist inheriting (*) Sir Hildebrand's estate and dueling with Rashleigh, who had earlier betrayed the 1715 Jacobite uprising. The Catholic Diana Vernon marries the Presbyterian protagonist Frank Osbaldistone in, for 10 points, what novel titled after a Scottish outlaw by Sir Walter Scott.", "round" : "Round 13 or Bentley.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9b8b3d831d6a003da4" }, "answer" : "{William Pitt} the {Younger}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.4763189854566, "num" : 14, "question" : "This man passed the Constitutional Act to split Quebec into Lower and Upper Canada. After he was appointed by the King, this man suffered a defeat in a motion of no confidence because of a coalition formed after the death of the Marquis of Rockingham, but he refused to resign and won the following election handily. He united Ireland with Britain via the Act of Union and forced Spain to give up claims to the Pacific Northwest in the Nootka Crisis. This man delayed the first attempt at the passage of the Regency Bill in order to thwart his rival Charles James Fox. However, this man, who gained power after the failed North-Fox coalition, later joined the opposition with Fox against Henry Addington. His final ministry was followed by the Ministry of All the Talents, which formed after his death shortly after the Battle of Austerlitz. For 10 points, name this Tory Prime Minister who served under George III.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f398b3d831d6a00263c" }, "answer" : "Sarah {Palin}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 4394.329981041141, "num" : 15, "question" : "This person's visit to Fort Bragg caused a stir when the press was denied entry to a book tour for Going Rogue. This person resigned from the position of Governor of the state closest to Russia shortly after a campaign loss in the most recent general election. Tina Fey did a notable impression of, for 10 points, what unsuccessful vice presidential candidate who ran alongside John McCain in 2008?", "round" : "CMST_Round05.pdf", "seen" : 2927, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407d8b3d831d6a0072bc" }, "answer" : "{Brave New} World", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7503853649833, "num" : 10, "question" : "This novel ends with the image of one character's feet twisting in different directions after he hangs himself. That character is revolted by the movie Three Weeks in a Helicopter, and explains the concept of death to children after his mother Linda is taken to a hospital. Late in this novel, the World Controller describes how science and art are dangerous to a society controlled by happiness, before exiling Helmholtz Watson and Bernard Marx. For 10 points, Mustapha Mond appears in what dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley?", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 244, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f838b3d831d6a0037de" }, "answer" : "{Rubaiyat} of Omar Khayyám [accept {Ruba'i} ]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 360.3618058485445, "num" : 4, "question" : "One of its verses asks \"Did God set grapes a-growing, do you think, / And at the same time make it sin to drink?\" Another part holds that \"A hair ... divides the False and True,\" and \"a single Alif were the clue.\" It begins by describing \"the Sun, who scatter'd into flight / The Stars before him from the Field of Night.\" A famous verse invokes \"Wilderness,\" and describes \"A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and Thou,\" as translated by Edward FitzGerald. For 10 points, name this collection of Persian quatrains by Omar Khayyám.", "round" : "Round 03.doc", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40358b3d831d6a0061e9" }, "answer" : "Gustav {Klimt}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.28902080911212, "num" : 21, "question" : "In of this man's large works which drew upon Egyptian mythology contains a \"fulfillment\" section, and was executed for the Palais Stoclet. Another of his paintings shows a red-haired woman curled in a fetal position who smiles in a contended manner as a shower of gold flows down her thighs. In addition to that depiction of Danae, he painted depictions of \"Lavisciousness, Wantonness, and Intemperance\" and \"The Three Gorgons\" which are flanked by depictions of \"Suffering of Humanity\" and a \"choir of angels\" for another exhibition. That work was inaugurated along Gustav Mahler conducting the titular artist's Ninth Symphony. In addition to painting Beethoven Frieze, he also painted two portraits of Adele Bloch-Bauer and depicted a man decorated with rectangles and a woman decorated with circles as they embrace. For 10 points, identify this artist who painted The Kiss.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 7 - Final.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb78b3d831d6a0007df" }, "answer" : "{Civil Service Reform} [accept equivalents mentioning {Civil Service}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.0868755292613, "num" : 13, "question" : "In 1881, journalists like Edwin L. Godkin and George William Curtis created a national league devoted to passing this type of legislation. A 1978 act of this type created new agencies like the MSPB and the OPM. An early example of this type of legislation was applied to the New York Customs House during the Hayes administration. The most famous legislation of this type was sponsored by a former running mate of George McClellan from Ohio and originally had classifications for 10 percent of people. That bill of this type was passed despite oppositions from the Stalwarts and presidential (*) assassin Charles Guiteau. For 10 points, name this type of legislation that sought to end the spoils system, examples of which included the 1883 Pendleton Act.", "round" : "16.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3faf8b3d831d6a004246" }, "answer" : "{Fordney-McCumber} Tariff", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.97736707911827, "num" : 12, "question" : "A few years after opposing the League of Nations, Senator William Borah of Idaho became the only Republican to vote against this bill when it came before the Senate. It was supported by Senator Edwin Ladd of North Dakota, the spokesman of the Farm Bloc. The final version did not contain the American Valuation Plan, which was part of the original bill proposed by one of its namesakes. When that original bill came before the House, John Nance Garner grabbed a straw hat and challenged Republicans to state a duty on it. Named after the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from Michigan and a Republican senator from North Dakota, it was immediately preceded by an Emergency Tariff Act, which was put into place while it was being drawn up. For 10 points, identify this tariff that raised duties after the Underwood-Simmons tariff, signed by President Harding in 1922.", "round" : "r11- Stanford.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efd8b3d831d6a001857" }, "answer" : "{Mongols} [accept {Mongolians}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.5010667925235, "num" : 17, "question" : "Subgroups of this ethnicity include the Oirats and the Khalkha, the former of whom reside in the North Caucasus, where they are known as Kalmyks. During the festival of Naadam they participate in \"the three games of men.\" Their modern-day capital is named after a \"red hero\" who helped defeat the White Russian warlord Ungern von Sternburg. This group's native religion is centered on Tengri, or the \"sky-father.\" They conquered the Khwarezmian Empire and were defeated at the Ugra River and at Ain Jalut. Many of them live in yurts. For 10 points, name this ethnic group united in the 13th century by Genghis Khan.", "round" : "Round08.doc", "seen" : 219, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb78b3d831d6a0007fc" }, "answer" : "{Pius} [or {Pius XI}; or {Pius XII}; or {Pius IX}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.4422164948191, "num" : 19, "question" : "One pope of this name had all German churches read an encyclical written in German rather than Latin; that encyclical by a pope of this name was Mit brennender Sorge. Another pope of this name declared Rome an \"open city\" and was criticized as being the \"Pope of (+) Silence\" for his lack of action against the Holocaust. The longest-reigning pope had this name; that pope wrote the Syllabus of (*) Errors and was responsible for the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. For 10 points, give this papal name used by the twelfth, who reigned during World War II, and the ninth, who organized the First Vatican Council that decreed papal infallibility.", "round" : "17.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40748b3d831d6a0070cd" }, "answer" : "{Easter} Island (or {Rapa Nui} or {Isla} de {Pascua})", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 595.1179732941091, "num" : 3, "question" : "The native population of this island has traditionally divided itself into \"long-ear\" and \"short-ear\" groups. Its first Western visitor was Jacob Roggeveen, and James Cook described a war on this island. Much of this island is made up of tuff, a type of volcanic rock, and its lakes include Rano Kao and Rano Aroi. Its highest point is Mount Terakava, and its largest town is Hanga Roa. Its traditional writing system is called Rongo-Rongo, which can be found on the ahu platforms that hold the most notable remnants of its original inhabitants. For 10 points, name this Pacific island controlled by Chile, notable for its large moai statues.", "round" : "NNT_Packet_9.doc", "seen" : 395, "tournament" : "NNT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40298b3d831d6a005f1e" }, "answer" : "{Erik Satie} or {Alfred Éric Leslie Satie}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.8113427620847, "num" : 3, "question" : "One of his compositions includes instructions like “open your head”, “question”, and “bury the sound”. Another set of four piano pieces by this composer is written without bar lines or a time signature, called Ogives. One of his works consists of the same motif 840 times, Vexations. He composed pieces about a sea cucumber and two crustaceans, Dessicated Embryos, as well as Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear and six gnossiennes. For 10 points, name this composer who influenced Les Six, composer of three Gymnopédies.", "round" : "Finals Packet 1.doc", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec48b3d831d6a000af6" }, "answer" : "{Émile Durkheim}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.231679885881, "num" : 22, "question" : "He argued that restitutive laws characterize a society exhibiting organic solidarity, as opposed to repressive laws matching to mechanical solidarity. He outlined a way to study social facts in one work. In another, he outlined how people suffering from (*) anomie can perform an action of self harm for different reasons than someone whose reasons are fatalistic, egoistic, or altruistic. For 10 points, name this French sociologist who wrote The Rules of the Sociological Method, Suicide, and The Division of Labor in Society.", "round" : "tournament17-01.pdf", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40918b3d831d6a00778e" }, "answer" : "collagen", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.57686731941067, "num" : 21, "question" : "Brodsky and Berman determined this chemical's structure, which includes a sheath of stabilizing ordered water molecules. Due its dearth of cysteine residues, cross-linking of occurs near the N- and C-termini between lysine and histidine residues with the aid of lysyl oxidase. Ascorbate is dietarily necessary because it is needed by the enzyme prolyl hydroxylase, which forms one of this molecule's prevalent residues. Consisting of over thirty distinct chains assembled into at least nineteen different varieties, the most common residue sequence is glycine-proline-hydroxyproline. FTP, name this triple-helical protein, the most abundant in vertebrates, that provides tensile strength in tissues like tendon, teeth, and bone.", "round" : "Maryland A - Oklahoma - Vanderbilt - Williams.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40868b3d831d6a0074ed" }, "answer" : "{Maoism} [do NOT accept “{Socialism} with {Chinese Characteristics}”, a {radically different school} of {thought}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.76251210528426, "num" : 10, "question" : "One member of this school of thought wrote a 2004 article titled “A Discussion with Comrades on Epistemology”, in which he argued that Marxists must embrace reality, because everything that is actually true is good for the proletariat. That man also wrote “Conquer the World”. Apart from Bob Avakian, member of this school include the Naxalites. This school's “Three Worlds Theory” was used to justify alliances between Marxist states and right-wing authoritarian governments in poor countries. Works by the founder of this school include the philosophical treatises “On Practice” and “On Contradition”, as well as “A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire” and the more practical “How to Differentiate the Classes in Rural Areas”. The organizational principle of this school is known as the “mass line”, and its theories on conflict include the concept of “people's war”, which its originator described in his famous book on guerilla warfare. For ten points, name this school of Marxism followed by the Shining Path, summed up in the Little Red Book, and named for a successful revolutionary leader from China.", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f528b3d831d6a002c2f" }, "answer" : "Bali", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 101.4118666534778, "num" : 10, "question" : "This island contains its own 210 day calendar called the “pawukon” and upon European exploration of this island, many inhabitants committed a mass suicide known as “puputan.” The two types of marriage common on this island are called “mapadik” and “ngorod,” and a resistance force during World War II on this island was named for general Ngurah Rai. Many inhabitants of this island fled after the eruption of Mount Agung, and other mountains on this island include Mount Batur. This site of the Bukit Peninsula contains the upscale Nusa Dua peninsula, and this island's capital was once the center of the Badung Kingdom. Situated between Lombok and Java and having a capital at Denpasar, for 10 points, identify this only Indonesian island with a Hindu majority, whose Kuta district was the site of a 2002 terrorist bombing.", "round" : "Round 06.doc", "seen" : 67, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f548b3d831d6a002ca0" }, "answer" : "Origen ", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.8190138398204, "num" : 6, "question" : "This man is credited with convincing Beryllus of Bostra to renounce adoptionism, and this man's father, Leonides, is celebrated as a martyr. After this man's death, his beliefs were spread by the monks of Nitria. This man was ordained a priest by Theoctistus of Caesarea, which sparked this man's spat with Patriarch Demetrius of Alexandria. This man is associated with the doctrine of Apocatastasis, and in his theology he subordinated the Logos, or Christ, to the First Principle of God the Father and taught the transmigration of souls, for which he was anathamized by the later church. For ten points, name this third century AD theologian from Egypt, who combined Neo-Platonism with Christianity.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40458b3d831d6a0065b0" }, "answer" : "{copper} (prompt on early: \"{Cu}\" buzz)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.1546913466882, "num" : 4, "question" : "A defect in the ATP7A gene causes Menkes disease, which is an inability to metabolize this element. Though it is not cobalt, this element is being used in the SarAr technology for PET imaging, as its 64 isotope has a long half life, and Kayser-Fleischer rings occur around the cornea of the patients suffering from an inability to release this element into bile, also known as Wilson's Disease. It is also contained in Hemocyanin, which change color when oxygen binds to this element, and substitutes iron in the blood of the horseshoe crab. For 10 points, identify this element which is present biologically in both its +1 and +2 oxidation states and is symbolized Cu.", "round" : "Round 9 - UMN 2.doc", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f618b3d831d6a002f7f" }, "answer" : "{Islamic prayer} [accept {salat} or {salah} or {namaz}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 49.54311693017371, "num" : 4, "question" : "Participants are required to put on their best attire during the jumuah forms of this, and are always encouraged to express their heartfelt intention, called the niyah, when performing it. The set of actions required for performing it is called the rakat. Prior to performing it, one must engage in Wudu or Ghusl, and it is usually preceded by the adhaan. It requires the recitation of the Fatiha, and begins with the participant expressing the Takbir through the phrase \"Allahu Akbar.