1. Its full title is the Theatre at the Stairway. Built in 1776 by Empress Maria Theresa, in 1872 it became the property of the city of Milan.* In 1931, Mascagni replaced Toscanini as artistic director, though Toscanini returned after World War II to give benefit concerts to raise money to repair bomb damage. FTP, name this Milan opera house. A: La Scala 2. Inspired by a speechmaking trip to China by John Dewey, they were led by Chen Tu-Hsiu, the editor of the New Youth magazine, and were opposed to Japan and the Versailles decision to give Shantung to Japan.* The joint action of students and workers led to the fall of the Cabinet and the refusal to sign the Versailles Treaty; and it spurred the reorganization of the Koumintang and the birth of the Communist Party. FTP, name this 1919 pro-reform Chinese movement. A: May Fourth Movement 3. Indicating a similarity of intent rather than a geographic location, its members included Henry Lewis and John Banvard, who painted empty stretches of the* Mississippi; Albert Bierstadt, who painted the Rocky Mountains, and Worthington Whittredge, John Kasilear, and John Kensett, who painted the northeast. FTP, name this American art group inspired by Thomas Cole, which painted romantic landscapes of America. A: Hudson River School 4. The designer of the first city water supply in the United States, he died in New Orleans while developing one for that city. He suggested the design of the University of Virginia to Jefferson, and built the Bank of Pennsylvania,* the model for the Greek Revival in the U.S. Appointed by Jefferson to be surveyor of public buildings, he worked on completing the U.S. Capitol both before and after 1814. FTP, name this American architect. A: Benjamin Latrobe 5. Due to their extreme reactivity with electrophiles, they are generally prepared immediately before use by reacting an organic halide with magnesium * metal in a completely dry solvent. The extreme polarity of the C-Mg bond allows carbon to act as a nucleophile and attack carbonyl carbons, as in their reaction with aldehydes to form alcohols. For ten points, name this class of chemical compounds that earned their French discoverer the Nobel Prize in 1912. A. Grignard reagents 6. Founded in 1131 by Walter de Clare for Cistercian monks who came from France, it was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538. On the west bank of the Wye River, south of Monmouth* it was skirted on July 13, 1798, by a brother and a sister. The brother spent the next four days, until they reached Bristol, writing a poem. FTP, name this Wordsworth piece, the last poem in Lyrical Ballads. A: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey 7. The son of a carpenter on a collective farm, he graduated from an industrial college at Saratov in 1957, eleven years before being killed in a plane crash.* After his death the city of Gzhatsk was renamed in his honor. After graduating with top honors from the Soviet Air Force Academy, he entered the space program. FTP, name this first man to enter space. A: Yury Gagarin 8. One of the literary forebearers of the Populist Party, he published the magazine the New Nationalist to support it, as well as the sequel Equality. A supporter of nationalization of public services, he sponsored Nationalist clubs nationwide.* In 1887, he published a book about the United States in 2000, set in Boston, showing the country to be an ideal socialist brotherhood. FTP, name this author of Looking Backward. A: Edward Bellamy 9. While at the Carnegie Cold Springs Laboratory, she observed and experimented with variations in the coloration of kernels of corn,* and by isolating two control elements in genetic material, found that not only did they move but that also the change in position affected the behaviour of the neighboring genes. FTP, name this winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physiology, who discovered mobile genetic elements. A: Barbara McClintock 10. Its artist, Otto Dix, chose to display it in triptych format, much like the Isenheim Altarpiece. It vividly captures the panoramic devastation inflicted by war, both on terrain and on humans. Since Dix had been a machine gunner, he was well acquainted with the horror of war, and excelled in presenting the body in graphic states of death and decay. FTP, name this painting where mangled, bullet ridden bodes are scattered throughout an