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What piece makes the capture on the fourth move for White in the Classical Variation of the CaroKannDefence?	knight	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
As a result of the firing of Gary Brown by what city, Kym Worthy vacillated over whether to filecharges against a politician here?	Detroit	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
In a memo, a then-employee of what agency argued that because Donald Trump was "an existential threat to cultural Marxist memes," the "deep state" was trying to destroy him?	National Security Council	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
In March 2007, what man attempted to benefit from a constitutional amendment that changedwording about "safeguarding socialist gains" to "conserving the environment."?	Hosni Mubarak	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
In November 2013, what man's father was accused of using the phrases "die of AIDS" and "blackbrothers that do drugs on a regular basis" under the pseudonym "idrd1994."?	Richard "Richie" Incognito	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
What country's capital is the operating base of Khaled Mashal, the head of the Hamas Political Bureau, as well as the Egyptian cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi?	Qatar	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
What company has been accused of using bribery to secure a $2.2 billion deal in Austria?	EADS	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
According to a recent paper by Sara and Glenn Ellison, when what company purchased a competitor and reduced search costs in its market, average prices, price dispersion, and consumer surplus all increased?	Amazon.com	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
For the entire 1980s and through 1998, what state had the same governor, Terry Brandstad?	Iowa	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
A book by what politician contained parts that were plagiarized from the Heritage Foundation; that book contains anecdotes about people struggling with American bureaucracy and is titled Government Bullies?	Rand Paul	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
A May 2012 paper attributed what man's success to "Quality Versus Junk" and "Betting Against Beta" and cited the effects of 1.6 times leverage; that paper discussed this man's alpha?	Warren Edward Buffett	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
Opposition movements in what country include Erk, Birlik and an Islamist group led by the late JumaNamangoniy?	Uzbekistan	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
The Universal of National Unity resolved a 2006 political crisis in what country?	Ukraine	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
What leader recounted being placed on a parrot perch and being electrocuted to induce singing during one torture regimen?	Dilma Vana Rousseff	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
One of what band's songs notes that "just when the boat is sinking," "a little light is blinking."?	The White Stripes	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
Judge Fuld of the New York Court of Appeals held that a company in what industry could avoid liability by contributing one asset each into ten separate corporations in the seminal veil-piercing case Walkovszky v. Carlton?	regulated taxi industry	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
s an engineer, what person held patents for a wastewater aerator design and designed the "Micro Mod" sailboat?	Bhumibol Adulyadej	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
In March 2014, Harold Hamm estimated that what state might see a thirty percent drop ineconomic activity if a proposed tax reform goes through?	North Dakota	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
The Blueseed project seeks to create a platform to skirt US laws against what action?	Immigration to the United States	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
In 2010, Bret Schundler was fired as what state's education commissioner for making an error which cost this state $400 million in education funding?	New Jersey	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
A 1987 paper found negative consequences from what phenomenon by creating the rst formalization of the Roy Model?	immigration	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
What nation's Jumbish political party is led by Abdul Rashid Dostum and is one of several parties which in 2011 joined this country's "National Front" movement, led by Ahmad Massoud?	Afghanistan	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
What policy was the subject of a 2006 study which said that the nearly ten thousand firings it causedhave cost 200 million dollars?	"don't ask, don't tell"	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
The Satellite Sentinel project was created to monitor military activity in what country, and a UN peacekeeping mission in this country is led by Hilde Johnson?	South Sudan	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
The American Association for the Advancement of Science was involved in documenting incidents inwhat country in 2007 such as the firing of mortars into crop fields and the harassment of villagers inareas where the (*)) Karen ethnicity dominates?	Burma or Myanmar	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
In 2008, what country's health minister was fired after 300 million dollars went missing?	Nigeria	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
What city's "Toilet King" owns Wall, Inc. and hopes to attract "Yummies" to this city with afictional character called Jessica?	Berlin	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
Earlier what year, this nation was accused of practicing forced conscription of the Ngok people as part of its attempt to retake the Abyei region?	South Sudan	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
What party currently controls local councils in such cities as Surrey, Derbyshire, and Devon?	Liberal Democratic Party	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
A former mayor in what state, Retha Pierce, lost her position after she was busted in a DUI and threatened to kill a police officer?	South Carolina	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
In 2011, what man led a boycott against a cellphone company that used Twitter to circulate acartoon of Mickey Mouse with a beard and Minnie Mouse with a veil?	Mohamed Morsi	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
What man's second wife wrote a memoir turned into the mini-series, Winning a Lawsuit in America?	Bo Xilai	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
What man's first role in the federal government was as head of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission?	Ted Cruz	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
