February Week 2

Question 1

This story’s narrator watches a drop of dew that falls and kills a lizard near a shrub bearing a “profusion of purple blossoms.” Eventually, Professor Baglioni convinces Giovanni to give the title Padua resident a cup of medicine to counteract her father’s experimentation, but it kills her. After consuming liquid from a silver vase crafted by Benvenuto Cellini at the end of the story, this character dies.

Answer 1

Rappaccini’s Daughter

Question 2

Beethoven’s phrase “Es muss sein!” is repeated by a surgeon in this novel who refuses to retract an article comparing Communists to Oedipus. This novel attacks the notion of “totalitarian kitsch” via the painter Sabina, who poses wearing nothing but a bowler hat. This novel challenges Nietzsche’s idea of “eternal return” through the story of the Czech dissidents Tereza and Tomas. a philosopher feels that the “Grand March” of leftism has ended while he protests with a number of American celebrities. A professor’s tomb is marked ‘a return after long wanderings’ in this novel. Tereza’s dog Karenin dies of cancer

Answer 2

Unbearable Lightness of Being

Question 3

The death of this novel’s title character is implied by a blank chapter titled “Vanished Into the Clouds.” Lady Aoi (ah-OH-ee) is one of the many romantic partners of this novel’s title prince. character kidnaps a ten-year-old girl who shares her name with this work’s author, and brings her up as his ideal lady. main character often called “Shining.”

Answer 3

Tale of Genji

Question 4

Identify this pseudonymous medieval author who is named in reference to a shade of violet purple. wrote Tale of Genji

Answer 4

Lady Murasaki

Question 5

Murasaki’s diary documents her fierce rivalry with fellow poet Sei Shōnagon, who is best-known for this zuihitsu (“zoo-ee-heet-soo”) book of fragmentary essays and anecdotes about Heian court life.

Answer 5

The Pillow Book

Question 6

A leader of this school of art, named Eitoku, created a screen painting of Chinese lions for Toyotomi Hideyoshi. It was the dominant school of Japanese art for nearly 400 years starting in the Ashikaga Shogunate.

Answer 6

Kano School

Question 7

Throughout this novel, its main characters tirelessly search for the deed to a huge claim of land in Maine. ancestor is afflicted with the curse “God will give him blood to drink” after hanging Matthew Maule. In this work, the Judge dies while sitting in the same chair that his ancestor did 30 years ago. Matthew Maule hypnotized Alice to walk through snow wearing just an evening gown, resulting in her death from pneumonia

Answer 7

House of the Seven Gables

Question 8

Stories like “Young Goodman Brown” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” appear in this collection, named for a house where Hawthorne lived.

Answer 8

Mosses from an Old Manse

Question 9

In this Hawthorne short story, Aylmer becomes obsessed with perfecting the appearance of his wife Georgiana.

Answer 9

The Birthmark

Question 10

name this book which focused on the dangers of the pesticide DDT and founded the environmentalist movement, written by Rachel Carson.

Answer 10

Silent Spring

Question 11

character who builds a bomb to kill all the frogs in a reservoir that ends up also destroying the reservoir itself. He later earns his title nickname after he carries and whips a huge statue. King Dahfu is on a quest to hunt the lion that he believes is that reincarnation of his dead father. he constantly hears repeating “ I want”

Answer 11

Henderson the Rain King

Question 12

The title character of this novel, set in Dawson’s Landing, exonerates Luigi and Angelo Capello and reveals Judge Driscoll’s true murderer by demonstrating fingerprinting. The title character of this novel gets his nickname after he says “I wish I owned half that dog, because I would kill my half.” Roxana switched the infants Chambers and Tom,

Answer 12

Pudd’nhead Wilson

Question 13

name the gangster who ordered the famous “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” and afterwards took over the Chicago mob scene, struggled for power with Bugs Moran, Eliot Ness and the Untouchables finally managed to jail this man in 1933 on charges of tax evasion. AKA Scarface

Answer 13

Al Capone

Question 14

This other Italian mobster established the First Commission which created a ruling committee consisting of the Five Families and the Chicago Outfit. He was the first boss of the Genovese crime family.

Answer 14

Charles “Lucky” Luciano

Question 15

Though Alcatraz was supposedly escape proof, Frank Morris and these brothers attempted to escape The Rock in a prison-made boat in 1962. The actual fate of Morris and these brothers remains unknown

Answer 15

John and Clarence Anglin

Question 16

This man briefly ran the Las Vegas Flamingo, but was shot in 1947 just months after the casino opened. His nickname was from people saying he was crazier than a bedbug.

