Prison Bowl XV: thirteen packets? In THIS economy???

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Lu, Matthew Kohn, Vincent Chen, Evan Schleck, Moxie Strom, Fahian Joy, and Dune Joerg. Written by the Hunter
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Packet 4
1.
This figure kills Tityos, a giant sent by Hera to rape his mother. Priam attempts to sacrifice Hesione to
Poseidon and this figure because they are smiting Troy in return for being forced to build its walls. This figure
also kills the seven sons of Niobe in return for her insults about his mother. Zephyr kills (*) Hyacinthus, a lover
of this god, out of jealousy. This god curses Midas with the ears of an ass for saying that Pan was the winner of a
music contest. For 10 points, name this twin of Artemis, the Greek god of healing and prophecy.
ANSWER: Apollo <DJ>

Bonus
This African kingdom was reached by Diogo Cão in 1483, who took nobles from this kingdom back to his home
country. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this kingdom once ruled by Nzinga a Nkuwu, who took the name of João I after converting to
Catholicism, which he quickly abandoned due to its prohibition on polygamy.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Kongo
[10] Diogo Cão was from this European country, which was given the right to explore to its east by the Treaty of
Tordesillas.
ANSWER: Portugal
[10] Nzinga a Nkuwu’s son, Mvemba a Nzinga, took this name to honor the king of Portugal at the time. This man
established the Roman Catholic Church of Kongo and attempted to convert the entire country to Catholicism.
ANSWER: Afonso I [prompt on Afonso] <DJ>

2.
The world’s largest location of this franchise is located in a former rail station in Baku. This franchise
sponsored a 2019 game in which the player tries to date this franchise’s founder. People frequently eat food
from this franchise in a Japanese Christmas tradition. This franchise’s secret (*) “Original Recipe” consists of
“11 herbs and spices.” This franchise is often found in combination restaurants alongside Pizza Hut or Taco Bell.
This franchise’s signature product is often found in red-and-white paper buckets. For 10 points, name this “finger
lickin’ good” franchise founded by Colonel Harland Sanders.
ANSWER: KFC [or Kentucky Fried Chicken] <MBK>

Bonus
Emil Seidel, a mayor of this city, was the first Socialist mayor of any major American city. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this largest city in Wisconsin. Three mayors from the Socialist Party served this city
ANSWER: Milwaukee
[10] Milwaukee Socialists like Victor Berger often boasted the cleanliness and efficiency of this public work. The
socialists' work on this system to improve public health earned them a nickname of “[this system] socialists".
ANSWER: sewer [accept “sewer socialism”]
[10] This progressive Republican and Wisconsin senator gained the support of the Socialist Party of America and the
Farmer-Labor Party for his 1924 presidential campaign as a member of the Progressive Party, in which he only won
Wisconsin against conservative Republican president Calvin Coolidge.
ANSWER: Robert M(arion) LaFollette Sr. [do not accept or prompt on Robert M(arion) LaFollette Jr.] <ES>

3.
The delta C-sub-t method is used to normalize quantitative results in a type of this procedure that commonly
uses SYBR (“cyber”) green. DMSO and glycerol can be added to prevent formation of secondary structures
in this technique. This process was popularized following the replacement of the Klenow fragment.
Magnesium cations and dNTPs are common components of the (*) “master mix” used in this technique, which
was invented by Kary Mullis. A thermocycler controls this process’s phases of denaturation, annealing, and
elongation. For 10 points, name this lab technique used to amplify a DNA sample.
ANSWER: PCR [accept polymerase chain reaction; accept specific types of PCR such as real-time PCR, qPCR,
or RT-PCR even though that refers to reverse transcription–PCR and not real-time PCR which was the type of PCR
clued in the first line] <MBK>

