MLK 2007
Packet by Chicago B (Arthur, Austin, Sun, Yaphe)
1. According to the disputed play Rhesus, there are actually two figures by this name – one a son of Cronos, and one a son of Zeus and twin brother of Arkas. According to Plutarch, an Egyptian sailor named Thamus was told by a divine voice that this figure had died. Women in his life include his daughter, Iambe, whom he had with Echo, though he was less successful at wooing Pitys, who was turned into a tree, and Syrinx, who escaped him. According to the Homeric hymn to this figure, he is the son of Dryope and Hermes. His Roman equivalent, the father of Latinus, was named Faunus and was celebrated on Lupercal. FTP, name this rustic god of the pipe, a satyr with the hind of a goat.
Answer: Panor Paon
2. One ruler of this family put down a rebellion led by Jai Singh; another expelled a group of rebels who would later conquer Crete from Byzantium. Yet another ordered the killing of St. Pelagius, and a fourth temporarily moved their capital to Ramla. They fought to a draw at the Battleof Siffin, but this tribe would have more success at a conflict remembered on the Day of Ashura, the Battle of Karbala. Their rule would see its end come at theBattle of the Zab under Marwan II, nearly a century after their founding by Muawiyah. Ruling from Damascus from 660 to 750 A.D., FTP, name this Islamic Caliphate succeeded by the Abbasids.
Answer: Umayyad Caliphate
3. Determining solutions to this over a region based on boundary conditions was the original formulation of Dirichlet's problem, and the lack of local maxima or minima in its solutions provides an easy proof ofEarnshaw's Theorem. Solutions can be found numerically using the method of relaxation, which takes advantage of the mean value property satisfied by its solutions. In electrostatics it describes the potential in a region with no charge, and it is the homogenous form of Poisson's equation. FTP, name this partial differential equation with solutions known as harmonic functions in which the divergence of the gradient of a scalar function vanishes, named for a French mathematician.
Answer: Laplace's Equation
4. It opens with an epigraph announcing that the title object “indicates some covert malice,” according to a fortune-telling manual. In the opening section, one of the characters tells a story about how his grandmother was all the rage in Paris 60 years earlier, and claimsshe learned a valuable lesson from the Count de Saint-Germain, who pretended to be the Wandering Jew. In the conclusion, we learn that Tomsky is going to marry Princess Polina, while Hermann went insane and Lizaveta married the son of the Countess’s former steward. The story centers on an alleged secret for predicting three cards in sequence. FTP, name this work by Alexander Pushkin, made into an opera by Tchaikovsky, named for a playing card.
Answer: “The Queen of Spades”
5. This man’s orchestral works include a one-movement tone poem based on a Schiller play, Wallenstein’s Camp, as well as a work inspired by Shakespeare’s Richard III. Karel Sabina wrote the libretto for his first opera, and in another of his works, a knight named Ctirad falls in love with the titular warlike female, but ends up being slaughtered by Sarka’s forces. That work is part of a cycle that includes a composition inspired by the Vysehrad castle and a hill named Blanik. FTP, name this 19th-century composer of Dalibor and a sequence of six tone poems called Ma Vlast which includes “The Moldau,” best known for his opera about Marenka and Jenik and their marriage, The Bartered Bride.
Answer: Bedrich Smetana
6. The western part of this archipelago is known as the Pine Islands, while the opposite side is dubbed the Gymnesian islands. Its important cities include Manacor and the historical seaport of Mahón, and its third-largest island has a breed of Egyptian hunting hound named after it – that island is sometimes known as Eivissa. The smallest main island is Formentera sitting directly south of Ibiza. With its capital at Palma and now considered an Autonomous Community of Spain, FTP, name this island group in the Western Mediterranean containing Minorca and Mallorca [MY-yor-ca].
Answer:BalearicIslands
7. Some provinces annexed during this man’s reign included Noricum, Pamphylia, and Lykia. He built a new port dubbed Portus Augusti by his successor north of Ostia, and was rebelled against early on by the governor of Upper Illyricum, Marcus Scribonianus. He also returned Achaea and Macedonia to Senatorial control and, in governing his empire, relied heavily on freedmen such as Narcissus and Pallas. His third wife, the lover of Caius Silius, was executed for treason. This woman, Messalina, would be replaced by Agrippina. A writer of histories of the Etruscans and Carthage, FTP, name this Roman emperor who conquered Britain and succeeded Caligula.
Answer: Tiberius ClaudiusCaesar Augustus Germanicus
8. This theory is supported on a small scale by the Redfield ratio, as seen in the work of Keith Downing. It was attacked by James Kirchner, who suggested it could actually be reformulated several ways, citing an article supporting it entitled “Is Mars a Spaceship, Too?.” It was modeled partly by Andrew Watson in the Daisyworld simulation, which described albedo as a function of area covered by white and black daisies, and it was co-formulated by Lynn Margulis. Initially proposed by James Lovelock and holding that biomass self-regulates planetary conditions toward homeostasis, FTP, name this ecological hypothesis which shares its name with the Greek goddess representing “mother Earth.”
