MANU GINOBILI OPEN
PACKET #1
1. It’s significance is discussed in a skit preceding the track ‘Child’s Play” on the Ghostface Killah album Supreme Clientele. Employees here include Jim, played by Paul Ainsley, and Mike, portrayed by Brad Blaisdell. Frank, a cruel older bartender puts up a naked picture of the protagonist on this establishment’s wall. In “Dates of Wrath” Bob catches the eye of [*] Janet but takes out Terry instead. The low cut shirts on the waitresses often caught the eye of Larry Dallas and his friends Jack Tripper and his two housemate, FTP name this establishment, the swinging bar on Three’s Company.
Answer: The Regal Beagle
2. It discusses Susana Southwell’s feet, while other dedicatees of its contents include Prudence, Dianeme, and Endymion Porter. Its author notes that he will sing of “groves and twilights,” “The Court of Mab,” [*] and “the Fairy King” in the indexical opening “The Argument of His Book.” But more meditative fare such as “The White Island” and “His Litany to the Holy Spirit” were added when it was amended with the addition of His Noble Numbers, yet the overwhelming mood of its original constituents like “To Daisies,” “The Hock Cart,” and the “Julia” poems is celebratory. FTP identify this book of poetry best known for the carpe diem attitude expressed of the works “Corinna’s Going a Maying” and “To the Virgins to Make Much of Time,” the masterpiece of Robert Herrick.
Answer: Hesperides
3. He produced a series of bronze reliefs for the Genoa University Chapel, but all of his marble works, save Samson Slaying the Philistine, are now found in what became his adopted home. Although he lost a competition to design a fountain of Neptune for the Piazza Signoria to Bartolomeo Ammanati, he ended up winning the commission to depict his patron, Cosimo I, on horseback [*] in the same square. His other works include a small Apollo, the dynamic Hercules and the Centaur, and the weightless looking bronze Mercury. His most famous work, based on Michelangelo’s Victory, was designed so that the spectator must walk all the way around to see its three intertwined figures. FTP identify this sculptor of The Abduction of the Sabine Woman, commonly known by the Italianate version of his name Jean de Boulogne.
Answer: Giambologna
4. It has been found that the propagation of a Gaussian laser beam in methane does not obey it. Aqueous solutions of dyes also deviate from it because of the formation of aggregates and dimers. (*) If it is true for a given solution, the plot of log I-sub-zero over I will be a straight line whose slope is equal to the molar extinction coefficient. FTP, name this law which states that the amount of light absorbed by a solute dissolved in a non-absorbing solvent is proportional to the path length of the light through the solution and the concentration of the solute.
Answer: Beer’s Law
5. Standard activities included the weekly “bag bees,” croquet, and concerts by its two full orchestras. Although its own newsletter, The Circular, was always upbeat, certain arrangements failed—like when Sewall Newhouse got so jealous that he was put in solo-confinement, or when William Mills was left in a snow drift for introducing twelve year olds to night time activities at the Manor home [*]. Some of its most influential leaders were women, such as Mary Cragin and Harriet Skinner, and its founder published his ideas on “complex marriage’ and God in works like The Witness and Scientific Propagation. Originally based on the idea of humanity’s slow but sure development into perfection, eventually the founder’s son, Pierrepoint, made its name famous for the production of silverware, FTP, identify this community of “Bible Communists” who were founded by John Humphry Noyes.
Answer: Oneida
6. The protagonist’s husband in blackmailed into thinking he fathered two illegitimate children and a severe drought forces her to sell her best clothes to Biswas. The dried-up mango wreath symbolizes the hard times that are to come in this novel, which contrasts Kali’s largeness and outspoken demeanor with the frail physique of the homeless Janaki. Even though the protagonist’s literacy (*) allows her to feel superior to these two women, she finds herself at the mercy of the bill-collector Sivaji early on. Later, she must won over the scheming Kunthi, but much of the novel focuses the protagonist’s search of her missing son Murugan which forces her to become a temple beggar. The novel ends with the death of her husband Nathan and a return to the village with the leper boy Puli. FTP, name this work about the struggles of the Indian peasant woman Rukmani, the best-known work of Kamala Markandaya.
Answer: Nectar in a Sieve
7. His advisors included Johan Cresques and the biographer Zurara. The Battle of Alfarrobeira was the high point for strife in his family. This era was precipitated by the death of his brother Duarte and the desire of Leonor of Aragon not to allow his other brother Pedro [*] to ascend the throne, ultimately this grand master of the Order of Christ had to take sides and chose King Alfonso. He had first made his name with the capture of Ceuta, but he suffered a great defeat at Tangiers. He was best known, however, for sponsoring the ventures of men like Gil Eanes and Joa Zarco in Asia and Africa, FTP, name this man whose mint in Lisbon produced the “cruzado” coin and who established a colony for exploration at Sagres.