Bonus
The main character of this short story orders the title objects to be placed on an animal's grave shortly before his
own death. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this short story, in which Charlie Gordon’s intelligence is artificially tripled. The form of this novel is in a
series of progress reports written by Charlie, displaying his mental advance and regression.
ANSWER: “Flowers for Algernon”
[10] Algernon, the aforementioned pet, is one of these animals. Other literary examples of these animals include
Stuart Little and Despereaux.
ANSWER: mouse
[10] “Flowers for Algernon” won this award for best short story in 1960. This award is given to the best science
fiction or fantasy work each year and is named for the founder of the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories.
ANSWER: Hugo Award for Best Short Story <DJ>

4.
This country’s flag being torn led to a crisis in which this country’s president Roberto Chiari broke off
diplomatic relations with another country. This country’s [emphasize] former overlord lost an area to this
country in the Thousand Days’ War. That area was dealt with in the Hay-Herrán Treaty for a goal that would
later be reversed in a treaty between this country’s leader (*) Omar Torrijos and Jimmy Carter. Those treaties
returned a namesake “zone” to this country, which was previously led by the military leader Manuel Noriega. For 10
points, name this Central American country home to a namesake canal.
ANSWER: Panama <JHB>

Bonus
The best ideas elaborate on others, and religion is no different. For 10 points, answer some questions about religious
syncretism.
[10] This deity’s birthday is on December 25th, which was syncretized into Christian mythology about Jesus. This
deity sprung from a rock and famously slaughtered a bull.
ANSWER: Mithras
[10] Rastafarianism, a syncretic religion based on the Christian Bible, Pan-Africanism, and Hinduism, among others,
was formed in this Caribbean country.
ANSWER: Jamaica
[10] The cult of Aten, who was sometimes syncretized with Ra, was made into the state religion of ancient Egypt by
this pharaoh. After this pharaoh’s death, his son Tutankhamun restored Egyptian polytheism.
ANSWER: Akhenaten <DJ>

5.
When asked by her future husband if he is hideous, this character replies “Very, sir: you always were.” This
character tutors Adèle Varens before meeting one character whose horse slips on ice. This character sees
what she believes to be her uncle’s ghost after being locked in the “red room” by the abusive (*) Mrs. Reed.
Mrs. Reed sends this character to a boarding school, where this character receives support from Miss Temple and
befriends Helen Burns, who dies of tuberculosis from the poor conditions in the Lowood School. For 10 points,
name this character from a Charlotte Bronte novel who meets Mr. Rochester while working as a governess.
ANSWER: Jane Eyre <JHB>

Bonus
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. For ten points each,
[10] Name this transcendentalist essay, which advocates for the individual to follow the title concept and avoid
conformity and false consistency.
ANSWER: “Self-Reliance”
[10] This philosopher and mentor of Henry David Thoreau wrote “Self-Reliance.”
ANSWER: Ralph Waldo Emerson
[10] In this speech to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard, Emerson argued that the title person should be
influenced by nature, the past, and action, and should reject old ideas.
ANSWER: The American Scholar <ES>

6.
This city’s professional soccer team was the first U.S. team to win the CONCACAF (“CAWN-cuh-caff”)
Champions League. A point guard who spent most of his career playing in this city was the first point guard
to win Defensive Player of the Year. The most recent NHL expansion franchise is located in this city, playing
at Climate Pledge Arena with this city’s WNBA team, the (*) Storm. In Super Bowl XLIX (“forty-nine”), the
head coach of this city’s football team was widely criticized for not handing the ball to Marshawn Lynch at the goal
line, leading to their loss to the Patriots. For 10 points, name this city home to the Kraken, Sounders, and Seahawks.
ANSWER: Seattle <AK>

Bonus
This is the only force that can cause quarks and leptons to change their flavors. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this fundamental force stronger only than gravity. It is carried by W and Z bosons.
ANSWER: weak force [or weak nuclear force; accept weak interaction; accept electroweak force or electroweak
interaction]
[10] This scientist used the beta decay of radioactive cobalt-60 to show that parity was not conserved by the weak
force in a namesake experiment for which this scientist controversially did not win a Nobel Prize.
ANSWER: Chien-Shiung Wu
[10] Wu developed a process for separating uranium isotopes through gaseous diffusion in her work on this project.
Alfred Maddock spilled Canada’s entire plutonium supply onto a bench while working on this project that developed
the Fat Man and Little Boy bombs.
ANSWER: Manhattan Project <MBK>

