MANU GINOBILI OPEN
ROUND #5
1. Leslie Stephen rejected an early version of this novel for Cornhill as it seemed to risqué for a family periodical, so the author had it published in Belgravia with each installment accompanied by an Arthur Hopkins illustration. The author’s own visual contribution was a map of the setting that at first included the homes of Susan Nunsuch and the yokels Christian [*] and Grandfather Cantle. Other locations included the Quiet Woman Inn, whose owner attempts to flee with the resident of Mistover Knapp at the end. However, Egdon Heath proves inescapable for Damon Wildeve and Eustacia Vye, the wife of the title character Clym Yeobright in, FTP, what Thomas Hardy novel?
Answer: The Return of the Native
2. In one variety, changes in its tertiary structure propagate to the FG segment and the C helix as predicted by the Perutz model. The earliest set of this molecule to develop in humans is known as Gower I, and its activity can be measured with the Adair formulation. Vernon Ingram used DNA fingerprinting (*) to differentiate between its S and A types, though both contain alpha chains of 141 amino acids and beta chains of 146 amino acids. Most of its non-protein portions are broken down into bilirubin, and all types of it are tetramers consisting of different combinations of seven distinct polypeptide chains. One of the porphyrin compounds, its S variety is mutated in sickle-cell anemia. FTP, name this iron-containing pigment of the red blood cells which carries oxygen in the blood stream.
Answer: hemoglobin
3. His father was a professor of mathematics and as a result, his father and brother were known as “Cube” and “Square.” While on a tour of South America he persuaded Latin-American states to participate in the Second Hague Peace Conference. Almost 15 years later, from 1920-21, he served on the League of Nations’ commission of jurists, five years after he ended his single term as a Republican senator [*] from New York. He had already worked as McKinley’s secretary of war, but his best-known work came in another cabinet post. For his settlement of the American-British conflict over North Atlantic fisheries he won the 1912 Nobel in Peace. FTP, name this secretary of state to Teddy Roosevelt who also reached an accord with Japanese foreign minister Takahira.
Answer: Elihu Root
4. John Cleese was initially offered the role of Mr. Step, which Michael Barrymore filled after Cleese’s refusal. George Wendt makes an appearance as a movie producer pitching some ideas and Roger Moore offers up a series of bizarre quotes. [*] The villain is Kevin McMaxford who wants to break up the central group, about whom Alan Cumming’s Piers Cuthbertson-Smythe is filming a documentary. Perhaps the saddest role is that of Meat Loaf as the driver of a double-decker tour bus. FTP, name this 1997 movie starring Melanie Chisholm, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, and Victoria Beckham.
Answer: Spice World
5. They told Minos that he could save Glaucus by finding any man who could devise the aptest simile for a recently born calf changing color. All of them were the sons of the five daughters of Hecaterus and they were finally destroyed for stealing Epaphus, the son of Io, and taking Hera’s side [*] against their former charge. Taking their name from the Greek for “young man” they were associated with the nymphs of Mt. Ida and were best known for the time they danced in front of a cave entrance, loudly clashing their spears together, in order to hide an infant’s cries from the ears of his paranoid father Cronos. FTP identify these minor Cretan Gods who helped to look after a baby Zeus.
Answer: the Curetes
6. It is during a gathering at Canby’s that the news that drives the action of this novel arrives. The ending features two suicides, one of which is committed by Gerald and the other by his father. Old Davies proves to be the greatest voice of reason, [*] and even after he reads a letter written by the falsely accused Martin, he is unable to prevent the actions of Tetley, who is convinced of Martin’s guilt. All of these events take place at Bridger’s Wells and are narrated by Art Croft. FTP, name this novel about the lynching of three innocent men, a work by Walter van Tilberg Clark.
