Result: 1 | (This) Tournament is a Crime | 2017 | Round: 1 | Question: 4 | Literature |

BritishID: 72178

Question: In a poem of this type, a man buries his sister and the child born through their
incestuous union, who are respectively emblematized as a sheath and a knife. One of these
poems, in which the abandonment of a slain knight by his hawk, hounds, and mistress enables
two scavenger birds to make an easy meal of his corpse, is considered a cynical reply to another
titled "The Three Ravens." Harvard's first Professor of English, Francis J. Child, catalogued 305
of these poems; Child No. 58 describes "the (*) new moon, with the old moon in her arms," an ill
omen quoted as the epigraph to Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode." A diplomatic mission returning
from Norway is killed in a shipwreck in one of these poems. Sir Walter Scott compiled a set of
these poems popular along the Anglo-Scottish border. For 10 points, "Sir Patrick Spens" is an
example of what traditional British poems, that were set to music?

ANSWER: ballads [or folk songs; prompt on songs]

Result: 2 | (This) Tournament is a Crime | 2017 | Round: 1 | Question: 10 | History |

AmericanID: 72184

Question: Scipio Africanus Jones convinced governor Thomas McRae to issue indefinite
furloughs to people arrested in the aftermath of this event mere hours before he left office.
Twelve men sentenced to death for their role in this event were exonerated after Moore v.
Dempsey ruled that the presence of a lynch mob outside the courthouse violated due process.
This event began after a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union in Hoop Spur
was disrupted by two white sheriffs, resulting in one of them being shot to death. The NAACP
sent Field Secretary (*) Walter White to investigate this event, during which hundreds were
slaughtered by roving posses of whites seeking to put down the "black insurrection" in Phillips
County. For 10 points, name this massacre of black sharecroppers in Arkansas during the "Red
Summer" of 1919, the bloodiest incident of racial violence in American history.

ANSWER: Elaine race riot

Result: 3 | (This) Tournament is a Crime | 2017 | Round: 1 | Question: 15 | Science |

Computer ScienceID: 72189

Question: Scott Aaronson at the University of Texas maintains an online "zoo" devoted to
classifying these things. The spacing between these collections are both arbitrarily large and
possible to calculate according to the Borodin-Trakhtenbrot Gap Theorem. Laszlo Kalmar coined
the term ELEMENTARY for one of these sets, which is formed by taking the union of a group
of sets that comprise the exponential hierarchy. Two spatial examples of these sets are equivalent
according to (*) Savitch's theorem. A specific one of these sets is defined as the group of
problems whose solutions are verifiable using a nondeterministic Turing machine in polynomial
time. The hardest problems in many of these sets are termed "complete." For 10 points, name
these sets used to classify computational complexity, such as P and NP.

ANSWER: computational complexity classes

Result: 4 | (This) Tournament is a Crime | 2017 | Round: 10 | Question: 4 | History |

AmericanID: 72658

Question: The first female holder of this position wrote the essay "Dictatorships and Double
Standards" supporting totalitarian regimes as long as they opposed communism. Another female
holder of this position criticized Cuba's shooting down of two airplanes belonging to the group
Brothers to the Rescue by saying "This is not cojones. This is cowardice." Edwin Walker was an
outspoken advocate of abolishing this position, whose holder at that time asked if a woman who
(*) bludgeoned his head with a sign in Dallas "was animal or human?" While in this position,
Adlai E. Stevenson forcefully asked Valerian Zorin "Don't wait for the translation, answer yes or
no!" during a tense meeting held during the Cuban Missile Crisis. For 10 points, name this
position currently held by former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley.

ANSWER: United States Ambassador to the United Nations [or Permanent Representative of the
United States of America to the United Nations; accept America in place of United States;
prompt on Ambassador to the United Nations by asking "from what country?"]

Result: 5 | (This) Tournament is a Crime | 2017 | Round: 10 | Question: 6 | History |

BritishID: 72660

Question: In the last decade of this conflict, triangular road signs depicting a black silhouette
holding a rifle with the warning "Sniper At Work" became popular. A haunting photograph taken
just moments before one of the deadliest bombings in this conflict shows a smiling Spanish
tourist in a yellow sweater with a girl on his shoulders; that bombing's death toll was increased
by police evacuating people towards the explosion, rather than away from it. Edward Daly waves
a bloody handkerchief while trying to save a 17-year-old in an iconic photo of a massacre during
this conflict. The (*) Sunningdale Agreement was a failed peace attempt during this conflict. The
assassination of Lord Mountbatten and the near-assassination of Margaret Thatcher at the
Brighton Hotel were both highly-publicized events during this conflict, which was ended in 1998
by the Good Friday Agreement. For 10 points, name this decades-long conflict in Northern
Ireland.

