MANU GINOBILI OPEN
PACKET #2
1. A 1924 biography by William Belmont Parker serves as the definitive account of the life of this man, who chaired the Senate Finance Committee for nine different terms. His interest in architecture manifested itself in his proposal for the creation of Statuary Hall and his advocacy of construction for the Washington Monument and Library of Congress. First elected to the House as a Whig in [*] 1852, he switched to the Republican Party and authored an 1861 tariff that called for higher rates than the Tariff of Abominations. However, this Vermont politician’s claim to fame lies in a pair of acts designed to encourage the pursuit of agricultural studies. FTP, name this man who spurred the creation of numerous universities with his eponymous Land Grant act.
Answer: Justin Smith Morrill
2. A collection of documents, The Green Box, published by the artist eleven years after this work was finished helped to explain some of its images. Small dots in the upper left are supposed to represent “discharge, ” below this a little cart with runners is connected to a “water mill.” Other parts of the composition include the “sieve” made up of capillaries based on the artist’s own standard of measurement, “canned chance.” [*] It is divided in two zones by a lead wire that separates and subverts the love of the eager actor-machines it depicts. When it was damaged accidentally in 1937 its artist used it as an opportunity to embrace randomness and reassembled it by incorporating the cracks. Also known as The Large Glass, FTP identify this work, a Dadaist sculpture whose longish title refers to a bizarre courtship, by Marcel Duchamp
Answer: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (accept The Large Glass before it is said)
3. Serine proteases, such as urokinase-type plasminogen activator, and matrix metalloproteinases help them form, as they clear paths into which these structures can grow. Their patterns can be determined by the “stickiness” of endothelial cells, (*) as some organs are more prone to have them form thanks to different cell adhesion molecules. The protein “Twist” has recently been found to play a large role in their formation, as it turns off the gene for the protein E-cadherin, and thus allows malignant cells to “slip away.” FTP, name these secondary growths formed from a primary tumor somewhere else in the body, the main form in which cancer spreads.
Answer: metastases (or metastasis) (prompt on tumors or cancer)
4. Its most violent scene is precipitated by an emasculating shave in dirty water and features the sudden appearance of the character Lightborn, who is described as carrying tragedy in his brows, and joins up with the agents Matrevis and Gurney at Berkeley castle. [*] Although the young Spenser replaces him at the court after he is exiled many of the opening sections of this work belong to the French born Earl of Cornwall, who it seems has stolen the title figure’s heart. Indeed, the flamboyant Gaveston has been so successful, that the once faithful Isabella finds herself tempted by young Mortimer’s proposals for regicide; an event that is memorably staged with a hot poker. Yet all is set right at the end when a namesake successor takes the throne. FTP identify this historical drama about the “troublesome reign and lamentable death of” the title figure, a work by Christopher Marlowe.
Answer: Edward II
5. The conclusion ends with a quote from Marx’s “The Eighteenth Brumaire” that dismisses the “poetry of the past,” an idea is taken up by the author who ends this work with the statement “O my body, make of me always a man who questions.” Including an analysis of Br’er Rabbit, the work of Sir Alan Burns, and the ideas of Dominique Mannoni, it argues that bilateral internal-ization or “affective erethism” spawns the relationship between the title entities. [*] Its sections on language and the “dependency complex” use Anti-Semite and Jew as a model, but the majority of this treatise, including its discussion of over-determined genitalia, is psychoanalytic. FTP identify this work that contains such chapters as “The Man of Color and the White Woman” and “The Fact of Blackness,” a work by Frantz Fanon.
Answer: Black Skin, White Masks
6. It was known by the name La Mothe and belonged to the powerful d'Albret family in the twelfth century. Later it passed to the Montferrands and then to the lords of Durfort, who prized its location. Its land was first cultivated during the time it served as the residence of King Edward III, and it is currently managed by Paul Pontallier. Known for its Lascombes varietal, [*] Thomas Jefferson thought it produced France’s greatest export and Richard Nixon was also fond of its vintages. Well known for its
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:34:40 -0500, Ezequiel Berdichevsky
> wrote:
> its an ok idea,but it has almost no clues dude. if you find some more
> historical facts and try to disguise that its a wine at least for a
> bit of the leadin then i can use it.
> thanks though,
> ezequiel
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:02:40 -0500, Ryan McClarren
> wrote:
> > I tried to write a question about wine like a question about
> > orchestral music - mentioning small details about the wine like aromas
> > as those music questions make note of instrument parts - in an attempt
> > to make wine appreciation a standard subject. I hope this finds favor
> > with you.
> > Situated on a plateau overlooking the Gironde estuary, this grand cru
> > vineyard and its wines are oft characterised by a fragrance of ripe
> > black currants, spicy vanilla oakiness and violets.. Founded in the
> > 1400's it was the residence of King Edward III of England and is
> > currently managed by international vintner/wunderkind Paul Pontallier.