\" Performed while facing the qibla in the direction of the Ka'aba, for 10 points, identify this action, which is required to be performed five times a day by Muslims.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - Minnesota 3 - Done.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef48b3d831d6a001647" }, "answer" : "{Samuel Taylor Coleridge}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.1308909240179, "num" : 22, "question" : "This author's great grandniece wrote a historical novel about Gustav III called The King with Two Faces as well as the poems \"The White Women\" and \"The Other Side of a Mirror.\" This author wrote a poem celebrating \"the one Life within us and abroad, which meets all motion and becomes its soul,\" which is addressed to \"My pensive Sara!\" This poet's eight \"Conversation poems\" include a poem whose speaker feels \"A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,\" as well as \"The Aeolian Harp.\" Another of this author's poems declares \"He prayeth best who loveth best, all things both great and small\" and is narrated by a Wedding Guest who \"stoppeth one of three.\" For 10 points, name this Romantic poet of \"Dejection: An Ode,\" who wrote about a sailor who shoots an albatross with a crossbow in \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.\"", "round" : "14.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd28b3d831d6a004a49" }, "answer" : "{Utilitarianism} [accept word forms]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.2833159940783, "num" : 15, "question" : "This philosophy is sometimes contrasted with deontology, which sees actions as good or evil. Works by proponents of this system of thought include one describing a prison with an unseen watchmen able to see all the prisoners, Panopticon, as well as one about an individual's self-sovereignty, On Liberty. For 10 points, name this philosophy developed by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, which advocates the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.", "round" : "round09.doc", "seen" : 312, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe58b3d831d6a004ede" }, "answer" : "{Genghis Khan} [or {Temujin}; prompt on \"{Khan}\"]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.7390516242013, "num" : 16, "question" : "This ruler sent a delegation of ambassadors to Ala ad-Din Muhammad, who shaved and beheaded all but one member. In response, this man attacked the Khwarezmian Empire with a force of twenty tumens. His rise to power began when he offered allegiance to the Kerait leader Toghrul. Later, due to the influence of Toghrul's son Senggum, Toghrul betrayed this leader for Jamuqa and was killed by a group of Naiman soldiers. For 10 points, identify this leader succeeded by his son Ogedai and grandson Kublai, who unified the Mongol empire.", "round" : "4q1-02.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402c8b3d831d6a005fd2" }, "answer" : "{Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.4335181810893, "num" : 9, "question" : "The lectures of Alexandre Kojève revitalized this philosopher in Paris. The title concept of his most famous work, often compared to a bildungsroman, ultimately culminates in the “Absolute Knowledge”; it also describes a death struggle of consciousness, which then becomes master and slave. This author of Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences and The Science of Logic famously used history as an example of the thesis-antithesis-synthesis process, his namesake dialectic. For 10 points, name this author of The Phenomenology of Spirit.", "round" : "Packet 7.doc", "seen" : 310, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4b8b3d831d6a002a80" }, "answer" : "{People's Republic} of {China} [accept {Zhongguo}; accept “{Republic} of {China}” until “{Another author}”, but not after!]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.4022205611691, "num" : 6, "question" : "One author from this country wrote about the title character's self-defeating “spiritual victories” in “The True Story of Ah Q,” found in the collection A Call to Arms. An exile from this country wrote absurdist plays like Bus Stop, and wrote of a narrator that splits into ‘I', ‘you', ‘he', and ‘she' while seeking  [*] Soul Mountain. Older novels from here include one with 108 title characters, Outlaws of the Marsh, and an epic featuring the Monkey King – two of its Four Classics. For 10 points, name this nation home to Lu Xun and Gao Xingjian, where Journey to the West was written during the Ming era.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 13 [Finals 2] COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40678b3d831d6a006dd2" }, "answer" : "Orpheus", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.6405553093646, "num" : 12, "question" : "This character appears as a mime, a puppet, and a live singer in Harrison Burtwhistles opera about “The Mask of” him. In one work, he sings “Che Faro Senza,” and Angelo Poliziano wrote “La favola di” this character, who is torn to death by Maenads. The subject of an opera by Christophe Gluck that features the \"Dance of the Blessed Spirits,\" his story is also told in an operetta that features the “Can Can” dance. For 10 points, name this character who is found “In the Underworld” in an Offenbach work, a musician from Greek myth who loved Eurydice.", "round" : "Round_04_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 278, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401b8b3d831d6a005b7a" }, "answer" : "{Leonhard Euler}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5639344393275, "num" : 15, "question" : "This man proved that geodesic structures must contain 12 pentagons and some number of hexagons in order to be spheroid. He names lines passing through the center of a nine-point circle, centroid, circumcenter, and orthocenter of a triangle. This man generalized Fermat's little theorem using his namesake totient function and derived a formula stating that the vertices minus the edges plus the faces must be two for polyhedra. Another formula he names states that “e to the i pi” plus one equals zero. For 10 points, name this Swiss mathematician who solved the Seven Bridges of Konigsberg problem and defined transcendental numbers such as e.", "round" : "Round 1.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3a8b3d831d6a00265b" }, "answer" : "gerrymandering", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 2303.691075277515, "num" : 7, "question" : "The Justice Department suggested using race as a basis for this practice in the 1990's. The term for this practice was first used in 1812, and took its name from a former Governor of Massachusetts that used this practice and the animal that a district map resembled. For 10 points, identify this practice of drawing Congressional boundaries to the advantage of one party.", "round" : "CMST_Round07.pdf", "seen" : 1544, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc48b3d831d6a00474f" }, "answer" : "{Anna Karenina}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.61248793127015, "num" : 4, "question" : "One character in this work is forgiven by his wife for an affair with a governess before beginning one with a ballerina.  Another character in this work is a sickly, thin man who eventually starts dating a reformed prostitute, Marya Nikolaevna.  In addition to Stiva and Nikolai, another character in this work declares, \"I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray, and I shall still go on praying\" at the end of the work, though he had earlier failed in his courtship of Ekaterina Shcherbatskaya.  Another character in this work rejects Ekaterina before having an affair with the title character and moving to St. Petersburg.  For 10 points—name this work in which Levin marries Kitty and the title lover of Count Vronsky throws herself under a train, a novel by Leo Tolstoy.", "round" : "2.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eab8b3d831d6a000534" }, "answer" : "{Navarre} or {Navarra} (accept {Pamplona} before mentioned; accept {Nafarroako} from {ETA homeboy})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.96963389520533, "num" : 7, "question" : "Edward the Black Prince arranged the Treaty of Mantes after a ruler of this state murdered Charles de la Cerda, enraging John the Good before going on to engage in no end of asshattery during the Hundred Years War. It devolved into civil war under John the Faithless, while another of its rulers often allied with Berengar the Hunchback and built it into a dominant power after succeeding a father nicknamed “the Trembler;” the power struggle of the sons of that man, called “the Great,” saw this state lose at the Battle of Atapuerca under a ruler from Najera. The second rise of this homeland of Charles the Bad occurred under “The Restorer” after Alfonso the Battler tried to re-gift it to Templars; that man, Garcia, mortgaged his daughter Berengaria to Richard the Lionhearted and built up a renowned scholastic court, earning him the epithet “the Wise.” It was ruled by a number of Sanchos, including “the Fat,” who fought at Las Navas de Tolosa along with Alfonso VIII of Castile and Pedro II of Aragon. For 10 points, identify this kingdom in the Pyrenees once known as Pamplona, whose ruler Henry III went on to become Henry IV of France.", "round" : "2011 CO History Hoppes Ray.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f958b3d831d6a003c5f" }, "answer" : "{Pythagorean} theorem", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.499636297347, "num" : 21, "question" : "Applicable when the spread equals one, this statement can be formulated in terms of addition using rational trigonometry. A generalization of it to inner product spaces is known as Parseval's identity, while a three-dimensional generalization is de Gua's theorem. The parallelogram law simplifies to this statement in a special case, and one proof of this theorem constructs congruent triangles whose areas are half those of a square and a rectangle. It is generalized by the law of cosines to triangles with any three angles. For 10 points, name this theorem used to find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle, stated as A squared plus B squared equals C squared.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecd8b3d831d6a000d15" }, "answer" : "{Kent State shootings} [or {May} 4 {massacre}; or {Kent State massacre}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.7172612981871, "num" : 26, "question" : "John Filo won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over Jeffrey Miller during this event. This event was presaged by the burning of an ROTC station that caused Governor James Rhodes to threaten martial law. This event was prompted by tensions resulting from protests over the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia and resulted in the death of four students. For 10 points, name this 1970 incident in which the Ohio National Guard shot students at an Ohio university.", "round" : "districts-07.pdf", "seen" : 355, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f498b3d831d6a002a14" }, "answer" : "{Moliere} [accept {Jean-Baptiste Poquelin}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.0292441837955, "num" : 3, "question" : "One play by this man sees Thomas Diafurious promised the hand in marriage of Angelique so Argan can get free doctoring. In addition to The Imaginary Invalid, this man wrote a play in which Oronte's sonnet is praised by Philinte but is criticized by a character infatuated with Celimene, Alceste. This author of The Misanthrope wrote a play in which Orgon falsely defends the honor of the titular hypocrite. For 10 points, name this French writer who wrote Tartuffe.", "round" : "Packet 9.doc", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40218b3d831d6a005cc8" }, "answer" : "{Jean Valjean} [accept either or {both} names; prompt on {24601} or {9430}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 361.0361478338019, "num" : 17, "question" : "This character's father fell off a tree, and his mother died of milk fever. This resident of the Gorbeau House attempts to rescue a sailor, but intentionally throws himself overboard. This former tree pruner steals money from Petite Gervais and rescues Fauchelevant from a stray cart. His marksmanship helps when he joins Enjolras, and he earlier travels to the home of Azelma and Éponine Thénardier to find the daughter of Fantine. He later carries Marius through the sewers of Paris so that Marius can marry his adopted daughter, Cosette. Pursued by Inspector Javert, name this Victor Hugo character who serves nineteen years on a chain gang for stealing a loaf of bread in Les Misérables.", "round" : "07 TU.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe78b3d831d6a004f46" }, "answer" : "{Mali} Empire", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.5821549347602, "num" : 24, "question" : "This empire's first ruler defeated Sumanguru and established this empire's capital at Niani. In addition to Sundiata, this empire was ruled over by a man who maintained a university at Sankore. That ruler of this empire inflated Egypt's market on his way to a pilgrimage in Mecca by loading 100 camels with 300 pounds of gold each. Structures built during this empire include the Hall of Audience in Timbuktu. Preceded by the Ghana and succeeded by the Songhai, for 10 points, name this West African empire once led by Mansa Musa.", "round" : "4q1-05.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40928b3d831d6a0077d2" }, "answer" : "right to {trial} by {jury} (accept anything reasonable that mentions a {jury} or {juries})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.13589101121761, "num" : 2, "question" : "Dice v. Akron held that it must be preserved when a state enforces a “federally created right,” an exception to the Minneapolis v. Bombolis decision which found that no such right exists in state-level civil actions. Strauder v. West Virginia applied the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to this right's providence in ruling that race may not be a factor in its execution. Salinger v. Loisel addressed the requirement that the central body be locally drawn and numerous cases clarified their impartiality, a requirement typically addressed via voir dire testimony. FTP, name this right protected by the Sixth and Seventh Amendments which entitles a defendant to receive a verdict from a group of ordinary citizens.", "round" : "Virginia Commonwealth.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff68b3d831d6a0052c6" }, "answer" : "faults", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.4164014784619, "num" : 65, "question" : "When these landforms lie parallel to one another, they create raised and lowered areas called horsts and grabens. Flat irons form from scarps, which are located along these features. These features divide a surface into a hanging wall and a footwall. At lower depths, they are called shear zones. If the movement of one of these features has both strike and dip components, it is known as an oblique-slip one. They also come in transform and strike-slip types. For 10 points, name these cracks in the Earth's surface, the movement of which causes earthquakes.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-all.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ece8b3d831d6a000d88" }, "answer" : "{phosphate} ion [prompt on {PO43-}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.8381331586279, "num" : 5, "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" : "regionals-03.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eec8b3d831d6a001487" }, "answer" : "{Jurgen Habermas}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.9011663580313, "num" : 6, "question" : "He wrote that the elite keep power in capitalism by providing the public with \"goodies\" in his work \nLegitimation Crisis. This author also wrote about the growth of a \"literary\" version of the title concept out\n of the \"bourgeois\" version in a work that discusses the emergence of the modern social welfare state. This\n man also challenged Max Weber's definition of rationalization in a work that defines aesthetic, therapeutic,\n and explicative discourse. That work claims that the goal of the title interaction is mutual understanding.\n For 10 points, name this author of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and The Theory of\n Communicative Action.", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 220, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd08b3d831d6a0049ee" }, "answer" : "{Leonhard Euler}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.2537304256111, "num" : 16, "question" : "This mathematician was the first to provide the solution pi squared over six to the Basel problem. DeMoivre's formula is a generalized form of one this man's most famous formulae, and his namesake characteristic is two for any convex polyhedral. His solution to the Königsberg Bridge Problem created the field of graph theory. For ten points, name this Swiss mathematician whose name lends itself to the number e.", "round" : "round04.doc", "seen" : 268, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffd8b3d831d6a005488" }, "answer" : "neutrino", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.294577691704, "num" : 9, "question" : "An unusually low number of these particles emitted from the sun led to the discovery that they can undergo oscillation among their muon, electron, and tau flavors, and they were first proposed by Wolfgang (*) Pauli in order to conserve mass and momentum in beta decay. Detection of these particles can function as an early warning system for the occurance of a supernova, and they are detected at the Super-Kamiokande and Sudbury observatories. For 10 points, name this particle, once thought to be massless, that easily passes through matter.", "round" : "tourn10-12.