2014 SCT: specific questions
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 12:15 am
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In the interest of full disclosure: most of the D1 music tossups were written by me (including the three you mentioned). It wasn't my goal to monopolize the music distro, just to fill needs that were there. Still, that's sub-optimal to begin with, and obviously far worse if I did a bad job. So: I'm sorry. Criticism will do me good.ThisIsMyUsername wrote: The other gripe is that the score clues in the music tossups were pretty systematically terrible.
Here it is:Bartleby wrote:I'm going to get this in before I forget: the reference (or possibly references) to the Confederacy as a "country" was really regrettable, as this is an assertion that is:
a) not really true to the best of my knowledge (if I remember correctly, no nation gave official diplomatic recognition)
b) not settled in the historiography (in fact, I'm willing to bet that most historians would not refer to the Confederacy as a "country")
I thought this was a pretty good tournament overall, but this was an irksome question.
Edited to clarify: this was in the tossup on the Confederacy, which appeared in, I believe, DI, round 13.
-SethDI SCT round 13 wrote:This country sparked a diplomatic incident when it ordered the Laird Rams from a British shipmaker. This country, whose blockade brought about a "famine" in Lancashire, had three capitals, the last of which lasted for eight days. Two ambassadors from this country were imprisoned at Fort Warren after Charles (*) Wilkes ordered the USS ~San Jacinto~ [juh-SIN-toh] to impound the RMS ~Trent~. For 10 points--name this country that practiced "King Cotton" diplomacy with Great Britain under its president, Jefferson Davis.
answer: _Confederacy_ or _Confederate States_ of America (accept _CS_ or _CSA_)
Here's the bonus part:Euler's Constant wrote:For the bonus part on aspiration in DII (round 14 I think) would rough breathing been acceptable? This went into protest (and was being researched) in our game versus Harvard A, but we never got final ruling due to the results of the tiebreakers.
I'm not an expert, but "rough breathing" doesn't seem like it should be accepted here.SCT DII round 14 wrote:B. Grassmann's law describes the disappearance of this characteristic of a {consonant} when the next syllable contains a consonant that possesses it; it involves a puff of air.
answer: _aspiration_ (accept _aspirated_ or other word forms)
Here they are:ThisIsMyUsername wrote:So, could you please post the tossups on the 1812 Overture, Pomp and Circumstance Marches, and Leonard Bernstein? Thanks.
SCT DI round 8 wrote:In this piece, a tambourine ostinato accompanies a violin dance melody that then passes through the strings. Its time signature changes from 4/4 ["four-four"] to 3/4 ["three-four"] while the winds play unison descending eighth notes. That section is followed by the return of a melody played at the start of this piece by two violas and four cellos. This piece that quotes both "La (*) Marseillaise" [lah mar-say-yez] and "God Save the Tsar" calls for cannon. For 10 points--identify this Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky overture named for a year.
answer: _1812 Overture_, Op. 49 (or Festival Overture, "The _Year 1812_"; accept _1812_ after "overture")
SCT DI round 10 wrote:In the third of these pieces, a "Vivace" [vee-VAH-chay] section begins with the brass playing three unison sixteenth notes. In the fourth, the first violins play a low C major melody on the G string to start a "Nobilmente" [noh-beel-MEN-tay] section. The first of these pieces features a two-bar melody consisting of two accented beats and a bar of rising sixteenth notes, and a trio that uses the tune of (*) "Land of Hope and Glory." For 10 points--name this set of marches by Edward Elgar, the first of which is popular at graduations.
answer: _Pomp and Circumstance_ (Military) Marches, Op. 39
-SethSCT DI round 12 wrote:The overture to one of this man's operettas features timpani glissandos from A-flat to B-flat, and a theme subdivided into measures of 2/2 [two-two], 2/2, and 3/2 [three-two]. His Third Symphony, whose second movement begins with seemingly random percussion sounds preceding a humming chorus, was written in honor of John F. Kennedy and named for the (*) Hebrew prayer for the dead. The ~Kaddish~ [KAH-dish] Symphony is by--for 10 points--what American composer of the operetta ~Candide~ [kan-deed] and the musical ~West Side Story~?
answer: Leonard _Bernstein_ [BURN-styne] (or Louis _Bernstein_)
This is in the correct order as far as I can tell:madviking wrote:There was a bonus in round 13 (I think) that went Dead Sea/Turkmenistan/Xinjiang except they flipped the clues for Turkmenistan (talking about the Tarim Depression here) and Xinjiang (talking about some Turkmeni thing here). I feel like that was definitely a weird oversight.
