Matt48Sf"  Matt48"cbpbb?bb<TEXTMACAS  Packet 48 1. He took composition lessons from the Italian opera composer Ferdinando Parand and the Czech-French theorist Anton Reicha. In 1833, he met the French countess Marie dAgoult, known as a writer under the pseudonym Daniel Stern. Among his compositions are The Years of Pilgrimage and the 12 Transcendental Etudes. FTP, name this composer of Hungarian Rhapsodies. Answer: Franz _Liszt_ 2. The most productive microorganisms capable of this process are symbiotic bacteria of the genus Rhizobium, which form nodules on the roots of plants such as clover and alfalfa. But this process is also at work in the industrial production of cyanamide and ammonia. FTP, name this process in which chemical compounds essential for plant growth are produced from molecular nitrogen. Answer: Nitrogen _Fixation_ 3. She worked in the English Foreign Office on anti-Nazi propaganda, a move perhaps encouraged by her Jewish-Italian descent. She tried poetry first, publishing _The Fanfarlo_ in 1952, and her first two novels were _The Comforters_ and _Memento Mori_. FTP, name this author of _Loitering With Intent_, _The Drivers Seat_, and _The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie_. Answer: Muriel _Spark_ 4. It centers around Balthazar, the son of the Viceroy of Portugal, who has been captured by Horatio and Lorenzo, and is now in Spain courting Bel-imperia, Lorenzos sister. But she loves Horatio instead, and Lorenzo and Balthazar surprise the two lovers at night and murder him. His father Hieronimo finds his body and plots with Bel-imperia to kill the murderers. FTP, name this 1589 drama by Thomas Kyd that was a predecessor of Shakespeares _Hamlet_. Answer: The _Spanish Tragedy_ 5. Her ambition in life was to lead an army into battle, but instead she became the patron of Bernini, Corelli, and Alessandro Scarlatti and attracted to her court the best minds in Europe, including Hugo Grotius and her philosophy tutor, Descartes. Her minority was spent under the regency of Axel Oxenstierna. FTP, name this daughter of Gustavus Adolphus and queen of Sweden. Answer: _Kristina_ 6. The Romans called this land as Ultima Thule and the Greek navigator Pytheas of Massilia claimed that he had reached it six days after setting sail from England and that the midsummer sun never set there. Today, the name Thule refers to a community on this island, on the Hayes Peninsula on Baffin Bay. FTP, name this land known as Kalaalit Nunaat, whose capital is at Nuuk after moving from its previous site at Gothab. Answer: _Greenland_ 7. Published in 1632, it contains three characters, Simplicio, who is slow to understand and reluctant to accept the arguments proposed -- and whom Urban VIII believed to be a caricature of himself; Sagredo, who comprehends quickly; and Salviati, who says such things as The middle place belongs to the Sun, and the Earth is as far remote from the center as it is from that same Sun. FTP, name this tract arguing for the Copernican system by Galileo. Answer: The _Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems_ or Principal Systems of the Universe or Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo 8. This organization was responsible for several precedent-setting Supreme Court cases, including Munn v. Illinois. Among its primary concerns were the outrageous rates charged by railroads to grain farmers, as well as the tight money situation of the 1870s. FTP, name this organization founded in Minnesota in 1867 by Oliver Hudson Kelley. Answer: The National _Grange_ or _Patrons of Husbandry_ 9. Written in rhymed couplets, this 1494 poem in Alsatian dialect exposed, among other things, abuses within the Church and prepared the way for the Protestant Reformation. It gathered together a motley cast of characters -- men of every age and class about to embark on a voyage to Narragonia, united only in their stupidity. FTP, name this poem by Sebastian Brant, whose title was later borrowed by Katherine Anne Porter. Answer: _Ship of Fools_ (accept _Das Narrenschiff_) 10. One of the first buildings he designed was a newspaper office in Turku, notable for its use of tapered columns to support the pressroom roof. He also designed the Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium, and for this he and his wife created laminated wood furnishings. As a professor at MIT, he planned the Baker House. FTP, name this architect most famous for the Finnish Pavilions for the 1937 and 1939 Worlds Fairs, and the Finlandia House. Answer: (Hugo) Alvar Henrik _Aalto_ 11. This particle is formed when cosmic rays or gamma rays of energies greater than one million electron volts are made to strike matter. Its existence was first suggested in 1928 by Paul Dirac as a necessary consequence of his quantum-mechanical theory, and in 1932, the particle was experimentally discovered by American physicist Carl Anderson. FTP, name this particle with a mass equal to that of the electron. Answer: The _Positron_ or _anti-electron_ or _positive electron_ 12. Born to a Berber family in Tangiers in 1304, he is the author of the book _Rihlah_, which includes descriptions of the Byzantine court of Constantinople and the Black Death of Baghdad. When he was 19, he made a pilgrimage to Mecca, and he later visited Spain, China, Timbuktu, and the Steppes of Russia. FTP, name this Islamic geographer. Answer: Muhammad ibn Abdullah _Ibn Batuta_ 13. Willingboro in Burlington County, New Jersey; a town in Bucks County, Pennsylvania; and Hempstead in Nassau County, New York -- built between 1946 and 1963, these towns provided housing for World War II veterans and their families: more than 17,000 homes in Hempstead. FTP, name these three originally unincorporated communities built using assembly-line techniques and prefabricated units. Answer: _Levittown_ 14. The shortest can fit on one printed page, while the longest is more than 50 pages long. Their underlying concern is the nature of Brahman, the universal soul, and the fundamental doctrine expounded is the identity of atman, or individual souls, with Brahman, which can be achieved by yoga. FTP, name this last section of the Aranyakas, consisting of 108 or 150 mystical writings. Answer: The _Upanishads_ 15. One of the last lines of this play goes: Sure! Yuhre reglar! Me n you, huh? -- bot members of dis club! Well put up one last bout datll knock em offen deir seats! Deyll have to make de cages stronger after were trou! The speaker is Yank, the leader of the stokers in the hold of a transatlantic ocean liner, talking to a gorilla before he lets it out of its cage, whereupon it crushes him. FTP, this is the ending of what play by Eugene ONeill? Answer: The _Hairy Ape_ 16. He most likely died of fever in 1503, but there is some evidence for the story that he was accidentally poisoned by wine intended for Cardinal da Corneto. It was under his pontificate that Savonarola was executed, and he set about breaking the power of the Italian princes, using any means necessary. FTP, name this lover of the beautiful Rosa Vanozza, who bore him his children Cesare and Lucretia. Answer: _Rodrigo Borgia_ or _Alexander VI_ 17. He came from a broken home and engaged in petty crimes such as scalping tickets. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1943-6 and operated nightclubs and dance halls. While awaiting a second trial to review his death sentence, he died in 1967. FTP, name this assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald. Answer: Jack _Ruby_ 18. As a youth, he was sent as a hostage to Constantinople, where he received a Roman upbringing. In 471, he became king of Pannonia, and in 484 he was Consul of the Eastern Roman Empire. The Emperor Zeno sent him to Italy, where he became an independent ruler. FTP, name this Ostrogoth king who at the seige of Ravenna defeated and killed Odoacer. Answer: _Theodoric_ the Great 19. This class of tissue is divided into two principle types of cells, labile and stable, based on their regenerative abilities. It is arranged in continuous sheets that may be either single or multilayered, and nerves may extend through it, but blood vessels do not. One type constitutes the secreting portion of glands, while another forms the lining of body cavities and covers the surfaces of some organs. FTP, name this type of tissue whose name is from the Greek for upon the nipple. Answer: _Epithelial_ 20. While still young, she exchanged drawings with Michelangelo. The eldest of six artistic