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe38b3d831d6a004e4d" }, "answer" : "{George Washington}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.5508546123746, "num" : 8, "question" : "One scandal during this President's term involved a French diplomat who attempted to recruit an army in America, Citizen Genet. This President signed the Pinckney Treaty with Spain, as well as a controversial treaty with Great Britain negotiated by a Supreme Court justice. At the end of his second term, this President wrote a “Farewell Address” that warned against entangling alliances. This President sent forces into Pennsylvania to stop a revolt against excise taxes on liquor, and his administration included Henry Knox and Vice President John Adams. For 10 points, name this first President of the United States.", "round" : "11 HFT.doc", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdd8b3d831d6a004cdd" }, "answer" : "{Georges Dumézil}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.36136942077428, "num" : 10, "question" : "[GT] One of this thinker's works reproduces four sections of the Gesta Danorum as an appendix to a series of essays analyzing Saxo Grammaticus as a source of Scandinavian myth, subtitled for The Saga of Hadingus. This thinker rejected the idea that the Aesir and Vanir are two warring peoples in The Gods of the Ancient Northmen. This man made corrections to a dictionary by Hans Vogt while working with Tevfik Esenç to record the over 80 consonant sounds of Ubykh. He rejected the idea of primitivists like H. J. Rose that the title entity descended from numen in Archaic Roman Religion. One work is split into sections studying the Mahabharata, the founding of Rome, and Ossetian legends about the Narts; that work is the first volume of a three-volume work. He argued that gods like Jupiter, Mitra, and Varuna saved the same purpose in a social hierarchy inherited from a common ancestor. For 10 points, name this Indo-Europeanist who posited that men's roles were split into priests and kings, warriors, and producers of goods in his ? tripartite hypothesis, expounded in works like Mitra-Varuna and Flamin-Brahmin, and also wrote Myth and Epic.", "round" : "Packet 2.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Gaddis II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc28b3d831d6a0046e3" }, "answer" : "{Neil Simon}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.67139944527298, "num" : 20, "question" : "This author combined ten Chekhovian sketches, including “The Sneeze” and “The Audition,” into the play The Good Doctor. Ken Gorman, Lenny Ganz and others try to figure out why their host Charley shot himself in the ear in his farce Rumors, while another play sees Yvonne Fouchet try to reunite three marriages over a mysterious dinner party. Another work chronicles the mental breakdown of Mel Edison in his East Side apartment, and in another, the attic-squatting neighbor Velasco helps Corie Bratter convince her husband Paul to be more spontaneous. In addition to The (*) Prisoner of Second Avenue and Barefoot in the Park, he depicted Ben Silverman reuniting the vaudeville team of Willie Clark and Al Lewis, and also a play in which Blanche's abandonment of her sportswriter husband, as well as Frances' of a copywriter, cause two poker buddies to move in together.  For 10 points, name this author of The Sunshine Boys and The Odd Couple.", "round" : "Rd07.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa88b3d831d6a0040a8" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Stamford} Bridge", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.85884958389215, "num" : 3, "question" : "While the eventual winner of this battle offered his traitorous brother his old position back in exchange for laying down his arms, the brother's ally was only offered “seven feet of… earth.” This battle followed one at Fulford, in which the brothers Morcar and Edwin were defeated. According to legend, a single soldier held up one side's advance across a bridge over the Derwent River until an English soldier speared him from under the bridge. The defeat of Tostig and Harald Hardrada here cleared the way for the victor to proceed south, where he was killed less than three weeks later. For 10 points, name this battle that marked the end of the Viking Era whose victor Harold Godwinson would be killed on October 14, 1066, at Hastings.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Princeton A + Cornell.doc", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f988b3d831d6a003cfa" }, "answer" : "Mercury", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.653510884149, "num" : 15, "question" : "In order to complement the lunar crater naming system, all of the craters on this planet are named after nonscientific authors, composers, or artists. This planet has a 2:3 rotation to revolution ratio, meaning that its day is longer than its year. It is scheduled to be visited in 2020 by a joint European/Japanese mission named BepiColombo, while a hilly region known as the \"Weird Terrain\" is located antipodal to its Caloris Basin. The main goal of NASA's MESSENGER mission is to study this planet from orbit and to continue Mariner 10's mapping of its surface. For 10 points, identify this planet named for the Roman messenger god, the closest to the Sun.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f248b3d831d6a002122" }, "answer" : "{Essay} on Man", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.26376610342413, "num" : 5, "question" : "One part of this poem describes how Indians see God in clouds and the sky, and another section describes how, with sense true, a nice bee can derive honey from poison herbs. Before this poem notes \"One truth is clear, whatever is, is right\", it asks if a lamb would skip and play were it endowed with the knowledge of its impending doom. The fourth and last epistle concludes by informing the reader that \"all our knowledge is—Ourselves to know\", while the first epistle of this poem begins with an invocation to St. John and the announcement that this work will \"vindicate the ways of God to man\", before noting that \"Hope springs eternal in the breast of man\". For 10 points, name this poem which pronounces the \"proper study of mankind\", a work of Alexander Pope about people. ", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Minnesota B + Dartmouth A + Miami C.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f178b3d831d6a001e2a" }, "answer" : "{Paganini's Caprices} or {Capricii}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.80042685125954, "num" : 2, "question" : "One of these features a simple yo-yo like path of three descending notes and double stops preceded by what sounds, at first, like a flute and, subsequently, like a French horn.  That work, which was later interpolated in the final movement of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, was written in E major and nicknamed “The Hunt.”  Another one of these, in B flat major, is nicknamed for a mocking, descending theme that mimics a demonic chuckle.  Later provided with piano accompaniment in works by Fritz Kreisler and Mario Pilati, this group of works opens with a piece marked “Andante in E” and concludes with a set of eleven variations on a twelve bar theme in A minor, that make up the 24th and final one.  For 10 points, identify this series of compositions for the solo violin, the masterwork of Niccolo Paganini.", "round" : "Editor's Round (PO 4).docx", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fab8b3d831d6a004145" }, "answer" : "{Paul Cézanne}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.51810449035838, "num" : 14, "question" : "A Modern Olympia. Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon inspired his The Large Bathers. Another of his paintings depicts two men in hats seated on opposite sides of a table, one of whom is smoking a pipe. For 10 points, who is this Post-Impressionist famous for The Card Players and several paintings of Mont Saint-Victoire?", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Yale B + Northwestern A.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9f8b3d831d6a00029f" }, "answer" : "{Salmonella}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 65.72281127679162, "num" : 17, "question" : "One subtype of the most common species in this microbial genus produces a protein to stabilize tight junctions between intestinal cells. That protein, AvrA, is secreted through the Type III secretory system of that species in this genus, and dampens inflammation to allow that pathogen of this genus to avoid breaking through the epithelium until its numbers can challenge  the host immune system. That secretory system, encoded by this genus’s namesake “pathogenicity island-1,” enables species in this genus to inject virulence effectors into eukaryotic host cells. Some bacteria in this genus cause typhoid fever. For 10 points, name this Gram-negative bacterial genus which includes species enterica, whose serovar typhi is a common cause of food poisoning in poultry.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Georgetown and ASU A final.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40288b3d831d6a005ea2" }, "answer" : "{Napoleon} I {Bonaparte} [accept either]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.6735118997749, "num" : 20, "question" : "Max Ernst depicted this man “in the desert,” and in a Frieda Kahlo portrait, he is one of the figures next to an embryonic rendering of Moses. Horace Vernet painted this man on his deathbed, and he is placing a crown on his wife's head in the second-largest painting in the Louvre. In another painting of this man, the names of Charlemagne and Hannibal are carved into a rock in the foreground. For 10 points, name this man painted at the Arcole Bridge and at Jaffa by Jean-Antoine Gros, who was also depicted on a rearing horse “crossing the Alps” by Jacques-Louis David, a noted French military commander.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 5.doc", "seen" : 285, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f398b3d831d6a002630" }, "answer" : "{August Rodin}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.4032985325903, "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" : 277, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8d8b3d831d6a003a83" }, "answer" : "{Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.77398679032922, "num" : 5, "question" : "One of this man's works is marked “mysterious” and “concentrated” and features a number of interruptions marked “surge of terror”. A hand injury inspired the dark F-minor key of his first piano sonata, while his first symphony ends with a paean to the glory of art. The phrase “with a heavenly delight” marks the recurring theme of his White Mass Sonata, while the movements of his third symphony are “Struggles”, “Delights”, and “Divine Play”. His “Mystic chord” features in his apocalyptic unfinished Mysterium, while he used a clavier à lumières for a similarly synesethetic work. For 10 points, name this composer of The Divine Poem and Prometheus: The Poem of Fire.", "round" : "Finals 1 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40578b3d831d6a0069e5" }, "answer" : "{adrenaline} [or {epinephrine}; do not accept {noradrenaline} or {norepinephrine}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.2624925337732, "num" : 2, "question" : "The release of this catecholamine cannot be controlled in pheochromocytoma, and both it and an unmethylated precursor are transported by VMAT1. While it triggers vasoconstriction in smooth muscle, it dilates blood vessels in skeletal muscle. In the liver, its interaction with its beta-receptors causes glycogen to be broken down into glucose for energy. Frequently used to treat anaphylactic shock and secreted by glands that sit above the kidneys, for 10 points, identify this hormone and neurotransmitter responsible for the “fight or flight” response.", "round" : "Round_04_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f508b3d831d6a002bc6" }, "answer" : "“{Desiree's Baby}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.59628302277997, "num" : 2, "question" : "In this work one character is delighted that Negrillon is not punished for pretending to have burned his leg to get the day off from work. All the members of a family mentioned in this story purportedly fall in love “as if struck by a pistol shot” and one man takes his wife to live at his estate L'Abri. One character in this story discusses cutting finger nails with Zandrine and she was found as a toddler at a stone pillar abandoned by a party of Texans. A corbeille, a priceless layette, and a willow cradle are thrown into a bonfire at the end of this story during which one character discovers a letter from his mother praising God because he never learned about her heritage. One character of this story returns to live with Madame Valmonde after her husband Armand Aubigny throws her out when he discovers the title character is part black. For 10 points, name this short story by Kate Chopin.", "round" : "Round 01.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe98b3d831d6a004f99" }, "answer" : "friction", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7197361902799, "num" : 11, "question" : "Amontons' laws govern this phenomenon. Relations for the dry form of this phenomenon were first explained by Coulomb. This phenomenon results in the change of kinetic energy into heat. The magnitude of this force equals the magnitude of the normal force times this force's namesake coefficient, which is symbolized mu and comes in static and kinetic varieties. For 10 points, name this force that opposes the motion of an object, caused by two surfaces rubbing together.", "round" : "4q1-08.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f758b3d831d6a003450" }, "answer" : "{moksha} [or {mukti}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 392.2148529768456, "num" : 8, "question" : "This results in embodiment of either bhavya or abhavya depending on one's faith according to one tradition. Sikhs who undergo this process do not have to become mendicants as long as they live solely for others, in contrast to the Jain notion of the Siddhis who have become ascetics. The four margas, or paths for (*) achieving this goal, are enumerated in the Raja, Yana, Bhakti, and Karma Yogas. Arivata guards righteous souls not prepared for this process in the realm of Svarga, where the await the liberation of their dukkha, or suffering. For 10 points, identify this concept in Indic religion, the release of one's soul from the cycle of samsara.", "round" : "Round 22 Tie Breaker I.doc", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40288b3d831d6a005eaa" }, "answer" : "drumlin", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.776298312936, "num" : 6, "question" : "The formation of one of these, which is essentially the opposite of a Roche moutonnee, was first observed in 2007 in the Rutford Stream. Frequently occurring in clusters of hundreds called fields or swarms and commonly associated with landscapes called sheepbacks, they have tapered ends pointing in the direction of motion of their creators. Though there are both rock and depositional varieties, they are generally formed from till. For 10 points, give the common term for the hills associated with Rogen moraines, which begin to accumulate sediment in the grooves on the bottom of ice sheets and glaciers.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 6.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406f8b3d831d6a006f8a" }, "answer" : "{George Orwell} [or {Eric Arthur Blair}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 361.0094884934369, "num" : 8, "question" : "Gordon Comstock's failure to complete the poetry collection “London Pleasures” is central to one of this author's novels, and in another of his novels, this author describes a man who longs for the days of ordering fifteen lashings, the Deputy District Commander Mr. McGregor. This author of Keep the Aspidistra Flying wrote a novel in which the protagonist receives a briefcase containing “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism.” He wrote about Winston Smith's love for Julia in a book about a society ruled by Big Brother. For 10 points, name this author of 1984.", "round" : "Round_09_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 244, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f058b3d831d6a001a2a" }, "answer" : "{Wystan Hugh Auden}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.0751316982787, "num" : 6, "question" : "This poet proclaimed, “Let the Irish vessel lie emptied of its poetry” in his poem “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” and he discussed a figure who caused children to die in the streets in “Epitaph on a Tyrant.” One of his poems proclaims love “until China and Africa meet” and another begins “Stop all the clocks.” This poet of “Funeral Blues” and “As I Walked Out One Evening” began one of his poems [*] “In one of the dives on Fifty-second street,” and he clamed that the Old Masters were never wrong about suffering in a poem inspired by Brueghel’s Fall of Icarus. For 10 points, name this Anglo-American poet of “September 1, 1939” and “Musée des Beaux Arts.”", "round" : "Round 11.