this is round 22, the second playoff
round at the 2019 NAQT
high school national championship tournament.
this game features the playoff one card versus the playoff 48 card in the
winner's bracket.
from Ohio, we have Beavercreek, and from Virginia, we have Thomas Jefferson Science and Tech C.
Best of luck to both teams; here's tossup 1:
The third of these bodies to be discovered is named for Adriaan van Maanen.
After leaving the asymptotic giant branch, some stars form planetary nebulae centered on one of these objects.
They are supported by electron (*) degeneracy pressure—
White Dwarf.
10; bonus:
The island of Asinara, off the northwest tip of this larger island, has a population of one person and hundreds of albino donkeys.  For 10 points each—
A. Name this Italian island south of Corsica in the Mediterranean.
Sardinia.
B. This portion of the Mediterranean Sea lies between Sardinia and mainland Italy.  Naples and Palermo both border it.
Tyrrhenian Sea.
C. A 43-mile-long chariot procession is a traditional part of the annual Feast of St. Ephysius in this capital of Sardinia.
Cagliari.
That's 30; tossup 2:
This character willingly turns himself in as the person who helped Floyd Knowles escape by attacking a police officer.
This character, who muses that—
Casy.
15; bonus:
The names of both Denmark and Norway's national legislatures derive from the term for these small governing bodies.  For 10 points each—
A. Name these local assemblies from medieval Germanic and Nordic societies.  They were presided over by a ”lawspeaker.”
 
Answer
???
A thing.
B. This island is governed by the Tynwald, or “thing meadow,” which in 1881 became the first legislative body in the world to grant women the right to vote.
Isle of Man.
C. In 2016 the Pirate Party won ten seats in the oldest parliament in the world, the Althing, which serves this cold European island country.
Iceland.
20; tossup 3:
It's not in Maine, but the Supreme Court case U.S. v. Maine ruled this island is legally not an island.
Jones Beach can be accessed via this island's Southern State Parkway, which Robert Moses allegedly designed to limit bus access by low-income residents.
This islands wealthy—
Key West.
Neg 5.
This island's wealthy (*) Suffolk County contains the Hamptons.
The boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens are on—for 10 points—what New York island named for its length?
Long Island.
10; bonus:
This compound is metabolized in the liver via a demethylation into either paraxanthine, theobromine, or theophylline.  For 10 points each—
A. The world's most widely consumed psychoactive drug is what stimulant found in coffee?
Caffeine.
B. Caffeine, like quinine, morphine, and nicotine, is classified as one of these organic compounds characterized by a bitter taste and the presence of basic nitrogen atoms.
 
Answer. 
No.
An alkaloid.
C. The core of caffeine is comprised of a ring of pyrimidine dione fused to a ring of this aromatic compound that also forms the side chain of histidine.
 
Benzene.
imidazole.
10; tossup 4:
During this action a commander deceptively lit campfires in preparation for a nighttime attack on the Allobroges .
After this action, a force met up with the Padane Gauls in the Po River valley.
The leader of this action escorted 40 (*) elephants through the Little St. Bernard—
Hannibal crossing the Alps.
10; bonus:
The name of this literary movement came from critic Franz Roh's description of New Objectivist art.  For 10 points each—
A. What literary movement—which includes Laura Esquivel's novel about Tita de la Garza's passion for cooking, Like Water for Chocolate—often depicts fantastic events occurring in a mundane setting?
Magical realism.
B. This author wrote a landmark magical realist novel about the Buendía family, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Garcia Marquez.
C. The prologue of this Alejo Carpentier novel about the Haitian slave Ti Noel is often considered the manifesto of magical realist literature.
 