eerily lit apocalyptic landscape, and whose name German for war. A: Der Krieg (or accept The War if answered before "the German word for war") 11. Though the company survived until 1853, it sold most of its rights to the Spanish government in 1750. Founded by John Blunt in 1710, it was predicated on the hope that Spain would allow slave trading with Spanish America* at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession. After King George I became a governor of the company in 1718 they launched a scheme to pay off the national debt, but by 1720 the plan had failed, ruining thousands. FTP, name England's first great stock market panic. A: South Sea Bubble 12. Set in the author's hometown of Lubeck, it deals with three generations of a* bourgeouis family. Johann, the patriarch, and his son Jean, the Consul, maintain a strong business, but the son's children are weak. His daughter Toni has two bad marriages; and both Christian and Thomas cannot adjust to the present. The family ends when Thomas' son Hanno dies of typhoid fever. FTP, name Thomas Mann's first novel, about a German family. A: Buddenbrooks 13. After being fired from the Vienna State Opera, he moved to New York where he became musical director of the Met. His song cycles include the Youth's Magic Horn and* Songs on the Death of Children, the last completed shortly after he converted to Christianity to get the Vienna post. He composed nine symphonies, including Titan, Song of the Night, and Resurrection. FTP, name this composer of Song of the Earth and Symphony of a Thousand. A: Gustav Mahler 14. Let G and H be groups. Let phi be a homomorphism from G to H. Let K be the kernel of phi. (*) An important theorem in algebra states that G mod K is algebraically identical to the image of phi. FTP, what is this theorem stating that G/K is isomorphic to phi(G)? _First Isomorphism_ Theorem 15. At his request, a New York newspaper published his obituary in 1891, so that he might enjoy it. Serving as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1834 he presented Joice Heth as the 161 year old wet nurse to* George Washington, a hoax. Other discoveries include Charles Stratton, aka Tom Thumb, the Feejee Mermaid, and Chang and Eng. FTP, name this American exhibitionist who late in life teamed up with Bailey. A: P.T. Barnum 16. Under the pseudonym John Sedges, this author wrote five detective novels. Teaching in Nanking after graduating from Randolph-Macon College, she* wrote Dragon Seed, Imperial Woman, and the First Wife and Other Stories. The first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature, she wrote the House of Earth Trilogy. FTP, name this author of the Good Earth. A: Pearl Buck 17. In 1887, Oregon became the first state to grant legal status to this holiday, though it was on the first Saturday in June. The American version was invented by Peter McGuire, and the first one took place on* September 5, 1882. In 1894, partly in reaction to the Pullman Strike, it was declared a legal holiday by the U.S. Congress. FTP, name this early September day that honors workers. a: Labor Day 18.Erik and Senta get into a fight, after which Senta commits suicide. Senta is the daughter of Daland, a Norwegian sea captain* who meets Vanderdecken and invites him home. Senta, who knows Vanderdecken's story, longs to save him, but Erik disapproves. When Vanderdecken sees Erik and Senta fighting, he sails off, only to disappear when Senta proves her love for him by her suicide. FTP, name this Wagner opera about a peripatetic seafarer. A: The Flying Dutchman 19. Her father would not let her see any suitors; after he died, she refused to admit he was dead for three days. Shortly after her father's death, Colonel Sartoris arranged for the sidewalks of the city to be paved, and a Yankee, Homer Barron, was the foreman.