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40848b3d831d6a00747f" }, "answer" : "omnipotence {BA}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.43664546869695, "num" : 5, "question" : "Along with Modality and Time, this concept forms the title of a 1980 article by Rosenkratz and Hoffman that offers three definitions of this concept. Flint. Freddoso, and Wierenga popularized the “shared histories approach” for analyzing this concept, and Peter Geach identified meanings of this concept. Rabbis Yitzchok Kirzner and Harold Kushner engaged in a debate on this concept in the 1980's, sparked by Kushner's argument about the limits of this concept. Charles Hartshorne argued against this concept by modifying an argument from Plato's The Sophist which equates being with having power and adding the premise that every being has an active tendency, which, if one accepts that each being can resist every other being's power, makes this concept impossible. A paradox named for this concept was introduced by St. Augustine and involves an infamously heavy rock. For ten points, name this attribute that is generally associated with God, the ability to do anything.", "round" : "Round 2.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402d8b3d831d6a005ff1" }, "answer" : "{Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul} [{DU/SJ}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.5360285118222, "num" : 1, "question" : "This man talked of the country of his ancestry in books subtitled “A Wounded Civilization” and “A Million Mutinies Now”, while he chronicled the history of his current homeland in The Loss of El Dorado. He created the prophet Man-Man, the poet B. Wordsworth, and a carpenter who works on the thing without a name, Mr. Popo, in his novel Miguel Street. Another character of his, Mohun, marries into the Tulsi family and tries to get his own home, while one novella features Bobby and Linda in the title location. For 10 points, name this Trinidadian author of a House for Mr. Biswas and A Bend in the River.", "round" : "Packet 9.doc", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40658b3d831d6a006d52" }, "answer" : "{Death} of a {Salesman}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.295476754196, "num" : 15, "question" : "The protagonist of this play's attempt to plant a garden reflects his desire to work with his hands, like his brother Ben who got rich diamond-mining in the jungle. One prop in this play is a rubber hose attached to a gas pipe, and one character in this play steals a (*) fountain pen from Bill Oliver after asking for a loan to start a sporting goods store. Desperate to help his unsuccessful son Biff, the main character kills himself for the insurance money. For 10 points, name this play about Willy Loman, a work of Arthur Miller.", "round" : "Round_13_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e958b3d831d6a000073" }, "answer" : "George {Balanchine} [or Georg Melitonovitch {Balanchivadze} ]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 36.16855940967798, "num" : 5, "question" : "This artist choreographed the final collaboration between Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, The Seven Deadly Sins. This artist choreographed the \"water nymph ballet\" for The Goldwyn Follies, as well as a ballet in which the Hoofer falls for the Stripper, only for her to be shot by the Boss. This choreographer's characteristic style emphasizes open arm positions broken at the wrist. Many of this choreographer's ballets were created for Suzanne Farrell, including an abstract work separated into the movements Emeralds, Rubies, and Diamonds. This choreographer of Jewels included extremely rapid footwork in many of his ballets, including Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. He was the balletmaster of the Ballets Russes from 1924 until 1929, before Lincoln Kirstein invited him to the United States. For 10 points, name this choreographer who founded the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors2Final.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3feb8b3d831d6a00500f" }, "answer" : "{Daniel Webster}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.2295230145101, "num" : 1, "question" : "This man delivered a famed 1820 speech commemorating the landing of the Mayflower. This politician argued for his alma mater in the case Dartmouth v. Woodward. This man argued against nullification in his 1830 debate with Robert Hayne. As Secretary of State, this man was the only cabinet member to carry over from William Henry Harrison to John Tyler's administration. For 10 points, name this famous orator and politician, who negotiated a treaty that settled the Maine-Canada boundary with Baron Ashburton.", "round" : "4q1-12.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40048b3d831d6a00563d" }, "answer" : "Reykjavik", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.3904740172438, "num" : 5, "question" : "This is the largest city along the Sudhurland highway. Since 1801, its population has grown from 307 total inhabitants to over sixty percent of its country's residents. A central heating system completed in 1943 utilizes nearby hot springs. Its geographic center is (*) Laekjartorg Square, which is near a statue commemorating its legendary first resident, Ingolfur Arnarson. This city is home to the Althing, the world's oldest parliament. For 10 points, name this capital of Iceland.", "round" : "tourn8-03.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40438b3d831d6a00652a" }, "answer" : "{Wassily Kandinsky}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.3784604698886, "num" : 16, "question" : "This artist depicted a ship with a green sail attacking a ship with a blue sail in his painting Sea Battle. He argued that yellow was a warm, spreading color while blue was a cold, contracting color in Concerning the Spiritual in Art. His painting of a man wearing clothes of the title color on a white horse crossing a green hill gave its name to an artistic movement he founded along with Franz Marc. Inspired by music, he painted many canvases of colorful abstract forms titled Compositions and Improvisations. For 10 points, name this Russian abstract painter who cofounded The Blue Rider.", "round" : "Round 2 - UMD 1.doc", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f318b3d831d6a00245b" }, "answer" : "{propositional attitudes}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 39.90796787641011, "num" : 15, "question" : "An article by Tyler Burge about the “content” of these philosophical concepts outlines the modality-dominated strategy and the cognition-dominated strategy for applying Frege's Principle to these concepts. An essay which opens with the example of Ctesias hunting unicorns was written by W.V.O. Quine about quantifiers and these philosophical concepts. A paper critical of these concepts refers to them as “the systematic core of folk psychology,” and argues that an eliminative materialist approach will allow us to transcend a system that employs these concepts. That paper was written by Paul Churchland, while Daniel Dennett has defended the use of these concepts by advocating that people take what he calls “the intentional stance.” Originally proposed by Bertrand Russell, for ten points, identify these mental states like believing and wishing, which indicate an individual's disposition toward a certain statement.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 16 - Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 25, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec18b3d831d6a000a66" }, "answer" : "diary", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.272962262854, "num" : 16, "question" : "One work of this type was written by James Woodforde over a span of forty-five years. Four volumes of Lewis Carroll's work of this type are missing. A work of this type by Virginia Woolf was published in five volumes and written between 1915 and 1941. One work of this type describes the Great Plague and the Great (*) Fire of London and contains the refrain \"And so to bed.\" For 10 points, name these personal journals, one of which was written by Samuel Pepys (PEEPS).", "round" : "10.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f938b3d831d6a003bd2" }, "answer" : "Rockefeller", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.12681818543933, "num" : 5, "question" : "One man with this surname stunned supporters by writing a 1932 letter claiming that Prohibition produced “a vast array of lawbreakers” and needed to be repealed. Another man with this surname funded the creation of historically black Spelman College, which is named after his wife, while another was the first Republican governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction. A man with this surname was the instrumental supporter of Reverend W.A.R. Goodwin's plan to restore Colonial Williamsburg. Another man with this surname opposed the inclusion of Lenin in Diego Rivera's mural Man at the Crossroads. This was the surname of the man who initiated the “Cleveland Massacre” to defeat his business opponents and of the first Vice-President appointed under the 25th Amendment. A man with this surname was the target of the writer Ida B. Tarbell. For 10 points, name this family of a New York Governor named Nelson and the founder of the Standard Oil Company named John.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 5.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e938b3d831d6a000012" }, "answer" : "{Docetism}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 50.48785540717654, "num" : 18, "question" : "This doctrine got its name from the “Letter to the Smyrneans” written by Ignatius of Antioch, in which he disagreed with those who held this position and said that they also refrained from prayer. Irenaeus wrote that Simon Magus espoused a version of this doctrine, which is directly at odds with John 1:14 and several other passages from John’s Gospel. Found in such texts as the Gospel of Peter and popular among most Gnostics, this Christological doctrine which differs from Adoptionism has sometimes been theorized to derive from purely dualistic separation of matter and spirit, and those who held this doctrine rejected the Eucharist and the resurrection. Deriving from Greek meaning “to seem,” for 10 points, identify this notion that Christ’s death on the cross was an illusion, since he was never truly human.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-BrownFinal.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eff8b3d831d6a0018db" }, "answer" : "{Ring Cycle} [or {Der Ring des Nibelungen}; or The {Ring} of the {Nibelungs}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.5494218003005, "num" : 4, "question" : "One character in these operas derives his power from the treaties on his spear and loses power when it is broken; that character is given a warning by the earth goddess, Erda. The dwarf Alberich renounces love in order to gain this series’ titular object, which he cursed so that anyone who owns it will be killed. It ends with the Rhine overflowing as (*) Valhalla burns down. Comprised of The Rhinegold, The Valkyries, Siegfried, and Twilight of the Gods, for 10 points, name this series of four operas by Richard Wagner (VAHG-nur).", "round" : "01.pdf", "seen" : 277, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40938b3d831d6a0077d5" }, "answer" : "{Quatuor pour} la {fin du temps}, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22 (or {Quartet} for the End of {Time}; accept any underlined part)", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.58337270724587, "num" : 5, "question" : "The piano is instructed to play “blue-orange chords” in the second movement while the third movement is a clarinet solo depicting an “abyss.” Among its eight total movements are “dance of fury, for the seven trumpets,” despite the lack of any trumpets in the score. It begins with a depiction of birds waking up at three in the morning in the “liturgy of crystal” and includes “praises” to the “immortality” and “eternity” of Jesus. Originally performed by Henri Akoka on clarinet, Étienne Pasquier on cello, and Jean Le Boulaire on violin along with the composer on piano, it is based on an announcement by an angel in chapter ten of Revelation. FTP, name this piece written at the Görlitz concentration camp by Olivier Messiaen.", "round" : "Virginia Commonwealth.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecf8b3d831d6a000d96" }, "answer" : "{Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.6787029050756, "num" : 19, "question" : "A nuclear facility constructed during the rule of this man was destroyed during Operation Opera. Tariq Aziz was a longtime advisor and international spokesman for this leader. A U.N. program designed to supply his people with humanitarian aid was known as Oil-for-Food. This man's sons Uday and Qusay held high government positions. This man was criticized for using chemical weapons against the Kurdish population following a disastrous invasion of Kuwait. For 10 points, name this ruling leader of the Ba'ath party, the longtime dictator of Iraq.", "round" : "regionals-03.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fed8b3d831d6a00508c" }, "answer" : "{United States} of {America} [or {USA}; or {United States}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.9837922626175, "num" : 30, "question" : "One composer from this nation wrote the piano piece \"To a Wild Rose\" in his collection \"Woodland Sketches.\" Another composer of this nation wrote a string quartet that includes tapes of Holocaust survivors known as Different Trains. Another composer of this nation worked with Gian-Carlo Menotti on the opera Vanessa and also wrote a B-flat minor work in arch form, Adagio for Strings. For 10 points, name this home country to Edward MacDowell, Steve Reich, and Samuel Barber, in which Leonard Bernstein set West Side Story.", "round" : "4q1-15.pdf", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40818b3d831d6a0073dc" }, "answer" : "{Mount Kilimanjaro}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 594.0498544296715, "num" : 1, "question" : "This inactive volcano has three cones, the largest of which is Kibo, and its associated national park is located in Moshi. First summitted in 1889, four-fifths of its glacial ice caps have disappeared. The story that it was given as a birthday present by Queen Victoria to Wilhelm II has been debunked, and it is considered the largest free standing mountain in the world. For ten points, identify this mountain in Tanzania, the tallest in Africa.", "round" : "Round4Final.doc", "seen" : 394, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5f8b3d831d6a002f27" }, "answer" : "{fullerenes} [accept {buckministerfullerenes}; prompt on {buckyballs}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.08740313886665, "num" : 21, "question" : "The most common examples of these compounds can be purified on the laboratory scale by complexation with DBU which eliminates more complex forms from mixtures containing them. Azomethine ylides add functional groups onto them in a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction named for Prato. The 6:6 ring bonds of these structures are shorter than the 6:5 bonds, and they are only allowed to have adjacent pentagon structures. Cylindrical variants of these structures are called carbon nanotubes, and they are caged molecules made of hexagonal carbon rings. For 10 points, identify these chemical structures which are named for the architect who proposed the geodesic dome.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - EP Tony - Done.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400f8b3d831d6a0058c7" }, "answer" : "The {Libation Bearers} [or {Choephoroi}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5422682911158, "num" : 39, "question" : "At one point in this work, a character who claims to “set the crooked record straight” tells the nurse Cilissa is to summon another character without his bodyguard. That character is often represented by an eagle, while early in this play, his lover dreams of giving birth to a [?] snake that bites her breast. Its protagonist ends the “double tyranny of our land” after disguising himself as a Daulian from Phocis to enter Argos. Opening with its protagonist laying two locks of hair on a gravestone, it ends with Pylades following that protagonist off as the Furies torment him. For 10 points, identify this work in which Electra and Orestes murder Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, the second play in Aeschylus's Oresteia, whose title characters provide offerings in mourning of Agamemnon.", "round" : "FINALS.