Sorry?
An Explosion the Cathedral.
The Kingdom of This World.
20 points tossup 5:
A May 2019 letter from this company's CEO said that its subsidiary HiSilicon
would provide “strategic safety” after it was added to the Entity List.
In late 2018 Canada arrested this company's C—
Huawei.
15; bonus:
This painting's artist showed himself at work in a crevice between two rocks, to the left of a slanted umbrella.  For 10 points each—
A. Name this painting of a bend in the Connecticut River in the wake of a passing thunderstorm, which recedes to the left.
The Oxbow.
B. This Hudson River School artist of The Course of Empire painted The Oxbow.
Cole.
C. Cole used areas of cleared trees on a hill in the background of The Oxbow to form Hebrew letters that spell out the name of this human biblical patriarch.
 
Answer.
Abraham.
Noah.
20 points tossup 6:
This man and teammate Tyler Austin both hit their first home runs in their first at-bats in the same game.
This player struck out an AL-record 27 times in the 2017 postseason.
In 2018 this man, who wears number (*) 99, became the tallest man to play center field.
In 2016 a rookie record 52 home runs were hit by—for 10 points—what Yankees slugger who has gone by the nickname—
Judge.
10; bonus;
For 10 points each—answer the following about the French verb tense passé composé, which is used to describe past events:
A. Although some verbs are conjugated in the passé composé using the auxiliary verb être, the vast majority are composed using this French auxiliary verb.
Avoir.
B. This English verb, the equivalent of the French avoir, is used in English to form perfect tenses.
Have.
C. This tense is a formal or literary alternative to the passé composé.  The phrase “we went” conjugated in this tense becomes “nous allâmes”.
 
Imparfait.
No, passe simple.
That's 20; tossup 7:
One of these poems imagines the dead throwing their ”coins of happiness” before a pair of lovers, and opens with a description of travelers or acrobats from Pablo Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques.
The first of these poems claims “Beauty's nothing / but beginning of Terror” and opens (*) “Who, if I cried out—
Duino Elegies.
10; bonus:
The title woman of this poem implores a Confederate general to “shoot, if you must, this old gray head.”  For 10 points each—
A. Name this poem about a woman who bravely flies the Union flag in Frederick, Maryland.
Barbara Frietchie.
B. This poet of “Barbara Frietchie” depicted a family telling stories during a blizzard in his long poem Snow-Bound.
Whittier.
C. The speaker of this other Whittier poem laments that “of all sad words of tongue or pen / the saddest are these: 'it might have been.'”
 
Answer.
Indian Burial Ground.
Maud Muller.
20 points; tossup 8:
This man posited “five types of domestic societies,” including ”liberal” and “decent” peoples, which he termed “well-ordered,” in his book The Law of Peoples.
In another work, this man imagined how types of the title concept could be determined from an ”original position” placed behind a (*) ”veil of ignorance,”—
Rawls.
10; bonus:
The announcement of the death of this character, whose name means “Lord of the Town,” causes his grandmother Hecuba to grieve in the play The Trojan Women.  For 10 points each—
A. Name this baby who died when he was thrown from the walls of Troy.
 
Answer.
???
Astyanax.
B. This son of Achilles murdered Astyanax.  In one account, this warrior was killed by Delphic priests after he insinuated that Apollo murdered his father.
 
Neoptolemus.
C. Astyanax was the son of this Trojan warrior.  Achilles killed him and dragged his corpse in the dirt around Troy.
 
Hector.
20; tossup 9:
Phenylephrine works to increase this quantity by increasing the total peripheral resistance.
This quantity is lowered by ACE inhibitors, which modify the renin-angiotensin —
Yes.
Blood Pressure.
15; bonus:
These two characters sing the duet “C'est toi? C'est moi!” just before one stabs the other.  For 10 points each—
A. Name these two operatic characters.  Earlier, one of them charms the other by singing about Lillas Pastia's bar in a seguidilla.
 
Carmen and Don José.
B. Don José stabs Carmen out of jealousy over her love for this bullfighter who sings about himself in ”Votre toast”, his ”Toreador Song.”
Escamillo.
C. This composer depicted that love triangle in his opera Carmen.
Bizet.
30; tossup 10:
Operation Paget was created to investigate conspiracies about this event, whose sole survivor was Trevor Rees-Jones.
Just before this event, a crowd in front of the Ritz Hotel was duped by a decoy black car.
Several inquests ruled this event in the Pont de l'Alma (*) Tunnel was caused by Henri—
Death of Princess Diana.
10; bonus:
In 2017 the USS John S. McCain hit a merchant vessel shortly after exiting this strait.  For 10 points each—
A. What strait south of the Malay Peninsula is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world?
 
