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Two answers required. These two countries engaged in the “Battle of the Beams” involving radio technology. A monarch of one of these two countries said that the people of the other country were as “mad as March hares.” A monarch of one of these two countries who was suspected of being sympathetic to the other country abdicated to marry a two-time American divorcée. One of these two countries planned to (*) invade the other in Operation Sea-lion. The capital of one of these two countries was heavily bombed by the other’s Luftwaf e air force in The Blitz. For 10 points, name these two countries once led by Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler
United Kingdom and Germany
This trait is more prevalent among the offspring of organisms that are in “good condition” according to the Trivers–Willard hypothesis. In humans, the protein TDF induces this condition by activating SOX9 [“socks-nine”], which in turn activates Anti-Müllerian [“anti-moo-LARE-ian”] hormone. The frequency of this trait in turtles decreases as (*) temperature increases. The most dominant clownfish in a school loses this trait. Humans with this trait are more susceptible to red–green colorblindness and other X-linked recessive conditions like pattern baldness. For 10 points, name this trait defined as the ability to produce sperm.
maleness
This instrument plays an A-major theme in canon with the piano in the finale of a Cesar Franck sonata, and Debussy’s G-minor sonata for it was his last work. Bazzini’s “Le ronde de lutins” and Elgar’s “Salut d’amour” are salon works for this instrument. Pieces for it supposedly by Pugnani and Tartini were actually written by Fritz Kreisler, who along with (*) Yehudi Menuhin played these instruments made by the Guarneri family. Beethoven’s “Spring” and “Kreutzer” sonatas and Paganini’s 24 caprices are for this instrument, a Stradivarius one of which is played by Itzhak Perlman. For 10 points, name this highest string instrument.
violin
of this team defeated the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl using a defensive game plan now housed in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That current coach of this team won two Super Bowl titles as a defensive coordinator under Bill Parcells. This team won a 2002 playoff game against the Oakland Raiders thanks to the (*) “tuck rule.” David Tyree’s “helmet catch” helped defeat this team that went undefeated in the 2007 regular season. This team scored 31 unanswered points to beat the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI [“fifty-one”]. For 10 points, Bill Belichick coaches what American football team whose longtime quarterback was Tom Brady?
The Patrioits
In this city, Blum’s Delicatessen is robbed by a character who later takes two characters to Charlie’s Chicken Shack. Saul Bellow began The Adventures of Augie March with the line, “I am an American, [this city]-born.” The narrator of Black Boy joins this city’s Communist Party, and in a novel, Jack Duane is imprisoned in this city. Phil (*) Connor is attacked in this city after raping Ona in one novel, and Mary Dalton is killed in this city in Richard Wright’s Native Son. Jurgis Rudkis works in this city’s meatpacking industry in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. For 10 points, name this subject of a notable Carl Sandburg poem, an Illinois city.
Chicago
This president’s Chief of Staff Sherman Adams was forced to resign for accepting a vicuña [“vuh-KOO-nyah”] overcoat as a gift. This man spoke of a “cross of iron” before listing peaceful alternatives to building a heavy bomber in his Chance for Peace speech. This man dispatched the 101st Airborne Division to force the hand of Orval Faubus and twice defeated (*) Adlai E. Stevenson. This man’s experiences on the German autobahn inspired the creation of Interstate Highway System. This president warned of the influence of the military–industrial complex in his Farewell Address. For 10 points, name this successor of Harry Truman, a World War II general.
Dwight D Eisenhower
This scientist discovered alpha and beta radiation and coined the term gamma radiation. When this scientist irradiated nitrogen gas and observed the resulting emissions, he discovered that all atomic nuclei contain the hydrogen nucleus. This scientist names the diffraction of (*) alpha particles by an electric potential. That type of scattering, named after this scientist, was discovered in the same experiment which first showed that the nucleus was positively charged. This scientist’s most famous experiment involved the detection of alpha particles which scattered off heavy atomic nuclei. For 10 points, name this man who supervised the gold foil experiment.
Ernest Rutherford
One work in this material features a semi-nude figure in a reclining pose inspired by archaic depictions of hermaphrodites. Another work made using this material is in Apsley House and depicts Napoleon as the god Mars. The sculpture Venus Victrix is made from this material, as is the Roman copy of a work in which a god leans against a tree upon which a (*) lizard crawls. This material was used for a Roman copy of a sculpture by a different artist that depicts a man in a contrapposto pose who originally had a spear on his shoulder. For 10 points, name this material used by Neoclassical sculptors due to its association with the refined beauty of Classical art.
marble
In a recent appearance, this character can grow gigantic and take on his original chubby appearance. In another appearance, this character can perform special moves by cosplaying as roles like a rock star or PhD. Special versions of this character can Surf and use balloons to Fly. Wearing a hat gives this character access to an exclusive (*) Z-move. Holding a Light Ball doubles this character’s power and allows its offspring to use Volt Tackle. Characters like Emolga and Pachirisu are considered “clones” of this character. When exposed to a Thunder Stone, this character evolves into Raichu. For 10 points, name this electric rodent, the mascot of Pokémon Yellow.
