Classic City Classic: Round 8
1.Lesser known islands in this group include Palawan, Masbate, Panay, Cebu, and Bohol, the latter of which features enormous, distinctive Chocolate hills, which are formed somewhat like cindercones. The Sulu Archipelago lies in the body of water bordering it to the south, the Celebes Sea, and Visayas sits between its two main islands. Mount Apo, its highest peak, sits on the island of Mindanao which, with Luzon, is one of the two largest islands of, FTP, what Pacific country that Douglas MacArthur swore to return to, with its capital at Manila?
Answer: The Phillipines
2.They can be applied to curved space-time by replacing derivatives with covariant derivatives, and if magnetic monopoles were found to exist, they could be combined and written singly. One of them relates the integrated magnetic field around a closed loop to the electric current passing through the loop, while another was separately but contemporaneously discovered by Michael Faraday and Joseph Henry. Name the set of four partial differential equations that relate the electric and magnetic fields to their sources, charge density, and current density.
Answer: Maxwell’s equations
3.In one story his foster-father sends him to retrieve a lost treasure at Gnitaheath, which included many treasures cursed by Andvardi and the sword Hrotti. However, when he arrives at the treasure he is forced to use his sword Gram to kill the brother of Regin, a dragon. After eating of that dragon's heart he gains unrivaled strength and the ability to talk with birds. In another myth, he took on the guise of Gunnar in order to pass through a ring of fire to win a famous shield maiden. FTP name this hero from Germanic mythology, the killer of Fafnir and a lover of Brynhilde.
Answer: Sigurd (or Siegfried)
4.This author was fired from the New Yorker after offending Robert Frost. His unemployment gave him the time to publish a short story ending with the titular character telling the protagonist, Mrs Miller, "Hello." The author of “Miriam”, one of his more famous works depicts a young boy falling in love with a transvestite. The creator of Joel Knox in Other Voices, Other Rooms, one of this author’s best known works is set in Holcomb, Kansas and depicts the murder of Clutter family while another centers on the exploits of Holly Golightly. FTP, identify this bizarre Southern Gothic writer of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Answer: Truman Capote
5.Written after the death of a close friend of the composer, one of the ten movements in this piano suite depicts children playing in the titular garden, "Tuileries". Other movements in the work include "The Catacombs," "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks," and the finale "The Bogatyr Gates." The promenade theme is heard repeatedly between movements as the composer imagines himself walking through friend Victor Hartmann’s art show. FTP, name this work, whose most famous orchestral version was produced by Maurice Ravel, a piano suite by Modest Mussorgsky.
Answer: Pictures at an Exhibition
6.This period of Earth’s geological history is normally split into three epochs: its lower or early Cisuralian epoch, its middle Guadalupian epoch, and the upper Lopingian epoch. During this period the Panthalassa, or universal sea, surrounded the giant supercontinent Pangaea. The large landmasses allowed for dry climate which favored the growth of modern trees such as conifers, ginkos, and cycads in this period. However, there were very moist regions that allowed more diverse creatures to appear thereby giving this period the name “The Age of Amphibians”. Characterized by ending with the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history, FTP this is what period, the last of the Paleozoic Era?
Answer: Permian Period
7. One of his most famous works describes social consciousness in relations, and how a mutual recognition or rationality is required between people's "spheres of freedom." In another work he tells his people it is necessary to sacrifice everything to ensure the greatest success for their nation. His argument for intersubjectivity was shown in his work The Science of Knowledge, and he tried to provide a link between the ideas of Kant and Hegel in his Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation. FTP, who is this German nationalist author of the Foundations of Natural Right and Letters to the German Nation?
Answer: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
8. Sometimes a basic solution of fuchsin is used in this technique's last part because some organisms do not respond well to the usage of safranin. The lipid layer is usually destroyed in the decoloriztion step of this technique, and is usually a mixture of acetone and ethanol. Its second step involves the use of iodine as a mordant to fix the dye. Its first and most important step sometimes uses methylene blue instead of the usual crystal-violet dye. FTP, identify this staining technique, named for its Danish creator, that tests for the presence of peptidoglycan in bacterial cells.
Answer: Gram stain
9.Symbols in this work include the pear tree in the narrator’s grandmother’s front yard, which represents her ideal life. After two decades of patience, the protagonist finally confronts her husband when he humiliates her for a small mistake she made while cutting tobacco, and he soon dies from kidney failure. Although she eventually finds her true love, she is forced to kill him after he contracts rabies during a hurricane. This framed narrative occurs as Pheoby Watson listens to the narrator in Eatonville, Florida. FTP, after marrying Logan Killicks and Jody, Janie Crawford meets Tea Cake in what novel by Zora Neale Hurston?
Answer: Their Eyes Were Watching God
10.The assassination of Alexander Burns in Kabul was given this name, as was Harold MacMillan’s dismissal of several members of his cabinet. Another event involving Vortigern and his betrayal by Saxon mercenaries was also given this name, though the most famous event called this was code-named Operation Hummingbird. That event saw the deaths of Erich Klausener, Kurt von Schleicher, and the leader of the Brown Shirts, Ernst Rohm. FTP, what 1934 Nazi purge saw the deaths of leading conservatives and the entire SA?
Answer: Night of the Long Knives
11. This equation can be simplified into certain processes such as the isentropic process where entropy is constant or the isobaric process where pressure is constant. Since it neglects molecular size and intermolecular attractions, it works best on gases that are monatomic at high temperatures and low pressures. This law states that the product of pressure and volume is equal to the product of the amount of substance, its constant, and its absolute temperature. FTP name this law of gases that is a combination of both Boyle’s and Charles’s gas laws.