Answer: Gaia Hypothesis
9. In one poem this author notes that a certain peak was “great when Homer was not born / And ere thou change all human song shall die.” In addition to “CheyenneMountain,” she wrote a poem about the “beacon-lights” which blaze for her in the houses of people who love her, “My Lighthouses.” This author’s A Masque of Poets contains the “novelette in verse” Guy Vernon, while her best-known novel focuses on the love between Alessandro and the half-Scottish title character. In her first novel, Mercy Philbrick’s Choice, she may have fictionalized the life of her friend Emily Dickinson. FTP, name this American author best known for writing about Indians inRamona and A Century of Dishonor.
Answer: Helen Hunt Jackson
10. About the only time we see this character in a romantic situation is when he competes for the hand of Erika Tiffany Smith, played by Zsa Zsa Gabor. In a subpar NES game by Bandai, you get to control this guy through four episodes and collect pieces of a magic stone tablet, while your partner never ceases to ask you “Isn’t this beautiful scenery?” His actual name was Jonas Grumby, though that only appeared briefly in the pilot, and he was played by Alan Hale Jr. An incredibly superstitious man who feared voodoo, he was once thought eaten by a lion. FTP, name this character who often used the phrase “little buddy,” the “brave and sure” owner of the SS Minnow with a first mate named Gilligan.
Answer: Skipper (or Jonas Grumby before mentioned, or take the Professor before “control” because he liked Erika too)
11. A brown-and-white dog stands at the bank of a small river in the foreground of this work, while a white-walled building with a peaked roof and a brick chimney sits on the left in front of copse which ends near the centerline of the canvas. The trees are now gone, but the building, owned by Willy Lott, survives almost unaltered to this day. It did not attract attention until displayed in France, where it was praised by Gericault. Depicting a scene in the River Stour in Suffolk, two black horses wading in the river pull the title object, which carries two men. FTP, name this 1821 painting by John Constable, which shares its name with a triptych by Hieronymous Bosch.
Answer: The Haywain
12. His engineering dissertation was entitled "The Fundamental Principles of Equilibrium in Solid Bodies", and his namesake index, commonly used in the quality assurance community, plots values in descending order. His distribution, sometimes also named for SamuelBradford, fits diverse data such as the value of oil reserves, frequency of words in novels, or sizes of human settlements. With Francis Edgeworth, he developed the indifference curve. His index measures wealth distribution, and according to his law, will usually show that 20% of the people control 80% of the wealth. FTP, name this Italian whose namesake optimality occurs when a certain allocation makes the maximum possible number of people better off.
Answer: Vilfredo Pareto
13. The founder of Fort Snelling, an island named for this manwas the destination of many involved in a mass hanging during the Dakota War in Mankato, Minnesota. During the War of 1812, he served in New Orleans as inspector-general, having earlier commanded the Fourth Infantry at the Battle of Tippecanoe before being killed in an attack on modern-day Toronto. Hemisidentified LeechLake as the source of the Mississippi River when Governor James Wilkinson sent him on his first expedition, while a second expedition ended in arrest by the Spanish, but not before he coined the phrase "GreatAmericanDesert.” FTP, name this American explorer, who has a namesake "peak" in Colorado.
Answer: Zebulon Montgomery Pike
14. The two-dimensional form of this technique, sometimes also two-color, can be frequency and time-resolved to produce synchronous correlation maps. It may be used to analyze solids when they are mixed with non-volatile liquid and ground into a mull, or incorporated into potassium bromide discs or cells, employed because they lack covalent bonds, with common solvents like CHCl3 and CS2. It produces a portion known as the fingerprint region from 1400 to 600 inverse centimeters, and might show a broad adsorption band near 3000 indicating an alcohol functional group. FTP, name this way of identifying organic compounds, a type of spectroscopy named for the radiation of shorter frequency than visible light.
Answer: Infrared Spectroscopy or IR Spectroscopy
15. The protagonist goes to Pfeiffering after spending three months at Doctor von Hosslin’s clinic in Nymphenburg, but after he nearly drowns himself in Klammer Pool, his mother comes to fetch him home to Buchel Farm. Earlier, he had almost gone insane after his young nephew Nepomuk died of meningitis. The protagonist admires the poetry of Verlaine, but his favorite poet is William Blake. His early works were based on the Gesta Romanorum and Love’s Labor’s Lost, while the major work of his maturity is a cantata intended to cancel Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Serenus Zeitblom tells the story of his friend Adrian Leverkühn in, FTP, what novel by Thomas Mann about a composer’s pact with the devil?
Answer: Doktor Faustus
16. Near the end of this work, one speaker discusses the statues of Daedalus, which are said to run away if one does not tie them down. Earlier, he criticizes some verses of Theognis which seem to contradict themselves on the question of whether virtue can be taught. The title character of this work is a young man from Thessaly who is a friend of Anytus, one of the accusers of the principal speaker, though the work is better known for its discussion of the idea that we possess all knowledge at birth and “learn” things by recollection.Containing the problem of finding a square double in area to a given square, FTP, name this Platonic dialoguein which the titular slave is led to figure out the right answer.