In September 2014 and September 2015, respectively, what man signed bills creating Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts and Community Revitalization Authorities, both of which re-establish powers previously held by the redevelopment agencies that this politician dissolved in 2012?	Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr.	Current Events	Current Events American
What man served eight years as the mayor of Tulle prior to becoming the leader of his political party?	Francois Hollande	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
What person was first elected to Congress to replace Scott Klug?	Tammy Baldwin	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
During his long tenure as chief cabinet secretary, what man came under fire for sympathizing with asyndicate of rapists?	Yasuo Fukuda	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
In February, a member of the militant group ISIS made a recording naming one member of what group as the true leaderof the organization?	The Saudi Royal Family	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
Bilal Kareem Tawwab is the superintendent of what jurisdiction's school district, where Eileen Tomasi is the only nurse?	Flint, Michigan	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
The current Secretary General of what group is a member of the Christian Democratic Alliance whoformerly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Jan Peter Balkenende?	NATO or North Atlantic Treaty Organization	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
In 2012, police in what country kidnapped and murdered the son of Julieta Castellanos (hoo-lee-et-ah cas-tay-yah-nohs), the rector of its largest university?	Republic of Honduras	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
A 2001 legal justiAfication for what practice quoted Learned Hand's dictum in Parke-Davis v. H.K?	patenting genes	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
What university system's Coordinated Admission Program allows students to attend a branch campus for one year before transferring to its main campus?	University of Texas	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
One Congressman from what state was the House Judiciary Committee chair until 2007?	Wisconsin	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
Five-year-old Dayana Arlotti was the youngest person killed as the result of what event?	Costa Concordia shipwreck	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
The independent candidate in what country's 2012 election faced scrutiny for his wife's tax filingsbut is better known as a philanthropist who has donated many shares of his company, which hasreceived buyout offers from McAfee?	South Korea	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
In what country, the beheading of reporter Heorhiy Gongadze was linked to former president (*))Leonid Kuchma?	Ukraine	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
One major scandal during what man's time in office was the loss of records concerning fifty millionpension claims?	Shinzo Abe	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
Environmentalists protested the 2011 connection of three of what country's ports to the AtlanticOcean through the construction of the Inter-oceanic Highway?	Peru	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
Upon first coming to power, what leader rejected the reformist Manifesto of the 99 and cracked down on private discussion forums called muntadat?	Bashar al-Assad	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
Last month, the nation of Malawi threatened to take legal action against what organization, calling this organization's new anti-smoking campaign a violation of international law?	European Union	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
Ras Baraka blamed what man for inciting a fight during the vote to appoint someone to a seat leftopen by Donald Payne Jr?	Cory Anthony Booker	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
In one of his more enigmatic deaths, what man was known by the codename "C-2."?	Al Qaeda Number 3	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
A former director of what country's DAS intelligence agency was sentenced in November 2016 for the 1989 assassination of a presidential candidate?	Republic of Colombia	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
What leader had a major diplomatic standoff with France after his nephews stole a yacht belonging to Bruno Roger, painted it yellow, and tried to auction it back to French officials?	Zine El Abidine Ben Ali	Current Events	Current Events Other
Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer accused the National Park Service of spending toomuch money on what event?	Sarah Palin's bus tour	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
What man led a three day fast in front of the Capitol Building as part of his "Forgive, Love andUnite" campaign to show solidarity with Nixon?	Sung Myun Moon	Current Events	Current Events - Misc
Jacob Zwarts identified one figure in what painting as Miguel de Barrios, a Spanish converso whoformed an alliance with the Morrocan sugar heiress also depicted?	The Jewish Bride	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Visual
In what work's final movement, two pianos, a harp, and timpani softly repeat the notes E flat, B flat, F before this piece ends on an unusually widely spaced C major chord?	Symphony of Psalms	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Auditory
What architect designed a hollow conical frustum covered in wooden slats for his Museum of Wood Culture?	Tadao Ando	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Other
What man sandwiched a waterfall between two thin orange walls at the ranch he designed for Folke EgerstrAPm?	Luis Barragan	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Other
Members of what movement produced paintings capturing their impressions as tourists in the "Prague Project."?	photorealism	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Visual
Theodor Adorno was wounded by Walter Benjamin's negative opinion of his fragmentary musical composition in what genre that was inspired by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?	Singspiel	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Audiovisual
What artist's earlier pieces, such as the marble Torso, emulated Fernand Leger, while this artist's last sitter was the photographer Elie Lotar?	Alberto Giacometti	Fine Arts	Fine Arts - Misc
The lobby and arcade of what building has a cruciform plan and the lobby's ceiling is laid with colored glass in Byzantine mosaic style?	Woolworth Building	Fine Arts	Fine Arts - Misc
In the 1970s, what singer contributed to the Massenet revival by taking on the title role of Esclarmonde?	Dame Joan	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Audiovisual
Emil Telmanyi played a version of what instrument that Knud Vestergaard designed based onVestergaard's misunderstanding of old score notation?	violin	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Other
What church was the target of a 1993 mafia car bombing?	Papal Archibasilica of St. John Lateran	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Other
