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Michigan MLK Tournament 2005

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TOSSUPS
1. While the holiest site is the Qiblih in Akko, Israel, other holy sites include a shrine on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. One of its main founding figures was imprisoned in Acre from 1868 to 1908. These classic bet-hedgers accept the truth of all major religions and assert the equality of the sexes and call for an end to all prejudices. Naturally, this has gotten its followers persecuted in Iran, where this faith began when Siyyid Ali Muhammad took the title of "Bab." For 10 points, name this faith continued by Baha'ullah.
Answer: Baha'i

2. Tsar Peter III of Russia was born in this city and Max Planck also lived there. It contains the oldest art gallery and botanical gardens in Germany. The sailing and yachting events of the 1972 Olympics took place here, as did a major naval mutiny in 1918. Its population increased tenfold between 1864 and 1910, thanks to Germany's annexing it from Denmark and housing its navy there. For 10 points, name this Hanseatic city of Schleswig-Holstein that marks the Baltic terminus of its namesake canal.

3. The Gorda Plate fractured from this in the south at Blanco Fracture Zone and the Explorer Plate fractured in the north at Sovanco Fracture Zone. This plate system resulted because the Farallon plate had a different vector pattern than the transform convergence zone to the south. A point formed called the Mendocino Triple Junction, resulting from the incomplete subduction of the Farallon plate. FTP, name this plate whose subduction is responsible for the Cascade Mountains and which shares its name with a strait at the entrance to Puget Sound.

4. The protagonist has two sons: the elder, Lyons, shows up at the start of the play, because it is his father's payday. The younger has a job at the A&P, but has quit it to play football, which outrages his father. Eventually the younger, Cory, fights his father, who throws him out and then stands in the yard, swinging a baseball bat and taunting death. Brother Gabriel cries to open the heavens at the end of, for 10 points, what August Wilson play featuring former Negro league ballplayer Troy Maxson?

5. A rumor that this emperor had died caused the only major revolt of his reign, that of the Syrian Avidius Cassius. His first act upon becoming emperor was to make his adopted brother Lucius Verus co-emperor. He spent most of his reign on campaign, including his last against the Quadi and Marcomanni on the Danube. His contribution to surviving Latin literature consists of correspondence with his tutor Fronto, though he is better known for his Greek writings. For 10 points, name this father of Commodus and author of a spiritual diary known as the Meditations.

6. Fra Angelico's version in the Museo di San Marco in Florence has a startling wide open space underneath the circular panel containing the central figure. Petrus Christus and Jan Van Eyck both display an armored, emaciated St. Michael in the center triumphing over a skeleton, with the supposed most important character perched above him. In the most famous version, Jesus, like most other figures, is almost naked and pretty buff, kind of like a young David. His right hand is raised above his head pointing at some groveling figures on his left in, for 10 points, Michelangelo's rendering of what biblical scene that hangs above the altar of the Sistine Chapel?

7. It can be cross-linked with an orthoquinone to form a quinoenzyme, and, like phenylalanine and tyrosine, it is often formed via the Shikimate pathway. In 1989, an improperly made batch of a supplement containing this caused an outbreak of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. It does not contain sulfur, but aside from methionine, it is the only other amino acid that has only one codon, namely UGG. FTP, name this essential amino acid, a precursor for melatonin, which supposedly causes sleepiness after eating turkey.

Answer: Tryptophan
8. He created the character of Timothy Bobbin to parody A.A. Milne, who was a harsh critic of this writer's. He was on holiday in France in 1940 and was captured by the Germans and made broadcasts over the radio back to England. His less-well-known recurring heroes include Psmith, Mr. Mulliner and various inhabitants of Blandings Castle. Gussie Fink-Nottle and Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps (pron. Fungy-Phipps) help provide the light-hearted humor in, FTP, what British writer's tales of Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves?
Answer: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

9. It passed because of a compromise in which the Democrats agreed to support the McKinley tariff. Its immediate effect was in fact a large increase in the supply of the relevant commodity and fall in its price. It was a response to increasing pressure from farmers who had suffered falling prices of their own since a similar measure was passed in 1878. For 10 points, name this currency-reform law of 1890 that superseded the Bland-Allison act, and whose Ohio senator sponsor is better know for antitrust legislation?

