Packet by Dallin Kelson, Billy Beyer, Chris Borglum and Ahmad Ragab

GUERRILLA III: Friday, April 8th 2011

Packet by Dallin Kelson, Billy Beyer, Chris Borglum and Ahmad Ragab

1. This figure sits next to a man shielding his eyes from the sun in the Mahmoud Mokhtar sculpture Egypt’s Renaissance. A butterfly flying out of a cup featuring ivory carved animal heads can be seen on the right of a painting in which a red beaded necklace is wrapped around this figure’s waist. That painting sees this figure press its body up against a man who holds a long orange spear against the ground. Another depiction of this figure features a skeleton among rocks at its bottom and sees this figure stare into the eyes of a nude man leaning on a large boulder. Those paintings of this figure by Moreau and Ingres are less famous than a sculpture which was supposedly vandalized by Sa’im al-Dahr and which stands near the pyramid of Khafra. For 10 points, name this figure, often depicted while telling its famous riddle to Oedipus.

ANSWER: the sphinx

2. An instrumental bonus track on Camper Van Beethoven’s album II & III (read: 2 and 3) is titled for this other band going “to Egypt.” The follow-up to their eponymous debut album cover featured the band members waist-deep in the titular Rio Grande Mud. Their third album’s song “Jesus Just Left (**) Chicago” garnered mainstream rock radio play, though it was a song on the ‘B’ side that described a “shack” outside the title town where “they gotta lotta nice girls (*), ah,” that became most popular. A hiatus from recording in 1977 led to two of the members developing their most distinctive features, after which they recorded the album El Loco which featured a song which purports to be about a surfboard and another in which the speaker’s girlfriend is “gettin’ bombed and [he] was gettin’ blown away,” leading to the woman receiving the title gift, which is notably not jewelry. After singles like “Tube Snake Boogie” and “Pearl Necklace,” this band released ‘80s albums featuring heavily synthesized guitars on singles like “Velcro Fly” and “Got Me Under Pressure.” For ten points, name this Texas band behind the song “La Grange as well as albums like Fandango! and Eliminator best known to whippersnappers for songs like “Legs” and “Sharp Dressed Man.”

ANSWER: ZZ Top

3. This work was written at the same time as a work by another author that wonders what "unrecorded race" once dwelt in London. This work, which was written under the pseudonym Glirastes, is named for a figure whose (**) passions were read well. Written in competition with Horace Smith, this work includes some lines that were based on a (*) Diodorus Siculus description. This poem contrasts "The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed." This poem, which describes a visage with a "frown and wrinkled lip" and a "sneer of cold command,” also includes some words enscribed on a pedestal: "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" For 10 points, name this poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

ANSWER: "Ozymandias"

4. This ruler’s emissaries visited the oracle of Ammon in a gesture that led to an alliance with Pharaoh Amasis II. In one apocryphal tale, this ruler’s interlocutor suggested that (**) Tellus of Athens and Cleobis and Bito of Argos were the happiest men he knew, as they died in pious ways, leading this ruler to call Solon a fool. According to Herodotus, the (*) Ephesians ran a rope from the center of the city to the Temple of Artemis when this ruler’s forces besieged the town; after peacefully taking Ephesus, this leader’s forces conquered all of Asia Minor but Miletus, which had been granted special status by his father, Alyattes. FTP who is this ruler whose forces were crushed in his own capital of Sardis by Cyrus the Great, a Lydian leader renowned for his wealth.

ANSWER: Croesus

5. This man was reinstated in one position by the synod of Rome and the council of Sardica. This author of works like Love and Self-Control and On Virginity included a section entitled “Refutation of the Jews” in his work On the Incarnation. He continued to send “Festal Letters” after being usurped by Gregory of Cappadocia in one position. He was exiled to the Rhineland by Constantine I after being accused of interfering with the import of grains. He also wrote a work depicting a holy man who gained absolute connection to truth through poverty, and this man notably wrote in Coptic and Greek. He claimed, “Those who maintain ‘There was a time when the Son was not’ rob God of his word” in attacking one opponent of his, and this man is known for organizing the New Testament canon. This man succeeded Bishop Alexander as patriarch of Alexandria. For 10 points, name this theologian, who attacked Arius at the first council of Nicea.

ANSWER: Athanasius I of Alexandria [accept other titles that I don’t necessarily feel like listing]

6. Usable petroleum has been extracted from the Alam el Buib and Kharita formations in this location since the 1960s. On its western end is the “mushroom rock” which guards the fortified town of (**) Qara, home to a few hundred Berbers. Just over a quarter of this location’s area is covered by “playas,” which are periodically filled with rain water, allowing nomadic bedouins to graze livestock in remote areas like the (*) Moghra Oasis, located within this location. The rocky escarpment of this area includes sabkhas, in which halophytic vegetation can temporarily thrive, though the buffeting of its escarpment by high winds leads to much dry powder called “fech fech,” which along with rocky formations makes the area mostly impassable by vehicles, a fact exploited by the British in the first Battle of El Alamein, which took place about 36 miles north of the northern border of this location. For ten points, what is this vast, low-lying basin in the Western Desert of Egypt?

