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John Stuart Mill Bicentennial OpenMay 20, 2006 Packet #3Toss-Up Questions 1. In the opening scene, a young woman sitting at a table makes a list which includes such items as “six yards of stuff for to make a yellow gown” and “a pair of lace boots with lengthy heels on them and brassy eyes.” When the title character enters the public house later in that act, he chews on a turnip after being invited to sit by the fire by Michael, who assures him that the police rarely come there. Other characters include the Widow Quin, her cousin Shawn Keogh, and Pegeen Mike. It caused riots at the premiere in 1907, when people objected to the image of Irish morality presented by the indifference of various characters to the death of the father of Christy Mahon. FTP, name this play by John Millington Synge whose title might lead you to believe that it’s about Paul Litvak. ANSWER: The Playboy of the Western World 2. He was released from prison in 1993 by a man who himself was replaced in office later that year by Angé Patassé. This man lost international support after a number of children were killed following a riot over school uniforms, and was ousted in a coup by a man who was himself overthrown two years later by André Kolingba. This man was serving as leader of the MESAN party when he took power in a coup which overthrew his cousin, David Dacko. He named himself president for life in 1972, five years before he had himself crowned emperor. FTP, name this dictator of the Central African Republic, renowned for torturing and perhaps eating his subjects. ANSWER: Jean-Bedel Bokassa 3. In the postscript to this book, the author compares the controversy it caused to that associated with Rolf Hochhuth’s The Deputy and discusses a comparison to the massacre at Kfar Kassem. The influence of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason on the title figure is discussed in Chapter 8, “Duties of a Law-Abiding Citizen,” which notes that the title figure had many opportunities for feeling like Pontius Pilate. The title figure wanted to join the Freemasons, but his friend Ernst Kaltenbrunner invited him to join a less free-spirited organization; his activities with that organization were what brought him to the “House of Justice” described in the opening chapter of this work, which also includes four chapters on deportations and one on “the killing centers in the East.” FTP, name this book which first appeared in the New Yorker in 1963, a “report on the banality of evil” written by Hannah Arendt after observing a Nazi’s trial. ANSWER: Eichmann in Jerusalem 4. One of them appears grabbing a woman’s crotch and giving her a kiss in a 1517 work by Niklaus Manuel, while another of them blows a gold horn in the foreground of Benjamin Cuyp’s Allegory of War. Another of them stands on the left, above the feet of a reclining nude, in Paul Delvaux’s Venus Asleep. In one painting, a number of them stand around a stove “warming themselves,” while in another painting two of them fight for the body of a hanged man. In an 1895 work, Edvard Munch painted a “self-portrait” with this kind of arm, while another Munch work shows a naked woman kissing one of them whose leg is thrust between her legs. FTP, name this figure which appears in numerous paintings by James Ensor, and which in theory is composed of 206 sub-units. ANSWER: skeletons 5. The final chapter of this work features a convict who escapes from San Quentin, and ends with the title character getting a new name after surviving injuries that should have proved fatal. That new name is bestowed by a judge, who is grateful after the title character prevents Jim Hall from committing a murder. The title character trains with Beauty Smith and lives with Gray Beaver before meeting his friend, Weedon Scott. That title character is the son of Kiche and One Eye. FTP, name this 1910 novel about a tough animal who is 75% wolf and 100% adorable, a work by Jack London. ANSWER: White Fang 6. A Pourbaix diagram can be used to determine the pH at which species with different values of it are stable. A Frost diagram plots a quantity proportional to Gibbs free energy on the y-axis against this on the x-axis. The prediction of kinetics for reactions that change this quantity is considered in Marcus theory. The slope of the Frost diagram, which is equal to the standard potential, is used to determine the spontaneity of reactions that change it. Such reactions include disproportionation and half-reactions. Considered a quantity that exaggerates the ionic character of a chemical bond in contrast to formal charge, FTP identify this parameter that becomes less positive as an atom is reduced. ANSWER: oxidation number 7. Among those present at this event were Meshech Weare, Benjamin Tasker, and Stephen Hopkins. It called for a Grand Council of 48 members which would be presided over by a President-General. Chief Hendrick attended it, and as