DI SCT round 10 wrote:B. The Karakum Desert, which lies in the Turan Basin, occupies a majority of the area of what country east of the Caspian Sea and north of Iran?
answer: _Turkmenistan_
C. The Turfan Depression, which reaches more than 500 feet below sea level, is in what autonomous region that includes the northwesternmost point of China?
answer: _Xinjiang_ (Uyghur Autonomous Region) (or _Sinkiang_ or _Shinjang_)
Ah I see. It was pretty late in the day and I was definitely hearing things I shouldn't have. Sorry to bother.bt_green_warbler wrote:This is in the correct order as far as I can tell:madviking wrote:There was a bonus in round 13 (I think) that went Dead Sea/Turkmenistan/Xinjiang except they flipped the clues for Turkmenistan (talking about the Tarim Depression here) and Xinjiang (talking about some Turkmeni thing here). I feel like that was definitely a weird oversight.
DI SCT round 10 wrote:B. The Karakum Desert, which lies in the Turan Basin, occupies a majority of the area of what country east of the Caspian Sea and north of Iran?
answer: _Turkmenistan_
C. The Turfan Depression, which reaches more than 500 feet below sea level, is in what autonomous region that includes the northwesternmost point of China?
answer: _Xinjiang_ (Uyghur Autonomous Region) (or _Sinkiang_ or _Shinjang_)
DII SCT round 8 wrote:The first ruler of this name succeeded the general Horemheb. During the 20th dynasty, the third ruler of this name defeated the Sea Peoples at the Battle of the Delta. This name suggests its bearer was born from the chief solar deity. Among the eleven rulers of this name was the (*) pharaoh in power at the time of the Passover story. For 10 points--give this name shared by a pharaoh also known as Ozymandias.
DII SCT round 9 wrote:This country, which is home to the Islamic Action Front, granted citizenship to a majority of its two million Palestinian refugees. The Black September civil war resulted in the expulsion of the PLO from this country in 1971, and it lost East Jerusalem and the (*) West Bank to Israel in the Six-Day War during the reign of King Hussein. King Abdullah II now rules--for 10 points--what "Hashemite Kingdom" whose capital is Amman?
I bet most historians refer to the Confederacy as "the Confederacy," since they don't usually have to use demonstrative phrases such as "this country" every other sentence, like we do. Given the circumstances of a 500-character quizbowl question, "country" seemed unintrusive and fine, though "government" or "power" might have worked just as well.Bartleby wrote:I'm going to get this in before I forget: the reference (or possibly references) to the Confederacy as a "country" was really regrettable, as this is an assertion that is:
a) not really true to the best of my knowledge (if I remember correctly, no nation gave official diplomatic recognition)
b) not settled in the historiography (in fact, I'm willing to bet that most historians would not refer to the Confederacy as a "country")
Well, sure, but that wasn't exactly the point I was trying to make. More like, if you asked historians "would you call the Confederacy a country?" I'm willing to bet a great many would say "no". Considering that the Confederacy never gained diplomatic recognition and that the Union consistently took the line that it was a group of states in rebellion (despite some actions like POW trades that would suggest the Union viewed it as a sovereign nation, but which could also be chalked up to pragmatism) I have a hard time with it being called a country.RyuAqua wrote:I bet most historians refer to the Confederacy as "the Confederacy," since they don't usually have to use demonstrative phrases such as "this country" every other sentence, like we do. Given the circumstances of a 500-character quizbowl question, "country" seemed unintrusive and fine, though "government" or "power" might have worked just as well.Bartleby wrote:I'm going to get this in before I forget: the reference (or possibly references) to the Confederacy as a "country" was really regrettable, as this is an assertion that is:
a) not really true to the best of my knowledge (if I remember correctly, no nation gave official diplomatic recognition)
b) not settled in the historiography (in fact, I'm willing to bet that most historians would not refer to the Confederacy as a "country")
Would have been suboptimal because of the music bonus in round 3:Corry wrote:Writing a tossup on "Florida" or even "the Florida-Georgia border" would probably have worked better.
