GHETTO WARZ PACKET (R. Luo, C. Meigs, B. Shapiro)
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LITERATURE
Although he chose not to call this poem an ode, the poet hoped that his transitions and “the impassioned music of the versification” would recall that form. Most sections take the form of recollections, made in towns and cities. In the later stanzas, the poet remarks that though he has lost his boyish fascination, he can now hear “The still, sad music of humanity,” portending the sentiment he expressed more clearly in The Prelude a few years later. In the final stanzas, the poet calls out to his sister Dorothy, hoping to evoke “The language of [his] former heart.” FTP, name this masterwork of William Wordsworth, written on a 1798 visit to the River Wye.
ANSWER:Lines: Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the River Wye During a Tour. July 13, 1798
After earning his PhD at Yale, he published Shelley’s Mythmaking and ironically spent the better part of the 1960’s attacking the neo-Christian and formalist aspects of New Criticism. Expanding on his pro-Romantic ideas in works like The Anxiety of Influence and Kabbalah and Criticism, he eventually turned to more concerted studies of Gnosticism and Biblical Texts, indicative of his later work. FTP, name this Yale professor and staunch defender of the Western Canon.
ANSWER: Harold Bloom
It begins with an indecent phone call while the narrator is listening to Rossini’s The Thieving Magpie and cooking spaghetti. Next, Toru Okada must chase down his wife’s cat, Noboru Wataya, in order to save his marriage. This leads to a frightening series of misadventures involving two psychic prostitutes named Creta and Malta, an, a bizarre recounting of the battle of Nomonhan, and, of course, an evil young economics professor also named Noboru Wataya. FTP, name this wacky, Pynchonesque tour-de-force by Haruki Murakami.
ANSWER:The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Accompanied by a princess, a donkey, and a dwarf, the first enemy he encounters is Error, a half woman, half-snake who attempts to kill him by projectile vomiting poisonous books. More sinister are the falsely pious magician Archimago and the evil witch Duessa, who lead him away from his charge Una and into the House of Pride. Although he gets imprisoned by the giant Orgoglio, King Arthur saves his ass so he can go almost get killed again by Despair. FTP, name this hapless hero from the first book of Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, best known for the symbol on his breastplate.
ANSWER: The Redcrosse Knight (prompt on St. George)
Given a description from Harold Bloom’s Genius: A Mosaic of 100 Exemplary Creative Minds, name the author FTPE.
A.Bloom identifies this Portugese Nobel prizewinner as “one of the last titans of an expiring literary genre”. You may know him better for works like The Stone Raft and Blindness
ANSWER: Jose Saramago
B.Bloom calls this gifted novelist and short-story writer one of America’s foremost Gnostics, and spends several passages rhapsodizing her works The Violent Bear it Away and Wise Blood
ANSWER:(Mary) Flannery O’Connor
C.One of only four living American novelists Bloom views as “worthy of our praise”, this Ad Executive turned novelist is most famous for topical works such as Libra and White Noise
ANSWER: DonDeLillo
Identify the following works of Vladimir Nabokov from descriptions FTSNOP
A.F5P, some critics have called this most famous novel, “A Tale of Old Europe Debauching Young America” and “The Only Convincing Love Story of our Century”. Either way, it involves a filthy old Humbert Humbert taking several lurid road trips with Dolores Hayes.
ANSWER:Lolita
B.F10P, formally the most unconventional and involuted of Nabokov’s works, this 1962 anti-novel begins with Charles Kinbote’s commentary on the title poem, the masterwork of his friend and colleague John Shade. This is followed by bizarre narrative of Prince Charles Xavier of Zembla, who may or may not be Kinbote himself, no one really knows.
ANSWER:Pale Fire
C.Published just after his 70th birthday, Nabokov considered this last novel his finest work. Set on the vaguely fantastic Antiterra, it combines a bizarre treatise on the nature of time with a love affair between two cousins, Van Veen and the title character, who later turn out to be brother and sister.
