GHETTO WARZ 2006 PACKET 2
WRITTEN BY MIK LARSEN, MARC SPRARAGEN, CHRIS KRUEGER, MICHAEL GORDON, LUKE HARDMAN, MANE SARDANYAN, GAREN TORIKIAN, GRACE CHENG, YOGESH RAUT, SCOTT CALLAGHAN, AND ADAM BENKATO
1. (Mik) Like Jesus, she died at age 33. She married real estate developer Thomas Burris in a disastrous marriage that ended in 1981, and a 1989 TV movie starring Cynthia Gibb was made depicting her life. Voices of the Heart, her posthumous album, reached number 43 on the charts in 1983, but didn’t reach the success of Close to You or A Song For You. FTP, name this pop icon of the 1970s, who died of cardiac arrest in 1983 because of her anorexia nervosa.
A: Karen Carpenter
2. (Marc) This document creation paradigm was originated in 1984 by Leslie Lamport. It is widely used today by authors of technical and scholarly documents, as it has an extensive markup system for equations, diagrams, footnotes, and bibliographical information. Markup headings on a document typically begin with a backslash, and the formatting information for a particular heading is coded elsewhere. FTP, name this document authoring system, based on a typesetting system christened by its creator (computer scientist Donald Knuth) as the TeX [tek] system.
A: LaTeX (accept any reasonable pronunciation)
3. (Adam) The only emperor of his dynasty who was illiterate, he had books from his enormous library read aloud to him by his courtiers. After his father Humayun died in 1556, his inherited army won the Second Battle of Panipat and placed him on the throne at the age of 13. His efforts religious tolerance for Hindus and Muslimsled to the creation of a new religion called ‘the Faith of the Divine,’, which was unpopular.Name this Mughal ruler, who, FTP, greatly expanded the Empire until his 1605 death, often considered the greatest of his line.
Akbar
4. (Mik) In translations, the number of poetic units ranges from John Garner’s 152 to Edward Winfield’s 500, and titles derived from it are Rex Stout’s Some Buried Caesar, Agatha Christie’s The Moving Finger, and Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness!. The most famous English translations are those of Edward Fitzgerald; however, his liberties taken with the Persian are much criticized. Modern versions of what poem, FTP, are selected from about a thousand different quatrains attributed to a twelfth-century mystic, mathematician and astronomer?
A: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Rubaiyat alone is fine, Omar K. is not)
5. (Marc) Implications of this phenomenon include quantum teleportation, meaning that information can be transmitted faster than light, in violation of relativity, and “hidden variable theory” tries to explain it. The “no cloning” theorem states objects affected cannot be inspected statistically. FTP, name this phenomenon, described by Einstein as “spooky action at a distance”, that describes the instantaneous quantum state change correlation between two or more spatially separated objects?
A: quantum entanglement
6. (Mik) The light in this painting comes from a roughly cubical lantern placed between the two sets of figures. Three of the four persons on the left are hiding their faces in their hands, one looks down at one of the two bodies on the ground on the extreme left, and another stares darkly at the soldiers facing away from the viewer on the right. The only other light figure is a brown-skinned man in yellow pants and wide shirt with arms outstretched who also faces the soldiers in, FTP, what 1814 Goya work about a massacre during the Napoleonic Wars?
A: The3rd of May, 1808
7. (Mik) Henry Meiggs, a railroad entrepreneur, signed a deal with Costa Rica in 1871to build a line from San Jose to Limon on the coast. When the government defaulted on its debts in 1882, he accepted 800000 acres of land as payment, and used profits from products grown there to merge with the BFC in 1899, and the company later bought the Cuyamel company in 1930. Referred to as el pulpo by locals, what despotic agricultural corporation convinced the United States to overthrow the Guzman government of Guatemala in 1954, claiming communist ties, and is now Chiquita?
A: United Fruit
8. (Garen) The title character’s mannerisms are based on theater manager Henry Irving, and its main subject was addressed earlier in a work by John Polidori, and in Le Fanu’s Carmilla. In Epistolary style, it’s unusual in that it uses dication tapes, and the excitable assistant in later adaptations is merely a patient in an insane asylum. The group of protagonists at the end at the novel’s end is led by a stereotypical American cowboy, an English solicitor, and a Dutch professor in FTP, what novel named for the bloodsucking count are they trying to kill?
A: Dracula
9. (Grace) Both with the last name Calderón, this author suffered from polio at the age of six, which caused an unusually thin right leg, and was involved in a trolley accident in 1925 which resulted in a broken spinal column, collarbone, ribs, pelvis, and a pierced uterus. Her alleged relationship with Josephine Baker was one of several outside of her mutually unfaithful marriage. For ten points, name this Mexican painter whose painting Self-Portrait with Monkey depicts her distinctive small mustache and unibrow.
A: Frida Kahlo
10. (Yogesh) After a short-lived marriage when she was 18, she married her second husband, Danny Zugelder, while he was in prison for rape. Her third marriage (of five total) was to a recovering heroin addict. Her nonfiction works include His Bright Light, about the death of her son Nicholas Traina, and she is the author of the “Max and Martha” series of children’s books. FTP, name this author best known for spending 390 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and selling over 530 million copies of her romance novels.
