Believed to be the Genius of the Shadow, this artist's nose was badly injured in a fight with Pietro Torrigiano *. Mistrusting the use of mathematical proportions and means as guarantees of beauty, he instead believed beauty should be "kept in the eyes". He gained the commission of one of his most famous works when Agostino di Duccio had failed to make something of a large chunk of marble. FTP, name this sculptor and painter known for his David and Sistine Chapel. A: Michelangelo Buonarotti He received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1976, thirty-nine years after his death. In 1895, he studied at the George Smith College for Negroes, and in 1903 his first opera, A Guest of Honor, was published.* He had a nervous breakdown shortly after the premiere of his other opera, Treemonisha. FTP, name this ragtime composer of the Maple Leaf Rag and the Entertainer. A: Scott Joplin In the first step, a base such as hydroxide removes the acidic alpha carbon, giving the reactive enolate. The now nucleophilic * enolate then attacks an aldehyde at the carbonyl carbon in a nucleophilic addition reaction, giving an intermediate alkoxide. Finally, an additional acid-base reaction removes a proton from water, leaving hydroxide and a beta-hydroxyaldehyde. For ten points, what is this reaction from organic chemistry? A. Aldol condensation Still spoken by the Jacobite and Nestorian Christians, it was written in a script derived from the Phoenician alphabet. Superceding Akkadian as the main language of the* Middle East in the sixth century BC, it was the official language of Persia before Alexander the Great conquered it. Both Daniel and Ezra are written in it, and it was the language of the common people of Judea. FTP, name this language spoken by Jesus. A: Aramaic In early June, a group of Americans stole horses; another group, led by William Ide, captured Sonoma and declared* independence. By early July, American forces under John Sloat occupied Sonoma and annexed the state. Its symbol was a white ground emblazoned with a grizzly bear facing a red star. FTP, name this event which led to California entering the union. A: Bear Flag Revolt, Bear Flag Republic, Golden Bear Republic, equivalent. prompt on independence of California It was declared illegal in 1936, ten years after it had been publicly denounced by the pope. Led by Leon Daudet and Charles Maurrass,* it had been founded at the end of the nineteenth century to oppose the release of Dreyfus. Their youth movement, the Hucksters of the King, supported royalism and the Catholic Church. FTP, name this conservative French political group. A: Action Francaise Her father won a Supreme Court case in 1938 against restrictive covenants that kept Chicago blacks in the ghetto. After living in Mexico, her play the Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window* was produced in 1964. Married to Robert Nemiroff, he finished her play To Be Young, Gifted, and Black after her 1965 death. FTP, name this author of the play A Raisin in the Sun. A: Lorraine Hansberry Proposed by the Massachusettes General Court, it consisted of 25 delegates from two counties in New Hamsphire, one in Vermont, and the states of Massachusettes, Rhode Island, and* Connecticut. The President, George Cabot, wanted seven constitutional amendments and soldiers to defend New England, whose trade had been badly hurt by the war. FTP, name this 1814 Federalist convention that tried to end the war of 1812. A: Hartford Convention 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 existence of the quark. Feynman, Richard Phillips 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 His comic novels Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Coming up for Air made him a darling of the leftist movement; however, they disowned him entirely when* Homage to Catalonia was published. A former Burmese police officer, his Shooting An Elephant did irreparable harm to the British colonial ideal. FTP, name this author of Animal Farm and 1984. A: George Orwell In the 1970's, he moved towards a style he called "cross-hatching," which consisted of near-monochrome paintings composed of clusters of parallel lines. This is a departure from his previous encaustic technique,* with its pigments mixed with hot liquid wax. In 1960, he cast a sculpture of two Ballantine Ale cans, Painted Bronze. FTP, name this Pop Art figure who painted maps, numbers, and flags. A: Jasper Johns An 1860 graduate of the Harvard Divinity School, he was forced to leave his pulpit in Brewster, Massachusettes, in 1866 because of allegations of pedophila. Moving to New York, he