daughters from Cremona, she was called to Madrid where she served as a court painter. Van Dyck made a picture of her shortly before her death. FTP, name this mannerist painter of A Portrait of the Artists Sister Minerva and a Boy Bitten by a Lizard. Answer: Sofonisba _Anguissola_ BONUSES 1. Identify the following bones of the human body with cool Greek names, 10 each: 1. Suspended from the styloid process of the temporal bone of the skull, this little bone takes its name from the Greek for U-shaped. It is unique because it does not articulate with any other bone. Answer: The _Hyoid_ bone 2. With a name meaning shaped like a sword, this is the lowest section of the sternum or breastbone. When doing chest-pumping during CPR, you must take care not to break it off. Answer: The _Xiphoid_ process 3. The name of these bones means yoke-shaped, and they form the prominences of the cheeks and part of the outer wall and floor of the eye socket. Answer: _Zygomatic_ bones (accept malars) 2. The Hellenistic Age is usually remembered only as the last gasp of Greek civilization before it was conquered by the Romans, but it too was filled with some tough hombres. Name these, 15 each: 1. Along with his son Demetrius the Beseiger, this man waged incessant wars against the rest of Alexanders old generals, making himself for a time master of Asia Minor and Syria before being defeated at the battle of Ipsus. He is known by the nickname, Monophthalmos or the one-eyed. Answer: _Antigonus_ 2. This other general was among the leaders of the force that defeated Antigonus at Ipsus. Nicknamed, Nicator or the Victor, he ruled over Babylonia and built the city of Antioch, named after his son Antiochus. He was assassinated by Ptolemy the Thunderbolt. Answer: _Seleucus_ 3. Name the literary work, 30-20-10: 30: It is presented as a document edited by a Freudian psychiatrist, and is subtitled, The Confession of a White Widowed Male. 20: The narrative is told by the main character, who lodges with the widowed Charlotte Haze and marries her because he is interested in her daughter. He ends by killing Clare Quilty. 10: Published in the USA in 1958, its focus is the fascination Humbert Humbert feels with nymphets, or young girls, including the title character. Answer: _Lolita_ 4. Identify the following terms from economics, 10 each: 1. The narrowly defined Money supply, it is equal to currency and Checkable deposits not owned by the Federal government, Federal Reserve Banks, or Depository institutions. Answer: _M1_ 2. This is the number by which one must divide the annual rate of inflation in order to calculate the number of years it will take the price level to double. answer: _70_ 3. This is the term for a consumer good with an expected life (use) of one year or more. Answer: A _Durable_ good 5. Name the painter from works, 30-20-10: 30: A painting of Oedipus and the Sphinx that used to hang above the couch on which Freuds patients lay during their sessions with him in Vienna. 20: The Zeus and Thetis which shows Achilles mother kneeling and reaching up to grasp the chin of the lion-like Zeus in a gesture of supplication. 10: The 1814 Odalisque and the Portrait of Louis Bertin from 1832. Answer: Jean-Auguste Dominique _Ingres_ 6. After Stalins death, the leading political and military figures of Russia bargained for power among themselves until a triumvirate emerged. 1. For 5 points each, name the three men who came out on top in 1953, one the chairman of the Council of Ministers, the second the chief of the secret police, and the third an expert in foreign affairs. Answers: Georgi _Malenkov_, Lavrenti _Beria_, and V.M. _Molotov_ 2. After secret police chief Lavrenti Berias execution, a little-known first-secretary of the Communist party became a member of the triumvirate, emerging in February 1956 as the dominant figure when he gave the famous Cult of personality speech denouncing Stalin. Name him for 5 more points. Answer: Nikita _Khrushchev_ 3. Finally, after Malenkovs term, his vice-premier became premier and was used as a puppet by Khrushchev until he outlived his usefulness and was deposed. Name him for 10 points: Answer: Nikolai _Bulganin_ 7. In his short story _Editha_, William Dean Howells quotes the lines, I