March

Question 1

This book praises “free spirits” who are independent and free of dogmatism. This book, which begins with an aftersong called “From High Mountains,” opens by asking “Suppose Truth is a woman – what then?”, by Friedrich Nietzsche.

Answer 1

Beyond Good and Evil

Question 2

a “Great Migration” by these people involved the ship Arbella. Members of this religious group divided over the “free grace” question during the Antinomian Controversy. Increase and Cotton Mather were ministers in this church prominent in New England.

Answer 2

Puritans

Question 3

One of the most famous masses is this one, composed by Giovanni Palestrina in honor of a man who only reigned for three weeks. It legendarily convinced the Council of Trent not to ban polyphonic music.

Answer 3

Missa Papae Marcelli

Question 4

This artist of one of Europe’s first landscapes, which shows a footbridge, executed another work for WilliamIV of Bavaria that includes a large panel bearing an inscription about the title conflict (The Battle of Alexander at Issus) created one of the first pure landscapes in oil, his 1520 Landscape with Footbridge.

Answer 4

Albrecht Altdorfer

Question 5

name this principle of quantum mechanics that forbids two electrons from having identical quantum numbers.It explains why two electrons in the same orbital must have opposite spin, since they cannot occupy the same state.

Answer 5

Pauli Exclusion Principle

Question 6

This Roman poet took inspiration from Sappho’s “Ode to Anactoria” to write his fifty-first numbered poem. This writer of a poem ending “hail and farewell” often addressed his poems to Lesbia, who was named for Sappho. a “thousand kisses, then a hundred.” The speaker of another poem mourns this woman’s dead sparrow who was “sweeter than honey.”

Answer 6

Catullus

Question 7

Commands like “take the bitter care from my mind” and “in all my battles fight as my comrade” end a poem by this author addressed to a “deathless” and “iridescent-throned” goddess. “Ode to Aphrodite” is one of the few substantially complete poems by, for 10 points, what ancient Greek poet who lived on the island of Lesbos? Anne Carson’s If Not, Winter is a translation of the fragments of this ancient Greek poet from Lesbos.

Answer 7

Sappho

Question 8

name this Czech playwright who coined the term “robot” in R.U.R.(Alquist trying to recreate a formula burned by Helena and dubbing Primus and Helena the new Adam and Eve)

Answer 8

Karel Capek

Question 9

Identify this woman who screamed and pleaded for help as she was stabbed to death while 38 witnesses failed to intervene, used as an example for the bystander effect

Answer 9

Kitty Genovese

Question 10

This country is home to Camp Lemmonier, America’s primary permanent military base in Africa, and it contains the incredibly saline Lake Assal, the lowest point in Africa. In the 20th century, this country was briefly known as the French Territory of the Afars and Issas, The only national park of this nation, Day Forest National Park, can be found in this country’s largest vegetated area, the Goda Mountains.

Answer 10

Djibouti

Question 11

This organization’s first Grand Master Workman was Uriah Stephens, who was succeeded by Terence Powderley. The influence of this organization declined after it was blamed for the Haymarket Square Riot. Anti-immigrant sentiments in this group may have led to a massacre of Chinese miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming.

Answer 11

Knights of Labor

Question 12

this type of poem that consists of 6 six-line stanzas followed by a three-line envoi.

Answer 12

Sestina

Question 13

name this ruler who was succeeded by David after becoming the first king of the Israelites.

Answer 13

King Saul

Question 14

Constantine’s niece Zoe Palaeologus married a ruler with this name who confronted the Golden Horde at the Great Stand on the Ugra. This monarch kicked the Hanseatic League out of their kontor in Novgorod in 1494 and seized all of the kontor’s goods. Name this ruler who won the Battle of the Shelon River and emerged victorious out of a “Great Stand” on the Ugra River. ruler who ended Moscow’s status as a vassal of the Mongols and united most of the Russian states.