Answer: The Ox-Bow Incident
7. The carcinogenic properties of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are caused by the reaction of these compounds with DNA. Some electrophilic reagents, such as boron trifluoride etherate, rearrange them to form carbonyl-containing compounds. The nucleophilic reagent triphenylphosphine forms an olefin (*) when reacted with them, and the reaction of sodium azide with one of them forms a beta-azide alcohol. Their industrial preparation involves the addition of a cholorhydrin to an alkene and then treatment with a base to remove hydrochloric acid. They are most commonly made by acting a peroxyacid upon an alkene, an action that causes the transfer of an oxygen atom and the creation of 60 degree bond angles, putting these molecules under strain. FTP, identify these cyclic ethers with a three-membered ring.
Answer: epoxides [accept oxiranes or alkylene oxides]
8. They were supplemented with ten rules for the calling of an investigating Committee at Mayence. [*] A series of 23 formal meetings were held before they were adopted, with the only protest offered by Count Wintzingerode. They were provoked by an action of Karl Sand and resulted from a conference with Friedrich von Gentz as secretary. Mostly proposed by Klemens von Metternich after the murder of August von Kotzebue, FTP, name this set of resolutions that provided for uniform student supervision and press censorship in the German states in 1819.
Answer: Carlsbad Decrees
9. At one of this war’s pivotal early engagements Richard of Cornwall, the king of Germany, was captured. It ended partially due to an uprising of an indigenous group known as the “Marchers” and began due to dissatisfaction with the king showing preference to his Poitevin, Savoyard, and Lusignan relatives. [*] The eventual losers had early success at Lewes, however, defeat at Evesham, where Simon de Montfort was killed, saw an end to this conflict. FTP, identify this war that began when the Provisions of Oxford were ignored by Henry III, a 13th-century conflict named for the rank of many of the nobles who revolted.
Answer: Barons’ War (accept early buzz of “Simon de Montfort’s War or Revolt, or equivalent”)
10. One marriage that ends this play is that of a Welsh lady who owns nineteen mountains to young student Tim. Another is that of the title character, whose mother Maudlin had initially hoped for a different son-in-law. That son-in-law had been siphoning off the wealth of impotent Sir Oliver and his wife Lady Kix, but he is done in by a pregnancy cure offered up by Touchwood Senior. [*] As a result, Sir Walter Whorehound loses the hand of Moll Yellowhammer, the ostensible title character. FTP, name this Thomas Middleton comedy set mostly in the titular London neighborhood.
Answer: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
11. Its author defies believability in his description of an elk with no joints and an ox with a horn growing out of the middle of his head, two of the fantastic animals described in the Hyrcanian Forests. Only the first section of Book I and the second section of Book VI are about provincial matters. The supplementary books are believed to have been written by Aulus Hirtius, [*] but more interesting are earlier descriptions of such mean as Divitiacus and Ariovistus. FTP, name this work whose concluding sections include accounts of the siege of Alesia and the capitulation of Vercingetorix, a work by Julius Caesar.
Answer: Commentaries on the Gallic Wars or De Bello Gallico
12. One result of it is that in photoexcitation of gas molecules, the number of trapped electrons must be equal to the number of trapped holes after irradiation in vacuo, and a finite value for the mean lifetime of the electron (*) would cause its breakdown. This law is the result when Noether’s theorem is applied to the invariance of a complex quantum field under phase shifts. A local statement of it is that the partial derivative of rho with respect to time equals minus the gradient of the current density. Kirchoff’s junction rule is also a formulation of this law. FTP, what law states that the net number of coulombs in a closed system is constant?
Answer: law of charge conservation
13. Part two contrasts the “generalized way” versus “the gentle way,” while chapter three opens with a consideration of Frederick II’s soldiers. Its author chooses to end with the assertion that the system was complete in 1840 with the opening of Mettray, [*] and that this moment saw the emergence of what he terms “the carceral.” It cites Eric Hobswam’s work on bandits during the discussion of post-revolutionary criminality and discusses the festival atmosphere of the traveling chain gang, but it is most famous for the sections “Torture,” “The spectacle of the scaffold,” and “Panopticism,” FTP, identify this work subtitled “The Birth of the Prison” by Michel Foucault.