ANSWER:Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (note: that is the full title, the part after the “or” is not an acceptable answer)
Identify the poet from poems, 30-20-10
A.30)“The Revolutionaries Stop for Orangeade”, “The Idea of Order at Key West”
20)“The Man with the Blue Guitar”, “Peter Quince at the Clavier”
10)“13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”, “The Emperor of Ice Cream”
ANSWER: Wallace Stevens
Identify the American dramatist, given play titles FTPE
A.The Play about the Baby, Zoo Story
ANSWER: Edward FranklinAlbee
B.Resurrection Blues, The Crucible
ANSWER:Arthur Miller
C.Barefoot in the Park, Lost in Yonkers
ANSWER:(Marvin) Neil Simon
HISTORY
Many of the leader of the aggressor’s cruel actions were attributed to his Irish hussy mistress, Eliza Lynch. Major battles lost by the aggressor included the loss of the river fortress at Humaitá and at Tuyutí, and the campaign of Lomas Valentinas ultimately proved disastrous for the aggressor. Though the war began well with a successful invasion of Mato Grosso and the famous battle at Curupayty, the then strongest army in Latin America was eventually defeated. FTP, name this war whose defensive command was led by Bartolomé Mitre and later the Duque do Caxias (CAW-SHE-AHS), and whose aggressor was led by Francisco Solano Lopez, a war fought between Paraguay and Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil.
ANSWER:War of the Triple Alliance or Guerra de la Triple Alianza or Guerra da Tríplice Aliança
His praetorian prefect, Plautianus, was compared by many to Sejanus, and like this emperor, was born in Lepcis Magna. His famous wife was given the title mater castrotum, the first to gain that title since Marcus Aurelius’ wife. His early reign was marked by civil war between himself, Clodius Albinus, and Pescennius Niger, and when he died in York, there was contention for the throne between his two sons, Bassianus and Geta, the former of whom would kill the latter and became known by a nickname derived from a type of cloak, Caracalla. FTP, name this African-born Roman emperor from 193 to 211 who began a namesake dynasty.
ANSWER: Lucius Septimius Severus
First elected to Parliament as a Conservative MP from Newark, and among his early charitable work concerned working with fallen women, and he was at times accused of using the services of these prostitutes. His last public moment came in 1896 when he denounced the Armenian genocides, and he was famous for his part in the two-day delay that may have proved fatal to General Gordon in Khartoum. Among acts that he led through Parliament were ones banning peacetime flogging in the army and arranging for the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland. FTP, name this generally anti-imperialist politician of the late 19th century, most of his career a Liberal, who tried to get Irish Home Rule.
ANSWER: William Ewert Gladstone
His film debut came at age eighty-eight as associate justice Joseph Story in the film Amistad. A Harvard Law graduate, he began his career as a clerk for John Sanborn in the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Eighth Circuit, and after a stint as chief counsel to the Mayo Clinic, he was appointed by Eisenhower to replace Sanborn. He wrote the opinion of the court in Bigelow v. Virginia and Ohio v. Roberts, and was known as one of the “Minnesota Twins” along with Warren Burger. FTP, name this justice of the Supreme Court, appointed by Nixon, most famous for writing the opinion of the court in Roe v. Wade.
ANSWER: Harry Andrew Blackmun
Answer these questions about a famous ambassador to South Vietnam, FTPE.
A. This man, a senator from Massachusetts and grandson of a famous same-named isolationist, was named ambassador to South Vietnam in 1963, by the man who had famously defeated him twice, John F. Kennedy.
ANSWER: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
B.Lodge was the Vice Presidential candidate for this man’s losing presidential campaign.
ANSWER: Richard M(ilhous) Nixon
C.Lodge managed to become the only write-in candidate to win the New Hampshire Primary, defeating this eventual winner of the Republican nomination by 13 percent.
ANSWER: Barry M(orris) Goldwater
Name these Balkan nationalist leaders who fought against the Ottoman Empire, FTPE.