DII SCT round 3 wrote:A. Name that country duo whose other singles include "Get Your Shine On" and "Round Here."
answer: _Florida Georgia Line_
For what it's worth I didn't find this confusing at all, and by this logic in a TU on Taiwan we couldn't call it a country.Bartleby wrote:Well, sure, but that wasn't exactly the point I was trying to make. More like, if you asked historians "would you call the Confederacy a country?" I'm willing to bet a great many would say "no". Considering that the Confederacy never gained diplomatic recognition and that the Union consistently took the line that it was a group of states in rebellion (despite some actions like POW trades that would suggest the Union viewed it as a sovereign nation, but which could also be chalked up to pragmatism) I have a hard time with it being called a country.RyuAqua wrote:I bet most historians refer to the Confederacy as "the Confederacy," since they don't usually have to use demonstrative phrases such as "this country" every other sentence, like we do. Given the circumstances of a 500-character quizbowl question, "country" seemed unintrusive and fine, though "government" or "power" might have worked just as well.Bartleby wrote:I'm going to get this in before I forget: the reference (or possibly references) to the Confederacy as a "country" was really regrettable, as this is an assertion that is:
a) not really true to the best of my knowledge (if I remember correctly, no nation gave official diplomatic recognition)
b) not settled in the historiography (in fact, I'm willing to bet that most historians would not refer to the Confederacy as a "country")
Admittedly, this question came at the end of a very long day, but the use of the word "country" was quite confusing for me during the question, and it seems like another word choice like "government" would have been better and less confusing.
DI SCT round 1 wrote:As president of the Assembly, this man tried and unwittingly executed Pericles the Younger and seven other admirals after the Battle of Arginusae. Under Phormio at Potidaea, this man defended the wounded Alcibiades. While he was imprisoned and awaiting the return of the sacred ship ~Delias~ to Athens, he prevented his friend (*) Crito from bribing the guards to allow him to escape. For 10 points--name this corrupter of the youth of Athens, whose trial was recorded in the ~Apology~ by Plato.
an answer line in DI SCT round 1 wrote:_Expedition_ of the _Thousand_ (or _Spedizione_ dei _Mille_; accept reasonable translations that indicate an invasion of _thousand_ people or partial translations such as (I) _Mille expedition_; prompt on "Risorgimento" or "Italian unification" or "invasion of Sicily" or answers giving "Redshirts" or "Garibaldi" without a number of participants)
Thank you - so in fact Socrates was the only one of the prytanies who objected and regarded the entire procedure as illegal and the trial went ahead over his objection.bt_green_warbler wrote:DI SCT round 1 wrote:As president of the Assembly, this man tried and unwittingly executed Pericles the Younger and seven other admirals after the Battle of Arginusae. Under Phormio at Potidaea, this man defended the wounded Alcibiades. While he was imprisoned and awaiting the return of the sacred ship ~Delias~ to Athens, he prevented his friend (*) Crito from bribing the guards to allow him to escape. For 10 points--name this corrupter of the youth of Athens, whose trial was recorded in the ~Apology~ by Plato.
Well darn it. Still, I think a tossup on just "Florida" or "Georgia" would have been a lot more fitting for Div II SCT.bt_green_warbler wrote:Would have been suboptimal because of the music bonus in round 3:Corry wrote:Writing a tossup on "Florida" or even "the Florida-Georgia border" would probably have worked better.
DII SCT round 3 wrote:A. Name that country duo whose other singles include "Get Your Shine On" and "Round Here."
answer: _Florida Georgia Line_
DII SCT round 2 wrote:In one of this man's plays, three lawyers--two black and one white--are hired by a white man charged with rape. In another, Bobby Gould sleeps with a secretary who wants a book on radiation made into a film. In addition to ~Race~ and (*) ~Speed-the-Plow~, he created Ricky Roma and Shelly Levene, the latter of whom stole sales leads from their Chicago real-estate office. For 10 points--name this author of ~Glengarry Glen Ross~.
DII SCT round 8 wrote:This novel depicts a sermon by Reverend Sprague that is interrupted by the release of a "pinchbug"; the sermon is attended by lawyer Riverson, the "Model Boy" Willie Mufferson, and a 40-year-old widow who lives in a "hill mansion" in St. (*) Petersburg. This novel's protagonist witnesses Dr. Robinson's murder while hiding in a graveyard, and loves his classmate Becky Thatcher. For 10 points--name this novel by Mark Twain.