Answer: ideal gas law
12.A statue resembling this painting stands in Ashland, Pennsylvania proclaiming the occupation of the subject is the “holiest thing.” This work led to a follow-up portrait with Enlightenment thinker Thomas Carlyle, and it was only created after the original model failed to show up for the sitting. The artist defended the subject with the argument that the work was “art for art’s sake.” The stylized drapes and black-framed picture in the top center of this work is meant to portray Victorian domestic life, and its main subject is Anna McNeill in a black dress sitting in profile, facing left. For ten points, identify this 1871 portrait which depicts one of the parents of James Whistler.
Answer: Whistler’s Mother or Arrangement in Black and Grey No. 1: The Artist’s Mother
13.One work in this collection involves Matthew mourning the loss of his daughter at her graveside, while in another a questioner and a little girl discuss the nature of death. In addition to “The Two April Mornings” and “We are Seven,” one of the poems was written with the presence of the poet’s sister Dorothy when he wrote about an abandoned abbey in Monmouthshire. Perhaps the best known work in the collection involves a wedding guest hearing about the murder of an innocent albatross. FTP, identify this poetry collection which contains the Lucy poems, “Tintern Abbey” and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, a collaboration between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Answer: Lyrical Ballads
14. The private secretary to Louis Brandeis and the creator of a long "White Paper" denouncing Chiang-Kai Shek, he also wrote of the US policy of containment and the Marshall plan in his books Power and Diplomacy and Morning and Noon, though he is most famous for another work describing his role in the Korean War as Secretary of State under Truman. FTP, name this politician and author of the Pulitzer-prize winning Present at the Creation.
Answer: Dean Acheson
15.A lord of animal beings known as Pashupati is sometimes considered an earlier form of this god, as he is depicted in a seated position similar to his depiction in meditation. However, he is alternatively depicted crushing ignorance as Natesa, or dancing upon Maya in his form Nataraja. His consorts include the goddess of longevity and the mother of Skanda and Ganesh, Sati and Parvati. Rider of the bull Nandi, FTP identify this destroyer god in Hinduism.
Answer: Shiva or Siva (accept Rudra before mention)
16.He pressed legal charges against John Humphrey Noyes after he was ostracized from the Oneida community, though Noyes held no grudge, considering him “insane.” He later started a law firm in Chicago based on fraudulent recommendations, during which time he wrote a plagiarized theological text, The Truth. He then gave two inaccurate speeches praising a presidential candidate, and gave himself the credit for that candidate’s success in the election. However, despite feeling he had contributed so much, he was denied his desired position of Ambassador to France. FTP, identify this deranged assassin of President James A. Garfield.
Answer: Charles J Guiteau
17.As early as age thirteen, this author contributed articles to the daily “La Mañana,” which also published his first poem “Enthusiasm and Perseverance.” He addressed such objects as “a Large Tuna in the Market” and “Tomatoes” in his Elemental Odes. Author of the collection España en el Corazón, one of his works repeats the phrase "Oh farther than everything," and the line “in everything you sank,” and it is collected with a certain number of other works like “Body of a Woman” and “Tonight I can write.” FTP, name this Chilean poet, the author of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
Answer: Pablo Neruda
18.While in jail for the alleged murder of politician Julio Nalundasan he took and passed the BAR exam. A soldier in World War II, he was a victim of the Bataan death march. From his most famous position he was aided by Prime Minister Cesar Virata. Allegations of his government’s involvement in the assassination of Benigno Aquino led to the People Power Revolution that ultimately removed him and his greedy wife Imelda from power in 1986. FTP, identify this long serving president of the Philippines.
Answer: Ferdinand Marcos
19.Among the things seen in the music video are a a cheerleader with armpit hair, and an old man being a cheerleader, while later a janitor is seen eating a donut out of his cleaning bucket. Another janitor is seen later wearing a tutu and playing the tuba, and other strange occurrences include a cow mooing, a goat bleating, a guitar bending like an inflatable balloon, the lead singer with marbles in his mouth, and the audience playing kazoos during the bridge. The lead singer asks in the beginning what is this song all about because he cannot remember any lyrics. FTP, name this Weird Al Yankovic song parodying the vocal unintelligibility of a band with lead singer Kurt Cobain.
Answer: Smells Like Nirvana
20. This poetic form is used by many English-language practitioners such as Oscar Wilde and W.H. Auden, and James Joyce incorporated one of them written by the character Stephen Dedalus in the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Some prominent examples of this form include E.A. Robinson’s “The House on the Hill” as well as Elizabeth Bishop’s work “One Art.” Perhaps the best known use was in a poem which urges the speaker’s father to “Rage, rage against the dying of light”. For ten points, identify this 19-line French poetic form used by Dylan Thomas in his poem “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night.”
Answer: Villanelle
Tiebreaker: Leave-less trees appear in the background, and a figure in an orange robe first seen hooking a coin out of a fish’s mouth is shown two more times from left to right, slowly getting larger to adjust for perspective. On the right that same character can be seen holding out his hand to a man in red, while standing to the front of a white building. Situated in the Brancacci chapel, FTP, what fresco shows St Peter paying the tax collector, a masterpiece of Massaccio?
Answer: The Tribute Money
BONUSES
1. The unnamed narrator in one of his works carries on an affair with Margarethe, a German Jew, and Sylvie, a French artist. FTPE:
A) Name this author who wrote One Man's Bible and a novel in which the protagonist tries to find Lingshan, Soul Mountain.
Answer: Gao Xingjian
B) Gao was born in this country famous for its Four Great Classical Novels, which includes Journey to the West.
Answer: China
C) Another of China's Four Great Classical novels is this Qing-era work by Cao Xueqin originally titled The Story of the Stone about the rise and fall of the Jia clan.
Answer: Dream of the Red Chamber or Red Chamber Dream or A Dream of Red Mansions or Hong Lou Meng accept The Story of the Stone