MLK 2006
Playoff Packet #1
1. One of the main characters in this work has a mother whose closest companion is her naked parrot Sambo, and another character writes letters to Guru Brahmin to find insight into her romantic struggles. The young protagonist discusses Kierkegaard and Sartre with his pal Francis Hinsley, a script writer at Megapolitan Pictures, and he is lectured by Sir Ambrose Abercrombie on the duties of British expatriates. Whispering Glades funeral parlor provides much of the setting in this novel where Dennis Barlow takes up work at Happier Hunting Grounds pet cemetery and becomes the rival of embalmer Mr. Joyboy in pursuit of the affections of Aimee Thanatogenos. FTP, name this satirical Evelyn Waugh noveltitled for what Ms. Thanatogenos represents.
Answer: The Loved One
2. The origins of this event may be seen in the overthrow of the Hohenstaufen king Manfred at the Battle of Benevento, and the execution of his nephew Conradin shortly afterward, together with the excommunication by Martin IV of a Byzantine emperor, who proceeded to negotiate with Pedro III of Aragon. It may also have something to do with the repressive policies of the Angevins, led by the brother of St. Louis. The baron Giovanni da Procida was implicated, and it prevented a planned invasion of Constantinople when Charles of Anjou was forced to respond to what had arisen in the Church of the Holy Spirit outside Palermo. FTP, name this 1282 rebellion that is named for the church services that it interrupted.
Answer: Sicilian Vespers (Vespiri Siciliani)
3. A three-dimensional modeling technique can be formulated in the frequency domain as a so-called augmented version of this relationship. Variations on this quite simple statement under more complex conditions can involve the Arruda-Boyce model or Ogden’s model, which is divided between the Mooney-Rivlin Theorem and the so-called neo-version of this theory. A generalization of it by Cauchy to three dimensions incorporates a compliance matrix, and it is sometimes written in terms of a compliance constant J. Also sometimes incorporating the Young modulus and most simply stated as F equals k times x, FTP, name this law stating that the restoring force is proportional to the length that a spring is stretched, or stress is proportional to strain.
Answer: Hooke’s Law
4. The fate of this man was very similar to that of the prince Thasius, the son of Anius, on the island of Delos. The result of his story is similar to that of Chione and in more respects to that of Taygete, who fathered Lacedaemon in the same form, and this man made the same mistake as Siproites. Some say that he incurred divine wrath by loving Semele and some say he proposed to marry goddess at a temple, but most agree that afterwards his father Aristaeus migrated to Sicily. Chiron made an image of this man on a cave to soothe grief, as his former trainer, and his mother Autonoe fled Thebes after his death. He realized his plight upon staring into a stream in the vale of Gargaphia near the spring of Parthenius. FTP, this is where which man began being pursued by his own hounds after Artemis turned him into a stag for spotting her in the process of bathing.
Answer: Actaeon or Acteon
5. He served as assistant to Archibald T. Davision and was trained in orchestration by the French-born composer Edward Bulingame Hill. The painter Maurice Grosser was a major presence in his life, and some of his noted pieces include Canon for Dorothy Thomson and two works for orchestra,Wheatfield at Noon and The Seine at Night. He was inspired by Erik Satie and gave the first performance of his Socrate for the Harvard Musical Club, and late works include his Fantasy in Homage to an Earlier England. He composed Preciosilla and Capital Capitals, which like the opera The Mother of Us All were based on Gertrude Stein texts. A rampant homosexual, FTP, name this 20th century American composer of the ballet Filling Station and Four Saints in Three Acts.
Answer: Virgil Thomspon
6. He killed Harry Larkyns, his wife’s lover, upon learning that he had fathered a child with her and then went on a sabbatical to Central America to do some artistic work, which comprised his career. He was a bookseller in San Francisco after being born in Kingston-on-Thames and there he met Leland Stanford, with whom he worked for over ten years. He invented the so-called “electro-expositor” and was close friends with Thomas Eakins. By fastening slide on a large disk and attacking another disk revolving in the opposite direction with slots along its axis and an arc light, he created the zoopraxiscope. The artist of series like The Attitudes of Animals in Motion and Animal Locomotion, FTP, name this pioneer of modern photography who showed successive stages in the movement of horses.
Answer: Eadweard Muybridge
7. This work grew out of a project originally launched by Survey magazine, and Arnold Rampersad penned the introduction for its 1992 edition. The once prominent Albert and Charles Boni published it, and Miguel Covarrubias and Aaron Douglass contributed their artistic abilities, though the majority of the illustrative work was done by Winold Reiss. It contains contributions from Anne Spencer, Arthur Schomburg, and Melville Herskovits and famously showcases the work of Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes. Sponsored by Paul Kellogg, FTP, name this 1925 anthology subtitled “voices of the Harlem Renaissance” and edited by Alain Locke.