10. Seasons and Album for Children are among his few well-known works for solo piano, while cellists are fond of his Variations on a Rococo Theme. The last of his four suites for orchestra is a musical reminiscence of Mozart. His symphonic poems drew on Dante and Byron for Francesca da Rimini and Manfred Symphony respectively. "Winter Dreams," "Little Russian" and "Polish" are titles of the first three symphonies, but FTP, what composer of Marche Slave, Eugene Onegin, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker?

11. The duke of this name lived under Louis XIV and, after annotating the memoirs of the Marquis de Dangeau, decided to bring out memoirs of his own describing the ritual of the court and moaning about the nobility getting the shaft. His namesake and relative three generations later looked for an institution to replace the influence of the medieval Catholic Church and decided scientists were the best answer. August Comte was for a long time big buddies with, FTP, what utopian socialist author of Letters of an Inhabitant of Geneva to his Contemporaries and New Christianity?

12. In 1969, they formed from the union of the Jam Band and Chain Reaction. Their first appearance under their new name was outside the Boston University student union. Their lead singer's now-famous shrieking falsetto was introduced with their song "Dream On." FTP, name this band led by Steve Tyler and famous for hits such as "Dude Looks Like a Lady" and "Angel."

Answer: Aerosmith

13. Only about 15 percent of this country's area lies below 3,000 feet. That includes the Chu and Talas valleys, the former of which contains the capital, which from 1926 to 1991 was known as Frunze [FRUHN-zay]. Its northwest corner contains Lake Ysyk-Kol, while its tallest peaks are Victory Peak and Mt. Khan-Tengri on the border with Kazakstan. An enclave of Tajikistan occupies the south-west corner of, FTP, what mountainous former Soviet republic whose capital is Bishkek.

15. Research has shown that in AIDS patients, these cells' Adenosine Deaminase activity is abnormally high. Polycythemia is a disease in which their numbers gradually increase, predisposing sufferers to thromboses. Their Duffy antigen is a cite of attachment for the parasite Plasmodium vivax, which causes malaria. They are destroyed by specialized macrophages in the spleen after living about 120 days. FTP, name these hemoglobin-containing cells affected sickle-cell anemia.

Answer: erythrocytes [accept red blood cells]

16. His deeply miserable childhood that contributed to the pessimism of works such as The Yellow Boat, Self-Portrait in Hell, and The Sick Child. His work caused bitter controversy at the 1892 Union of Berlin Artists, but the following year in that same city he began the series that would include A Poem about Life, Ashes, Vampire and Women in Three Stages. That so-called Frieze of Life was never finished by, for 10 points, what Norwegian artist of the recently stolen The Scream.

17. The result of this battle was largely negated by the subsequent Peace of Thorn, in which the losers gave up only Samogitia. The victors' original objective of Marienburg was besieged briefly after the battle but not taken. Only fifty years later, after a Prussian revolt, would the Poles get an outlet to the Baltic, by which time King Jagiello was long dead. For 10 points, name this 1410 victory of Poles and Lithuanians over Teutonic Knights, which shares one of its names with a major German victory over Russia in World War I

18. Her given name is Nilanjana Sudeshna, but early on in school she decided it would be easier to stick with her nickname. A 1989 graduate of Barnard College, she currently resides and writes in Brooklyn. The year 2000 saw her win the Pulitzer prize, and 2003 marked the publication of her first novel and second book, The Namesake. For 10 points—name this writer of Bengali descent, author of the collection of nine short stories about Indian-Americans and their lives, entitled Interpreter of Maladies.

19. Similar to Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein models, it uses the grand canonical partition function in its denominator. This Gaussian normal curve is entirely accurate only when all of the particles in question have the same mass, and it assumes that the subject is ideal. FTP, name this distribution from statistical mechanics which probabilistically models properties of any given molecule of a gas at thermal equilibrium, named for its two discoverers.