Pikachu
The speaker of a poem from this country laments “sons… buried amid the grass” in a poem whose title vehicles “rumble and roll.” The speaker of another poem from this country describes an “odd, inanimate feast” and hopes to meet two of his friends again “on the cloudy river of the sky.” In another poem by the same poet from this country, the speaker ponders frost on the ground and (*) the moonlight before his bed and then thinks about his home village. A poet from this country wrote “Song of the Wagons,” while another wrote “Quiet Night Thought” and “Drinking Alone by Moonlight.” For 10 points, name this country home to Du Fu and Li Bai
China
5. A political coalition named for this good used the slogan “16 to 1” and dubbed a law regulating this commodity as the “Crime of ’73.” The “Grand Bland Plan” that required the federal government to purchase a certain amount of this commodity was enacted in 1878 after Congress overrode Rutherford B. Hayes’s veto. Senator Henry M. Teller created a political (*) party as part of a “Free” movement in support of this commodity. The first major discovery of this commodity in the United States was by Henry Comstock in Nevada in 1858. For 10 points, bimetallism refers to a monetary standard based on gold and what other shiny metal?
Silver
It’s not multiplication, but this operation is used to define an inner product on L-2 space. The error function is proportional to this operation on “e to the negative t-squared.” This operation is applied to continuous PDFs to yield CDFs. This operation is defined for bounded functions on R-n if and only if their set of discontinuities has Lebesgue [“leh-BAY-g”] measure 0. Performing this operation on (*) u dv yields u v minus this operation on v du when this operation is carried out “by parts.” This operation can be approximated by the trapezoid rule or Riemann sums. For 10 points, name this operation, which along with differentiation comprises the two central operations in calculus.
integration
A treatise “to assist amateur players” of these works titled for the School of [them] describes their effect as “weird and intoxicating.” These works often had ABACD forms and instructions from a composer not to play them too fast. One of these works depicts “brokers forget[ting] their cares,” while another instructs a pianist to stamp his or her feet. John Stillwell Stark published these works by the composer of the concert waltz (*) “Bethena,” some of which were named after “Easy Winners,” “Elite Syncopations,” and Sedalia, Missouri’s Maple Leaf Club. For 10 points, name these heavily syncopated works notably written by Scott Joplin before the rise of jazz.
rags
The Harvard Crimson deemed one person involved in this event “Athlete of the Week” for beating Brown in a tennis match. After this event, Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Wyden urged the IRS to scrutinize the Key Worldwide Foundation. One person implicated in this event authored The Modern Girl’s Guide to Motherhood, while another lost a partnership with (*) Sephora. A key figure in this event was Mark Riddell. High-profile actresses implicated in this event include Lori Loughlin, whose daughter Olivia Jade left USC. For 10 points, name this event in which 33 parents bribed Rick Singer to admit their children into colleges.
2019 college admissions scandal, operation varsity blues
In a play from this country, a character complains about “cripples” entering the “How-to-Make-aMess-of-Life-Championships” before saying that “you can’t fly kites on rainy days.” In a novel from this country, a corpse is found on Mehring’s 400-acre farm. Morris visits a pen-pal instead of Zacariah in a play from this country, the setting of a novel in which Daniel steals (*) Bamford’s gun. The play Blood Knot is from this country, and a war in this country forces the Smales family to live with their black servant in July’s People. For 10 points, Athol Fugard and Nadine Gordimer critiqued which country’s policy of apartheid?
South Africa
One scholar claimed “To ask questions about the life of [this man’s lover] is to ask questions about half of humanity” due to a lack of information about her. This man’s father Xanthippus returned from being ostracized to lead the victorious forces at the Battle of Mycale [“mye-KALL”], and this man gained power himself by ostracizing his rival Cimon [“SYE-mun”]. This lover of Aspasia commissioned (*) Phidias to rebuild the Parthenon and ordered citizens to stay behind the Long Walls. This man died from plague after giving a famous “Funeral Oration.” For 10 points, name this “Golden Age” statesman who led Athens in the Peloponnesian War
Pericles
e’s not Faraday, but this scientist names an electromagnetic field’s stress tensor. Formulas named for this man result from swapping partial derivatives in a thermodynamic quantity’s second derivative. This man considered the changing electric field in a capacitor when he invented the concept of displacement current. This namesake of several thermodynamic (*) “relations” proposed a thought experiment regarding a violation of the second law of thermodynamics. This man corrected Ampère’s law and included it in his four equations of electromagnetism. For 10 points, name this physicist who theorized a namesake “demon.”