First, a basic philosophical point (I'm not sure if I've articulated this point clearly elsewhere on these forums, so perhaps I should do so at some juncture, in some non-private portion of the website):Beast Mode wrote:In the interest of full disclosure: most of the D1 music tossups were written by me (including the three you mentioned). It wasn't my goal to monopolize the music distro, just to fill needs that were there. Still, that's sub-optimal to begin with, and obviously far worse if I did a bad job. So: I'm sorry. Criticism will do me good.ThisIsMyUsername wrote: The other gripe is that the score clues in the music tossups were pretty systematically terrible.
There are probably two kinds of "evocativeness": there is that possessed by moments characterized by a genuinely unusual musical feature(s), where a description of the feature(s) can instantaneously summon the moment; and there is that possessed by most others, where it is the precise combination of normal features that creates the uniqueness. The latter kind, of course, need to be figured out, to some degree. This clue is clearly of the latter kind. And so, I tried to figure it out. Of course, I did this my using the tambourine as my foothold. I asked myself: what pieces have a tambourine? And then, I tried to think if any of them accompany a "violin dance melody". I failed to do this.SCT DI round 8 wrote:In this piece, a tambourine ostinato accompanies a violin dance melody that then passes through the strings.
A time signature change could be helpful. But where is this change? How is it functioning? Is this a theme that changes time signatures? Or is this a transition between two sections in different time signatures? Could you give me something to orient me? Moment in the piece? Tonality? Thematic content? Something?Its time signature changes from 4/4 ["four-four"] to 3/4 ["three-four"] while the winds play unison descending eighth notes.
This is really picking a moment out of thin air. Did you pick this because you saw the "Vivace" in the score and assumed that this must be significant because there was a tempo indication? As I said before, these can be misleading about the importance of moments. And listening to the clip should confirm this. (Also, it is almost impossible to buzz on any clue that's basically just describing playing sixteenth notes.)SCT DI round 10 wrote:In the third of these pieces, a "Vivace" [vee-VAH-chay] section begins with the brass playing three unison sixteenth notes.
Had I ever looked at the score to the Candide Overture (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=422-yb8TXj8), I would have buzzed. Timpani glissandos would stick in my mind well. And though I knew by ear that the "Oh Happy We" section (beginning 1:22) was in seven, I didn't realize that Bernstein had grouped it 2 + 2 + 3, so I didn't buzz there. But had I known that, I would have been able to buzz, specifically because rather than saying something vague like "features a section that alternates two bars of 2/2 with one of 3/2", you specifically told me that it was a theme subdivided like that. You see, that's helpful description: I know I'm not looking for some random transition, but rather a theme with a quirky time signature shift built-in.SCT DI round 12 wrote:The overture to one of this man's operettas features timpani glissandos from A-flat to B-flat, and a theme subdivided into measures of 2/2 [two-two], 2/2, and 3/2 [three-two].
This is pretty much what I said when I was talking to Saul at the New England site—similarly, the Water Music question didn't quite get me to the Air from that piece. I think the example I gave of one additional "normal feature" that might have brought me to that was adding something about the horns sustaining high Cs over the fourth repetition the movement.ThisIsMyUsername wrote: There are probably two kinds of "evocativeness": there is that possessed by moments characterized by a genuinely unusual musical feature(s), where a description of the feature(s) can instantaneously summon the moment; and there is that possessed by most others, where it is the precise combination of normal features that creates the uniqueness. The latter kind, of course, need to be figured out, to some degree. This clue is clearly of the latter kind. And so, I tried to figure it out. Of course, I did this my using the tambourine as my foothold. I asked myself: what pieces have a tambourine? And then, I tried to think if any of them accompany a "violin dance melody". I failed to do this.
...If I'm supposed to pluck out a moment eleven minutes into a fifteen minute piece, give me some way of finding my way there.
DII SCT round 2 wrote:John Corigliano's work of this name and number is a memorial to AIDS victims. Gustav Mahler's includes a funeral march based on ~Frere Jacques~. Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's, his first major work, has the nickname (*) ~Winter Dreams~, while Johannes Brahms' is sometimes called "Beethoven's Tenth." Mozart's was composed at the age of 8. For 10 points--name these initial works in an orchestral genre.