could not love thee, dear, so much // Loved I not honor more. Answer the following, 10 each: 1. From what poem are the lines taken? Answer: _To Lucasta, Going to the Wars_ 2. Who was the 17th century poet of To Lucasta, Going to the Wars? Answer: Richard _Lovelace_ 3. Richard Lovelace was almost forgotten until his poem To Althea from Prison was published in 1765 in Relics of Ancient English Poetry, edited by what man? Answer: Thomas _Percy_ 8. Answer these questions about spectroscopy, 10 each: 1. In the spectrum of hydrogen, what name is given to series of lines in the band of visible light, from 3,600 to to 6,500 angstroms? Answer: The _Balmer_ Series 2. A cloud of gas will either emit or absorb spectral lines, depending on the physical conditions as described by the three rules of spectroscopy, first formulated by what German physicist? Answer: Gustav _Kirchhoff_ 3. The first detailed catalog of the Suns spectral lines was made in the early 1800s by what other German physicist? Answer: Joseph _Fraunhofer_ 9. Name these figures from Hindu mythology, 10 each: 1. In the Bhagavadgita, this Pandava prince and warrior discourses with Krishna about the nature and meaning of life, expressing reluctance to fight against the Kauravas and claiming that it is not acceptable to take anothers life. Answer: _Arjuna_ 2. This deity is the lord of the dance in his incarnation as Nataraja. He is worshipped by the Kapalikas, who carry skulls to reenact the myth in which he beheaded Brahma. His phallus is revered by his worshippers as the Linga. Answer: _Shiva_ 3. In the Ramayana, Rama is assisted in his seige of Sri Lanka by this cunning monkey god. Answer: _Hanuman_ 10. Identify these characters from Mario Puzos _The Godfather_. 1. First, for 5 points, who is The Godfather, played by Marlon Brando with cotton balls in his cheeks in the film? Answer: _Vito Corleone_ 2. Second, for 10 points, who is Vito Corleones eldest son, who is killed at a toll booth? Answer: _Santino_ or _Sonny_ Corleone_ 3. Third, for 15 points, who is the frightening hit man who puts on a bullet-proof vest only to be strangled and made to sleep with the fishes? Answer: Luca _Brasi_ 11. Answer the following about earthquakes, 10 each: 1. While a seismograph is in operation, the needle indicating the earths motion is rarely at rest. Movements of trees, waves breaking on the seashore, and passing trucks all produce what minor movements of the earth? Answer: _Microseisms_ 2. In an earthquake, the first wave to arrive is the one transmitted compressionally. What letter is used to represent this wave? Answer: The _P_ Wave 3. After the P wave and the S wave, more complicated waves are propagated along the surface of the earth, including what wave of vertical motion in the direction of motion of the P wave front, named after the winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in physics? Answer: _Rayleigh_ Waves 12. The reputation of Henry Kissinger reached towering heights, only to fall swiftly later. Answer the following, 10 each: 1. Congress later learned that Kissinger had tried to block the accession to power of what Socialist president of Chile who gained control in 1970? Answer: Salvador _Allende_ Gossens 2. During the Watergate scandal, congressional investigators discovered that Kissinger had ordered the FBI to tap the telephones of his subordinates on the staff of what agency? Answer: The _National Security Council_ 3. In what year did Kissinger receive the Nobel Peace Prize? Answer: _1973_ 13. Name the composers of the following works on a 10-5 basis: 1. For 10: The operas Le Coq DOr and Snegoyrachka For 5: Scheherazade and Capriccio Espagnol Answer: Nikolay Andreyevich _Rimsky-Korsakov_ 2. For 10: The Unfinished operas Kovanshchina completed by Rimsky-Korsakov, and The Fair at Sorochinsk completed by Cesar Cui. For 5: Songs and Dances of Death and The Nursery Answer: Modest _Mussorgsky_ 3. For 10: Music to accompany John Drydens King Arthur and The Indian Queen, completed by his brother Daniel. For 5: Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen. Answer: Henry _Purcell_ 14. Given an African Nation, tell me what country controlled it just before it gained independence. 