a result of it, tribal lands in the Wyoming Valley were sold, though those purchases would later lead to the Pennamite Wars. It began on June 19, and its major project was modified by Thomas Hutchinson after being proposed by Ben Franklin. FTP, name this meeting of 1754 at which the representatives of seven colonies came up with a “plan of union,” a congress held in New York state. ANSWER: the Albany Congress (accept Albany Plan) 8. In a novel by this man, a columnist named Ashley Van Buren is romanced by both detective Tommy O’Malley and serial murderer Shannon Michaels. Michaels loses his job at the Global News Network as a result of his coverage of the Falklands War, a situation which was drawn from the life of this author of Those Who Trespass. After leaving CBS News, he got a job with Inside Edition, but he’s better known for a program which premiered in 1996. The author of such books as Who’s Looking Out for You? and The No Spin Zone, he attracted national derision when Andrea Mackris accused him of sexual harassment, partly for his threatened use of a loofah on her. FTP, name this Fox News personality who has a namesake “factor.” ANSWER: Bill O’Reilly 9. At the premiere of this work, the orchestra was conducted by the composer of Variations of Druid Tunes, Matthew Dubourg. The libretto for this work was compiled by Charles Jennens, who also produced the texts for the composer’s works Belshazzar and Saul. The standard version of it is divided into three acts, the first of which includes such numbers as “Every valley shall be exalted” and “The people that walked in darkness.” It was composed in less than a month in 1741, and it was first performed the next year at a charity concert in Dublin. FTP, name this “sacred oratorio” which features the famous “Hallelujah” chorus, a work by George Frideric Handel. ANSWER: Messiah 10. With Lyman Spitzer, he proposed that anisotropic photoionization of gas clouds could produce a “rocket effect.” One of his students predicted the 21 centimeter hydrogen line, which this man confirmed shortly after the detection by Ewen and Purcell. A paper by Lindblad overthrowing Kapteyn’s system inspired a paper in which this man presented two formulae for the local effects of galactic rotation using his namesake constants. The distribution of the inverses of the major axes of certain objects led him to hypothesize the existence of a roughly spherical reservoir of debris located about one light year from the Sun. FTP, name this Dutch astronomer who thus hypothesized the supposed source of most comets, known as his namesake cloud. ANSWER: Jan Hendrik Oort 11. This figure tore out a mange-like bald patch on the chest of the Cyclops Brontes, and used some white mud to confound Alpheius. She was tricked into killing a man nicknamed Candaon, whom she met while he was trying to avenge himself on Oenopion. One of her sacred creatures, which had brazen hooves and golden stag-like horns, ran all the way to Istria and the land of the Hyperboreans during a labor of Heracles. Her devotees included Iphigenia and Hippolytus, who vowed to remain chaste like her. Immediately after being born at Ortygia, she helped her mother cross the straits to Delos, where her twin brother was born. FTP, name this twin sister of Apollo, the Greek goddess of the hunt. ANSWER: Artemis 12. He wrote about a crazy kid named Hans Giebenrath who is expelled from a seminary at Maulbronn in his second novel. One of his novellas features a mysterious league which is presided over by a man named Leo, who leaves the protagonist at Morbio Inferiore. In addition to Beneath the Wheel and Journey to the East, he wrote such novels as Narcissus and Goldmund and a 1943 work about Joseph Knecht. He also wrote about Emil Sinclair in a book which features the devilish Abraxas, Demian. FTP, name this author of Steppenwolf and Siddhartha. ANSWER: Hermann Hesse 13. While under Roman control it was divided into three parts, one of which was known as “Novempopulana” for the nine peoples included in it. In the 9th century, Bernard Plantevelue claimed to be “duke” of this region, a title he passed to his son, William the Pious. One of its greatest rulers was a leader of the First Crusade whose writings in Occitan led to his nickname, “the Troubador.” That ruler, William IX, was the grandfather of its best-known ruler, who was married to Louis VII of France and Henry II of England. FTP, name this region of southwestern France which was ruled by Eleanor. ANSWER: Aquitaine 14. Dependencies to this substance have been noted in patients with defective transketolase or pyruvate dehydrogenase, two enzymes that require a cofactor derived from it for their activity. One of its deficiency syndromes manifests as damage to the mammillary bodies and is frequently found in chronic alcoholics, while another deficiency syndrome, known as Shoshin’s disease, manifests as heart failure and sudden death. It is required as its pyrophosphate