Matt33$D" Matt33"cbpbb?bb<TEXTMACA$ JPacket 33 In 1915, after a life of expatriation, he finally became a British citizen to protest the United States failure to join England in the First World War. After the second period of such works as _The Princess Casamassima_, his late novels were derided as cathedrals of frosted glass, and were unsaleable. His first novel was serialized in the Atlantic, under the title _Watch and Ward_, but he always claimed that his first real work was _Roderick Hudson_. FTP, who was this author of _The Tragic Muse_ and _The Bostonians_? Answer: _Henry James_ He was knighted and given the Copley Medal of the Royal Society when he was eighty-five. In 1901, after a year of digging, he announced that he would need at least another twelve months to lay bare everything of archaeological interest at his site, where he had discovered ivory from Africa and statuary from Egypt. He was wrong, for in the next year he unearthed five and a half acres of a red-columned palace. FTP, who was this English archaeologist and discoverer of Knossos on the island of Crete? Answer: Sir Arthur _Evans_ Aristotle first met him on the island of Lesbos, and because he was a fast talker, replaced his real name, Tyrtamus, with a nickname meaning divine speech. He conducted the Lyceum after Aristotles retirement and carried on his masters study in biology. FTP, identify this Greek scientist and philosopher, best known as the father of botany. Answer: _Theophrastus_ In the 1880s he retired, claiming that all important scientific discoveries had already been made. In the 1850s, he introduced Alexander Graham Bells telephone to Great Britain, and was among the first to support Joules ideas about heat. He developed improvements in wires that facilitated the laying of the Trans-Atlantic cable. FTP, name this scientist who, working from Charles discovery that gases lose 0.36 percent of their zero degree Celsius volume, put forth the concept of absolute zero. Answer: William Thomson, Baron _Kelvin_ (prompt on Thomson) He worked for five years as a shipping clerk before entering medical school. He helped promote Paul Ehrlichs Salvarsan drug, and during World War I he discovered that tears and musuc kill bacteria with the protein lysozyme. His most famous discovery had been briefly noted by Tyndall half a century earlier, but it still allowed him to share with Florey and Chain the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine. FTP, who was this man who noticed the death of some staphylococcus germs and thus dicovered penicillin? Answer: Sir Alexander _Fleming_ It was his good fortune that Leyden jars and other electrical machines were the fashionable science of his time. During a thunderstorm, he took an iron latticework and some brass hooks and conducted an experiment, whose results he interpreted incorrectly. Alessandro Volta gave the correct explanation for his findings some time later. FTP, identify this Italian who interpreted his twitching frogs legs as proof of animal electricity. Answer: Luigi _Galvani_ _Christmas Story_, _Minority Report_, _A Little Book in C Major_, _Treatise on Right and Wrong_, _Treatise on the Gods_, _A Choice of Days_, six volumes entitled _Prejudices_, _My Life as Author and Editor_, _The Editor, the Bluenose and the Prostitute_, _Happy Days_, _Damn! A Book of Calumny_, and of course, _The American Language_. FTP, these are all books by what newspaperman known as the Sage of Baltimore? Answer: H(enry) L(ouis) _Mencken_ There are 63 poems in this collection, the last of which ends: And fields will yearly bear them / As light-leaved spring comes on, / And luckless lads will wear them / When I am dead and gone. Though perhaps poem 62 is more famous, as it begins: Terence, this is stupid stuff. FTP, what is this collection, published in 1896 by A.E. Housman? Answer: _A Shropshire Lad_ It begins, The Browns have become illustrious by the pen of Thackeray and the pencil of Doyle within the memory of the young gentlemen who are now matriculating at the universities. Set at the Rugby school, it tells of the trials and joys of a shy, homesick boy who is drawn into the life of the school and develops manly qualities. FTP, what is this 1857 work by English jurist Thomas Hughes? Answer: _Tom Browns School Days_ Not frightened by the power of the weapon he helped develop, his rhetoric downplayed the effect of fallout, and he even advocated atmospheric nuclear device testing. During World War Two, he worked in Los Alamos on the bomb, and while Oppenheimer shrank from further development of more powerful weapons, he argued for them. Exactly what he invented is shrouded by concerns for National Security, but it must have