2007 EFT: Rataplan Ghost Rides the WWI Ambulance Playoff Packet 3
Packet by: Jerry Vinokurov, Dennis Jang, Eric Mukherjee
1. The Nitrogen-15 heteronuclear single quantum coherence version of this technique is commonly applied to proteins, and the Karplus equation can be used to find torsion angles from the results of it. A two-dimensional Fourier version of this technique was developed by Jean Jeneer in the COSY experiment, and another two-dimensional variant uses the Overhauser effect. Spin-spin coupling results in the splitting of peaks in this technique, which uses TMS as a standard. It plots the intensity of a signal against the relative difference in the Larmor precession of the nucleus and the standard, which is called the chemical shift. FTP, name this type of spectroscopy that applied a magnetic field to a sample, usually abbreviated NMR.
ANSWER: Nuclear MagneticResonance (or NMR before mention)
2. He notably used parabolic rather than pointed arches in designing a school for female Catholic teachers, while Domènec Sugranes completed his unfinished work on the Bellesguard. He created a crypt, Palau, and Parque for the Güell family, and he mixed the Gothic and Mudéjar styles in a building built for the factory owner Vicens. He may be better known for a building sometimes called “The Quarry” situated on a corner lot and featuring a sand-like wavy façade, as well as a still unfinished Roman Catholic church, both of which are in Barcelona. FTP, name this Spanish architect of the Casa Mila and the Sagradia Familia.
ANSWER: Antonio Gaudi
3. In this work, Toby Crackit flees from a house in Chertsey, leaving the title character in a ditch, and tells of a conversation he had with Monks, who is actually Edward Leeford. Thanks to old Sally, who stole a locket and ring from the title character’s mother, the title character receives his name from Bumble, who sends him to become an apprentice to the casket maker Sowerberry. While under the care of Grimwig and Mrs. Bedwin, this novel’s title character is intercepted by Nancy, who is later murdered by Bill Sikes. After the title character learns that Rose Maylie is his aunt, Mr. Brownlow adopts him as his former fellow gang members, Fagin and the Artful Dodger, are seized. FTP, name this Charles Dickens novel.
ANSWER: Oliver Twist
4. John V. Lindsay was met with a transit strike during his first day holding this post, and Richard Nicolls appointed Thomas Willett to be the first man to hold this post. The Seabury Commission forced James J. Walker to resign from this position, having received it with the help of Alfred E. Smith, while William L. Strong elected Theodore Roosevelt to serve as Police Commissioner while holding this post. GracieMansion has housed those who held this office since the election of Fiorello LaGuardia, who was the first one elected to this position after the defeat of Tammany Hall. FTP, name this political office whose most recent holders have included George Pataki, Rudy Guliani, and Michael Bloomberg.
ANSWER: mayor of New York City [prompt on partial answer]
5. Along with Paul Hollander, this man published “The Murder They Heard” about the murder of Kitty Genovese, while his studies on “The Familiar Stranger: An Aspect of Urban Anonymity” appeared in Psychology Today. He worked with cameras in the works “Candid Camera” and “Image-Freezing Machine, and his “small world experiment” gave rise to the notion of six degrees of separation. He published Obedience and Authority: An Experimental View to describe variations of an experiment he conducted at Yale in 1961. FTP, name this psychologist whose most famous experiment saw its participants willingly obey orders to administer 450-volt shocks.
ANSWER: StanleyMilgram
6. Its leader was later immortalized in Self-Portrait of a Hero, and the operation was planned by Muki Betser. One casualty was Jean-Jacques Maimoni, and Dora Bloch was killed in a hospital after it occurred. After landing with four C-130 Hercules transports, the forces arrived at the namesake location in a black Mercedes and a few Land Rovers, and the only member of the strike team to die was its leader, Jonathan Netanyahu. Ordered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and occurring at the namesake Ugandan airport, FTP, name this 1976 Israeli operation whose objective was to rescue the hostages of Air France 139 from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
ANSWER: Entebbe Raid or Operation Entebbe or Operation Thunderbolt or Operation Jonathan
7. The Born-Mayer model can be used to calculate this quantity, and it can also be determined empirically through the Kapustinski equation. Repulsive force governed primarily by the principal quantum number result in a proportionality to “quantity one minus one over n” for this quantity, where n is determined by the number of nearest neighbors. Calculating that sum results in a proportionality factor known as the Madelung constant, meaning that in ionic crystals with regular structure this quantity depends only on geometry. Often determined through the Born-Haber cycle by application of Hess's law, for ten points, identify this energy which is equivalent to the amount of work it takes to separate the bonds in a solid compound.