Answer: The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution

20. A common objecton to this theory with proponents like Shoemaker, Putnam and Levin is that it leaves out an essential property of mental states: their qualia or "what its like" to have them. An early proponent, Hilary Putnam, used the Turing Machine as a model that should be extended to mental states. FTP, name this doctrine stating that mental states are determined by causal relations to sensory stimulations rather than on their internal constitution.

21. Their name translates as "armed men on horseback," and since 2003 they have fought against the Justice and Equality Movement. They are considerably better armed than the murahilin militias that were doing the job before, but the government continues to deny that it backs them and their leaders, including Musa Hillal. This is not generally believed by foreign observers of, for 10 points, what Muslim guerilla force that has driven refugees into Chad and committed numerous atrocities in the region of Sudan around Darfur?

23. An old woman, Sister Gudule, recognizes that a woman she is supposed to guard is her long-lost daughter who she thought was killed by the gypsies. She then tries to save her daughter's life, but is instead killed and the corrupt priest Claude Frollo takes away the prisoner. He has the woman hanged for the murder of Captain Phoebus, though it was actually he who committed the crime. Frollo is later thrown to his death in, FTP, what novel of Victor Hugo about the love of Quasimodo for Esmeralda.

24. He proclaimed Russia to be the cradle of life in his Epochs of Nature. His most famous work is filled with Louis Daubenton's descriptions of mammalian anatomy, and is often contrasted with Linnaeus' System of Nature, but he is best known today for throwing sticks onto a tiled floor, a process that presaged the development of Monte Carlo methods. FTP, name this 18th century French naturalist who wrote a voluminous History Naturelle and has an eponymous "needle problem."

25. Its original name was Ukerewe, and its largest inflowing river is the Kagera, which has a massive delta on the western shore. Its ecosystem has been harrassed recently by the water hyacinth and the Nile Perch. Its level was raised in 1954 by the construction of the Owen Falls Dam. Entebbe and Kampala lie along the shores of, FTP, what squarish second largest freshwater lake in the world, which borders Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania?

BONUSES
1. Works of Hogarth, for the stated number of points:

and The Marriage Contract (engraving)

2. Answer the following about the only part of chemistry in which Adam Kemezis is even mildly interested.

3. Rivers of China FTPE

4. Name these players in the recent Illinois senate race won by Barack Obama.

5. Famous Jesuits, for 10 points each:

6. FTPE, name the type of genetic mutation given a description.

7. Things about Sigmund Freud, for 10 points each:

8. Name these people important in the U.S. auto industry, FTPE:

9. Things about a certain twentieth-century African leader, 5-5-10-10

10. People to do with the philosophy of history, for 10 points each:

11. Given the work, name the author who left it unfinished at the time of his death for five points each.

12. Name some Austrian Habsburgs, for 10 points:

13. For ten points each, name the following films starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

14. For ten points each, name these albums from the titles of their last track.

15. Answer the following on Orbital Dynamics, FTPE

16. For ten points each, name these Palestinian leaders.

17. Works of Schiller, for the stated number of points:

and one of

Wallenstein's Camp or Wallensteins Lager

The Piccolomini

Wallenstein's Death or Wallensteins Tod
(10) This blank-verse drama of Schiller's deals with a son of Philip II of Spain who falls in love with his stepmother.
Answer: Don Carlos

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19. For ten points each, name the following supernatural figures in Zoroastrianism.

20. Answer the following about Spain's conquest of Peru, for 10 points:

21. Works of Rimsky-Korsakov, for 10 points each:

(accept "cock," "chicken," "guinea fowl," etc.)

22. Given a list of landmarks, name the Hawaiian island they belong to for ten points each.

23. Name these water-soluble vitamins, FTPE.

24. Characters from Jane Eyre, FTPE

25. Works of Vladimir Nabokov, FTPE

26. For ten points each, name these crucial figures in the United States Bank Wars.