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The energy of a Hopfield neural network is calculated by noting that the network is equivalent to it. Formulated in matrix terms, the log of its largest eigenvalue is proportional to the free energy. Using a Metropolis algorithm with staying probability e to the negative beta times delta E can be used to solve these models. Istrail found that the three-dimensional versions of them are unsolvable. The energy in this system is equal to the sum of S sub I times S sub J times an interaction term J sub ij. A 2-dimensional version of it was solved by Onsager. Sherrington and Kirkpatrick added frustration terms to it in order to model spin glasses. Its critical fluctuations correctly model the behavior at the critical point. For 10 points, name this model which is used to model magnetic materials as a collection of spins.

The energy of a Hopfield neural network is calculated by noting that the network is equivalent to it. Formulated in matrix terms, the log of its largest eigenvalue is proportional to the free energy. Using a Metropolis algorithm with staying probability e to the negative beta times delta E can be used to solve these models. Istrail found that the three-dimensional versions of them are unsolvable. The energy in this system is equal to the sum of S sub I times S sub J times an interaction term J sub ij. A 2-dimensional version of it was solved by Onsager. Sherrington and Kirkpatrick added frustration terms to it in order to model spin glasses. Its critical fluctuations correctly model the behavior at the critical point. For 10 points, name this model which is used to model magnetic materials as a collection of spins.

The energy of a Hopfield neural network is calculated by noting that the network is equivalent to it.

Ising_model

Ising_model

 the Ising model

guesstrain

Science

Physics

ACF Winter

College

146-full

5476990eea23cca905506de3

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The Castner-Kellner process uses this method to produce alkali hydroxide, and it was applied to heavy water in the Fleischmann-Pons experiment that discredited cold fusion. First discovered by Nicholson and Carlisle in 1800, it was later used by Moissan on potassium hydrogen difluoride in hydrogen fluoride to produce fluorine. The amount of chemical change produced in a given substance by a given amount of charge is proportional to its equivalent weight according to one of two laws formulated by Faraday concerning this process. Anodization and the Hall-Heroult process both make use of this process. For 10 points, name this process that typically involves a liquid medium and two electrodes and uses a current to decompose chemicals.

The Castner-Kellner process uses this method to produce alkali hydroxide, and it was applied to heavy water in the Fleischmann-Pons experiment that discredited cold fusion. First discovered by Nicholson and Carlisle in 1800, it was later used by Moissan on potassium hydrogen difluoride in hydrogen fluoride to produce fluorine. The amount of chemical change produced in a given substance by a given amount of charge is proportional to its equivalent weight according to one of two laws formulated by Faraday concerning this process. Anodization and the Hall-Heroult process both make use of this process. For 10 points, name this process that typically involves a liquid medium and two electrodes and uses a current to decompose chemicals.

The Castner-Kellner process uses this method to produce alkali hydroxide, and it was applied to heavy water in the Fleischmann-Pons experiment that discredited cold fusion.

Electrolysis

Electrolysis

electrolysis

guesstrain

Science

Chemistry

ACF Winter

College

149-full

5476990eea23cca905506de6

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This poet noted that he "had no human fears" in a quintet of poems that centered on "A Maid whom there were none to praise / And very few to love." In another poem, he called his home country "a fen / Of stagnant waters" and wished that "Milton!" "shouldst be living at this hour." In one poem, he described objects which "flash upon that inward eye" and provide "the bliss of solitude." In another poem, he wrote that he'd "rather be / A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn." This author included "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" and "A slumber did my spirit seal" in his Lucy poems. For 10 points, name this poet of "London, 1802" and "The World is Too Much with Us," who described seeing "a host of golden daffodils" in "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and wrote "Tintern Abbey."

This poet noted that he "had no human fears" in a quintet of poems that centered on "A Maid whom there were none to praise / And very few to love." In another poem, he called his home country "a fen / Of stagnant waters" and wished that "Milton!" "shouldst be living at this hour." In one poem, he described objects which "flash upon that inward eye" and provide "the bliss of solitude." In another poem, he wrote that he'd "rather be / A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn." This author included "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" and "A slumber did my spirit seal" in his Lucy poems. For 10 points, name this poet of "London, 1802" and "The World is Too Much with Us," who described seeing "a host of golden daffodils" in "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and wrote "Tintern Abbey."

This poet noted that he "had no human fears" in a quintet of poems that centered on "A Maid whom there were none to praise /

William_Wordsworth

William_Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

guesstrain

Literature

European

ACF Winter

College

152-full

5476990eea23cca905506de9

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One ruler of this dynasty avoided a prophecy of his death by abdicating in favor of the puppet Yusufi for four days during his persecution of Nuqtavis. This dynasty was defeated at Gulnabad by the Ghilzai leader Mahmud. Its founder was victorious at Merv over the Uzbeks and had earlier overthrown the "White Sheep" dynasty. This dynasty was eventually supplanted by Karim Khan and the Zand dynasty, and its final rulers were puppets of Nadir Shah. Tahmasp I was a ruler of this dynasty, which was defeated at Chaldiran by Selim the Grim. Under Abbas I, this dynasty established a capital at Isfahan, and it was founded with the help of the Qizilbash by Ismail I. For 10 points, name this Shi'ite dynasty that ruled Persia from 1501 to 1736.

One ruler of this dynasty avoided a prophecy of his death by abdicating in favor of the puppet Yusufi for four days during his persecution of Nuqtavis. This dynasty was defeated at Gulnabad by the Ghilzai leader Mahmud. Its founder was victorious at Merv over the Uzbeks and had earlier overthrown the "White Sheep" dynasty. This dynasty was eventually supplanted by Karim Khan and the Zand dynasty, and its final rulers were puppets of Nadir Shah. Tahmasp I was a ruler of this dynasty, which was defeated at Chaldiran by Selim the Grim. Under Abbas I, this dynasty established a capital at Isfahan, and it was founded with the help of the Qizilbash by Ismail I. For 10 points, name this Shi'ite dynasty that ruled Persia from 1501 to 1736.

One ruler of this dynasty avoided a prophecy of his death by abdicating in favor of the puppet Yusufi for four days during his persecution of Nuqtavis.

Safavid_dynasty

Safavid_dynasty

Safavid Dynasty

guesstrain

History

World

ACF Winter

College

153-full

5476990eea23cca905506dea

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Particles of dielectric materials may be separated in a fractionation method that uses a nonuniform one of these. Band-bending occurs because it varies linearly in a depletion layer. Symmetric top molecules undergo line-splitting in their microwave spectrum due to the application of one of these. Modulators for active Q-switching lasers rely on an effect in which crystals lacking inversion symmetry become birefringent in linear proportion to the magnitude of one of these. Its flux through a surface is proportional to enclosed charge, and its curl is equal to the negative time partial of the magnetic field. Its magnitude is proportional to one-over-r for a line charge, and it is proportional to one over r squared for a point charge. For 10 points, name this vector field given in units of volts per meter.

Particles of dielectric materials may be separated in a fractionation method that uses a nonuniform one of these. Band-bending occurs because it varies linearly in a depletion layer. Symmetric top molecules undergo line-splitting in their microwave spectrum due to the application of one of these. Modulators for active Q-switching lasers rely on an effect in which crystals lacking inversion symmetry become birefringent in linear proportion to the magnitude of one of these. Its flux through a surface is proportional to enclosed charge, and its curl is equal to the negative time partial of the magnetic field. Its magnitude is proportional to one-over-r for a line charge, and it is proportional to one over r squared for a point charge. For 10 points, name this vector field given in units of volts per meter.

Particles of dielectric materials may be separated in a fractionation method that uses a nonuniform one of these.

Electric_field

Electric_field

 electric field [or E field]

guesstrain

Science

Physics

ACF Winter

College

155-full

5476990eea23cca905506dec

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One author from this country wrote a six-volume poetry collection called "Sleepless Nights," and another wrote a Faust-like work whose title is given as The Wish or as Loftur the Sorceror. One author from this country wrote The Black Cliffs and Guest the One-Eyed. One novel by an author from this country features the Parliament member Bui Arland and an organ teacher at whose house the ideas of communism and anarchism are introduced to the girl Ugla. Another novel written by an author from this country follows the sheep farmer and poet Bjartur. Gunnar and Njal and the antiheroic Grettir the Strong all feature in works written in this country. For 10 points, name this nation, home to the author of Independent People, Halldor Laxness, as well as many writers of sagas.

One author from this country wrote a six-volume poetry collection called "Sleepless Nights," and another wrote a Faust-like work whose title is given as The Wish or as Loftur the Sorceror. One author from this country wrote The Black Cliffs and Guest the One-Eyed. One novel by an author from this country features the Parliament member Bui Arland and an organ teacher at whose house the ideas of communism and anarchism are introduced to the girl Ugla. Another novel written by an author from this country follows the sheep farmer and poet Bjartur. Gunnar and Njal and the antiheroic Grettir the Strong all feature in works written in this country. For 10 points, name this nation, home to the author of Independent People, Halldor Laxness, as well as many writers of sagas.

One author from this country wrote a six-volume poetry collection called "Sleepless Nights," and another wrote a Faust-like work whose title is given as The Wish or as Loftur the Sorceror.

Iceland

Iceland

Iceland

guesstrain

Literature

World

ACF Winter

College

156-full

5476990eea23cca905506ded

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Drug discovery research employs a synthesis that produces alpha-phosphonate examples of this functionality from a carbonyl, a hydrophosphoryl compound, and a primary one of these. A test for this functionality, which can discern between their degrees of substitution, employs aqueous sodium hydroxide and benzenesulfonyl chloride and is named for Hinsburg. CO2 is released upon the addition of hydrazoic acid through an isocyanate intermediate in one reaction to form them. PPh3 is used to reduce azides to this functionality in the Staudinger ligation. The best known synthesis of these compounds reacts primary alkyl halides with potassium phthalimide, and is named for Gabriel. For 10 points, name this functionality whose members possess a nitrogen with three single bonds to substituents.

Drug discovery research employs a synthesis that produces alpha-phosphonate examples of this functionality from a carbonyl, a hydrophosphoryl compound, and a primary one of these. A test for this functionality, which can discern between their degrees of substitution, employs aqueous sodium hydroxide and benzenesulfonyl chloride and is named for Hinsburg. CO2 is released upon the addition of hydrazoic acid through an isocyanate intermediate in one reaction to form them. PPh3 is used to reduce azides to this functionality in the Staudinger ligation. The best known synthesis of these compounds reacts primary alkyl halides with potassium phthalimide, and is named for Gabriel. For 10 points, name this functionality whose members possess a nitrogen with three single bonds to substituents.

Drug discovery research employs a synthesis that produces alpha-phosphonate examples of this functionality from a carbonyl, a hydrophosphoryl compound, and a primary one of these.

Amine

Amine

 amines

guesstrain

Science

Chemistry

ACF Winter

College

157-full

5476990eea23cca905506dee

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Participants in this event took captive John Newton, the governor of Rochester. It began with an attack on Robert Belknap at Brentwood. An attempt to resolve it was made at Mile End. During this event, executions were held at Tower Hill, including the beheadings of Robert Hales and Simon Sudbury. Participants in it destroyed the Savoy Palace, which belonged to John of Gaunt. It was partly a response to the Statute of Labourers, and this event's leader was killed at Smithfield by William Walworth. Support for it was gathered with John Ball's question "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?" This event was started as a response to an increased poll tax levied by Richard II. For 10 points, name this 1381 revolt of the English poor led by Wat Tyler.

Participants in this event took captive John Newton, the governor of Rochester. It began with an attack on Robert Belknap at Brentwood. An attempt to resolve it was made at Mile End. During this event, executions were held at Tower Hill, including the beheadings of Robert Hales and Simon Sudbury. Participants in it destroyed the Savoy Palace, which belonged to John of Gaunt. It was partly a response to the Statute of Labourers, and this event's leader was killed at Smithfield by William Walworth. Support for it was gathered with John Ball's question "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?" This event was started as a response to an increased poll tax levied by Richard II. For 10 points, name this 1381 revolt of the English poor led by Wat Tyler.

Participants in this event took captive John Newton, the governor of Rochester.

Peasants'_Revolt

Peasants'_Revolt

Peasants' Revolt of 1381 [or the Great Rising; accept Wat Tyler's Rebellion before mention]

guesstrain

History

European

ACF Winter

College

158-full

5476990eea23cca905506def

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A philosopher who wrote about this school "of the Social World" applied it to William James's concept of "Stream of Consciousness." This school was applied to empathy by Max Scheler, a member of the Munich Circle devoted to it. One work in this field rejects the strict dichotomy between "being-in-itself" and "being-for-itself" in the interaction with the other, and that work presents a "third dialectic." The founder of this discipline used the methods of the epoché and bracketing and proposed a principle of intentionality in works like The Crisis of European Sciences. This field owes much to Franz Brentano, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty applied it to perception. For 10 points, name this field developed in the Cartesian Meditations and Logical Investigations of Edmund Husserl.

A philosopher who wrote about this school "of the Social World" applied it to William James's concept of "Stream of Consciousness." This school was applied to empathy by Max Scheler, a member of the Munich Circle devoted to it. One work in this field rejects the strict dichotomy between "being-in-itself" and "being-for-itself" in the interaction with the other, and that work presents a "third dialectic." The founder of this discipline used the methods of the epoché and bracketing and proposed a principle of intentionality in works like The Crisis of European Sciences. This field owes much to Franz Brentano, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty applied it to perception. For 10 points, name this field developed in the Cartesian Meditations and Logical Investigations of Edmund Husserl.

A philosopher who wrote about this school "of the Social World" applied it to William James's concept of "Stream of Consciousness.

Phenomenology_(philosophy)

Phenomenology_(philosophy)

phenomenology

guesstrain

Social Science

Philosophy

ACF Winter

College

159-full

5476990eea23cca905506df0

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This composer wrote a symphonic suite in which the fairy Gul-Nazar rescues a gazelle from a bird. One of his works uses the unusual time signatures 2/1 and 3/1 in its final movement, and its Andante lugubre first movement alternates a woodwind theme with a cello rendition of the hymn "An Angel Cried Out." The fourth movement of one work by this composer opens with five cadenzas played over percussion rolls and sees violins, violas, and cellos played quasi guitara. That work's third movement nearly repeats its first save in key and instrumentation, an asturian dance. For 10 points, name this composer of Russian Easter Overture and Capriccio Espagnol as well as a suite with movements like "The Kalendar Prince" and "The Sea and Sinbad's Ship" called Scheherezade.

This composer wrote a symphonic suite in which the fairy Gul-Nazar rescues a gazelle from a bird. One of his works uses the unusual time signatures 2/1 and 3/1 in its final movement, and its Andante lugubre first movement alternates a woodwind theme with a cello rendition of the hymn "An Angel Cried Out." The fourth movement of one work by this composer opens with five cadenzas played over percussion rolls and sees violins, violas, and cellos played quasi guitara. That work's third movement nearly repeats its first save in key and instrumentation, an asturian dance. For 10 points, name this composer of Russian Easter Overture and Capriccio Espagnol as well as a suite with movements like "The Kalendar Prince" and "The Sea and Sinbad's Ship" called Scheherezade.

This composer wrote a symphonic suite in which the fairy Gul-Nazar rescues a gazelle from a bird.

Nikolai_Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai_Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

guesstrain

Fine Arts

Music

ACF Winter

College

160-full

5476990eea23cca905506df1

protobowl

An Ethiopian text called the Rest of the Words of Baruch combines this text with one similar to Fourth Baruch. This work's first chapter alludes to a woman's lovers, among all of which there are none to comfort her, which may refer to Egypt and Assyria. A later verse of this book accuses "The Lord is like an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel." This work consists of five poems, each with a multiple of twenty-two lines, and the first four of which are acrostics. A reading of this work is followed by a reading of the Kinnot on Tisha B'Av. This work was written following the capture of Jehoiachin at Nebuchadnezzar's sacking of Jerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple. It is attributed to the prophet Jeremiah. For 10 points, name this Old Testament book that relates the sorrows of Israel.

An Ethiopian text called the Rest of the Words of Baruch combines this text with one similar to Fourth Baruch. This work's first chapter alludes to a woman's lovers, among all of which there are none to comfort her, which may refer to Egypt and Assyria. A later verse of this book accuses "The Lord is like an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel." This work consists of five poems, each with a multiple of twenty-two lines, and the first four of which are acrostics. A reading of this work is followed by a reading of the Kinnot on Tisha B'Av. This work was written following the capture of Jehoiachin at Nebuchadnezzar's sacking of Jerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple. It is attributed to the prophet Jeremiah. For 10 points, name this Old Testament book that relates the sorrows of Israel.

An Ethiopian text called the Rest of the Words of Baruch combines this text with one similar to Fourth Baruch.

Book_of_Lamentations

Book_of_Lamentations

Book of Lamentations [or Eikha]

guesstrain

Social Science

Religion/Mythology

ACF Winter

College

161-full

5476990eea23cca905506df2

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The line-of-sight integral of electron column density to one of these objects is their "dispersion measure," and so-called "timing experiments" done with these objects are employed to detect the Gravitational Wave Background. One of these objects was the first known star save the Sun to possess planets. Turbulence in the interstellar medium is commonly probed using the radiation from these objects. One class of these objects is thought to originate from two mechanisms, one of which is the "spin-up" of low-mass X-ray binaries, the "millisecond" variety. Another class of them rotates due to the decay of a powerful B-field. Starquakes are thought to cause glitches in the periods of these objects. For 10 points, name this class of neutron stars that emits electromagnetic radiation.

The line-of-sight integral of electron column density to one of these objects is their "dispersion measure," and so-called "timing experiments" done with these objects are employed to detect the Gravitational Wave Background. One of these objects was the first known star save the Sun to possess planets. Turbulence in the interstellar medium is commonly probed using the radiation from these objects. One class of these objects is thought to originate from two mechanisms, one of which is the "spin-up" of low-mass X-ray binaries, the "millisecond" variety. Another class of them rotates due to the decay of a powerful B-field. Starquakes are thought to cause glitches in the periods of these objects. For 10 points, name this class of neutron stars that emits electromagnetic radiation.

The line-of-sight integral of electron column density to one of these objects is their "dispersion measure," and so-called "timing experiments" done with these objects are employed to detect the Gravitational Wave Background.