Answer: Prince Henry the Navigator
8. Boris Blacher composed an orchestral piece with this name, while a setting for two pianos was written in Nazi occupied Warsaw by Witold Lutoslawski. Two sets of studies for piano, numbering twenty-eight in all, were finished in 1863 by Johannes Brahms who chose to work with the same original piece, the twenty-fourth in A minor, [*] that was used in their most notable interpretation. That 1934 version includes a cavalry charge, a minuet, and incorporated the Dies Irae in counterpoint as a tribute to their namesake composer, a man whose works like The Witches’ Dance and Fantasia on a G String were said to have been composed after a reputed deal with the devil. FTP identify the name of these compositions, which were inspired by an Italian virtuoso’s famous Caprices, the most famous of which is a Rhapsody by Rachmaninov.
Answer: Variations on a Theme of Pagnini(as long as they say Paganini accept equivalents that display clear knowledge)
9. It began by appealing to the Statutum de Tallagio non Concedendo, and protesting the issuance of forced loans, tallages, or benevolences. Section IX criticized the arbitrary refusal of local officials and judges to prosecute “sundry grievous offenders,” while Section VI protested the forced [*] quartering of “great companies of soldiers and mariners.” Chosen in favor of a more moderate appeal advocated by Thomas Wentworth, it was heavily directed at the undue influence of George Villiers over the Court and the Privy Council and was drafted and submitted by Edward Coke. FTP, name this 1628 document that outlined the abuses of Charles I.
Answer: Petition of Right
10. Its first main division ends by reflecting on the subject’s role as “object” and uses the example of a phantom limb to argue for the creation of a human being through the deployment of “expression and speech.” The last section echoes Being and Nothingness [*] and argues that even obstacles to our freedom are in reality deployed by it. Beginning with the chapter “Traditional Prejudices and the Return to Phenomena,” its ideas were later amended in the author’s posthumous The Visible and the Invisible, while its discussion of sensation is an expansion of the arguments proffered in the earlier The Structure of Behavior. FTP identify this 1945 work that sought to meld the ideas of Sartre with those of Husserl a work by Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Answer: Phenomenology of Perception
11. The Citrus Tristeza virus causes it to deteriorate in the Mexican Lime, and its secondary walls are based on n ordered, layered scaffolding of cellulose microfibrils. It always elongates via intrusive growth, (*) remaining attached to the walls of the cells between which it grows. “Bast” or phloem fibers are often made of it, as are intraxalry wood fibers. Unlike collenchyma, it has a lignified secondary cell wall, and it is the main component of both thorns and seed coverings. FTP, name this plant tissue which provides tensile and shear strength, which has a name that literally means “hardened tissue.”
Answer: sclerenchyma
12. It was originally published alongside fifteen photos taken by Myron H. Davis and includes parts like “The World Outside,” which discusses the importance of weekly trips to the swimming pool, as well as the chapter “Food: The Great Socializer,” that focuses on the impact regularly scheduled meals can have on abnormal behavior. The story of Stuart, whose father always lets him win during their wrestling matches, allows its author to illustrate the dangers of over-indulging and being “too safe.” [*] In its preface the author thanks his collaborator at the school, Dr. Emmy Sylvester, and this study ends with an appeal to transfer the knowledge gleaned from observing the deviant behaviors presented and to adapt the lessons learned to everyday interactions with young persons in normal schools. FTP, identify this work, subtitled “The Treatment of Emotionally Disturbed Children,” whose title asserts that parents have to do more than just care deeply for their kids, a work by Bruno Bettelheim.
Answer: Love is Not Enough
13. One character in this work recites a limerick that ends “and yet, and yet, and yet” after asking other characters for a loan. That same character later parodies the ballad of Mr. Dooley after another proclaims: “art for art’s sake—I defecate.” At one point, the librarian Cecily (*) and the secretary Gwendolen parody the song “Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean.” These two characters are based on characters from The Importance of Being Earnest, a play being put on by James Joyce in this work. The artist Tristan Tzara creates poetry by pulling words out of a hat, while Nadya Krupskaya and Vlad Lenin learn of the revolution taking place in St. Petersburg. The butler Bennett speaks his piece about the news to his master Henry Carr in, FTP, what play which takes place in the Zurich library, a work by Tom Stoppard?
Answer: Travesties
14. It is used in the preparation of betamethasone, a treatment for inflammatory disorders. The Phillips process and UOP use it as a catalyst to alkylate low-weight olefines with isobutene. (*) Its ability to dissolve oxides makes it, like sulfuric acid, key to electropolishing molybdenum, niobium, tantalum, and tungsten. It is often distilled from a mixture of calcium sulfate after sulfuric acid reacts with the mineral fluorspar. FTP, name this acid which is classified as weak despite its reactive nature, and consists of a hydrogen atom and an atom of the most electronegative halogen.
