1. One of this others longer poems was paired with The Feast of the Victors and adapted from his autobiographical poem “The Road,” while one of his plays centers around a man who violated article 58 and is dejected when his beloeved Lyuba prostitutes herself to Dr. Mereschun, Nemov. In addition to Prussian Nights and The Love-Girl and the Innocent, this author called “Goldessness” the first step toward a frequent subject, which he examined through Gleb Nerzhin and the other (*) zeks, Oleg's treatment by Donstova and Gangart, and Pavlo, Gopchik, and other members of the 104th labor team. FTP, name this author of The First Circle, Cancer Ward, and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a recently-deceased Soviet dissident.
ANSWER: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2. The final phase of these events were marked by an assault on Braden's Castle, and Abner Doubleday's concern over the concentration of immigrants within his ranks. Richard Keith Call oversaw the command of William Harney during these events, which saw “Sam Jones” and “John Hicks” sign the Treaty of Fort Gibson. Early action ended with the Treaty of Moultrie Creek and saw the death of many Red Sticks, though the best-known (*) portion of these conflicts was ended by the Treaty of Payne's Landing. Seeing commanders like Andrew Jackson and Osceola, FTP, identify these three wars which included the Battle of Lake Okeechobee, fought against a namesake Florida tribe.
ANSWER: Seminole Wars
3. This work's preface evokes an image of Tarquinius Superbus defiling some plant life, and claims that the author is by no means a philosopher. It introduces a construct who relies on the “strength of the absurd” and contrasts him with another figure, whose actions are not morally acceptable because they do not constitute a true suspension of the ethical. Those figures, the Knight of Faith and the Knight of Infinite Resignation, appear in a “Panegyric” upon the central figure, for whose (*) actions this work presents four alternatives. Though its title is derived from a line in Philippians, the central metaphor is drawn from a story in Genesis, and it was published under the name “Johannes de Silentio.” FTP, identify this tract whose title refers to the feelings experienced by Abraham after being ordered to sacrifice Isaac, written by Soren Kierkegaard.
ANSWER: Fear and Trembling (or Frygt og Baeven)
4. Recent modifications to this have involved the substitution of platinum rather than the usual element, since platinum is less volatile and thus can be thought of as more opaque. One major step in this process was discovered after the combination of Lugol's and Gentian solutions, and it relies on compounds like acetone to facilitate the namesake action. Its key steps include addition of fuchsine or (*) safranin, and the addition of iodine when methylene blue or crystal violet are absorbed by the cell well, indicating peptidoglycan levels. FTP, identify this test that can divide bacteria into “positive” and “negative” varieties, based on absorption of dye.
ANSWER: Gram Staining
5. One of this author's novels centers on Georges Du Roy, who sleeps his way to the top of high society, while another focuses on the two titular Roland brothers and was published with the essay “The Novel.” In addition to Bel Ami and Pierre and Jean, this author of Tales of Day and Night and La Horla added the second story to the collection Evenings at Medan, in which a carriage of citizens fleeing the German army shun a (*) prostitute who enables them passage by sleeping with a German officer, “Ball of Fat.” FTP, identify this French author best-known for a story in which Madame Loisel slaves to replace the titular fake piece of jewelry, The Necklace.
ANSWER: Guy de Maupassant
7. Years after writing about John Nash, Sylvia Nasar published an article entitled “Manifold Destiny” about this man's most famous achievement, which incorporated Richard Hamilton's use of Ricci flow equations. He names a 10-dimensional Lie group in Minkowski spacetime and the two dimensional metric of constant negative curvature. Torus can be governed by a theorem named for him and Bendixson, while another theorem governing a special case of the Harry Ball theorem is named for this man and (*) Hopf. Grigori Perelman recently proved, FTP, what French mathematician's namesake conjecture governing a sphere among three-dimensional manifolds?