Answer 14

Ivan the Great

Question 15

Name this commander who earned his name by defeating a Swedish invasion along a river north of Novgorod. He also defeated the Teutonic Order at the Battle of the Ice. Great Prince of Vladamir, After the Golden Horde sacked Kiev, this Prince of Novgorod was forced to pay heavy taxes to the Golden Horde after they sacked Kiev, but he more famously fought off the Teutonic Knights at the Battle on the Ice.

Answer 15

Alexander Nevsky

Question 16

This god stole cacao beans from his brother, after which he taught the secrets of making chocolate to humanity, which he earlier created after going to the underworld and stealing jade bones. This god immolated himself and became the planet Venus after sleeping with his sister. Myths that this god burned himself on a seaside pyre, or that he sailed away on a raft of snakes, may suggest that he was expected to return from the east. usually represented as a feathered serpent?

Answer 16

Quetzalcoatl

Question 17

name this last major Jewish revolt, crushed by Hadrian., After this conflict, the city of Aelia Capitolina was built, along with the planned temple of Jupiter that sparked this conflict. The instigator of this conflict was supported by Rabbi Akiva, who proclaimed him the Messiah.

Answer 17

Bar Kokhba Revolt

Question 18

a woman screams “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right” after Mr. Summers instructs “Let’s finish quickly” when a paper with a black spot falls out of that woman’s hand. Tessie Hutchinson is stoned to death at the end of what story by Shirley Jackson? “Corn [will] be heavy soon” if this event is held in June, according to Old Man Warner.

Answer 18

The Lottery

Question 19

This general delivered the Newburgh Address. He attacked Hessians in Trenton after crossing the Delaware River on Christmas, 1776.

Answer 19

George Washington

Question 20

This theory was founded by a thinker who devised a “felicific calculus,” and a later advocate of this theory defined the “harm principle” in his essay On Liberty. name this consequentialist ethical theory which advocates “the greatest happiness for the greatest number,” pioneered by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. This consequentialist philosophy uses a “felicific calculus” to determine what choices are ethical.

Answer 20

Utilitarianism

Question 21

This novel reflects the harm of the “Love Laws” when the title character is killed for crossing caste lines through his relationship with Ammu. At the end of this novel set in the village of Aymanam, the fraternal twins Estha and Rahel reunite in 1993 and commit incest. In a pivotal scene of this novel, a child who can’t stop singing at a musical performance is taken out to the lobby, where he is molested. debut novel by Arundhati Roy, Estha is molested by the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man.

Answer 21

The God of Small Things

Question 22

In Act II, this opera’s title woman is shown a now-dry flower she once tossed to her lover. She sings a seguidillaafter calling love a “rebellious bird” in her “Habañera” and seduces Escamillo, a toreador, before being stabbed by Don José. by Georges Bizet

Answer 22

Carmen

Question 23

A system undergoing this effect has a changing first Euler angle, and this effect is often combined with nutation, which causes irregularities in this effect. A time-varying moment of inertia causes the torque-free type of this effect, and this effect during the Earth’s orbit causes the motion of the equinoxes along the ecliptic and the changing seasons.A classic example of a system undergoing this effect is a spinning top wobbling over time.

Answer 23

Precession

Question 24

name this leopard print hat-wearing longtime dictator of Zaire. This one-time member of the Force Publique ousted Patrice Lumumba. This man’s anti-European program of Authenticité resulted in his characteristic tunic, the abacost.

Answer 24

Mobutu Sese Seko

Question 25

Name this West African empire once ruled by Mansa Musa. Tuareg rebels took over Timbuktu in a modern day nation named for this empire. One of its rulers crashed the Middle Eastern gold market during his famous hajj. Al-Umari claimed that a ruler of this empire was responsible for the low value of the mithqal twelve years after that ruler had passed through Cairo on a lavish hajj and flooded the gold market.