7.
The bora, a strong wind, affects this body of water, and exceptionally high tides in this body of water are
called acqua alta. The largest islands in this body of water are Krk (“kirk”) and Cres (“TS-res”), which can
be reached by ferry from the Istrian Peninsula. At one end of this body of water is the (*) Gulf of Trieste, and
the Strait of Otranto separates this sea from the Ionian Sea. The city of Split in the region of Dalmatia is located
along this sea, and the Po River empties into this sea near Venice. For 10 points, name this arm of the Mediterranean
Sea, bordered by Italy and Croatia.
ANSWER: Adriatic Sea [prompt on Mediterranean Sea, antiprompt on Venetian Lagoon] <ES>

Bonus
I sing of arms and a man. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this epic poem in Latin that tells the story of a survivor of the Trojan War. This poem’s protagonist is
destined to reach Italy and becomes the ancestor of the Romans.
ANSWER: The Aeneid
[10] Vergil, the author of the Aeneid, was heavily influenced by this didactic Greek poet. Scholars have noted that
some chunks in the Aeneid have parallel structures with this poet’s Theogony.
ANSWER: Hesiod
[10] Hesiod’s only other surviving work is this epic. Hesiod educates his brother Perses in agriculture in this work
which covers farming, peasant life, and morality.
ANSWER: Works and Days <AK>

8.
This composer's Opus 3 consists of twelve concertos for one, two, or four violins; this composer's La
stravaganza also contains twelve violin concertos. A mandolin concerto by this composer often accompanies
performances of his most famous work, which are based on a series of sonnets. This composer of (*) L'Estro
Armonico depicted buzzing gnats and icy north winds in one work, and used a two-note viola motif to evoke a dog
barking near a sleeping goatherd in that same work. That work is part of the Contest between Harmony and
Invention by, for 10 points, what Venetian composer of The Four Seasons?
ANSWER: Antonio Lucio Vivaldi <DJ>

Bonus
Answer some questions about Arjuna, for 10 points each:
[10] Name this work in which Arjuna appears. This work includes the Bhagavad Gita, which consists of a
conversation between Arjuna and his mentor Krishna.
ANSWER: the Mahabharata
[10] Original language term required. While Arjuna was reluctant to fight his own family, Krishna reminded him he
had to fulfill this concept as a Kshatriya.
ANSWER: dharma [do not accept or prompt on “duty”]
[10] Arjuna kills this brother of his, who is not considered one of the Pandavas. As a baby, this figure was sent down
a river in a basket by his mother, who feared backlash for being unmarried.
ANSWER: Karna or Vasusena or Anga-raja or Radheya <AK/DJ>

9.
This author wrote a novel in which Moses is raised as an Egyptian prince and marries Zipporah. One of this
author’s nonfiction books examines traditional African-American folklore, including stories about Marie
Laveau and voodoo. In another novel by this author of Moses, Man of the Mountain and Barracoon, the main
character returns to (*) Eatonville, Florida and is pushed to marry Logan Killicks by her grandmother before
killing her third and final husband, Tea Cake. That character is Janie Crawford. For 10 points each, name this author
of Mules and Men and Their Eyes Were Watching God.
ANSWER: Zora Neale Hurston <DJ>

Bonus
A student prepares a solution that has equal moles of benzene and toluene in the [emphasize] vapor phase. For 10
points each:
[10] Assuming that the solution is ideal, this quantity for benzene and toluene is equal. By Dalton’s Law, the partial
forms of this quantity are summed to produce the total amount of this quantity.
ANSWER: pressure [accept partial pressure]
[10] By this law, the partial pressure of each component of an ideal solution can be expressed as the product of a
substance’s mole fraction and vapor pressure. The behavior of azeotropes deviates from this law.
ANSWER: Raoult’s law
[10] Pencil and paper ready. Assuming that the partial pressure of benzene and toluene are 30 torr and 20 torr
respectively, find the percentage of the solution by moles that is benzene.
ANSWER: 60% [accept 0.6 or other equivalents] (30/(20+30) = 30/50 = 60%) <VC>