Answer: Danielle Steel
11. (Mik) The characteristic “feather” of the Axoneme is a 9 + 2 arrangement of them and proteins, and dyneins and kinesins travel along them to transport cellular cargoes. During spindle assembly, they attach to the kinetochores on the centromere of the chromosomes, and normally they are organized by the centrosome. Formed by 13 protofilaments which are polymers of alpha and beta tubulin, FTP, name these cytoskeletal filaments which bind GTP for polymerization.
A: Microtubules
12. (Mane) A lawyer by profession, he entered royal service in 1517 as “master of requests” and became lord chancellor in 1529, replacing Cardinal Wolsey. After refusing to swear to the Act of Supremacy, which named Henry VIII the head of the English church, this man was beheaded asa traitor, and sainted 400 years later.Erasmus dedicated In Praise of Folly to this man, FTP, an English humanist and patron saint of statesmen, known best for his only philosophical work, Utopia.
A: Thomas More
13. (Michael) They evolved from earlier bands called Sigma 8, The Meggadeaths, and the Screaming Abdabs, and their reformation as Tea Set in 1965 soon led to their new name, based on 2 blues musicians. Their breakthrough album A Saucerful of Secrets was released soon after vocalist Syd Barrett left theband due to mental illness and drug addiction. Orwell influenced their 1977 album Animals, and they defined the concept album with such records as Wish You Were Here. FTP, name this psychedelic rock band, the creators of Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall.
A: Pink Floyd
14. (Chris) The use of Pwo and Pfu as compliment enzymes has improved the usefulness of this technique, as the enzyme typically used has no proofreading exonuclease activity. It has been involved in several patent wars between Cetus Corporation and DuPont, and the inventor, Kary Mullis, won the Nobel prize for his invention in 1993 for this process, likely the most important technique in molecular biology. For ten points, name this technique for amplifying specific DNA sequences in vitro.
PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)
15. (Scott) Its name was originally an insult, given to a group of students meeting at Oxford in the 1730s. Soon, however, their message of free will and God’s grace spread, eventually leading to separation in 1784 from the Church of England and the appointment of the first American bishops, Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke, which contrasted it from Presbyterians. Spawning over 40 denominations including United, Free, and the Salvation Army, FTP, name this Protestant denomination founded by John Wesley.
Answer: Methodist
16. (Mik) Johnny, a former waiter and janitor, dies on Christmas, five months before the birth of his daughter Annie Laurie, the youngest of three children. The second child, Neely, shares his father’s musical talents, but avoids the alcoholism that led to his death. Aunt Sissy shames the family through her romances, but proves a warmer mother than her sister Katie. The main character hooks up with Ben Blake after Lee Raynor breaks her heart and goes off to WWI, in FTP, what novel in which Sergeant McShane marries Katie at the climax, allowing Francie Nolan to go to college and escape tenement life, written by Betsy Smith?
A: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
17. (Mik) The first one started in Siciliy versus Bourbon hegemony, and resulted in a sixteen-month period of independence. The Grand Duchy of Poznan held a short-lived insurrection versus Prussian occupiers. Milan expelled the Austrian forces in March, although only Piedmont actually committed to combat and was routed. Frederick William IV yielded to the demands of rioters for nationalism and freedom in March, FTP, in one of the largest of these radical social movements, sparked by the overthrow of Louis Philippe in France in a namesake year?
A: Revolutions of 1848
18. (mik)It details the use of insulin, the infertility drug Clomid, and two chemicals nicknamed “Mexican Beans” and “the Cream and the Clear”. The authors performed a detailed investigation of Greg Anderson and Victor Conte, and their evidence rests on over 200 interviews and many documents, including affidavits against BALCO. Judge James Warren denied the request from Barry Bonds’ lawyers to block publication of, FTP, what March 2006 book by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, which alleges major steroid use by Bonds and other athletes?
A: Game of Shadows
19. (Scott) Fed primarily by the Svir, Vuoksi, and Volkhov rivers, its position makes it a key part of the Volga-Baltic waterway. As a result, one can sail all the way from Moscow to this lake in Karelia, and out the Neva to the Gulf of Finland. The site of naval battles during the Finnish-Russian war and the only route to Leningrad during the siege, FTP, name, at nearly 7,000 square miles, this largest lake in Europe.
Answer: LakeLadoga
20. (Marc) In the sacred Mayan book Popol Vuh, the cavern of Zotzilaha (or “bat house”) is described as home to these legendary creatures; one of which decapitated the mythical hero Hunahpú. A cult worshipping the monsters flourished among the Mayans and associated civilizations circa 100bc. The large vampire bat species Desmodus draculae, now extinct, may have provided the inspiration for the legend, as the creatures were described as huge anthropomorphic bats with leaf-shaped noses. FTP, name this creature, whose name translates from the Mayan as “death bat” and sounds similar to the name of King Arthur’s castle.