Pulsar

Pulsar

 pulsars [prompt on neutron stars]

guesstrain

Science

Astronomy

ACF Winter

College

162-full

5476990eea23cca905506df3

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The set for one play by this author consists of a chair in front of a concentration camp guard tower; that play centers on the intellectual Quentin and his love for Holga. Another play by this author drew on the same interviews Studs Terkel used for Hard Times and borrows the name of a one-day president of GE during the Depression, Ted Quinn. This author wrote a play about the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, where Eddie Carbone lives. This author of After the Fall and The American Clock also wrote a work in which Giles Corey dies by being crushed by rocks when he refuses to plea aye or nay. For 10 points, name this author of A View from a Bridge who created the characters Judge Hathorne, John Proctor, and Linday, Happy, and Biff Loman in The Crucible and Death of a Salesman.

The set for one play by this author consists of a chair in front of a concentration camp guard tower; that play centers on the intellectual Quentin and his love for Holga. Another play by this author drew on the same interviews Studs Terkel used for Hard Times and borrows the name of a one-day president of GE during the Depression, Ted Quinn. This author wrote a play about the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, where Eddie Carbone lives. This author of After the Fall and The American Clock also wrote a work in which Giles Corey dies by being crushed by rocks when he refuses to plea aye or nay. For 10 points, name this author of A View from a Bridge who created the characters Judge Hathorne, John Proctor, and Linday, Happy, and Biff Loman in The Crucible and Death of a Salesman.

The set for one play by this author consists of a chair in front of a concentration camp guard tower; that play centers on the intellectual Quentin and his love for Holga.

Arthur_Miller

Arthur_Miller

Arthur Miller

guesstrain

Literature

American

ACF Winter

College

163-full

5476990eea23cca905506df4

protobowl

The family that contains this protein also contains a protein suspected to soften the pubis symphysis, which peaks during the first trimester of pregnancy and at delivery. Regulatory sequences of the gene that codes for this protein include MafA and the CAAT enhancer binding element, and NeuroD1 regulates its synthesis. The release of this hormone occurs in a three- to six-minute rhythm, and HGH induces the liver to secrete one of a family of growth factors with sequence similarity to it. This hormone is released following IP3 binding to the ER, triggering calcium release. For 10 points, name this hormone, secreted by the beta cells in the pancreas, which induces tissues to take up glucose and is administered to sufferers of diabetes.

The family that contains this protein also contains a protein suspected to soften the pubis symphysis, which peaks during the first trimester of pregnancy and at delivery. Regulatory sequences of the gene that codes for this protein include MafA and the CAAT enhancer binding element, and NeuroD1 regulates its synthesis. The release of this hormone occurs in a three- to six-minute rhythm, and HGH induces the liver to secrete one of a family of growth factors with sequence similarity to it. This hormone is released following IP3 binding to the ER, triggering calcium release. For 10 points, name this hormone, secreted by the beta cells in the pancreas, which induces tissues to take up glucose and is administered to sufferers of diabetes.

The family that contains this protein also contains a protein suspected to soften the pubis symphysis, which peaks during the first trimester of pregnancy and at delivery.

Insulin

Insulin

 insulin

guesstrain

Science

Biology

ACF Winter

College

164-full

5476990eea23cca905506df5

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In one of this man's paintings, an armored St. Nicasius carries the ensign of the Knights of Rhodes and faces the viewer in front of a red wall. A robed St. Francis stands on the other side of that painting by this man, which centers on Mary holding the infant Jesus atop a huge throne. Another of his paintings depicts a man holding a compass and a slate seated on a rock next to two standing men, a turbaned Arab and an elderly figure. A third work by this painter shows a man with a pike standing across a stream from a nursing woman; the cream-colored city in the background of that work contrasts with the dark clouds gathering overhead. His Sleeping Venus was finished by his student Titian. For 10 points, name this painter of the Castelfranco Madonna, The Three Philosophers, and The Tempest.

In one of this man's paintings, an armored St. Nicasius carries the ensign of the Knights of Rhodes and faces the viewer in front of a red wall. A robed St. Francis stands on the other side of that painting by this man, which centers on Mary holding the infant Jesus atop a huge throne. Another of his paintings depicts a man holding a compass and a slate seated on a rock next to two standing men, a turbaned Arab and an elderly figure. A third work by this painter shows a man with a pike standing across a stream from a nursing woman; the cream-colored city in the background of that work contrasts with the dark clouds gathering overhead. His Sleeping Venus was finished by his student Titian. For 10 points, name this painter of the Castelfranco Madonna, The Three Philosophers, and The Tempest.

In one of this man's paintings, an armored St. Nicasius carries the ensign of the Knights of Rhodes and faces the viewer in front of a red wall.

Giorgione

Giorgione

Giorgione [or Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; prompt on Castelfranco until it is mentioned]

guesstrain

Fine Arts

Art

ACF Winter

College

165-full

5476990eea23cca905506df6

protobowl

This president arbitrated with Britain over Bering Sea seal hunting. During his presidency two American sailors were killed in a Valparaiso brawl, sparking the Baltimore crisis. His vice president failed to support a measure to protect black voting rights, the Force Bill of Henry Cabot Lodge. This man presided over the "businessman's cabinet," named for its inclusion of Redfield Proctor and John Wanamaker. This president promoted the Dependent and Disability Pension Act. Late in his term, the Senate defeated his attempt to annex Hawaii after its takeover by Sanford Dole. This running-mate of Levi P. Morton presided over the "Billion Dollar Congress" and passed the McKinley Tariff. For 10 points, name this twenty-third president, sandwiched between Cleveland's two terms.

This president arbitrated with Britain over Bering Sea seal hunting. During his presidency two American sailors were killed in a Valparaiso brawl, sparking the Baltimore crisis. His vice president failed to support a measure to protect black voting rights, the Force Bill of Henry Cabot Lodge. This man presided over the "businessman's cabinet," named for its inclusion of Redfield Proctor and John Wanamaker. This president promoted the Dependent and Disability Pension Act. Late in his term, the Senate defeated his attempt to annex Hawaii after its takeover by Sanford Dole. This running-mate of Levi P. Morton presided over the "Billion Dollar Congress" and passed the McKinley Tariff. For 10 points, name this twenty-third president, sandwiched between Cleveland's two terms.

This president arbitrated with Britain over Bering Sea seal hunting.

Benjamin_Harrison

Benjamin_Harrison

Benjamin Harrison [prompt on Harrison]

guesstrain

History

American

ACF Winter

College

167-full

5476990eea23cca905506df8

protobowl

This author tried to integrate his unfinished religious epic poem The End of Satan into his historical poetry collection The Legend of Centuries. In another of this author's works, a fisherman tries to salvage a steam engine in order to marry Deruchette. A poem by this author promises that he won't look at the "distant sails going down at Harfleur." This poet of "Tomorrow, at Dawn" wrote a work in which a goat can spell "Phoebus," leading the townspeople to believe its owner is a witch. Another work by this author features the evil Thenardiers and their three children, Azelma, Eponine, and Gavroche. For 10 points, name this author who created characters like Esmerelda, Inspector Javert, Quasimodo, and Jean Valjean, in Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables.

This author tried to integrate his unfinished religious epic poem The End of Satan into his historical poetry collection The Legend of Centuries. In another of this author's works, a fisherman tries to salvage a steam engine in order to marry Deruchette. A poem by this author promises that he won't look at the "distant sails going down at Harfleur." This poet of "Tomorrow, at Dawn" wrote a work in which a goat can spell "Phoebus," leading the townspeople to believe its owner is a witch. Another work by this author features the evil Thenardiers and their three children, Azelma, Eponine, and Gavroche. For 10 points, name this author who created characters like Esmerelda, Inspector Javert, Quasimodo, and Jean Valjean, in Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables.

This author tried to integrate his unfinished religious epic poem

Victor_Hugo

Victor_Hugo

Victor Hugo

guesstrain

Literature

World

ACF Winter

College

168-full

5476990eea23cca905506df9

protobowl

Shortly before this event, the official leader of one side said that "The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills, into shadow" and later claimed that his men could not win against "such reckless hate." The attackers' escape route was blocked by a force of Huorns, while the defenders were reinforced by a group coming from the Fords of Isen led by Erkenbrand. Before this event began, one participant remarked "That is no orc horn!" The defenders in this event were forced to retreat to the Glittering Caves after the attackers used "blasting-fire" to open a hole in the Deeping Wall. For 10 points, name this battle fought at the titular mountain fortress between the men of Rohan and Saruman's Uruk-Hai, which ended after Gandalf's cavalry charge and which was featured in The Two Towers.

Shortly before this event, the official leader of one side said that "The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills, into shadow" and later claimed that his men could not win against "such reckless hate." The attackers' escape route was blocked by a force of Huorns, while the defenders were reinforced by a group coming from the Fords of Isen led by Erkenbrand. Before this event began, one participant remarked "That is no orc horn!" The defenders in this event were forced to retreat to the Glittering Caves after the attackers used "blasting-fire" to open a hole in the Deeping Wall. For 10 points, name this battle fought at the titular mountain fortress between the men of Rohan and Saruman's Uruk-Hai, which ended after Gandalf's cavalry charge and which was featured in The Two Towers.

Shortly before this event, the official leader of one side said that "The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills, into shadow" and later claimed that his men could not win against "such reckless hate.

Battle_of_the_Hornburg

Battle_of_the_Hornburg

Battle of Helm's Deep [or Siege of Helm's Deep; or Battle of the Hornburg; prompt on anything similar to battle between the Uruk-Hai and Rohan; or to that battle at the end of Two Towers] 

guesstrain

Trash

Pop Culture

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College

169-full

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Three years before this conflict, another conflict was sparked by the November Constitution, the culmination of the Eider Program. This conflict was temporarily averted by the Convention of Gastein, and a preliminary peace was arranged at Nikolsburg. Albrecht Roon organized this conflict's victorious army, which utilized a new breech-loading rifle, the needle gun. A side theater to this war included the Second Battle of Custoza and resulted in the loss of Venetia. This war was resolved by the Treaty of Prague after the victory at Koniggratz by Helmut von Moltke. It began with a dispute over Schleswig and Holstein. For 10 points, name this first major conflict in Bismarck's quest for German unification, a very short war between two major German powers.

Three years before this conflict, another conflict was sparked by the November Constitution, the culmination of the Eider Program. This conflict was temporarily averted by the Convention of Gastein, and a preliminary peace was arranged at Nikolsburg. Albrecht Roon organized this conflict's victorious army, which utilized a new breech-loading rifle, the needle gun. A side theater to this war included the Second Battle of Custoza and resulted in the loss of Venetia. This war was resolved by the Treaty of Prague after the victory at Koniggratz by Helmut von Moltke. It began with a dispute over Schleswig and Holstein. For 10 points, name this first major conflict in Bismarck's quest for German unification, a very short war between two major German powers.

Three years before this conflict, another conflict was sparked by the November Constitution, the culmination of the Eider Program.

Austro-Prussian_War

Austro-Prussian_War

Austro-Prussian War [or Seven Weeks War; prompt on German War; prompt on Unification War]

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History

European

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170-full

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The equation governing these systems sets the minor-radius laplacian of psi equal to the sum of terms containing the derivative of pressure in terms of psi minus a term containing the poloidal current times its derivative; that equation is the Grad-Shafranov equation. One effect in these objects is a shift of the center of density away from the geometric center, a shift likewise named for Shafranov. Confinement in these devices occurs due to a driven torodial plasma current; these devices are thus similar to stellerators, which have additional helical coils. The largest of them currently in operation is JET, which will be replaced by ITER when the latter is complete. For 10 points, name these toroidal magnetic confinement devices for hot plasmas which are candidates as nuclear fusion reactors.

The equation governing these systems sets the minor-radius laplacian of psi equal to the sum of terms containing the derivative of pressure in terms of psi minus a term containing the poloidal current times its derivative; that equation is the Grad-Shafranov equation. One effect in these objects is a shift of the center of density away from the geometric center, a shift likewise named for Shafranov. Confinement in these devices occurs due to a driven torodial plasma current; these devices are thus similar to stellerators, which have additional helical coils. The largest of them currently in operation is JET, which will be replaced by ITER when the latter is complete. For 10 points, name these toroidal magnetic confinement devices for hot plasmas which are candidates as nuclear fusion reactors.

The equation governing these systems sets the minor-radius laplacian of psi equal to the sum of terms containing the derivative of pressure in terms of psi minus a term containing the poloidal current times its derivative; that equation is the Grad-Shafranov equation.

Tokamak

Tokamak

 tokamaks [accept spheromaks before “JET”; prompt on fusion reactors; or plasma devices] 

guesstrain

Science

Physics

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171-full

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The unknown early progenitors of these people are consistently described as "very small beer." This group experiences a form of apotheosis in the marriage of Michael Mont to one of its members. A so-called Buccaneer who was to marry into this family died shortly after losing a lawsuit. That man, Philip Bosinney, was sued due to his affair with a woman he met while designing a house at Robin Hill subsequently owned by four different members of this family. Irene provokes the Indian summer of this family's Old Jolyon and marries its Young Jolyon after divorcing this family's patriarch, Soames. For 10 points, name this archetypal Victorian family, the subject of a saga consisting of To Let, In Chancery and The Man of Property, all by John Galsworthy.

The unknown early progenitors of these people are consistently described as "very small beer." This group experiences a form of apotheosis in the marriage of Michael Mont to one of its members. A so-called Buccaneer who was to marry into this family died shortly after losing a lawsuit. That man, Philip Bosinney, was sued due to his affair with a woman he met while designing a house at Robin Hill subsequently owned by four different members of this family. Irene provokes the Indian summer of this family's Old Jolyon and marries its Young Jolyon after divorcing this family's patriarch, Soames. For 10 points, name this archetypal Victorian family, the subject of a saga consisting of To Let, In Chancery and The Man of Property, all by John Galsworthy.

The unknown early progenitors of these people are consistently described as "very small beer."

The_Forsyte_Saga

The_Forsyte_Saga

the Forsytes 

guesstrain

Literature

European

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College

172-full

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In one of this man's works, a man on the right sitting cross-legged turns his head to watch a woman playing the piano. In another work, he depicted a woman opening a door and greeting a man sitting at a table while wearing a mask with a long nose. This artist of Russian Music painted a work in which a line of figures react with disgust at the sight of doctors experimenting on a monkey. In another of his paintings, skeletons duel with mops and brooms under the title character, who holds a sign saying "CIVET." This artist of The Scandalized Masks, The Vile Vivisectors, and Skeletons Fighting over a Hanged Man depicted a crowd of people with masks under a banner that reads "Vive La Sociale!" in another work. For 10 points, name this Belgian painter of Christ's Entry into Brussels.

In one of this man's works, a man on the right sitting cross-legged turns his head to watch a woman playing the piano. In another work, he depicted a woman opening a door and greeting a man sitting at a table while wearing a mask with a long nose. This artist of Russian Music painted a work in which a line of figures react with disgust at the sight of doctors experimenting on a monkey. In another of his paintings, skeletons duel with mops and brooms under the title character, who holds a sign saying "CIVET." This artist of The Scandalized Masks, The Vile Vivisectors, and Skeletons Fighting over a Hanged Man depicted a crowd of people with masks under a banner that reads "Vive La Sociale!" in another work. For 10 points, name this Belgian painter of Christ's Entry into Brussels.

In one of this man's works, a man on the right sitting cross-legged turns his head to watch a woman playing the piano.

James_Ensor

James_Ensor

James Ensor

guesstrain

Fine Arts

Art

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173-full

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Graminski and Lerner's melanophore screen is used to screen these proteins for drug targets, while other assays for that purpose include Arena pharmaceuticals' CART. Examples of them include Frizzled and Smoothened, and opsins have a structure similar to them. Axel and Buck determined that types of these proteins are responsible for sensing odorant molecules. These proteins interact with and activate Gustdusin and Transducin. Phosphorylation of these proteins leads to arrestin binding, which causes clathrin to drag them out of the cell membrane. Upon ligand binding, these proteins split their partners into the alpha and beta-gamma subunits, leading to increasing cAMP or IP3 levels. For 10 points, name these 7-pass transmembrane receptors, named their activation of G proteins.

Graminski and Lerner's melanophore screen is used to screen these proteins for drug targets, while other assays for that purpose include Arena pharmaceuticals' CART. Examples of them include Frizzled and Smoothened, and opsins have a structure similar to them. Axel and Buck determined that types of these proteins are responsible for sensing odorant molecules. These proteins interact with and activate Gustdusin and Transducin. Phosphorylation of these proteins leads to arrestin binding, which causes clathrin to drag them out of the cell membrane. Upon ligand binding, these proteins split their partners into the alpha and beta-gamma subunits, leading to increasing cAMP or IP3 levels. For 10 points, name these 7-pass transmembrane receptors, named their activation of G proteins.

Graminski and Lerner's melanophore screen is used to screen these proteins for drug targets, while other assays for that purpose include Arena pharmaceuticals' CART.

G_protein–coupled_receptor

G_protein–coupled_receptor

 GPCRs [or G-protein coupled receptors; or Serpentine receptors; accept G proteins until “Frizzled”; prompt after]

guesstrain

Science

Biology

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College

174-full

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One scene in this work recounts the story of Shaughnessy's squabble with Harker, the Standard Oil millionaire. One character is accused of infecting a baby with measles in one scene of this work, while another scene sees Cathleen discusses one character's former dreams of becoming a professional pianist. One character in this play is an actor who resents being associated with the one role that made him famous, though he has just bought a new "vehicle" for himself. Throughout this play, Doc Hardy is called a "quack" for his treatment of James's wife, who declares that she will become a nun during a hallucination. For 10 points, Edmund's affliction of tuberculosis and Mary's addiction to morphine is revealed to the rest of the Tyrone family at the end of what play by Eugene O'Neill?

One scene in this work recounts the story of Shaughnessy's squabble with Harker, the Standard Oil millionaire. One character is accused of infecting a baby with measles in one scene of this work, while another scene sees Cathleen discusses one character's former dreams of becoming a professional pianist. One character in this play is an actor who resents being associated with the one role that made him famous, though he has just bought a new "vehicle" for himself. Throughout this play, Doc Hardy is called a "quack" for his treatment of James's wife, who declares that she will become a nun during a hallucination. For 10 points, Edmund's affliction of tuberculosis and Mary's addiction to morphine is revealed to the rest of the Tyrone family at the end of what play by Eugene O'Neill?

