MANU GINOBILI OPEN
ROUND # 3
1. The snobby Halliday embarrasses one of the title characters at the Café Pompadour by reading aloud from her friend’s letters about “the flux of corruption.” The climax of the novel occurs in Innsbruck and coincides with the introduction of a man who is described as a “small dark skinned man” like “a troll.” Soon the shifty Herr Loerke [*] is passing out schnapps and has convinced the proud industrialist, Gerald Crich, to go tobogganing. He dies after crashing into a snowdrift and the novel ends with Rupert Birkin blubbering to his partner from Beldover about pure affection. FTP, name this work about the lives of Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen’s travails with men, a sequel to The Rainbow, written by D.H. Lawrence.
Answer: Women in Love
2. Some varieties of it, such as perthite or cryptoperthite, are intergrown with albite which is exsolved from pegmatites, granodiorites, or granites. It follows only the Carlsbad, Manebach, and Baveno Laws of twinning, (*) and as temperatures rise, sanidine is more likely to be formed than it. Having the same chemical formula as microcline, it is differentiated from that mineral due to its monoclinic crystal system. Consisting of potassium aluminum silicate, it is formed at medium temperatures after the continuous and discontinuous branches of Bowens reaction series merge. FTP, name this variety of feldspar with shardness 6, the counterpart of plagioclase.
Answer: orthoclase feldspar
3. His later work included Truth and Error or the Science of Intellection, while his earlier Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages came about as a result of time spent under the direction of Clarence King, [*] whom he would later replace as a supervisor. His own research led him to coin the terms “antecedent,” and “consequent,” and “base level of erosion.” Although he lost his right arm at the Battle of Shiloh, this did not stop him from taking the leadership of the U.S. Geographical Survey, nor did it deter his famous travels through the Grand Canyon and beyond, FTP, identify this naturalist and administrator who wrote Explorations of the Colorado River and became the first head of the Smithsonian’s Bureau of Ethnology.
Answer John Wesley Powell
4. The second emperor of this name was basically a non-entity, and the Empire was basically run by people including his sister Pulcheria, the prefect Anthemius and the eunuch Chrysaphius during his reign which started in 408 and included the Council of Ephesus. The first defeated the usurpers Maximus and Eugenius but was forced to [*] do public penance by St. Ambrose in the course of his reign from 383 to 395. FTP, name this grandfather and grandson, the elder of whom was the last emperor of both East and West, while the younger gave his name to a law code that was the precursor of Justinian's.
Answer: Theodosius
5.. He created one of the first laminated wood chairs and his sandblasted glass creations like Fugue were created during his time as a teacher at the Bauhaus. After moving to Black Mountain College he began his mathematical explorations in Variations on a theme. His large murals grace the Time Life Building and he discussed his theories in theoretical works like the posthumous Despite Straight Lines and the treatise Interaction of Color. [*] His Structural Constellation began his foray into understanding “the discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect” that would reach its apex with a series of hundreds of canvases that bore lyrical subtitles like Distended, Softly Spoken, and Curious and were inspired by a certain geometrical shape FTP what German created these op-art masterpieces known as Homage to the Square.
Answer: Josef Albers
6. Jesus' actions there in Luke's gospel include telling the parable of the Talents and calling the publican Zacchaeus out of a sycamore tree. In 1 Kings, Hiel the Bethelite makes an unsuccesful attempt to rebuild its fortifications. Excavations around Tall es-Sultan have revealed that as long ago as 8,000 B.C., there was a Neolithic settlement on this site with what is the oldest [*] fortification wall ever discovered. Its story is told between that of the Twelve Stones and that of the Sin of Achan in the book named for the man who cursed anyone that tried to rebuild it. Two un-named men from Shittim stayed in the house of the harlot Rahab in, FTP, what city on the Jordan that was subsequently destroyed when Joshua's men blew their trumpets?
Answer: Jericho
7.The biosynthetic enzyme thiolase I catalyzes this reaction in the biosynthesis of molecules such as polyketides and fatty acids. This reaction is drawn to completion by deprotonation of the active methylene (*) in the product by the ethoxide. Generally conducted by strong basic reagents such as NaOR, LDA, or MHMDS, its intermolecular version is called Dieckmann condensation. The key to this reaction is an enolate reacting with another molecule of the ester, forming an alkoxide intermediate which subsequently undergoes elimination to form a ketone carbonyl group and eventually, a beta-ketoester. FTP, name this nucleophilic acyl substitution reaction that is the ester analogue of Aldol condensation.