> > This chateau was the favorite wine producer of Richard Nixon and is
> > said to produce the best wines in Medoc. FTP name this famous
> > Bordeaux chateau that is not named after the actress who played Lois
> > Lane in the Superman movies.
> > Chateau Margaux
> > --
> > Ryan McClarren
> > Graduate Student - Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
> > University of Michigan
> > (734) 972-9535
grand cru, which is characterized by a fragrance of ripe black currants, spicy vanilla oakiness, and violets, its vineyard is said to produce the best wines in Medoc. FTP name this famous Bordeaux chateau.
Answer: Chateau Margaux
7. The eastern most group is separated from the central group by the Austrain Strait while the western group lies across the British Strait. Discovered by Payer and Weyprecht, it falls administratively into Arkhangelsk province. Its 191 constituents include [*] Zemlya Aleksandry, home of a weather station, and Greem-Bell site of a Cold War airfield. Curiously, geologic forces have caused the straits between the islands to be deeper than the surrounding Barents Sea. Many polar expeditions began on the northernmost island, Rudolf Island, as it is behind only Ellesmere Island and Greenland in proximity to the North Pole. FTP name this archipelago named for an Austrian emperor that is the northernmost point in Russia.
Answer:Franz Josef Land
8. One of them, dedicated to Ruth Fainlight, declares that “love is a shadow” and that its speaker is “incapable of more knowledge,” but finds a “strangle of branches” that “petrifies the will.” Another takes place on a winter’s day in a hospital room and declares that the title objects are “too red in the first place” and are opening “like the mouth of some great African cat.” Those works, “Elm” and “Tulips,” [*] complement the title poem, which describes the berries the speaker eats as possessing “hooks.” Other famous images in this collection, that shares its title with an essay about the effects of American interference by Jose Rodo, include the “gray toe” of “a man in black with a Meinkampf look” and a woman who “eats men like hair.” FTP identify this posthumous collection of poems, with “Lady Lazarus” and Daddy,” a work named for its author’s horse rather than a servant of Prospero, written by Sylvia Plath.
Answer: Ariel poems
9. It discusses the myth of the “top-down” theory during an evaluation of Raj Reddy’s “Hearsay” experiment and notes that Allan Bloom’s work on the difference between Chinese and American comprehension of the same stories can be favorably compared with the “Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax.” Other chapters include “The Big Bang” which discusses Broca’s research and Koko’s [*] mastery of ASL. Arguing for the existence of a grammar gene, it begins with a consideration of The Descent of Man and compares the title entity with web spinning in spiders and sonar in bats. FTP identify this book subtitled, “How the Mind Creates Language,” a work by Stephen Pinker.
Answer: The Language Instinct
10. Sometimes called “dew breakers,” because they often worked in the early mornings, they were purged after the great “uprooting.” One of their strongholds was at Castle Dimanche and for many years they were supervised by “Madame Max,” also known as Rosalie Adolphe, but they became disillusioned with their creator’s decision to marry the mulatto [*] Michele Bennet, which they saw as a betrayal of the doctrine of noirisme. Under the patronage of interior minister Roger Lafontant, they were officially known as the VSN or National Security Volunteers, wore dark glasses, blue uniforms, and took their name from a slang word for bogeymen. FTP identify these paramilitary death squads that held power alongside “Papa Doc” Duvalier.
Answer: Tontons Macoutes
11. Polyethylene glycol, or PEG, is used to promote the formation of them, and they can be incorporated into heterocyclic systems: for example, the meso-ionic sydnone molecule contains an azomethine imine one. The Corey-Fuchs reaction forms one (*) as an intermediate from carbon tetrabromide, after which it is added to an aldehyde to form a dibromoalkene. Sulfur-containing ones are called pi-sulfuranes, and they are prepared by deprotonation of sulfonium salts by alkylation with an alkyl halide. FTP, name these compounds which have two adjacent atoms with full octets of electrons and formal positive and negative charges, one of which can be generated from a phosphonium salt and reacted with an aldehyde or ketone to form an alkene in the Wittig Reaction.
Answer: ylides
12. It was on the way to find them that the encounter with Admetus and his wife Alcestis took place in Thessaly. Though eventually released into the wilds of Tyrins, [*] by that time they had already claimed the life of the hero’s young friend Abderus. Their abductor had to defeat a whole army of Bistonians when unfastening these prizes from the iron chains and halters used to keep them attached to a bronze trough. This attracted lots of attention, but in the end they were tamed after being fed their former master. FTP identify the object of Heracles’ eighth labor, four man-eating horses named for a King who shares his name with a great Greek warrior and friend of Odysseus.
