LADUE INVITATIONAL SPRING TOURNAMENT 2013 Round 6 TOSS-UPS 1. This country lies at the southern end of the Brenner Pass and contains the Aosta Valley. Lakes Garda and Como are located in this country, and the Adige flows through its province of South Tyrol. One of this country’s island possessions lies south of the Tyrrhenian Sea, while another lies across the Strait of Bonifacio from (*) Corsica. Taranto and Trieste are cities in this country, which contains the Dolomites and Apennines and shares Mont Blanc with France. Its Po River flows into the Adriatic Sea, while its Arno River flows past Florence and Pisa. For ten points, name this country which contains cities like Naples, Venice, and Rome. ANSWER: Italy (or Italian Republic) <JD> 2. The in a noose of this stuff, and Rubaiyat describes “the sultan’s turret” caught “September 1, 1939” mentions describes the one kind of this the and the “ironic points of” it. “My Last Duchess” “dropping of” entity “in West,” narrator of a Robert Frost the the poem has “outwalked furthest” one. “Dover Beach” claims world “hath neither joy, this stuff, and (*) For ten points, nor love, nor” Milton’s “On His Blindness” begins “when I consider how” it “is spent.” identify this entity which Dylan Thomas the the word for which is used to describe a tells us to “rage, rage against dying of,” charging brigade in a Tennyson poem. ANSWER: light (accept elaborations furthest city light” like “the or daylight) <MS> 3. or of the with its eastern Zemene Mesafint, This country’s “Era Princes,” ended when Kassa became emperor, and,
LADUE INVITATIONAL SPRING TOURNAMENT 2013 Round 6 TOSS-UPS 1. This country lies at the southern end of the Brenner Pass and contains the Aosta Valley. Lakes Garda and Como are located in this country, and the Adige flows through its province of South Tyrol. One of this country’s island possessions lies south of the Tyrrhenian Sea, while another lies across the Strait of Bonifacio from (*) Corsica. Taranto and Trieste are cities in this country, which contains the Dolomites and Apennines and shares Mont Blanc with France. Its Po River flows into the Adriatic Sea, while its Arno River flows past Florence and Pisa. For ten points, name this country which contains cities like Naples, Venice, and Rome. ANSWER: Italy (or Italian Republic) <JD> 2. The Rubaiyat describes “the sultan’s turret” caught in a noose of this stuff, and “September 1, 1939” mentions “ironic points of” it. “My Last Duchess” describes the “dropping of” one kind of this entity “in the West,” and the narrator of a Robert Frost poem has “outwalked the furthest” one. “Dover Beach” claims the world “hath neither joy, nor love, nor” this stuff, and Milton’s “On His (*) Blindness” begins “when I consider how” it “is spent.” For ten points, identify this entity which Dylan Thomas tells us to “rage, rage against the dying of,” the word for which is used to describe a charging brigade in a Tennyson poem. ANSWER: light (accept elaborations like “the furthest city light” or daylight) <MS> 3. This country’s Zemene Mesafint, or “Era of the Princes,” ended when Kassa became emperor, and, with its eastern