2016 ACF Fall Flashcards
In what play does Adela carry out an affair with Pepe El Romano, who her sister Angustias is going to marry?
The House of Bernarda Alba
Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar boycotted one of this who’s speeches because this he supported Barack Obama’s climate change initiative?
Pope Francis
One minor tradition on what holiday is the reading of the entire Book of Jonah during the afternoon service?
Yom Kippur
What numbers are specified by Binet’s formula?
Fibonacci numbers
What theorem states that for n > 12, the nth Fibonacci number F(n) has at least one prime divisor that does not divide any earlier Fibonacci number?
Carmichael’s Theorem
Who is brought to tears by the singing of the bard Demodocus in the court of King Alcinous?
Odysseus
Who landed on the island of Scheria and was received by King Alcinous, Queen Arete and their daughter Nausicaa?
Odysseus
What was the name of the Irish- American gang in New York that supported Mayor Fernando Wood and Tammany Hall?
Dead Rabbit Gang
What Manhattan neighborhood was known as a hub for the Irish?
Hell’s Kitchen
Who defeated her sister Joanna La Beltraneja to claim the throne after the death of her brother Alfonso, Prince of Asturias?
Isabel of Castile
Who served as Minister to Spain during the American Revolution?
John Jay
What title was held by the members of the Sanson family?
Royal Executioner of France
What group of knitting women sat behind the guillotine?
Tricoteuse
In what square did most of the executions take place during the French Revolution?
Place de la Concorde
Who wrote The English Patient?
Michael Ondaatje
Who wrote Political Liberalism?
John Rawls
Who planned a humongous hotel in New York called Hotel Attraction
Antoni Gaudi
Who designed a mosaic lizard nicknamed “El Drac”?
Antoni Gaudi
What designer’s projects feature his four-armed cross?
Antoni Gaudi
Who designed the Park Guell, named after his patron?
Antoni Gaudi
Who wrote Vile Bodies?
Evelyn Waugh
What ship defeated the Raphael Semmes- commanded ship CSS Alabama, the most successful raider in the Confederacy at the Battle of Cherbourg?
USS Kearsarge
What kind of sugar has the namesake property due to its possession of a carbonyl group?
Reducing sugar
In what organometallic chemical reaction do alkyl, vinyl, or aryl-magnesium halides add to a carbonyl group in an aldehyde or ketone?
Grignard Reaction