Answer: the Mares of Diomedes(prompt on Hercules’ Eighth Labor)
13. Some definitions of it divide water tanks and windows into two types, and designate structures with a Roman numeral one through six depending how advanced they are. Its first ten values (*) roughly correspond to equivalent values on the Rossi-Forel scale, and the Medvedev-Sponheuer-Karnik scale is also based on it. Its final two levels, added in 1912 by Sieberg, indicate that most masonry structures are knocked down, and that waves are visible on the ground surface. Translated into English by Frank Neumann and Harry Wood, FTP, name this scale which assigns a Roman numeral in the range one through twelve corresponding to the intensity of earthquakes.
Answer: (Modified) Mercalli Scale
14. This native of Cyprus' adventures with a more famous companion included his being mistaken for Zeus, while his companion was mistaken for Hermes since he did most of the talking. This occurred in Lystra, where they had traveled from Iconium. When they returned home, they argued because this man wanted his nephew to travel with them, although the nephew had deserted them [*] in Pamphylia. Thus this man took John Mark as a new companion and his former companion took Silas. FTP, name this prophet of Antioch who, in the book of Acts, travels through Pisidia and the central Asia Minor mostly listening to the Gospel as preached by his companion Paul.
Answer: Barnabas (accept Joses)
15. Mother Juschereau teaches the protagonist’s daughter about saints and miracles, and the street urchin Jacques Gaux becomes friends with her until he leaves to become a sailor. The main character hears stories related by the hunchbacked, cross-eyed Jules Blinker, (*) who was formerly an apprentice torturer at Rouen and needs the protagonist to help him to heal his conscience. The main character attempts to treat the illness of his ailing benefactor, Count Frontenac, whose heart is returned to France in lead box after he dies. Luckily, the woodsman Pierre Charron agrees to help the main character with his work after marrying his daughter Cécile. FTP, name this novel set in the waning years of the 17th century which focuses on the Quebecois apothecary Euclide Auclair, a work by Willa Cather.
Answer: Shadows on the Rock
16. A.D. Woozley’s book, Law and Obedience, discusses the problem of reputation [*] in this philosophical work. It opens during the annual voyage of the state vessel to Delos in commemoration of the city’s deliverance from the Minotaur and mentions Simmias and Cebes as persons willing to help bribe potential informers. Yet, all of the arguments, including those that appeal to friendship, or to his responsibilities as a parent, are refuted by the protagonist who notes that to remain in a state, after having been reared under its laws, is, in effect, to agree to abide by its laws. FTP identify this work which stresses that the important thing is not to live, but to live honorably, a Platonic dialogue that sees Socrates refuse the title character’s help in escaping his execution.
Answer: Crito
17. The lanugages RSS, SVG, and RDF are all based on it. The RELAX NG schema lanugage is tailored for it, and the OpenOffice suite of programs uses it for its underlying file format. Its proposed version 2.0 would add namespaces (*) and eliminate the need for Document Type Data schema. Initially proposed in 1996 at a W3C conference in Boston, it was envisioned as a simplified version of SGML. FTP, name this language which is similar in syntax to HTML, a flexible markup language which makes for human- and machine- readable documents by allowing the programmer to create his own data tags and attributes.
Answer: eXtensible Markup Language
18. After the soft woodwind opening of the first of these compositions, strings appear to scurry along at an extreme pianissimo. That work also features the exotic ophicleide which is used to color the bass line with a weirdly supernatural shade, while a raucous fortissimo is used to depict the braying of an ass. [*] The second piece was composed sixteen years after the first at the request of Friedrich Wilhelm IV for a production in Potsdam. That work was expanded to four movements, including an intermezzo, which evokes the darker side of the forest, a scherzo, which seems to depict fairies, and most famously a work that celebrates the triple nuptials ending a certain play. FTP identify this pair of musical compositions, the second one of which features “The Wedding March,” works by Felix Mendelssohn were named for a Shakespeare play that features Bottom and Puck.
Answer: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture and Incidental Music
19. The Diffusion Trapping Model is based on this process occurring at a certain rate, thus fulfilling the Smoluchowski boundary condition. The PALS technique (*) uses it to measure the free volume of semicrystalline and amorphous solids. When it occurs, massless photons may be produced in even quantities in order to conserve 4-momentum. Most often observed between electrons and positrons in colliding-beam machines, FTP, name this process, the opposite of pair production, in which a particle and its antiparticle meet, converting all their mass to energy.
Answer: (positron) annihilation
20. Some accounts say his death came by drowning after the horse he was riding fell into the Koni River while returning from a campaign against the Fulani. Abd ar Rahman as-Sadi was one of many historians who condemned him after his death, citing his purge of [*] scholars at the University of Sankore, and building his reputation as a “Celebrated Infidel.” Notable military efforts he led include an attack against Mossi raiders, a victory in Massina, and his successful seven year siege of Jenne. Most significant was his 1468 ouster of the Tuaregs, which allowed him to take Timbuktu. FTP, name this ruler who expanded the kingdom of Gao into the Songhai empire.