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f938b3d831d6a003bef" }, "answer" : "{Karl Marx}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.60351048782468, "num" : 13, "question" : "In the preface to a second edition of one of this thinker's works, he claims that Colonel Charras has made the final words of that work true. Those final words describe a bronze statue falling from a column. That work by this philosopher provides the title to a Slavoj Zizek work that addresses the “shock therapies” of the capitalistic method after analyzing Silvio Berlusconi and the 9/11 attacks, asking for the Left to reinvent itself. In addition to this writer claiming history repeats itself “first as (*) tragedy then as farce” in one work, this thinker claimed that the “petty bourgeois” of today will see themselves disappear with the advent of “modern industry.” This author of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon claimed the powers of Europe are entering into a holy alliance in a work that begins with the claim a spectre is haunting Europe. For 10 points, name this man who authored The Communist Manifesto.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 6.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fef8b3d831d6a005127" }, "answer" : "{linear momentum}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7723700450733, "num" : 25, "question" : "The conservation of this quantity is due to the translational invariance of the Lagrangian, according to Noether's theorem. The De Broglie wavelength of a particle is equal to Planck's constant divided by this quantity for the particle. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle was originally given in terms of errors in position and this quantity. This quantity is conserved in both inelastic and elastic collisions, and the change in this quantity is equal to force times time, also known as impulse. For 10 points, name this quantity symbolized p, equal to mass times velocity.", "round" : "4q2-05.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f058b3d831d6a001a5c" }, "answer" : "diffusion", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.21523848432116, "num" : 10, "question" : "The zero-length column method was designed to measure this process within zeolite crystals. Its rate is the denominator of the Thiele modulus.  The effective constant for it is a function of its bulk constant along with tortuosity and hindrance factors. Large scale enriching uranium is accomplished using centrifugation or this process.  The mass flux is a function of the partial derivative of concentration with respect to length in Fick's law describing this. Osmosis is this of water across a membrane.  For 10 points, name this phenomenon resulting from the random movement of particles that sees transfer between regions of high concentration to regions of low concentration.", "round" : "Yale B and Washington.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40098b3d831d6a005754" }, "answer" : "{Avram Noam Chomsky}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 336.6877486947924, "num" : 11, "question" : "This student of Zelig Harris put forth the \"Minimalist Program\" for current research into a concept he originated. That concept deals with transitions between deep and surface structures. He wrote about that concept in a work which contains the meaningless yet grammatically correct sentence, (*) \"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.\" That work, Syntactic Structures, introduced his concept of transformational-generative grammar. For 10 points, name this MIT linguist and left-wing political writer.", "round" : "tourn9-01.pdf", "seen" : 222, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee48b3d831d6a00128b" }, "answer" : "{Great Expectations}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.738094952656, "num" : 26, "question" : "The protagonist of this work is often disciplined by \"The Tickler\" of Mrs. Joe Gargery. This novel's protagonist is nicknamed \"Handel\" by a character who marries Clara Barley, Herbert Pocket. One character in this novel lives in Satis House and has not changed out of her wedding dress since being abandoned on her wedding day. That character from this novel is Miss Havisham. Abel Magwitch is the anonymous benefactor of this novel's main character, who is in love with Estella. For 10 points, name this novel by Charles Dickens about Pip.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecd8b3d831d6a000d44" }, "answer" : "{Jeff Bridges}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 847.973984437529, "num" : 5, "question" : "As Duane Jackson, this actor attends Sam the Lion’s cinema in The Last Picture Show. He dates Maggie Gyllenhaal in his Oscar-winning turn as fading country star “Bad” Blake in Crazy Heart. A girl named Mattie Ross hires his character, “Rooster” Cogburn, to track her father’s killer in the Coen brothers’ True Grit. In another film, he plays a bowler named “The Dude” who must deliver a million dollar ransom. For 10 points, name this star of Tron and The Big Lebowski.", "round" : "regionals-01.pdf", "seen" : 574, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdb8b3d831d6a004c59" }, "answer" : "{Nationalist} Party or KuoMinTang early", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.5435853390954, "num" : 12, "question" : "One of its arms was the Blue Shirt Society. One of its tenets was derived from Henry George, while another was freedom from imperial domination called Minzu, both of which are part of Three Principles of the People. It grew out of the Consitutional Protection Movement when it clashed with the Beiyang Government, and its leader was arrested during the Xian incident. With rulers like Sun Yat Sen and Chiang Kai Shek, for ten points, name this party of China, sometimes called the KuoMinTang.", "round" : "FHTE R5 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40198b3d831d6a005af1" }, "answer" : "the {electric} field [prompt on {E}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.64820261159912, "num" : 3, "question" : "The real portion of the Clausius-Mossoti factor gives the direction of the force that this entity exerts. An oscillating example of this entity produces spectral lines in the effect named for Autler and Townes. This entity is used to control the size of “conductive channels” in a certain type of transistor, often contrasted with a bipolar junction transistor. The presence of this entity causes birefringence in the Kerr effect, and the splitting of spectral lines in the presence of one of these entities is known as the Stark effect. For 10 points, name this entity measured in newtons per coulomb, a field that surrounds point charges and is denoted E.", "round" : "MUT II - Minnesota 2.doc", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406c8b3d831d6a006eeb" }, "answer" : "{Emile Zola}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5258738088887, "num" : 17, "question" : "This author wrote a short story in which the title character sees himself being buried alive, only to escape and find his wife remarried a few weeks later, \"The Death of Olivier Becaille.\" This author wrote novels about a woman who drives Georges Hugon to suicide and about Etienne Lantier, who survives the collapse of a mine. His novel Nana is part of his cycle of twenty-one novels called Les Rougon- Macquart. For 10 points, name this French author and founder of naturalism, the author of Germinal and a letter protesting the Dreyfus affair, J'Accuse!", "round" : "Round_02_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8e8b3d831d6a003a9a" }, "answer" : "{immunity} [accept equivalents]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.4702065452002, "num" : 7, "question" : "One set of proteins involved in acquiring this condition was discovered by Nomura and named after a Drosophila gene; those proteins triggered by adjuvants are toll-like receptors. Wright and Douglas discovered opsonins, part of the humoral form of this condition. The Hoskins effect, which inhibits this condition against a new agent, results after this has developed against a similar agent and is also called original antigenic sin. A natural form of this arises from prior exposure, and artificially-acquired forms of this condition include vaccination. For 10 points, name this condition in which an organism is sufficiently defended to avoid disease.", "round" : "Finals 2 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 78, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f608b3d831d6a002f45" }, "answer" : "Thailand", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.81233054655604, "num" : 9, "question" : "In 2008, a cabinet minister from this country was banned for failing to seek parliamentary approval to support the recognition of Cambodia's Praeh Vihar temple as a World Heritage site, and that event led to the resignation of Samak Sundaravej. Supporters of a former leader of this country rioted at the 2009 ASEAN meeting held in its city of Pattaya. More recently, this country's Supreme Court ordered the seizure of $1.4 billion in assets of that leader who sold the Manchester United Football club in 2008. It is currently led by Abhijit Vejjajiva, and in 2006 coup, a military junta overthrew Thaksin Shinawatra in this country. For 10 points, identify this country whose government based is in Bangkok.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - Finals 2 [DO NOT READ FOR PRELIMS] - Done.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea48b3d831d6a0003bd" }, "answer" : "{Moroni} ({Captain Moroni}, or the Angel {Moroni})", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 51.5504491222091, "num" : 6, "question" : "A commander by this name once tore off his coat, and fastened it to a pole with a pledge written on it, calling it the \"Title of Liberty.\" That commander wrote a letter to Pahoran which convinced him to aid in slaying Pachus, who had risen to power in Zarahembla. This figure had previously led a counter-revolution against Ameleckiah. The seventh chapter of a book named after this figure states that “a bitter fountain cannot bring forth good water” and therefore a follower of Christ \"cannot be a servant of the devil.” In another episode, this figure recounts an epistle from his father rejecting baptism of small children. This last surviving Nephite was forced into hiding after his father’s forces were destroyed by the Lamanites at Cumorah. FTP, name this son of Mormon who, after his death, became the angel tasked with delivering the Golden Plates to Joseph Smith.", "round" : "PACKET03Peterson.doc", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f178b3d831d6a001e53" }, "answer" : "{curvature} (accept “{sectional curvature}” before the word “{sectional}”)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.01224571140483, "num" : 1, "question" : "The Cartan-Hadamard theorem says that the universal cover of a manifold where this is nonpositive is diffeomorphic to Euclidean space; more precisely, it requires that all the sectional ones are nonpositive. For a connection on a principal bundle, viewed as a gauge field, it is the field strength two-form. For a torus, it is intrinsically zero, but there can be an extrinsic one from the embedding in a Euclidean space. A surface's Euler characteristic is related by the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to the integral of the Gaussian form of it over the surface. The Riemann tensor is one measure of it. For the sphere, it is positive, while for a saddle, it is negative. For 10 points, what is this quantity, measuring an obstruction to mapping a space isometrically onto flat Euclidean space?", "round" : "Editor's Round 1 (RR).docx", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed48b3d831d6a000eeb" }, "answer" : "capacitors", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.1204043626785, "num" : 1, "question" : "Barium titanate is commonly used in ceramic ones. Their namesake metric is equal to the relative permittivity times the ratio of area to spacing. They are subject to leakage and are represented as a straight line separated from a curved line in circuit diagram. Leyden jars were an early example of these. They are measured by dividing the charge by the potential difference. They consist of a dielectric in between two conducting plates. For 10 points, name these devices that store charge in a circuit.", "round" : "11.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb18b3d831d6a0042cf" }, "answer" : "{Frederick Moore} \"{Fred}\" {Vinson}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.39929253328592, "num" : 8, "question" : "One majority opinion by this man upheld the arrest of Irving Feiner following inflammatory remarks he made in Syracuse, New York. This man was joined by Justices Reed and Minton in a dissent that cited Lincoln's naval blockade of the South to argue for the party represented by Secretary of State Charles Sawyer. He used reasons like the necessity of keeping electronic devices secret in his majority opinion denying Air Force reports to widows of civilian crash victims in United States v. Reynolds. He also wrote a majority opinion holding that certain individuals were trying to overthrow the government and that the Smith Act was constitutional in Dennis v. U.S, a landmark anti-Communist opinion. Dying before his court could rule on Brown v. Board of Education, for 10 points, name this former Secretary of the Treasury whom Truman appointed as a replacement for Harlan Fiske Stone as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1946.", "round" : "r17- Editors 3.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0d8b3d831d6a001c24" }, "answer" : "The Good {Wife}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.2750028334558, "num" : 8, "question" : "In one episode of this show, a woman smashes the windows of her colleague’s car with a baseball bat, but that bat is later used to frame her for a near-fatal beating. One romantic subplot in this show revolved around ballistics expert Kurt McVeigh, who sends one of the main characters a copy of Sarah Palin’s autobiography as a joke. Anika Noni Rose joined the cast in season two as aspiring politician Wendy Scott-Carr, and other guest stars have included Miranda Cosgrove as delinquent teen star Sloan, and (*) Michael J. Fox as a cunning, handicapped attorney. The main character works at the law firm Lockhart, Gardner and Bond, returning to practice law after her husband was ousted from office for sleeping with a prostitute. FTP, name this show revolving around Alicia Florrick’s decision to stay married to her husband, starring Juliana Margulies and Chris Noth.", "round" : "FINAL_WillZafar.doc", "seen" : 81, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f538b3d831d6a002c7b" }, "answer" : "{Wonder} Bread", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 119.866378803039, "num" : 6, "question" : "This product was first introduced by the Taggert Company, which also ran a bank in Indianapolis. The credit for inventing this product is usually given to Elmer Cline. The makers of this product sponsored the TV show Howdy Doody, whose host often told the audience that this product builds strong bodies in 8 ways, a reference to the minerals and nutrients added to this product during the 1940's, which helped decrease pellagra. This product notably has no holes, because it is made from batter and not dough. The first product of its kind to come pre-sliced, for ten points name this brand of white bread, whose packaging features red, yellow, and blue balloons.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 81, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb08b3d831d6a000665" }, "answer" : "{enthalpy} [prompt on {H} before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.0826160141733, "num" : 24, "question" : "The Joule-Thompson coefficient can be calculated by keeping this quantity constant and taking the partial derivative of temperature with respect to pressure. The net change in this quantity for a reaction can be calculated using Hess's Law. The change in Gibbs free energy can be calculated by subtracting the temperature times the change in entropy from the change in this quantity. At constant pressure, a reaction is exothermic when the change in this quantity is negative. For 10 points, name this thermodynamic quantity that is represented by H.", "round" : "colonia-06.pdf", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff68b3d831d6a0052e8" }, "answer" : "{Jacques-Louis David}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.0372955622151, "num" : 1, "question" : "This painter showed the winds of change blowing in from the left as a man stands amid a crowd, in his depiction of a national assembly. He showed a bearded man pointing to the sky while Crito touches his knee in a work whose central figure reaches for a goblet. In one of his paintings, a man in his bathtub keels over while clutching a letter. This man also depicted three brothers saluting their father, who holds three swords, while a group of Roman women weep. For 10 points, name this French painter who depicted the deaths of both Marat and Socrates, and who painted The Oath of the Horatii.