James Clerk Maxwell
13. The spelling of this object’s name in one work’s title puns on its depiction of a dark green “replica” of this object, upon which a black-robed acolyte stands. A work depicts a “Back View” of this object from “Dream Mountain.” A triangular roof mimics the shape of this object, which is under a kite reading “longevity” in one depiction. This object is behind workers lugging bags of grain to a watermill and a man cleaning a hollow barrel. This object is bright red in (*) Fine Wind, Clear Morning, and it appears behind two boats in The Great Wave of Kanagawa. For 10 points, name this landmark, “36 views” of which were depicted by Hiroshige and Hokusai
Mount Fuji
A real-life stand-in for this location is depicted in a photo by John Kosh set just before sunset in Beverly Hills. People in this location “stab…with their steely knives” in an attempt to “kill the beast,” and a narrator remarks that in this location, “some dance to remember, / some dance to forget.” A Captain in this location notes that “we haven’t had [the narrator’s] (*) spirit here since 1969.” A night man here tells the narrator that “You can check out any time you like, / But you can never leave!” For 10 points, name this “lovely place,” an establishment near “a dark desert highway” that titles the Eagles’ most well-known single
Hotel California
The title character of a story by this author murders an antique dealer on Christmas, but turns himself in after being visited by an otherworldly being. In another story by this author, the title object is responsible for Napoleon and Captain Cook’s success, and is resold to the protagonist to cure his leprosy. In that story, Keawe tries to sell the title (*) wish-granting object for less than he bought it. This author of “The Bottle Imp” wrote a novella in which Sir Danvers Carew is killed by one of the title characters, who transforms into the other by drinking a potion. For 10 points, name this author who created Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Negative sentiment against these people was stoked by the book Actes [“acts”] and Monuments by John Foxe. The Gordon Riots occurred as a backlash against a legislation supporting these people. The 1701 Act of Settlement forbade these people from becoming monarchs, while the Test Act of 1673 discriminated against these people by requiring everyone taking office to swear against the belief of (*) transubstantiation. Some of these religious people, including Robert Catesby, organized the Gunpowder Plot. For 10 points, the Papists Act of 1778 attempted to reduce discrimination against what religious group of people led by the Pope?
Catholics
The derivative of one of these quantities features in the equations given by the Lindemann–Hinshelwood mechanism. When this value for the substrate is high, the Michaelis–Menten equation becomes independent of this value. In the steady-state approximation for chemical kinetics, the derivative of this quantity is set to (*) zero. For zeroth- and second-order reactions, but not first-order ones, the half-life of the reaction depends on this quantity. A method to determine the rate law of a reaction involves varying this value and measuring how the initial reaction rate changes. For 10 points, name this quantity that is commonly given in units of moles per liter.
Concentration
Erwin Panofsky claimed that the inclusion of one of these objects surrounded by scenes from the Passion in a painting was necessary for that painting to fulfill its purpose as legal documentation. A painting named for one of these objects contains a feminine central figure and has a foreground that is dominated by a large, elongated hand holding a paintbrush. That circular painting by (*) Parmigianino functions as a self-portrait. In another painting, one of these objects is seen in the back below the chandelier and between the central couple. The title figures are reflected in, for 10 points, what object in Jan [“YON”] Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding?
Mirrors
Objections to an allegory defending this practice include the “tacit consent” type. Some moderate supporters of this practice have attempted to define morally relevant “breaks.” A 1971 essay by Judith Thomson titled “A Defense” of this practice proposes a thought experiment in which a kidnapped person wakes up to find themselves (*) attached to an unconscious, ill violinist. Some argue this practice is justified up until a subject’s “first movement,” “viability,” or the acquisition of the ability to feel pain. Opponents of this practice may consider it to be a form of homicide. For 10 points, name this practice supported by the pro-choice movement
abortion
The speaker of a poem in this collection is “wandering and confused” as he “bend[s]… over the shut eyes” of the title group. The speaker of another poem in this collection rhapsodizes about “the expression of a well-made man,” asserts that “a man’s body at auction” contains “the start… of rich republics,” and declares “the (*) armies of those I love engirth me.” “The Sleepers” is included in this collection, as is a poem whose speaker emits a “barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world” and “celebrate[s] [him]self.” For 10 points, name this poetry collection containing “I Sing the Body Electric” and “Song of Myself,” by Walt Whitman.
Leaves of Grass