ANSWER: Jules-Henri Poincare
8. Larry Taylor scored on a punt return in this program's 2007 loss to Wake Forest in the Meineke Car Care Bowl, which capped a 9-3 season under coach Randy Edsall and quarterback Dan Orlovsky. This alma mater of MLS players Chris Gbandi and Damani Ralph currently features Maya Moore on its Women's basketball team, which also produced Diana Taurasi and Rebecca Lobo. Travis Knight, Caron Butler, and (*) Ray Allen helped propel its men's basketball program to perennial prominence, while Rudy Gay, Ben Gordon, and Emeka Okafor helmed the squad to a 2004 championship. FTP, identify this Big East school, whose Huskies play home games one county over from Hartford.
ANSWER: University of Connecticut (or UConn)
9. Bruny Island lies off the southern coast of this area, across from the Eastern terminus of Huon valley, whose namesake river flows from Lake Pledder and joins the Tamar, Dewent, and Mersey in comprising its primary waterways. King Island joins the Kent, Curtis, and Furneaux groups off its Northern coast, dominated by Clarke and Flinders Island in the (*) Bass Strait. With capital at Hobart, it was originally named Van Diemen's Land, but renamed after its Dutch discoverer. FTP, identify this island state to the South of Australia, once home to the Thylacine and currently home to some namesake devils.
ANSWER: Tasmania
10. A quote from Agrippa's Occult Philosophy opens this author's most famous work, and works like “To Ronge” and “The Brewing of Soma” were adapted into popular hymns. The phrase “mistress Mary is dead and gone” is part of the title action of one major work by this author, while his first poem “The Exile's Departure” was published by William Lloyd (*) Garrison, who encouraged a frequent subject revisited in Voices of Freedom. The author of “Telling the Bees” and a poem that ends with the phrase “the benediction of the air,” “Snow-Bound,” FTP, identify this New England Quaker poet, the author of “Barbara Frietchie.”
11. Among the structures adjoint to it are the ligament of Berry and Zuckerkandl's tubercle. During embryonic development, the duct used to transfer this structure to its final position can fail to atrophy, sometimes causing a cyst to form. This structure's namesake superior artery is bounded by the Constrictor pharyngis inferior and the superior laryngeal nerve, and connects to its namesake isthmus. Graves disease is the result of problems with this body's namesake (*) stimulating hormone, while its parafollicular cells produce (*) calcitonin. Producing the appropriately-named T3 and T4 hormones, FTP, identify this gland located in the neck, which swells up to frightening sizes when a lack of iodine cause goiter.
ANSWER: Thyroid Gland
12. One of this man's' later works advocated a “program of self-management” to “Enjoy Old Age,” which re-examined his claim that people fear failure, the first of his five postulated obstacles to learning. Earlier, his rather unique missile guidance proposal was rejected by the US navy despite reliable testing. One work by this psychologist posits that moral autonomy is the chief obstacle to cultural engineering, while another explores an ideal (*) Utopian community. Espousing “radical behaviorism” in Verbal Behavior, he is best-known for numerous experiments with pigeons and for creating an operant conditioning chamber, his namesake “box.” FTP, identify this Harvard psychologist who wrote Beyond Freedom and Dignity and Walden II.
ANSWER: Burrhus Frederic Skinner
13. A.S. Byatt mentions Freud's definition of fairy tales as “daydreams of culture” in an analysis of this work, while it inspired a 2006 novel centering on Ricardo and Lily by Mario Vargas Llosa, earlier explored his fascination with this work in The Perpetual Orgy. It ends with a description of Berthe's sad fate as a mill worker, and opens as a group of school boys mock the pronunciation of (*) Charles's name. Charles later botches an operation on Hippolyte's clubbed foot in Yonville, while his wife is busy having affairs with Leon and Rudolphe, ultimately prompting her debt and suicide with arsenic. Centering on the titular Emma, FTP, identify this most famous novel of Gustave Flaubert.
ANSWER: Madame Bovary
14. This battle resolved lingering objection over the Conference of Carnuntum, which brought the winner to prominence. It ended a period that had begun with the ascendancy of Severus II, Galerius, and the victorious general's father following the abdication of Maximian and Diocletian, which saw the creation of the Tetrarchy. Although the victorious commander would still face a challenge from Licinius, this battle saw the (*) drowning of Maxentius, although it was probably harder overall on Sol Invictus. Preceded by the observation of the phrase “in this sign, conquer,” FTP, identify this 312 battle that saw Constantine the Great win control of Rome after seeing a cross in the sky above the namesake structure over the Tiber River.