Answer: lattice energy
8. One of his daughters was the mother of Sarpedon, Laomedia, and his other children included Hippolochus and Isander. This man’s attack against the king of Lycia failed when the Xanthian women came out of the palace came out and flashed him. He was earlier accused of attempting to seduce Proteus’s wife Anteia, which lead to him being assigned a supposedly impossible task by her husband Iobates. His tale was retold by his grandson Glaucus in the Illiad, and it involved him acquiring a Golden Bridle from Athena and killing a pet of the king of Caria. FTP, name this figure from Greek Mythology who killed the Chimera, and fell off of the winged horse Pegasus as he attempted to ascend to heaven.
ANSWER: Bellerophon
9 This author wrote about the “tough old Teuton / Who brewed the stoutest ale” in “Cobbler Keezar’s Vision,” while he satirized a Puritan minister, describing him as “his eyes agog and his ears set wide” in “The Double-Headed Snake of Newbury.” The Judge weds a wife of richest dower instead of Maud Muller in one poem by this author, who also wrote about a woman who raised an American flag despite the arrival of Stonewall Jackson in “Barbara Frietchie.” In addition to writing the collections Legends of New England and Moll Pitcher, this author is probably best remembered for a poem, subtitled “A Winter Idyll,” which describes a New England family during a week-long blizzard. FTP, name this American Quaker poet of “Snowbound.”
ANSWER: John Greenleaf Whittier
10. Basilio saves his lover Quiteria from being forced to marry the title character in this composer’s comic opera The Marriage of Camacho, while he wrote an oratorio about a biblical prophet one year after his opus 66, Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor. This composer struggled to complete his sole violin concerto in E minor after a request from King Frederick William IV, finished near the completion of eight volumes of six pieces for solo piano as part of his Songs without Words. A trip to Fingal’s Cave inspired his Hebrides Overture, and he wrote a Wedding March as part of incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. FTP, name this German composer of the “Scottish,” “Italian,” and “Reformation” Symphonies?
ANSWER: Felix Mendelssohn
11. Henry le Despenser’s defeat of a group led by John Litster led to the conclusion of this event, which also resulted in the revocation of the Mile End grants. The confiscation of all church property and the restoration of the Charter of Winchester was not agreed to at Smithfield, after which its leader was wounded in a fight with William Walworth, the mayor of London. The passing of the Statute of Labourers helped start this event, which was quashed by the lords and knights of Richard II. Jack Straw and John Ball took part in, FTP, which 1381 rebellion concerning an unpopular poll tax and also led by Wat Tyler?
ANSWER: Peasant’s Revolt [accept equivalents for “rebellion” and Wat Tyler’s Rebellion before mention]
12. James Duffy breaks off a relationship with Mrs. Sinico when she seeks further intimacy in one story of this collection, while the title character of another story cannot leave for Buenos Aires with her lover Frank. Besides “A Painful Case” and “Eveline,” this collection sees canvassers discuss the upcoming Nationalist election in “Ivy Day in the Committee Room.” This collection also contains a story about a boy who goes to the title bazaar to buy a gift for his love, as well as one where Gretta’s recollection of Michael Furey causes Gabriel Conroy to have an epiphany about the meaninglessness of his life. “Araby” and “The Dead” are among the fifteen stories in, FTP, which James Joyce collection of stories about his Irish hometown?
ANSWER: Dubliners [accept “A Painful Case” before “this collection”]
13. These molecules can be pulled out of solution using sepharose beads coated with proteins A and G, and fluorescently conjugated ones are used in the ELISA assay. The enzyme papain separates their crystallizable and non-crystallizable fragments, and their synthesis was explained by Susumu Tonegawa. Antinuclear ones are found in sufferers of lupus erythematosus, and artificially created ones can be either polyclonal or monoclonal. In humans, there are five naturally occurring isotypes, and these molecules usually consist of heavy and light chains. FTP, name these Y-shaped proteins produced by B-cells that target foreign antigens, and also known as immunoglobulins.
ANSWER: Antibodies [accept Immunoglobulins before mention]
14. Various characters on this show have found a guitar and sung, “Robert DeNiro, Bela Lugosi, Snuffleupagus, and Parker Posie,” told a joke comparing its host to a mallard with a cold, and stated that the Shakespeare play about a merchant in Venice was Footloose. The latter is associated with a character who once put “Kick Me” signs on the back of other characters. That character wished to be called Turd Ferguson in his last appearance on this show, and he knew surprisingly little about such things as “Condiments” and “A Petit Dejeuner.” While French Stewart cannot identify the sound a dog makes, Sean Connery tells Will Ferrell’s character that it’s “just the way your mother likes it.” FTP, name this Saturday Night Live spoof of an Alex Trebek-hosted game show.
ANSWER: Celebrity Jeopardy [prompt on “Saturday Night Live” before mention]
15. In this man’s work Siris, he extols the benefits of tar-water, while he produced a tract on an instrumentalist view of Newtonian dynamics in De Motu. Christian apologetics make up his work Alciphron, which attacked the Earl of Shaftesbury, while he also wrote another work “in opposition to Sceptics and Atheists.” He critiques Locke’s notion of primary and secondary qualities in one of his essays, and he posits that the outside world consists of nothing but ideas in another work. FTP, name this Irish philosopher of Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous and A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, the namesake of a University of California school.
