1. Actually yellow supergiants, their changes in magnitude are caused by actual physical fluctions, with attendant changes in size and temperature. Henrietta Leavitt and Harlow Shapeley discovered their most important characteristics by studying ones in the Magellenic Clouds, where they are all almost equally distant. FTP name this type of variable star which allows calculation of cosmic distances through its period-luminosity relationship. Cepheid Variable (prompt on variable before it is mentioned in the question) 2. Meaning "eater of tree bark," they were first seen by Samuel de Champlain in 1609. With forty peaks higher than 4000 feet, the highest mountain in the chain is Mount Marcy. In 1892, a state park was created around these mountains, the largest outside of Alaska. Covering nearly 20% of New York, it is the size of Vermont. FTP, name this mountain chain in northeastern New York State. A: Adirondack Mountains 3. While serving two stints in the American Embassy in Spain, he wrote The Conquest of Granada and the Legends of the Alhambra. Under the pseudonym Johnathan Oldstyle, he wrote Salmagundi* with his brother, and later the Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentleman. The Creator of Diedrich Knickerbocker and Rip Van Winkle, he wrote a five-volume biography of Washington. FTP, name this author the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. A: Washington Irving 4. In 1842, he became music director for the King of Prussia; while there, he prompted the production of the Flying Dutchman. After five Italian operas in the style of Rossini, he moved to Paris,* where his Robert the Devil became immensely popular. With his librettist Eugene Scribe, he wrote L'Africaine and The Prophet. FTP, name this composer of grand operas, like Les Huguenots. A: Giacomo Meyerbeer 5. After George Pullman died in 1897, he became president of the Pullman Company. Serving as Secretary of War under Garfield and Arthur,* he served as Minister to Britain under Benjamin Harrison. Shortly before his death, he gave his father's papers to the Library of Congress on the condition that they not be opened until 21 years after his death. FTP, name this son of the 16th President. A: Robert Todd Lincoln 6. In this play, a dishonest farmer sends him son to the Thinkery intending to use him to outwit his enemies. When his son turns against him, he rejects the new learning and sets fire to the school.* As the Thinkery was run by Socrates, it linked him with the Sophists, both claiming arguments could prove any point. FTP, name this comedy by Aristophanes that linked Socrates with the Sophists. A: The CLOUDS 7. Partly set in a mental hospital in the French Riveria, it ends with Nicole leaving her psychiatrist husband for another man. After Nicole checks into the asylum, she falls in love with her doctor,* Dick Driver, and they marry, but her rise to independence is the inverse of his fall into alcoholism. FTP, name this partly autobiographical 1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A: Tender is the Night 8. He died in 1925, and is buried in his mother's family tomb in St. Louis Cemetary Number One. An insurance collector for the People's Life Insurance Company, he was convinced by the New Orleans* Citizens Committee to buy a train ticket from New Orleans to Covington, and to tell the conductor that he was black and refused to leave the white's only compartment. FTP, name this man who opposed Ferguson in a 1896 Supreme Court case. A: Homer Plessy accept: Plessy v. Ferguson. 9. It presumes L-S coupling and that the electrons can be considered to be in a unique configuration according to Pauli's Exclusion Principle. Given these constraints, it provides an empirical method for determining the lowest * energy level for two electrons having the same N and L quantum numbers in a multi-electron atom. For ten points, name this rule which states that all orbitals of a given sublevel must be occupied by single electrons before pairing begins. A. Hund's Rule 10. Its first performance at La Scala was roundly booed, but the revised version, performed at Brescia, was successful. Suzuki is doubtful, but she believes, as she sings in Un bel di vedremo*, that he will return. When Pinkerton does return, with his wife and Sharpless, the American consul in Nagasaki, it is not to marry Cho-Cho San, but rather to take their baby. Cho-Cho then commits ritual suicide. FTP, name this Puccini opera set in Japan. A: Madama Butterfly 11. After escaping to the South Shetland Islands after his ship had been destroyed, he and several others sailed in an open boat in the middle of an Anarctic winter 800 miles to* South Georgia, guided by two sun sightings in three months. After reaching South Georgia, his party made the first crossing of that island, going 100 miles in 100 hours in the middle of a blizzard. FTP, name this Arctic explorer and captain of the Endurance. A: Ernest Shackleton 12. Based on a translation of the Moallakat, seven Arabic poems preserved in the temple of Mecca, its' sequel was 1886's Sixty Years After. Including such lines as "In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,"* it tells the story of the speaker's love affair with Amy. As the speaker revisits his boyhood home, he remembers how Amy ditched him because her parents wanted her to marry a rich man. FTP, name this bittersweet Tennyson love poem. A: Locksley Hall 13. Trained in Gestalt theory at the New School for Social Research, he was the founding professor and chairman of the psychology department at Brandeis. His books Motivation and Being