for decarboxylation reactions. First crystallized by Donath and Jansen from rice polishings, FTP identify this vitamin whose deficiency can manifest as wet or dry forms of beriberi. ANSWER: thiamine or vitamin B1 15. This man was portrayed in a 1936 film by Domingo Soler. That film was an epic directed by Fernando de Fuentes, whose title referred to the decision of six young men to “go” with this man. In a horrible 1972 movie which also featured Chuck Connors this man was portrayed by Telly Savalas, and the “treasure” of this man was the subject of a 1955 Rory Calhoun film. Anthony Stewart Head appeared as William Benton in a recent film about this man, in which so-called “Fighting Jew” Sam Drebben was played by Alan Arkin. That film centers on a movie made by D. W. Griffith, and features Antonio Banderas as the title character. FTP, name this man who was assassinated in 1923, seven years after his attack on Columbus, New Mexico led to a punitive raid commanded by General Pershing. ANSWER: Pancho Villa 16. One of the most important 19th century plays in this language is Etinger’s Johannisburg. One of its major Symbolist authors wrote such works as Under a Fence and the story collection Imagined and went by a pseudonym meaning “the hidden one.” American authors using this language include the leader of the Introspectivist movement who wrote Labyrinth under the pseudonym Leyeles. Another of its notable authors wrote From the Fair, Railway Stories, and a tale about a milkman that was made into a famous musical. FTP, name this language whose major writers include Mendele Sforim and Sholem Aleichem, a German tongue written in Hebrew letters. ANSWER: Yiddish 17. The Uehling effect, a small energy shift due to vacuum polarization, goes as one over the cube of this quantity. It arises due to the termination requirement on the series expansion in associated Laguerre polynomials for the radial portion of the Schrödinger equation for the hydrogen atom. In general, matrix elements have nonvanishing radial integrals, so it is not subject to any selection rule. The labels L and K correspond to values of 2 and 1 for this quantity, which uniquely identifies the electron shell. Hydrogen energy levels go as one over the square of, FTP, what quantum number which can take on any positive integer value? ANSWER: n or principal quantum number 18. Its second book opens with a discussion of pride and humility, and features chapters on “our esteem for the rich and powerful” and “the mixture of benevolence and anger with compassion and malice.” Its third book begins by arguing that moral distinctions are not derived from reason but from a “moral sense,” and proceeds to consider “justice and injustice” as well as “other virtues and vices.” The ideas of space and time, the nature of causation, and skepticism are treated in its first book, “Of the Understanding.” It first appearead in 1739, before the author had turned thirty, though he lamented that it “fell dead-born from the press.” FTP, name this philosophical work by David Hume. ANSWER: A Treatise of Human Nature 19. This empire’s second ruler was known as Amitrochates to the Greeks. Its founder was advised by the author of a manual discussing government as “the science of punishment” and advocating the establishment of spy networks. Its namesake polish can be seen on many sandstone sculptures, including the lion capital at Sarnath. It fell apart with the rise to power of the Sunga dynasty about 500 years after supplanting the Nanda dynasty of Maghada. Following the death of the second ruler, Bindusara, the third ruler conquered Kalinga before converting to Buddhism and ordering the carving of the Rock Edicts. FTP name this Indian empire whose third ruler was Ashoka. ANSWER: Mauryan Empire or dynasty 20. In one of his sonnets, this man alluded to the “hinds that were transformed to frogs” which “railed at Latona’s twin-born progeny” and complained of being surrounded by a “barbarous noise” of “owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs.” In another sonnet, he invited Cyriack Skinner to join him in spending a day without studying Euclid and Archimedes, while a sonnet written after the death of his second wife called her his “late espousèd saint” whom he thought he saw in a dream. Other sonnets by this poet commemorate a massacre in Piedmont and reflect on how his light is spent. FTP, name this English poet who also wrote Comus and “Lycidas.” ANSWER: John Milton John Stuart Mill Bicentennial Open May 20, 2006 Packet #3 Bonus Questions 1. Name these mythical figures credited with the creation of land, FTPE: [10] This trickster figure used his ancestor’s jawbone to hook and draw up the Hawaiian islands. ANSWER: Maui [10] This Aztec deity used his enormous foot as bait to lure the monster Tlaltecuhtli to the surface of the waters, then ripped off her lower jaw. Her back provided the first solid ground, and this god replaced his missing foot with a black, smoking mirror. ANSWER: Tezcatlipoca [10] In one story, this figure of the mythology of the Pacific Northwest defecates and urinates while flying, forming land. Later, he taught men to copulate with women. ANSWER: Raven
