Season 4 - Week 7 Flashcards
After losing the presidential election in 1930, which politician seized power in Brazil in an armed revolution and acted as dictator until he was ousted in 1945? He went on to win the presidential election in 1950.
Getúlio Vargas
Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994, the Potala Palace is built at an altitude of around 3,700 metres on the side of Ri Marpo mountain in Tibet’s Lhasa Valley. Between the mid-17th century and 1959, it served as the winter palace of the holder of what title?
Dalai Lama (prompt on “Lama”)
In this post-apocalyptic painting, people are herded into a coffin-shaped structure by an army of skeletons, one of whom is on horseback picking off stragglers with his scythe. Elsewhere, people are crushed by a cart loaded with skulls, while a starving dog feeds on a child’s corpse. Now housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, this is which circa 1562 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder?
The Triumph of Death (or De triomf van de dood)
The extinction of the Thylacine and extirpation of the Tasmanian devil has left which mammals as the largest marsupial predators on mainland Australia? The largest of these species is sometimes called the tiger cat, despite being spotted, and the northern species is threatened due to being poisoned by cane toads.
quoll (or Dasyurus, native cat, dasyure, satanellus, suatg, jaquol, taquol, dhigul)
Which Bengali physicist gives his name to subatomic particles that have integer spin? Along with fermions, which have half integer spin, these are one of two fundamental classes of subatomic particle.
Satyendra Nath Bose (accept boson)
First identified in the human brain in 1957, which hormone and neurotransmitter is popularly seen as a “pleasure chemical”, but in reality signals the desirability or otherwise of an outcome, steering the organism towards or away from corresponding actions?
dopamine
In his eleventh labour, Heracles was tasked with retrieving three of what objects from the garden of the Hesperides, which was guarded by the dragon Ladon?
golden apples
The term deus ex machina, meaning “god out of the machine”, refers to a plot device in which a problem is solved by an improbable event. Which Greek playwright is particularly associated with this device as many of his tragedies, such as Hippolytus, Andromache, and Helen, involve sudden interventions from gods.
Euripides
Before her famed partnership with Rudolf Nureyev, the prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn would regularly dance with which Australian dancer and choreographer? This man replaced Frederick Ashton as chief choreographer to the Vic-Wells Ballet, now known as the Royal Ballet, during World War II and later served as the second creative director of the Australian Ballet.
Robert Helpmann
Cold ocean currents may cause desertification to adjacent coastal areas as fewer rainclouds form over the sea. Which current draws cold water from the southern ocean along the southwestern coast of Africa, contributing to the dry climate of the Namib and Kalahari deserts?
Benguela current
The Ōnin War, a large-scale civil war triggered by a dispute between an official of the Ashikaga shogunate and a number of daimyo, is often considered as the start of which period in Japanese history? Its name roughly translates as “Warring States”.
Sengoku period (or Sengoku Jidai)
Only four days after his death in 1809, the head of which Austrian composer was stolen by the phrenologist Joseph Carl Rosenbaum? This composer and Rosenbaum had worked for Nicholas II, Prince Esterházy, who discovered the head was missing in 1820 and demanded its return. However, Rosenbaum gave the prince another skull, and this composer’s remains were only reunited in 1954.
Joseph Haydn
What two-word term did Carl Jung use to describe what he believed was the deepest and least accessible part of the human mind that contains the inherited accumulation of primitive experiences and is inborn in everyone? This concept is related to the contemporary concept of the objective psyche.
collective unconscious (or kollektives Unbewusstes; do not accept “collective subconscious”)
Which striped marsupial, related to the quolls and dunnarts, has a diet that consists almost entirely of termites? Its range once covered most of the continent, but it has been reduced to a few pockets in Western Australia, and is the faunal emblem of that state.
numbat (or walpurti, Myrmecobius fasciatus)
Which work by Bertolt Brecht ends with the criminal Macheath being saved from execution by the sudden intervention of the queen?
Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)
Which Archbishop of Manila and cardinal was instrumental in both the 1986 People Power Revolution, which toppled Ferdinand Marcos, and in the 2001 EDSA political protest that replaced President Joseph Estrada with Gloria Macapagal Arroyo? The second incident has however been branded as a conspiracy by many among the country’s elites, military, and the Cardinal in question.
Jaime Sin (Sin Hái-mûi, Sin Hái-mî)
Getúlio Vargas’s revolution of 1930 saw the end of the First Brazilian Republic and the period of politics known by what name? This name refers to the dominant industries of the states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais and alludes to a popular beverage.
milk coffee politics or politica do café com leite (accept any answer mentioning both milk and coffee, or café and leite)
Which powerful warrior and politician won the support of many daimyo across Japan before finally overthrowing the ruling shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki in 1573, marking the start of his campaign to unify Japan? His effort was cut short by a betrayal that ultimately forced him to commit seppuku in the Honno-ji temple of Kyoto in 1582.
Oda Nobunaga (accept either part)
The winner of the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing and once listed by Time magazine as among the 100 most influential people in the world, Binyavanga Wainaina is best known for his memoir One Day I Will Write About This Place. He is among the best-known authors from which African country? Major novels from this country include The Promised Land by Grace Ogot and A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
Kenya
The Benguela current can be seen as an analogue of which cold current that flows north along the western coast of South America and is responsible for the aridity of the Atacama desert?
Humboldt current (accept Peru current)
A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983, which Inca citadel built in the Urubamba Valley of the Eastern Cordillera of the Peruvian Andes has often been called the “Lost City of the Incas” since its rediscovery in 1911?
Machu Picchu
In the bottom left of this painting a woman wraps a demon in a pillow cover while behind her a man ties a bell to a cat. Elsewhere, one man swims against a tide, another bangs his head against a brick wall, while a third defecates on a gallows. Now housed at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, this is which 1559 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder?
Netherlandish Proverbs (or Nederlandse Spreekwoorden; accept Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak, The Topsy Turvy World, or The Folly of the World)
Bose and which other scientist give their names to both the statistics that describe the behaviour of bosons, and a state of matter formed when a gas of bosons is cooled close to absolute zero?
Albert Einstein (accept Bose-Einstein statistics or Bose-Einstein condensate)
Sex hormones in humans consist of three major groups: androgens, oestrogens and what third group? We will also accept the major hormone in this group, which is involved in the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and the formation of embryos.
progestogens gestagens, or progesterone
Which warm ocean current is the largest western boundary current in the world? It flows south along the eastern coast of southern Africa and is named after a South African headland near where it meets the Benguela current.
Agulhas current
Polish labour leader Lech Wałęsa and Pope John Paul II prayed to this icon for divine protection over the Solidarity movement’s defiance of Poland’s Communist government. When the wearing of Solidarity union badges was banned under martial law, Poles donned pins instead bearing which icon that has stood as a symbol of national resistance and independent thought over centuries?
Black Madonna of Częstochowa or Czarna Madonna (accept Our Lady of Częstochowska or Matka Boska Częstochowska)
According to Ovid, which Greek heroine would only consent to marry a man who beat her in a footrace, a feat she knew would be impossible? However, Hippomenes was able to achieve this by distracting her with three golden apples given to him by Aphrodite.
According to Ovid, which Greek heroine would only consent to marry a man who beat her in a footrace, a feat she knew would be impossible? However, Hippomenes was able to achieve this by distracting her with three golden apples given to him by Aphrodite.
Before his partnership with Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann would often dance alongside which ballerina, the first English woman to act as a principal dancer of a ballet company? She was given her Russian-sounding stage name by Sergei Diaghilev, and she was the first prima ballerina for the Royal Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre, and she founded the English National Ballet with Anton Dolin.
Alicia Markova (or Lilian Alicia Marks)