ANSWER: Qattara Depression

7. Egyptian scientist Ahmed Zewail won a Nobel Prize for studying these entities, which can be determined using nudged elastic bands. Their position can be seen on a (**) More O'Ferrall–Jencks diagram, and they have a negative frequency. For protein folding, these entities are studied using phi value analysis. (*) Eyring and Polanyi developed their namesake theory, and they are labeled with a double dagger. They resemble the less stable species according to the Hammond principle. For 10 points, name these entities that possess more energy than either the reactants or products on a reaction coordinate diagram.

ANSWER: transition states [prompt on "activated complex"]

8. He isn’t George Bernard Shaw, but this man wrote about a servant named Narcissus running off with Galatea before the title character is displeased to see Galatea with a broom in her hand in his treatment of the (**) Pygmalion myth. This author wrote a play in which two convicts fly in a spaceship to a strange metallic planet over five million miles from Earth. The author of Voyage to Tomorrow, he wrote about a man who makes friends with an imaginary lizard named Miss Green in his play about (*) Bihana’s disappearance. This author, who wrote about Bahadir Efendi in The Tree Climber also wrote a play in which Mislinyya refuses to believe that any time has passed when he meets a princess named Priska after earlier fleeing the court of Decius with his friend Marnus and the shepherd Yamliha. For 10 points, name this author of The Men of the Cave.

ANSWER: Tawfiq al-Hakim

9. Egyptian Vase is a piece in this collection, which opens with the piece Dancers of Delphi. Parts of "God Save the Queen" can be heard in this collection's piece Homage to S. Pickwick, and parts of "La Marseillaise" can be heard in its final piece, (**) Fireworks. One piece in this collection uses ninth chords to depict the titular Dead Leaves, and the whole tone scale is used almost exclusively in the piece Sails. A poem by Leconte de Lisle inspired a G-flat major piece in this collection, which also contains a piece that depicts the (*) tolling bells of the Cathedral of Ys. Divided into two books, the first of which was completed in 1910, this collection contains twenty-four works, including The Engulfed Cathedral and The Girl with the Flaxen Hair. For 10 points, name this collection of piano compositions by Claude Debussy.

ANSWER: Preludes

10. According to Britannica, this person pondered ruining Egypt by diverting the course of the Nile. At a young age, this person was present at the conquest of Asilah, and he was once imprisoned by his rival until after the (**) Battle of Diu. This man received aid from the corsair Timoji, and he assumed command from his rival (*) Francisco de Almeida. This man captured the island group of Socotra during a voyage with fellow countryman and island namesake Tristao da Cunha. This man captured the island of Hormuz in 1507 and later captured Goa and Malacaa. For 10 points, name this Portuguese navigator who is NOT the namesake of a city in New Mexico.

ANSWER: Afonso de Albuquerque

11. This preposition begins the title of an 1869 novel in which Bertie’s friend and servant are killed while all three serve in the African Chasseurs,, ending his seemingly homoerotic attraction to them, in the most famous work by the British female novelist Ouida. Hugh Bongo-(**)Shaftesbury is a minion for Moldweorp, who later shoots the British spy Porpentine near the Sphinx in a short story by Thomas (*) Pynchon, the title of which begins with this preposition. A poster for the Peter Lorre film “The Hands of Orlac” signifies the protagonist’s obsession with his ex-wife Yvonne and foreshadows his death in a novel whose title begins with this preposition, a work that ends with the protagonist’s corpse thrown in a ravine, followed by the corpse of a pariah dog. The setting for another work beginning with this preposition is a town whose name is a palindrome for “bugger all” and is in Wales. For ten points, what preposition begins the titles of the above-described novel by Malcolm Lowry and a radio play by Dylan Thomas?

ANSWER: “under” (accept any answer of a title that’s right and begins with “under”) [fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke!!!]

12. One of this person’s poems contrasts the image of the “brute strength of Egypt” with a “meek Christian.” That poem, “Notre Dame” appears in a collection in which the title poem begins, “The essence of farewell I have extracted/From hatless laments of the sleepless night.” In one work the narrator notes as his world starts to crumble “Everything melts, even Goethe melts,” in this author’s semi-autobiographical The Egyptian Stamp. He quips “I compare, therefore I am in his critical essay, “Conversations about Dante.” He admits he is not a “straightforward stoneworker,” in his “Slate Ode,” and the memoirs Hope and Hope Abandoned were written by his wife Nadezhda. Describing a “Kremlin Mountaineer” who “toys with the tributes of half-men,” for 10 points name this Russian Acmeist poet of the “Stalin Epigram.”

ANSWER: Osip Mandelstam

13. During this man’s absence the clergy were attacked by a mysterious leader known as the “Hungarian Master” who led a mob known as the Pastoureaux. An illuminated manuscript which was at one point given to Abbas I as a gift known as the Morgan Bible is sometimes attributed to this king. In the Mise of Amiens he flatly denied the claims of the barons and their bid to bind Henry III in the Provisions of Oxford. He erected the Saint-Chapelle to hold the Crown of Thorns and a fragment of the True Crosss. After a successful siege of Damietta he captured at the Battle of Fariskur by the Mamluks under Baibars, for 10 points, name this only canonized King of France.