A.Winning battles at Mishar and Deligrad in 1806, he captured Belgrade. Eventually losing his alliance with the Russians, he left Serbia, and was returned by Hetairia, only to be assassinated. His descendants started the dynasty that ruled Serbia until 1945.
ANSWER: George Petrovic or Karageorge or Karadjorje
B.He managed to unite all the Albanians under the League of Lezha, he held out against Ottoman armies led by Murad II. King Zog claimed descent from this man.
ANSWER: Gjorj (pronounced George) KastriotiSkanderbeg (accept either)
C.A leader of the Philike Hetairia, he raised a Greek revolt in Jassy, in Moldavia, but the Romanian population did not join him. His brother Demetrios was a major leader in the more famous revolt, and this man’s last name is the same as the location of EasternMichiganUniversity.
ANSWER: Alexander Ypsilanti
Name these battles fought during the career of Julius Caesar, FTPE.
A.This 52 BC battle was the last major engagement in the Gallic Wars, as Caesar’s forces managed to defeat the Gallic rebel Vercingetorix after a lengthy siege.
ANSWER:Battle of Alesia
B.Fought in Thessaly in 48 BC, this battle was a resounding victory which saw Pompey forced to flee to Egypt, where he was murdered by Ptolemy XIV.
ANSWER:Battle of Pharsalus
C.This battle fought in Spain saw Caesar defeat the armies of Titus Labienus and Gaius and Sextus Pompeius. Fought in 47 BC, it was his last major battle before death.
ANSWER:Battle of Munda
Name these things related to a famous death, FTPE.
A.This son of Mu’awiyya was famed for his pursuit of the grandson of Muhammad, eventually receiving his head after his army’s victory at Karbala.
ANSWER:Yazid ibn or bin Mu’awiyya
B.This grandson of Muhammad opposed Yazid’s corruptness, and his death at Karbala became a major source of grief for Shi’a.
ANSWER:Husayn ibn ‘Ali ibn Abu Talib
C.Another major breaking point for Sunni and Shi’i Islam came when Husayn’s father, Ali, was murdered by this defected group of Ali’s former followers, who began their own sect of Islam.
ANSWER:howarij or Kharijites
SCIENCE
Strictly speaking, it is a function that maps functions onto sets of functions, with its value being the set of all functions that grow slower than the argument. First introduced by Edmund Landau, common classifications of it include linearithmic, exponential, and polynomial, with some tasks, like the factoring of integers, being superpolynomial but subexponential. Refined by the theta notation, FTP, identify this mathematical scheme for classifying algorithm efficiency?
ANSWER: Big-O notation (accept omicron notation)
In order for this process to succeed, Lawson’s criterion must be satisfied, which states that the product of the density and the time must be at least 10 to the 20th power, at a sufficiently high temperature as well. Attempts to achieve Lawson’s criterion can be either made by using very high densities over short times, using a technique called inertial confinement, or lower densities with longer confinement times, requiring apparatus like a tokamak. For ten points, what is this process which attempts to generate energy from the same nuclear reactions used in the sun?
ANSWER: thermonuclear fusion
The most significant species of this genus are morsians and pallipides, while swynertoni and austeni are important in specific regions. The subgenuses fusca live mostly in forests, but the more important species cause the disease nagana in domestic livestock, which unlike wild animals, lacks immunity to tripanosomes. It is fortunate that their rate of reproduction is slow, unlike that of houseflies, and outside of a particular continent, they are only found in two locations on the Arabian peninsula. Encompassed by a single genus, Glossina, FTP, identify this insect of sub-saharan Africa, the vector of African sleeping sickness.
ANSWER:Tse-tse flies (interesting fact: the name itself means “fly” in the Tswana language, making “tse-tse flies” the “El Alhambra” of the insect world)
Most have 4 alpha hydrogens attached below the plane and beta angular methyl groups at C10 and C13 attached above the plane. Their rings are joined by trans junctions and labeled A to D. Oxygens are found at C3 and C17, which also harbors side chains that distinguish each member of this family of compounds. They include substances used to treat rheumatoid inflammation, that prepare the uterus for implantation, that emulsify fat, and an anabolic variety whose intake can cause liver cancer and sterility. Including cholesterol, FTP name this group of lipids abused by athletes.