* There was talk of she and Homer marrying, but he disappeared, right after she bought rat poison. Forty years later, after her death, it is disovered that she killed Homer and slept next to the corpse. FTP, name this macabre William Faulkner short story. A: A Rose for Emily also accept: Emily or Emily Grierson 20. Under the guidance of noted physicist John Wheeler, he published his thesis, the Principal of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics in 1942, earning a doctorate from Princeton. He taught at Cornell after the war, during which he had been a group leader in the Manhattan Project, then moved to Caltech, where he predicted superfluidity. FTP, name this sharer of the 1965 Nobel in Physics, who developed QED and predicted the existance of the quark. A: Richard Feynman 1. Man, I hate all those units that physicists use to describe the magnetic field, so I'm going to write this question to make you smart college bowlers go out and learn to tell them apart. Here goes a. this MKS unit is equal to one volt-second, a measure of the magnetic flux WEBBER b. equal to one Weber per square meter, this measure of magnetic flux density is named for the Croatian proponent of alternating current TESLA c. derived from the CGS system, this now largely obsolete unit is ten to the minus fouth Webbers per square meter, and it is named for a German physicist/mathematician GAUSS 2. Name the statesman from quotes 30-20-10-5. 30. "The facts? The facts! I have been elected to change the facts! Why? Because I am not a consensus politician, I am a conviction politician!" 20. "Monsieur Delors believes in a federal Europe in which the European Parliament would be the Community's House of Representatives, the Commission its Executive, and the Council of Ministers its Senate. No, No, No!" 10. "We have ceased to be a nation in retreat. We have instead a newfound confidence- born and tested and found true 8000 miles away. And so today we can rejoice at our success in the Falklands..."" She was Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. A:Margaret Thatcher 3. Name these black writers from clues FTPE. 1. The first successful black writer, he wrote Lyrics of Lowly Life, the Uncalled, and the Sport of the Gods. Paul Laurence Dunbar 2. An evangelical preacher as a pre-teen, he wrote Notes of a Native Son, the Fire Next Time, and Go Tell it On the Mountain. James Baldwin 3. A member of the Communist Party at different points in his life, he wrote Black Boy and Native Son. Richard Wright 4. Answer the following about the peripatetic career of Rick Pitino FTPE. 1. In 1987, led by the play of Billy Donovan, Pitino took this Big East school to the Final Four. Providence 2. After saying that he would never leave Providence, Pitino jumped ship anyway to coach this NBA team in 1987. New York or Knicks 3. After being a total failure in Boston, Pitino has returned to the college ranks at this school. Louisville 5. Identify the following compounds as strong electrolyte, weak electrolyte, or non-electrolyte, ten points each. A. HNO3 Strong Electrolyte B. Glucose Non-Electrolyte C. AgCl Weak electrolyte 6. Name these explorers from clues FTPE. 1. In 1487 he became the first sailor to sail around the tip of Africa, which came to be known as the Cape of Good Hope. Bartholomeu Dias 2. He arrived in Calacut in May 1498 from Lisbon, the first European to reach India entirely by sea. Vasco de Gama 3. On a 1500 trading trip to India, he was blown off course, by means of which he discovered Brazil. Pedro Cabral 7. Name the French symbolist poets from clues FTPE. 1. Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he wrote The Tomb of Edgar Poe and the Afternoon of a Faun. Stephane Mallarme 2. In later life a slave trader in Africa, before he was twenty he wrote A Season in Hell and the Drunken Boat. Arthur Rimbaud 3. After leaving his wife for an affair with Rimbaud, he converted to Catholicism. His works include Fetes galantes and Romances sour parole. Paul Verlaine 8. Name these early American dissidents from clues FTPE. 1. He served as governor of Plymouth colony for nearly 30 years, wrote History of Plymouth Plantation, and established the franchise and the town meeting. William Bradford 2. She stressed an individual's intuition as a means of reaching God, rather than going through the established church. She was banned from Massachusettes in 1638. A: Anne Hutchinson 3. An opponent of the Church of England, he founded Rhode Island as a center for religious freedom. Roger Williams 9. When given the American neighbor, name the head of government of that country FTPE. 1. Canada Jean Chretien 2. Mexico Vincente Fox 3. Cuba Fidel Castro 10. Answer these questions about Kenesaw Mountain Landis for the stated number of points. 