10.
Taking the inverse hyperbolic tangent of this quantity yields the Fisher transformation. In linear regression,
multiplying this quantity with the standard deviation of the y-values over the standard deviation of the
x-values gives the slope. This quantity assesses linear relationships, whereas one named after (*) Spearman is
used for rank-ordered data. Squaring this quantity estimates the proportion of the variance in one variable that can be
explained by the other. The values for this quantity are between -1 and 1, inclusive. For 10 points, name this quantity
that measures the strength of a statistical relationship and does not always imply causation.
ANSWER: Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient [accept Pearson’s r or PPC or PPMCC] <MK>

Bonus
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel in which the Marquis de la Mole employs the social climber Julien Sorel. Despite Sorel's
intelligence and ability to impress his superiors, the aristocracy views him as a worthless pleb.
ANSWER: The Red and the Black [accept Le Rouge et le Noir]
[10] The Red and the Black is a novel by this French realist author. This author also wrote about Fabrice del Dongo
in The Charterhouse of Parma.
ANSWER: Stendhal [accept Marie-Henri Beyle]
[10] The Red and the Black takes place during the restoration of this French dynasty. The French Revolution ended
this dynasty, in which many kings were named Louis.
ANSWER: House of Bourbon <ES>

11.
This man used contrafact to write the songs “Moose the Mooche” and “Scrapple from the Apple.” This
composer of "Billie's Bounce" used the harmony of Ray Noble's "Cherokee" to write "Koko.” This musician
used repeated II-V [“major two, major five”] chord progressions in a reharmonized 12-bar blues in his song
(*) “Blues for Alice.” Dizzy Gillespie and this musician are credited with writing a song based on the harmony of “I
Got Rhythm” called “Anthropology.” Many of this musician's works are titled "Ornithology," after his nickname.
For 10 points, name this bebop saxophone player, known as "Bird."
ANSWER: Charlie Parker Jr. <ES>

Bonus
During the Informbiro period, Yugoslavia threatened to take this specific action against the USSR in response to
alleged Soviet attempts to take this action. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this action which was speculated to have been undertaken by South Africa against Sweden in a reaction
to Prime Minister Olof Palme’s keynote speech stating that “Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be abolished.”
ANSWER: assassination of the head of state [accept any answer indicating ordering the murder, killing, etc of
the nation’s leader, Prime Minister, General Secretary, etc]
[10] Francesco Gullini allegedly assassinated Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov with ricin and this weapon. A
yellow-colored version of this weapon was used as a symbol by Hong Kong protestors in 2014.
ANSWER: umbrella [accept umbrella gun or Bulgarian umbrella]
[10] Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu allegedly attempted to cause the deaths of striking Jiu Valley coal miners
by giving them extra-long sessions in this machine. Chairs were run through this scanning machine as a result of
cheating suspicions during the World Chess Championship between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi.
ANSWER: X-ray machine <JHB>

12.
In this year, the Council of Federal Organizations organized the Freedom Summer Project. Just two seats at
this year’s DNC were offered to one group organized in part by Fannie Lou Hamer, the Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party. In a speech accepting this year’s Republican presidential nomination, the nominee said (*)
“extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” An advertisement in this year featured a girl picking daisies before a
nuclear explosion in opposition to one candidate who flipped the “Solid South” after opposing the Civil Rights Act
of this year. For 10 points, name this year in which Barry Goldwater lost in a landslide to Lyndon B. Johnson.
Answer: 1964 <MS>

Bonus
Answer some questions about recent South Korean politics. For 10 points each:
[10] This type of disaster occurred in the Itaewon neighborhood of Seoul during Halloween celebrations, leading to
criticism of the government’s decision to refer to it as an “accident” rather than a disaster. Another of these disasters
occurred at a Travis Scott concert at the Astroworld Festival, resulting in the deaths of 10 people.
ANSWER: crowd crush [accept crowd collapse, accept stampede, prompt on reasonable descriptions]
[10] This South Korean president has been criticized for his government’s response to the crowd crush, as well as
claims that he moved the presidential office to a defense ministry building on the orders of the mystic wizard
Cheongong.
ANSWER: Yoon Suk-yeol
[10] Yoon was previously involved in the prosecution of this former president of South Korea, who was involved
with the Choi family’s “Church of Eternal Life,” which has been called a cult.
ANSWER: Park Geun-Hye [prompt on Park] <JHB>