One scene in this work recounts the story of Shaughnessy's squabble with Harker, the Standard Oil millionaire.

Long_Day's_Journey_into_Night

Long_Day's_Journey_into_Night

Long Day's Journey into Night

guesstrain

Literature

American

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College

176-full

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The proposal for this program included a comparison to putting out a house fire with a garden hose, and explained why it would not violate the Johnson Act. This program was opposed by a group headed by Robert E. Wood, and among those who expedited its operation were W. Averell Harriman and Maxwell Aitken. Edward Stettinius briefly headed this program, which was also led by Harry Hopkins. The inception of this program was supported in the "arsenal of democracy" speech, and this successor to Cash and Carry ultimately resulted in over forty-nine billion dollars in aid, mainly to Britain. For 10 points, name this program created by a namesake 1941 act that allowed FDR to send war materials to American allies.

The proposal for this program included a comparison to putting out a house fire with a garden hose, and explained why it would not violate the Johnson Act. This program was opposed by a group headed by Robert E. Wood, and among those who expedited its operation were W. Averell Harriman and Maxwell Aitken. Edward Stettinius briefly headed this program, which was also led by Harry Hopkins. The inception of this program was supported in the "arsenal of democracy" speech, and this successor to Cash and Carry ultimately resulted in over forty-nine billion dollars in aid, mainly to Britain. For 10 points, name this program created by a namesake 1941 act that allowed FDR to send war materials to American allies.

The proposal for this program included a comparison to putting out a house fire with a garden hose, and explained why it would not violate the Johnson Act.

Lend-Lease

Lend-Lease

lend-lease program [accept Lend-Lease Act]

guesstrain

History

American

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College

177-full

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This figure ordained that Bidon and Cleobis would die in their sleep as a reward for pulling the cart of this figure's priestess Cydippe. Chelone refused to attend this figure's wedding, causing the groom to turn Chelone into a tortoise. Pelias murdered his grandmother in a temple dedicated to this figure, provoking her ire. This figure prevented her child Eileithyia from breaking her crouch, which caused Alcmene great pain by prolonging the birth of a figure whom this figure pulled away from her breast as he nursed, thus creating the Milky Way. After this goddess assigned the hundred-eyed giant Argus Panoptes to guard Io, she placed his eyes in the tail of the peacock, which became her bird. For 10 points, name this cow-eyed queen of the heavens, the jealous wife of Zeus.

This figure ordained that Bidon and Cleobis would die in their sleep as a reward for pulling the cart of this figure's priestess Cydippe. Chelone refused to attend this figure's wedding, causing the groom to turn Chelone into a tortoise. Pelias murdered his grandmother in a temple dedicated to this figure, provoking her ire. This figure prevented her child Eileithyia from breaking her crouch, which caused Alcmene great pain by prolonging the birth of a figure whom this figure pulled away from her breast as he nursed, thus creating the Milky Way. After this goddess assigned the hundred-eyed giant Argus Panoptes to guard Io, she placed his eyes in the tail of the peacock, which became her bird. For 10 points, name this cow-eyed queen of the heavens, the jealous wife of Zeus.

This figure ordained that Bidon and Cleobis would die in their sleep as a reward for pulling the cart of this figure's priestess Cydippe.

Hera

Hera

Hera [prompt on Juno]

guesstrain

Social Science

Religion/Mythology

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178-full

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The narrator of one work by this author notes that "brutish necessity wipes its hands on the napkin of a dirty cause." In that poem by this man, the "colonel of carrion" cries "Waste no compassion on these separate dead!" while the narrator asks "Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?" In a play by this author, one character remarks that to escape from life is the most dangerous crime of all. That play by this author centers on a charcoal burner named Makak who shares a jail cell with Tigre and Souris. Maud and Dennis Plunkett move to the islands to retire in another of his works, which sees characters like Hector, Achille, and Philoctete mirror the events of ancient Greek epics. For 10 points, name this author of "A Far Cry from Africa," Dream on Monkey Mountain, and Omeros, a St. Lucian poet.

The narrator of one work by this author notes that "brutish necessity wipes its hands on the napkin of a dirty cause." In that poem by this man, the "colonel of carrion" cries "Waste no compassion on these separate dead!" while the narrator asks "Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?" In a play by this author, one character remarks that to escape from life is the most dangerous crime of all. That play by this author centers on a charcoal burner named Makak who shares a jail cell with Tigre and Souris. Maud and Dennis Plunkett move to the islands to retire in another of his works, which sees characters like Hector, Achille, and Philoctete mirror the events of ancient Greek epics. For 10 points, name this author of "A Far Cry from Africa," Dream on Monkey Mountain, and Omeros, a St. Lucian poet.

The narrator of one work by this author notes that "brutish necessity wipes its hands on the napkin of a dirty cause.

Derek_Walcott

Derek_Walcott

Derek Alton Walcott

guesstrain

Literature

World

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College

181-full

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This man intended to place animatronic gazelles on the gates to one of his works, which also features long benches designed around the shape of a worker's buttocks and a mosaic-covered fountain in the shape of a lizard. Another of his buildings features a tower topped with a turret and a cross that is thought to represent St. George's sword jammed into the dragon-like arched roof, as well as a façade with mullions that look like bones. This designer of the Park Guell and the Casa Batllo also created an apartment building with an undulating façade also known as "The Quarry" and a still-unfinished church whose eighteen towers are supposed to represent Jesus and the twelve Apostles. For 10 points, name this Catalan architect of Casa Mila and the Sagrada Familia.

This man intended to place animatronic gazelles on the gates to one of his works, which also features long benches designed around the shape of a worker's buttocks and a mosaic-covered fountain in the shape of a lizard. Another of his buildings features a tower topped with a turret and a cross that is thought to represent St. George's sword jammed into the dragon-like arched roof, as well as a façade with mullions that look like bones. This designer of the Park Guell and the Casa Batllo also created an apartment building with an undulating façade also known as "The Quarry" and a still-unfinished church whose eighteen towers are supposed to represent Jesus and the twelve Apostles. For 10 points, name this Catalan architect of Casa Mila and the Sagrada Familia.

This man intended to place animatronic gazelles on the gates to one of his works, which also features long benches designed around the shape of a worker's buttocks and a mosaic-covered fountain in the shape of a lizard.

Antoni_Gaudí

Antoni_Gaudí

Antonio Gaudi [or Antoni Placid Guillem Gaudi y Cornet]

guesstrain

Fine Arts

Other

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College

182-full

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This man came to power after the death of his predecessor at the hands of Walter Tirel. He further solidified his position by marrying the Scottish princess Edith and by ceding lands in Normandy in the treaty of Alton. His conflict with Paschal II was settled by the Concordat of London, which also led to the return from exile of St.Anselm. This king established the Exchequer and also issued reforms in the Charter of Liberties. The death of his legitimate heir William Atheling in the White Ship Tragedy resulted in civil war between this ruler's daughter Matilda and his eventual successor Stephen of Blois. For 10 points name this Norman ruler, nicknamed the Lion of Justice and Beauclerc, the second of William the Conqueror's sons and first of his name to rule England.

This man came to power after the death of his predecessor at the hands of Walter Tirel. He further solidified his position by marrying the Scottish princess Edith and by ceding lands in Normandy in the treaty of Alton. His conflict with Paschal II was settled by the Concordat of London, which also led to the return from exile of St.Anselm. This king established the Exchequer and also issued reforms in the Charter of Liberties. The death of his legitimate heir William Atheling in the White Ship Tragedy resulted in civil war between this ruler's daughter Matilda and his eventual successor Stephen of Blois. For 10 points name this Norman ruler, nicknamed the Lion of Justice and Beauclerc, the second of William the Conqueror's sons and first of his name to rule England.

This man came to power after the death of his predecessor at the hands of Walter Tirel.

Henry_I_of_England

Henry_I_of_England

Henry I of England [prompt on Henry]

guesstrain

History

European

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College

183-full

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The third section of this work concludes by citing a scene from Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered as the epitome of a "passive experience," while its fourth section announces that "what follows is speculation." This work distinguishes between "freely flowing" and "quiescent" cathexes and draws on Weismann's division of organisms into "mortal and immortal parts" as a biological basis for its primary thesis. An anecdote about the author's nephew throwing a wooden reel into his bed, the "fort/da game," demonstrates the "instinct of mastery," and is thus one explanation of the "repetition compulsion" in this work. It proposes that "thanatos," or the death instinct, works in concert with the title concept to drive human actions. For 10 points, name this work by Sigmund Freud about transcending bliss.

The third section of this work concludes by citing a scene from Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered as the epitome of a "passive experience," while its fourth section announces that "what follows is speculation." This work distinguishes between "freely flowing" and "quiescent" cathexes and draws on Weismann's division of organisms into "mortal and immortal parts" as a biological basis for its primary thesis. An anecdote about the author's nephew throwing a wooden reel into his bed, the "fort/da game," demonstrates the "instinct of mastery," and is thus one explanation of the "repetition compulsion" in this work. It proposes that "thanatos," or the death instinct, works in concert with the title concept to drive human actions. For 10 points, name this work by Sigmund Freud about transcending bliss.

The third section of this work concludes by citing a scene from Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered as the epitome of a "passive experience," while its fourth section announces that "what follows is speculation.

Beyond_the_Pleasure_Principle

Beyond_the_Pleasure_Principle

Beyond the Pleasure Principle [or Jenseits des Lustprinzips]

guesstrain

Social Science

Psychology

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College

184-full

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The sensitivity of this assay drops off with probe frequency due to state saturation, a condition in which the population imbalance becomes negligible; that drop-off occurs because the absorption probability is proportional to the state imbalance. The transverse and longitudinal relaxation times affect this technique because it hinges on detecting the results of the flip of high-energy spin states; the frequency of the radiation thus produced is proportional to the chemical shift, which is output of this form of spectroscopy. For 10 points, name this chemical spectroscopic technique in which radiation from magnetized molecules is detected via frequency overlap with an applied radio field.

The sensitivity of this assay drops off with probe frequency due to state saturation, a condition in which the population imbalance becomes negligible; that drop-off occurs because the absorption probability is proportional to the state imbalance. The transverse and longitudinal relaxation times affect this technique because it hinges on detecting the results of the flip of high-energy spin states; the frequency of the radiation thus produced is proportional to the chemical shift, which is output of this form of spectroscopy. For 10 points, name this chemical spectroscopic technique in which radiation from magnetized molecules is detected via frequency overlap with an applied radio field.

The sensitivity of this assay drops off with probe frequency due to state saturation, a condition in which the population imbalance becomes negligible; that drop-off occurs because the absorption probability is proportional to the state imbalance.

Nuclear_magnetic_resonance_spectroscopy

Nuclear_magnetic_resonance_spectroscopy

 NMR spectroscopy [accept nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy]

guesstrain

Science

Physics

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College

185-full

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During the rule of this dynasty, the garrison cities of Merv and Sestan served as bases for expeditions into Central Asia and India respectively. An army of this dynasty attacked Atil in response to a loss at Marj Ardabil to forces led by Barjik. This dynasty was defeated at Akroinon, though they were able to take Rhodes and Crete. This dynasty was victorious at Karbala over Husayn ibn Ali, while the use of lethal Greek fire prevented them from taking Constantinople. After the death of the last ruler of this dynasty at the Zab river, a small offshoot survived under Abd al Rahman in Cordoba. This ruling dynasty was defeated by Charles Martel at Tours, and its capital was at Damascus. For 10 points, name this Islamic caliphate, which was followed by the Abbasid dynasty.

During the rule of this dynasty, the garrison cities of Merv and Sestan served as bases for expeditions into Central Asia and India respectively. An army of this dynasty attacked Atil in response to a loss at Marj Ardabil to forces led by Barjik. This dynasty was defeated at Akroinon, though they were able to take Rhodes and Crete. This dynasty was victorious at Karbala over Husayn ibn Ali, while the use of lethal Greek fire prevented them from taking Constantinople. After the death of the last ruler of this dynasty at the Zab river, a small offshoot survived under Abd al Rahman in Cordoba. This ruling dynasty was defeated by Charles Martel at Tours, and its capital was at Damascus. For 10 points, name this Islamic caliphate, which was followed by the Abbasid dynasty.

During the rule of this dynasty, the garrison cities of Merv and Sestan served as bases for expeditions into Central Asia and India respectively.

Umayyad_Caliphate

Umayyad_Caliphate

Ummayad dynasty or caliphate

guesstrain

History

World

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College

186-full

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One character in this work dreams about a man with a rifle on Petrin Hill who helps three suicidal people kill themselves; after that dream, she spits in the face of an engineer during sex. The story about Yakov Stalin's death is told in one section, in which a mugging in Cambodia results in the death of Marie-Claude's husband, who had been seeing a character trying to escape kitsch. One character in this work becomes a window washer after referring to the Oedipus tale in an anti-Communist newspaper article, and his dog Karenin dies of cancer shortly before its owners die in a truck accident. For 10 points, name this book about the experiences of Tereza, Tomáš and Sabina during and after the Prague Spring, a work by Milan Kundera.

One character in this work dreams about a man with a rifle on Petrin Hill who helps three suicidal people kill themselves; after that dream, she spits in the face of an engineer during sex. The story about Yakov Stalin's death is told in one section, in which a mugging in Cambodia results in the death of Marie-Claude's husband, who had been seeing a character trying to escape kitsch. One character in this work becomes a window washer after referring to the Oedipus tale in an anti-Communist newspaper article, and his dog Karenin dies of cancer shortly before its owners die in a truck accident. For 10 points, name this book about the experiences of Tereza, Tomáš and Sabina during and after the Prague Spring, a work by Milan Kundera.

One character in this work dreams about a man with a rifle on Petrin Hill who helps three suicidal people kill themselves; after that dream, she spits in the face of an engineer during sex.

The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being

The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

guesstrain

Literature

European

ACF Winter

College

187-full

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This man angered Muslims by sleeping with his feet towards the Kaaba while in Mecca, after which he claimed that there was no way to sleep without pointing one's feet at God's house, since it is everywhere. Bhai Bala composed the most influential of the biographies of this man's life, which are called Janamsakhis. He disappeared while bathing in the Kali Bein. This man's followers argued over whether to cremate his body or bury it; the pro-cremation crowd cremated the flowers they had left for him, while the pro-buriers buried their flowers. His religious project was summed up by the quote "There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim," which led him to found a religious office currently occupied by a book, the Adi Granth. For 10 points, name this first guru and founder of Sikhism.

This man angered Muslims by sleeping with his feet towards the Kaaba while in Mecca, after which he claimed that there was no way to sleep without pointing one's feet at God's house, since it is everywhere. Bhai Bala composed the most influential of the biographies of this man's life, which are called Janamsakhis. He disappeared while bathing in the Kali Bein. This man's followers argued over whether to cremate his body or bury it; the pro-cremation crowd cremated the flowers they had left for him, while the pro-buriers buried their flowers. His religious project was summed up by the quote "There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim," which led him to found a religious office currently occupied by a book, the Adi Granth. For 10 points, name this first guru and founder of Sikhism.

This man angered Muslims by sleeping with his feet towards the Kaaba while in Mecca, after which he claimed that there was no way to sleep without pointing one's feet at God's house, since it is everywhere.

Guru_Nanak

Guru_Nanak

Guru Nanak Dev Ji

guesstrain

Social Science

Religion/Mythology

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College

188-full

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In one work by this man, Dirck's horse Roos gives out near Hasselt and Joris's dies after sighting a "dome-spire" by Dalhem, but the speaker's "horse without peer," Roland, survives the titular trip. The speaker claims he could "blend all hideous sins, as in a cup" because he has "God's warrant" in another poem by this man. This author of "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" paired "Johannes Agricola in Meditation" in Madhouse Cells with a work whose speaker claims "And yet God has not said a word!" after he strangles a woman with her own hair. The speaker of another of his poems notes that its title figure, the subject of a Fra Pandolf painting, "had a heart too soon made glad." For 10 points, name this British author of "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess."

In one work by this man, Dirck's horse Roos gives out near Hasselt and Joris's dies after sighting a "dome-spire" by Dalhem, but the speaker's "horse without peer," Roland, survives the titular trip. The speaker claims he could "blend all hideous sins, as in a cup" because he has "God's warrant" in another poem by this man. This author of "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" paired "Johannes Agricola in Meditation" in Madhouse Cells with a work whose speaker claims "And yet God has not said a word!" after he strangles a woman with her own hair. The speaker of another of his poems notes that its title figure, the subject of a Fra Pandolf painting, "had a heart too soon made glad." For 10 points, name this British author of "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess."

In one work by this man, Dirck's horse Roos gives out near Hasselt and Joris's dies after sighting a "dome-spire" by Dalhem, but the speaker's "horse without peer," Roland, survives the titular trip.

Robert_Browning

Robert_Browning

Robert Browning

guesstrain

Literature

European

ACF Winter

College

189-full

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protobowl

In this work, Eurydice is taken back to the Underworld, after which Orpheus collapses on stage, in a performance of Gluck's Orpheus. Another character in this work witnesses a man spitting on cats from across his hotel room. Grand's anxiety prevents him from writing a letter to his former wife Jeanne in this work. This work's protagonist converses with Tarrou about Father Paneloux's sermons, which change in nature throughout this novel. The criminal Cottard fires his gun in the streets near the end of this work, at which point Raymond Rambert's wife visits him from Paris. This work opens with the death of thousands of rats in the streets of Oran, and focuses on Dr. Bernard Rieux. For 10 points, name this Albert Camus novel about the title epidemic.

In this work, Eurydice is taken back to the Underworld, after which Orpheus collapses on stage, in a performance of Gluck's Orpheus. Another character in this work witnesses a man spitting on cats from across his hotel room. Grand's anxiety prevents him from writing a letter to his former wife Jeanne in this work. This work's protagonist converses with Tarrou about Father Paneloux's sermons, which change in nature throughout this novel. The criminal Cottard fires his gun in the streets near the end of this work, at which point Raymond Rambert's wife visits him from Paris. This work opens with the death of thousands of rats in the streets of Oran, and focuses on Dr. Bernard Rieux. For 10 points, name this Albert Camus novel about the title epidemic.

In this work, Eurydice is taken back to the Underworld, after which Orpheus collapses on stage, in a performance of Gluck's Orpheus.