DII SCT round 3 wrote:This instrument's technical problems are parodied in Mozart's ~A Musical Joke~; Joseph Leutgeb premiered that composer's four concertos. Richard Strauss called for 20 of them in his ~Alpine Symphony~ and used this brass instrument and a clarinet to represent (*) Till Eulenspiegel. The Wolf in ~Peter and the Wolf~ is depicted by--for 10 points--what instrument with a large bell and a circular coil that isn't actually French?
DI SCT round 8 wrote:This act was repeatedly performed by a former Libyan princess who had the power of popping out her eyes. Zeus turned the sons of Lycaon into wolves in punishment for this act. Procne tricked Tereus into performing this act, and Thyestes was similarly duped by Atreus. The (*) Laestrygonians subjected several Ithacan sailors to this act, as did Scylla and Polyphemus, thereby whittling down Odysseus's crew. For 10 points--name this act performed by the flesh-eating mares of Diomedes.
answer: _eating people_ (accept _cannibalism_ or _anthropophagy_; accept _eating children_ before "sailors"; prompt on "murder" or "killing people" or similar answers before "Tereus")
Ok, so I buzzed in on the clue about Lycaon and was really confused since, if my memory and cursory look-up to confirm this is right, Lycaon didn't actually eat the human flesh; he killed his son and tried and failed to make Zeus eat it, which leads to his punishment. I ended up saying something kinda silly to the likes of "feeding flesh" and getting negged for it, but I don't think the wording in that sentence is accurate in what it's describing.bt_green_warbler wrote:DI SCT round 8 wrote:This act was repeatedly performed by a former Libyan princess who had the power of popping out her eyes. Zeus turned the sons of Lycaon into wolves in punishment for this act. Procne tricked Tereus into performing this act, and Thyestes was similarly duped by Atreus. The (*) Laestrygonians subjected several Ithacan sailors to this act, as did Scylla and Polyphemus, thereby whittling down Odysseus's crew. For 10 points--name this act performed by the flesh-eating mares of Diomedes.
answer: _eating people_ (accept _cannibalism_ or _anthropophagy_; accept _eating children_ before "sailors"; prompt on "murder" or "killing people" or similar answers before "Tereus")
A puckish satire of contemporary mores. 10/10Martha Dreyer wrote:This is some feedback on various questions.
Round 1.
-I don't know if tossing up the Four Books on Architecture is a good idea at this difficulty level because of the restricted answerspace on non-epic architecture texts. I spent the entire question trying to remember which book on architecture all the things being described were in.
I didn't like this Williams tossup because I buzzed on someone Deron Williams played with at Illinois and received 15 points. Anyone who went to UIUC early last decade would have known that.
Round 2.
Billy negged this critical point tossup. Billy negging science clearly means the tossup was not gud.
Billy has sperm and has shown interest in their competition, but he did not get the sperm tossup. This tossup was clearly flawed.
Round 4.
I did not like this pie tossup because I negged it because I couldn't remember if it was a cake or a pie
This Readymade tossup's power mark was too generous since Billy decided to power it.
Round 5.
The NAQT clearly rigs their rounds since we played the Quebec independence TU against Will Nediger
Round 8.
This boron tossup was bad because Billy did not get it over Austin.
The chemistry at this tournament was particularly difficult, hard to power (if Billy's only getting four powers at this tournament's chem you've probably done something wrong)
I felt that the Allman Brothers tossup was in bad faith based on NAQT's previous with Almans
Round 9.
I'm pretty sure this bird tossup can be powered by anyone who's ever heard of the pokemon Ho-Oh
Round 11
This NAQT is clearly rigged since Will Nediger was sitting 2 seats away from Peter Jiang who got this Yukon River TU against us
Thank you to whoever wrote the esophagus tossup for giving me 15 points for knowing what happens to things you swallow.