ANSWER: Battle of (the) Milvian Bridge
15. The timing of the death of Comaetho allowed Iphicles to inexplicably be one of these. One set of figures sharing this relationship were discovered when they refused to return a horse to Rama, and were tutored by Valmiki before founding Lahore and Kasur. In addition to Lava and Kusha, one group of these sought revenge for the death of the Four Hundred Boys against Zipacna, the son of Seven Macaw, prompting a quest into (*) Xibalba and a pretty epic ball game. Hunahpuh and Xbalanque were thusly known as the Mayan “hero” variety of these, whose other examples include Clytemnestra and Helen of Troy and two divine children of Leto. Describing the relationship shared by the Dioscuri, FTP, name this connection common to Castor and Pollux and Romulus and Remus, none of whom were identical.
ANSWER: Twins (prompt on “siblings” at any point, or on “brothers” before “Leto”)
16. Key elements in this work include an obsession with what is “safer,” although the supposed assault of one character seems not to have occurred; some suggestive imagery as a carrot is consumed following a discussion of the physiological results of hanging; and constant investigation of articles of clothing, namely boots and a hat. There are five or six characters, depending on how many times you the (*) Boy is counted. Another character uses a long rope to control his charge, Lucky. Pozzo converses with Vladimir and Estragon in, FTP, what absurdist play in which the title figure will surely arrive tomorrow, written by Samuel Becket?
ANSWER: Waiting for Godot
17. Stars with evaporating discs are plentiful in this constellation's namesake trapezium, and it is home to Barnard's Loop and the Flame Nebula. Procyon can be easily found by extending a line from two of this constellation's stars, since Procyon and its beta star form part of the Winter Circle, while this constellation is also home to M43, M78, and the Horsehead Nebula. Bounded vertically by Saiph and Meissa, the stars Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka make up a (*) well-known region. Its beta star, Rigel, is actually fainter than its red giant alpha star, which forms its right shoulder. Containing Betelgeuse, FTP, identify this constellation characterized by a namesake “belt,” known as the Hunter.
ANSWER: Orion
18. A section known as “Simple Questions” opens on example of this kind of work, which introduced Zang Fu theory and is attributed to the Yellow Emperor. Other examples include documents named for Ebers and Kahun, while notable compilers include Charaka and Avicenna, who produced a “canon” of this discipline. A 48-item list known as the Edward Smith (*) papyrus may be the first example of a work concerning this field , and is traditionally ascribed to Imhotep. FTP, identify these texts which seek to lay out guidelines in a certain scientific field, examples of which include Vesalius's On the Workings of the Human Body, William Harvey's On the Motion of the Heart and Blood, and Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body.
ANSWER: Medical Texts (accept equivalents – anything about books on medicine, the body, etc.)
19. Much of the political system in this state is due to the efforts of William S. U'ren, while a recent election saw Jeff Merkely hold off a challenge from Steve Novick, whose campaign add displayed him opening a bottle with his prosthetic hook. Important supreme court cases originating in this state include one governing the Compulsory Education Act, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, and one following Lochner v. New York which prompted the Brandeis Brief, (*) Muller v. this state. Ron Wyden and Gordon Smith are both Senators from this state, which saw a May 18 rally for Barack Obama of over 72,000 in a primary election that used mailed-in ballots. FTP, identify this state where Ted Kulongoski governs from Salem.
ANSWER: Oregon
20. One controversy surrounding it postulates the involvement of “Race Patriot” Alfred Milner, while another centered around a communication with Lord Curzon over the King-Crane Commission. One document created to clarify this references the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence. That document, Winston Churchill's White Paper, centered largely around a Edwin Montagu-inspired alteration to one (*) passage of this document. Later incorporated into the Treaty of Sevres, it was produced following campaigning by Nahum Sokolow and Chaim Weizmann. FTP, identify this document named for a Foreign Secretary and sent to Lord Rothschild, which indicated Britain's commitment to a national home for the Jewish people.