The_Plague

The_Plague

The Plague [or La Peste]

guesstrain

Literature

European

ACF Winter

College

190-full

5476990eea23cca905506e0f

protobowl

In 2009, physician-blogger Rany Jazayerli was denied media access by this team after criticizing its head athletic trainer, Nick Swartz. A questionable call by umpire Don Denkinger led to this club's only World Series victory. The mythology of The Dugout suggests that a former utility infielder for this team, Bill Pecota, is engaged in an epic struggle with its owner David Glass. One former player on this team was the subject of the 1983 Pine Tar Incident. It spent most of the late 90s losing after trading away Jermaine Dye and Johnny Damon. For 10 points, identify this former team of Mike Sweeney, George Brett, and Bo Jackson, which now features pitchers Gil Meche and Zack Greinke plays home games in Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City.

In 2009, physician-blogger Rany Jazayerli was denied media access by this team after criticizing its head athletic trainer, Nick Swartz. A questionable call by umpire Don Denkinger led to this club's only World Series victory. The mythology of The Dugout suggests that a former utility infielder for this team, Bill Pecota, is engaged in an epic struggle with its owner David Glass. One former player on this team was the subject of the 1983 Pine Tar Incident. It spent most of the late 90s losing after trading away Jermaine Dye and Johnny Damon. For 10 points, identify this former team of Mike Sweeney, George Brett, and Bo Jackson, which now features pitchers Gil Meche and Zack Greinke plays home games in Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City.

In 2009, physician-blogger Rany Jazayerli was denied media access by this team after criticizing its head athletic trainer, Nick Swartz.

Kansas_City_Royals

Kansas_City_Royals

Kansas City Royals [accept Kansas City before it is read]

guesstrain

Trash

Pop Culture

ACF Winter

College

191-full

5476990eea23cca905506e10

protobowl

Umezawa et al showed that the signaling of this molecule is regulated by protein phosphatase 2C. The pathway for the synthesis of this compound begins with a zeaxanthin precursor and ends with the cleavage of a C40 carotenoid into xanthoxin, which is finally oxidized to this molecule; that process of this molecule's synthesis is called the MEP pathway. Functions of this hormone include promoting gene transcription for proteinase inhibitors in response to wounding and producing a-amylase in order to act against the effects of gibberellins. It also plays a major function in regulating the closure of the stomata. For 10 points, name this plant hormone that is sometimes called dormin, which is responsible for the inhibition of seed germination, fruit ripening and budding.

Umezawa et al showed that the signaling of this molecule is regulated by protein phosphatase 2C. The pathway for the synthesis of this compound begins with a zeaxanthin precursor and ends with the cleavage of a C40 carotenoid into xanthoxin, which is finally oxidized to this molecule; that process of this molecule's synthesis is called the MEP pathway. Functions of this hormone include promoting gene transcription for proteinase inhibitors in response to wounding and producing a-amylase in order to act against the effects of gibberellins. It also plays a major function in regulating the closure of the stomata. For 10 points, name this plant hormone that is sometimes called dormin, which is responsible for the inhibition of seed germination, fruit ripening and budding.

Umezawa et al showed that the signaling of this molecule is regulated by protein phosphatase 2C.

Abscisic_acid

Abscisic_acid

 abscisic acid [accept abscicin II; accept dormin before read]

guesstrain

Science

Biology

ACF Winter

College

193-full

5476990eea23cca905506e12

protobowl

This pupil of James Cantlie wrote about one experience in his book Kidnapped in London. This man unsuccessfully worked with He Kai and Sir Henry Blake before forming the Revolutionary Alliance and adopting the alias Nakayama Shou. This man's ideas were influenced by Henry George, and he was a leader of the March 29 revolution. This creator of the United League and co-author of a manifesto with the Soviet diplomat Adolf Joffe favored democracy, nationalism, and the general welfare, which he called the "Three Principles of the People." This man returned to his native country during the Wuhan revolution, and formed an uneasy alliance with Yuan Shi-kai. For 10 points, name this first party chairman of the Kuomintang and first provisional president of China.

This pupil of James Cantlie wrote about one experience in his book Kidnapped in London. This man unsuccessfully worked with He Kai and Sir Henry Blake before forming the Revolutionary Alliance and adopting the alias Nakayama Shou. This man's ideas were influenced by Henry George, and he was a leader of the March 29 revolution. This creator of the United League and co-author of a manifesto with the Soviet diplomat Adolf Joffe favored democracy, nationalism, and the general welfare, which he called the "Three Principles of the People." This man returned to his native country during the Wuhan revolution, and formed an uneasy alliance with Yuan Shi-kai. For 10 points, name this first party chairman of the Kuomintang and first provisional president of China.

This pupil of James Cantlie wrote about one experience in his book Kidnapped in London.

Sun_Yat-sen

Sun_Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen [or Guofu; or Zhongshan; or Sun Zhongshan; or Sun Deming; or Sun Dixiang; or Sun Wen; or Sun Rixin; or Sun Yixian; or Sun Zaishi; accept Nakayama Shou in either order before mentioned

guesstrain

History

World

ACF Winter

College

194-full

5476990eea23cca905506e13

protobowl

Enzymatic instances of this reaction are catalyzed by bacterial type II fatty acid synthesis enzymes, and by Chalcone synthase, which contain a Thiolase fold. A modification of it replaces a reactant with succinate, while a classic version of it occurs between ethyl benzoate and acetophenone, the former of which is not enolizable. It is driven by the removal of a doubly-alpha proton in the final product and the subsequent resonance stabilization of the negative charge, and its modifications include the Stobbe and crossed varieties. An intramolecular version of this reaction is used to create five- or six-member rings and is named for Dieckmann. For 10 points, name this condensation reaction that forms beta-keto-esters, the ester counterpart of the aldol condensation.

Enzymatic instances of this reaction are catalyzed by bacterial type II fatty acid synthesis enzymes, and by Chalcone synthase, which contain a Thiolase fold. A modification of it replaces a reactant with succinate, while a classic version of it occurs between ethyl benzoate and acetophenone, the former of which is not enolizable. It is driven by the removal of a doubly-alpha proton in the final product and the subsequent resonance stabilization of the negative charge, and its modifications include the Stobbe and crossed varieties. An intramolecular version of this reaction is used to create five- or six-member rings and is named for Dieckmann. For 10 points, name this condensation reaction that forms beta-keto-esters, the ester counterpart of the aldol condensation.

Enzymatic instances of this reaction are catalyzed by bacterial type II fatty acid synthesis enzymes, and by Chalcone synthase, which contain a Thiolase fold.

Claisen_condensation

Claisen_condensation

Claisen condensation

guesstrain

Science

Chemistry

ACF Winter

College

195-full

5476990eea23cca905506e14

protobowl

This city's Roman ruins advertise to tourists that Marcus Aurelius wrote his Meditations here when this city was a Roman settlement called Aquincum. Saint Gerard was martyred by being thrown off of the Gellért Hill in this city, which now houses ritzy houses and the citadel. This city's Castle Hill is served by a funicular railway, which leads up from a famous bridge to the thirteenth-century Royal Palace. This city subsumes three islands, Obuda, Csepel, and Margaret. Its name is a portmanteau of the names of a flat city and a hilly city that merged to form this metropolis; its constituent cities are now connected by the Szechenyi Chain Bridge. For 10 points, name this city on the Danube, the capital of Hungary.

This city's Roman ruins advertise to tourists that Marcus Aurelius wrote his Meditations here when this city was a Roman settlement called Aquincum. Saint Gerard was martyred by being thrown off of the Gellért Hill in this city, which now houses ritzy houses and the citadel. This city's Castle Hill is served by a funicular railway, which leads up from a famous bridge to the thirteenth-century Royal Palace. This city subsumes three islands, Obuda, Csepel, and Margaret. Its name is a portmanteau of the names of a flat city and a hilly city that merged to form this metropolis; its constituent cities are now connected by the Szechenyi Chain Bridge. For 10 points, name this city on the Danube, the capital of Hungary.

This city's Roman ruins advertise to tourists that Marcus Aurelius wrote his Meditations here when this city was a Roman settlement called Aquincum.

Budapest

Budapest

Budapest [prompt on Buda or Pest before “portmanteau”]

guesstrain

History

World

ACF Winter

College

196-full

5476990eea23cca905506e15

protobowl

This character asks, to another who has insulted him, if he should address that character "in a bondman's key / with bated breath and whispering humbleness." He notes that some men "love not a gaping pig...and others, when the bagpipes sing i' th' nose, / cannot contain their urine" in justifying his feelings. He responds to accusations of being an "unfeeling man" by asking, "Wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?" While discussing the elopement of his daughter Jessica, this character discusses rumors of ships lost at sea and also asks, "If you prick us, do we not bleed?" and "Hath not a Jew eyes?" For 10 points, which Shakespearean character who is derailed by Portia in his attempt to remove a pound of flesh from Antonio in The Merchant of Venice?

This character asks, to another who has insulted him, if he should address that character "in a bondman's key / with bated breath and whispering humbleness." He notes that some men "love not a gaping pig...and others, when the bagpipes sing i' th' nose, / cannot contain their urine" in justifying his feelings. He responds to accusations of being an "unfeeling man" by asking, "Wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?" While discussing the elopement of his daughter Jessica, this character discusses rumors of ships lost at sea and also asks, "If you prick us, do we not bleed?" and "Hath not a Jew eyes?" For 10 points, which Shakespearean character who is derailed by Portia in his attempt to remove a pound of flesh from Antonio in The Merchant of Venice?

This character asks, to another who has insulted him, if he should address that character "in a bondman's key / with bated breath and whispering humbleness."

Shylock

Shylock

Shylock

guesstrain

Literature

European

ACF Winter

College

197-full

5476990eea23cca905506e16

protobowl

This thinker attacked his predecessors by claiming that Homer should be beaten and that Pythagoras was a swindler. He held that thinking was common to all things, and a scholarly debate exists over whether or not he thought that the psyches of the best men were immortal. This thinker argued that contraries are co-present in objects, using the example of "the bow and the lyre," in his doctrine of Unity of Opposites. This man proposed that the world was driven by logos, and he argued for another doctrine that was at odds with the main theory of Parmenides. For 10 points, name this philosopher who argued that the world was in a state of eternal flux, claimed that fire was the basic element, and supposedly said that you cannot step into the same river twice.

This thinker attacked his predecessors by claiming that Homer should be beaten and that Pythagoras was a swindler. He held that thinking was common to all things, and a scholarly debate exists over whether or not he thought that the psyches of the best men were immortal. This thinker argued that contraries are co-present in objects, using the example of "the bow and the lyre," in his doctrine of Unity of Opposites. This man proposed that the world was driven by logos, and he argued for another doctrine that was at odds with the main theory of Parmenides. For 10 points, name this philosopher who argued that the world was in a state of eternal flux, claimed that fire was the basic element, and supposedly said that you cannot step into the same river twice.

This thinker attacked his predecessors by claiming that Homer should be beaten and that Pythagoras was a swindler.

Heraclitus

Heraclitus

 Heraclitus

guesstrain

Social Science

Philosophy

ACF Winter

College

198-full

5476990eea23cca905506e17

protobowl

This piece's second movement was described by Franz Liszt as "a flower between two chasms," and that scherzo movement switches over to the major key and repeats its short melody twenty times throughout the piece. This work's mostly pianissimo first movement is instructed to be played with the sustain pedal depressed the entire time, and consists of both a theme which is accented at the beginning of each measure and a constant ostinato triplet motive. This piece's third movement uses a plethora of sforzando notes which gives this piano section a stormy quality and is given the tempo marking "presto agitato." For 10 points, identify this C-minor "Quasi una fantasia" work by Beethoven that was given its nickname due to its semblance to illumination upon Lake Lucerne.

This piece's second movement was described by Franz Liszt as "a flower between two chasms," and that scherzo movement switches over to the major key and repeats its short melody twenty times throughout the piece. This work's mostly pianissimo first movement is instructed to be played with the sustain pedal depressed the entire time, and consists of both a theme which is accented at the beginning of each measure and a constant ostinato triplet motive. This piece's third movement uses a plethora of sforzando notes which gives this piano section a stormy quality and is given the tempo marking "presto agitato." For 10 points, identify this C-minor "Quasi una fantasia" work by Beethoven that was given its nickname due to its semblance to illumination upon Lake Lucerne.

This piece's second movement was described by Franz Liszt as "a flower between two chasms," and that scherzo movement switches over to the major key and repeats its short melody twenty times throughout the piece.

Piano_Sonata_No._14_(Beethoven)

Piano_Sonata_No._14_(Beethoven)

“Moonlight Sonata” [or Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor “Quasi una fantasia”]

guesstrain

Fine Arts

Music

ACF Winter

College

199-full

5476990eea23cca905506e18

protobowl

A standoff between the navies of this country and the United States during a hurricane at Apia left over a hundred dead. A rebellion in one of this country's colonies was led by Kinjikitile Ngwale and was known as the Maji Maji rebellion. In 1897, this country seized territory, including Tsingtao, that would later be given to Japan in the Shandong settlement. One of this country's colonies saw the Battle of Waterberg, which led to the Herero and Namaqua genocide. One of this country's leaders gave up Zanzibar in return for a narrow piece of land giving access to the Zambezi river, the Caprivi strip. For 10 points, name this country that colonized Nauru, Togoland and Cameroon, as well as Tanganyika and the future Namibia, all of which it lost by the Treaty of Versailles.

A standoff between the navies of this country and the United States during a hurricane at Apia left over a hundred dead. A rebellion in one of this country's colonies was led by Kinjikitile Ngwale and was known as the Maji Maji rebellion. In 1897, this country seized territory, including Tsingtao, that would later be given to Japan in the Shandong settlement. One of this country's colonies saw the Battle of Waterberg, which led to the Herero and Namaqua genocide. One of this country's leaders gave up Zanzibar in return for a narrow piece of land giving access to the Zambezi river, the Caprivi strip. For 10 points, name this country that colonized Nauru, Togoland and Cameroon, as well as Tanganyika and the future Namibia, all of which it lost by the Treaty of Versailles.

A standoff between the navies of this country and the United States during a hurricane at Apia left over a hundred dead.

Germany

Germany

Germany [or Deutschland]

guesstrain

History

European

ACF Winter

College

200-full

5476990eea23cca905506e19

protobowl

At low temperatures, the mean free path of these particles is comparable with the dimensions of their propagation medium in the de Haas-Biermasz effect. One mechanism for the collision of these particles theorizes that the sum of the wave vectors of the original particles is equal to the final wave vector plus a reciprocal primitive translation vector, the Umklapp process. These particles always have 3 acoustic modes for a substance with greater than two atoms per unit cell. Their density of states is used to derive that the heat capacity is proportional to T cubed in the Debye Model. They drive the pairing of electrons into Cooper pairs in the BCS theory of superconductivity. For 10 points, name these bosons that propagate at the speed of sound in a solid, described as quantized lattice vibrations.

At low temperatures, the mean free path of these particles is comparable with the dimensions of their propagation medium in the de Haas-Biermasz effect. One mechanism for the collision of these particles theorizes that the sum of the wave vectors of the original particles is equal to the final wave vector plus a reciprocal primitive translation vector, the Umklapp process. These particles always have 3 acoustic modes for a substance with greater than two atoms per unit cell. Their density of states is used to derive that the heat capacity is proportional to T cubed in the Debye Model. They drive the pairing of electrons into Cooper pairs in the BCS theory of superconductivity. For 10 points, name these bosons that propagate at the speed of sound in a solid, described as quantized lattice vibrations.

At low temperatures, the mean free path of these particles is comparable with the dimensions of their propagation medium in the de Haas-Biermasz effect.

Phonon

Phonon

 phonons

guesstrain

Science

Physics

ACF Winter

College

201-full

5476990eea23cca905506e1a

protobowl

The artist's friend Meyer de Haan appears with two semi-nude women surrounded by flowers in his Barbarian Tales. A naked black woman lies on her stomach on a green bed in one painting by this painter. He drew a tree branch to set off the main action taking place on a vermillion background in another work. This painter of Spirits of the Dead Keep Watch and Jacob Wrestling with the Angel also painted a religious figure surrounded by Breton women. He depicted an old woman with a white bird at her feet representing the final stage of life in another painting. For 10 points, name this French painter who painted The Yellow Christ and Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? while living out his life on Tahiti.

The artist's friend Meyer de Haan appears with two semi-nude women surrounded by flowers in his Barbarian Tales. A naked black woman lies on her stomach on a green bed in one painting by this painter. He drew a tree branch to set off the main action taking place on a vermillion background in another work. This painter of Spirits of the Dead Keep Watch and Jacob Wrestling with the Angel also painted a religious figure surrounded by Breton women. He depicted an old woman with a white bird at her feet representing the final stage of life in another painting. For 10 points, name this French painter who painted The Yellow Christ and Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? while living out his life on Tahiti.

The artist's friend Meyer de Haan appears with two semi-nude women surrounded by flowers in his Barbarian Tales.

Paul_Gauguin

Paul_Gauguin

Paul Gauguin

guesstrain

Fine Arts

Art

ACF Winter

College

202-full

5476990eea23cca905506e1b

protobowl

This author satirized common customs as Jonathan Oldstyle in writing nine letters to the Morning Chronicle. Travel abroad to consult the manuscripts of Columbus led this man to write "A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada." The title character is called upon to contrive a defense for Aben Habuz's realm in one story by this author, who also wrote about Gottfried Wolfgang's attempt to regain mental stability in "The Adventure of the German Student." This author of Bracebridge Hall and Tales of the Alhambra also wrote under the pen name "Geoffrey Crayon." For 10 points, name this American author of "The Devil and Tom Walker" and creator of Katrina van Tassel and Ichabod Crane in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This author satirized common customs as Jonathan Oldstyle in writing nine letters to the Morning Chronicle. Travel abroad to consult the manuscripts of Columbus led this man to write "A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada." The title character is called upon to contrive a defense for Aben Habuz's realm in one story by this author, who also wrote about Gottfried Wolfgang's attempt to regain mental stability in "The Adventure of the German Student." This author of Bracebridge Hall and Tales of the Alhambra also wrote under the pen name "Geoffrey Crayon." For 10 points, name this American author of "The Devil and Tom Walker" and creator of Katrina van Tassel and Ichabod Crane in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This author satirized common customs as Jonathan Oldstyle in writing nine letters to the Morning Chronicle.