1. In 1907, he fined this company $29 million dollars for granting unlawful freight rebates. Standard Oil Company 2. In 1920, he became the first man to hold this position. Commissioner of Baseball 3. A Commissioner of Baseball was needed because of this scandal involving throwing the 1919 World Series. Black Sox or Chicago White Sox 11. FTP each, given artists, name the movement a. Parmigianino, Bronzino, El Greco ANSWER: Mannerism b. Goya, Gericault, John Constable ANSWER: Romanticism c. Gustave Courbet, Jean-Francois Millet, Honore Daumier ANSWER: Realism 12. Name these Edgar Allan Poe works from clues FTPE. 1. The first American dectective, he solves crimes in the Purloined Letter and the Murders in the Rue Morgue. C. Auguste Dupin 2. Madeline appears after being placed in the family vault, confirming Roderick's fears that she still lives. A visitor departs to see the family house destroyed. The Fall of the House of Usher 3. A lodger kills the old man he lives with because of his "evil eye" only to confess the crime because he thinks he hears the old man's vital organ beeting. The Tell-Tale Heart 13. Name the members of the Five FTPE. 1. A full-time chemistry professor, his major work was the opera Prince Igor. Aleksandr Borodin 2. The spiritual father of the Five, he composed little. His works include Islamey and Tamara. Mily Balakirev 3. One of the greatest portraits of the 19th century was of him, painted by Ilya Repin shortly before his 1881 death. He composed Songs and Dances of Death and the opera Boris Godunov 14. Name these American admirals from clues FTPE. 1. He served Catherine the Great as well as the American colonies, and captured the Serrapis with his Bonhomme Richard. John Paul Jones 2. After the debacle at Pearl Harbor he became commander of the U.S. Pacific fleet. Today he lends his name to a class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Chester Nimitz 3. The leading proponent of the "nuclear navy" he ruled the nuclear submarine force with an iron hand for almost three decades. Hyman Rickover 15. Name these medieval Englishmen who wrote FTPE. 1. He was apparently imprisoned when he wrote La Morte D'arthur. Thomas Malory 2. His Chronicles were a primary source for Shakespeare when he wrote Macbeth, King Lear, and other historical plays. Raphael Holinshed 3. Not a full-time writer, this founder of Scottish Presbyterianism wrote Blasts of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. John Knox 16. Answer these questions about Charlotte Corday FTPE. 1. Corday assassinated what man? Jean Paul Marat 2. This painter rushed to the scene of the crime and painted a portrait of the dead Marat. Jacques Louis David 3. Corday was a member of this moderate political group, which had been outlawed by the Committee of Public Safety. Girdonins or Girondists 17. Name the Japanese writers from clues FTPE. 1. A 1972 suicide, his novels include Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, and the House of the Sleeping Beauties. Yasunari Kawabata 2. The author of Japan's first homosexual autobiography, Confessions of a Mask, and the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. He, too, was a suicide, committing sapuku on national television at the Ministry of Defense in 1970. 3. The 1994 Nobel winner, he has written the Catch, The Silent Cry, and Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness. Kenzaburo Oe 18. Name the political figure from clues 30-20-10. 30. Establishing the Republican Party in Maine, he founded the Kennebec Journal and in 1862 was elected to the US House. 20. Serving as Speaker of the House from 1869-1875, he was involved in the Credit Mobilere scandal, and lost the 1876 GOP nomination to Rutherford Hayes. 10. Narrowly losing the 1884 presidential election amd charges of "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion," as Secretary of State he called the first Pan-American Conference in 1889. A: James G. Blaine 19. Answer the following about Erskine Caldwell FTPE. 1. Caldwell was, for five years, married to this Life photographer, whom he collaborated with on several books. Margaret Bourke-White 2. In this novel, a white-trash Georgia farmer sets aside one part of his farm whose income is to go to the church, yet constantly shifts that part of the farm. God's Little Acre 3. A dramatization of this book, about the Lester family, ran on Broadway for years. The book ends as Jeeter and Ada Lester die when their shack burns down. Tobacco Road 20. Given the Big Ten school, name its mascot FTPE. 1. Minnesota Golden Gophers 2. Penn State Nittany Lions 3. Iowa Hawkeyes