MD 2005 RD 1 Flashcards
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1) At first it was derived from an historic region comprised of the departments of Isère; Hautes-Alpes; and Drôme. It was used as a name when King Charles V of France bestowed his former title on his son; the future Charles VI. For ten points; identify this title bestowed upon the heir to the French throne until the time of Louis XVI.
Dauphin
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2) Completed in 1831; this novel set in medieval times; features as its main characters Captain Phoebus and Claude Frollo; an evil archdeacon who loves the heroine. However; the heroine loves Phoebus and is accused of being a witch. Set in the titular Paris cathedral; it features the gypsy Esmerelda. For ten points; identify this classic by Victor Hugo whose protagonist is Quasimodo.
Hunchback of Notre Dame
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3) Discovered in 1887 by Hertz; it commonly occurs with ultraviolet light; however; it can also sometimes occur with sunlight. It takes place when a stream of photons is emitted from a surface that has been exposed to electromagnetic radiation. For ten points; identify this effect; the explanation of which won Albert Einstein the Nobel Prize.
Photoelectric effect
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4) His early career included collaborations with W. H. Auden; including their Hymn to Saint Cecilia. His comic opera Gloriana was written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. His 1945 opera; Peter Grimes established him as a leading operatic composer; and was followed by other works; such as The Turn of the Screw and Billy Budd. His magnum opus was subtitled Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell. For ten points; identify this British composer of A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
Benjamin Britten
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5) Located in East Coconino County; east of the Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers; it stretches about 150 miles from the Grand Canyon to the Petrified Forest National Park. With an area of about 7;500 square miles; it received its name in 1859 when a government explorer used the term to describe the iridescent region where erosion has worn away the sand. For ten points; identify this Arizona area known for its brilliantly colored rocks.
Painted Desert
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6) First appearing in the Precambrian era; these invertebrates possess a central digestive cavity; and radial symmetry. They are divided into four major groups - anthozoa; hydrozoa; cuboza; and scyphozoan. Their name is derived from them Greek for stinging nettle and they are characterized by the presence of stinging cells called nematocysts. For ten points; identify this phylum that includes siphonophores; medusas; hydroids; and jellyfish.
Cnidaria (Also accept Coelenterata; though technically colenterates include animals that Cnidaria does not)
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7) His election to the House of Representatives in 1892 was his final successful attempt to gain elected office; however; he remained an important leader in American politics for more than twenty-five years afterwards. For ten points; identify this newspaper editor from Omaha who took the 1896 Democratic national convention by storm with his Cross of Gold speech.
William Jennings Bryan
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8) Born in the mountain village of Shikoku in 1935; he often featured it in his work. Early accolades came from The Catch; and Nip the Buds; Shoot the Kids. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994; his later works include Dojidai gemu and An Echo of Heaven. For ten points; name this author who’s greatest work is generally considered Man’en gannen no futtoboru; known in English as The Silent Cry.
Kenzaburo Oe
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9) He wrote Regulae; or Rules for the Direction of the Mind; during his twenty years in the Netherlands. He would also write Le Monde; based on the studies of Copernicus; which he hid after learning of the persecution of Galileo. He wrote Passions of the Soul in French while he was in Sweden tutoring Vasa Queen Christina. For ten points; identify this philosopher; who; in the fourth part of Discourse on Method; made the assertion Cogito; ergo sum or I think; therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
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10) The angular momentum of a system is conserved when this quantity is zero. According to Newton’s second law concerning rigid bodies; the sum of this force on a body is equivalent to the product of said body’s moment of inertia and its net angular acceleration. For ten points; what is this physical quantity with units of newton-meters - the rotational analogue of force?
Torque
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11) Though outnumbered 2 to 1; Miltiades’ forces managed to kill almost one quarter of the invading Persian forces. The Greek and Persian armies spent the first 8 days of the battle in a stalemate; though on the ninth the Greeks drove the main Persian army back to the sea; marched back to Athens and routed the secondary Persian army there as well. Though the modern version has been mangled from the original story; For ten points; identify this 490 BCE battle that involved Phidippides’ run from the namesake battlefield to Athens.
Marathon
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12) Those devoted to him are strict ascetics. Usually depicted with four arms and three eyes; his consort was Parvati and he rode on the great bull; Nandi. For ten points; who is this Hindu deity of destruction as well as restoration whom must be appeased by flattery according to Hindu tradition?
Shiva
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13) The stage for this battle was set when Emperor Napoleon III of France sent troops to Mexico under the premise that they were to collect money from President Juarez. However; the troops were actually there to invade; and they took the city of Veracruz. In defense of the namesake city; General Ignacio Zaragoza led the Mexican troops against Lorencez’s much larger French army. For ten points; identify this battle of May 5; 1862- a battle commemorated annually as Cinco de Mayo.