Washington_Irving

Washington_Irving

Washington Irving

guesstrain

Literature

American

ACF Winter

College

204-full

5476990eea23cca905506e1d

protobowl

During this man's reign, he built a nine-spouted fountain house, the Enneakrounos. This ruler established a circuit of traveling judges and opened his library and gardens to the public. This leader, who traced his ancestry to the youngest son of Nestor, led a faction called the Hillsmen. He once supposedly rode in a chariot with Phya, who was dressed as Athena. This leader helped Lygdamis regain his supremacy at Naxos, and he established the Panathenaic festival. This man won the battle of Pallene to end his second exile, and Harmodius and Aristogiton are remembered for killing one of his sons. This man was opposed by Lycurgus and Megacles, and he was supposedly Solon's lover. For 10 points, name this father of Hippias and Hipparchos, a noted tyrant of Athens.

During this man's reign, he built a nine-spouted fountain house, the Enneakrounos. This ruler established a circuit of traveling judges and opened his library and gardens to the public. This leader, who traced his ancestry to the youngest son of Nestor, led a faction called the Hillsmen. He once supposedly rode in a chariot with Phya, who was dressed as Athena. This leader helped Lygdamis regain his supremacy at Naxos, and he established the Panathenaic festival. This man won the battle of Pallene to end his second exile, and Harmodius and Aristogiton are remembered for killing one of his sons. This man was opposed by Lycurgus and Megacles, and he was supposedly Solon's lover. For 10 points, name this father of Hippias and Hipparchos, a noted tyrant of Athens.

During this man's reign, he built a nine-spouted fountain house, the Enneakrounos.

Peisistratos

Peisistratos

Peisistratus

guesstrain

Social Science

Religion/Mythology

ACF Winter

College

205-full

5476990eea23cca905506e1e

protobowl

The "Cost of" this man is explored in a paper by Robert Cooter which examines how one of this man's papers is misleading. Robert Ellickson's paper entitled this man and "and cattle" examines this man's example of farmers and ranchers and concludes that the way trespass disputes were resolved manifested as social norms. This man's most famous result contradicted Pigou's theory about the role of the government in the economy by positing that agents can internalize externalities through negotiation. That theorem states that in the absence of transaction costs, any distribution of property rights leads to optimal resource allocation, and was first explained in his "The Problem of Social Cost." For 10 points, name this Chicago school economist who authored "The Nature of the Firm."

The "Cost of" this man is explored in a paper by Robert Cooter which examines how one of this man's papers is misleading. Robert Ellickson's paper entitled this man and "and cattle" examines this man's example of farmers and ranchers and concludes that the way trespass disputes were resolved manifested as social norms. This man's most famous result contradicted Pigou's theory about the role of the government in the economy by positing that agents can internalize externalities through negotiation. That theorem states that in the absence of transaction costs, any distribution of property rights leads to optimal resource allocation, and was first explained in his "The Problem of Social Cost." For 10 points, name this Chicago school economist who authored "The Nature of the Firm."

The "Cost of" this man is explored in a paper by Robert Cooter which examines how one of this man's papers is misleading.

Ronald_Coase

Ronald_Coase

Ronald Coase

guesstrain

Social Science

Economics

ACF Winter

College

206-full

5476990eea23cca905506e1f

protobowl

This figure ordered Brian, Iuchar, and Iucharba to seek out a number of weapons, then refused to heal the injuries they incurred, thus avenging his father's death. After slaying Cermait for sleeping with one of his wives, this figure was killed by Cermait's three sons. This figure once claimed to possess all skills at the gate of Tara and later proved his mettle by defeating Oghma in a flagstone-throwing contest. He received the sword Fragarach from his foster father, Mannanan mac Lir. This son of Cian and Ethniu avenged the death of Nuada at the second battle of Magh Tuireadh by blinding and slaying Balor, after which he became the leader of the Tuatha de Danaan. For 10 points, identify this father of Cuchulainn, a Celtic hero considered cognate to the Welsh Lleu Llaw Gyffes.

This figure ordered Brian, Iuchar, and Iucharba to seek out a number of weapons, then refused to heal the injuries they incurred, thus avenging his father's death. After slaying Cermait for sleeping with one of his wives, this figure was killed by Cermait's three sons. This figure once claimed to possess all skills at the gate of Tara and later proved his mettle by defeating Oghma in a flagstone-throwing contest. He received the sword Fragarach from his foster father, Mannanan mac Lir. This son of Cian and Ethniu avenged the death of Nuada at the second battle of Magh Tuireadh by blinding and slaying Balor, after which he became the leader of the Tuatha de Danaan. For 10 points, identify this father of Cuchulainn, a Celtic hero considered cognate to the Welsh Lleu Llaw Gyffes.

This figure ordered Brian, Iuchar, and Iucharba to seek out a number of weapons, then refused to heal the injuries they incurred, thus avenging his father's death.

Lugh

Lugh

Lugh [or Lamfhada; Lugaidh; Lonnbeimnech; Lonnansclech; Samhildanach; or mac Ethlenn]

guesstrain

Social Science

Religion/Mythology

ACF Winter

College

208-full

5476990eea23cca905506e21

protobowl

A narrator of one of this man's novels encounters the Schneils, a pair of married linguists, while hosting the show The Tower of Babel. This author describes several men of the Machigengua tribe in that work, whose other narrator is a man with a large facial birthmark named Saul Zuratas. In another of his novels, the Poet loses his virginity to Golden Toes, and Porfirio Cava is caught stealing a chemistry test. That novel by this man sees the Slave killed by Jaguar, the leader of the Circle at the Leoncia Prado Academy. This author of The Storyteller and The Time of the Hero wrote a novel whose narrator works on soap operas at a radio station, where he meets Pedro Camacho. For 10 points, name this Peruvian author of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.

A narrator of one of this man's novels encounters the Schneils, a pair of married linguists, while hosting the show The Tower of Babel. This author describes several men of the Machigengua tribe in that work, whose other narrator is a man with a large facial birthmark named Saul Zuratas. In another of his novels, the Poet loses his virginity to Golden Toes, and Porfirio Cava is caught stealing a chemistry test. That novel by this man sees the Slave killed by Jaguar, the leader of the Circle at the Leoncia Prado Academy. This author of The Storyteller and The Time of the Hero wrote a novel whose narrator works on soap operas at a radio station, where he meets Pedro Camacho. For 10 points, name this Peruvian author of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.

A narrator of one of this man's novels encounters the Schneils, a pair of married linguists, while hosting the show The Tower of Babel.

Mario_Vargas_Llosa

Mario_Vargas_Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa [or Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa]

guesstrain

Literature

World

ACF Winter

College

210-full

5476990eea23cca905506e23

protobowl

A parody of this author sees the speaker break his dancing partner's leg in Kenneth Koch's "Variations on a theme of" this poet. One of this man's poems claims that "Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks," while another describes the speaker admiring his own buttocks and claiming "I was born lonely, and I am best so!" That poem ends, "who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household," and its author mentions a "contagious hospital" and depicts bushes "gripping down and beginning to awaken" in another poem. This author who pilfered objects that were "delicious / so sweet / and so cold" also wrote of an object "glazed with rain water." For 10 points, name this poet of "To Asphodel, that Greeny Flower," "Spring and All," "This is just to Say," and "The Red Wheelbarrow"?

A parody of this author sees the speaker break his dancing partner's leg in Kenneth Koch's "Variations on a theme of" this poet. One of this man's poems claims that "Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks," while another describes the speaker admiring his own buttocks and claiming "I was born lonely, and I am best so!" That poem ends, "who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household," and its author mentions a "contagious hospital" and depicts bushes "gripping down and beginning to awaken" in another poem. This author who pilfered objects that were "delicious / so sweet / and so cold" also wrote of an object "glazed with rain water." For 10 points, name this poet of "To Asphodel, that Greeny Flower," "Spring and All," "This is just to Say," and "The Red Wheelbarrow"?

A parody of this author sees the speaker break his dancing partner's leg in Kenneth Koch's "Variations on a theme of" this poet.

William_Carlos_Williams

William_Carlos_Williams

William Carlos Williams

guesstrain

Literature

American

ACF Winter

College

214-full

5476990eea23cca905506e27

protobowl

One ruler of this polity consolidated power by defeating Achyuta of the Ahichhatra. That ruler of this polity issued gold coins commemorating his celebration of the ashvamedha, a horse sacrifice, and depicting himself playing the veena. Another ruler of this polity built the Iron Pillar of Delhi and took a title meaning "Sun of Valour," Vikramaditya. The fall of this empire is attributed to invasions by the mysterious Hephtalites, also known as White Huns. Its leaders included Skanda and Samuda and its capital was Pataliputra. This empire patronized Kalidasa, developed the concept of zero, and produced the Kama Sutra. For 10 points, name this empire that ruled India from around 320 to 550 AD, founded by Chandra.

One ruler of this polity consolidated power by defeating Achyuta of the Ahichhatra. That ruler of this polity issued gold coins commemorating his celebration of the ashvamedha, a horse sacrifice, and depicting himself playing the veena. Another ruler of this polity built the Iron Pillar of Delhi and took a title meaning "Sun of Valour," Vikramaditya. The fall of this empire is attributed to invasions by the mysterious Hephtalites, also known as White Huns. Its leaders included Skanda and Samuda and its capital was Pataliputra. This empire patronized Kalidasa, developed the concept of zero, and produced the Kama Sutra. For 10 points, name this empire that ruled India from around 320 to 550 AD, founded by Chandra.

One ruler of this polity consolidated power by defeating Achyuta of the Ahichhatra.

Gupta_Empire

Gupta_Empire

Gupta Empire

guesstrain

History

Ancient

ACF Winter

College

216-full

5476990eea23cca905506e29

protobowl

A speech of this ruler is recorded on the Lyon tablet, and Hadrian extended this ruler's effort to drain the Fucine Lake. This ruler decreed that sick slaves left at the Temple of Aesculapius would be freed, and he upheld the rights of Egyptian Jews with his "Letter to the Alexandrians." This ruler temporarily restored the autonomy of Judea, but reclaimed it as a province after the death of Herod Agrippa I. He used elephants to conquer Camulodunum, and this ruler pardoned the captured general Caratacus after sending Aulus Plautius to conquer Britain. The freedman Narcissus wielded power under this man and helped to expose the plot of his wife Messalina. He was poisoned by his fourth wife, Agrippina. For 10 points, name successor to Caligula, the dice-playing fourth Roman emperor.

A speech of this ruler is recorded on the Lyon tablet, and Hadrian extended this ruler's effort to drain the Fucine Lake. This ruler decreed that sick slaves left at the Temple of Aesculapius would be freed, and he upheld the rights of Egyptian Jews with his "Letter to the Alexandrians." This ruler temporarily restored the autonomy of Judea, but reclaimed it as a province after the death of Herod Agrippa I. He used elephants to conquer Camulodunum, and this ruler pardoned the captured general Caratacus after sending Aulus Plautius to conquer Britain. The freedman Narcissus wielded power under this man and helped to expose the plot of his wife Messalina. He was poisoned by his fourth wife, Agrippina. For 10 points, name successor to Caligula, the dice-playing fourth Roman emperor.

A speech of this ruler is recorded on the Lyon tablet, and Hadrian extended this ruler's effort to drain the Fucine Lake.

Claudius

Claudius

Claudius I [or Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; or Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus]

guesstrain

History

Ancient

ACF Winter

College

217-full

5476990eea23cca905506e2a

protobowl

One variety of these entities was elucidated by R. L. Gregory and P. Heard, who expanded on Hugo Munsterberg's work with his namesake type of these, and Pierce attributed the effects of one to a "boring in" theory later expounded on by Fraser, who compared these to the "twisted cord," or Zollner types. An apparent angular distortion model was developed by Wagner, who described the effects of the canonical Jastrow and Poggendorf types, one of which features two adjacent arcs and the other which features a line drawn through a rectangle. Including examples like the Necker cube and Wittgenstein's duckrabbit, these are, for 10 points, what visual images which either distort a viewer's perception of them or offer multiple possibilities for their visual perception?

One variety of these entities was elucidated by R. L. Gregory and P. Heard, who expanded on Hugo Munsterberg's work with his namesake type of these, and Pierce attributed the effects of one to a "boring in" theory later expounded on by Fraser, who compared these to the "twisted cord," or Zollner types. An apparent angular distortion model was developed by Wagner, who described the effects of the canonical Jastrow and Poggendorf types, one of which features two adjacent arcs and the other which features a line drawn through a rectangle. Including examples like the Necker cube and Wittgenstein's duckrabbit, these are, for 10 points, what visual images which either distort a viewer's perception of them or offer multiple possibilities for their visual perception?

One variety of these entities was elucidated by R. L. Gregory and P. Heard, who expanded on Hugo Munsterberg's work with his namesake type of these, and Pierce attributed the effects of one to a "boring in" theory later expounded on by Fraser, who compared these to the "twisted cord," or Zollner types.

Optical_illusion

Optical_illusion

optical illusions

guesstrain

Trash

Other

ACF Winter

College

218-full

5476990eea23cca905506e2b

protobowl

Along with dielectric constant, this property is diminished in the pyrochlore phase of a material. Tiersten developed a system of energy balances as an IEEE model for their activity. This behavior can be explained by coupling the equation setting displacement equal to permittivity times electric field with Hooke's law, then looking at the tensor elements. Materials with a center of symmetry cannot undergo this effect, which can be explained by noting that a change in the dipole configuration or density in a bulk material is accompanied by a change in the surface charge. For 10 points, name this property discovered in Rochelle salts by Pierre and Jacques Curie, found in materials like quartz in which an electric response results from stress or strain on a material.

Along with dielectric constant, this property is diminished in the pyrochlore phase of a material. Tiersten developed a system of energy balances as an IEEE model for their activity. This behavior can be explained by coupling the equation setting displacement equal to permittivity times electric field with Hooke's law, then looking at the tensor elements. Materials with a center of symmetry cannot undergo this effect, which can be explained by noting that a change in the dipole configuration or density in a bulk material is accompanied by a change in the surface charge. For 10 points, name this property discovered in Rochelle salts by Pierre and Jacques Curie, found in materials like quartz in which an electric response results from stress or strain on a material.

Along with dielectric constant, this property is diminished in the pyrochlore phase of a material.

Piezoelectricity

Piezoelectricity

 piezoelectricity

guesstrain

Science

Physics

ACF Winter

College

220-full

5476990eea23cca905506e2d

protobowl

This author of a letter entitled "The Prayer of Twenty Millions" supported Nathaniel Banks's election as Speaker of the House, leading to this man's caning by Albert Rust. He was succeeded in his best known position by Whitelaw Reid. During the Civil War this man urged the slogan "forward on Richmond!" and he lost popularity after signing the bail bond of Jefferson Davis. This onetime ally of Thurlow Weed and William Seward joined with Carl Schurz and Charles Sumner to create an organization that pushed for civil service reform, the Liberal Republican Party. He was unsuccessful in his bid to defeat Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 Presidential Election and died soon thereafter. For 10 points, name this founder and longtime editor of the New York Tribune who once urged "go west, young man."

This author of a letter entitled "The Prayer of Twenty Millions" supported Nathaniel Banks's election as Speaker of the House, leading to this man's caning by Albert Rust. He was succeeded in his best known position by Whitelaw Reid. During the Civil War this man urged the slogan "forward on Richmond!" and he lost popularity after signing the bail bond of Jefferson Davis. This onetime ally of Thurlow Weed and William Seward joined with Carl Schurz and Charles Sumner to create an organization that pushed for civil service reform, the Liberal Republican Party. He was unsuccessful in his bid to defeat Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 Presidential Election and died soon thereafter. For 10 points, name this founder and longtime editor of the New York Tribune who once urged "go west, young man."

This author of a letter entitled "The Prayer of Twenty Millions" supported Nathaniel Banks's election as Speaker of the House, leading to this man's caning by Albert Rust.

Horace_Greeley

Horace_Greeley

Horace Greeley

guesstrain

History

American

ACF Winter

College

221-full

5476990eea23cca905506e2e

protobowl

This man attacked F.H. Bradley's Principles of Logic in "The Nature of Judgment." One work by this author argues that there is no reason to believe there can't be physical facts independent of mental facts, and that work asserts the absolute truth of a list of propositions including "there exists at present a human body, which is my body." Another of his works shows that "blue" cannot be the same as "the sensation of blue" in order to argue against the idea that esse is percipi. In addition to "A Defense of Common Sense" and "The Refutation of Idealism," he wrote a work that uses the open-question argument to show that there cannot be a meaningful definition of the concept of "good," a result known as the "naturalistic fallacy." For 10 points, name this British analytic author of Principia Ethica.

This man attacked F.H. Bradley's Principles of Logic in "The Nature of Judgment." One work by this author argues that there is no reason to believe there can't be physical facts independent of mental facts, and that work asserts the absolute truth of a list of propositions including "there exists at present a human body, which is my body." Another of his works shows that "blue" cannot be the same as "the sensation of blue" in order to argue against the idea that esse is percipi. In addition to "A Defense of Common Sense" and "The Refutation of Idealism," he wrote a work that uses the open-question argument to show that there cannot be a meaningful definition of the concept of "good," a result known as the "naturalistic fallacy." For 10 points, name this British analytic author of Principia Ethica.

This man attacked F.H. Bradley's Principles of Logic in "The Nature of Judgment.

G._E._Moore

G._E._Moore

George Edward Moore

guesstrain

Social Science

Philosophy

ACF Winter

College

222-full

5476990eea23cca905506e2f

protobowl

Daniel G. Wright pioneered the use of the Tumlirz equation of state for modeling the in situ density of these bodies. The ideal irregular surfaces of these bodies are compared to the reference ellipsoid by taking the angle between the plumb line and the ellipsoidal normal, which results in the "deflection of the vertical." The geoid is an equipotential surface that coincides with their mean surface level. The Coriolis Effect causes the wind to deflect the movement of the surface of these entities rightward. Near their edges, wind-driven cooler material surfaces in a process called upwelling. These bodies are also home to Ekman spirals and lie atop tectonic plates made of basalt, not granite. For 10 points, name these bodies that include the Arctic, Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific.