Answer 25

Malian Empire

Question 26

At the Battle of Krina, this man defeats the sorcerer-king Soumaoro Kanté and takes the royal title of “mansa.” He defeated an enemy by shooting him with a white cock’s spur.This “Lion King” successfully besieged Kumbi in 1240, ending the last remnants of the Ghana Empire. Name this man who was born crippled, needing to use an iron staff to walk. When he later taught himself how to walk, the staff magically bent into the shape of a bow.

Answer 26

Sundiata Keita

Question 27

This musician reworked a theme from Ray Noble’s “Cherokee” for his composition “Ko-Ko.” He quoted “How High the Moon” in a song that references his nickname, “Ornithology.” a bebop saxophonist nicknamed “Bird.”

Answer 27

Charlie Parker

Question 28

This Nazi had direct control of the Ahnenerbe, and also was responsible for the creation of the Dachau prison camp and the Einsatzgruppen, who carried out the Holocaust. His ordering of the deportation of 8,000 Jews in January 1943 sparked the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and this man established Nazi Germany’s first concentration camp at Dachau.

Answer 28

Heinrich Himmler

Question 29

The pivotal scene in this novel takes place when the protagonist witnesses the Hazara boy Hassan being raped. The protagonist of this novel rescues the orphan Sohrab from a pedophile and adopts him. by Khaled Hosseini. This novel’s protagonist frames his Hazara servant for theft after witnessing his rape by Assef.

Answer 29

The Kite Runner

Question 30

The title location, located near St. Ogg’s, is bought by Philip Wakem, and the novel ends when a flood drowns the protagonist and her brother Tom. novel about Maggie Tulliver, written by George Eliot. It also tells of Maggie’s hunchbacked friend Philip Waken and her rejected suitor Stephen Guest.

Answer 30

Mill on the Floss

Question 31

Belgian king who became known for the atrocities committed in the Congo Free State. Robert Casement’s namesake report first drew accusations that this man’s Force Publique had been cutting off the hands of field workers who failed to meet their quotas. Belgian king who committed the Rubber Atrocities in his private colony of the Congo.

Answer 31

King Leopold II

Question 32

He was deposed by a coup led by Joseph Mobutu. name this first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, murdered in 1961. he founded the MNC, his country’s first nationwide political party

Answer 32

Patrice Lumumba

Question 33

Identify these southern African tribal people led by Cetshwayo during their war against the British, which saw the Battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift. the largest ethnic group in South Africa.

Answer 33

Zulus

Question 34

The ironclad CSS Tennessee engaged Rear Admiral David Farragut’s entire force in this 1864 Union naval victory. At this battle, Farragut is said to have declared, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”

Answer 34

Battle of Mobile Bay

Question 35

name this sculpture, inspired by the Venus de’ Medici, depicting a Christian woman about to be sold in a Turkish marketplace and created by Hiram Powers. Its subject holds a chain with a cross on it in one hand and leans on a block with the other as she casts her eyes downward in an attempt to maintain chastity.

Answer 35

The Greek Slave

Question 36

name these small threads that collectively make up the mycelium in fungi. Cells in these structures are divided by septa, and in a symbiotic relationship, these structures may form Hartig nets with the roots of the host plant.

Answer 36

Hyphae

Question 37

This set of three ciphertexts supposedly contains information concerning a large amount of buried treasure. The second of these ciphers, which was encoded using the Declaration of Independence, describes the contents of the treasure.

Answer 37

Beale Ciphers

Question 38

They perform their function by releasing perforin and internal proteases called granzymes, which act on targets lacking self-markers. Name these innate immune cells which, like cytotoxic T cells, release perforin or granzyme to lyse virus-infected cells.

Answer 38

Natural Killer Cells

Question 39

These phagocytic cells are derived from monocytes and play a key role in engulfing and digesting foreign matter during inflammation.

Answer 39

Macrophages

Question 40

This theory has ten central field equations and maintains conservation of energy and momentum while describing the curvature of four-dimensional spacetime. One consequence of this theory is that matter can apparently bend a light source coming towards an observer as part of gravitational lensing.

Answer 40

General Relativity