ANSWER: George Berkeley
16. When this painting was first displayed, it was accompanied by a poem written by Paul Eluard. A woman enters near the top right of this painting bearing a lamp as a bird sits on a shelf nearby. Daggers have replaced the tongues of some of the creatures, and a creature stabbed by a diamond-tipped spear stands over a man hold a broken sword, from which a flower is growing. Various harlequins are allegedly hidden in this work, which also hides a skull in the wounded horse in its center. A sole ceiling light illuminates the action in its center, while a bull at left stands above a woman wailing with her dead child in her arms. FTP, name this Pablo Picasso painting which depicts the Nazi bombing of the title Spanish city in 1937.
ANSWER: Guernica
17. Recently, this man met with Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to discuss the broadband network project recently bought by his country’s ZTE Corporation. In 2006, this leader released the eight “Concepts on Honours and Disgraces,” while his attempt to use the Green Gross Domestic Product as means for measuring growth collapsed a year later. Passing his country’s first law protecting private property in 2007, this man has had spats with George W. Bush as Mattel pulled toys off the shelves, and he has faced stiff opposition from people like Steven Spielberg for sending a special envoy to Darfur, but he removed the troops as Spielberg threatened to pull out working for the 2008 Olympics. FTP, name this current president of China.
ANSWER: Hu Jintao
18. The HAARP project is currently studying it by artificially creating plasma in this area, and heating this region is one of the science goals of the Arecibo observatory. The European Incoherent Scatter experiment also observes this region, the intensity of which is strongly correlated with solar activitiy. This region contains divisions where lower radiation, greater gas density, and greater recombination rates balance out, resulting in peaks known as Heaviside, or E layer, and it also includes the D, F1, and F2 layers. Lying above the mesosphere and within the thermosphere, for ten points, identify this charged layer of the atmosphere famously measured by Edward Appleton, through which radio signals may propagate.
Answer: ionosphere
19. Lyman Hall was a representative from the Parish of St. John's at this event, while differences between Arthur Lee and Silas Deane led to the replacement of the latter. Peyton Randolph was chosen as its first president, and an “Address to the Assembly of Jamaica” was written, as well as a statement defending the "necessity of taking up arms,” co-authored by John Dickinson. Eventually passing the Lee Resolution, this group had met in Philadelphia for two of its first three meetings, during which the Olive Branch petition was passed. Meeting for the first time shortly after the Battle of Lexington and Concord, this is, FTP, which body of representatives whose members appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief and adopted the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence?
ANSWER: Second Continental Congress [prompt on partial answer]
20. In this work, the Academy of Sciences at Bordeaux awarded a sheep to a Northern scholar, who demonstrated by the formula A plus B minus C that the sheep was necessarily red. That sheep had traveled with Martin and the title character from Suriname and originally carried gold and diamonds, having been by the king of El Dorado. After sending Cacambo to retrieve his lover and the old woman from Paraguay, this work’s title character spends the remainder of his life on a small farm with them and the philosopher Pangloss, having initially been booted out of Castle Thunder-ten-Tronckh for kissing Cunégonde. FTP, name this satirical novel by Voltaire.
ANSWER: Candide
21. This enzyme uses its tyrosine-75, glycine-76, and threonine-77 residues to stabilize its substrate, and it can be irreversibly inactivated by diazoacetyl-DL-norleucine. It preferentially cleaves at the N-terminal side of aromatic amino acids using an aspartic acid residue in its active site, and its precursor is released from chief cells in response to gastrin. It is activated when it cleaves off 44 of its own amino acids in response to increased acidity. First discovered by Theodore Schwann, FTP, name this enzyme, which is active only in very low pH environments, that cleaves proteins in the stomach during digestion.
ANSWER: pepsin
Bonuses
1. One character begins a prayer with the words, “Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada,” after he is asked why he needs the title location. FTPE:
[10] Name this short story describing the conversation between an older and younger waiter in a Spanish café.
ANSWER: “A Clean, Well Lighted Place”
[10] “A Clean, Well Lighted Place” is among the short stories of this American author, whose longer works include Death in the Afternoon, A Moveable Feast, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises.
ANSWER: Ernest Hemingway
[10] The title character of this Hemingway short story is presumably shot by his wife Margot while they are out hunting with friend Robert Wilson on a safari in Africa.
ANSWER: “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
2. In his work Fathering the Unthinkable, Brian Easlea used this term to specifically refer to the creation of technology. FTPE:
[10] Name this notion that men feel inadequate due to their inability to give birth, the opposite-sex equivalent of a Freudian term.