Daniel G. Wright pioneered the use of the Tumlirz equation of state for modeling the in situ density of these bodies. The ideal irregular surfaces of these bodies are compared to the reference ellipsoid by taking the angle between the plumb line and the ellipsoidal normal, which results in the "deflection of the vertical." The geoid is an equipotential surface that coincides with their mean surface level. The Coriolis Effect causes the wind to deflect the movement of the surface of these entities rightward. Near their edges, wind-driven cooler material surfaces in a process called upwelling. These bodies are also home to Ekman spirals and lie atop tectonic plates made of basalt, not granite. For 10 points, name these bodies that include the Arctic, Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific.

Daniel G. Wright pioneered the use of the Tumlirz equation of state for modeling the in situ density of these bodies.

Ocean

Ocean

the Earth's oceans

guesstrain

Social Science

Geography

ACF Winter

College

224-full

5476990eea23cca905506e31

protobowl

The Drosophila X virus is thought to trigger this pathway as a means of innate immunity. This pathway is responsible for guiding H3K9 methylation in the centromeric regions of S. Cerevisiae. Disruption of P-bodies leads to blunting of this pathway, which was elucidated by the discovery of the lin-4 gene. The Flavr Savr tomato takes advantage of this pathway, which relies on exportin-5 to transport the products of Drosha cleavage to the cytoplasm. Argonaute selects the guide strand to load into the RISC complex, which then can target complementary mRNAs for degredation in this pathway. Craig Mello and Andrew Fire won the Nobel Prize for elucidating this pathway. For 10 points, name this mechanism which uses anti-sense RNA to silence a gene.

The Drosophila X virus is thought to trigger this pathway as a means of innate immunity. This pathway is responsible for guiding H3K9 methylation in the centromeric regions of S. Cerevisiae. Disruption of P-bodies leads to blunting of this pathway, which was elucidated by the discovery of the lin-4 gene. The Flavr Savr tomato takes advantage of this pathway, which relies on exportin-5 to transport the products of Drosha cleavage to the cytoplasm. Argonaute selects the guide strand to load into the RISC complex, which then can target complementary mRNAs for degredation in this pathway. Craig Mello and Andrew Fire won the Nobel Prize for elucidating this pathway. For 10 points, name this mechanism which uses anti-sense RNA to silence a gene.

The Drosophila X virus is thought to trigger this pathway as a means of innate immunity.

RNA_interference

RNA_interference

RNA interference [accept innate immunity before mention]

guesstrain

Science

Biology

ACF Winter

College

225-full

5476990eea23cca905506e32

protobowl

His full name appears only once in his works, on a sign hanging from a tree branch in his painting Adam and Eve. While visiting Italy, this artist created the Feast of Rose Garlands, which served as the altarpiece for the San Bartolomeo Chapel. This artist created a self-portrait in which he holds a hand to his fur collar while a golden inscription to his right notes that he has "portrayed himself in colors aged twenty-eight years." Another of his works features a sleeping dog and a supine lion in front of the title character, who writes at his desk. He also depicted a ponderous angel sitting near a truncated rhombohedron and a magic square. For 10 points, name this artist of St. Jerome in His Study and Melencolia I, whose other woodcuts include The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

His full name appears only once in his works, on a sign hanging from a tree branch in his painting Adam and Eve. While visiting Italy, this artist created the Feast of Rose Garlands, which served as the altarpiece for the San Bartolomeo Chapel. This artist created a self-portrait in which he holds a hand to his fur collar while a golden inscription to his right notes that he has "portrayed himself in colors aged twenty-eight years." Another of his works features a sleeping dog and a supine lion in front of the title character, who writes at his desk. He also depicted a ponderous angel sitting near a truncated rhombohedron and a magic square. For 10 points, name this artist of St. Jerome in His Study and Melencolia I, whose other woodcuts include The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

His full name appears only once in his works, on a sign hanging from a tree branch in his painting Adam and Eve.

Albrecht_Dürer

Albrecht_Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

guesstrain

Fine Arts

Art

ACF Winter

College

227-full

5476990eea23cca905506e34

protobowl

This character sometimes tests visitors with questions like "Did you come here of your own free will, or did someone send you?" This guardian of the Waters of Life and Death gave the gift of a flaming skull to a girl who did all the chores this figure asked her to do without complaint. This rewarder of Vasilissa the Wise is guarded by a trio of horsemen, who are colored white, red, and black to represent Day, Sun, and Night. Her residence is surrounded by a fence of bones. She flies in a mortar, using the pestle to steer and a silver birch broom to sweep away her tracks. For 10 points, name this hag from Slavic mythology who lives in a cabin that moves on chicken legs.

This character sometimes tests visitors with questions like "Did you come here of your own free will, or did someone send you?" This guardian of the Waters of Life and Death gave the gift of a flaming skull to a girl who did all the chores this figure asked her to do without complaint. This rewarder of Vasilissa the Wise is guarded by a trio of horsemen, who are colored white, red, and black to represent Day, Sun, and Night. Her residence is surrounded by a fence of bones. She flies in a mortar, using the pestle to steer and a silver birch broom to sweep away her tracks. For 10 points, name this hag from Slavic mythology who lives in a cabin that moves on chicken legs.

This character sometimes tests visitors with questions like "Did you come here of your own free will, or did someone send you?

Baba_Yaga

Baba_Yaga

Baba Yaga [or Baba Yaha; or Baba Jaga; or Jaga Baba; or Baba Roga]

guesstrain

Social Science

Religion/Mythology

ACF Winter

College

228-full

5476990eea23cca905506e35

protobowl

The KAN was one organization founded by leaders of this movement, as were K-231 and a revival of Junák, a scouting organization. A meeting discussing this movement was held at Cierná-nad-Tisou. The end of this movement was protested by Jan Palach with self-immolation. Oldrich Cernik and Ota Šik were leaders of it, and Ludvík Vaculík wrote a manifesto supporting it, the "Two Thousand Words." The aims of this movement were largely carried out by the Action Program. It was followed by a period of "normalization" under Gustav Husák. The policy of "socialism with a human face" was championed during this period by Alexander Dubcek, but it was soon ended by a Soviet crackdown. For 10 points, name this period of reform in 1968 Czechoslovakia.

The KAN was one organization founded by leaders of this movement, as were K-231 and a revival of Junák, a scouting organization. A meeting discussing this movement was held at Cierná-nad-Tisou. The end of this movement was protested by Jan Palach with self-immolation. Oldrich Cernik and Ota Šik were leaders of it, and Ludvík Vaculík wrote a manifesto supporting it, the "Two Thousand Words." The aims of this movement were largely carried out by the Action Program. It was followed by a period of "normalization" under Gustav Husák. The policy of "socialism with a human face" was championed during this period by Alexander Dubcek, but it was soon ended by a Soviet crackdown. For 10 points, name this period of reform in 1968 Czechoslovakia.

The KAN was one organization founded by leaders of this movement, as were K-231 and a revival of Junák, a scouting organization.

Prague_Spring

Prague_Spring

Prague Spring [or Praska Jaro]

guesstrain

History

European

ACF Winter

College

229-full

5476990eea23cca905506e36

protobowl

One poem by this man blames political unrest on his father drunkenly interrupting a Perahara procession. This author of "Letters and Other Worlds," which appears in his collection Rat Jelly, penned a work in which the Storyville photographer E. J. Bellocq befriends the jazz cornetist Billy Bolden. This author wrote a novel in which a pair of anthropologists, the title character and Sarath Diyasena, discover and attempt to identify a skeleton nicknamed "Sailor." Another work by this author of Coming through Slaughter contains such characters as the crippled thief Caravaggio and the nurse Hana, and features extended flashbacks depicting on Katharine Clifton's affair with Almasy. For 10 points, name this Sri Lankan-born author of Anil's Ghost and The English Patient.

One poem by this man blames political unrest on his father drunkenly interrupting a Perahara procession. This author of "Letters and Other Worlds," which appears in his collection Rat Jelly, penned a work in which the Storyville photographer E. J. Bellocq befriends the jazz cornetist Billy Bolden. This author wrote a novel in which a pair of anthropologists, the title character and Sarath Diyasena, discover and attempt to identify a skeleton nicknamed "Sailor." Another work by this author of Coming through Slaughter contains such characters as the crippled thief Caravaggio and the nurse Hana, and features extended flashbacks depicting on Katharine Clifton's affair with Almasy. For 10 points, name this Sri Lankan-born author of Anil's Ghost and The English Patient.

One poem by this man blames political unrest on his father drunkenly interrupting a Perahara procession.

Michael_Ondaatje

Michael_Ondaatje

Philip Michael Ondaatje

guesstrain

Literature

World

ACF Winter

College

230-full

5476990eea23cca905506e37

protobowl

In this work, the teenaged Asya asks Dyomka to kiss her breast. When his son visits him at this novel's titular location, the Party member Pavel Rusanov berates him for being too soft on a truck driver who lost a box of macaroni in a snowstorm. Like its author, the main character of this work has been exiled due to Article 58, which deals with counterrevolutionaries. The protagonist of this work is left sexually impotent because of his residence in the title place. At this novel's end, the protagonist leaves a letter for Vera Gangart and boards a train back to Ush-Terek. For 10 points, name this work in which Oleg Filimonovich Kostoglov seeks treatment at the titular facility, a novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

In this work, the teenaged Asya asks Dyomka to kiss her breast. When his son visits him at this novel's titular location, the Party member Pavel Rusanov berates him for being too soft on a truck driver who lost a box of macaroni in a snowstorm. Like its author, the main character of this work has been exiled due to Article 58, which deals with counterrevolutionaries. The protagonist of this work is left sexually impotent because of his residence in the title place. At this novel's end, the protagonist leaves a letter for Vera Gangart and boards a train back to Ush-Terek. For 10 points, name this work in which Oleg Filimonovich Kostoglov seeks treatment at the titular facility, a novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

In this work, the teenaged Asya asks Dyomka to kiss her breast.

Cancer_Ward

Cancer_Ward

Cancer Ward [or Rakovy Korpus]

guesstrain

Literature

World

ACF Winter

College

232-full

5476990eea23cca905506e39

protobowl

This artist depicted himself sleeping below grazing animals, fir trees, and a lilac sky in a painting inspired by his honeymoon. A fish holds a candle up to a red easel in the background of another of this man's works. This artist depicted the Eiffel Tower in the back window of a canvas that contains a self-portrait at an easel. This artist of The Poet Reclining and La Mariée created a 70-foot mosaic for Chicago called The Four Seasons. A green-clad man carries a sack below a burning synagogue in a work by this man whose central figure wears a prayer shawl. His most famous work shows the Tree of Life being held by a green-skinned man who looks past a small row of houses at a sheep. For 10 points, name this Vitebsk-born Jewish painter of White Crucifixion and I and the Village.

This artist depicted himself sleeping below grazing animals, fir trees, and a lilac sky in a painting inspired by his honeymoon. A fish holds a candle up to a red easel in the background of another of this man's works. This artist depicted the Eiffel Tower in the back window of a canvas that contains a self-portrait at an easel. This artist of The Poet Reclining and La Mariée created a 70-foot mosaic for Chicago called The Four Seasons. A green-clad man carries a sack below a burning synagogue in a work by this man whose central figure wears a prayer shawl. His most famous work shows the Tree of Life being held by a green-skinned man who looks past a small row of houses at a sheep. For 10 points, name this Vitebsk-born Jewish painter of White Crucifixion and I and the Village.

This artist depicted himself sleeping below grazing animals, fir trees, and a lilac sky in a painting inspired by his honeymoon.

Marc_Chagall

Marc_Chagall

Marc Chagall [or Moshe Shagal]

guesstrain

Fine Arts

Art

ACF Winter

College

236-full

5476990eea23cca905506e3d

protobowl

One unproven generalization of this theorem is equivalent to the statement that chi of G is equal to or greater than the Hadwiger number of G. It is equivalent to the statement that no snark is planar. Another generalization of this theorem was proven by Ringel and Youngs and depends on the floor of an expression involving the square root of 1 plus 48g. It was proven by finding an unavoidable set of reducible configurations, using the method of discharging; a later proof improved on the quartic time algorithm used. It is a special case of the Heawood conjecture. For 10 points, name this theorem proved by Appel and Hankin via computer, which gives the minimum number of shades necessary to produce a map.

One unproven generalization of this theorem is equivalent to the statement that chi of G is equal to or greater than the Hadwiger number of G. It is equivalent to the statement that no snark is planar. Another generalization of this theorem was proven by Ringel and Youngs and depends on the floor of an expression involving the square root of 1 plus 48g. It was proven by finding an unavoidable set of reducible configurations, using the method of discharging; a later proof improved on the quartic time algorithm used. It is a special case of the Heawood conjecture. For 10 points, name this theorem proved by Appel and Hankin via computer, which gives the minimum number of shades necessary to produce a map.

One unproven generalization of this theorem is equivalent to the statement that chi of G is equal to or greater than the Hadwiger number of G.

Four_color_theorem

Four_color_theorem

 four-color theorem [or Guthrie's problem]

guesstrain

Science

Math

ACF Winter

College

237-full

5476990eea23cca905506e3e

protobowl

One of these figures revealed such texts as "Ornament for Clear Realization" and "Distinguishing the Middle and the Extremes," two of his namesake Five Treatises. In one tradition, these figures must vow to uproot "endless blind passions." One of these figures holds a thunderbolt scepter and is the patron figure of the Shaolin school. These figures must practice the six perfections and travel through five margas, which correspond to the ten bhumi. One of them, Maitreya, will arrive in the future. Another of them, the dedicatee of the Heart Sutra, represents "infinite compassion." For 10 points, name these Mahayana Buddhist figures exemplified by Avalokitesvara, who have achieved some degree of enlightenment but put off nirvana in order to help others.

One of these figures revealed such texts as "Ornament for Clear Realization" and "Distinguishing the Middle and the Extremes," two of his namesake Five Treatises. In one tradition, these figures must vow to uproot "endless blind passions." One of these figures holds a thunderbolt scepter and is the patron figure of the Shaolin school. These figures must practice the six perfections and travel through five margas, which correspond to the ten bhumi. One of them, Maitreya, will arrive in the future. Another of them, the dedicatee of the Heart Sutra, represents "infinite compassion." For 10 points, name these Mahayana Buddhist figures exemplified by Avalokitesvara, who have achieved some degree of enlightenment but put off nirvana in order to help others.

One of these figures revealed such texts as "Ornament for Clear Realization" and "Distinguishing the Middle and the Extremes," two of his namesake Five Treatises.

Bodhisattva

Bodhisattva

bodhisattvas [accept Buddhas until “endless blind passions”]

guesstrain

Social Science

Religion/Mythology

ACF Winter

College

238-full

5476990eea23cca905506e3f

protobowl

In one of this author's stories, a European traveler poses as a statue to avoid embarrassment while swimming nude. In another work by this author of "My Metamorphosis," a character offers Judge Lynch seventeen hundred dollars and a watch to save his friend, who is hanged for highway robbery on Marley's Hill. In another of this author's works, residents of a town give three to five odds that a pregnant woman will "get through with" giving birth. In another short story by this author, Uncle Billy steals the party's provisions, leaving the group stranded in the snow, while "The Innocent" and John Oakhurst go for help. He told of Cherokee Sal's child in one of his stories. For 10 points, name this author of "Tennessee's Partner," "The Luck of Roaring Camp," and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."

In one of this author's stories, a European traveler poses as a statue to avoid embarrassment while swimming nude. In another work by this author of "My Metamorphosis," a character offers Judge Lynch seventeen hundred dollars and a watch to save his friend, who is hanged for highway robbery on Marley's Hill. In another of this author's works, residents of a town give three to five odds that a pregnant woman will "get through with" giving birth. In another short story by this author, Uncle Billy steals the party's provisions, leaving the group stranded in the snow, while "The Innocent" and John Oakhurst go for help. He told of Cherokee Sal's child in one of his stories. For 10 points, name this author of "Tennessee's Partner," "The Luck of Roaring Camp," and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."

In one of this author's stories, a European traveler poses as a statue to avoid embarrassment while swimming nude.

Bret_Harte

Bret_Harte

Bret Harte

guesstrain

Literature

American

ACF Winter

College

239-full

5476990eea23cca905506e40

protobowl

This man worked with William Gifford on the weekly review The Anti-Jacobin. This man's cousin Stratford was a longtime minister to the Ottoman Empire, and this man's son was the Governor-General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny. He led a group that refused to join the Ministry of All the Talents, and he supported the Greek War of Independence. This British politician's opposition to Spanish colonization in Latin America led to the creation of the Monroe Doctrine. He was briefly prime minister after Lord Liverpool, in whose cabinet he had prominently served. This Tory feuded with the man who preceded him in his most famous role, going so far as to fight a duel with that rival. For 10 points, name this British Foreign Secretary of the 1820's, the successor to Castlereagh.

This man worked with William Gifford on the weekly review The Anti-Jacobin. This man's cousin Stratford was a longtime minister to the Ottoman Empire, and this man's son was the Governor-General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny. He led a group that refused to join the Ministry of All the Talents, and he supported the Greek War of Independence. This British politician's opposition to Spanish colonization in Latin America led to the creation of the Monroe Doctrine. He was briefly prime minister after Lord Liverpool, in whose cabinet he had prominently served. This Tory feuded with the man who preceded him in his most famous role, going so far as to fight a duel with that rival. For 10 points, name this British Foreign Secretary of the 1820's, the successor to Castlereagh.

This man worked with William Gifford on the weekly review The Anti-Jacobin.

George_Canning

George_Canning

George Canning

guesstrain

History

European

ACF Winter

College

240-full

5476990eea23cca905506e41

protobowl

Using this system to model solvated electrons in a solution of lithium in ammonia correctly derives the wavelength of said solution's color. Modeling an alpha particle in a nucleus as this system leads to the Geiger-Nuttall formula. Assuming a deep well in the quantum-confined Stark effect allows the estimation of its energies by treating it as this system, while an iterated version of this system in one dimension gives the Kronig-Penny model. The square root of 2 over L is the normalizing constant for this system, whose energy levels correspond to n squared h squared over 8 m L. For 10 points, name this quantum system in which an object is trapped in a square container.