Answer: Claisen condensation
8. It notes that speech is the most noble of inventions and concludes with a suggestion that “the darkness” of vain philosophy can be avoided by analyzing language. This work also posits that motion is the universal cause of behavior and introduces its author’s “Theory of Obligation.” [*] Its later sections test the claims of scripture, which is usually used to obfuscate the truth, by asking “Who benefits?” and its 27th chapter compares the papacy with the kingdom of the fairies. This treatise discusses the Laws of Nature or “articles of peace” to argue for the superiority of the monarchy. Subtitled “or the Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil,” FTP identify this work which describes the life of man as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short,” a work by Thomas Hobbes.
Answer: Leviathan
9. An example of the self-organized criticality of a dynamical system, the amplitude of the noise is well described by a gamma distribution, and it is possible to identify avalanches which are typically power law distributed. The basis for the ABN (*) and MBN methods of measuring residual stress, it can be described the ABBM model, a phenomenological theory based on hypothesized Brownian motion of domain walls. The characteristic noisy jumps of this effect where first observed in 1919. FTP, name this phenomenon in which the magnetization of a material as a function of field strength is not smooth, but rather increases in a series of minute steps.
Answer: Barkhausen Effect
10. Preston Goodfellow recruited him for the Office of Strategic Services, and after returning to his homeland, this man organized the National Committee for the Rapid Realization of Independence and was installed in power by General John [*] Hodge. His true colors came out in his brutal repression of the 4.3 uprising on Cheju island, his order for the execution of 1800 prisoners at Suwon, and his order to blow up the Hangang Bridge while hundreds of soldiers and refugees were on it. His election by default and the rigged vice-presidential election of Yi Ki-Bung in 1960 prompted the student-driven April 19 rebellion, which soon forced him to resign and go into exile in Hawaii while a military coup under Park Jung Hee ultimately replaced him in power. FTP, name this controversial first president of South Korea.
Answer: Syngman Rhee
11. We learn that the main character of this work sired an illegitimate daughter named Raynell with Alberta. Lyons comes around on Fridays to borrow money, but after breaking up with Bonnie he goes to jail for check fraud. Jim Bono (*) claims that the main character, a fellow garbage-man, has “some Uncle Remus” in his blood. The central character warns his son not to “strike out,” alluding to the racial prejudice he experienced as a skilled baseball player during the 1950s. This occurs after Cory breaks up a fight with Rose, who constantly nags the main character to finish constructing a titular structure. FTP, name this play in which the death of Troy finalizes the collapse of the African-American Maxson family, a work by August Wilson.
Answer: Fences
12. Supposedly buried at Notium, there are two conflicting stories about his death. In one tale he dies from laughing too much after tasting some wine from vines he had planted himself, in the other this son of Thestor incorrectly guesses the number of piglets in the womb of a pregnant sow. When his rival Mopsus [*] proves him incorrect he dies of ashamed of his once formidable powers. Earlier in his life this priest of Artemis had seen a snake at an altar in Aulis and divined that the conflict he was involved in would take nine years. And it was on his advice that Chryseis was returned to her father and Iphigenia sacrificed by Agamemnon. FTP identify this Greek seer who predicted that Troy would not fall without the help of Achilles and Philoctetes.
Answer: Calchas
13. Featuring a long discussion of the public’s withdrawal from animism and superstition and a rejection of natural law, many of its ideas, especially “the conscientious withdrawal of efficiency” and the capitalist’s attempts to “capture” the government’s regulatory apparatus,” were later expanded in its author’s Engineers and the Price System. [*] By juxtaposing “ceremony” with “technology,” it hypothesized that society was turning into a machine that produced goods, and that, contrary to popular belief, the successful entrepreneur sought to sabotage this consistent production in order to hoard the remaining goods and make money during the attendant confusion. FTP identify this economic work which explains how the businessman operates, a study by Thorstein Veblen.
Answer: The Theory of Business Enterprise
14. When he left his post as governor of New Galicia, the indigenous population waged the Mixton War against his replacement governor, Cristobal de Onate. His encounter with the Pecos tribe introduced him to a Pawnee captive nicknamed “The [*] Turk,” whose stories tricked him into a fruitless search for the supposedly wealthy Quivira tribe. Serving the viceroy Antonio Mendoza, he was initially inspired by the stories of Cabeza de Vaca, and retraced Cabeza’s steps to find the Zuni tribe as part of his quest for the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola. Finally retiring in Mexico after traveling as far as present-day Kansas, this is, FTP, which Spanish conquistador whose failed quest for gold drove him to lead the first extensive exploration of the American southwest?
Answer: Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
15. The lively last section quotes Tristan und Isolde, while another, the delicious The snow is dancing, is more tranquil. Its composer attempted to give English names to all the parts of this work, leading to some odd titles including a section dedicated to a sleeping elephant that was published as Jimbo’s Lullaby [*]. Notable for its mocking of Muzio Clementi’s piano studies in Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum, the most popular of its six pieces remain the Serenade for the Doll and Gollywog’s Cakewalk. Inspired by the composer’s governess and dedicated to his “Chou Chou,” FTP identify this suite for piano, that was written to amuse Claude Debussy’s four year old daughter.