Malacca.
B. Northwest of the Strait of Malacca is this sea, which contains a namesake Indian archipelago home to the isolated North Sentinel Island.
Andaman.
C. This northwestern province of Sumatra, whose independence was once the focus of the GAM movement, borders the Strait of Malacca.  This province's conservative Islamic government enforces sharia law.
 
 
Answer.
Cebu.
Aceh.
20 points tossup 11:
This composer worked the folk song “A Birch Stood in the Meadow” into his Fourth Symphony, whose ”pizzicato ostinato” scherzo was written shortly before his marriage to Antonina Miliukov
This composer, who never actually met his patroness (*) Nadezhda
Tchaikovsky,.
10; bonus:
For 10 points each—answer the following about the Catholic Centre Party:
A. It was founded in this country in 1870.  In 1923 it joined this country's Social Democratic Party and People's Party in a “Great Coalition.”
Germany.
B. The Catholic Centre Party opposed this German politician known as the “Iron Chancellor.”
Bismarck.
C. Specifically, the party opposed this Bismarck policy promulgated by Adalbert Falk that sought to limit the power of the Catholic Church in Prussia and Germany.
Kulturkampf.
Yes.
30; tossup 12:
This letter is not lambda, but David Hilbert used it for an operator that replaces logical quantifiers in a namesake ”calculus.”
The Levi-Civita symbol is usually represented by the lowercase form of this Greek letter.
This letter represents (*) empty strings in formal languages and empty transitions of finite-state machines.
For 10 points—name this Greek letter that appears with delta —
Epsilon.
10; bonus:
In this film, Kevin gazes at an old friend as the song “Hello Stranger” plays on a diner's jukebox.  For 10 points each—
A. What Best Picture winner, whose third section involves Kevin reuniting with a teenage crush who now goes by the nickname “Black,” was the subject of an infamous mix-up with La La Land at the Oscars?
Moonlight.
B. This character, whose nicknames include “Black” and “Little,” confronts his romantic feelings for Kevin in Moonlight.
 
Johnson.
Chiron.
C. This director of Moonlight adapted a James Baldwin novel in his 2019 film If Beale Street Could Talk.
 
Answer.
Scorsese.
Barry Jenkins.
That's 10 points on the bonus, and that's the half.
 
At the half the score is Beaver Creek 250,
Thomas Jefferson C 130, and this is tossup 13:
The current holder of this office criticized his predecessor's $4.5-billion deal with Foxconn.
A 2019 legal fight concerns 82 appointments made by an ex-holder of this office, confirmed by a lame-duck congressional session.
In 2012 the holder of this office survived a (*) recall effort over limitations of public employees' collective bargaining rights.
For 10 points—
Governor of Wisconsin.
10: bonus:
For 10 points each—answer the following about treatments for bronchitis:
A. For a short term, the patient may be prescribed one of these devices that deliver an aerosolized dose of medication for the lungs.  People with asthma often carry a ”rescue” one.
 
Answer. 
Inhaler.
B. To help suppress inflammation, a doctor may prescribe methylprednisolone, an example of the “cortico” kind of these organic compounds with a generalized four-ring structure.
 
Answer. 
Steroid.
C. To prevent secondary infections, a doctor may prescribe this type of antibiotic.  Its name indicates it is effective against both gram-negative and -positive agents.
Answer.
???
Broad-spectrum. 
20 points tossup 14:
This poet urged readers not to trust in “valiant dust that builds on dust” in a poem whose first four stanzas end “lest we forget—lest we forget!”
This author of “Recessional” described “new-caught, sullen peoples, half devil and half child” in a defense—
Kipling.
15; bonus:
The situation of ”untouchable castes” was a point of contention within the Indian independence movement.  For 10 points each—
A. This leader of the “Quit India” movement proposed reserving elected positions for untouchables, or Dalits, whom he called ”harijan”.
Gandhi.
B. This Dalit intellectual, the author of the bulk of India's constitution, opposed Gandhi's stance, instead proposing a separate electorate for Dalits.
 
