February Week 2 Flashcards
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.
Rappaccini’s Daughter
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
Unbearable Lightness of Being
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.”
Tale of Genji
Identify this pseudonymous medieval author who is named in reference to a shade of violet purple. wrote Tale of Genji
Lady Murasaki
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.
The Pillow Book
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.
Kano School
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
House of the Seven Gables
Stories like “Young Goodman Brown” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” appear in this collection, named for a house where Hawthorne lived.
Mosses from an Old Manse
In this Hawthorne short story, Aylmer becomes obsessed with perfecting the appearance of his wife Georgiana.
The Birthmark
name this book which focused on the dangers of the pesticide DDT and founded the environmentalist movement, written by Rachel Carson.
Silent Spring
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”
Henderson the Rain King
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,
Pudd’nhead Wilson
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
Al Capone
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.
Charles “Lucky” Luciano
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
John and Clarence Anglin
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.
Bugsy Siegel
pigments that sense light in the retina
Rhodopsins
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.
New York City
The Winkler test measures dissolved oxygen using this technique on a thiosulfate solution.
Titration
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.
Porgy and Bess
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
Good Country People
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.
Orpheus
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
Emperor of Ice Cream
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
Jane Goodall
Country with the city of Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
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”
Rosalind Franklin
This geneticist proved that DNA, not protein is the genetic material of life in a 1952 experiment with Alfred Hershey.
Martha Chase
Name these two scientists credited for discovering the structure of DNA.
Francis Crick & James Watson
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.
Norway
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.
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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.
Mansfield Park
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.
The Red and the Black
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.
Brideshead Revisited
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.
Petrushka
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.
Fathers and Sons
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.
Battle of Kadesh
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.
Paganini’s Caprice No.24
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.
Mass
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.
Edmond Halley
Celebrated on December 8, name this Christian feast that celebrates Mary being free from original sin.
Feast of the Immaculate Conception
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.
Argentina
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.
Bronislaw Malinowski
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.
Symposium
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.
All Quiet on the Western Front
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.
Gertrude Stein
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) .
Orhan Pamuk
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.
Kalidasa
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.
Ken Saro-Wiwa
A Sand County Almanac was written by this environmentalist Wisconsinite, who advanced a form of conservation organized around the “land ethic.”
Aldo Leopold
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.”
House of the Spirits
Name this novella in which Professor Preobrazhensky transplants two organs intoa dog named Sharik, turning him into a human. written by Mikhail Bulgakov
Heart of a Dog
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.
All the King’s Men
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.
The Marble Faun
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
The Frogs
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
The Silent Cry
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.
Giannina Braschi
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.
Eccentricity
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.
Great Cause
Alliance between Scotland and France
Auld Alliance
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
Fillipo Lippi
identify this song collection, with texts based on anthology by Arnim and Brentano, that features prominently in the early symphonies of Mahler
The Boy’s Magic Horn
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.
Chicago
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
Michael Faraday
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”
The Threepenny Opera
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”.
John Cage
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.
Waring’s Problem
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.
Oliver Tambo
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
Battle of Thermopylae
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.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
War of the Three Henrys
He wrote the ballet La Péri (pay-REE) and the opera Ariadne and Bluebeard. name this French composer of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
Paul Dukas
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.
Great Northern War
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.
Frederick Olmstead
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.”
City Beautiful Movement
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.
Antonio Salazar
Identify this regime which ruled Portugal from the 1930s through the 1970s.
Estado Novo
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.
Noam Chomsky
This leader’s working-class supporters were known as the “descamisados,” or “shirtless ones.” president of Argentina who was married to Evita.
Juan Peron
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.”
Death and the King’s Horseman