Answer: Meno
17. A work depicting a youth winding a fillet around his head and a woodwork known as the “Hecate” are likely by this artist, who inspired a sonnet by José Maria de Heredia with his depiction of Ladas the runner. The Greek Anthology contains 36 poems upon a work by this pupil of Ageladas, which appeared on a marble base in Athens but has since been lost. In addition to that famous depiction of a cow, this man created a notorious marble statue of a drunken old hag, but is better known for the Athena and Marsyas group and a work of which two copies were discovered in the late 18th century. FTP, name this ancient Greek sculptor of an athlete with his right arm extended, the Discobolusor Discus-Thrower.
Answer: Myron
18. This ruler established a code which mandated that pavilions be owned by only one family and ordered the execution of the Duke of Biron partially for conspiring with Savoy, which was forced to surrender Bresse to him by the Treaty of Lyons. His other less known diplomacy includes sending the Duke of Mercoeur to sign the Peace of Vervins. His mistresses included Gabrielle d’Estrée, and he won major military victories at Arques and Ivry.His main advisor Maximilien de Bethune, the Duke of Sully, reformed the paulette and he was succeeded by his son by Marie de Medici, Louis XIII. FTP, name this French king who declared that Paris was worth a mass and signed the Edict of Nantes as the first Bourbon.
Answer: Henry IV
19. Essays about this author include D. W. Harding’s “Regulated Hatred” and one by Christopher Ricks about this author “and the business of mothering.” Books on this author include one on “irony as defense and discovery” by Marvin Mudrick and one on “the war of ideas” by Marilyn Butler. Her early works include the fragmentary epistolary novelsLesley Castle andLove and Friendship, while she abandoned The Watsons and never finished Sanditon. Her male characters include Henry Tilney, Frank Churchill, and Captain Wentworth, all in her standardcanon of six completed novels. FTP, name this author of Northanger Abbey, MansfieldPark, and Pride and Prejudice.
Answer: Jane Austen
20. This Olkhovsky-Recami definition has been applied to this phenomenon in studying its namesake time problem, a result of the Eisenbud-Wigner calculation of its time frame, repeated by Hartman. It was observed by Helmut Wipf with regard to hydrogen in niobium, and its coherence was correlated with temperature, a realization of the Zeno Effect.Gurney and Condon proposed it as a part of a mechanism for alpha decay, confirmed by George Gamow,while Binnig and Rohrer applied it to the resolution of very small objects in electron microscopy. Allowing classically forbidden escape from potential wells, FTP, name this quantum effect by which a particle can perform the namesake action of leaking through a barrier.
Answer: quantum tunneling (or just tunneling after quantum is mentioned)
TB. During the Warring States Period, a kingdom of this name was a frequent target of attacks from Qin [Tchin], culminating in the 260 BC Battle of Changping. The name of a number of minor states in the periods in between dynasties, its most famous incarnation was founded by a peasant from around modern-day Xuzhou [Syue-joe], and came to power after defeating the forces of Chu led by Xiang [Syiang] Yu. Dominated by the Cao [Tsao] family for its last thirty years, notable emperors included Wendi and Wudi, as well as the founder Gaozu, born Liu Bang. Now giving its name to the most common name for ethnic Chinese, FTP, name this dynasty interrupted by Wang Mang, which reigned from 206 BC to 220 AD.
Answer: Han Dynasty
1. It features such characters as Crites, who stands for Sir Robert Howard, and Neander, who represents the author. FTPE:
A. Name this essay published in 1668, which discusses the difference between French and English literature.
Answer: An Essay of Dramatick Poesy
B. This British poet of The Hind and the Panther and Absalom and Acitophel wrote An Essay of Dramatick Poesy.
Answer: John Dryden
C. This early poem in quatrains by Dryden deals with such subjects as the Fire of London and the Dutch War, and is set in a very special year, as one can tell from its Latin title.
Answer: Annus Mirabilis
2. He founded the magazine Christianity and Crisis in 1941 and edited it for the next 25 years. FTPE:
A. Name this American theologian, whose books include The Nature and Destiny of Man and Moral Man and Immoral Society.
Answer: Reinhold Niebuhr
B. Niebuhr spent more than 30 years teaching at this New York institution, which is now associated with Columbia and which also employed Paul Tillich for a number of years.
Answer: Union Theological Seminary
C. Also, Niebuhr wasn’t much of a fan of the policies of this president, like the CCC that was part of his New Deal.
Answer: FranklinDelanoRoosevelt (I like to call him FDR, so you can accept that)
3. Because my science knowledge is so limited, name some limits in science, FTPE.
A. This is defined as the orbital distance at which a liquid satellite will begin to be torn apart tidally by the planet orbiting it. Under ideal conditions, it’s about 2.44 times the radius of the primary.