Peter Maxwell-Davies composed Eight Songs For a Mad King for an ensemble of instruments commonly named for what work, which inspired the second and third of Stravinsky's Three Japanese Songs?	Pierrot Lunaire	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Audiovisual
One player of what instrument collaborated with Bob Haggart to compose the duet "Big Noise from Winnetka."?	drums	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Auditory
In a photograph by what artist, sparsely vegetated hills appear behind a Sicilian peasant who uses a long stick to point out troop movements to a crouching soldier?	Robert Capa	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Other
The third movement Larghetto of Chopin's 3rst piano sonata is the only piece he wrote in what time signature?	5/4 time	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Auditory
The two figures at the bottom of what painting are the only naked ones, and the one of them on the left holds a bowl aloft?	Ship of Fools	Fine Arts	Fine Arts - Misc
Besides J. M. Vien, what artist was the main teacher of Pierre-Alexandre Wille, whose works in similar genres overshadowed the later works of this artist?	Jean-Baptiste Greuze	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Visual
What composer originally scored one of his ballets for pianola, harmonium, and two cimbaloms, but later pared its instruments down to percussion and four pianos?	Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Auditory
The central scene in what painting relied heavily on an emblem in Andrea Alciati's Liber Eblemata, a popular book of the time, according to Jonathan Brown, an expert on the artist?	Surrender of Breda	Fine Arts	Fine Arts - Misc
What opera was the subject of Susan McClary's only monograph on a single work?	Carmen	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Audiovisual
What painting was originally displayed facing a depiction of a female model in it costumed as a male matador?	Luncheon on the Grass	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Visual
In a film by what director, a police officer hallucinates two iguanas while on a sting operation?	Werner Herzog	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Audiovisual
A contemporaneous Croatian artist Giorgio Glovocic mentioned a third version of what work painted on ivory but now lost?	The Tower of Babel	Fine Arts	Fine Arts - Misc
A bridge in what city helpfully displays the Mean Value Theorem for passers-by?	Beijing	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Other
What piece's last section, usually played in B minor, begins with the pianist's left hand playing a grace note on E-sharp, then a long "B F-sharp" fifth, which is played in each measure as a drone?	Winterreise	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Auditory
A renovation project led by what architect added a fir-paneled irregular-spiral accessibility ramp in the Walker Court and a new wing with a blue exterior featuring two snakelike cantilevered staircases?	Frank Gehry	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Other
At one moment in what piece, a harp signals a glimpse of sunlight as the music reaches C major?	The Swan of Tuonela	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Auditory
A chapel on what island contains a pillar whose design shows vines winding around its column and stone dragons gnawing at its base, reminiscent of the Norse world tree?	Great Britain	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Other
What man designed the supposedly haunted, unsupported spiral Tulip Stairs and concluded that Stonehenge was a Roman temple?	Inigo Jones	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Other
A tone poem by what composer opens with a held B in the strings, followed by a piano flourish and a solo clarinet coming in on an F-sharp and then going down to D-sharp, C-sharp, F-sharp?	Ottorino Respighi	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Auditory
Percy Grainger was renowned for his performance of what piece, and revised its orchestration in 1917 with the blessing of its composer?	Edvard Grieg's piano concerto in A minor	Fine Arts	Fine Arts - Misc
The final movement of what composer's Piano Quintet begins in cut time with the cello playing a low F, then jumping up an octave, which is then imitated by the violin and piano; that quintet in F minor was first composed as a string quintet with two cellos?	Johannes Brahms	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Auditory
One of the men in what work holds a list in his left hand and sits beside another gentleman who is standing in front of a broadsheet that bears the artist's signature and the date of its composition?	The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp	Fine Arts	Fine Arts - Misc
Vasari claimed that what artist copied a Martin Schongauer woodcut for his first painting, whichdepicted nine demons carrying St. Anthony through the air and bludgeoning him?	Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Auditory
Hungarian artist Istvan Orosz recreated an experiment in perspective by what man in a 2000 installation using a sheet and a mirror?	Filippo Brunelleschi	Fine Arts	Fine Arts - Misc
What composition's last movement features a descending idea in D at a slightly faster tempo than a descending idea in the tonic key, the latter of which is shared between the entire string section?	Pathetique Symphony in B Minor, Op. 74	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Auditory
In an opera by what composer, the only roles beside the two title characters are an offstage chorus and blind violinist who plays an excerpt from an opera from a different composer?	Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Auditory
In one section of what work, a man sings about "pen knives [that] felt shut up" and "scissors [that] declared themselves cut out" due to the magnet's attraction to a silver churn?	Patience	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Audiovisual
The open-mouthed faces of a dozen ugly angels surround the central figure in what artist's Madonna of the Cherubim?	Andrea Mantegna	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Visual
Examples of what musical form Arnold Bax's Paean and an "Ungherese" one composed by Ligeti?	passacaglia	Fine Arts	Fine Arts - Misc
A nineteen-year-old composer with what surname won the Prix de Rome in 1913 by writing the cantata Faust et Helene (eh-LEHN), only to die 3ve years later?	Boulanger	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Auditory
In December 2012, responding to a long-running Reddit thread, the engineering department of the UK's Open University determined that the theoretical maximum height of a tower built only from what material is just over 3500 meters; the current world record, however, is merely 32.5 meters?	LEGO bricks	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Other
What artist's depictions of camels include a pen drawing titled Camel (and Camel-Schema), as well as a painting of a segmented camel walking through a forest, subtitled Rhythmic Landscape?	Paul Klee	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Visual