No, Ambedkar.
C. B. R. Ambedkar backed down in his argument over Dalits in 1932 after Gandhi began to perform this practice of abstention, which he often used as a tool while protesting.
Hunger strike.
Yes, that's 20 points; tossup 15:
The ten-person committee that drafted this plan included Britain's Josiah Stamp and Belgium's Maurice Houtart.
J. P. Morgan and other banks issued 200 million dollars in bonds as a loan under this plan.
Dawes plan.
15; bonus:
This character declares “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me” while imprisoned shortly before his death.  For 10 points each—
A. Name this Shakespearean title character whose throne is seized by Henry Bolingbroke while he is campaigning in Ireland.
 
Answer.
Edward III.
Richard II.
B. In Richard II, before ordering that Mowbray and Bolingbroke be banished from the realm, Richard decides that their dispute shall be settled in this manner.
Duel.
C. Richard II is generally categorized as a history play, but also functions as a play in this genre.  Shakespeare's other plays in this genre include Othello.
 
Tragedy.
20; tossup 16:
This author depicted Superman walking into the Arctic to die after de-powering himself with gold kryptonite in the story Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?.
Adam Susan leads the Norsefire Party in a work by this author, in which a (*) vigilante recites a poem about remembering the “fifth of November.”
The Jack the Ripper-inspired series From Hell is by—for 10 points—what author of V for Vendetta—
Grafton.
Neg 5.
what author of V for Vendetta and Watchmen?
 
 
Time.
Alan Moore.
A “flat” version of this geometric figure can only be embedded in four or more dimensions.
Topologically, this figure is the product of a circle with the same circle.
This figure's volume equals 2 pi squared times its larger (*) radius times its smaller radius squared.
This figure has genus 1, meaning it has one—
Yes.
Torus.
10; bonus:
Pencil and paper ready.  For 10 points each—answer these questions about matrix A, which is a 2-by-2 matrix whose top row is (x, 6) and whose bottom row is (x, 3):
A. What is the value of x if the transpose of A equals A?
Answer.
0.
6.
B. What is the value of x if, instead, the determinant of A equals negative 9?  You have 10 seconds.
 
Answer.
3.
C. If matrix B has 4 columns, how many rows must B have if A times B produces a valid result?
 
Answer.
2.
20 points; tossup 18:
This event ended prematurely after Patrick Eugene Prendergast assassinated—
Chicago World's Fair.
15; bonus:
Alan Diaz won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of immigration agents seizing this person from a Miami residence.  For 10 points each—
A. Name this boy who was controversially repatriated to his father in Cuba after his mother died on a ship bound for the U.S.
 
Answer.
Elian Gonzalez.
B. This attorney general under Bill Clinton ordered Elían González be sent back to Cuba after the Supreme Court declined to hear a case regarding his asylum.
 
Answer.
Reno.
C. González was returned to Cuba in this year, in which George W. Bush defeated Al Gore in a hotly-contested presidential election.
 
Answer.
2000.
30; tossup 19:
These fruits title the first story in Dylan Thomas's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
One of these fruits is altered when boiled crocodile tongues are spilled from a bag.
Characters swear an ”oath” in a (*) garden growing—
Peaches.
10; bonus:
At the start of this novel, Conrad is mysteriously crushed beneath an enormous ”enchanted helmet.”  For 10 points each—
A. Name this 1764 novel in which the villainous Manfred is forced to abdicate his throne.
 