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-arts.pdf", "seen" : 280, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7d8b3d831d6a003686" }, "answer" : "{Parthian} Empire", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.81087340810336, "num" : 18, "question" : "One ruler of this polity diluted his power by placing his brother Pacorus in control of a region of Atropatene and attempted to the found the anti-Greek town of Vologesias. An earlier king of this empire may have partially ruled with his son, also named Pacorus, and killed his father before the latter could respond to the occupation of Orsoene and Gordyene. That king, Orodes II, also put to death, the victorious general in a battle over Gaius Cassius Longinus and others. Its first capital was likely centered at Dara, and this polity's rule was ended by Ardashir I. Before that, one king of this polity defeated Artavases of Armenia but was himself defeated by the Scythians; that man was Mithridates the Great. Defeating Marcus Licinius Crassus at the battle of Carrhae, for 10 points, name this Mesopotamian empire, a rival of Rome.", "round" : "Bentley.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40788b3d831d6a00719e" }, "answer" : "{Samuel} [or {Shm'uel}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 392.9712647122797, "num" : 3, "question" : "This man once cut up Agag, the king of the Amalekites, for leaving women childless. He was called in the night to replace Hophni and Phineas as a high priest due to the unfaithfulness of their father, Eli, after he was dedicated to God by his mother Hannah. He helped usurp another son's claim to power by not appointing Jonathan as heir to the king. That king learned of his future by raising this man from the dead with the help of the Witch of Endor. For 10 points, identify this last Hebrew judge and namesake of two books of the Bible, the anointer of both Saul and David.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9d8b3d831d6a000220" }, "answer" : "Sinclair {Lewis}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 45.1296642459929, "num" : 21, "question" : "This author wrote about Wes Woodbury’s disastrous trip through the Canadian wilderness that ends when he eats Joe Easter at Mantrap Landing. In another novel Jinny Marshland has an affair with Bradd Criley after marrying the titular middle-aged judge. He wrote a novel in which the title character romances Edith Cortright when his wife Fran Voelker is unfaithful to him after he sells the Revelation Motor Company. This author of Cass Timberlane wrote about a man sent to the island of St. Hubert to study a plague that ironically kills his wife Leora Tozer, while the protagonist of another book has a failed romance with Erik Valborg after her marriage to Dr. Will Kennicott forces her to move to Gopher Prairie. For 10 points, name this American author who wrote Arrowsmith and Main Street.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Brown and Michigan A final.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f478b3d831d6a0029a7" }, "answer" : "{Google}, {Inc.}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 848.2324216705747, "num" : 20, "question" : "In 2007, this company became a partner in the “NORAD Tracks Santa” program. It has been criticized for alleged violations of net neutrality through its partnership with Verizon and previously for agreeing to censor its products to meet the requirements of the Chinese government. For 10 points, name this company started by Larry Page and Sergey Brin that owns YouTube and is the largest search engine in the United States.", "round" : "Packet 2.doc", "seen" : 571, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4b8b3d831d6a002a7c" }, "answer" : "{David Hume}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 466.4422963908873, "num" : 2, "question" : "This thinker depicted a debate between Pamphilus, Cleanthes, and Philo in one work. He wrote a six-volume history of England, and this man provided a counterexample to his Copy Principle by proposing a “missing [*] shade of blue.” Also known for separating “is” from “ought”, in his most famous work, he defined moral philosophy as “the science of human nature;” that work supposedly woke Kant from his “dogmatic slumber.” For 10 points, name this Scottish empiricist author of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 13 [Finals 2] COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 313, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401e8b3d831d6a005c12" }, "answer" : "{Virginia Woolf}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 361.0868085953406, "num" : 8, "question" : "In one of this author's novels, the title character finds a cow skull on the beach and later falls in love with the married Sandra, and in another, Isa Oliver and William Dodge chat by greenhouses. In addition to Jacob's Room and Between the Acts, this author wrote a novel in which Lily Bristoe paints Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay as well as one in which Peter Walsh attends Clarissa's party. In addition to To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, she wrote an essay which concludes that women need money and the title space in order to write fiction. For 10 points, name this member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of “A Room of One's Own.”", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40448b3d831d6a00654a" }, "answer" : "{Max Weber}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 337.130782372551, "num" : 6, "question" : "This man was notable for outlining his vision of the ideal bureaucracy in his Economy and Society.  He also identified Legal, Traditional, and Charismatic as the three major types of political authority, and wrote works about the religions of India and China.  He is better known, though, for his work regarding the interaction of religion and government, and in particular for his focus on a certain religious sect's influence on an economic system.  For 10 points, who was this German author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism?", "round" : "Round 4 - Vandy 3.doc", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb08b3d831d6a000650" }, "answer" : "{Vishnu}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 682.5335150132887, "num" : 3, "question" : "At one point, this god had to kill someone who was protected from death at day and night, and both inside and outside of houses, and did so by killing that enemy on a threshold at twilight. He performed that feat in the form of Narasimha (NAH-rah-SIM-ha), a lion. This god also takes forms such as the fish Matsya (MOTS-yah) and the heroes Rama and Krishna, which are some of his ten avatars. For 10 points, identify this Hindu “preserver” god, who forms the Trimurti (treh-MORE-tee) with the creator Brahma and destroyer Shiva.", "round" : "colonia-06.pdf", "seen" : 455, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef88b3d831d6a00172b" }, "answer" : "William {Henry Seward}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.2898683468812, "num" : 21, "question" : "This man succeeded William L. Marcy as Governor of New York and was succeeded in his highest cabinet post by Elihu B. Washburne. This American was the co-namesake of a treaty with Richard Lyons to help curb the Atlantic slave trade, and he helped acquire a territory later devastated by the Good Friday Earthquake of 1964. This man sent a dispatch to Great Britain stating that Charles Wilkes had violated the freedom of the seas to resolve the (*) Trent Affair. He was able to survive a knife attack by a confederate of George Atzerodt named Lewis Powell. Along with Salmon Chase and Edward Bates, this man formed the third member of the so-called Team of Rivals. For 10 points, name this Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln, best known for purchasing Alaska.", "round" : "Packet 25 - Emergency.doc", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fef8b3d831d6a005133" }, "answer" : "{garbage collection}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.1676177140325, "num" : 5, "question" : "The concurrent type of this process is contrasted with the incremental type, both of which stop a program in question for shorter times than \"stop the world.\" This process prevents segmentation faults because it stops dangling pointers. For 10 points, name this process wherein a program creates more space by destroying objects that aren't in use anymore.", "round" : "4q2-06.pdf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc18b3d831d6a004686" }, "answer" : "The {Eighth Circle} of {Hell} (accept {Malebolge} or The {Evil Ditches}; prompt on {Inferno} or {Dis} until “first {people}”)", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.92605329933576, "num" : 7, "question" : "This region's holes remind the protagonist of a baptismal font which he had destroyed to save a boy from drowning, and the first groups of people he meets here march in opposite directions like Romans over the Tiber at Jubilee. This place is home to Malacoda, who farts in lieu of blowing a trumpet and falsely reports the presence of bridges, as well as the dragon Cacus. Leading down to it is the waterfall of the bloody river Phlegethon, over which the beast (*) Geryon flies the protagonist, it is divided into ten ditches that culminate in a Tartaros-like pit, home to earth giants Antaeus, Briareus, and Nimrod. The protagonist also meets here five thieves who transform each other into beasts, as well as the Jovial Friars, Ulysses, Jason, and Mohammed. For 10 points, simoniacs, sowers of discord and other commissioners of simple fraud inhabit what penultimate realm of Dante's Inferno?", "round" : "Rd03.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404c8b3d831d6a006743" }, "answer" : "{William Lloyd Garrison}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 342.9746517320164, "num" : 19, "question" : "This man was a rival of Arthur and Lewis Tappan, who left his organization to form their own, and he refused to support John Birney's presidential campaign, instead disavowing politics and calling the constitution a “covenant with death.” He said that the North should secede from the South and attacked Frederick Douglass, but did support Lincoln in the paper he published weekly from 1831 to 1865 after leaving Benjamin Lundy's Genius of Universal Emancipation to return to Boston. FTP, identify this radical abolitionist who published the Liberator.", "round" : "HFT Round 07 ADV FINISHED.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f198b3d831d6a001eb3" }, "answer" : "On the {Law} of {War} and {Peace} or On the {Laws} of {War} and {Peace} or The {Law} of {War} and {Peace} or De {Jure Belli ac Pacis}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.75573964579963, "num" : 11, "question" : "A number of chapters in this work promote the importance of “moderation” and advocate the benefits of “incorporation.”  It concludes with a debate over the impact of “tacit faith” on the meaning of consent.  This treatise quotes Seneca on the importance of a people's spirit in determining whether states are immortal.  Another section considers Pomponius' definition of the term “postliminium” and notes that in the present day “ships are not reckoned among the things recoverable.”  The third and final section features a chapter that considered the idea of “solemn” or “just” conflict and advocated the idea of pacta sund servanda: that treaties are to be respected in order to promote international stability.  For 10 points, identify this 1625 work, the masterpiece of Hugo Grotius.", "round" : "Harvard - Final.docx", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec98b3d831d6a000c28" }, "answer" : "{Pablo Ruiz} y {Picasso}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.6869322299026, "num" : 16, "question" : "He painted Guillaime Apollinaire as a red-jumpsuited strongman and himself as a harlequin in his Family of Saltinbanques. Featureless black figures comprise his Don Quixote, while another of his works depicts a mother crying over her dead child on the left while a disfigured horse dominates the center. Parisian prostitutes in (*) African masks appear in this artist’s Demoiselles (deh-mwah-ZELZ) d'Avignon. For 10 points, name this painter whose Blue Period works preceded his co-founding of Cubism and creation of 1937’s Guernica.", "round" : "tournament17-15.pdf", "seen" : 276, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbe8b3d831d6a0045e0" }, "answer" : "{god[s}] of {war} [accept {logical} equivalents; accept {forge gods} or other equivalents before the {words} “{jumping priests}” are read, since {Hadúr} is {also} a {forge god}, but not after]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 682.3317078424152, "num" : 4, "question" : "One of these from Magyar myth received sacrifices of white stallions; in addition to Hadúr, another of these had jumping priests known as Salii, and in Irish mythology, a tripartite crow flying above this is known as the Morrígan.  It's not the sun, but the [*] Aztec one of these was fathered by a ball of feathers and was notably left-handed. The Egyptian one, Sekhmet, is depicted as a lioness, and in Greek mythology, the god of this type was imprisoned for a year in a bronze urn, and had the children Phobos and Deimos. For 10 points, name this type of deity, examples of which include Huitzilopochtli and Ares.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 7 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 462, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef48b3d831d6a001649" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Cole}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.76682159095071, "num" : 4, "question" : "This artist depicted dismounted soldiers carrying a wounded comrade on a stretcher in front of a cathedral in a companion piece to a painting in which a finely armored cavalry company is greeted as it leaves a town. This painter who contrasted his The Return with The Departure painted his artist's kit under an unopened parasol in his most famous painting. He painted a boat whose figurehead holds an hourglass in a series of paintings in which an angel accompanies the boat out of a cave and through some rapids. This painter of Childhood and Old Age depicted some teepees on the right of his The Savage State and a ruined pillar in Desolation, which was painted after works showing the “Consumation” and “Destruction” of the title polity. His most famous painting shows the view from Mt. Holyoke as a thunderstorm forms over a feature of the Connecticut River. For 10 points, name this artist of The Voyage of Life, The Course of Empire and The Oxbow, a leader of the Hudson River School.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe68b3d831d6a004f1a" }, "answer" : "{John Maynard Keynes}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 338.0540995132177, "num" : 12, "question" : "This economist wrote a Treatise on Probability, and argued against deflation policies in A Tract on Monetary Reform. He criticized the Treaty of Versailles in The Economic Consequences of the Peace, and wrote about the consumption function in another work. In that work, this man proposed that a combination of tax cuts and increased government spending could counteract a depression. For 10 points, name this British economist who wrote The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.", "round" : "4q1-04.pdf", "seen" : 222, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eba8b3d831d6a0008b6" }, "answer" : "{Tony Blair} [or {Anthony Charles Lynton Blair}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.649759812979, "num" : 21, "question" : "This man was hosting a G8 summit when his country's capital was attacked in the 7/7 bombings. This leader negotiated with Bertie Ahern to create the Good Friday Agreement. This man's change of the direction of his party led to the party's nickname as \"New\" and to this man's victory in an election against John Major. This man brought his country's troops into the (*) War on Terror and he was succeeded by his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. For 10 points, name this longtime leader of the Labour Party who served as prime minister from 1997 until 2007.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f518b3d831d6a002bf6" }, "answer" : "{Tristes Tropiques} [or A {World} on the {Wane}]", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.52211733488366, "num" : 11, "question" : "One chapter of this work describes using the author's love of Debussy to interpret the more hackneyed third etude of Chopin, Op. 10, before describing the writing of a play involving a meditation on policeman. Besides “The Apotheosis of Augustus”, this work describes a garimbo colony as well as the lifestyle of the people of Cuiaba in “Gold and Diamonds”, which joins “The Good Savage” as part of a discussion of one tribe. This work describes Kaingang pottery and the intensity of maté in its discussion of another tribe. Besides discussing Brazilians such as the Bororo and Caduveo, this work ironically begins “I hate traveling and explorers.” It ends with a section on “The Return” and was published three years after its author's UNESCO commissioned work, Race and History. For 10 points, name this anthropological memoir by Claude Levi-Strauss.", "round" : "Round 03.