[10] The title character of this 1897 novel is James Wait, who dies of tuberculosis while the unpleasant Donkin tries to foment a mutiny. ANSWER: The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ [10] Razumov falls in love with Nathalie after betraying her brother Haldin to the police in this 1911 novel, whose title refers to the Englishman who reads Razumov’s diary. ANSWER: Under Western Eyes [10] Verloc’s wife kills him after he persuades her brother Stevie to destroy the Greenwich Observatory in this novel. ANSWER: The Secret Agent
[10] Matiyasevich showed that Diophantine problems are generally unsolvable, finishing off the 10th of the 23 problems presented by this mathematician in 1900. ANSWER: David Hilbert [10] Wiles proved Fermat’s Last Theorem by proving the semistable case of this conjecture, which states that every elliptic curve is modular. ANSWER: Taniyama-Shimura conjecture [10] Mihailescu proved this conjecture that 8 and 9 are the only consecutive perfect powers of natural numbers. ANSWER: Catalan conjecture
[10] Name this American artist, who produced depictions of John Marshall and Benjamin Franklin for the U. S. Capitol building. ANSWER: Hiram Powers [10] Powers is best known for this 1845 sculpture, which depicts a chained and naked Christian woman. ANSWER: The Greek Slave [10] Powers’s first major achievement was a bust of this President, whom he persuaded to sit for him upon arriving in Washington in 1834. ANSWER: Andrew Jackson
[10] Name this revolt of 532 AD, which grew out of a conflict between two groups of sports fanatics. ANSWER: the Nika Revolt (accept equivalents) [10] The Nika Revolt was brutally suppressed by this Byzantine emperor, whose advisor Tribonian was a special target of the crowd’s hatred. ANSWER: Justinian I [10] This general under Justinian put down the Nika Revolt with the assistance of Mundus; according to a medieval legend Justinian had this man blinded, after which he became a beggar. ANSWER: Belisarius
[10] Ultraviolet radiation can cause dimers to form between two of this type of nitrogenous base. In DNA, this group is represented by cytosine and thymine. ANSWER: pyrimidines [10] In E. coli, pyrimidine dimers can be repaired by the U-v-r-ABC system. In that system, two nicks are made in the damaged strand, which must then be removed by a member of this class of molecules that unwinds duplex DNA. ANSWER: helicase [10] Double-stranded DNA breaks require genetic recombination to recover the lost genetic information. An intermediate in recombination is this structure that forms upon strand exchange between homologous chromosomes. ANSWER: Holliday junction or Holliday structure
[10] Name this Nobel Laureate in economics, who discussed underdevelopment in his earlier book, A Study in the Theory of Economic Evolution. ANSWER: Trygve Haavelmo [10] Trygve Haavelmo is best known for his contributions to this field; he discussed the “probability approach” to it in his groundbreaking doctoral thesis. ANSWER: econometrics [10] One of the foremost thinkers in the field of econometrics is this long-time professor at the Wharton School, who developed a namesake model with Arthur Goldberger and won the 1980 Nobel Prize. ANSWER: Lawrence Klein
[10] Name this politician, who went on to be elected governor of his state in 1966 after defeating George Maloney. ANSWER: Spiro Agnew [10] Spiro Agnew was elected governor of this state, though he only served for two years before becoming vice president. ANSWER: Maryland [10] In 1968, Nixon chose Agnew to be his vice presidential candidate rather than this man, a former auto executive who was elected governor of Michigan in 1962; this man’s son would later become governor of Massachusetts. ANSWER: George Romney
[10] Name this classical drama, in which Copreus insists that the aforementioned characters should allow themselves to be stoned to death. ANSWER: The Children of Heracles or Herakleidae [10] Which Greek dramatist wrote The Children of Heracles? ANSWER: Euripides [10] At the end of the play, this mother of Heracles orders King Eurystheus to be killed in retribution for his attempts to slay her grandchildren. ANSWER: Alcmene or Alcmena
[10] He wrote Electricity and Magnetism, the second volume in the Berkeley Physics Course, and shared a Nobel with Felix Bloch for discovering NMR. ANSWER: Edward Mills Purcell [10] He wrote a namesake 3-volume series of Lectures in Physics, and shared a Nobel with Tomonaga and Schwinger for work on quantum electrodynamics. ANSWER: Richard Phillips Feynman [10] With Diu and Laloë, this man wrote a two-volume text on Quantum Mechanics. He shared a 1997 Nobel with Chu and Phillips for work on laser cooling and trapping of atoms. ANSWER: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