Answer 16

Bugsy Siegel

Question 17

pigments that sense light in the retina

Answer 17

Rhodopsins

Question 18

Bang on a Can Marathon takes place in this city, Philip Glass worked as cab driver in this city, this city’s music publishing houses, which were nicknamed Tin Pan Alley. Rhapsody in Blue premiered in this city, where many music students enroll at Juilliard.

Answer 18

New York City

Question 19

The Winkler test measures dissolved oxygen using this technique on a thiosulfate solution.

Answer 19

Titration

Question 20

In this opera, Crown kills Robbins with a cotton hook while arguing over craps winnings, and Sportin’ Life sings “It Ain’t Necessarily So” at the picnic. name this opera set in Catfish Row where Clara sings the song “Summertime,” an opera by George Gershwin.

Answer 20

Porgy and Bess

Question 21

character legally changed her name from Joy to annoy her mother. At the end of this story one character pulls out a pack of pornographic playing cards and of whiskey hidden in a hollow Bible and comments his real name is not Manley Pointer after abandoning a thirty-two year old woman who has a philosophy Ph.D. in the top loft of a barn. steals her artificial leg, story by Flannery O’ Connor

Answer 21

Good Country People

Question 22

member of the Argonauts, emphasizes his role in drowning out the singing of the Sirens. Inhabitants of the island of Lesbos found and buried this man’s disembodied head. his venture to the underworld failed to bring her back. name this husband of Eurydice, a mythical Greek musician and lyre player.

Answer 22

Orpheus

Question 23

This poem opens with a call for a muscular man to “whip” up “concupiscent curds” in the kitchen. opens with “Call the roller of big cigars.” Boys are commanded to “Bring flowers in last month’s newspapers” in this poem, which mentions the “horny feet” of a corpse that “protrude” from under a sheet. Poem by Wallace Stevens

Answer 23

Emperor of Ice Cream

Question 24

This scientist studied individuals nicknamed Frodo, Flo, and Goliath, and through observations of David Greybeard “fishing” for termites using straws, she found evidence for non-human tool usage. This author of the memoir In the Shadow of Man, Gombe Stream National Park

Answer 24

Jane Goodall

Question 25

Country with the city of Dar es Salaam

Answer 25

Tanzania

Question 26

This biophysicist contributed to the study of molecular structures and to the discovery of the double helix by producing early X-ray diffraction images of DNA, produce the X-ray “Photo 51”

Answer 26

Rosalind Franklin

Question 27

This geneticist proved that DNA, not protein is the genetic material of life in a 1952 experiment with Alfred Hershey.

Answer 27

Martha Chase

Question 28

Name these two scientists credited for discovering the structure of DNA.

Answer 28

Francis Crick & James Watson

Question 29

In 1925, under the reign of king Haakon VII, this country changed its capital’s name from “Christiania.”this country’sLofoten Archipelago, which is also home to the world’s largest deep-water coral reef. Nazi Germany then installed a puppet government in this country which was nominally led by the leader of Nasjonal Samling, Vidkun Quisling.

Answer 29

Norway

Question 30

The narrator plays ragtime renditions of Mendelsohn's Wedding March while touring Europe with a benefactor. The narrator, whose absentee father was described as "the best blood of the South", changes his name and identity after witnessing a lynching, Its narrator resolves to go to college after his mother dies in Connecticut, but the theft of his $400 causes him to take up cigar rolling in Jacksonville. wrote by this author of God's Trombones and lyricist of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a song so popular it became known as the "Negro national anthem," he "traded [his] birthright for a mess of pottage" by passing.

Answer 30

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Question 31

At the end of this novel, Maria lives with Mrs. Norris after running off with Henry, and Edmund rejects the amoral Mary in favor of Fanny Price. Two characters in this novel flirt during a racy amateur production of Elizabeth Inchbald's play Lovers' Vows. The wealth of this novel's title locale comes from Sir Thomas's slave plantations in Antigua.

Answer 31

Mansfield Park

Question 32

A character in this novel faints after witnessing the protagonist decorate a cathedral, who is later sentenced to death after he shoots at Madame de Renal. This novel’s title refers to the contrasting sentiments of the French clergy and army. The protagonist of this novel is executed for shooting Madame de Renal, after which his severed head is kissed by Mathilde de la Mole.