What piece makes the capture on the fourth move for White in the Classical Variation of the CaroKannDefence?

knight

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

As a result of the firing of Gary Brown by what city, Kym Worthy vacillated over whether to filecharges against a politician here?

Detroit

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

In a memo, a then-employee of what agency argued that because Donald Trump was "an existential threat to cultural Marxist memes," the "deep state" was trying to destroy him?

National Security Council

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

In March 2007, what man attempted to benefit from a constitutional amendment that changedwording about "safeguarding socialist gains" to "conserving the environment."?

Hosni Mubarak

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

In November 2013, what man's father was accused of using the phrases "die of AIDS" and "blackbrothers that do drugs on a regular basis" under the pseudonym "idrd1994."?

Richard "Richie" Incognito

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

What country's capital is the operating base of Khaled Mashal, the head of the Hamas Political Bureau, as well as the Egyptian cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi?

Qatar

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

What company has been accused of using bribery to secure a $2.2 billion deal in Austria?

EADS

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

According to a recent paper by Sara and Glenn Ellison, when what company purchased a competitor and reduced search costs in its market, average prices, price dispersion, and consumer surplus all increased?

Amazon.com

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

For the entire 1980s and through 1998, what state had the same governor, Terry Brandstad?

Iowa

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

A book by what politician contained parts that were plagiarized from the Heritage Foundation; that book contains anecdotes about people struggling with American bureaucracy and is titled Government Bullies?

Rand Paul

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

A May 2012 paper attributed what man's success to "Quality Versus Junk" and "Betting Against Beta" and cited the effects of 1.6 times leverage; that paper discussed this man's alpha?

Warren Edward Buffett

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

Opposition movements in what country include Erk, Birlik and an Islamist group led by the late JumaNamangoniy?

Uzbekistan

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

The Universal of National Unity resolved a 2006 political crisis in what country?

Ukraine

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

What leader recounted being placed on a parrot perch and being electrocuted to induce singing during one torture regimen?