[10] Name this channel, whose northern entrance is marked by the Comoro Archipelago. ANSWER: the Mozambique Channel [10] The Mozambique Channel separates this island nation from the African mainland. ANSWER: Madagascar [10] This river, which is joined by the Mazoe below the Cahora Bassa dam, flows into the Mozambique Channel. ANSWER: the Zambezi River
[10] Name this “suite from olden times,” its composer’s Opus 40; it was originally written for piano, though the orchestral version is more often played today. ANSWER: the Holberg Suite or From Holberg’s Time or Aus Holbergs Zeit [10] This composer wrote the Holberg Suite, as well as a bunch of Lyric Pieces for piano and a noted A minor piano concerto. ANSWER: Edvard Grieg [10] Grieg wrote two suites based on this play; they include such movements as “Anitra’s Dance” and “In the Hall of the Mountain King.” ANSWER: Peer Gynt
[10] Name this scientist, who during his time in Colorado also discovered terrestrial stationary waves and proved that the Earth was a conductor. ANSWER: Nikola Tesla [10] After feuding with Edison, Tesla sold the rights to his AC motor to this man, leading to a notorious conflict over the relative safety of AC and DC systems. This man had first hit it big with his invention of the air brake. ANSWER: George Westinghouse [10] Tesla is the namesake of an SI unit measuring this property; it is equal to one weber per square meter. ANSWER: magnetic flux density or magnetic field density or magnetic induction
[10] Name this British poet, who in the aforementioned poem refused to mourn the death by fire of a child in London. ANSWER: Dylan Thomas [10] Dylan Thomas is best known for a poem which instructs the reader not to “go gentle into that good night,” which is written in this poetic form. ANSWER: villanelle [10] Thomas’s greatest poetic achievement may be the Christian sonnet sequence entitled “Altarwise by” this form of illumination. ANSWER: owl-light (prompt on “light”; “Altarwise by owl-light” is the title)
[10] Name this generically-named group of raiders who invaded Egypt and the Levant in the 13th century BC. ANSWER: Sea Peoples [10] The Sea People are generally thought to be responsible for the collapse of this Anatolian kingdom which had its capital at Hattusa. ANSWER: Hittite kingdom [10] This thirteenth son of Ramses II defeated a combined force of Sea Peoples and Libyans in 1209 BC, a feat he commemorated in the Israel Stela. ANSWER: Merneptah
[10] Name this Jewish holiday. ANSWER: Purim or the Feast of Lots [10] Purim is a celebration of the defeat of this minister to king Ahasuerus, who wanted to kill all the Jews in the kingdom. A characteristic Purim treat is a three-cornered pastry known as this man’s “ears.” ANSWER: Haman [10] In the Book of Esther Ahasuerus is originally married to this woman, but gets rid of her after she refuses to dance for him. Esther becomes the king’s new wife, luckily for the Jews. ANSWER: Vashti
[10] Name this comic strip, which originally appeared in the University of Maryland’s student newspaper. ANSWER: The Boondocks [10] This cartoonist, known for taking frequent leaves of absence, created The Boondocks. ANSWER: Aaron McGruder [10] Name Huey’s younger brother in The Boondocks; like Chris Romero, he embraces the thug lifestyle. ANSWER: Riley Freeman
[10] Name this novel published in 1941. ANSWER: Reflections in a Golden Eye [10] Reflections in a Golden Eye was written by this American author, whose other works include The Member of the Wedding. ANSWER: Carson McCullers [10] This Carson McCullers work features Marvin Macy, who was married for ten days to Amelia Evans. ANSWER: Ballad of the Sad Café
[10] In this reaction, a diene and a dienophile react in a concerted fashion to make a cyclohexene ring. ANSWER: Diels-Alder reaction [10] A Michael reaction followed by an intramolecular aldol reaction result in the formation of a cyclohexenone ring in this reaction. ANSWER: Robinson annulation [10] This set of rules is used to predict the likelihood of ring formation based on ring size, hybridization of the electrophile, and endo or exo ring closure. ANSWER: Baldwin's rules
[10] Name this event which followed from an unfortunate pact signed by Ignacy Potocki in 1790. ANSWER: the Second Partition of Poland (accept equivalents, but make sure they indicate that it’s the second one) [10] This confederation, which was headed by Stanislaw Potocki, opposed the Constitution of 1791; its victory over the commonwealth brought about the second partition of Poland. ANSWER: the Targowica Confederation [10] In 1794, this veteran of the American Revolution led an uprising against the Targowica Confederation; he was captured by the Russians after the battle of Maciejowice [MACK-ee-joe-WEE-chay], and his rebellion petered out. ANSWER: Tadeusz Kosciuszko Yüklə 50,75 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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