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8f8b3d831d6a003b03" }, "answer" : "The {Prince} [or {Il Principe}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.44911753293127, "num" : 6, "question" : "Chapter Seven of this work describes the public display of a dead body next to a block and a bloody knife to explain proper use of spectacle. This work ends with an excerpt beginning, “Virtue against fury shall advance the fight,” that is taken from a Petrarch canzone. It notes that fortune is a lady and to be successful it is necessary to beat her down. Despite Scipio's victory, this work praises Hannibal's treatment of his soldiers in the chapter titled “Of Clemency and Cruelty.” It holds that one ought to emulate the lion and the fox and that it is better to be feared than to be loved, for 10 points, name this work of political philosophy advising the titular ruler by Niccolo Machiavelli.", "round" : "USF + Editors 6 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f358b3d831d6a002520" }, "answer" : "{Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto} in D Major, {Op.} 35", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.83013810962439, "num" : 1, "question" : "Its second theme features an octatonic scale development that was also used one year earlier in the composer's Fourth Symphony in F minor, and this work was later popularized by Karel Halí?, though Eduard Hanslick claimed this work \"stinks to the ears.\" Its Allegro vivacissimo finale is played attaca after the second movement, which is a G minor Canzonetta, and this work's dedication was originally rejected by (*) Leopold Auer. This work is in D major, much like famous works in the same genre by Beethoven and Brahms. For 10 points, name this work for a solo instrument and string orchestra, composed by a Russian who also wrote the Manfred Symphony and the 1812 Overture.", "round" : "Lully 7.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f528b3d831d6a002c4a" }, "answer" : "{Rerum Novarum} or {New} Things", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.50649819336832, "num" : 3, "question" : "A response to this document established the “principle of subsidiary function” in trying to find a “middle way” and this document's author was greatly influenced by the corporatist Fribourg Union and the teachings of Wilhelm von Ketteler. The 22nd section of this work notes that “a most strict account must be given to the Supreme Judge for all we possess,” and 59th section argues that mutual associations among Catholics are beneficial to the state. It mentions a “dictate of natural justice more imperious and ancient” than bargains between men and cites Thomas Aquinas' On the Governance of Rulers to support notions of distributive justice. This religious document, issued just before the encyclical Inter innumeras, argues that socialists, who would “set aside the parent... act against natural justice and destroy the structure of the home,” but acknowledges that employers are obligated to pay a fair wage. Issued by a man known as the Workers' Pope, for ten points, identify this encyclical concerned with the “rightful duties of capital and labor,” issued by Leo XIII.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 17 - Editors 2.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eec8b3d831d6a00145c" }, "answer" : "{David Petraeus}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.6375239833724, "num" : 9, "question" : "Future Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist operated on this man after he was accidentally shot in the chest\n with an M-16 in 1991. As head of the army's officer school at Fort Leavenworth, this man oversaw the\n writing of Army Field Manual 3-24, which was an effort to revise counterinsurgency doctrine. This man\n assumed his current position shortly after his predecessor, Stanley McCrystal, was fired for comments he\n made regarding civilian military policy in Rolling Stone. For 10 points, name this one-time commander of\n the Multi-National Forces in Iraq, and current commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.", "round" : "07.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e988b3d831d6a00013f" }, "answer" : "Richard Purdy {Wilbur}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 30.94759405311197, "num" : 10, "question" : "This poet compared the use of echolocation to veer around obstacles in a dark cave to the play of human intellect in a poem comparing the mind to a bat. He compared werewolves to people \"at high windows\" who bring \"monsters into the city\" and \"navies fed to the fish in the dark unbridled waters\" in his poem \"Beasts.\" Another of his poems begins with an image of eyes opening \"to a cry of pulleys\" upon waking and seeing the morning air \"all awash with angels.\" This poet wrote the lyrics for the songs \"Make Our Garden Grow\" and \"Glitter and Be Gay\" in Leonard Bernstein's operetta Candide. He first gained renown for his poetry collections The Beautiful Changes and Ceremony, and spent over forty years translating the comedies of Moliere into English verse. For 10 points, name this American poet of \"Advice to a Prophet\" and \"Love Calls Us to the Things of This World.\"", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-MichiganAFinal.doc", "seen" : 19, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40578b3d831d6a0069bd" }, "answer" : "{Publius Ovidius Naso}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.3035884283017, "num" : 6, "question" : "One of this author's works consists of fictional letters written by women like Oenone and Briseis to their lovers. In addition to Heroides, this author wrote a poem based on a calendar of festivals, Fasti. He wrote Tristia, a poem lamenting his sorrows, after being exiled to Tomis by Augustus, possibly for writing Ars Amatoria, or The Art of Love. Another of his poems begins by describing Apollo's pursuit of Daphne, who turns into a laurel tree, and recounts numerous mythological transformations. For 10 points, name this Roman poet ofMetamorphoses.", "round" : "Round_02_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff98b3d831d6a00537e" }, "answer" : "{Drosophila melanogaster} [or {fruit fly}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.3235114789568, "num" : 41, "question" : "The gene \"mothers against decapentaplegic\" (DECK-uh-PEN-tuh-PLEE-jick) was discovered in this model organism. Genes such as bicoid (BI-coyd), oscar, and hunchback are important for its early development, which takes place in a syncytium. One mutant of it is eyeless. Polytene (PAHL-ee-teen) chromosomes can be found in this organism, as can P elements. Features of this organism includes bristles, ommatidia (OM-muh-TID-ee-uh), and wings. Thomas Hunt Morgan did his primary genetic research on this organism. For 10 points, name this insect model organism.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-science.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40798b3d831d6a0071c2" }, "answer" : "{Henryk Miko?ai Gorecki}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.9353664265946, "num" : 19, "question" : "His first large-scale work is entitled Songs of Joy and Rhythm. His most ambitious work, the repetitive and stentorian Second Symphony, is scored for soloists, chorus, and large orchestra and subtitled “Copernican.” Sacred works by him include a Beatus vir, while more secular works include Blessed Raspberry Songs and Little Requiem for a Polka. An Elektra Nonesuch recording featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw catapulted him to fame on the strength of his third symphony. For 10 points, name this Polish composer of the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.", "round" : "Round 11.doc", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f938b3d831d6a003be8" }, "answer" : "{Johannes Brahms}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.92352676158771, "num" : 6, "question" : "During one performance, this composer compensated for an out of tune piano by transposing the music from memory into seven sharps. This composer set fifteen poems by Ludwig Tieck in his only song cycle, his Opus 33 “Magelone” Lieder. His second symphony develops from the opening motif of D-C sharp-D played by the cellos and double basses. He composed nine variations on a theme by Haydn in his Opus 56a, usually referred to as his “St. Anthony” Variations, and included a rondo with a Hungarian theme in the third and final movement of his Opus 77 violin concerto in D major, which he composed for (*) Joseph Joachim. He composed Four Serious Songs in response to the death of his lifelong friend Clara Schumann, and wrote his “Wigenlied” to the words of a mother singing to her child at his bedside. For 10 points, name this German Romantic composer of a namesake lullaby.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 6.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffe8b3d831d6a0054a4" }, "answer" : "Oregon", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 594.0215230749454, "num" : 16, "question" : "The Rogue River originates in this state's portion of the Siskiyou Mountains. The Wallowa Mountains lie in the eastern part of this state, near Hells Canyon. Multnomah Falls lies near a river in this state that runs through The Dalles and the Bonneville Dam. Mount (*) Hood is a glacier-covered stratovolcano in this state, and its cities of Eugene and Salem lie in the Willamette Valley. For 10 points, name this state that is home to Portland and is separated from Washington by the Columbia River.", "round" : "tourn10-13.pdf", "seen" : 397, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f168b3d831d6a001df7" }, "answer" : "{crown ethers} (prompt on {ethers})", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.08825838123448, "num" : 18, "question" : "Hydrophilic TEG yoctowells mimic the interactions of these compounds with oligamines.  These compounds are good candidates for rotaxane wheels because of their relatively easy synthesis and modification.  The Manning reaction is used to generate their aza derivatives as well as nitrogen-substituted versions of these molecules, which are known as cryptands.  A twelve-carbon example of this class of molecules catalyzes the formation of  “purple benzene” by complexing the potassium ion of potassium permanganate.  They can be formed by reacting oligoethylene glycols with oligoethylene glycol ditosylates or dichlorides in a modification of the Williamson synthesis.  For 10 points, name this class of macrocyclic organic compounds whose subunits contain oxygen bonded to two alkyl or aryl groups.", "round" : "Editor's Round (PO 1).docx", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40088b3d831d6a00570d" }, "answer" : "{violin concertos}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.6629370560404, "num" : 3, "question" : "Stravinsky wrote one of these works that was has a toccata, two arias, and a capriccio movement, which was recorded by Hilary Hahn. J.S. Bach wrote a “double” one of these works in D minor which only uses a string orchestra. Tchaikovsky and Beethoven both wrote their versions of this kind of work in D major. Brahms dedicated his work of this type to Joseph Joachim. Vivaldi wrote four that were accompanied by (*) sonnets. Well-known performers of these kinds of works include Isaac Stern and Itzhak Perlman. For 10 points, name this kind of work for an orchestra and a string soloist, which are exemplified by The Four Seasons.", "round" : "tourn8-13.pdf", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40388b3d831d6a006282" }, "answer" : "{Suleiman} I [accept: {Suleiman} the {Magnificent} until “the {magnificent};” accept {Suleiman} the {Lawgiver}; or {Suleiman Kanuni}, early]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 56.63186988374218, "num" : 7, "question" : "This man was the governor of the Kaffa region during his grandfather's reign, and he banished the concubine Gulbehar from his kingdom. He signed the Peace of Amasia with Tahmasp, who kept control of Tabriz, though late in his life, he lost a campaign against the Knights of St. John in Malta. He employed Sinan as the chief architect, married Roxelana, and was often called “kanuni.” Though his navy led by Barbarossa suffered heavy losses in his capture of Rhodes, he defeated Louis II in the 1526 Battle of Mohacs, but he failed in his siege of Vienna. The son of Selim the Grim, for 10 points, name this ruler of the Ottoman Empire who is often called “the magnificent.”", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Caltech + Langston.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403f8b3d831d6a00642f" }, "answer" : "{Pilgrim} at {Tinker Creek}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.84431205014698, "num" : 10, "question" : "In the second chapter of this work, the narrator discusses people who regained sight with cataract operations, while in its last chapter, the narrator follows a bee and contemplates the waters of separation. Also featuring a goldfish named Ellery Channing, in another chapter, the narrator claims “This is it, I think, this is it, right now, the present” while petting a beagle puppy and sipping coffee at a gas station. It opens with the narrator's notion that she has been “painted with roses” while sleeping naked in front of a window the cat uses. Featuring chapters like “Heaven and Earth in Jest,” it takes place at the title location in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. For 10 points, name this theological treatise of nature writing, written by Annie Dillard.", "round" : "Packet_3.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40788b3d831d6a007194" }, "answer" : "{Otello} [or {Othello}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.9583290873561, "num" : 20, "question" : "The lead baritone's aria, “Credo in un Dio crudel,” contains the renunciation “Heaven is an old wives' tale,” while the main vengeance plot is sworn in the Act II finale, “Si pel ciel marmoreo giuro!” Minor characters in this work include Roderigo, Lodovico, and Emilia; the chorus represents Venetians and Cypriots. The soprano soloist's “Ave Maria” in Act IV precedes her death by strangulation. For 10 points, the title character dies while weeping over his dead wife Desdemona in what Giuseppe Verdi opera based on a Shakespearean tragedy?", "round" : "Round 1.doc", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e968b3d831d6a0000c9" }, "answer" : "The {Tempest}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 36.01185382180847, "num" : 13, "question" : "In 2003, Paul Moravec composed a fantasy based on this work for the Trio Solisti. Meredith Oakes adapted this work into a libretto in short rhyming couplets for a 2004 Thomas Ades opera based on it. Jean Sibelius wrote the movements “The Oak Tree” and “Dance of the Naiads” for his opus 109 incidental music to this work, which was the second-to-last piece he composed. Vladimir Stasov provided the outline for Tchaikovsky’s opus 18 symphonic fantasy based on this play. According to Anton Schindler, Beethoven claimed that this play was the key to his seventeenth piano sonata. Arthur Sullivan’s incidental music to it includes the songs “While you do here snoring lie” and “Full fathom five thy father lies,” which are respectively sung to Gonzalo and Ferdinand. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play whose main songs are sung by Ariel, the magical servant of Prospero.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors6Final.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f578b3d831d6a002d71" }, "answer" : "{Gerard Manley Hopkins}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.28798520914279, "num" : 10, "question" : "This poet wrote “Nothing is so beautiful as” the titular season in the poem “Spring.” He also asked “Margaret, are you grieving over Goldengrove unleaving?” in the poem “Spring and Fall.” In another of his poems, the titular thing “gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil crushed.” In addition to “God's Grandeur,” he wrote a poem about the death of a farrier named Felix Randal. He also wrote a curtal sonnet which begins “Glory be to God for dappled things” and a poem dedicated “to Christ our Lord” about a “dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon.” For 10 points, name this proponent of sprung rhythm who wrote “Pied Beauty” and “The Windhover.”", "round" : "Packet 08.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd38b3d831d6a004aa8" }, "answer" : "{Nabucco} (also accept {Nebuchadnezzer})", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.77751573058777, "num" : 2, "question" : "One character in this opera sings an aria beginning “Like darkness before the sun.”  Ismaele is a prince in this opera, which also features the characters Abigaille and the daughter of the title character, (*) Fenena.  