There are a bunch of slight variants of the Lycaon & Sons story. I believe the one in which Lycaon's sons are turned into wolves (as opposed to being blasted by lightning) says that they ate Nyctimus (rather than putting him in a stew for Zeus). Having said that, the question would be improved by saying "In one variant" or something like that.Alliance in the Alps wrote:Ok, so I buzzed in on the clue about Lycaon and was really confused since, if my memory and cursory look-up to confirm this is right, Lycaon didn't actually eat the human flesh; he killed his son and tried and failed to make Zeus eat it, which leads to his punishment. I ended up saying something kinda silly to the likes of "feeding flesh" and getting negged for it, but I don't think the wording in that sentence is accurate in what it's describing.bt_green_warbler wrote:DI SCT round 8 wrote:This act was repeatedly performed by a former Libyan princess who had the power of popping out her eyes. Zeus turned the sons of Lycaon into wolves in punishment for this act. Procne tricked Tereus into performing this act, and Thyestes was similarly duped by Atreus. The (*) Laestrygonians subjected several Ithacan sailors to this act, as did Scylla and Polyphemus, thereby whittling down Odysseus's crew. For 10 points--name this act performed by the flesh-eating mares of Diomedes.
answer: _eating people_ (accept _cannibalism_ or _anthropophagy_; accept _eating children_ before "sailors"; prompt on "murder" or "killing people" or similar answers before "Tereus")
sephirothrr wrote:Could someone please post the epsilon tossup from what I believe was round 2? I negged with lambda before it was mentioned, and I believe that it should be acceptable in the first line of the question.
Division I epsilon tossup wrote:In the study of {automata}, this letter denotes transitions that do not consume an input symbol, since in the study of {formal languages} it--like {lambda}--denotes the {empty string}. It identifies a three-dimensional analogue of the {Kronecker delta function}, the (*) {Levi-Civita [LEH-vee CHEE-vee-tah] symbol}. Paul Erd\"os [AIR-dawsh] used this letter to describe children, based on its common use in {analysis} to denote a very small quantity. In the definition of a {limit}, {delta} is paired with--for 10 points--what fifth {Greek letter}?
There are about 10,000 google results for ["lambda transition" automaton], so you're probably right that that should be accepted. I'll adjust the question for future uses. Sorry about that.Division II epsilon tossup wrote:In the study of {formal languages}, either this letter or {lambda} can denote the {empty string}. It identifies a three-dimensional analogue of the {Kronecker delta function}, the {Levi-Civita [LEH-vee CHEE-vee-tah] symbol}. Paul Erd\"os [AIR-dursh] used this letter to describe (*) children, based on its common use in {analysis} to denote a very small quantity. In the definition of a {limit}, {delta} is paired with--for 10 points--what fifth {Greek letter}?
Sorry, it seems like multiple people had issues with this, so I really would like to see it.vinteuil wrote:Could I see the Racine tossup (DI)?
In one of this author's most-quoted lines, a woman states that she is the "daughter of Minos and Pasiphae." This author, who reworked Aristophanes's ~The Wasps~ into his comedy ~The Litigants~, wrote another play in which Oreste visits the court of King Pyrrhus. He wrote a play that ends with a sea monster causing the death of (*) Hippolytus, who is loved by the title woman. For 10 points--name this French dramatist of ~Andromaque~ [AHN-droh-MAHK] who wrote about the wife of Theseus in ~Ph\'edre~ [FED-ruh].
gamegeek2 wrote:Could I see the D1 tossups on Fujimori, the Peace of Augsburg, Agrippa, and the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, please?
DI SCT round 10 wrote:One man with this surname, who founded the Vamos Vecino party, was spurred by the Tarata bombing to have the DIRCOTE agency crack down. The Grupo Colina committed the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres under a leader of this surname, whose (*) daughter barely lost to Ollanta Humala in a 2011 election. The elder politician of this surname directed the capture of Abimael Guzman of the Shining Path. For 10 points--give this surname of Alberto and Keiko, two Peruvians of Japanese descent.
DI SCT round 8 wrote:This document was modified by the ~Declaratio Ferdinandei~, which exempted some cities in church lands, and by the ~Reservatum ecclesiasticum~, which was contested in the Cologne War. The revolt of Maurice of Saxony and negotiations at Passau preceded this treaty, which established the principle of (*) ~Cuius regio, eius religio~ during the reign of Charles V. The Holy Roman Empire was divided between Catholics and Protestants under--for 10 points--what 1555 "peace" named for a Bavarian city?