and Toward a Psychology of Being* show his interest in the integration of the self. He believed that there are various levels in a personality, from food, to love, to intellectual attainment, and that the goal of life was to advance up the scale. FTP, name this psychologist who believed in self-actualization and a hierarchy of needs. A: Abraham Maslow 14. Her gravestone reads Rebecca Wolfe; she is buried in St. George's Church in Gravesend, England. Born Mataoka* she was kidnapped by Samuel Argall to use as a bargaining chip against her father, Powhatan. At the age of eleven, according to a much later account, she had saved John Smith from execution. FTP, name this Jamestown Indian and subject of a dreadful Disney movie. A: Pocahontas 15. Its Berlin off-shoot was called the Society for Empirical Philosophy and was led by Carl Hempel. Their 1929 manifesto, A Scientific Conception of the World led to their first world congress in Prague.* Led by Moritz Schlick, influential members included Kurt Godel and Rudolf Carnap, and they espoused ideas like the verifiability principle. FTP, name this group which founded logical positivism. A: Vienna Circle 16. In 1878, he entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where he was taught by Lehmann, a disciple of Ingres. After his painting the Bathers* was rejected by the Salon, he formed the Society of Independent Artists in 1884. Taking both Signac and Camille Pissaro as his disciples, he founded neo-impressionism. FTP, name this artist of the Circus and Sunday Afternoon at the Island of La Grand Jatte, the founder of pointilism. A: Georges Seurat 17. A founder of the Liberal Party, his passport was confiscated between 1960 and 1970. Towards the Mountain and Journey Continued deal with his life as rector of the Diepkloof Reformatory* for delinquent urban African boys, which contributed to his novel Too Late the Phalarope. FTP, name the South African author of Cry, the Beloved Country. A: Alan Paton 18. Though since the 1385 Union of Krewo there had been a unified sovereign, internal affiars were still run separately. After the start of the Livonian War in 1558, Muscovy presented a direct threat to* Lithuania, many Lithuanian magnates wanted a union with Poland. The issue was forced in 1569 when King Sigismund II annexed the Lithuanian provinces of Podlaise and Volhynia. FTP, name this unification pact between Poland and Lithuania. A: Union of Lublin. 19. In 1627, he was the leader of the group that bought out the London investors. The next year, he broke up the colony of Thomas Morton at Merry Mount* because it was too decadent. He fought in the Netherlands, where he met the Pilgrims. In the 1640's he served as Plymouth treasurer. FTP, name this Pilgrim military leader, who was in love with Priscilla Mullins. A: Myles Standish 20. The illegitimate son of a French merchant and a Creole woman in Haiti, he was sent to the United States in 1803 to avoid conscription. After a series of failed business ventures in the West, he traveled throughout the United States. In 1826 he went to England looking for a publisher for his drawings,* where they were published by Robert Havell with the monetary help of George IV. FTP, name this ornithologist famed for his drawings of American birds. A: John James Audubon 1. Identify these pieces of colonial legislation from clues FTPE. 1. Three of these were passed: in 1660, 1663, and 1673, and they served to regulate the trade and commerce of the colonies, seeking to tie it to England. Navigation Acts 2. Passed in 1765 by Lord Grenville, it taxed all printed documents, not only newspapers but also cards. Stamp Act 3. This Chancellor suspended the New York Assembly and taxed imports from England to the colonies such as lead, paint, paper, and tea. Townshend Act 2. Name the author from clues 30-20-10. 30. He called his early novels "entertainments:" they include The Man Within, Stambul Train, and A Gun for Sale. 20. The long-time literary editor for the Spectator, he both wrote the screenplay, and later, the book, of the Third Man. 10. Mostly set in exotic places, his novels include the Honorary Consul, the Power and the Glory, the Comedians, and the End of the Affair. a: Graham Greene 3. In December 1861, an American commodore was given command of the Union blockade of the Gulf of Mexico. Answer these questions about him FTPE. 1. Who was this sailor? David Farragut 2. Early in 1862 he captured this city, the Confederacy's largest port. New Orleans. 3. "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" comes from the capture of this other Southern port in August 1864. Mobile 4. 30-20-10 Name the Painting 30: One critic described the subject of this painting as "a courtesan with dirty hands and wrinkled feet...her body has the livid tint of a cadaver displayed in a morgue. 20: The woman on the bed is naked except for a black ribbon around her neck and huge pink blossom in her hair. 10: Painted by Manet, this painting is modelled on Titian's Venus of Urbino. ANSWER: Olympia 4. Identify the atomic hybridization of carbon in each of the following molecules, ten points each. A. CH4 sp3 B. ethyne sp C. benzene sp2 5. Name these characters from Crime and Punishment for the stated number of points. 1. This man kills an old woman pawnbroker, in order to see if he is strong enough to do so. Raskolnikov. 2. After he kills the woman, Raskolnikov turns for sympathy to this woman, a prostitute, who urges him to confess. Sonya 3. This police inspector knows that Raskolnikov is guilty and waits for him to confess. Porfiry Petrovich 6. Answer these questions about early medieval France FTPE. 1. In 732, this man defeated the Moors near Tours, stopping Muslim expansion into Europe. Charles Martel. 