ANSWER: the Troubles [or Na Triobloidi; prompt on Northern Ireland conflict before
mentioned]
Result: 6 | (This) Tournament is a Crime | 2017 | Round: 10 | Question: 12 | Literature |
BritishID: 72666

Question: This essay defends the value of physiognomy by issuing the scorching take that
"Heracles is not only known by his foot." Its author wrote: "I look upon you as a Gem of the Old
Rock" in the introductory epistle, addressed to his friend Thomas le Gros. This essay notes that
"Herostratus lives that burnt the Temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it," in a paragraph
that asks "Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids?" Its fifth and final chapter declares that
man can be found "solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies
of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature," because man is a (*) "Noble Animal, splendid in ashes,
and pompous in the grave." The first chapter of this companion essay to "The Garden of Cyrus"
notes that "the treasures of time lie high," in the title objects, "Coynes, and Monuments, scarce
below the roots of some vegetables." For 10 points, name this essay prompted by the discovery
of a Roman funerary vessel in Norfolk, written by Thomas Browne.

ANSWER: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial [either underlined answer is fine, the full title is
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk]

Result: 7 | (This) Tournament is a Crime | 2017 | Round: 11 | Question: 15 | Religion |

NoneID: 72689

Question: The Orthodox Jewish prohibition on kol isha prevents men from being in the presence
of women performing this action, because the Talmud classifies it as ervah, or nakedness.
Devout Syrian Jews often wake up before dawn and perform this action using the Baqashot.
Though she was not ordained, Julie Rosewald became the first woman in America to practice a
profession in which people perform this action. Traditionally, a professional performer of this
action was required to possess a pleasing appearance, to wear a flowing (*) beard, and to be
married. Younger Jews often reference popular culture when performing this action with a piyyut
known as "Adon Olam." The first Jewish clergy recognized in the United States were
surprisingly not rabbis, but rather people trained to perform this activity, known as hazzan, who
follow a prescribed set of modes. For 10 points, cantors lead Jewish congregations in performing
what musical activity?

ANSWER: singing [prompt on making music and similar answers]

Result: 8 | (This) Tournament is a Crime | 2017 | Round: 11 | Question: 20 | Social Science |

NoneID: 72694

Question: William Ophuls proposed a "steady-state philosophy" to reduce this quantity in

response to Herman Kahn's suggestion that changes in this quantity are not "carcinogenic" but
rather benevolent. A four-stage model that describes how this quantity changes over time is the
subject of Warren Thompson's "transition" theory. The idea that increasing this quantity has been
beneficial is the mainstay of so-called "cornucopian" theses and is central to the book The
Ultimate Resource by Julian (*) Simon. Paul Ehrlich suggested that the rate of growth of this
quantity should be zero in a book that refers to it as a "bomb." The idea that this quantity grows
geometrically while resource production only grows arithmetically is the basis for the
"Malthusian catastrophe." For 10 points, give this quantity, which is currently approximately
equal to 7.5 billion.

ANSWER: human population [accept reasonable equivalents, such as the number of people;
prompt on population]

Result: 9 | (This) Tournament is a Crime | 2017 | Round: 12 | Question: 3 | Literature |

ClassicalID: 72697

Question: An old man decides to save of two of these near-drowned people after having a
portentous dream in which he had fought off a monkey trying to plunder a swallows' nest. One of
these characters instructs a beautiful woman to walk through a hole in a partition wall between
two houses, pretending to be her own twin sister Honoria. Mercury disguises himself as one of
these people named Sosia to help Jupiter have sex with Alcmena, in the play Amphitryon. One of
these characters takes advantage of an incomplete (*) dowry paid by a Macedonian officer to
secure Phoenicium for Simo's lovesick son Calidorus. An elaborate ruse planned by one of these
people named Palaestro finally defeats the braggart soldier Pyrgopolynices, the title character of
Miles Gloriosus. For 10 points, Pseudolus is an example of what type of stock character in
Plautus's dramas, who usually outwits his master?

ANSWER: Plautine slaves [or servants]

Result: 10 | (This) Tournament is a Crime | 2017 | Round: 12 | Question: 9 | Science |

BiologyID: 72703

Question: The first and third isoforms of an enzyme that inactivates this complex are abundant in
the heart and testes, respectively. An enzyme in this complex is arranged as twenty four subunits
forming a cubic core in prokaryotes, and sixty subunits forming a dodecahedral core in
eukaryotes. Most people with primary biliary cirrhosis have autoantibodies to this complex,
which catalyzes a reaction called the Swanson conversion. The last enzyme in this complex,
which also appears in similar complexes acting upon branched chain amino acids and alpha-
ketoglutarate, produces a molecule apiece of (*) FAD and NADH. In its rate limiting step, the
second carbon on the zwitterionic thiazolium ring of the TPP cofactor performs a nucleophilic
attack, releasing a CO2. The E2 enzyme in this complex catalyzes the transfer of an acetyl group
from a "swinging arm" of lipoate to the thiol group, forming the final product. For 10 points,
name this enzyme complex that converts the end product of glycolysis into acetyl-CoA.
ANSWER: pyruvate dehydrogenase complex [or PDC; do not accept or prompt on "pyruvate
decarboxylase"]

