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2005 ACF Fall - Packet by Berkeley A, NC State, and Florida B - #4 [report this tossup]
In 1992, a pair of Russian researchers proposed the use of grazing reflections off the walls of small glass capillaries to guide this particle. If it turns out to have a nonzero dipole moment, it would imply CPT violation, as both P and T would be violated. This lightest particle classified as having isospin -1/2 is taken by an isospin rotation into its stable partner. It is stable when in a bound state, but in a free state it undergoes beta decay with a lifetime of approximately fifteen minutes, emitting an electron antineutrino along with an electron and another baryon. Consisting of two down quarks and one up quark, for ten points, what is this particle, discovered by James Chadwick in 1937 as the neutral counterpart to the proton?
Answer: neutron
1999 ACF Regionals - Packet by Harvard - #4 [report this tossup]
He introduced chords built in fourths instead of the usual major/minor triads to produce an exotic effect in his piano sonatas and such works as Satanic Poem. He also attempted to get interesting effects through the fusion of music and philosophy in the programmatic Divine Poem, and both colors and scents in the planned but unexecuted Mysterium. However, he did finish a piece calling for a color organ to produce a light show on a screen. FTP, name this Russian composer of Prometheus: A Poem of Fire.
Answer: Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin
2001 ACF Nationals - Packet by Vanderbilt - #5 [report this tossup]
Twice, it drew enough votes to change the outcome of the Ohio gubernatorial race, behind Leicester King. In New Hampshire, John P. Hale was elected to the U.S. Senate under the banner of this party, and in 1844, it tipped the presidential scales against Henry Clay behind a ticket of Thomas Morris and James G. Birney. FTP, name this party which was formed in 1839 by a group of moderates who broke from William Lloyd Garrison's American Anti-Slavery Society, only to be supplanted in the 1848 election by the Free Soil Party.
Answer: Liberty Party