Answer 32

The Red and the Black

Question 33

The protagonist's friend carries a teddy bear named Aloysius at Oxford and ends up an alcoholic in Tangier. The protagonist divorces his wife Celia Mulcaster to marry his mistress Julia Mottram, the sister of his friend Sebastian Flyte. Another character from this novel is very attached to his teddy bear, Aloysius, and first appears when vomiting into the protagonist's ground-floor rooms.

Answer 33

Brideshead Revisited

Question 34

C and F-sharp major triads create a clashing chord named for this ballet. focuses on a love triangle between the title character, Ballerina, andthe Moor, who are brought to life by the Wizard. It takes place at the Shrovetide Fair and contains a "Dance of the Wet Nurses" in addition to a dance of a peasant with his bear. When one character in this stage-work fails to cut a coconut with his sword, he then figures that the coconut is a god and prays to it.

Answer 34

Petrushka

Question 35

In this novel, a character that dissects frogs kisses Fenichka and later dies after contracting typhus while performing an autopsy. Nikolai struggles to understand his son Arkady and his “nihilist” friend in this novel. That character in this work dies after he cuts his finger and contracts typhus while performing an autopsy, and he calls Anna Odintsova to his deathbed.

Answer 35

Fathers and Sons

Question 36

After this battle, Muwatalli II and Ramses II signed the first-ever recorded peace treaty. fought near the Orontes River, After this largest chariot battle in history, the world’s oldest surviving peace treaty was signed.

Answer 36

Battle of Kadesh

Question 37

A flurry of rising and falling sixteenth note arpeggios and an abrupt shift to A major from the main key of A minor marks the ending of this challenging solo violin piece, which was merged with a Dies Irae theme in a rhapsody by Rachmaninoff.

Answer 37

Paganini's Caprice No.24

Question 38

This type of gap is defined as the smallest energy state orthogonal to the vacuum and its existence in Yang-Mills theory is a Millennium Prize problem. it is generated via the Higgs mechanism.

Answer 38

Mass

Question 39

He published the first magnetic charts of the oceans and also published Newton's Principia Mathematica. He requested that future scientists carefully observe the 1761 transit of Venus in order to accurately measure the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Name this English scientist who predicted the 1758 return of a namesake comet.

Answer 39

Edmond Halley

Question 40

Celebrated on December 8, name this Christian feast that celebrates Mary being free from original sin.

Answer 40

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Question 41

The Dirty War in this nation followed a coup that overthrew Isabel Peron and set forth a junta that failed to take the Falkland Islands from Great Britain. its independence was won through victories by Jose de San Martin.

Answer 41

Argentina

Question 42

In one of his works, he describes an economic system in which red shell necklaces are traded clockwise and white shell bracelets are traded counter-clockwise among islands in the Trobriands. name this author of Coral Gardens and Their Magic and Argonauts of the Western Pacific who gained fame for describing the kula ring.

Answer 42

Bronislaw Malinowski

Question 43

In this work, a primeval world in which people had two bodies connected at the back is described by Aristophanes. In this work, a drunk Alcibiades bursts in to describe his jilted love for Socrates. In an earlier section of the same work, Aristophanes drunkenly claims that humans were once a creature with two bodies and were split in half by the gods and condemned to search the earth for their other half.

Answer 43

Symposium

Question 44

The teacher Kantorek encouraged many characters of this novel to enter its hellish setting, in which a pair of boots passes from character to character as they die and Kat is struck by shrapnel while being carried to safety by the protagonist. The protagonist of this book agonizes over killing the Frenchman Gerard Duval, and receives Kemmerich’s unused boots.

Answer 44

All Quiet on the Western Front

Question 45

In the poem “Sacred Emily,” she wrote “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” This author’s poem “A Carafe, That Is a Blind Glass” appears in the first section of Tender Buttons and exemplifies her Cubism. author of the “Lost Generation” who wrote an “autobiography” about her lover, Alice B. Toklas.

Answer 45

Gertrude Stein

Question 46

Turkish author of The Museum of Innocence (protagonists falls in love with a salesgirl who turns out to be a distant cousin, while he isshopping for a handbag for his fiancée Sibel. That protagonist collects mundane objects belonging to Füsun) , My Name is Red (murdered miniaturist Elegant Effendi) , and Snow( follows the poet Ka and the suicide of the “headscarf girls.”, The protagonist reunites with his childhood love Ipek, who previously had an affair with the radical Blue, in a novel by this man that climaxes at a televised performance of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy) .

Answer 46

Orhan Pamuk

Question 47

Cloud-Messenger and The Recognition of Shakuntala are works by which author who wrote in Classical Sanskrit? a fisherman's discovery of a lost signet ring in a fish allows the title character to defeat Durvasa's curse and reconcile with her husband Dushyanta.