Battle of Puebla
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14) In the novel in which he is the protagonist; he goes against the wishes of his mother and joins the army. During his first battle; he becomes a deserter. Upon finding another Union soldier; he gets into a fight during which he is hit with the butt of a gun; earning him titular injury. For ten points; identify this Stephen Crane character; subject of the 1895 novel The Red Badge of Courage.
Henry Fleming (accept either)
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15) Samuel Morse taught this man how to produce a daguerreotype; and he opened his first studio in New York; where he became famous for the portraits of famous individuals. Three years later; he moved the studio to Washington; D.C and achieved international fame with A Gallery of Illustrious Americans. For ten points; identify this photographer of eighteen presidents; who is best remembered for his photographic record of the American Civil War.
Matthew Brady
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16) First stated in the 18th century writings of Turgot; Malthus; and Ricardo; this economic principle describes a technologically determined relationship involving resource inputs and output. For ten points; identify this principle that states that over time; the incremental increase of output per added unit of input will begin decreasing.
Law of Diminishing Returns
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17) We learn that this character had planned to invade Denmark; but was deterred by Claudio and his uncle; and invades Poland instead. A man of action; he is a direct contradiction to the title prince who hesitates to take action against Claudius. He arrives at the end of the play to claim the throne of Denmark after Gertrude; Claudius; and the title character have all been killed. For ten points; identify this Prince of Norway in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Fortinbras
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18) Though a one-time collaborator of Freud’s; following this man’s publication of Symbols of Transformation he broke away and developed the original model of analytical psychology. He was the first to propose the concepts of introversion and extroversion; as well as the existence of psychological complexes. For ten points; identify this Swiss psychologist who developed the theory of the collective unconscious.
Carl Gustav Jung
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19) During this geologic period; invertebrates flourished and the bony fishes evolved. Flowering plants began to develop on land; and insects; such as bees; began their symbiotic relationships with them. Mammals and birds were still relatively few; and the dinosaurs reached their peak. For ten points; identify this period of the Mesozoic Era; between 62 and 144 million years ago.
Cretaceous Period
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20) Born in North Africa to a woman named Monica; he adopted Manichaeism until moving to Milan where he was converted to Christianity by Saint Ambrose in 387. His theological writings; such as On Christian Doctrine and On the Trinity; contained the first systematic synthesis of Christianity and the philosophies of Plato. For ten points; identify this Bishop of Hippo who wrote Confessions and City of God.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
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21) Originally coined by British art critic Laurence Alloway; this art movement celebrated the post-war consumer boom and the materialism of Americans. A rejection of abstract expressionism; its name was first used in an issue of Architectural Digest from 1958; though it didn’t catch on until the 1960s; and was referred to as neo-Dada in the interim. For ten points; identify this school of art whose most notable proponent was Andy Warhol.
Pop Art
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22) Because they object to swearing an oath to the British Monarch; this party’s four members of the House of Commons do not take their seats. A 1984 assasination attempt on Gerry Adams has not deterred them from evolving into a true political party and signing the Belfast Accords. For ten points; identify this group; once identified as the political arm of the Irish Republican Army.
Sinn Fein (Prompt on early Irish Republican Army )
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Identify this ancient meso-American culture They were conquered by Cortes in the 16th century.
Aztec
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Identify this ancient meso-American culture Known for their realistic Colossal Heads; this culture thrived during the first millennia BCE in Mexico.
Olmec
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Identify this ancient meso-American culture Around at the same time as the Maya; this culture centered around a namesake Metropolis in Central Mexico.
Teotihuacan
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Identify the following from Computer Science Common types of this data type include integers; characters and Strings.
Variables
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Identify the following from Computer Science Identified with brackets in C++; this term identifies any collection of variables.
Array
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Identify the following from Computer Science This language developed by Sun has a syntax similar to C and extensive libraries.
Java (do not accept Javascript)
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Identify the following from Computer Science This language popular with beginners partly shares a name with a British comedy troupe.
Python
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[10] He was the first president to throw out a baseball to start aseason. He was the heaviest president weighing in at 322 pounds.
William Howard Taft
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[10] He was the first president to use a telephone in office; doing so in 1879. He was the second president to be the son of another president.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
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[10] This Michigan native was the first president to be an Eagle Scout. He was the first president to come to office without being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency.
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.
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Identify the composer from work Zadok the Priest; Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne and The Messiah
George Friedric Handel
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Identify the composer from workThe Bells of Zlonice; Symphony Number 9 From the New World
Antonin Dvorak