13.
One politician from this region, Henri Bourassa, agitated against the “blood tax” conscription policy of
Robert Borden. The Asbestos strike preceded a shift in the role of the Catholic Church in this region’s Quiet
Revolution. Another leader of this region, Jacques Parizeau, blamed (*) “money and the ethnic vote” for the
outcome of a referendum. Pierre Trudeau declared “Just watch me” after invoking the War Measures Act in response
to the kidnapping of Pierre LaPorte by this region’s FLQ. For 10 points, name this primarily French-speaking
province, which in a 1995 referendum narrowly chose not to secede from Canada.
ANSWER: Quebec <JHB>

Bonus
This project contains eighteen gold-plated beryllium hexagons. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this large infrared space telescope. In 2022, this project’s NIRCam captured an image of the Pillars of
Creation, eight years after an image taken by a predecessor named for Edwin Hubble.
ANSWER: James Webb Space Telescope [accept JWST]
[10] This component of the Webb telescope consists of five layers of Kapton membrane coated on one side with
doped silicon, giving it a purple color. This kite-shaped component is stable from roughly -400 to 200 degrees
Fahrenheit.
ANSWER: its sunshield [accept thermal control system]
[10] The Webb telescope is located at the L2 one of these points, where it stays in line with Earth as it orbits the sun.
For any two bodies, there exist five of these solutions to the three-body-problem discovered by a French
mathematician.
ANSWER: Lagrange points [or Lagrangian points; accept libration points] <MBK>

14.
Bi’ul, bittur, and mechirah are carried out before this holiday, during which Ashkenazim but not Sephardim
avoid kitniyot. Four cups of wine are traditionally drunk at a meal eaten during this holiday which is outlined
by haggadot. During this holiday, the youngest child repeats “mah nishtanah” when asking the (*) Four
Questions. Ten drops of wine represent the Ten Plagues which are commemorated on this holiday. Seder meals are
eaten during this holiday, during which observers must give up chametz, or leavened bread. Matzah is eaten during,
for 10 points, what Jewish holiday commemorating the exodus out of Egypt?
ANSWER: Passover [accept Pesach] <MBK>

Bonus
Name some particularly bloody Civil War battles. For 10 points each:
[10] This battle, the bloodiest day in American history, was won by George McClellan against Robert E. Lee but
McClellan failed to pursue Lee’s forces.
ANSWER: Battle of Antietam [accept Battle of Sharpsburg]
[10] McClellan’s replacement, Ambrose Burnside, failed to easily cross the Rappahannock River at this battle when
pontoon bridges were delayed. Following the crossing, mass artillery fire at Marye’s Heights led to extreme casualty
rates during this battle.
ANSWER: Battle of Fredericksburg
[10] This battle, which followed the bloody Battle of Cold Harbor, was named for a charge that occurred in the area
around an exploded mine. Ulysses S. Grant called this battle “the saddest affair I have witnessed in this war.”
ANSWER: Battle of the Crater <JHB>

15.
In Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Crossing, the protagonist captures a pregnant one of these animals but sets
her free in Mexico. Two of these creatures cause the death of a tiger by crushing him under a stampede of
buffaloes in The Jungle Book. The White Witch sends (*) Maugrim, one of these creatures, to the Beavers’ house
in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. A character mostly descended from these animals fights a bulldog, after
which he is bought by Weedon Scott in a Jack London novel. For 10 points, Buck joins a wild pack of what animals
in The Call of the Wild?
ANSWER: wolves <DJ>

