MANU GINOBILI
OPEN #6
1. Prior to this decision, the statute in question had been challenged twice, in Tileston v. Ullman and Poe v. Ullman. Seven years after this decision, its scope was expanded in a case that concerned a man who engaged in a controversial practice after giving a lecture at Boston University. [*] That case, Eisenstadt v. Baird, involved a Massachusetts law that forbade distributing an item to a certain class of people. The law under dispute in this case was a state statute of 1879 which even the dissenting justices, Hugo Black and Potter Stewart, agreed was “uncommonly silly.” The majority opinion written by William Douglas refers to rights that are implicit in the Constitution, while other justices relied on a broad interpretation of the 14th Amendment and its “due process” clause to find that there was a protected “right to privacy.” FTP, name this 1965 decision which invalidated a statute forbidding the sale of contraceptives to married persons.
Answer: Griswold v. Connecticut
2. One of his last stories depicts a creature from Lithuania who is half-bear, half-man. In another, a statue of Venus seems to have killed the protagonist and driven his fiancée insane. His early works include plays about the Jacquerie and the family of Carvajal, the latter of which is a retelling of The Cenci, while he wrote about the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in his novel [*] Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX. His collection Mosaic includes a story about a revolt on a slave ship, “Tamango,” and another about a Corsican youth who is killed by his own father, “Mateo Falcone,” though he is better known for a novella about a woman who prods her brother Orso Antonio to avenge their father. In addition to “Columba,” he wrote an tale in which an archaeologist listens to the story of a bandit who killed the woman he loved. FTP, name this French author of The Theater of Clara Gazul and a work about Don José and his gypsy lover, Carmen.
Answer: Prosper Merimée
3. This figure appears as an old man sitting to the left of a bored woman in a painting by Goveart Flinck. He appears as an old man sitting on a wicker basket talking to a woman in a red dress in a painting by Jan Tengnagel. He appears nude with his left arm extended above his head in a fresco in the Villa Medici painted by Pontormo. He appears with the face of an old man, the hands and feet of a young man, a staff and a bonnet in a painting by Francesco Melzi. The most famous, and strangest, depiction of him appears in a 1591 work in which the subject has peapods for eyebrows and a pear for a nose. [*] In that painting, Emperor Rudolf II was depicted as this god by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. FTP, name this Roman deity of fruit trees, gardens, and seasons, who was in love with Pomona.
Answer: Vertumnus
4. He more or less gave up acting following 1966’s Walk, Don’t Run, after which he served as director of the toiletry company Rayette-Fabergé. He appeared in drag in I Was a Male War Bride, [*] and began to receive work after making a star turn as a ghost in Topper. He was nominated for Academy Awards for his work in None But the Lonely Heart and Penny Serenade, but won for neither. His first great comic role came in 1937’s The Awful Truth, and he went on to star in Holiday, Arsenic and Old Lace and Bringing Up Baby. FTP, name this British actor, who also appeared in such Hitchcock films as Suspicion, Notorious, and North by Northwest.
Answer: Cary Grant (accept Archibald Leach, if some pretentious player says it)
5. Harold Bloom has argued that this poem’s mention of a hermit who sits alone by his fire and the line about a “blind man’s eye” are allusions to Milton. William Empson made fun of the lines about a “sense sublime of something far more deeply [*] interfused,” and wondered about the “motion and a spirit” that “rolls through all things.” The poet thanks the “forms of beauty” he sees for his “serene and blessed mood” in which the “burthen of the mystery” is lifted and he sees into “the life of things,” and reminds his “dear, dear Sister” that nature never did betray the heart that loves her. Written five years after the day in 1793 when the poet visited the banks of the Wye, FTP, name this poem by William Wordsworth whose title refers to a religious building.
Answer: “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
6. The nonlinear variety was first demonstrated experimentally in 1998 in the lab of Umstadter at the University of Michigan. This nonlinear variety of the process has a non-negligible magnetic field in the expression of the orbit (*) driven by the Lorentz force on the particle. The cross section for it is generally stated as the total re-radiated power divided by the time-averaged Poynting flux. Whether it occurs coherently or incoherently depends on the quantity two times lambda-sub-d times k times the sine of the scattering angle. Changing the direction of the radiation but not its energy, FTP, name this process by which light is emitted from a charged particle accelerated into periodic motion by an electromagnetic wave, the elastic analog of Compton scattering.
Answer: Thomson Scattering
7. One of their rulers was deposed by his brother Zamasp, but with the help of the Ephthalites he regained the crown. Another of their rulers almost had his throne usurped by his brother Hormisdas, but overcame him and had a long reign before being succeeded by his brother Balas, under whom the empire convertedto Nestorianism. Its last great ruler was deposed by Bahram, [*] but with the help of Emperor Maurice regained the throne. Its last ruler, period, was the grandson of Khusru Parvis, Yezdigird III, who was decisively defeated at Nehawand. Its first ruler overthrew Artabanus the Arsacid at Hormuz, establishing this dynasty in 224 AD. FTP, name this Persian dynasty that was founded when Ardashir defeated the Parthians, and ruled for four centuries before being defeated by the Arabs.