became a patron of the Newsboys Lodging House,* where the boys lived the sort of success he preached in his many books, such as Ragged Dick and Tattered Tom. FTP, name this author who preached success through hard work. Horatio Alger Years later, an attempt was made to canonize this ruler in an attempt to support the new dynasty. His recurrent bouts with insanity were most likely due to his Valois grandfather (*) Charles VI who had similar problems. This instability led to the rivalry between his supporters led by the Duke of Somerset and the presumed heir to the throne, Richard of York. FTP, identify this third Lancastrian king of England possibily murdered in the tower by the future Richard III. _Henry VI_ While studying in Germany she began an affair with Martin Heidegger, and was appalled at his later support for the Nazi regime. The first female professor at Princeton,* she was associated with Partisan Review and the New School for Social Research. In 1951, she published The Origins of Totalitarianism, which compared the Nazi and Soviet states. FTP, name this author of Eichmann in Jerusalem. A: Hannah Arendt They form only cations in solution and are characterized by having incompletely filled d subshells. Approximately fifty in number, they are * more electronegative than the alkali metals and tend to form coordination complexes with Lewis bases, making them essential in many industries and biological systems. For ten points, identify this group of elements that make up the middle of the periodic table. A. Transition metals A wooden box sits just right of center in the foreground, and on it appear two names. The top name is the subject, while the name below it is the artist. The subject wears a white turban and his right hand loosely holds a quill, while his left hand holds the bloodstained fake letter* of introduction which had allowed the assassin to gain admittance. In the bottom left is the bloody murder weapon, laying discarded near the bathtub. FTP, name this Jacques-Louis David work which eerily captures a sense the artists grief, political fervor, and artistic ability. A: The Death of Marat Set in the town of Titipu, it means "exalted gate." "Three little maids from school we are" is sung by Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, and Yum-Yum,* Yum-Yum being the beloved of Nanki-Poo. He is in danger of being executed by Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, who dislikes the sight of blood. Nanki Poo avoids being executed and marries Yum Yum. FTP, name this Gilbert and Sullivan operetta about Japan. A: The Mikado 20th century Italian authors. Clues. TPE. 1. He led a group of nationalists which occupied Fiume in 1919. A decadent, his poems include The Flame of Life, La Gioconda, and the novel the Child of Pleasure. Gabriele D'Annuzio 2. With a name reminiscent of a Victor Hugo novel, he won the 1959 Nobel Prize and wrote Land and Water and To Give and to Have. Salvatore Quasimodo 3. One of the founders of the field of semiotics, his novels include The Island of the Day Before, Foucault's Pendulum, and the Name of the Rose. Umberto Eco Name these writers of the American Revolution from clues FTPE. 1. Serving as governor of both Pennsylvania and Delaware, he was known as "the penman of the revolution" and wrote Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer. John Dickinson 2.While minister to France he wrote Notes on the State of Virginia, which was both natural history and political and social commentary. Thomas Jefferson 3. A devotee of the French Revolution, his the Rights of Man attacked religion. The American Crisis and Common Sense created the mood for the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Paine 30-20-10 Name the work of art 30: This life-size bronze piece portrays six bedraggled looking figures, each in a study of despair, resignation, or quiet defiance 20: The city government that commissioned the work , uncomfortable with its realism, altered the artist's wishes that it be displayed eye-level in the center of town, and instead put it in a remote location on a high pedestal. 