Dilma Vana Rousseff

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

One of what band's songs notes that "just when the boat is sinking," "a little light is blinking."?

The White Stripes

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

Judge Fuld of the New York Court of Appeals held that a company in what industry could avoid liability by contributing one asset each into ten separate corporations in the seminal veil-piercing case Walkovszky v. Carlton?

regulated taxi industry

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

s an engineer, what person held patents for a wastewater aerator design and designed the "Micro Mod" sailboat?

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

In March 2014, Harold Hamm estimated that what state might see a thirty percent drop ineconomic activity if a proposed tax reform goes through?

North Dakota

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

The Blueseed project seeks to create a platform to skirt US laws against what action?

Immigration to the United States

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

In 2010, Bret Schundler was fired as what state's education commissioner for making an error which cost this state $400 million in education funding?

New Jersey

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

A 1987 paper found negative consequences from what phenomenon by creating the rst formalization of the Roy Model?

immigration

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

What nation's Jumbish political party is led by Abdul Rashid Dostum and is one of several parties which in 2011 joined this country's "National Front" movement, led by Ahmad Massoud?

Afghanistan

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

What policy was the subject of a 2006 study which said that the nearly ten thousand firings it causedhave cost 200 million dollars?

"don't ask, don't tell"

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

The Satellite Sentinel project was created to monitor military activity in what country, and a UN peacekeeping mission in this country is led by Hilde Johnson?

South Sudan

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

The American Association for the Advancement of Science was involved in documenting incidents inwhat country in 2007 such as the firing of mortars into crop fields and the harassment of villagers inareas where the (*)) Karen ethnicity dominates?

Burma or Myanmar

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

In 2008, what country's health minister was fired after 300 million dollars went missing?

Nigeria

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

What city's "Toilet King" owns Wall, Inc. and hopes to attract "Yummies" to this city with afictional character called Jessica?

Berlin

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

Earlier what year, this nation was accused of practicing forced conscription of the Ngok people as part of its attempt to retake the Abyei region?

South Sudan

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

What party currently controls local councils in such cities as Surrey, Derbyshire, and Devon?

Liberal Democratic Party

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

A former mayor in what state, Retha Pierce, lost her position after she was busted in a DUI and threatened to kill a police officer?

South Carolina

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

In 2011, what man led a boycott against a cellphone company that used Twitter to circulate acartoon of Mickey Mouse with a beard and Minnie Mouse with a veil?

Mohamed Morsi

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

What man's second wife wrote a memoir turned into the mini-series, Winning a Lawsuit in America?

Bo Xilai

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

What man's first role in the federal government was as head of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission?

Ted Cruz

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

In September 2014 and September 2015, respectively, what man signed bills creating Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts and Community Revitalization Authorities, both of which re-establish powers previously held by the redevelopment agencies that this politician dissolved in 2012?

Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr.

Current Events

Current Events American

What man served eight years as the mayor of Tulle prior to becoming the leader of his political party?

Francois Hollande

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

What person was first elected to Congress to replace Scott Klug?

Tammy Baldwin

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

During his long tenure as chief cabinet secretary, what man came under fire for sympathizing with asyndicate of rapists?

Yasuo Fukuda

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

In February, a member of the militant group ISIS made a recording naming one member of what group as the true leaderof the organization?

The Saudi Royal Family

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

Bilal Kareem Tawwab is the superintendent of what jurisdiction's school district, where Eileen Tomasi is the only nurse?

Flint, Michigan

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

The current Secretary General of what group is a member of the Christian Democratic Alliance whoformerly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Jan Peter Balkenende?

NATO or North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

In 2012, police in what country kidnapped and murdered the son of Julieta Castellanos (hoo-lee-et-ah cas-tay-yah-nohs), the rector of its largest university?

Republic of Honduras

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

A 2001 legal justiAfication for what practice quoted Learned Hand's dictum in Parke-Davis v. H.K?

patenting genes

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

What university system's Coordinated Admission Program allows students to attend a branch campus for one year before transferring to its main campus?

University of Texas

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

One Congressman from what state was the House Judiciary Committee chair until 2007?

Wisconsin

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

Five-year-old Dayana Arlotti was the youngest person killed as the result of what event?

Costa Concordia shipwreck

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

The independent candidate in what country's 2012 election faced scrutiny for his wife's tax filingsbut is better known as a philanthropist who has donated many shares of his company, which hasreceived buyout offers from McAfee?