Answer: the Sassanid dynasty
8. Leo Strauss published a 1948 book dedicated to the study of this work, whose fourth chapter, "Of the Ceremonial Law," uses a comparison with the Far East to expand on arguments made about the origins and consequences of superstition in the preface. Chapter fifteen refutes Alpakhar's thesis that reason must be accommodated by Scripture and the book ends by asserting the independence of faith and reason, as well as the utility of revelation. The most important section, however, lays out the author’s understanding of the Hebrew kingdom [*] following the death of Moses, and offers up reasons why religion should not have a monopoly on governmental policy. FTP, identify this work which decries belief in the irrational and outlines Benedict Spinoza’s idea for a tolerant state.
Answer: Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (also accept Theological Political Treatise)
9. Degenerative fibrosis of its tissue is one of the major causes of Sick Sinus Syndrome. Phenylalkylamines and benzothiazepines negate the abilities of its Cav3 channels, (*) which are expressed at high density in this area to allow for a massive flux of calcium ions. Adrenaline causes it to act with more automaticity, making its resting potential even more unsteady and causing increased heart rate. Lying at the top of the right atrium where it is met by the superior vena cava, FTP, name this bundle of Purkinje fibers which sends an electrical signal causing the heart to pump blood, and is thus a natural pacemaker.
Answer: sinoatrial node (or SA node or sinoauricular node)
10. The protagonist gets good advice from his friend Worthy and his sister Myra, but it does no good. In a subplot, Ophelia Shepherd kills herself after sleeping with her brother-in-law Martin. Mrs. Morton’s sister also kills herself after Mr. Morton tries to sleep with her, and the protagonist joins in the suicidal hijinks after discovering that the woman he wants to marry is really the daughter of his father’s mistress. This epistolary romance was originally attributed to the author of Ouabi, but is now thought to be by an author who used basically the same plot in 1807’s Ira and Isabella. [*] Subtitled “The Triumphs of Nature,” it uses the tragic fate of Harriot and Harrington to demonstrate both the “advantages of female education” and the “dangerous consequences of seduction.” FTP, name this book that was published anonymously in 1789, though it was probably written by William Hill Brown, and which is considered the first American novel.
Answer: The Power of Sympathy
11. His predecessor was killed in the 38th year of his reign by assassins hired by the two sons of the man who had preceded him on the throne. This man married his daughters to the two sons of his predecessor, [*] Lucius and Arruns, to secure his hold on the throne. Later historians claimed that he was a prince from Corniculum, but this is probably a lie designed to obscure his humble origins. During his 44-year reign, he divided the people into six classes and instituted a census, and he may have built the Temple of Diana. Having gained the throne in 579 BC thanks to the machinations of his predecessor’s wife Tanaquil, he lost it due to the machinations of his own daughter Tullia. FTP, name this sixth king of Rome, who came between the Elder and the Proud Tarquin.
Answer: Servius Tullius
12. The slow movement of the funeral march quotes Frere Jacques while the twilight opening is played at an extreme pianissimo. Although they were later disowned, its composer named this work’s two divisions A Chapter of Flowers and Days of Youth. [*] Incorporating tunes from the composer’s own song cycle Songs of a Wayfarer, it was originally conceived as a symphonic poem and featured a subsequently discarded movement named Blumine. Based on a cautionary bildungsroman about the dangers of Romantic self-absorption written by Jean Paul it was first completed in 1888. FTP, name this symphony in D major by Gustav Mahler nicknamed The Titan.
Answer: Symphony No. 1 in D orThe Titan Symphony (accept the latter until mentioned)
13. His namesake space is a Hausdorff space that is the image of the closed unit interval under a continuous mapping, while his namesake continuum is a connected, locally connected, and compact metric space. A curve which maps intervals of length 3-2n(*) into squares of size 3-n by 3-n is known as his space-filling curve. His most famous namesakes, which were proved consistent by Gerhard Gentzen, are statements such as “every natural number n has a successor n+” and “there is a natural number 1.” FTP, name this Italian mathematician who created the language Interlingua and whose namesake axioms form a basis for first-order arithmetic.
Answer: Guiseppe Peano
14. In this work’s pessimistic Prologue, the author despairs of his poetry and concludes that wit, like unprotected orange trees, cannot grow in “northern climates.” In a preface addressed to the Earl of Mulgrave, the author defends himself against criticism of the last act, in which the heroine is shown to be fearful of death. In the first scene, Abas describes the outcome of a battle to Asaph, Fazel, and Arimant, who worry that Morat will be disloyal to his father. Both Morat and his fatherthe emperor fall in lovewith the captive queen of Cassimere, but in the end the emperor gives up his pursuit of Indamora so that his son, the title character, [*] can have her. First produced in 1675, it is the last of its author’s plays written in heroic couplets. FTP, name this work set in India, a tragedy about the son of Shah Jehan by John Dryden.