6107 bonuses Were Found

Result: 1 | ACF Regionals |2016 | Berkeley A + Columbia B + South Carolina + McMaster

A | 2 | History | American | CollegeID: 15677

Question: Answer some questions about some back-room bargaining from American history, for
10 points each:

[10] After finishing 4th in the 1824 election, this Speaker of the House from Kentucky convinced
his backers to vote for John Quincy Adams. This advocate of the American system then became
Secretary of State.

ANSWER: Henry Clay

[10] Elizabeth Holtzman asked whether this action was a "quid pro quo" during House hearings.
This action was defended on the grounds of Burdick v. U.S. as a way of establishing guilt, and
led to the resignation of Press Secretary Jerald terHorst

ANSWER: Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon

[10] This agreement promised corrupt support for Thomas Scott's railroad ventures and led to
David M. Key becoming Postmaster General. This deal shafted a New York governor who had
broken up the Canal Ring.

ANSWER: The Compromise of 1877 [accept any answer about resolving the election of 1876,
e.g. Hayes-Tilden Election Deal, etc.]

Result: 2 | ACF Regionals |2016 | Berkeley A + Columbia B + South Carolina + McMaster

A | 4 | Mythology | None | CollegeID: 15679

Question: This figure granted Oshun the power of divination in exchange for a magnificent white
cloak. For 10 points each

[10] Name this orisha who climbed down an enormous chain and sprinkled sand into the great
sea to create land. There, he established the city of Ife.
ANSWER: Obatala

[10] The chain Obatala used was made of this material, given to him by all of his fellow orishas.
In Greek myth, Midas was granted the unfortunate ability to turn anything he touched to this
material.

ANSWER: gold

[10] A different orisha named Shango is sometimes known as the orisha of this phenomenon. In
an Ojibwe myth, an enormous creature named for this phenomenon battled against a whale.

ANSWER: thunder

Result: 3 | ACF Regionals |2016 | Berkeley A + Columbia B + South Carolina + McMaster

A | 5 | Literature | British | CollegeID: 15680

Question: This character falls in love with the Russian princess Sasha during the 1608 Frost Fair
on the Thames. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this character who lives over 300 years and changes sex from male to female. This
character writes the poem The Oak Tree, with varying criticism from the poetaster Nicholas
Greene

ANSWER: Orlando

[10] Orlando is the title character of a novel by this English writer. James Ramsay desires a trip
to the title location in this writer's novel To the Lighthouse

ANSWER: Virginia Woolf

[10] Woolf details the history of nearly five decades of this family in the novel The Years. This
family includes the patriarch Colonel Abel and Rose, who is jailed for participating in the
Suffragette movement.

ANSWER: Pargiter Family

Result: 4 | ACF Regionals |2016 | Berkeley A + Columbia B + South Carolina + McMaster

A | 9 | Science | Chemistry | CollegeID: 15684

Question: You are a chemist who loves doing NMR spectroscopy. Name some things about
some chemicals you might encounter while on the job, for 10 points each:
[10] If you're taking a standard NMR spectrum, chances are you'll use an isotopologue of
chloroform as a solvent with the hydrogen replaced by this slightly heavier isotope

ANSWER: deuterium [or D, or CDCl3, or deuterated chloroform, or deuterochloroform]

[10] You'll also probably use this molecule as an internal standard for chemical shift, assigning
its big singlet a shift of 0

ANSWER: TMS [or tetramethylsilane]

[10] If can't use deuterated chloroform, you could instead use this common aprotic organic
solvent. If you spill it on yourself, you might get a garlicky taste in your mouth.

ANSWER: DMSO-d6 [or dimethyl sulfoxide-d6, or deuterated DMSO, or deuterated dimethyl

sulfoxide]

Result: 5 | ACF Regionals |2016 | Berkeley A + Columbia B + South Carolina + McMaster

A | 13 | Science | Physics | CollegeID: 15688

Question: Wavefunctions for this system contain Hermite polynomials. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this quantum mechanical system, with a potential described by Hooke's law. Its
ground-state energy is hbar times omega over two.

ANSWER: quantum harmonic oscillator [or quantum harmonic oscillation; accept QHO]

[10] Dirac developed a method for solving the harmonic oscillator using these operators that
either lower or raise the state of the system. They are sometimes referred to as "annihilation" and
"creation."