10: The six figures portray a heroic episode from the Hundred Year's War where the leaders of a French city offered their lives in return for the city's safety. A: The Burghers of Calais Name the Leonard Bernstein works from clues FTPE. 1. With words by Stephen Sondheim, this musical is about the rivalry between the Sharks and the Jets in New York City. West Side Story 2. Finally premiering in 1984, this opera, with a libretto by Lillian Hellman, traces the activities of Pangloss and Cunegonde. Candide 3. Bernstein's other opera, it traces the travails of a family who learns that they have a gay son. A Quiet Place Identify the following bonds found in proteins, ten points each. A. The covalent bond linking all amino acids along the backbone of the protein. Peptide Bond B. Important in secondary structure of proteins, it is a non-covalent attraction between the N-H of one amide and the carbonyl of another. Hydrogen bond C. Another covalent bond, it forms between cysteine side chains and can link distant portions of a peptide. Disulfide bond 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 U.S. 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 amid chargers of "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion," as Secretary of State he called the first Pan-American Conference in 1889. A: James G. Blaine 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 his 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 dies when their shack burns down. Tobacco Road Identify the following concerning the immune system for ten points each. A. Responsible for humoral or antibody based immunity, they derive their name from the bursa of Fabribus where they were first discovered. B cells B. Maturing in the thymus, these white blood cells expressing the CD8 antigen are responsible for cell mediated immunity. Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes OR CTLs OR Killer T Cells (prompt on T cells) T cells T lymphocytes only bind antigens presented on these complexes, divided into classes for intra and extracellular peptides. MHCs OR Major Histocompatability Complexes Answer these questions about the Indiana University basketball program FTPE. 1. In summer 2000, this man was fired after 29 years as Indiana basketball coach. Bob Knight 2. He succeeded Bob Knight as coach, leading the Hoosiers to 21 victories. Mike Davis 3. Bob Knight has resurfaced as the coach at this Big 12 school. Texas Tech British admirals. Clues. TPE. 1. A protegee of the naturalist Joseph Banks, he survived a mutiny as governor of New South Wales, as well as the more famous one on the Bounty. William Bligh 2. A rather scandalous figure because of his romance with Lady Emma Hamilton, he won victories at Copenhagen, the Nile, and Trafalgar. Horatio Nelson 3. Serving twice as First Sea Lord, he oversaw the building of the Dreadnought, the consolidation of the fleet into the North Sea, and the Gallipoli fiasco. John "Jackie" Fisher Answer the following about a Polish king FTPE. 1. This man, king from 1673-1696, led the 1683 campaign to eject the Turks from the gates of Vienna. John III, or John Sobieski, or Jan Sobieski 2. This was the decisive 1683 victory near Vienna won by Jan Sobieski. Kahlenberg 3. The Poles had the peculiar practice of choosing their kings by this method, which led to rampant cheating and bribery. election Identify each of the following effects as governed by the sympathetic nervous system, parasympathetic nervous system, the somatic nervous system, or none of the above, ten points each. A. Constriction of the pupils Parasympathetic B. Increased blood flow to digestive system Parasympathetic C. Increased blood flow to skin Sympathetic 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 3. Both a musician and a poet, his poems The Symphony, The Marshes of Glynn, and the Song of the Chattahoochee show him to be the finest Southern lyric poet of his time. Sidney Lanier For ten points each, given a translation of an artists nickname, give the nickname. a. Little Barrel or Little Bottle ANSWER: Sandro Botticelli b. Little George ANSWER: Giorgiona c. Little Dyer ANSWER: Tintoretto Name the following about a British literary magazine FTPE. 1. A daily paper from March 1, 1711 to December 6, 1712, it's goal was to "enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality." the Spectator 2. The author of Cato and The Campaign, he was an enemy of Pope and the guiding light of the Spectator. Joseph Addison 3. The first editor of the Tatler, under the pseudonym of Isaac Bickerstaff, he associated with Addison on the Spectator. Richard Steele Answer the following about opera for the stated number of points. 1. After buying arms for the American colonists and serving as a spy for Louis XVI, he wrote the plays The Marriage of Figaro and the Barber of Seville. Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais 2. The first professor of Italian at Columbia University, he wrote the librettos for the operas Don Giovanni and the Marriage of Figaro. Lorenzo di Ponte 3. FFPE, name the composers of: 1787 Marriage of Figaro Wolfgang Mozart 1816 Barber of Seville Giacomo Rossini