ANSWER:steroids
In a set of experiments conducted at the Institute of Cancer Research in Philadelphia in the 1950s, enucleated egg cells from frogs were injected with embryonic nuclei, which, if in a young enough stage of development, helped zygotes develop into normal tadpoles. FTSNOP:
A.F10P, name either of two scientists whose work was extended by John B. Gurdon at Oxford, who showed that nuclei of differentiated cells are totipotent.
ANSWER: Robert Briggs or Thomas J. King
B.F5P, another example of totipotency was this scientist's 1997 cloning of the sheep Dolly by fusing a differentiated cell from ewe's udder halted in G1 phase and an enucleated ewe egg cell by electrical stimulation.
ANSWER: Ian Wilmut
C.F10P, Wilmut created copies of sheep that produced alpha-antitrypsin, a drug used to treat this genetic disorder of the endocrine glands that clogs up the lungs.
ANSWER:cystic fibrosis
D.F5P, Totipotent imaginal discs were shown to develop into an organ other than the one originally determined by a series of transplants in this genus of fruit flies.
ANSWER:Drosophila melanogaster
Identify the following compound classes from functional groups, FFPE.
A.N, nitrogen group.
ANSWER:amine
B.SH, replace the oxygen in an alcohol by a sulfur.
ANSWER:thiol
C.O, two alkyl groups joined by an oxygen.
ANSWER:ether
D.O=C-O, formed by condensation reaction of a carboxylic acid with an alcohol.
ANSWER:ester
E.O=C-N, similar to a ketone but with a nitrogen attached to the central carbon.
ANSWER:amide
F.C triple bond N, the only other main nitrogen-based class.
ANSWER:nitrile
Identify these methods of accelerating particles FTPE.
A.This simplest method uses two semicircular metal “dees” and an electric field to accelerate the particles between them.
ANSWER:cyclotron
B.This circular accelerator design used in the Tevatron at Fermilab and LEP at CERN varies both the frequency of the electric field and the strength of the magnetic field to maintain a constant radius.
ANSWER:synchrotron
C.This device for accelerating electrons uses a time-varying magnetic field to induce an electric field to provide the acceleration.
ANSWER:betatron
Answer some question about named things in special relativity, FTPE.
A.Perhaps the most famous refutation of the null hypothesis ever, this 1887 experiment provided experimental confirmation for Einstein’s later derivation of SR.
ANSWER:Michelson-Morley experiment
B.Time dilation and length contraction are examples of these types of transformations, named after Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon.
ANSWER:Lorentz transformations
C.Space and time can be unified in this 4-dimensional space, created by a teacher of Einstein who developed the ideas of SR independently.
ANSWER:Minkowski space
TRASH
When asked to name the best Track 1/Side 1 cuts in High Fidelity, Rob Gordon mentions this band’s “Radiation Ruling the Nation” from their third album No Protection. Despite the word-of-mouth acclaim Grant Marshall and Andrew Voles gathered as members of the Bristol club scene in the 1980’s, their debut album Blue Lines was a commercial flop. After several middling efforts in the mid 1990’s, they hit it big with the critically acclaimed Mezzanine, which contained the singles “Teardrop” and “Risingson”. FTP, name these British Trip-Hop pioneers whose newest release is 2003’s 100th Window.
ANSWER:Massive Attack
Her mother is the subject of Outkast’s song “Ms. Jackson”, alluding to this artist’s onetime marriage to Andre 3000. After working as a schoolteacher in Dallas, she caught the eye of producer Kedan Massenberg, who would later help put out the singles, “Apple Tree” and “Tyrone.” After the success of her soul-infused first album, she put out the more reggae-sounding Mama’s Gun in 2000, which included the hit “Bag Lady.” FTP, name this nu-Soul pioneer, best known for the relaxed “On & On” from her debut album Baduizm.