DI SCT round 8 wrote:This man founded a veterans' colony at Heliopolis during a late visit to Judea. He was the maternal grandfather of Caligula via his third wife, Julia the Elder. Hadrian rebuilt a building originally commissioned by this man, a temple to all the Roman gods possibly meant to commemorate his victory in a (*) 31 BC naval battle in which Cleopatra and Mark Antony abandoned their forces. The original Pantheon was built by--for 10 points--what son-in-law of Augustus who won the Battle of Actium?
DI SCT round 7 wrote:One account of this event's death toll was given by Maximilien, Duke of Sully, who supposedly escaped death by carrying a prayer book under his arm. Many targeted in this event were attendees of the marriage between Margaret of Valois and the future King (*) Henry IV. Gaspard de Coligny was one of thousands killed in this event, which occurred at the behest of Catherine de Medici. For 10 points--what 1572 action against French Protestants took place on an Apostle's feast day?
This was probably one of the easier tossups in the set, as the answer space narrows quickly with "French religious event in which people died after a marriage," with several words still in power afterward.bt_green_warbler wrote:DI SCT round 7 wrote:One account of this event's death toll was given by Maximilien, Duke of Sully, who supposedly escaped death by carrying a prayer book under his arm. Many targeted in this event were attendees of the marriage between Margaret of Valois and the future King (*) Henry IV. Gaspard de Coligny was one of thousands killed in this event, which occurred at the behest of Catherine de Medici. For 10 points--what 1572 action against French Protestants took place on an Apostle's feast day?
Seth is correct, aspiration is a fairly specifically defined term in lingustics.setht wrote:Here's the bonus part:Euler's Constant wrote:For the bonus part on aspiration in DII (round 14 I think) would rough breathing been acceptable? This went into protest (and was being researched) in our game versus Harvard A, but we never got final ruling due to the results of the tiebreakers.
I'm not an expert, but "rough breathing" doesn't seem like it should be accepted here.SCT DII round 14 wrote:B. Grassmann's law describes the disappearance of this characteristic of a {consonant} when the next syllable contains a consonant that possesses it; it involves a puff of air.
answer: _aspiration_ (accept _aspirated_ or other word forms)
-Seth
DI SCT round 3 wrote:Count Kalliovski marks murder victims with "red" objects of this type in a 2007 novel. In Dorothy Sayers's ~The Nine Tailors~, Mrs. Wilbraham has an object of this type stolen. Lizzie Greystock's theft of one belonging to the Eustace family appears in a novel by Anthony Trollope, and Faust gives one to (*) Gretchen to complete her seduction. Madame Loisel is reduced to penury for ten years while replacing--for 10 points--what type of jewelry that turns out to be fake in a Guy de Maupassant story?
answer: _necklace_ (accept The _Red Necklace_ or _garnet necklace_ or _necklace of garnets_)
The Eustace necklace is indeed made of diamonds. I too was negged for saying "diamonds" there. And this happened to at least one other person at our site.The Ununtiable Twine wrote:Can you post the question about necklaces? Also, I thought the Eustace necklace was made of diamonds but was negged when I buzzed there. Perhaps I am mistaken? Sources seem to indicate that it was a diamond necklace but nothing was written about that in the acceptable answers.
pandabear555 wrote:Could I please see the D2 bonus with Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and H-bar has two of the answers? The bonus part on h-bar does not prompt on "Planck's constant" even though the word "reduced" is in the question.
Not accepting/prompting on just Planck or h makes sense to me—the first sentence in C is specific to h-bar, not h; the second sentence lets you know that there is a different, related constant. I think at that point, if you don't know which one is correct, and you guess the wrong one, you shouldn't get a free shot at saying the other one. Does that seem overly harsh to people?DII SCT round 9 wrote:It is impossible to simultaneously know both the position and momentum of a particle. For 10 points each--
A. That is a statement of this principle named for Werner Heisenberg.
answer: Heisenberg _uncertainty_ principle
B. Two observables are subject to an uncertainty principle if this value for their operators is nonzero; for operators ~A~ and ~B~, it equals ~AB~ \N- ~BA~ ["A-B minus B-A"].
answer: _commutator_ (accept _commutator bracket_)
C. In fact, the standard deviation of position times the standard deviation of momentum must be greater than or equal to this constant over two. It is the "reduced" form of another constant.
answer: _h bar_ (or _Dirac_'s constant or _reduced Planck_ constant; do not prompt on "Planck (constant)" or "h")