Answer: The New Negro
8. A native of Badajóz and son of the commander of Lobon, his death came during the Mixton War at the siege of Nochistlan where he was crushed by his horse. He participated in the expedition of Juan de Grijalva launching from Cuba, and led the rear-guard successfully at La Noche Triste where he gained fame for a ditch across which he daringly jumped. Later in life, he met with Sebastian de Belalcazar in the province of Quito, and was bribed by Pizarro to leave. Serving as the governor of both Honduras and Guatemala, FTP, name this conquistador whose most famous role was in the struggle against Panfilo de Narvaéz as the second-in-command to Hernan Cortes.
Answer: Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras
9. Laplace independently discovered this result in 1774, a decade after its first presentation in “An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances.”The philosophical interpretation that it inspired was proposed by Frank Ramsey in 1931, and was originally called the subjective interpretation. Its general interpretation has been controversial at times, as it seems to imply that one can infer causes from effects, but the derivation is a simple application of the definition of conditional probability. It is typically introduced through its applications to false positives in medical tests. Stating that the probability of A given B is the probability of B given A times the probability of A divided by the probability of B, FTP, this is what probability theorem.
Answer: Bayes’ Theorem
10. The Atkinson and Theil indices are often used either in competition with or in addition to it, and the Brown Formula is frequently employed to calculate it. It satisfies principles of anonymity, scale independence, population independence, and transfer, but benefit systems such as the use of food stamps can decrease its accuracy, and it has different values if applied to individuals or households. Quantiles with low granularity yield lower values than those of high granularity even if they are taken from the same distribution. Calculated as a ratio of areas on the Lorenz Curve, FTP, name this measure of income or wealth inequality, a number between 0 and 1 that increases as inequality increases, a coefficient in economics named for an Italian guy.
Answer: Gini Coefficient (accept Gini Index or other variations)
11. A real one exists in London and was recently shut down. Its popular theme song features the line “O is for “Oh Gosh!,” “Oh Golly!,” “Oh Gee!,” and is sung right before “Jimmy Crack Corn.” Lasky works here and so does a black man who’s made to “lie down like a dog” and bark.When the Wagon Queen Family Truckster shows up, Lasky waddles out and puts his hand up, saying that the moose out front should have told them that its closed for two weeks, which it did tell them before being punched in the nose. That moose is of course Marty Moose and this is, FTP, what “favorite family fun park,” the destination of the Griswolds in National Lampoon’s Vacation.
Answer: Wally World
12. The quest to take this city involved a noted flanking maneuver on the plain of Turubamba, resulting in the stationing of troops at Chillogallo. Cavalry under the command of Colonel Cestaris were able to cut off reinforcements coming from the northern road to Pasto, and the Royalist army attacked from the heights of Panecillo. The Paya Battalion of Colonel Olazabal was the first and most effective group to meet the challenge, and the infantry of General Mires joined later, but it was Jose Maria Cordova who led the Alta Magdalena Battalion in the final victory here, leading to the capitulation of Melchor Aymerich the next day. Named for the volcano near this city, the Battle of Pichincha was the culmination of Sucre’s quest to capture, FTP, which present-day capital of the country of Ecuador.
Answer: Quito(accept Pichincha before it’s mentioned, despite the fact that it asks for a city)
13. It is recognized that the histone macroH2A1.2 tends to relocate around these at some point. Tagaki and Abe demonstrated in 1990 that the lack of these in mice can lead to ectodermal cell death and absence of mesoderm formation. Explained notably by Susumo Ohno, the existence of spotted or patchy coat patterns resulting from heterozygous pigmentation genes can be explained by these, via the Lyon hypothesis. They are created by a random and irreversible process and occur only in the nucleus of somatic cells. FTP, name these condensed inactivated X chromosomes mostly occurring in women, bodies named after an English guy.
Answer: Barr bodies (accept sex chromatin)
14. Some of the novel takes place in San Zwingli and the character named Mr. Yák sports a false mustache and toupee. Minor characters include Anselm who ends up in a monastery, Agnes Deigh who attempts suicide, and Recktall Brown who owns a black poodle and is killed by a falling suit of armor. Subplots include a plan spearheaded by Frank Sinisterra to forge a mummy and the amorous adventures of Otto. The novel ends as Stanley causes a church to collapse by playing the organ loudly. However, the bulk of the work deals with Wyatt Gwyon who creates perfect forgeries of old masters. FTP, this describes what novel about the search for universal truth, probably less famous than its authors’ novel JR, the first and longest work of William Gaddis.
Answer: The Recognitions
15. The conflict involved the Fitzroy Tragedy and the Battle of Darwin-Goose Green. Two forces assembled in preparation, one commanded by Veinticinco de Mayo, enacting a maneuver outlined years earlier in the Goa Plan of Admiral Anaya. An earlier conflict of the same name saw the ships Inflexible and Invincible, under the overall command of Frederick Sturdee, manage to sink the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst under Maximilian von Spee. The later struggle at this site saw the brief success of Operation Rosario, but General Leopoldo Galtieri was soon discredited two months later. FTP, name this site of a 1914 World War I naval battle and a brief 1982 war, a group of islands off the coast of Argentina.