A: Camazotz
BONI
1.(Mik)Name these critical battles in the mistakenly named Hundred Year’s War between England and France, FTPE:
1. This first major battle of the war took place in 1340 off Zealand in West Flanders and led to the complete destruction of the French navy by the English under Edward III.
A: Battle of Sluys
2. A pattern that repeated in later conflicts first manifested itself in this 1346 engagement, where disorganized French cavalry suffered heavy casualties from English longbowmen before retreating in disorder.
A: Battle of Crecy
3. The Battle of Tours in 732 sometimes is given this name, which usually describes the 1356 defeat and capture of John II of France by Edward, the Black Prince.
A: Battle of Poitiers
2. (Mik) Identify the painting, 30-20-10
(30) It was commissioned by Guidibaldo della Rovere as a model for his young bride Giulia Varano; the title figure holds a posy of flowers in her right hand, and wears a bracelet on her right wrist, and a pinky ring on her left hand.
(20) That jewelry’s all she’s wearing, as two maids in the background look through a chest, presumably for her clothes. A small white-and-brown dog is asleep at her feet.
(10) The title figure in this 1538 Titian painting has red braided hair, and is in much the same position as Manet’s later Olympia.
A: The Venus of Urbino
3. (Mik) Identify the following authors based on information about the gothic novels they wrote, FTPE:
1. Her novel The Mysteries of Udolpho tells the tale of Emily St. Aubert’s struggle with her oppressive uncle Montoni, and was one of the works parodied in Northanger Abbey.
A: Ann Radcliffe
2. Ambrosio, an ascetic, is corrupted by his pupil Matilda and eventually sells his soul to evade death at the hands of the Inquisition in this author’s The Monk.
A: Matthew Gregory Lewis
3. He’s credited with originating the genre with his The Castle of Otranto.
A: Horace (Horatio) Walpole
4. (Mike) FTPE, name these principles from physics:
1. This law states that as a system approached absolute zero, all processes cease and the entropy of the system approaches a minimum value, or zero in the case of a crystal.
A: Third Law of Thermodynamics
2. This law gives the relation between the electric flux flowing out of a closed surface and the electric charge enclosed in the surface.
A: Gauss’ Law
3. This criterion states that two objects can be resolved through a lens only if their angular separation is at least 1.22 times the quotient of the wavelength emitted by the objects and the aperture of the lens.
A: Rayleigh’s Criterion
5. (Michael) Given the following descriptions, name the Chinese dynasty, FTPE:
1. This is the dynasty during which Confucius lived; 11th century BC – 256 BC.
A: Zhou Dynasty
2. This is the dynasty during which the Grand Canal was built; 581 AD-618 AD.
A: Sui Dynasty
3. The Silk Road was established during this dynasty; 206BC-220BC.
A: Han Dynasty
6. (Scott) Commonwealth of Nations, OPEC, both, or neither? 5 for 1, 10 for 2, 20 for 3, 30 for all 4, given a nation, state whether it is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, OPEC, both, or neither.
A. Nigeria
Answer: both
B. Kuwait
Answer: OPEC
C. Canada
Answer: Commonwealth of Nations
D. Pakistan
Answer: Commonwealth of Nations
7. (mik)FTP, answer these questions about the shakeups in the Bush cabinet, FTPE:
1. This chief of staff resigned in late March, and if CNN is correct, will have just stepped down form office on Friday the 14th.
A: Andrew Card
2. This former budget director will have become the new chief of staff.
A: Joshua Bolten
3. Speculation still exists over whether or not this Treasury Secretary will remain on the job or get canned as well.
A: John Snow
8. (Chris) Give the class of virus for ten points each.
This class of viruses is characterized by an envelope and an RNA genome that serves as a template for DNA synthesis by reverse transcriptase. An example is HIV.
A: retrovirus
This class of viruses has a single stranded RNA genome that functions directly as mRNA. It is named for the halo of glycoproteins protruding from the envelops. One of this type is responsible for the ephemeral outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
A: coronavirus
Saulk developed the first vaccine from a member of this class.
A: poxvirus
9. (mik) Name these poets who wrote during the First World War, FTPE:
1. Only five of his poems, including Strange Meeting and Anthem For Doomed Youth, were actually published before his Nov. 1918 death, and it’s unlikely that he ever saw them in print.
A; Wilfred Owen
2. This friend and collaborator of Owen’s had threatened to “stab him in the leg” if he returned to the front, and he survived the war to write works like At the Grave of Henry Vaughan and War Poems; he also earned praise for prose works like Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.
A: Siegfried Sassoon
3. This British author, whose wife Cynthia wrote ghost stories, and his poems include The Fallen Subaltern and The Volunteer. He’s often confused with his father, who was a Prime Minister.
A: Herbert Asquith (Jr., I would assume)
10. (Scott) Identify the Egyptian god or goddess given his or her parentage for 10, 5 if you need a description.
10. Daughter of Nut and Re.
5. Depicted as a cow.
Answer: Hathor
10. Son of Nut and Geb
5. Depicted as a mummy with a crook.
Answer: Osiris
10. Son of Re and either Nephthys or Isis.
5. Depicted with the head of a dog or jackal.