South Korea

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

In what country, the beheading of reporter Heorhiy Gongadze was linked to former president (*))Leonid Kuchma?

Ukraine

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

One major scandal during what man's time in office was the loss of records concerning fifty millionpension claims?

Shinzo Abe

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

Environmentalists protested the 2011 connection of three of what country's ports to the AtlanticOcean through the construction of the Inter-oceanic Highway?

Peru

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

Upon first coming to power, what leader rejected the reformist Manifesto of the 99 and cracked down on private discussion forums called muntadat?

Bashar al-Assad

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

Last month, the nation of Malawi threatened to take legal action against what organization, calling this organization's new anti-smoking campaign a violation of international law?

European Union

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

Ras Baraka blamed what man for inciting a fight during the vote to appoint someone to a seat leftopen by Donald Payne Jr?

Cory Anthony Booker

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

In one of his more enigmatic deaths, what man was known by the codename "C-2."?

Al Qaeda Number 3

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

A former director of what country's DAS intelligence agency was sentenced in November 2016 for the 1989 assassination of a presidential candidate?

Republic of Colombia

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

What leader had a major diplomatic standoff with France after his nephews stole a yacht belonging to Bruno Roger, painted it yellow, and tried to auction it back to French officials?

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

Current Events

Current Events Other

Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer accused the National Park Service of spending toomuch money on what event?

Sarah Palin's bus tour

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

What man led a three day fast in front of the Capitol Building as part of his "Forgive, Love andUnite" campaign to show solidarity with Nixon?

Sung Myun Moon

Current Events

Current Events - Misc

Jacob Zwarts identified one figure in what painting as Miguel de Barrios, a Spanish converso whoformed an alliance with the Morrocan sugar heiress also depicted?

The Jewish Bride

Fine Arts

Fine Arts Visual

In what work's final movement, two pianos, a harp, and timpani softly repeat the notes E flat, B flat, F before this piece ends on an unusually widely spaced C major chord?

Symphony of Psalms

Fine Arts

Fine Arts Auditory

What architect designed a hollow conical frustum covered in wooden slats for his Museum of Wood Culture?

Tadao Ando

Fine Arts

Fine Arts Other

What man sandwiched a waterfall between two thin orange walls at the ranch he designed for Folke EgerstrAPm?

Luis Barragan

Fine Arts

Fine Arts Other

Members of what movement produced paintings capturing their impressions as tourists in the "Prague Project."?

photorealism

Fine Arts

Fine Arts Visual

Theodor Adorno was wounded by Walter Benjamin's negative opinion of his fragmentary musical composition in what genre that was inspired by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

Singspiel

Fine Arts

Fine Arts Audiovisual

What artist's earlier pieces, such as the marble Torso, emulated Fernand Leger, while this artist's last sitter was the photographer Elie Lotar?

Alberto Giacometti

Fine Arts

Fine Arts - Misc

The lobby and arcade of what building has a cruciform plan and the lobby's ceiling is laid with colored glass in Byzantine mosaic style?

Woolworth Building

Fine Arts

Fine Arts - Misc

In the 1970s, what singer contributed to the Massenet revival by taking on the title role of Esclarmonde?

Dame Joan

Fine Arts

Fine Arts Audiovisual

Emil Telmanyi played a version of what instrument that Knud Vestergaard designed based onVestergaard's misunderstanding of old score notation?

violin

Fine Arts

Fine Arts Other

What church was the target of a 1993 mafia car bombing?

Papal Archibasilica of St. John Lateran

Fine Arts

Fine Arts Other

Peter Maxwell-Davies composed Eight Songs For a Mad King for an ensemble of instruments commonly named for what work, which inspired the second and third of Stravinsky's Three Japanese Songs?

Pierrot Lunaire

Fine Arts

Fine Arts Audiovisual

One player of what instrument collaborated with Bob Haggart to compose the duet "Big Noise from Winnetka."?

drums

Fine Arts

Fine Arts Auditory

In a photograph by what artist, sparsely vegetated hills appear behind a Sicilian peasant who uses a long stick to point out troop movements to a crouching soldier?

Robert Capa

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The third movement Larghetto of Chopin's 3rst piano sonata is the only piece he wrote in what time signature?

5/4 time

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The two figures at the bottom of what painting are the only naked ones, and the one of them on the left holds a bowl aloft?