Answer: Children’s Corner
16. Alternative names for it are sha-mo and han-hal and the greatest cultural sites in this region are the series of Buddhist cave-temple complexes including the Cave of the Thousand Buddhas. Also the source of the first dinosaur eggs discovered, some of its sections are known as the Ka-shun, Dzungarian, and the Ala Shan. It’s borders are the [*] Tien Shan to the southeast, the Tibetan Plateau to the southwest, and the northern edge is the Altai Mountains. It contains very little sand and the first European accounts of the area were given by Marco Polo as the desert was partially traversed by the Silk road. FTP name this desert of central asia that covers parts of both China and Mongolia.
Answer:Gobi Desert
17. The later work with this name ends with the line “To do something very common in my own way” and features the image of a poster on a bus that tells the speaker “my bleeding is under control.” It begins “My swirling wants. Your frozen lips” and in moment of fun with the author of the original notes “the grammar turned and attacked me.” Adrienne Rich’s language contrasts acutely with that of the first one which asserts that “when the other far doth roam” the love will still be there. That version, written for the author’s wife before leaving for a trip to the continent, [*] begins with the lines “As virtuous men pass mildly away” and encourages its addressee to make no noise or shed no tears. FTP identify these poems, the more famous of which compares the souls of two lovers as two “stiff twin compasses,” and was written by John Donne.
Answer: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
18. Its class II region contains the LMP and the TAP genes, which produce parts or protein-cleaving proteosomes. Discovered in the 1940s by George Snell, its function was not elucidated until 1975, when Zinkernagel and Doherty (*) found that the molecules assocated with it interacted with immune cells. Most notably, its class I region codes for molecules that present peptide chains to cytotoxic T-cells, allowing them to recognize what to attack. Known as H-2 in mice, where it is located on chromosome 17, and Human Leukocyte A in humans, it contains the most polymorphic loci found in humans. FTP, name this set of genes which control immunological self and non-self recognition, thus invoking rapid rejection of foreign tissues.
Answer: Major Histocompatibility Complex (prompt on H-2 or Human Leukocyte A before mentioned)
19. As an undergraduate at Harvard he played the lead in a production of The Birds that featured his friend Leonard Bernstein on piano. His dissertation was on Plato’s Philebus, though he had yet to coin the terms that he would deploy in his many landmark essays. These included “anomalous monism,” which argued that the mind can not be reduced to physical processes, as well as “triangulation,” [*] which described the interplay between the individual, other people, and the nonhuman. But he may be most famous for his idea that it was communication with others that defines reality. FTP idenitify this long time professor at Berkeley, whose works were collected in a battery of essay collections such as Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation.
Answer: Donald Davidson
20. Serving as a brigadier general in the War of 1812, he also led an expedition that erroneosly concluded what the source of the Mississippi River is. He also served as minister to France from 1836 to 1842 and lead the Senate bloc demanding “reannexation” during the “54-40 or fight” issue. In the [*] cabinet he was preceeded by William L. Marcy as Secretary of State and John Henry Eaton as Secretary of War. It was in that office that he directed the Black Hawk and Seminole Wars. As a Michigan Senator he championed the doctrine of Popular Sovreignty. FTP name this man who lost the 1848 presidential election and may have been the first person about whom it was said “They’re not booing, they’re saying Lew.”
Answer: Lewis Cass
Bonuses
1. Answer the following about a work of literature and its author FTPE:
A.This 1881 work depicts the hard but simple life of the title family, a clan of fishermen who live mouth to mouth, but when young Ntoni joins the Navy he rebels against their way of life.
Answer:I Malavoglia or the Malavoglias
B. This leading author of verismo wrote the Malavoglias.
Answer Giovanni Verga:
C. Verga first gained fame for this 1874 work about the titular Sicilian girl’s coming of age.
Answer: Nedda
2. Identify the following about some mythological figures that got turned into birds FTPE:
A. After eating his own son Itys, this man, who married Pandion’s daughter Procne, and committed all kinds of atrocities was changed into a hoopoe.
Answer: Tereus
B. This son of Eosphorus tutored the children of Heracles for a time, but is better known for the crazy devotion he and his wife Alcyone showed for each other. As a reward they were turned into kingfishers.
Answer: Ceyx
C. Also called Talus or Calus, this nephew of Daedalus was even more skilled than the old inventor himself. So when the latter got jealous, and pushed him off a cliff, Athena transformed him into a partridge.
Answer: Perdix
3. Evolution is just a theory, so you don’t have to answer this bonus. Psych. FTPE:
A. (10) This term describes a single gene that controls multiple phenotypic effects.
Answer: pleiotropy (accept word forms)