2. This man, the son of Charles Martel, founded the Carolingian dynasty in 751. Pepin the Short 3. Pepin the Short overthrew this dynasty, which had been founded by Clovis. Merovingian 7. When given a British political party, give its leader FTPE. 1. Labor Tony Blair 2. Conservative Ian Duncan-Smith 3. Liberal Democrat Charles Kennedy 8. Name these 19th century American poets from clues FTPE. 1. The long-time editor of the New York Evening Post, he wrote Thanatopsis and the Embargo. William Cullen Bryant 2. Minister to both Spain and England, he wrote The Biglow Papers, A Fable for Critics, and the Vision of Sir Launfal. James Russell Lowell 3. A New England Quaker, his poems include Snow-Bound and Barbara Frietchie. John Greenleaf Whittier 9. Name these figures involved in mapping and discovery FTPE. 1. The maker of the first atlas, his projection made sea-travel much easier. Mercator 2. The money-man for the Medici family in Florence, his letters describing the New World helped popularize it, and, incidentally, get it named for himself. Amerigo Vespucci 3. This German cartographer was the first to use "America" to describe the New World. Martin Waldseemuller 10. Identify these Italian contributors to the field of physics FTP each: a. this Pisan improved the telescope, discovered the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, the constant period of a pendulum, and laid groundwork for the laws of motion Galileo b. also from Pisa, this Italian immigrated to the US where he oversaw the project that produced the first chain reaction of a nuclear pile at the University of Chicago Enrico Fermi c. this professor at Pavia invented a type of electric condencer (i.e., capacitor), an eponymous electrolytic cell, and an eponymous electrolytic pile in the late 1700's. Alessandro Volta 11. Identify the UCLA basketball coaches from clues FTPE. 1. After two years as head coach at Indiana State, he spent 27 years as UCLA coach, winning 10 national titles in 12 years. John Wooden 2. Succeeding John Wooden, he took UCLA to the 1976 Final Four but lasted only two years. Gene Bartow 3. Becoming coach in 1988, he led UCLA to the 1995 national championship before being fired the next year for falsifying an expense account. Jim Harrick 12. Provide these terms associated with special relativity, FTP each: a. a part of the old, non-relativistic, paradigm, this is the method of adding velocities, named for the Italian scientist who devised it. GALILEAN transformation b. essential to satisfying Einstein's condition that the laws of physics are the same in any reference frame are these transformations allowing the addition of relativistic velocities LAWRENTZIAN transformations c. this is the name for the four-dimensional coordinate system devised by Einstein to explain relativity. It remains constant in all reference frames for a given process. SPACE-TIME interval 13. Identify these Chinese revolts from clues FTPE. 1. This semi-Buddhist group had secret rituals and promised to overthrow the Ch'ing. Their uprising lasted from 1796-1804. White Lotus 2. Begun by Hung Hsiu-Ch'uan, who thought he was related to Jesus Christ, this movement captured Nanking and most of the Yangtze Valley and held out until 1864. Taiping Rebellion 3. This group, known as the Fists of Righteous Harmony, hated Westerners and killed missionaries and besieged the foreign legations in Peking until driven out by a Western coalition in 1900. Boxer Rebellion 14. Identify the anthropologists from clues FTPE. 1. Her PhD thesis, on Zuni mythology, was entitled The Concept of the Guardian Spirit in North America. Her 1946 book The Chrysanthenum and the Sword was on Japan. Ruth Benedict. 2. Supervising Benedict's thesis, he studied Indians on Baffin Island and wrote The Mind of Primitive Man. Franz Boas. 3. No doubt the most famous anthropologist, she wrote Coming of Age on Samoa. Margaret Mead. 15. Name these 18th century French literary types FTPE. 1. Known for his cry of "Crush the infamy"- the infamy being the Catholic Church- he wrote the History of Charles XII, Zadig, and Candide. Voltaire or Francois-Marie Arouet 2. The author of the plays The Father of the Family and the Natural Son, he also was the guiding force, with D'Alembert, of the Encyclopedia. Denis Diderot 3. The daughter of Neckar, Napoleon banned her from Paris. While sleeping with Benjamin Constant she wrote Delphine, Corinne, and Germania. Madame de Stael 16. Answer these questions about monasticism FTPE. 1. It is generally accepted that this man started monasticism in about 270 AD. According to Athanasius, he was born wealthy, but then renounced his wealth and lived in a tomb in the Egyptian desert. St. Antony 2. Antony was a member of this strand of monasticism, which believed in solitary prayer. anchorites 3. In opposition to the anchorites, St. Pachomius founded this tradition, where men banded together into spiritual communities. Cenobiticism 17. Name these 19th century Southern writers from clues FTPE. 1. Best known for his tales of Creole life in New Orleans, his books include Old Creole Days and Madame Delphine. George Washington Cable 2. A writer for the Atlanta Constitution, he wrote the Uncle Remus tales of Southern black folklore. Joel Chandler Harris 18. For ten points each, given a translation of an artists' nickname, give the nickname. 1. Little Barrel or Little Bottle Botticelli 2. Little George Giorgiona 3. Little Dyer Tintoretto