Ship of Fools

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Besides J. M. Vien, what artist was the main teacher of Pierre-Alexandre Wille, whose works in similar genres overshadowed the later works of this artist?

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

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What composer originally scored one of his ballets for pianola, harmonium, and two cimbaloms, but later pared its instruments down to percussion and four pianos?

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

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The central scene in what painting relied heavily on an emblem in Andrea Alciati's Liber Eblemata, a popular book of the time, according to Jonathan Brown, an expert on the artist?

Surrender of Breda

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What opera was the subject of Susan McClary's only monograph on a single work?

Carmen

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What painting was originally displayed facing a depiction of a female model in it costumed as a male matador?

Luncheon on the Grass

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In a film by what director, a police officer hallucinates two iguanas while on a sting operation?

Werner Herzog

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A contemporaneous Croatian artist Giorgio Glovocic mentioned a third version of what work painted on ivory but now lost?

The Tower of Babel

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A bridge in what city helpfully displays the Mean Value Theorem for passers-by?

Beijing

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What piece's last section, usually played in B minor, begins with the pianist's left hand playing a grace note on E-sharp, then a long "B F-sharp" fifth, which is played in each measure as a drone?

Winterreise

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A renovation project led by what architect added a fir-paneled irregular-spiral accessibility ramp in the Walker Court and a new wing with a blue exterior featuring two snakelike cantilevered staircases?

Frank Gehry

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At one moment in what piece, a harp signals a glimpse of sunlight as the music reaches C major?

The Swan of Tuonela

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A chapel on what island contains a pillar whose design shows vines winding around its column and stone dragons gnawing at its base, reminiscent of the Norse world tree?

Great Britain

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What man designed the supposedly haunted, unsupported spiral Tulip Stairs and concluded that Stonehenge was a Roman temple?

Inigo Jones

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A tone poem by what composer opens with a held B in the strings, followed by a piano flourish and a solo clarinet coming in on an F-sharp and then going down to D-sharp, C-sharp, F-sharp?

Ottorino Respighi

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Percy Grainger was renowned for his performance of what piece, and revised its orchestration in 1917 with the blessing of its composer?

Edvard Grieg's piano concerto in A minor

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The final movement of what composer's Piano Quintet begins in cut time with the cello playing a low F, then jumping up an octave, which is then imitated by the violin and piano; that quintet in F minor was first composed as a string quintet with two cellos?

Johannes Brahms

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One of the men in what work holds a list in his left hand and sits beside another gentleman who is standing in front of a broadsheet that bears the artist's signature and the date of its composition?

The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp

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Fine Arts - Misc

Vasari claimed that what artist copied a Martin Schongauer woodcut for his first painting, whichdepicted nine demons carrying St. Anthony through the air and bludgeoning him?

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

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Hungarian artist Istvan Orosz recreated an experiment in perspective by what man in a 2000 installation using a sheet and a mirror?

Filippo Brunelleschi

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What composition's last movement features a descending idea in D at a slightly faster tempo than a descending idea in the tonic key, the latter of which is shared between the entire string section?

Pathetique Symphony in B Minor, Op. 74

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In an opera by what composer, the only roles beside the two title characters are an offstage chorus and blind violinist who plays an excerpt from an opera from a different composer?

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov

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In one section of what work, a man sings about "pen knives [that] felt shut up" and "scissors [that] declared themselves cut out" due to the magnet's attraction to a silver churn?

Patience

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The open-mouthed faces of a dozen ugly angels surround the central figure in what artist's Madonna of the Cherubim?

Andrea Mantegna

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Examples of what musical form Arnold Bax's Paean and an "Ungherese" one composed by Ligeti?

passacaglia

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Fine Arts - Misc

A nineteen-year-old composer with what surname won the Prix de Rome in 1913 by writing the cantata Faust et Helene (eh-LEHN), only to die 3ve years later?

Boulanger

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In December 2012, responding to a long-running Reddit thread, the engineering department of the UK's Open University determined that the theoretical maximum height of a tower built only from what material is just over 3500 meters; the current world record, however, is merely 32.5 meters?

LEGO bricks

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What artist's depictions of camels include a pen drawing titled Camel (and Camel-Schema), as well as a painting of a segmented camel walking through a forest, subtitled Rhythmic Landscape?

Paul Klee

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