Described As Triangular, 48 Feet on Each Side It Employs Numerous Media, Including China

TOSS-UPS

1) He left Rome in 1606 after being charged with murder. In 1608 he was arrested, imprisoned in Malta but escaped from prison and travelled to Sicily. In 1610 he was wrongfully arrested and soon died of a fever. All this turbulence only added to his reputation as one of the best painters of the early 17th century. FTP name this artist famous for his use of chiaroscuro and whose rendition of “St. John the Baptist” can be seen at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Carravagio

2) In response to a political crisis caused by the mass defection of refugees to Austria and West Germany, Mikhail Gorbachev announced this doctrine in October of 1989. It stated that the Soviet Union would no longer interfere in the affairs of eastern block nations, and that they were free to do things “their way”. What was the doctrine, named after an Italian-American crooner?

Sinatra Doctrine

3) One of the lesser-known geopolitical entities on the North American continent was this self-governing region, founded in 1875 and absorbed into Canada in 1887. Located along the western shore of Lake Winnipeg, its economy was not immediately successful, due to the settlers’ unpreparedness for the Canadian climate. Name either the settlement, whose “capital” was Gimli, or the settlers’ original country, a volcanic island in the North Atlantic.

New Iceland

4) Mostly educated in the United States, this person returned home to begin a career as a medical doctor, but soon entered politics as a member of the Labour party. Not that Labour Party. The one in Norway. Who is this former prime minister of Norway and current director-general of the WHO, whose name will always be associated with the concept of “Sustainable Development”?

Gro Harlem Brundtland

5) He was born February 5 1934 in MobileAlabama and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002. In between, he “trotted” a total of fifty-five and one quarter miles, not counting playoffs, exhibitions, the minor leagues, Negro leagues, or anywhere else he might have hit home runs beyond the 755 for which he is officially credited. Who is alphabetically the first entry in the MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia?

Hank Aaron

6) Other than Albania, the only nation to send its head of state to the funeral of Mother Theresa was this country, which shares its name with a medieval kingdom located several hundred miles north of the modern state. Its most common languages are Akan and Ewe (ey-wey). It gained its formal independence in 1957 under Kwame Nkrumah, and its president in the 80s and 90s, who attended the aforementioned funeral, was Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings. “Reach”-type clue: formerly named Gold Coast.

Ghana

7) One of the West’s propaganda triumphs during the Cold War was accomplished in 1958 by a tall gentleman, born in Louisiana but more commonly associated with Fort Worth, Texas. Who was this inadvertent Cold Warrior, one of the best selling classical musicians in America of the 60s due to his victory in the Tchaikowsky piano competition held in Moscow?

Van Cliburn

8) When Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post heard in 1998 that she’d won a Pulitzer prize, he claimed that he wanted to give his prize back. Many people secretly and not-so-secretly rejoice when bad stuff happens to her, as when a sharp reader last year mocked her over-use of the word “limn”. Born in New Haven in 1955, she joined the staff of the New York Times in 1979 and soon became America’s most influential—and therefore hated—book reviewer.

Michiko Kakutani

9) In an influential book published in French in 1908, the author claimed that in all societies, the titular events follow universal patterns, including three stages which he called separation, transition, and incorporation. What is the three-word English title of this book by Arnold Van Gennep about how changes in social status are marked?

Rites of Passage

10) I was born in LethbridgeAlberta in 1918. I served in the Navy during WWII, but spent most of my time fixing radios. After the war, I earned a bachelor's degree from the University of British Columbia in math and physics, and later got a PhD. from the University of Toronto, specializing in Low Temperature physics. In Chalk River, Ontario, where I worked for the Atomic Energy Project, I did my most notable work, studying neutron scattering in nuclear ractors, and developing new techniques to understand the world of Condensed matter. This work earned me and Clifford G Shull the Nobel
Prize for Physics in 1994. Who am I?
Bertram N. Brockhouse

11) Described as “triangular, 48 feet on each side…[it] employs numerous media, including china, ceramic-painting, and needlework…an immense open table is…set with 39 place settings”. Few works of visual art in recent decades have had such an impact on the public consciousness as this seminal work of Feminist art by Judy Chicago.