Bonus
A cello and bass theme repeats A G-sharp B G-sharp as the witches assemble in the opening of this work. For ten
points each,
[10] Name this tone poem, which depicts a witches' sabbath on St. John's Night at the title location. An arrangement
of this work, based on Rimsky-Korsakov’s arrangement, appears in the Disney film Fantasia.
ANSWER: Night on Bald Mountain [accept Night on the Bare Mountain and Noch na lysoy gore]
[10] A Russian legend inspired this composer to write "Night on Bald Mountain". This man also composed "Pictures
at an Exhibition".
ANSWER: Modest Mussorgsky
[10] Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov belonged to a group of Romantic era Russian composers named for this
number. Beethoven's symphony of this number features a "fate" motif in C minor.
ANSWER: 5 <ES>

16.
The Komar form of this quantity can be defined for stationary spacetimes. A Millennium Prize Problem deals
with a “gap” named for this quantity under Yang–Mills theory. The weak equivalence principle relates this
quantity’s active, passive, and inertial forms. Tachyons have complex values for this quantity, allowing them
to exceed the (*) speed of light. The Higgs mechanism confers this quantity for some particles, and Einstein related
this quantity to energy with the equation e equals mc squared. For 10 points, name this quantity measured in
kilograms.
ANSWER: mass [accept Komar mass; accept mass gap; accept active or passive or inertial mass; accept
mass-energy equivalence] <MBK>

Bonus
This process for Mandarin includes methods such as Wade-Giles or Yale. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this process that transliterates or transcribes languages with non-Latin based writing into Latin script.
ANSWER: Romanization [prompt on latinization]
[10] This method of romanization for Chinese is the official romanization system in the PRC but not in the ROC.
This romanization system involves the use of diacritics as tone markers and is commonly used to teach Chinese
pronunciation to language learners familiar with Latin script.
ANSWER: Hanyu Pinyin
[10] This phonetic method of transliteration is commonly used for Taiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin. This method
is used in Taiwan to enter Chinese characters into computers and to teach pronunciation in schools.
ANSWER: Bopomofo [accept Zhuyin Fuhao] <WV>

17.
This artist traveled to Palestine to complete a series of etchings based on the Old Testament commissioned by
Ambroise Vollard. A two-faced man and humanoid cat are in the foreground of this artist’s depiction of a
certain city “through the window”. Jesus wears a tallis in a painting by this man which includes a Lithuanian
flag atop a (*) burning synagogue. The Tree of Life is at the bottom of this artist’s most famous painting, which
depicts an upside-down violinist and a green-faced man staring at a goat. For 10 points, name this artist of the White
Crucifixion and I and the Village.
ANSWER: Marc Chagall [accept Moishe Shagal] <MBK>

Bonus
In one process, sodium or ammonium thioglycolate can be applied to these structures to cause them to change shape.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name these structures that are shaped around rods during a perm. These protein filaments, which can be lost in
alopecia, are largely composed of keratin and grow out of follicles.
ANSWER: human hairs [accept human hair follicles]
[10] Perms work by disrupting disulfide bonds between two of this amino acid in the hair’s keratin, then oxidizing
the hair with hydrogen peroxide to reform the linkages. This sulfur-containing amino acid is a precursor to
glutathione, an antioxidant.
ANSWER: cysteine [accept Cys; accept C]
[10] Two cysteines and two histidines coordinate to a namesake ion in most examples of this DNA-binding motif
first discovered in Xenopus laevis. Nucleases engineered from this protein motif can be used for genome editing in
many complex organisms.
ANSWER: zinc fingers [accept zinc finger nucleases] <MBK>

18.
In one novel by this author, the title Masha Mironov is loved by soldier Pyotr Grinyov. That novel is The
Captain’s Daughter. In one story by this author, the Count of Saint Germain supposedly knew a secret to
winning in faro, which drives the Imperial Army officer Herman to murder a countess seeking the winning
(*) three-card combination. A play by this author centers around the invasion of Grigory Otrepyev, who pretends to
be the “False Dmitriy,” a deceased son of Ivan the Terrible, and fights the title boyar noble who seized power as
Tsar. For 10 points, name this Russian author of The Captain’s Daughter, The Queen of Spades and Boris Godunov.
ANSWER: Alexander Pushkin <NV>