Using this system to model solvated electrons in a solution of lithium in ammonia correctly derives the wavelength of said solution's color. Modeling an alpha particle in a nucleus as this system leads to the Geiger-Nuttall formula. Assuming a deep well in the quantum-confined Stark effect allows the estimation of its energies by treating it as this system, while an iterated version of this system in one dimension gives the Kronig-Penny model. The square root of 2 over L is the normalizing constant for this system, whose energy levels correspond to n squared h squared over 8 m L. For 10 points, name this quantum system in which an object is trapped in a square container.

Using this system to model solvated electrons in a solution of lithium in ammonia correctly derives the wavelength of said solution's color.

Particle_in_a_box

Particle_in_a_box

 Particle in a Box [or [in]finite Potential Well; or Square Well; or Rectangular well]

guesstrain

Science

Physics

ACF Winter

College

243-full

5476990eea23cca905506e44

protobowl

A method of preparing samples for this technique without significantly altering their environment is DART. Samples are usually prepared either via adding a sample to a crystal and then firing a laser at it, or by dispersion in aerosol form and subsequent evaporation. Most analyzers in this technique can rely on a quadrupole ion trap or use a reflectron to measure the time of flight. A tandem version of it is commonly used to sequence proteins, and the aforementioned techniques are used to ionize the sample before it is fragmented. It is often preceded by gas or liquid chromatography. For 10 points, name this technique in which a sample is separated into pieces and analyzed via their mass to charge ratio. 

A method of preparing samples for this technique without significantly altering their environment is DART. Samples are usually prepared either via adding a sample to a crystal and then firing a laser at it, or by dispersion in aerosol form and subsequent evaporation. Most analyzers in this technique can rely on a quadrupole ion trap or use a reflectron to measure the time of flight. A tandem version of it is commonly used to sequence proteins, and the aforementioned techniques are used to ionize the sample before it is fragmented. It is often preceded by gas or liquid chromatography. For 10 points, name this technique in which a sample is separated into pieces and analyzed via their mass to charge ratio. 

A method of preparing samples for this technique without significantly altering their environment is DART.

Mass_spectrometry

Mass_spectrometry

 mass spectrometry [or mass spectroscopy; or MS]

guesstrain

Science

Chemistry

ACF Winter

College

244-full

5476990eea23cca905506e45

protobowl

The final chapter of this book discusses an "abnormal form" of the title concept in which poor regulation prompts a decrease in "functional activity." Its seventh chapter largely refutes Spencer's theory of contracts, stating that positive control is on the rise due to the fundamentally restitutive nature of modern laws. This work contrasts such restitutive systems with the typically repressive systems of primitive peoples, where common experiences prompt a mechanical solidarity that is fundamentally different from the organic solidarity of modern society. Organic solidarity is then said to derive from the title concept, which increases productivity yet leads to the alienation of the individual as well as anomie. For 10 points, name this 1893 magnum opus of French sociologist Émile Durkheim.

The final chapter of this book discusses an "abnormal form" of the title concept in which poor regulation prompts a decrease in "functional activity." Its seventh chapter largely refutes Spencer's theory of contracts, stating that positive control is on the rise due to the fundamentally restitutive nature of modern laws. This work contrasts such restitutive systems with the typically repressive systems of primitive peoples, where common experiences prompt a mechanical solidarity that is fundamentally different from the organic solidarity of modern society. Organic solidarity is then said to derive from the title concept, which increases productivity yet leads to the alienation of the individual as well as anomie. For 10 points, name this 1893 magnum opus of French sociologist Émile Durkheim.

The final chapter of this book discusses an "abnormal form" of the title concept in which poor regulation prompts a decrease in "functional activity.

The_Division_of_Labour_in_Society

The_Division_of_Labour_in_Society

The Division of Labor in Society [or De La Division Du Travail Social]

guesstrain

Social Science

Anthropology

ACF Winter

College

245-full

5476990eea23cca905506e46

protobowl

One protein in this pathway has a G20210A mutant. This pathway is aberrantly activated by anti-phospholipid antibodies, while one pathway to initiate it relies on high-molecular weight kininogen. The aPTT and PT tests can be used to determine if particular proteins in this pathway are defective; said proteins include Hageman factor and another whose mutation causes Christmas disease. Most of the proteins in this pathway are serine proteases that cleave each other, one of which is bound to von Willebrand factor. For 10 points, name this cascade that includes Factors V, VIII, IX, X, etc, responsible for stopping the flow of blood at wounds.

One protein in this pathway has a G20210A mutant. This pathway is aberrantly activated by anti-phospholipid antibodies, while one pathway to initiate it relies on high-molecular weight kininogen. The aPTT and PT tests can be used to determine if particular proteins in this pathway are defective; said proteins include Hageman factor and another whose mutation causes Christmas disease. Most of the proteins in this pathway are serine proteases that cleave each other, one of which is bound to von Willebrand factor. For 10 points, name this cascade that includes Factors V, VIII, IX, X, etc, responsible for stopping the flow of blood at wounds.

One protein in this pathway has a G20210A mutant. This pathway is aberrantly activated by anti-phospholipid antibodies, while one pathway to initiate it relies on high-molecular weight kininogen.

Coagulation

Coagulation

blood coagulation cascade [or blood clotting cascade; accept reasonable equivalents]

guesstrain

Science

Biology

ACF Winter

College

247-full

5476990eea23cca905506e48

protobowl

This ruler executed his unsuccessful general Mikhail Shein. This ruler signed a fourteen and a half year truce that lost his country control of Smolensk. Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky supported this ruler, whose early reign was dominated by his mother's family, the Saltykovs. This ruler signed the Treaty of Stolbovo with Sweden. With the Truce of Deulino, this man achieved peace with Sigismund III Vasa, after which this ruler shared power with his father, the patriarch Philaret. This ruler was sixteen when he was elected by the zemsky sobor due to his relation to Fyodor I, and he was succeeded by his son Alexei I. His parents had been forced into convents by Boris Godunov, and the election of this tsar ended the Time of Troubles. For 10 points, name this first Romanov tsar.

This ruler executed his unsuccessful general Mikhail Shein. This ruler signed a fourteen and a half year truce that lost his country control of Smolensk. Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky supported this ruler, whose early reign was dominated by his mother's family, the Saltykovs. This ruler signed the Treaty of Stolbovo with Sweden. With the Truce of Deulino, this man achieved peace with Sigismund III Vasa, after which this ruler shared power with his father, the patriarch Philaret. This ruler was sixteen when he was elected by the zemsky sobor due to his relation to Fyodor I, and he was succeeded by his son Alexei I. His parents had been forced into convents by Boris Godunov, and the election of this tsar ended the Time of Troubles. For 10 points, name this first Romanov tsar.

This ruler executed his unsuccessful general Mikhail Shein. This ruler signed a fourteen and a half year truce that lost his country control of Smolensk.

Michael_I_of_Russia

Michael_I_of_Russia

Michael Romanov [or Mikhail Romanov]

guesstrain

History

European

ACF Winter

College

248-full

5476990eea23cca905506e49

protobowl

According to Pausanias, one of this man's grandsons spends eternity weaving a rope that is constantly eaten by a donkey. That grandson of this man, Ocnus, also founded Mantua, which he named after his mother, this man's daughter, Manto. This son of Everes and Chariclo died after being struck by Apollo's arrow while drinking at the spring Telphussa. One story claims that he was given the ability to understand birdsong in reparation for a curse he'd received after stumbling upon Athena bathing. He received another punishment after hitting a mating pair of snakes with his staff, after which he was settled a bet between Zeus and Hera by stating that women enjoy sex more than men. For 10 points, name this figure who spent seven years as a woman, a blind prophet of Thebes.

According to Pausanias, one of this man's grandsons spends eternity weaving a rope that is constantly eaten by a donkey. That grandson of this man, Ocnus, also founded Mantua, which he named after his mother, this man's daughter, Manto. This son of Everes and Chariclo died after being struck by Apollo's arrow while drinking at the spring Telphussa. One story claims that he was given the ability to understand birdsong in reparation for a curse he'd received after stumbling upon Athena bathing. He received another punishment after hitting a mating pair of snakes with his staff, after which he was settled a bet between Zeus and Hera by stating that women enjoy sex more than men. For 10 points, name this figure who spent seven years as a woman, a blind prophet of Thebes.

According to Pausanias, one of this man's grandsons spends eternity weaving a rope that is constantly eaten by a donkey.

Tiresias

Tiresias

Tiresias [or Teiresias]

guesstrain

Social Science

Religion/Mythology

ACF Winter

College

249-full

5476990eea23cca905506e4a

protobowl

This man's version of "Broadway" has Al Killian and Ed Lewis appear on trumpets, as they do in another work that uses a 12-bar blues tune broadcast from the Reno Club. He employed soloists like Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and the earlier Harry "Sweets Edison," and his rhythm section consisted of guitarist Freddie Green and drummer "Papa" Jo Jones. He was discovered by John Hammond after leaving Bennie Moten to form his own Barons of Rhythm in Kansas City. His better-known groups include the Old and New Testament bands. For 10 points, name this jazz pianist and frequent collaborator of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, best known for "Tickle Toe," "Jumpin' at the Woodside," and his signature piece named for the time at which it was originally improvised, "One O' Clock Jump."

This man's version of "Broadway" has Al Killian and Ed Lewis appear on trumpets, as they do in another work that uses a 12-bar blues tune broadcast from the Reno Club. He employed soloists like Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and the earlier Harry "Sweets Edison," and his rhythm section consisted of guitarist Freddie Green and drummer "Papa" Jo Jones. He was discovered by John Hammond after leaving Bennie Moten to form his own Barons of Rhythm in Kansas City. His better-known groups include the Old and New Testament bands. For 10 points, name this jazz pianist and frequent collaborator of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, best known for "Tickle Toe," "Jumpin' at the Woodside," and his signature piece named for the time at which it was originally improvised, "One O' Clock Jump."

This man's version of "Broadway" has Al Killian and Ed Lewis appear on trumpets, as they do in another work that uses a 12-bar blues tune broadcast from the Reno Club.

Count_Basie

Count_Basie

Count Basie

guesstrain

Fine Arts

Other

ACF Winter

College

250-full

5476990eea23cca905506e4b

protobowl

At one point, this book's protagonist discovers a handkerchief monogrammed with an H that is eventually found to be a Cyrillic N. Later in this work, a red kimono is unaccounted for, until it is found planted in the protagonist's luggage. The events of this novel are sparked when the protagonist runs into Monsieur Bouc in the Tokatlian Hotel. At one point its protagonist has trouble sleeping due to a peculiar silence after he hears the words "Ce n'est rien. Je me suis trompe." A burned letter reveals that this work's antagonist was actually a fugitive named Cassetti, who had kidnapped the heiress Daisy Armstrong. For 10 points, name this novel in which Hercule Poirot determines that all twelve suspects in the title crime stabbed Ratchett, an Agatha Christie book set on a train.

At one point, this book's protagonist discovers a handkerchief monogrammed with an H that is eventually found to be a Cyrillic N. Later in this work, a red kimono is unaccounted for, until it is found planted in the protagonist's luggage. The events of this novel are sparked when the protagonist runs into Monsieur Bouc in the Tokatlian Hotel. At one point its protagonist has trouble sleeping due to a peculiar silence after he hears the words "Ce n'est rien. Je me suis trompe." A burned letter reveals that this work's antagonist was actually a fugitive named Cassetti, who had kidnapped the heiress Daisy Armstrong. For 10 points, name this novel in which Hercule Poirot determines that all twelve suspects in the title crime stabbed Ratchett, an Agatha Christie book set on a train.

At one point, this book's protagonist discovers a handkerchief monogrammed with an H that is eventually found to be a Cyrillic N. Later in this work, a red kimono is unaccounted for, until it is found planted in the protagonist's luggage.

Murder_on_the_Orient_Express

Murder_on_the_Orient_Express

Murder on the Orient Express [accept Murder on the Calais Coach]

guesstrain

Literature

European

ACF Winter

College

251-full

5476990eea23cca905506e4c

protobowl

Later in this novel, the narrator sees one of his former coworkers killed by the police after being found selling dolls. This work's title character takes one of those dolls belonging to Tod Clifton and adds it to his pocket with Tarp's chain link. This work's narrator arrives in New York City as a result of his expulsion after bringing Mr. Norton to the Golden Day, and he brings with him eight letters from Mr. Bledsoe. The narrator of this work wins a scholarship to a public school along with a briefcase that he keeps with him in this novel. Ras the Exhorter becoming Ras the Destroyer as a member of the Brotherhood of this novel. For 10 points, name this novel that features a nameless black protagonist, a work by Ralph Ellison.

Later in this novel, the narrator sees one of his former coworkers killed by the police after being found selling dolls. This work's title character takes one of those dolls belonging to Tod Clifton and adds it to his pocket with Tarp's chain link. This work's narrator arrives in New York City as a result of his expulsion after bringing Mr. Norton to the Golden Day, and he brings with him eight letters from Mr. Bledsoe. The narrator of this work wins a scholarship to a public school along with a briefcase that he keeps with him in this novel. Ras the Exhorter becoming Ras the Destroyer as a member of the Brotherhood of this novel. For 10 points, name this novel that features a nameless black protagonist, a work by Ralph Ellison.

Later in this novel, the narrator sees one of his former coworkers killed by the police after being found selling dolls.

Invisible_Man

Invisible_Man

Invisible Man [Do not accept “The Invisible Man”]

guesstrain

Literature

American

ACF Winter

College

255-full

5476990eea23cca905506e50

protobowl

In political science, the first chapter of Essence of Decision explores this idea in the context of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Gary Becker notably applied this concept to the analysis of addiction and crime. The sequential form of this idea determines optimal strategies in a perfect Bayesian equilibrium. Herbert Simon's notion of satisficing relies on the "bounded" form of this idea, since humans are rarely mentally able to carry out complex calculations. Utility maximization is assumed in most game theoretic situations due to perfectly exhibition of this idea. Behavior of this type is built into many macroeconomic models and is called these type of "expectations." For 10 points, name this assumption suggesting that people optimally use all available information when making decisions.

In political science, the first chapter of Essence of Decision explores this idea in the context of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Gary Becker notably applied this concept to the analysis of addiction and crime. The sequential form of this idea determines optimal strategies in a perfect Bayesian equilibrium. Herbert Simon's notion of satisficing relies on the "bounded" form of this idea, since humans are rarely mentally able to carry out complex calculations. Utility maximization is assumed in most game theoretic situations due to perfectly exhibition of this idea. Behavior of this type is built into many macroeconomic models and is called these type of "expectations." For 10 points, name this assumption suggesting that people optimally use all available information when making decisions.

In political science, the first chapter of Essence of Decision explores this idea in the context of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Rationality

Rationality

rationality [accept rational expectations since that is what is specifically referred to early on]

guesstrain

Social Science

Economics

ACF Winter

College

256-full

5476990eea23cca905506e51

protobowl

This country began one conflict with a northern neighbor by advancing to Dhola, and it lost one of the largest tank battles in history at Chawinda. This state recaptured land in the Kargil War in a case prominently cited as disproving the Democratic Peace Theory. One war in this country began with the Treaty of Surbat, while another ended only with the intervention of the Holkars. Another series of conflicts in this nation began with the intrigues of Joseph Duplieux and ended with a decisive defeat for one side at the Battle of Wandiwash. Conflicts here have included the Carnatic wars, Mysore wars, and Maratha wars. For 10 points, identify this country which saw a victory for Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey, as well as three battles of Panipat.

This country began one conflict with a northern neighbor by advancing to Dhola, and it lost one of the largest tank battles in history at Chawinda. This state recaptured land in the Kargil War in a case prominently cited as disproving the Democratic Peace Theory. One war in this country began with the Treaty of Surbat, while another ended only with the intervention of the Holkars. Another series of conflicts in this nation began with the intrigues of Joseph Duplieux and ended with a decisive defeat for one side at the Battle of Wandiwash. Conflicts here have included the Carnatic wars, Mysore wars, and Maratha wars. For 10 points, identify this country which saw a victory for Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey, as well as three battles of Panipat.

This country began one conflict with a northern neighbor by advancing to Dhola, and it lost one of the largest tank battles in history at Chawinda.

India

India

Republic of India [or Bharat]

guesstrain

History

World

ACF Winter

College

257-full

5476990eea23cca905506e52

protobowl

In one poem, this author observes a "bronze soldier" who "hitches a bronze cape / That crumples stiffly in the imagined wind;" later, he hears the "sure confusing drum" the title figure "followed...to the Balkans." Another poem by this author of "In Memoriam F.E. Ledwidge" opens with its narrator in "the college sick bay" and sees a mother "cough[ing] out angry tearless sighs." That poem ends with the line "A four foot box, a foot for every year," a reference to his brother Christopher's early death. This author of "Mid-Term Break" described a "squat pen" resting "between my finger and my thumb" and declared "By God, the old man could handle a spade" in "Digging." For 10 points, name this author of the collection Death of a Naturalist and recent translator of Beowulf, an Irish poet.

In one poem, this author observes a "bronze soldier" who "hitches a bronze cape / That crumples stiffly in the imagined wind;" later, he hears the "sure confusing drum" the title figure "followed...to the Balkans." Another poem by this author of "In Memoriam F.E. Ledwidge" opens with its narrator in "the college sick bay" and sees a mother "cough[ing] out angry tearless sighs." That poem ends with the line "A four foot box, a foot for every year," a reference to his brother Christopher's early death. This author of "Mid-Term Break" described a "squat pen" resting "between my finger and my thumb" and declared "By God, the old man could handle a spade" in "Digging." For 10 points, name this author of the collection Death of a Naturalist and recent translator of Beowulf, an Irish poet.

In one poem, this author observes a "bronze soldier" who "hitches a bronze cape / That crumples stiffly in the imagined wind;" later, he hears the "sure confusing drum" the title figure "followed...to the Balkans."

Seamus_Heaney

Seamus_Heaney

Seamus Heaney

guesstrain

Literature

European

ACF Winter

College

258-full

5476990eea23cca905506e53

protobowl

This work considers the "irreducible" paradoxes of Aristotle as examples of the contradiction inherent in the mind contemplating itself. It also examines the philosophy of Lev Shestov. One section of it is written as the perspective of a conqueror. This work considers the statement "if God does not exist, I am God" in a section that examines Kirilov from The Possessed. Its author criticizes Husserl's belief in eternal reason and Kierkegaard's leap of faith as examples of "philosophical suicide." It discusses how the repetition of a mechanical life leads to the birth of the absurd, and its main argument is against committing suicide. It concludes that "one must imagine [the title figure] happy." For 10 points, name this Albert Camus essay that considers a figure condemned to roll a rock up a hill.