ANSWER: ladder operators

[10] This man's namesake kernel is the fundamental solution to the quantum harmonic
oscillator's Hamiltonian. Conical functions are the kernel of a transform he co-names with Fock

ANSWER: Gustav Mehler [sadly, this is not a typo of Gustav Mahler, which is an incorrect
answer]

Result: 6 | ACF Regionals |2016 | Berkeley A + Columbia B + South Carolina + McMaster

A | 18 | Fine Arts | Other | CollegeID: 15693
Question: This architect collaborated with Vlado Miluni on a Prague building whose twisting
faades gave it the nickname "Fred and Ginger." For 10 points each:

[10] Name this Postmodernist Canadian-American architect of the Dancing House whose other
projects include the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles

ANSWER: Frank Owen Gehry

[10] Gehry's Weisman Art Museum is located in this American city, which is also the location of
Cesar Pelli's Wells Fargo Tower and Philip Johnson's IDS Tower

ANSWER: Minneapolis, Minnesota

[10] Michael Graves designed this other Postmodern building, named for the American city in
which it is located. It features horizontal lines within a trapezoid at the top of its faade and
vertical lines around its four sides which are themselves dotted by small windows

ANSWER: Portland Building [or Portland Municipal Services Building]

Result: 7 | ACF Regionals |2016 | Berkeley A + Columbia B + South Carolina + McMaster

A | 19 | Geography | None | CollegeID: 15694

Question: Answer the following about how one can die in a volcanic eruption, for 10 points
each.

[10] These fast mudflows form when pyroclastic material mixes with some source of water on
the volcano's side. The one after the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo was responsible for most of
the deaths

ANSWER: lahars

[10] It'd be pretty embarrassing if you couldn't outrun this usually slow-moving molten rock
ejected during an eruption, but if it catches you you'll probably die. Its types include pahoehoe
and a'a.

ANSWER: lava

[10] You don't have to be near the volcano to die, as evidenced by the eruption of this
supervolcano 70,000 years ago. The resulting decade-long winter may have wiped out over half
the human population, causing a bottleneck

ANSWER: Lake Toba supervolcano

Result: 8 | ACF Regionals |2016 | Columbia A and VCU A | 3 | History | American |
CollegeID: 16489

Question: This incident was the culmination of an effort to dissolve the union of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this 1892 event sparked by the firing of 3800 steel workers, who then used rifles,
dynamite, and a flaming train car to stop private enforcers from controlling the plant and forcing
them back to work

ANSWER: Homestead Strike [or Homestead Riot]

[10] Andrew Carnegie told this manager of the Homestead steel plant "we approve of anything
you do" with regards to the handling of the strike.

ANSWER: Henry Frick

[10] This influential newspaper editor attempted to intervene on behalf of the strikers. He took
over the New York Tribune from Horace Greeley, and replaced Levi Morton as Benjamin
Harrison's VP nominee in the 1892 election.

ANSWER: Whitelaw Reid

Result: 9 | ACF Regionals |2016 | Columbia A and VCU A | 7 | Philosophy | None |

CollegeID: 16493

Question: This philosopher's attacks on casuistry culminated in his defense of Jansenism in his
Provincial Letters. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this 17th-century French philosopher. His Penses contains his wager that it is more
prudent to believe in God, just in case he exists.

ANSWER: Blaise Pascal

[10] Pascal's theory of knowledge is a foundation of The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory
by this NeoPascalian French philosopher, who is the alphabetically prior co-namesake of a thesis
that states that scientific hypotheses are inherently bundled with other hypotheses in systems, and
therefore cannot be tested in isolation.

ANSWER: Pierre Duhem

[10] Duhem co-names that thesis with this 20th-century American philosopher who wrote "Two
Dogmas of Empiricism" and proposed the concept of "indeterminacy of translation" in Word and
Object.
ANSWER: Willard van Orman Quine

Result: 10 | ACF Regionals |2016 | Columbia A and VCU A | 8 | History | European |

CollegeID: 16494

Question: This house lost power after the death of Casimir III the Great, the son of Wladyslaw
the Elbow-High. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this dynasty founded by Mieszko I that ruled an oft-partitioned country in eastern
Europe

ANSWER: Piast

[10] The Piasts ruled over this country, which united with Lithuania in the Union of Lublin. This
nation was later partitioned three times during the rule of Stanislaw Poniatowski.

ANSWER: Poland

[10] The Piasts ruled over Silesia, which much later in 1844 would experience this sort of event
that crystallized much of the discord that went on to break out in 1848. Marx distributed a
political poem by Heine about it.

ANSWER: A Weavers' Revolt [prompt on partial answer]