Answer 47

Kalidasa

Question 48

Nigerian environmental activist, who led protests against Royal Dutch Shell as the head of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People before his 1995 execution. used “Rotten English” to write his novel Sozaboy and was later executed for his political activism.

Answer 48

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Question 49

A Sand County Almanac was written by this environmentalist Wisconsinite, who advanced a form of conservation organized around the “land ethic.”

Answer 49

Aldo Leopold

Question 50

In this novel, after the death of the green-haired Rosa, her silent and clairvoyant sister Clara marries the hacienda owner Esteban. character discovers his erotic photographs of Indian servants and leaves. After nine years of not speaking following the poisoning death of her green-haired sister Rosa, the clairvoyant Clara marries the protagonist, written by Isabel Allende, This novel begins and ends with the line “Barrabas came to us by the sea.”

Answer 50

House of the Spirits

Question 51

Name this novella in which Professor Preobrazhensky transplants two organs intoa dog named Sharik, turning him into a human. written by Mikhail Bulgakov

Answer 51

Heart of a Dog

Question 52

This novel originated as the verse play Proud Flesh, in which the main character was named Talos after a “brutal, blank-eyed ‘iron groom’” from the Fairie Queene. He digs up blackmail evidence against Judge Irwin, causing Irwin to commit suicide before he realizes Irwin was his father. In this novel, Anne Stanton’s affair with “the Boss” is revealed, causing Adam to shoot him. about the Huey-Long-inspired politician Willie Stark, by Robert Penn Warren.

Answer 52

All the King's Men

Question 53

This novel follows a group of American artists in Italy, including the painter Miriam, whose sexuality fascinates Donatello. This novel ends with Hilda agreeing to marry Kenyon, and begins with American artists comparing a vivacious Italian to a sculpture by Praxiteles. name this novel about a murder committed by Miriam and Donatello in Rome, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Answer 53

The Marble Faun

Question 54

In this play, a man suggests multiple ways for the protagonist to kill himself, but instead he opts to cross a lake. This play’s main character keeps trading a Heracles outfit with his servant, Xanthias, and eventually decides to bring Aeschylus with him from the Underworld. In this play, a contest is held to see whether the which poet’s verses “weigh more,” The chant “brekekekex koax koax” is heard by the title creatures as Dionysus travels to the underworld

Answer 54

The Frogs

Question 55

character in this novel encourages looting at a supermarket run by the Korean “Emperor,” and reveals that his mentally disabled sister committed suicide due to their incestuous relationship. two brothers learn that a great-great-uncle, who they thought had fled after a rebellion, actually hid in a cellar for ten years; The narrator's brother confesses to sleeping with their mentally disabled sister before committing suicide. John Bester titled his translation of this novel after the suicide of the narrator's friend, who painted himself red and stuck a cucumber up his anus. written by Kenzaburo Oe

Answer 55

The Silent Cry

Question 56

This postmodern Puerto Rican writer wrote the first fully-Spanglish novel, 1998’s Yo-Yo Boing! Calderón’s Life Is a Dream inspired her novel in which Sigismundo is locked in the Statue of Liberty’s dungeon, United States of Banana.

Answer 56

Giannina Braschi

Question 57

For Earth, this quantity is approximately 0.016. name this quantity which represents the ratio of focal length and semimajor axis length foran elliptical orbit, symbolized epsilon. This quantity is between 0 and 1 for an ellipse and greater than 1 for a hyperbola. the vector named for this quantity is proportional to the LRL vector.

Answer 57

Eccentricity

Question 58

When the crown of Scotland became vacant in September 1290 on the death of the seven year old child monarch Margaret, the Maid of Norway, a total of thirteen claimants to the throne came forward.

Answer 58

Great Cause

Question 59

Alliance between Scotland and France

Answer 59

Auld Alliance

Question 60

This artist taught Sandro Botticelli, who in turn instructed this man's illegitimate son of the same name.painted Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement. Adoration of the Magi

Answer 60

Fillipo Lippi

Question 61

identify this song collection, with texts based on anthology by Arnim and Brentano, that features prominently in the early symphonies of Mahler

Answer 61

The Boy's Magic Horn

Question 62

The Blues Festival held in this city pays tribute to the man considered the father of this city's blues style, Muddy Waters. a jazz festival is held in Millennium Park.