5 points each. 1. The Gambia Answer: _United Kingdom_ (Britain, England, whatever) 2. Namibia Answer: _South Africa_ 3. Angola Answer: _Portugal_ 4. Algeria Answer: _France_ 5. Nigeria Answer: _United Kingdom_ (Britain, England, whatever) 6. Equatorial Guinea Answer: _Spain_ 15. Name the psychologists who wrote the following works, 5 each: 1. _The Psychology of Dementia Praecox_ Answer: Carl Gustav _Jung_ 2. _Young Man Luther_ Answer: Eric _Erikson_ 3. _Understanding Human Nature_ Answer: Alfred _Adler_ 4. _Freud and Mans Soul_ Answer: Bruno _Bettelheim_ 5. _Beyond the Pleasure Principle_ Answer: Sigmund _Freud_ 6. _The Psychopathology of Everyday Life_ Answer: Sigmund _Freud_ 16. Given a speaker of a famous phrase from U.S. History, and the surrounding quote, fill in the missing words, 10 each: 1. Bernard Baruch in 1947: Let us not deceive ourselves. We are in the midst of a (blank, blank -- two words). Answer: _Cold War_ 2. John F. Kennedy in 1960: We stand today on the edge of a New (blank) -- the (blank) of the 1960s, a (blank) of unknown opportunities and perils. Answer: _Frontier_ 3. Warren Harding in 1920: Americas present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but (blank). Answer: _Normalcy_ 17. Given a character or characters from a work of literature the title of which starts with A, name the work. Youll get 5 points if you need the author. 1. For 10: Jack Burden and Willie Stark For 5: Robert Penn Warren Answer: _All the Kings Men_ 2. For 10: Doll Common, Subtle, Abel Drugger, and Sir Epicure Mammon For 5: Ben Jonson Answer: The _Alchemist_ 3. For 10: Ella Downey and Jim Harris For 5: Eugene ONeill Answer: _All Gods Chillun Got Wings_ 18. Since I hate writing sports questions and current events questions, I thought Id kill two birds with one stone and write about recent professional tennis. Answer the following, 10 each: 1. The Queens Cup, the recent grass-court tournament that is a warm-up event for Wimbledon was won by Boris Becker in straight sets. It was sponsored by what brand of Lager? Answer: _Stella Artois_ 2. In the semifinals of the Stella Artois tournament was a player who had never before won a match on grass. Who is this clay-court specialist, who was controversially ranked #1 in the world earlier this year? Answer: Thomas _Muster_ 3. Because of this strong finish at Queens, Muster had the temerity to whine that he should be seeded higher at Wimbledon, where he has never won a match. For a final 10 points, what was Musters seed number at Wimbledon before he chickened out? Answer: #_7_ 19. Structuralism is a vile set of theories that imposes itself on anything, warping literary texts and misinterpreting cultures in its own terms. Identify the following men who gave us this wonderful system, 5-10-15: 1. For 5: Structuralism has its origins in the work of this Swiss man, who is most famous for the distinction he drew between langue, language as a system of structured signs, and parole, or actual speech. Answer: Ferdinand de _Saussure_ 2. For 10: Saussures ideas influenced this man, whose works include the four-volume study Mythologiques and The Elementary Structures of Kinship. Answer: Claude _Levi-Strauss_ 3. For 15: Another Frenchman also wrote a book called Mythologies, which was a semiological exploration of such cultural phenomena as wrestling and childs toys. He is more famous for his essay collection Writing Degree Zero. Answer: Roland _Barthes_ 20. Answer the following about ancient African empires, 10 each: 1. After the defeat of the Soso kingdom, the western Sudan was dominated what powerful empire ruled by Sundiata and Mansa Musa that eventually extended to the Atlantic? Answer: The _Mali_ Empire 2. In the late 13th century a new power was consolidated in the Sunni dynasty of this people, who gradually gained independence set up their own Empire, most agressively under the Sunni dynasty. Answer: _Songhai_ 3. The most famous ruler of the Sunni dynasty was this man, who almost singlehandedly transformed his small inherited kingdom centered at Gao into the vast Songhai empire. A superb soldier, he captured Djenne in 1471 and drove out the Tuaregs from Timbuktu. Answer: _Ali_ of Songhai or _Sunni Ali_java!(Lsun/awt/macos/Matt48MTEXTMACATEXTMACA Swt/macos/MCanvasPeer>*+    PK