The Dinner Party

12) Vaclav Havel is one notable fan of this band. Brian Eno said that although
they sold few records in their time, everyone who bought one started their
own band. Andy Warhol featured them in his Exploding Plastic Inevitable, and
designed the cover of their first album, featuring a peelable banana. FTP,
name this band whose original lineup included Maureen Tucker, Sterling
Morrison, John Cale, and Lou Reed.
The Velvet Underground
13) In his childhood, he suffered a bout of polio that eventually left him bound
to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He closely observed members of his
family while he was bedridden, noting subtle changes in their body language
as they interacted with one another. Known for his unconventional
therapeutic techniques and for the method of conversational hypnosis named
after him, his techniques have been modelled by Richard Bandler and John
Grinder. FTP, who is this foremost 20th century hypnotherapist?
Milton H. Erickson
14) He did his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and currently
teaches computer engineering at the University of Toronto. In March, 2002,
he complained about having electrodes ripped off his body during a search at
St. John'sInternationalAirport. During all this time--and for more than
twenty years extending back from today--he has lived as a cyborg. FTP, who
is this pioneer of the wearable computer?
Steve Mann

15) Harold Ross and William Shawn were once its editors in chief, a position now filled by Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick. Famous contributors have included A.J. Liebling, E.B. White and film critics Pauline Kael and David Denby. FTP name this magazine known for its “Talk of the Town” columns and its cartoons.

The New Yorker

16) This band’s second album was named after a Dutch artistic movement of the 1920s and 30s. Their most recent album is named after a large African land animal. FTP name this garage-rock brother and sister duo from Detroit.

The White Stripes

17) He went to prison in 1970 for the murder of nursing aide Gail Miller. His imprisonment inspired the Tragically Hip to write their hit “Wheat Kings”. In 1992 he was released and five years later exonerated by DNA evidence. FTP name this man who was awarded 10 million dollars by the Saskatchewan government for his time spent in jail.

David Milgaard

18) Paul Muller of Switzerland won the Nobel prize for medicine in 1948 for discovering its uses. It is currently banned in most parts of the world because its chemical stability and fat solubility meant that it stayed in an animal’s body for a lengthy period of time after it was ingested, eventually travelling up the food chain. FTP name this chemical linked with the thinning of egg shells in birds but also one of the cheapest and most effective insecticides in history.

DDT (Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane)

19) In the 1930s this Middle Eastern ruler survived seven coup attempts but died of a car accident in 1939. In World War I he allied himself with T.E. Lawrence and became the first king of the modern day state of Iraq in 1921. FTP name this ruler played by Alec Guinness in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.

Faisal I

20) He’s the only author to make both the 1983 and 1993 issue of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. Although he was born in Nagasaki in 1954 his family soon moved to England. His first novel was 1982’s A Pale View of the Hills. FTP name this author, A Booker prize winner for the Remains of the Day.

Kazuo Ishiguro

21) In March 2003 this magazine featured Catriona LeMay Doan, Maude Barlow and Rick Mercer, not to mention cover girl Pamela Anderson, in its first ever swimsuit issue. This magazine’s been around since 1887. For most of the 1990s it was published weekly, recently it’s been published bi-monthly. FTP name this general interest magazine that has been associated with the National Post and is facing financial difficulties.

Saturday Night

22) When the British conquered it in 1886 it became a province of India but in 1937 it finally became its own colony. George Orwell worked there for some time but this country is more famous or infamous for its status as one of the world’s largest opium producers, its genocide of the Karen ethnic people and it squelching of democracy. FTP name this homeland of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Burma or Myanmar

23) Give the name held in common by the three items described. Spelling may vary:

In publishing, the final photographic plated from which books are printed. The surname of an actor who played a television comedy writer in a television comedy named after the actor. A style of beard named for its frequent appearance in portraits by a 17th century Flemish artist.

Van Dyke

24) He was the Duke of Wellington in the 1970 film Waterloo and Rudyard Kipling in 1975’s The Man Who would be King. He particularly enjoys playing evil characters and was Kirk’s nemesis General Chang in Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country. FTP name this Canadian actor best known for his role as Captain von Trapp in the film version of the Sound of Music.

Christopher Plummer