Bonus
Answer the following about artist Man Ray, for 10 points each:
[10] Among many other media, Ray is known for his work in this medium, including depictions of Marcel
Duchamp’s alter ego Rrose Selavy. This medium, which he used to create “rayographs” using light-sensitive paper,
was also practiced by Cindy Sherman and Dorothea Lange.
ANSWER: photography [accept photograms; accept word forms such as taking photos; prompt on answers
mentioning “picture” in place of “photo”]
[10] An early example of Ray’s rayographs depicted two people performing this action, inside whose heads outlines
of hands can be seen. An Auguste Rodin sculpture shows Paolo and Francesca da Rimini engaging in this action.
ANSWER: kissing [accept obvious equivalents]
[10] Ray’s The Kiss depicts him and this model, actress, and lover of his at the time. Ray painted f-holes onto a nude
picture of this woman in his photograph Le Violon d’Ingres.
ANSWER: Kiki de Montparnasse [accept Alice Prin; prompt on just de Montparnasse] <MBK>

19.
Avidius Cassius declared himself emperor after spreading a rumor of this man’s death. This emperor
defeated the Sarmatian Iazyges, Quadi, and Marcommani in one campaign. During this man’s reign, soldiers
returning to Rome from a campaign in the Near East spread a plague sometimes named after the Greek
physician (*) Galen. This man was co-emperor with Lucius Verus and ascended to the throne after the death of his
father Antoninus Pius. This man’s successor, Commodus, broke the tradition of “adoptive emperors.” For 10 points,
name this Stoic philosopher, last of the Five Good Emperors, and author of Meditations.
ANSWER: Marcus Aurelius Antonius <MK>

Bonus
What shall this character speak? Love and be silent. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this character who agrees to marry the King of France. King Lear disowns this beloved daughter of his
and banishes her for not professing her love for him.
ANSWER: Cordelia
[10] In some productions of King Lear, an actor plays the roles of both Cordelia and a character named for this
profession. King Lear escapes Goneril’s house with Kent and that character who has this profession, which involves
making jokes and taunting him frequently.
ANSWER: Fool [accept jester and other equivalents]
[10] Lear, the Fool, and Kent encounter this man, who has disguised himself as the babbling madman Tom o’
Bedlam. This man later leads his blinded father, Gloucester, to a cliff in Dover and kills his brother Edmund.
ANSWER: Edgar <ES>

20.
The Lennard–Jones potential was formulated from data on one of these elements, which the potential is
particularly effective at modeling. The heaviest of these elements is the heavier of the two elements named for
scientists alive at the time of their discovery; that element is oganesson. Neil Bartlett discovered the unusual
(*) hexafluoroplatinate of one of these elements. Weak intermolecular forces lead to low melting and boiling points
in these elements. These elements are placed in brackets in shorthand electron configuration notation because of
their full valence shells. For 10 points, name this group of elements that include xenon and neon.
ANSWER: noble gases [accept Group 18 elements; accept inert gases] <MBK>
Bonus
Geologist Laszlo Toth shouted “I am Jesus Christ” before attacking a sculpture depicting this scene with a hammer.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this scene depicting Mary cradling Jesus’s body after his descent from the cross. Michelangelo famously
sculpted this scene, which was the only work he ever signed.
ANSWER: the Pietà [accept Madonna della Pietà or La Pietà]
[10] Other famous depictions of the Pietà were created by this artist of The Flight into Egypt whose style is often
contrasted with Caravaggio’s. Along with his brother Agostino and cousin Ludovico, this man is often credited with
the development of the Baroque.
ANSWER: Annibale Carracci
[10] This other artist included statues of Moses and the Hellespontine Sibyl in his dimly-lit Pietà, one of his last
works. This Venetian painter of The Rape of Europa included maids looking through a chest in the background of a
painting of a reclining nude.
ANSWER: Titian [or Tiziano Vecellio (accept either underlined portion)] (the unnamed painting is the Venus of
Urbino) <MBK>