Answer 62

Chicago

Question 63

demonstrated that an electric charge in a conducting shell induces an equal charge on the shell in his ice pail experiment. Namesake law is third in the Maxwell Equations

Answer 63

Michael Faraday

Question 64

his musical was adapted from a ballad opera by John Gay. name this Kurt Weill musical about Polly Peachum and Macheath, which features lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. With songs such as "Pirate Jenny"

Answer 64

The Threepenny Opera

Question 65

This composer of Sonatas and Interludes wrote a work for twelve radios but may be best known for a three-movement work for solo piano in which the sections are delineated by a stopwatch. identify this author of Silence who used the I Ching to introduce chance effects into compositions such as Imaginary Landscape and Music of Changes but may be best known for his entirely silent 4'33".

Answer 65

John Cage

Question 66

identify this mathematical problem which asked of every natural number k whether there was a number s such that every integer can be written as at most s kth powers.

Answer 66

Waring's Problem

Question 67

This man, nicknamed "O.R.," was re-elected at the 1985 Kabwe Conference and established a guerrilla training camp in Morogoro. Following the death of Albert Luthuli, this man rose to his highest post, where he authorized chief of staff Joe Slovo to carry out the Church Street bombing. This man assumed control of the Umkhonto we Sizwe MK following the Rivonia trials and was succeeded in the post of party leader by Nelson Mandela.

Answer 67

Oliver Tambo

Question 68

At this battle, Ephialtes, a traitorous resident of Trachis, revealed a hidden goat path in the mountains to forces under a frustrated Xerxes II. King Leonidas and 300 Spartans

Answer 68

Battle of Thermopylae

Question 69

In his essay "Self-Reliance" this author claims, “to be great is to be misunderstood” and “foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” name this Transcendentalist author of “Circles” and “Self-Reliance.” This author of "Nature" wrote an 1841 essay that attacks "conformity" as a concept that makes men false. This man rented his pond to Henry David Thoreau, a fellow Transcendentalist. He declared that “if eyes were made for seeing, / Then beauty is its own excuse for Being” in his poem “The Rhodora.”

Answer 69

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 70

The winner of this war said "Paris is well worth a mass" and issued the Edict of Nantes. This war included an order against "heretics," issued after the Day of the Barricades.A later member of the House of Guise fought in this conflict until he was killed by his own guard, the Forty-Five Gentlemen. The decisive battle in this war was fought in 1587 at Coutras, and after this war the victor converted to Catholicism.

Answer 70

War of the Three Henrys

Question 71

He wrote the ballet La Péri (pay-REE) and the opera Ariadne and Bluebeard. name this French composer of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Answer 71

Paul Dukas

Question 72

To this day, the navy of one side of this war always has one ship named Gangut, named after a victorious battle during this war. Even after victories at Fraustadt and Narva during this war, King Charles XII’s forces were decisively defeated at the Battle of Poltava. This war ended with the Treaty of Nystad. For 10 points, name this war which saw Peter the Great’s coalition defeat Sweden.

Answer 72

Great Northern War

Question 73

name this designer of Belle Isle Park and Central Park, who's often known as the father of American landscape planning. He published a journalistic look at the south titled The Cotton Kingdom in 1861.

Answer 73

Frederick Olmstead

Question 74

The 1893 World’s Fair is often considered the first application of this movement. Members of this movement, which has a two-word name, thought that nice-looking public spaces would make citizens act more “harmoniously.”

Answer 74

City Beautiful Movement

Question 75

His secret police force was named the PIDE, and he fought against Nehru in Operation Vijay for control of Goa. This man also fought wars in Angola and Mozambique, and his unpopular foreign policies would lead to his successor, Marcelo Caetano, being overthrown in the Carnation Revolution.

Answer 75

Antonio Salazar

Question 76

Identify this regime which ruled Portugal from the 1930s through the 1970s.

Answer 76

Estado Novo

Question 77

This author created the nonsensical example sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" to support his theory of generative syntax. This author of Syntactic Structures is most famous for proposing the existence of a Universal Grammar.

Answer 77

Noam Chomsky

Question 78

This leader’s working-class supporters were known as the “descamisados,” or “shirtless ones.” president of Argentina who was married to Evita.

Answer 78

Juan Peron

Question 79

The District-Officer Simon Pilkings is unable to stop Olinde's father from killing himself in this play after the ritual suicide of his son. name this play that concludes with Elesin's death which was written by Wole Soyinka. In this play, the main character tells the story of the"Not-I bird" to the praise-singer. At the end of the third act the main character is denounced by his son who declares "I haveno father, eater of left-overs."

Answer 79

Death and the King's Horseman