worked, for in 1952 his creation was detonated. FTP, who was this father of the Hydrogen Bomb? Answer: Edward _Teller_ In the preface to the cheap 1848 edition of this book, its author wrote that when this novel was first published, there were a good many cheap Yorkshire schools in existence. There are very few now. Among the characters found in it are Mr. Mantalini, Mr. Crummles, Brooker, Arthur Gride and Peg Sliderskew, Lord Verisopht and Sir Mulberry Hawk. FTP, what is this novel by Charles Dickens featuring the half-wit Smike and the wicked schoolmaster Wackford Squeers? Answer: Nicholas _Nickleby_ True to his Quaker beliefs, he refused to accept any honors for his work. He declined when Sir Humphrey Davy nominated him for membership in the Royal Society, only to be unknowingly elected in 1822 anyway. Throughout his life, he kept daily meteorological records. Taking as his foundation Prousts law of definite proportions, he enunciated the law of multiple proportions. FTP, name this English chemist famous for his theories of atomist and color blindness. Answer: John _Dalton_ He taught himself to play a slew of instruments: the violin, recorder and zither, and later the shawm, oboe, flute, and bass trombone. Throughout his life he served as music director of the Johanneum at Hamburg. His oratorios include Der Tag de Gerichts and Die Tageszeiten, and like Handel, he wrote a piece called Water-Music. FTP, name this German composer famous for A Heros Music and Table Music. Answer: George Philipp _Telemann_ He wanted to become a painter, but in 1919 he joined the Decla Film Company. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Goebbels offered him a job as head of the German film industry, but he refused and on the same night fled to Paris. Among his films of this period are Liliom and The Return of Frank James. In the 1950s, he directed Hangmen Also Die and Human Desire. FTP, who is this Austrian director of the Dr. Mebuse films and Metropolis? Answer: Fritz _Lang_ He worked briefly as Sinclair Lewiss personal secretary before publishing his early nonfiction books, _Men on Bataan_ and _Into the Valley_. His late works include a novel in the form of government hearing transcripts, called _The Child Buyer_, as well as _The Call_. He examined the extinction of the Warsaw ghetto in _The Wall_. FTP, who is this author best known for _A Bell for Adano_ and _Hiroshima_? Answer: John _Hersey_ William Morris once told Yeats that this man had inspired the socialist movement of the 1880s, but added that somebody should have been beside him and punched his head every five minutes. In 1845, he edited _The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell_ and wrote _The History of Friedrich II of Prussia_. He is famous for his clothes philosophy -- the notion that ideas and beliefs become worn out and must be replaced by new ones: Hence one of his titles translates as The Tailor Retailored. FTP, who is this English historian of _On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic on History_ and _Sartor Resartus_? Answer: Thomas _Carlyle_ It was finally abrogated in 1934 by Franklin Roosevelts Good Neighbor policy. Theodore Oosevelt invoked it twice, withdrawing troops in 1902, but sending them again in 1906 to restore order out of revolutionary chaos. Promulgated by a Connecticut senator, it was added to the army appropriations bill of 1901. FTP, what was this clause that allowed the United States to buy or lease sites for naval and coaling stations, as well as intervene in Cuban affairs? Answer: The _Platt Amendment_ His first appearance was at Sadlers Wells on the 16th of April, 1781 as an infant dancer. He regularly performed there until his retirement from the stage in 1828. At Drury Lane, he took part int he great pantomime festival. FTP, name this English clown whose so-called funeral is celebrated as a festival day by clowns all over the world. Answer: Joseph _Grimaldi_ The temple at Denderah was dedicated to this deity. Often identified with other goddesses, including Sekhmet, her name means House of Horus. The guardian of cemeteries, she was the female counterpart of Osiris. Like Isis, she was a goddess of love and mirth. FTP, name this cow-headed goddess of the sky. Answer: _Hathor_ Among his sayings was: There are two opposing arguments concerning everything. He disavowed any knowledge of the divine, saying that concerning the gods I am unable to know either that they are or that they are not, but instead he held that Man is the measure of all things. FTP, identify this Sophist whom Socrates debated in one of Platos dialogues. Answer: _Protagoras_GkUj`f4ig5igA?<Matt33MTEXTMACAZTEXTMACA $.1&_4A::>5FHC.45jgfiq !mHR@K/ a``B,BBW/jJ