This opera ends after an idol of Baal is broken, and a notable piece in this opera begins “Va, pensiero.” For ten points, identify this opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi about the escape of the Hebrew slaves, who have a namesake chorus, from the titular Babylonian king.", "round" : "02_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408b8b3d831d6a007604" }, "answer" : "{Jeremy Bentham}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.89202767284587, "num" : 13, "question" : "Usually included in this man's collected works are his letters to Count Toreno on a common subject. He proposed a choice between conflicting Christian religions in “Not Paul, but Jesus,” a work written under the name Gamaliel Smith and edited by Francis Place. He discussed certain Anarchical Fallacies in a work by that name, and hired Edwin Chadwick as a secretary late in life, long after more adventurous works like Auto-Icon; Or, Farther Uses of the Dead to the Living and his treatise on education Chrestomathia. He's better known for proposing pain and pleasure as sovereign masters of the body in Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. An advocate of the “greatest happiness for the greatest number,” FTP, name this English founder of utilitarianism.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - MIT B.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef18b3d831d6a001576" }, "answer" : "{Freedmen’s Bureau}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 343.659150620224, "num" : 15, "question" : "Former schoolteacher George Ruby was an administrator and traveling agent for this organization, and\n J.W. Alvord served as an inspector. This organization used a textbook that placed particular emphasis on\n avoiding bitterness and forgiving enemies. Its head was a man known as the “Christian General,” who is\n the namesake of a Washington, D.C. university that is the alma mater of Thurgood Marshall. That man was\n Oliver O. Howard. Andrew Johnson’s attempts to veto funding for it were one of the sticking points\n between him and Radical Republicans, but it was eventually dissolved under Grant. For 10 points, name\n this organization founded to help former slaves during Reconstruction.", "round" : "19.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f878b3d831d6a003925" }, "answer" : "{cyclic AMP} [or {cAMP}; or {cyclic adenosine monophosphate}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.64012716058642, "num" : 3, "question" : "The 8-Br variety of this molecule is a brominated derivative of it, and is therefore longer lasting. In the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, this molecule acts as an acrasin by regulating the process of aggregation. After determining the role of epinephrine in the liver, Earl Sutherland discovered this molecule. By permanently activating a G-protein, cholera increases the amount of this molecule produced. It binds to the catabolite activator protein in the lac operon when glucose levels are low. This molecule's production is catalyzed by adenyl cyclase, while its inactivation is performed by phosphodiesterase. It usually functions by activating protein kinase A. For 10 points, name this second messenger derived from ATP.", "round" : "Round by Gecko Commando and Dallin Kelson.docx", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe98b3d831d6a004f9c" }, "answer" : "{Honoré} de {Balzac}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.8301481481176, "num" : 14, "question" : "Roland Barthes' S/Z is an analysis of this author's story \"Sarrasine.\" He classified the novel Lost Illusions as one of his \"scenes from provincial life,\" along with Eugénie Grandet. Eugène de Rastignac is a recurring character in his novels, which include Cousin Pons and Cousin Bette as well as a novel about a doting parent, Pere Goriot. For 10 points, name this prolific French author who wrote over one hundred works, which make up The Human Comedy.", "round" : "4q1-08.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40928b3d831d6a0077c1" }, "answer" : "{Parmenides} of {Elea}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.75181905901991, "num" : 7, "question" : "Davidson's translations of this man's greatest work states that the path “that Being is not, and Non-Being must be” is “all-incredible” because “one thing are Thinking and Being.” Citing Tartarus as a muse, he is featured in Kingsley's In the Dark Places of Wisdom, which describes a conspiracy to cover-up his writings. He believed that doxa is fundamentally mistaken, and that reality is a united and indestructible single alethia, hence his vehement opposition to Heraclitus. In the Platonic dialogue named for him, he proposes the “third man argument,” which undermines the theory of forms, and his disciple Zeno attacks the notions of plurality and motion. FTP, name this pre-Socratic philosopher, author of the poem On Nature and the founder of the Eleatic school.", "round" : "Texas.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8c8b3d831d6a003a40" }, "answer" : "{Edvard Hagerup Grieg}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.69115874753334, "num" : 1, "question" : "A work by this man “battles” against a Tchaikovsky work played by the orchestra in Franz Reizenstein's Concerto Popolare. One of his works features a march for the clarinets and bassoons in the third movement and opens with a timpani roll and a solo flourish; that work takes its key from a similar work by Schumann. Another of his works opens with a piece called “Arietta” and contains his “Wedding Day at Troldhaugen”. For 10 points, identify this composer of a Piano Concerto in A minor and the Lyric Pieces, who wrote “Anitra's Dance”, “Morning Mood”, and “In the Hall of the Mountain King” for his incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt.", "round" : "Editors 3 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407a8b3d831d6a007225" }, "answer" : "{Herbert Spencer}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.6977781639434, "num" : 5, "question" : "He asks “What knowledge is of most worth?” in the first chapter of his Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Political, and outlined his most famous theories in his ten-volume System of Synthetic Philosophy. He's more famous for talking about the “new Toryism” in his The Man Versus the State, and also for predicting that humanity would evolve into a state of perfect equilibrium. For 10 points, name this man who coined the phrase “survival of the fittest”, a social Darwinist and author of Social Statics.", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 311, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec38b3d831d6a000acf" }, "answer" : "{Shinto} [or {kami-no-michi}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 392.6367449394893, "num" : 6, "question" : "A rite of this religion sees a kannushi bless the groundbreaking ceremonies of buildings. After receiving an unfavorable fortune at a temple for this religion, tradition mandates tying the fortune to a tree or fence at that jinja. One festival of this religion symbolizing death and rebirth centers around rebuilding a temple every (*) twenty years. This religion became its home country’s official state religion during the Meiji period. For 10 points, name this animistic Japanese religion that reveres kami.", "round" : "15.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404d8b3d831d6a006766" }, "answer" : "{Bowen's reaction series}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.6680252724327, "num" : 15, "question" : "At the top, it denotes peridotite and gabbro, while at its bottom, it indicates the formation of granite. Part of it runs from calcium rich to sodium rich plagioclase, while another part runs from calcium, magnesium, and iron-rich olivine through pyroxenes  down to biotite. This visualization illustrates how silica content increases as temperature decreases; eventually, its two branches fuse into one branch of felsic minerals. FTP, identify this chart depicting the changing composition of magma from basaltic to rhyolitic as it cools.", "round" : "HFT Round 08 ADV FINISHED.doc", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9e8b3d831d6a000270" }, "answer" : "{self-portraits} of {Marc Chagall} [prompt on partial answer; accept {clear-knowledge} equivalents like “{Chagall paintings} of {himself}”; accept {Moishe Shagal} or {Mark Zakharovich Shagal} for “{Marc Chagall}”]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 60.47314441017807, "num" : 12, "question" : "One painting in this genre by this artist depicts an indistinct yellow creature leaping towards a long trail of smoke coming from the chimney of an orange house. Another of these works by this artist depicts a dark crescent moon above a blue church building on the right, while on the left a rooster pokes his head out from behind a woman in a wedding dress. In the most famous of them, a white Eiffel Tower is visible through a window in the back left, while a small village amongst clouds is depicted on the right, symbolizing its artist’s being torn between modern Paris and pastoral Vitebsk. The central figure of that one holds a palette and makes an unusual gesture towards a painting of a woman and a red goat. For 10 points, identify this group of paintings that includes one whose subject has seven fingers, all of which depict and are painted by the artist of I and the Village.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Editors 2 final.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40508b3d831d6a00681f" }, "answer" : "{John Maynard Keynes}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.4647336355411, "num" : 20, "question" : "He laid the foundation for a later work on fuzzy logic by supposing that a probability represents a truth-value between zero and one in his Treatise on Probability, though Milton Friedman preferred his A Tract on Monetary Reform, in which he wrote that “in the long run we are all dead.” He cast the Treaty of Versailles as “Carthaginian” in The Economic Consequences of the Peace. For 10 points, name this author of The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, a namesake of a mainstream school of economics concerned with aggregate demand.", "round" : "Round_02_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 222, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fff8b3d831d6a0054e7" }, "answer" : "{Thor} [or {Donner} or {Donar}; or {Thunaraz}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 683.2606230939273, "num" : 20, "question" : "This figure tricked Alviss out of marrying his daughter by questioning him until he turned into stone. This son of the giantess Jord rides in a chariot drawn by a pair of goats, whom he eats and resurrects when he's hungry. This husband of (*) Sif is fated to die after taking nine steps while battling the serpent Jörmungandr (YOUR-mun-gand-er) at Ragnarok. This god wields the hammer Mjöllnir (muh-YOHL-neer), which shoots lightning bolts. For 10 points, name this red haired son of Odin, the Norse god of thunder.", "round" : "tourn11-01.pdf", "seen" : 459, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6c8b3d831d6a003241" }, "answer" : "{index} of {refraction} [or {refractive index}; prompt on {n} before the end; prompt on a partial answer]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.2688930269796, "num" : 8, "question" : "This quantity in two materials can be compared using the Becke line test. This quantity can take on three different values in biaxial materials, and it is related to wavelength in Cauchy's (koh-SHEEZ) equation. This quantity is almost constant in fused silica, and equals the cosecant of the critical angle of a material. This measure varies inversely with both the speed and the wavelength of light within a medium, with its lowest possible value, one, used for vacuums. Name this quantity used in Snell's Law, the ratio of the speed of light in a particular medium to the speed of light in a vacuum.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb58b3d831d6a004392" }, "answer" : "metastasis", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.28347342112102, "num" : 2, "question" : "**Huang et al. showed that expression of microRNAs miR-373 and miR-520c promotes this process by suppressing expression of CD44. Gain of function mutations in the transcription factor Twist can promote this process by incorrectly  inducing the Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition. Activation of matrix metalloproteases to degrade the basal lamina and facilitates this process, but it is frequently abortive because the cells are ripped apart by shear forces. In vitro, this process can be analyzed using a trans-well migration assay and is responsible for 90% of the deaths due to cancer. For ten points, identify this process by which a tumor leaves the tissue where it developed and colonizes other areas of the body.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Dartmouth A + Alabama B.doc", "seen" : 64, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2e8b3d831d6a00239d" }, "answer" : "{Oliver Cromwell}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.8532272465527, "num" : 24, "question" : "One poem about this man claims that his “neighbour-princes” bow to him like “Joseph's sheaves.” A sonnet to this man implores him to “Help us to save free Conscience from the paw / Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.” This man is likened to “three-fork'd lightning” and is compared to a falcon that perches on a bough after the kill in a poem that asserts “'Tis time to leave the books in dust” and don the corslet in the hall. That poem about this man claims that he “could not cease / In the inglorious art of peace” and that he “cast the Kingdoms old / Into another mould.” Edmund Waller dedicated “A Pangyric” to this man. A version of him is “guiltless of his country's blood” and compared to “some mute inglorious Milton” in Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” For 10 points, name this subject of a Milton sonnet and Andrew Marvell's “An Horation Ode,” a noted Lord Protector.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 06 - An Orderly Universe of Discoverable Laws.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407f8b3d831d6a007348" }, "answer" : "{William Henry Seward}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.0960343538318, "num" : 12, "question" : "He served in the New York State Senate from 1830 to 1834 as part of the Anti-Masonic Party, then switched to the Whig Party as governor of New York from 1839 to 1843. As a member of the Cabinet, he resolved the Trent Affair and made a full recovery after being stabbed in the throat by Lewis Powell as part of a larger conspiracy. His Cabinet post was due to his leadership of his last political party after the collapse of the Whigs, whose nomination he lost in 1856 and 1860. This came a few years after he switched to the new (*) Republican party, and he served in the Cabinets of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson as Secretary of State. FTP, name this man perhaps best known for his \"Folly\", the 1867 purchase of Alaska.", "round" : "Round 7.rtf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb58b3d831d6a000797" }, "answer" : "{Romance} of the Three {Kingdoms}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7675900370813, "num" : 10, "question" : "In one episode in this novel, an army is set on fire after being ambushed during a battle at Bowang Slope. One of this novel’s protagonists marries Lady Sun. In this novel, the warrior Lu Bu is involved in a love triangle with Diaochan and the warlord Dong Zhou. The first chapter of this novel features the Oath of the Peach Garden, which was sworn by three warriors, including (*) Liu Bei, who is victorious at the Battle of Red Cliffs. For 10 points, name this historical novel by Luo Guanzhong about the conflict between the states of Wei, Shu, and Wu.", "round" : "13.pdf", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407d8b3d831d6a0072dd" }, "answer" : "{Oath} of the {Horatii}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.9057535596658, "num" : 20, "question" : "A student of this work's artist, Anne-Louis Girodet, depicted a continuation of its story, in which a title character kills his sister for mourning her fiancé, The Death of Camilla. That sister is in the painting itself, along with several other women on the right-hand side. The central figures are preparing to fight an analogous group from Alba Longa, one of whom is Camilla's husband-to-be, who is killed in the altercation. A secondary focus is the background, whose arches number the same as the title (*) characters, while one of the men is clutching a spear in his right hand and himself being held by his brother. A man in front of them has one hand open and three swords in the other, while the three title characters stretch their arms forward towards the swords. FTP name this painting depicting a triplet of soldiers swearing to fight for Rome, by Jacques Louis David.", "round" : "Round 1.rtf", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
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