Answer: Battle/War of the Falkland Islands (or Islas Malvinas, or War of the Falklands or Battle of the Falklands)
16. The artist painted no less than five versions of this scene, which was given its present name by art dealer Fritz Gurlitt, and of the many modern interpretations, that of HR Giger is probably most famous. It is by far the most famous painting of its artist, who completed such canvases as Pan in the Reeds, Children Carving May Flutes, and The Sacred Wood. In all versions, green spires shoot up at the middle of this painting, flanked by rock on either side which is closed off except for a small portal toward which a small boat quietly floats. FTP, name this masterpiece of Swiss Symbolism featuring a tranquil island, by Arnold Bocklin, which inspired a Rachmaninoff work.
Answer: The Isle of the Dead
17. Alfred Kastil and Oskar Kraus were disciples of this man who collected and published his notes, like his lecture entitled The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong. His notion of time-consciousness held that mental acts have no duration, and his theory of mind claims that inner consciousness is the only perception that one can be completely sure of. The second and third volumes of his major work were entitled The Classification of Mental Phenomena andSensory and Noetic Consciousness. Similarly-themed works include his thesis On the Several Senses of Being in Aristotle and the book Aristotle and His Worldview.The teacher of Tomas Masaryk and the author of Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, FTP, name this 19th century German philosopher and psychologist who promoted the theory of intentionalism.
Answer: Franz Brentano
18. It was agreed to a year after the capture of Namur, and it forced the surrender of Freiburg and Breisach by the French, but restored Pondicherry and Nova Scotia. Primarily worked out by the delegates William Bentinck, Earl of Portland, and Marshal Boufflers, it acted to restore all towns seized since the Treaty of Nijmegen and occurred the year after the Treaty of Turin, which ended Savoy’s involvement in the war. Spain received Catalonia and Lorraine was given back to Leopold Joseph. An end to the conflict also known as the Nine Years War, FTP, name this agreement by which Louis XIV agreed to lend no further assistance to James II, a peace that ended the War of the Grand Alliance in 1697.
Answer: Peace of Ryswick (or Treaty of Ryswick, etc)
19. His late manuscript Out of Business was partially ghostwritten at his insistence by his editor Edward Stratemeyer, and very early in his career he published under the pseudonyms “Carl Cantab” and “Charles F. Preston.” Probably his most famous character outsmarts the bully Mickey Maguire and the thief Jim Travis, and saves the son of a wealthy industrialist James Rockwell. His correspondence with the sixteen year-old Joseph Dean may have inspired his story Frank’s Campaign, and the poem Friar Anselmo’s Sin may be an attempt to cope with the pressure that prompted him to leave his position as minister at FirstUnitarianChurch in Boston. FTP, name this American author of Joe’s Luck, Struggling Upward, Tattered Tom, andRagged Dick.
Answer: Horatio Alger, Jr.
20. This chemical law defines a species-independent constant that can be found using the more advanced Kistiakowski Equation with Vetere correction factors for polar hydrocarbons. For more accurate values, Chen’s Equation can be used which factors in the logarithm of pressure, or the Clausius-Clapeyron equation can work backward from vapor pressure. Watson’s correlation can also be used if the latent heat of vaporization is known at one temperature, but not another, though this principle is much simpler. For water or low molecular weight alcohols, the constant 0.109 is multiplied by the boiling temperature. FTP, stating that the molar heat of vaporization for a liquid divided by the normal boiling temperature is about 21 calories per mole degrees Kelvin, this is what “rule” of chemistry.
Answer: Trouton’s Rule
1. Identify the following about the seven kings of Rome, FTPE.
A. In the wake of Romulus’ death, the Senators convened and chose this man to be the second king of Rome.
Answer: Numa Pompilius
B. This successor to Tullus Hostilius and fourth king of Rome is probably the shadiest of the seven, though he may have fortified the Janiculum and settled the Latins on the Aventine.
Answer: Ancus Martius
C. This guy supposedly saved Rome from the Etruscans of Lars Porsenna when he bravely placed his left hand in a fire.
Answer: Mucius or Gaius Mucius Scaevola
2. Identify some neurobiological terms named after people, FTPE.
A. These are periodic breaks in the myelin sheath of a neuron, where voltage-dependent sodium channels are clustered and sodium influx occurs to support action potential propagation.
Answer: nodes of Ranvier
B. These cells in the spinal cord contact alpha motor neurons and cause them to be inhibited by opening K+ gates, and they are in turn stimulated by ipsilateral collateral axons from motor neurons that serve the same cell that they inhibit.
Answer: Renshaw cells
C. This is the part of the temporal lobe surrounding the primary auditory cortex, and damage to it produces deficits in understanding spoken language, or receptive aphasia.