Answer: hydrofluouric acid (accept HF)
15. The Israeli adherents have ties to the Tewahedo church, and the Nyahbinghi sect preach the ideal of a global theocracy. The first member to run for office was Sam Brown who formed the Suffering People’s Party. They see every person as the embodiment of the Holy Spirit. Their primary texts include the book by Robert Athlyi Rogers, the [*] Holy Piby and they also revere the Kebra Negast which tells the story of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba’s lineage. Popular culture influences include there use of nonce terms such as “downpression” and Nas’s favorite “overstand”. They also understand the teachings of Marcus Garvey as religious prophecy. FTP name this religion often associated with ganja, dreadlocks, and shiftless college students.
Answer: Rastafarian
16. He can hear “the heifer when it stirs at sixty leagues distance” and he has created an enchanted gate that must be passed when someone enters his kingdom, an area that stretches for ten thousand leagues in every direction. Before he is encountered, his adversary sacrifices a white kid and receives the “Axe of Heroes” and the “Bow of Anshan.” [*] Sometimes referred to as “the great Herdsman,” he cries out for the first time after a sacred cedar has been felled. He wields the seven splendors and other weapons include a deadly nod, a fiery breath, and a look that turns men to stone. But all of this is for naught when the winds of Shamash are invoked and destroy him, at which point Enkidu and his companion kill this guardian of Enlil’s forest. FTP identify this giant who is killed by Gilgamesh during his adventures.
Answer: Humbaba
17.Along with a positive integer’s Möbius function, it is used extensively in a combinatorial proof of Chen’s inversion theorem. The Levi-Civita permutation symbol is a specialized case (*) of its generalized version, and the base vectors of an orthogonal linear space can be described by its application. The only isotropic tensor of rank-2, an n by n identity matrix can be written in terms of it when the matrix’s row and column numbers are represented by its two variables, i and j. FTP, what is this function named for a Polish-born mathematician, which is 1 when both of its variables are equal and 0 otherwise, the discrete analog of a similar “function” named for Dirac?
Answer: Kronecker Delta function [prompt on “Kronecker” or “Delta”]
18. The name common for it worldwide comes from words meaning “greenish blue duck”. Rising on Baitou Mountain in the Changbai mountain range, its chief tributaries are the Changjin, Herchun, and Tokro rivers. Now bordering the provinces [*] of Kirin and Liaoning, this river first became a political demarcator during the Koryo dynasty in the 14th century. The largest city on this river is Dandong and it flows only for 491 miles before emptying into the Yellow Sea. FTP give the name of this river known chiefly for separating Manchuria from the Korean peninsula.
Answer:YaluRiver
19. Rumors spread about this man included that he had assisted his mother at bizarre nocturnal religious rituals and served as a janitor in his father's schoolhouse. His first political activity was as a supporter of Eubulus [YOO-buh-luhss], and he scored a major success by accusing Timarchus of having worked as a [*] male prostitute. He died in exile in Rhodes after having accused Ctesiphon of making an illegal proposal in the assembly, which caused this man's main political opponent to make the speech known as On the Crown. FTP, name this Athenian orator who was also the target of the oration On the False Assembly, given by his most prominent enemy, Demosthenes.
Answer: Aeschines
20. The reformed Sigbjorn Wilderness is the protagonist of his posthumously published novel Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid. He had planned to organize his writings under the title “The Voyage that Never Ends,” and he managed to write “The Forest Path to the Spring” and “Through the Panama Canal” [*] for his collection of short stories Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place. The novella Lunar Caustic is based on his experiences sobering up at Bellevue Hospital, and it is hard to deny that the main characters of his most famous novel, Yvonne Constable and the alcoholic Geoffrey Firmin who encounter each other on the Day of the Dead, are based partly on his ex-wife and him FTP, name this author whose novel Ultramarine is seen as a preface to his most famous work, Under the Volcano.
Answer: (Clarence) Malcolm Lowry
Bonuses
1. Answer the following about a philosopher and his work FTPE:
A. This founder and first president of the Society for Psychical Research developed the wages fund theorem and argued for the importance of “intuitonism” in works like Philosophy: Its Scope and Relations.
Answer: Henry Sidgwick
B. Sidgwick is most famous work for this 1874 work that considers three different modes—egoism, intuitionism, and utilitarianism—for evaluating the right course of action.
Answer: The Methods of Ethics
C. Sidgwick was inspired to write his The Methods of Ethics by this Utilitarian author of A System of Logic, Three Essays on Religion, and Principles of Political Economy.
Answer: John Stuart Mill
2. Answer the following about a French dude who wrote stuff, FTPE.
A. He wrote a novel about a pair of brothers, Pierre et Jean, but is remembered more as a short story writer, having authored “Ball of Fat” and “The Piece of String.”
Answer: Guy de Maupassant
B. This first Maupassant novel describes the unfulfilling existence of a Norman woman named Jeanne de Lamare.
Answer: Une Vie or A Woman’s Life
C. The title name of this Maupassant story is actually a derisive epithet given to Count von Eryick, a sadistic asshole of a soldier who is stabbed to death in self-defense by a prostitute named Rachel.