Answer: Aureng-Zebe
15. He was captured by an alliance led by Chedorlaomer, but his uncle led a band of 318 men to rescue him. The modern Arabic name for the Dead Sea refers to this man, who fled to the town of Zoar at the behest of two angels. [*] After the death of his wife, he became the father of Ben-Ammi and Moab, the ancestors of the Moabites and Ammonites. The son of Haran, he went to Canaan with his uncle and established himself at Shechem before being given the Jordan basin. FTP, name this man who offered his daughters to be ravished instead of surrendering his guests to horny Sodomites, a figure from the book of Genesis whose wife was turned to salt.
Answer: Lot
16. These people were reorganized according to ideas taken from Thomas Campell's Montana Corporation, as well as planning by Wilson, Ware, and Riggin. They arose from the destruction of the obschina system by Stolypin's reform. Undersigned by Yezhov, order 00447 created troikas to prosecute them. A film by Alexander Dovzhenko dramatizes their lives. They were later defined by [*] Sovnarkom as people that used hired labor, were involved in commerce, or owned a mill or other mechanical equipment. Their liquidation began following the 1929 food shortage and the institution of the first Five Year Plan. Coming from the Russian word for "fist", they were considered enemies of the proletariat, contrasting with the bednyaks and the batraks. FTP, idenitfy these landed peasants that were mass murdered and deported during Stalin's purges.
Answer: kulaks
17. It was partially formulated from its namesake listening to solutions with a telephone, and this law can be thought of as Ohm’s law applying to a second class conductors. (*) This statement can be used to express the degree of dissociation by evaluating the quotient of conductivity of solution at concentration C and the conductivity at infinite dilution. FTP, name this law which states that the molar conductivity of an electrolyte equals the sum of the molar conductivities of the cations and the anions times the number of anions or cations, which is named for a German scientist.
Answer: Kohlrausch’slaw
18. This mythological moniker is shared by a son of Niobe and Zeus who inherited Phoroneus’ kingdom and named it for himself. It also identifies the eldest son of Phrixus and Chalciope, who was shipwrecked on the island of Ares when Jason found him and rescued him leading to a life-long friendship [*]. But the most famous owner of this name was known for slaying a bull that was ravaging Arcadia, producing a son named Iasus, and vigilantly guarding a certain heifer in his role as Panoptes. After he was slain his most notable features were used by Hera to decorate her favorite bird, the peacock. FTP identify this name most commonly associated with a monster who was in charge of watching Io with his hundred eyes before Hermes slew him.
Answer: Argus
19. He was compelled to leave the city in which he first gained fame after one of his employees, John Cockerill, killed a popular local attorney, Colonel Alonzo Slayback. He himself had shot the lobbyist Edward Augustine in 1870, though he became one of his city’s police commissioners soon thereafter. He was elected to Congress from New York in 1885, but resigned the following year to focus his attentionson something he had purchased [*] from Jay Gould in 1883. In 1908, Roosevelt sent a message to Congress denouncing this man after he accused the government of profiteering in Panama, but the indictment for libel was later dropped. His major enterprise aspired to defend the “aristocracy of labor” and advance the interests of the Democratic party, and its appeal to the workers made it a leading organ of news in New York. FTP, name this owner of the New York World, a journalistic rival of Hearst who set up some namesake prizes.
Answer: Joseph Pulitzer
20. He advanced Epicurean views about death in his “Dialogue between Frederick Ruysch and His Mummies.” The titular planetary bodies agree that people are weak and miserable in his “Dialogue Between the Earth and the Moon,” while one of the title characters is devoured by lions in Africa at the end of his “Dialogue Between Nature and an Icelander.” However, he is better known for such poems as one in which the title character plans to plunge off a cliff, [*] “Sappho’s Last Song,” and one in which he reflects on how sweet it is to lose oneself in the sea, “The Infinite.” In his greatest poem, he admires the “desert flowers” that grow on the side of Mount Vesuvius. FTP, name this author of “To Sylvia,” “The Setting of the Moon,” and “The Broom,” an author who died in 1837 and who is considered the greatest poet of 19th century Italy.
Answer: Giacomo Leopardi
Bonuses:
1. Answer these questions about 12th century Japanese history, FTPE:
A. After the civil war of 1160, this man emerged as the leader of the country. He made himself prime minister in 1167, and 13 years later put his grandson Antoku on the throne.
Answer: Taira Kiyomori
B. Four years after the death of Kiyomori, his grandson Antoku was killed at this battle, at which the Minamoto routed the Taira clan.
Answer: the battle of Dan No Ura
C. Following the battle of Dan No Ura in 1185, this period of Japanese history began. It is named for the military capital established by the Minamoto clan.