Answer.
???
The Castle of Otranto.
B. This author wrote The Castle of Otranto.  His father Robert was a leading Whig politician.
Walpole.
C. The Castle of Otranto is considered the first novel in this literary genre that focuses on themes of horror and death.  Some title pages of The Castle of Otranto refer to it as this type of “story.”
Gothic that's 20 tossup 20:
Near this state, an order parameter equal to a difference in densities scales as a difference in temperatures raised to a namesake “exponent.”
For substances near this state, the van der Waals equation erroneously predicts—
Real Gas.
Neg 5.
the van der Waals equation erroneously predicts oscillatory isotherms on a pressure-volume diagram.
For water, (*) 218 atm and 374° Celsius is this point.
For 10 points—name this point on a phase diagram where the liquid-gas boundary disappears.
Triple Point.
No, it's the critical point.
Tossup 21:
This sea's islands of Nakura and Kebir, which house notorious prison camps for political dissidents, are part of its Dahlak Archipelago.
Red Sea.
15; bonus:
For 10 points each—answer the following about raptors with specialized diets:
A. Although widespread in Latin America, the U.S. population of the snail kite is restricted to this state where it hunts apple snails in wetlands like the Everglades.
 
Answer. 
Florida.
B. These arboreal mammals form a significant part of the diet of harpy eagles in the Amazon rainforest.  These animals rely on symbiotic algae in their fur for camouflage.
 
Answer.
???
Sloths.
C. Verreaux's eagle almost exclusively eats these rodent-like mammals in the family Procaviidae.  Along with sirenians, these mammals are the closest living relatives of the elephant.
 
Answer.
???
Hyrax.
10 points tossup 22:
Part of this project called the Culebra Cut was finished by an American team led by John Frank Stevens.
This project's chief—
Panama Canal.
15.
This concept is “ascribed” when it is fixed at birth, and “achieved” otherwise.  For 10 points each—
A. Name this term for a social position often represented by namesake “symbols” such as luxury goods.
 
Answer.
Status.
B. This sociologist, who wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class, coined the term ”conspicuous consumption” for the ostentatious purchase of luxury goods and services.
 
Answer.
Veblen.
C. Class, status, and power are the three components of Max Weber's theory of this social phenomenon.
 
Answer.
???
stratification.
20 points; tossup 23:
In Islamic law, this substance forms the basis for rada kinship.
The Ukrainian food molozyvo  is made from a lymphocyte-rich form of this substance known as colostrum
In Hindu mythology, the nectar (*) Amrita—
Milk.
10; bonus:
This religion's founder gave the name Angra Mainyu to the primary destructive spirit.  For 10 points each—
A. Name this Asian religion whose adherents worship Ahura Mazda.
Zoroastrianism.
B. A primary symbol of Zoroastrianism is ”atar”, an example of this physical phenomenon considered to signify the presence of Ahura Mazda.
Fire.
C. Zoroastrianism has 101 of these things, including “Yazad” , which means “worthy of worship.”  In Judaism there are seven of these things that are never to be erased.
Books.
Names of God.
20 points; tossup the last:
The open-circuit test can determine the impedance in one of these devices, which are typically rated in volt-amperes.
To minimize leakage flux in these devices, their windings are commonly arranged concentrically around a high-permeability core.
Yes.
Inductors.
Neg 5.
These devices use (*) induction to transfer electrical energy between circuits.  For 10 points—name these devices that are used to ”step up” or ”step down” voltage.
yes.
Transformer. 
Your bonus:
Saint Gwenole legendarily saved this city's ruler by warning him to flee.  For 10 points each—
A. Name this mythical French city ruled by King Gradlon, which sank beneath the sea when Princess Dahut unlocked its dike.
 
Answer.
No.
Ys.
B. This French composer depicted Ys in “The Sunken Cathedral,” from one of his two books of Préludes for solo piano.  His orchestral works include La mer.
Debussy.
Yes.
C. In the Ys series of video games, players control Adol, a swordsman with this color hair.
In the Devil May Cry series, Dante wears a long coat that is this color.
Black.
Red.
That's 10 points on the bonus.
 
Final score final score is 435 Beavercreek, 245 Thomas Jefferson C.
Congratulations to both teams.