Answer: Discipline and Punish
14. The poet wrote that this poem’s third and fourth quatrains could be played for comedy, specifically in the images of the title character, who “with rod” made the lazy geese scuttle “from their noon apple-dreams.” The second stanza says of the title character, “Her wars were bruited in our high window,” [*] while the poem opens by remarking “There was such speed in her little body, / And such lightness in her footfall.” Robert Penn Warren claimed that the poem’s effect was embodied in the words astonishes and vexed in a study of the poet, Penn Warren’s former teacher. FTP, name this elegy written on the death of a neighbor’s youngest girl, a poem by John Crowe Ransom.
Answer: “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter”
15. He associated himself with the “settlement house” movement and his early work, like the essay “Social Psychology as Counterpart to Physiological Psychology,” tried to conceptualize an alternative to imitative learning and argued for a developed self. His most famous idea, best encapsulated in the phrase “the conversation of gestures,” [*] was popularized by his disciple Herbert Blumer and argued that people give meaning to the world and work out these meanings through interpersonal contact. FTP identify this social scientist whose works like Mind, Self, and Society gave rise to the doctrine of “symbolic interactionism.”
Answer: George Herbert Mead
16. Its first ruler is acknowledged to be Gangnihessou [gung-NEE-hess-soo], though it was after his rule that its kings adopted food items that served as symbols and word puzzles of their names. Its penultimate king Glele [glee-LAY], was forced to curb his use of slaves, and his son, the last king Behanzin, [*] finally succumbed to European hegemony. This empire’s origins lie in the coastal kingdom of Allada, from which it separated and then conquered under the rule of Agaja, who employed female shock-troops or Amazons. FTP, identify this west-African kingdom, whose name briefly survived as the original name of Benin.
Answer: Dahomey
17. The Eastern Orthodox theologian Apostolos Makrakis founded a school on Crete named after this, and it appears in Stoicism as a term identifying the principle of cosmic reason [*] which made the universe accessible to humanity. Philo Judaeus preferred its masculine gender to the feminine “Sophia,” or “Wisdom” of Jewish thought. Philo’s understanding of the term can be explained by a literal reading of the Book of Genesis, in which God’s first act was to speak, thus creating this. Christians would subsequently use it to identify Jesus in his prehuman existence, as delineated in the Gospel According to John. FTP, identify this term, meaning Greek for “word.”
Answer: logos
18. This author of the books Living Music and My Childhood composed four string quartets and his works for flute include The Fog is Lifting and The Children are Playing. Originally a violinist, he is less well known for piano compositions, like Chaconne and Lucifer Suite, than for his tone poems such as Pan and Syrinx and Helios. [*] His attempts at opera include Maskarade and Saul and David, while his rustic home inspired the choral Springtime in Funen, but this student of Gade’s fame rests on a sequence of works that bear such nicknames as “the Expansive,” “the Four Temperaments,” and “the Simple.” FTP identify this Danish composer of six symphonies including his fourth, “The Inextinguishable.”
Answer: Carl Nielsen
19. Its ideal mean effective pressure is about five times greater than that of Brayton’s cycle, and it is limited to a maximum compression ratio of around 10. Stemming from Beau de Rochas’s (*) ideas and its inventor’s work on the inefficient two-stroke Lenoir engine, it was made to fit in a vehicle after Maybach added a float to its surface. Consisting of the induction, compression, power, and exhaust strokes, it uses sparks, as opposed to the heat of compression, to ignite fuel. FTP, name this first four-stroke gasoline-powered engine which preceded the Diesel engine.
Answer: Otto engine/cycle
20. He is fond of wearing a Tula-made pin shaped like a bronze pistol to fasten his shirtfronts. About halfway through the novel it is revealed that he embarked on his current journey [*] after gleaning some information about the Trustee Committee. He claims to have some land in Khersom and is at one point mistaken for the legendary Captain Kopeykin. A loan from Kostanzhoglo and a tip from Klobueff prove his undoing as he is caught forging an old lady’s will. By that point he had already visited the homes of Maniloff, Sobakevitch, and Plyushkin and procured the rights to their expired serfs. FTP, name this swindling central character of Gogol’s Dead Souls.