ANSWER: LouisIX [prompt on St. Louis]

14. Egyptian biochemist Fawzia Fahim studied the anti-tumor activities of a derivative of acetic acid with this element. A deficiency of this element can lead to Plummer's disease, and an excessive amount of it can lead to the paradoxical (**) Wolff–Chaikoff effect. An antisepttc containing this element and povidone is sold under the brand name Betadine. This element is found in Lugol's solution, and it is used as a (*) mordant in Gram staining. Kelp is a rich source of this element, which forms a dark blue complex in the presence of starch. For 10 points, name this halogen used in the treatment of goiter.

ANSWER: iodine

15. Britain’s forced exile of revolutionary leader Saad Zalglul to Malta precipitated the revolution of this year in Egypt. Wesley (**) Everest was pulled from his jail cell in November of this year by a vigilante mob and castrated and lynched under the mistaken assumption that he was IWW leader Brit Smith. Along with the (*) Centralia Massacre, this year also saw the Lenin Youth harass villagers at the behest of Bela Kun, who was chased out of Hungary in this year by Miklos Horthy. An act drafted by Wayne Wheeler and named for the Minnesota House representative who chaired the Judiciary Committee was passed over the president’s veto on October 28 of this year; that act was deemed unconstitutional by the passage of legislation that began as the Blaine Act. For ten points, what year saw the Boston Police Strike and the passage of the Volstead Act?

ANSWER: 1919

16. The protagonist of Tom McCarthy’s 2010 novel ‘C,’ who is killed by an insect bite he receives in an Egyptian tomb, appears to be based on this real-life figure. Deleuze and Guattari described this man’s nose as containing multiple (**) pores, each containing multiple scars, with each scar containing multiple ruts, and so on, to illustrate their principle of “relative indivisibility” in a section focusing on this man in A Thousand Plateaus. This nose example relates to a psychosis this man displayed in which he walked the streets with a (*) mirror , believing a doctor had drilled a hole in his nose, a delusion explained by Freudians as illustrating his castration anxiety. Torok and Abraham wrote a “cryptonomy” about this man’s “magic word,” arguing contra Freud that the source of his neurosis was not having witnessed a primal scene, but rather an incestuous lust for his sister, who herself had committed suicide at the site of Lermontov’s death by duel. His famous pseudonym derived both from his inability to have sex with women except from behind, along with a famous dream in which he saw six or seven of a certain animal perched in a tree. For ten points, name this Russian aristocrat and patient of Sigmund Freud.

ANSWER: The Wolf Man or Sergei Pakejeff or Pankeyev

17. Egyptian composer Yusef Greiss wrote a trilogy of concerti for this instrument titled for the “Echoes” of the Valley, the Nile, and the Desert. Johann Joachim Quantz wrote 300 (**) concerti for this instrument, for which he also wrote an important treatise on technique. The title figure’s prancing is evoked by the 9/8 time signature of a piece written for this solo instrument by Arthur Honegger, “Danse de la (*) Chevre.” This instrument carries the jazz tune “Hijack,” which reached #14 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1975, written and played by Herbie Mann. Aram Khachaturian encouraged the transcription of his Violin Concerto in D minor for this other instrument, a transcription written by a practitioner of this instrument who for 11 years played a solid gold version of it. For ten points, what is this instrument played by James Galway and Jean Pierre Rampal?

ANSWER: flute

18. One species of this creature served as the messengers of the Egyptian deity Hapy, and one of these creatures is commonly depicted on early Egyptian faience bowls with a lotus (**) blossom issuing from its mouth, associating these creatures with the creator god Atum. The Paleolithic Khormusan people are considered the first of Egypt to breed these creatures for (*) food, while this creature’s abundance in Neolithic times led the Qarunian people to de-emphasize cattle husbandry. The Abdju variety of this creature was the guide for Ra’s solar barge due to its brilliant red breeding colors. Temple priests were forbidden to eat, FTP, what type of creature, due to one species of it, the Oxyrhynchus, having eaten the penis of Osiris?

ANSWER: fish

19. This poet wrote about a figure who “lies in a crystal casket” and who “was once revered in Egypt” in the poem “Dead Cleopatra”. He also described a figure “who came to us, with basilisk eyes so ominous” in a poem which contains the lines, “then poets forgot their (**) jeweled words and cut the sky with glittering swords.” He wrote “The Vampire”, as well as a poem whose speaker says, “I have seen your fingers hold this glass” after claiming, “bread I broke with you was more than bread.” That poem is “Music I (*) Heard”. He included the line, “we live for small horizons” in a section entitled “The House of Dust” from his “Deceitful Portrait”, Palimpsest. This author also wrote a work which fictionalizes T.S. Eliot as The Tsetse and Ezra Pound as Rabbi Ben Ezra and which relates how he found the bodies of his parents after his father killed his mother and committed suicide. For 10 points, name this author of Ushant.