This work considers the "irreducible" paradoxes of Aristotle as examples of the contradiction inherent in the mind contemplating itself. It also examines the philosophy of Lev Shestov. One section of it is written as the perspective of a conqueror. This work considers the statement "if God does not exist, I am God" in a section that examines Kirilov from The Possessed. Its author criticizes Husserl's belief in eternal reason and Kierkegaard's leap of faith as examples of "philosophical suicide." It discusses how the repetition of a mechanical life leads to the birth of the absurd, and its main argument is against committing suicide. It concludes that "one must imagine [the title figure] happy." For 10 points, name this Albert Camus essay that considers a figure condemned to roll a rock up a hill.

This work considers the "irreducible" paradoxes of Aristotle as examples of the contradiction inherent in the mind contemplating itself.

The_Myth_of_Sisyphus

The_Myth_of_Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus [or Le Mythe de Sisyphe]

guesstrain

Social Science

Philosophy

ACF Winter

College

259-full

5476990eea23cca905506e54

protobowl

One example of these molecules regulates the production of GlmS based on glucosamine-6-phosphate presence in the cell. Another of these molecules has an activity-essential motif consisting of G5, G8, and G12, as well as a U-turn that gives it its namesake shape. Examples of these molecules capable of catalyzing in vivo Diels-Alder reactions were described by Seelig. Another type of them might allow for production of HIV-resistant T-cells. They provide evidence for Gilbert's RNA world hypothesis, and these molecules are capable of hydrolyzing their own phosphodiester bonds. For 10 points, give this term for RNA molecules with enzyme-like catalytic activity, such as the "Hammerhead" type.

One example of these molecules regulates the production of GlmS based on glucosamine-6-phosphate presence in the cell. Another of these molecules has an activity-essential motif consisting of G5, G8, and G12, as well as a U-turn that gives it its namesake shape. Examples of these molecules capable of catalyzing in vivo Diels-Alder reactions were described by Seelig. Another type of them might allow for production of HIV-resistant T-cells. They provide evidence for Gilbert's RNA world hypothesis, and these molecules are capable of hydrolyzing their own phosphodiester bonds. For 10 points, give this term for RNA molecules with enzyme-like catalytic activity, such as the "Hammerhead" type.

One example of these molecules regulates the production of GlmS based on glucosamine-6-phosphate presence in the cell.

Ribozyme

Ribozyme

 ribozymes [prompt on RNA before mentioned]

guesstrain

Science

Biology

ACF Winter

College

261-full

5476990eea23cca905506e56

protobowl

This character dies alone "without the benefit of fire" in a "New York London" winter in the Kamau Brathwaite poem "Didn't He Ramble." This character learns about the death of Prue's child due to her milk drying up. A lock of hair tied around this character's neck is thrown into the fire after it twines around the finger of another character. During a trip to Lake Pontchartrain, this character is asked where new Jerusalem is by a character whom he had saved from drowning. George Shelby arrives too late to save this character, who refuses to reveal the details of Cassy and Emmeline's escape and dies at the hands of Simon Legree. For 10 points, name this martyr-like title character of an 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, a pious slave who lived in a titular cabin.

This character dies alone "without the benefit of fire" in a "New York London" winter in the Kamau Brathwaite poem "Didn't He Ramble." This character learns about the death of Prue's child due to her milk drying up. A lock of hair tied around this character's neck is thrown into the fire after it twines around the finger of another character. During a trip to Lake Pontchartrain, this character is asked where new Jerusalem is by a character whom he had saved from drowning. George Shelby arrives too late to save this character, who refuses to reveal the details of Cassy and Emmeline's escape and dies at the hands of Simon Legree. For 10 points, name this martyr-like title character of an 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, a pious slave who lived in a titular cabin.

This character dies alone "without the benefit of fire" in a "New York London" winter in the Kamau Brathwaite poem "Didn't He Ramble.

Uncle_Tom

Uncle_Tom

Uncle Tom

guesstrain

Literature

American

ACF Winter

College

262-full

5476990eea23cca905506e57

protobowl

Landings on Tulagi and Tanambogo preceded the main invasion in this campaign, during which the transport George Elliot was sunk and the escort fleet defeated at Savo Island. One side set up the "Cactus Air Force" and another used the "Tokyo Express" route to bring supplies to its troops. Naval skirmishes during this battle off Cape Esperance and the Santa Cruz islands were indecisive. Henderson Airfield came under attack from two battleships during this battle. It saw heavy fighting along the Matanikau River before Operation Ke resulted in the final withdrawal of all Japanese forces. For 10 points, name this battle fought over the course of six months from August 1942 to February 1943, a major American victory fought on a namesake island in the Solomon Islands.

Landings on Tulagi and Tanambogo preceded the main invasion in this campaign, during which the transport George Elliot was sunk and the escort fleet defeated at Savo Island. One side set up the "Cactus Air Force" and another used the "Tokyo Express" route to bring supplies to its troops. Naval skirmishes during this battle off Cape Esperance and the Santa Cruz islands were indecisive. Henderson Airfield came under attack from two battleships during this battle. It saw heavy fighting along the Matanikau River before Operation Ke resulted in the final withdrawal of all Japanese forces. For 10 points, name this battle fought over the course of six months from August 1942 to February 1943, a major American victory fought on a namesake island in the Solomon Islands.

Landings on Tulagi and Tanambogo preceded the main invasion in this campaign, during which the transport George Elliot was sunk and the escort fleet defeated at Savo Island.

Guadalcanal_Campaign

Guadalcanal_Campaign

Battle of Guadalcanal

guesstrain

History

World

ACF Winter

College

263-full

5476990eea23cca905506e58

protobowl

The Thiemann operator is a candidate for this type of constraint, which would describe kinematics in quantum loop theory. Vector fields described by this adjective are obtained by rotating the gradient field components ninety degrees, and are important for determining equations of motion in phase space. Ehrenfest's theorem relates the time derivative of an observable with the commutator of this operator with that observable's operator. Cycles of this type touch every vertex of a graph once before returning to the starting vertex. When applied to wavefunctions, the operator of this type yields energy eigenvalues. For 10 points, give this term describing an operator that equals the sum of kinetic and potential energy, named for an Irish mathematician and represented by a capital H.

The Thiemann operator is a candidate for this type of constraint, which would describe kinematics in quantum loop theory. Vector fields described by this adjective are obtained by rotating the gradient field components ninety degrees, and are important for determining equations of motion in phase space. Ehrenfest's theorem relates the time derivative of an observable with the commutator of this operator with that observable's operator. Cycles of this type touch every vertex of a graph once before returning to the starting vertex. When applied to wavefunctions, the operator of this type yields energy eigenvalues. For 10 points, give this term describing an operator that equals the sum of kinetic and potential energy, named for an Irish mathematician and represented by a capital H.

The Thiemann operator is a candidate for this type of constraint, which would describe kinematics in quantum loop theory.

Hamiltonian_(quantum_mechanics)

Hamiltonian_(quantum_mechanics)

Hamiltonian

guesstrain

Science

Physics

ACF Winter

College

265-full

5476990eea23cca905506e5a

protobowl

A compulsory youth group in this nation had a uniform of green shirts and khaki pants. Antonio de Spinola's book about this country "and the Future" helped spark a coup here led by the Armed Forces Movement, which then set up the Junta of National Salvation. The PIDE secret police was active in this country during a period where its legislature included a Corporative Chamber. Oscar Carmona became president of this nation after the 1926 revolution. Marcello Caetano's government here followed that of a former economics professor, and was ended by the Carnation Revolution. The Estado Nova was created here under the leadership of Antonio Salazar. For 10 points, name this country earlier ruled by the Braganza family, like its former colony of Brazil.

A compulsory youth group in this nation had a uniform of green shirts and khaki pants. Antonio de Spinola's book about this country "and the Future" helped spark a coup here led by the Armed Forces Movement, which then set up the Junta of National Salvation. The PIDE secret police was active in this country during a period where its legislature included a Corporative Chamber. Oscar Carmona became president of this nation after the 1926 revolution. Marcello Caetano's government here followed that of a former economics professor, and was ended by the Carnation Revolution. The Estado Nova was created here under the leadership of Antonio Salazar. For 10 points, name this country earlier ruled by the Braganza family, like its former colony of Brazil.

A compulsory youth group in this nation had a uniform of green shirts and khaki pants.

Portugal

Portugal

Portugal

guesstrain

History

European

ACF Winter

College

266-full

5476990eea23cca905506e5b

protobowl

One character in this work uses the phrase "a bad bump" to refer to a phone conversation, in which it is revealed that another character's father is being released from the hospital. Songs by Count Basie and Sarah Vaughan frame the events of this work, in which one character encourages another to apologize for hitting Hilda Samuels. One of this play's characters decides to title an essay "A World without Collisions" and recalls the time another character made a kite out of junk at the Jubilee Boarding House. After that character displays his "Basuto buttocks" in response to a racist joke, this play's first title character spits in his face. It opens with Willie practicing his dance steps and ends after Sam attempts and fails to reconcile with Hally. For 10 points, identify this play by Athol Fugard.

One character in this work uses the phrase "a bad bump" to refer to a phone conversation, in which it is revealed that another character's father is being released from the hospital. Songs by Count Basie and Sarah Vaughan frame the events of this work, in which one character encourages another to apologize for hitting Hilda Samuels. One of this play's characters decides to title an essay "A World without Collisions" and recalls the time another character made a kite out of junk at the Jubilee Boarding House. After that character displays his "Basuto buttocks" in response to a racist joke, this play's first title character spits in his face. It opens with Willie practicing his dance steps and ends after Sam attempts and fails to reconcile with Hally. For 10 points, identify this play by Athol Fugard.

One character in this work uses the phrase "a bad bump" to refer to a phone conversation, in which it is revealed that another character's father is being released from the hospital.

"Master_Harold"...and_the_Boys

"Master_Harold"...and_the_Boys

Master Harold...and the Boys

guesstrain

Literature

World

ACF Winter

College

267-full

5476990eea23cca905506e5c

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This figure is told the story of Rathmore while riding past a lake with Buino and Illan. This character committed suicide by headbutting a rock after being forced to live with the man she hated most in the world. A northerner named Trendhorn lost his eye while spying on this figure, who as a child saw an omen in the form of a raven drinking the blood of a calf. Fiachu, Ardan, and Ainle were among those killed when this figure arrived in Emain Macha, where Eoghan mac Durthacht also killed her lover, a son of Uisneach. Raised by the nurse Leabharcham, she fled to Alba with her lover Naoise but was eventually tracked down by Conchobar mac Nessa. For 10 points, name this Celtic woman whose conflicted love and intense beauty caused many sorrows.

This figure is told the story of Rathmore while riding past a lake with Buino and Illan. This character committed suicide by headbutting a rock after being forced to live with the man she hated most in the world. A northerner named Trendhorn lost his eye while spying on this figure, who as a child saw an omen in the form of a raven drinking the blood of a calf. Fiachu, Ardan, and Ainle were among those killed when this figure arrived in Emain Macha, where Eoghan mac Durthacht also killed her lover, a son of Uisneach. Raised by the nurse Leabharcham, she fled to Alba with her lover Naoise but was eventually tracked down by Conchobar mac Nessa. For 10 points, name this Celtic woman whose conflicted love and intense beauty caused many sorrows.

This figure is told the story of Rathmore while riding past a lake with Buino and Illan.

Deirdre_of_the_Sorrows

Deirdre_of_the_Sorrows

Deirdre of the Sorrows [or Derdriu]

guesstrain

Social Science

Religion/Mythology

ACF Winter

College

268-full

5476990eea23cca905506e5d

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Removal of this organ from 740 World War II veterans saw twice the incidence of cardiovascular disease, perhaps because it releases monocytes during stresses on the heart. This organ is either absent or multiply expressed in patients with Ivemark Syndrome. It is surrounded by protective fibroelastic and serous coats. Like the kidney, this organ possesses Malphigian corpuscles, which are lymphocyte-containing follicles within one type of tissue in it. This organ is under the left side of the diaphragm, and becomes sequestered when trying to clear sickled cells. The marginal zone separates this organ's white and red pulp. For 10 points, name this lymphoid organ in which red blood cells are destroyed.

Removal of this organ from 740 World War II veterans saw twice the incidence of cardiovascular disease, perhaps because it releases monocytes during stresses on the heart. This organ is either absent or multiply expressed in patients with Ivemark Syndrome. It is surrounded by protective fibroelastic and serous coats. Like the kidney, this organ possesses Malphigian corpuscles, which are lymphocyte-containing follicles within one type of tissue in it. This organ is under the left side of the diaphragm, and becomes sequestered when trying to clear sickled cells. The marginal zone separates this organ's white and red pulp. For 10 points, name this lymphoid organ in which red blood cells are destroyed.

Removal of this organ from 740 World War II veterans saw twice the incidence of cardiovascular disease, perhaps because it releases monocytes during stresses on the heart.

Spleen

Spleen

 the spleen

guesstrain

Science

Biology

ACF Winter

College

269-full

5476990eea23cca905506e5e

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One king of this name and number subdued rebellious forces in Argyll and gave up his claim to English land in the Peace of York; that ruler assisted the English barons in threatening King John. A pope of this name and number gave his blessing to William the Conquerer's invasion of England. Another ruler of this name and number had ministers like Dmitry Milyutin and Pyotr Shuvalov, and that ruler suppressed the January uprising in Poland. That same ruler also sold Alaska to the United States and set up the zemstvo system. That tsar of this name and number ended the Crimean War after succeeding Nicholas I. For 10 points, give the name and number of the tsar who was assassinated by People's Will after earlier undertaking the 1861 emancipation of the serfs.

One king of this name and number subdued rebellious forces in Argyll and gave up his claim to English land in the Peace of York; that ruler assisted the English barons in threatening King John. A pope of this name and number gave his blessing to William the Conquerer's invasion of England. Another ruler of this name and number had ministers like Dmitry Milyutin and Pyotr Shuvalov, and that ruler suppressed the January uprising in Poland. That same ruler also sold Alaska to the United States and set up the zemstvo system. That tsar of this name and number ended the Crimean War after succeeding Nicholas I. For 10 points, give the name and number of the tsar who was assassinated by People's Will after earlier undertaking the 1861 emancipation of the serfs.

One king of this name and number subdued rebellious forces in Argyll and gave up his claim to English land in the Peace of York; that ruler assisted the English barons in threatening King John.

Alexander_II_of_Russia

Alexander_II_of_Russia

Alexander II

guesstrain

History

European

ACF Winter

College

270-full

5476990eea23cca905506e5f

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In the second act of one of this man's works, one character pretends to be the student Pereda and listens to the gypsy Preziosilla sing "Al suon del tamburo." In the final act of that work by this man, one character sings "Pace, pace mio Dio" before being stabbed in the heart by her brother Carlo. In addition to that work about the lovers Leonora and Alvaro, this man composed an opera whose title character rescues Fenena after promising to restore the Temple in "Dio di Giuda;" that opera also contains the Hebrew slave chorus "Va, pensiero." The second act of another of this man's operas contains the Triumphal March, which accompanies the return of Radames, who is buried alive with the title Ethiopian princess. For 10 points, identify this composer of La Forza del Destino, Nabucco and Aida.

In the second act of one of this man's works, one character pretends to be the student Pereda and listens to the gypsy Preziosilla sing "Al suon del tamburo." In the final act of that work by this man, one character sings "Pace, pace mio Dio" before being stabbed in the heart by her brother Carlo. In addition to that work about the lovers Leonora and Alvaro, this man composed an opera whose title character rescues Fenena after promising to restore the Temple in "Dio di Giuda;" that opera also contains the Hebrew slave chorus "Va, pensiero." The second act of another of this man's operas contains the Triumphal March, which accompanies the return of Radames, who is buried alive with the title Ethiopian princess. For 10 points, identify this composer of La Forza del Destino, Nabucco and Aida.

In the second act of one of this man's works, one character pretends to be the student Pereda and listens to the gypsy Preziosilla sing "Al suon del tamburo."

Giuseppe_Verdi

Giuseppe_Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi

guesstrain

Fine Arts

Music

ACF Winter

College

271-full

5476990eea23cca905506e60

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One character in this work listens to a recording of the jazz song "Some of these Days" on a battered phonograph in a cafe, and another is kicked out of a library after making advances on a young boy. The central character of this work makes advances on a café owner named Francoise, and remembers his fling with the fat English girl Anny. The protagonist, a historian, tries to reconstruct the life of the Marquise of Rollebon before meeting "the Self-Taught Man" Ogier P. in the seaport town of Bouville. The protagonist becomes obsessed with the idea that objects are "touching" him, and questions his existence, asking if he is a "mere figment of the imagination." For 10 points, name this novel about the "sweetish sickness" that Antoine Roquentin experiences, a work by Sartre.

One character in this work listens to a recording of the jazz song "Some of these Days" on a battered phonograph in a cafe, and another is kicked out of a library after making advances on a young boy. The central character of this work makes advances on a café owner named Francoise, and remembers his fling with the fat English girl Anny. The protagonist, a historian, tries to reconstruct the life of the Marquise of Rollebon before meeting "the Self-Taught Man" Ogier P. in the seaport town of Bouville. The protagonist becomes obsessed with the idea that objects are "touching" him, and questions his existence, asking if he is a "mere figment of the imagination." For 10 points, name this novel about the "sweetish sickness" that Antoine Roquentin experiences, a work by Sartre.

One character in this work listens to a recording of the jazz song "Some of these Days" on a battered phonograph in a cafe, and another is kicked out of a library after making advances on a young boy.

Nausea

Nausea

Nausea [or La Nausée]

guesstrain

Literature

European

ACF Winter

College

272-full

5476990eea23cca905506e61

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One stanza of this poem counters "fast-fading violets covered up in leaves" with "the murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves." This poem describes the "Queen-Moon" in one of its stanzas, which opens with a contrast between "Bacchus and his pards" and "the viewless wings of Poesy." This poem's speaker describes the "sad heart of Ruth," who "stood in tears amid the alien corn." Its speaker calls this poem's title creature "soft names in many a musèd rhyme" and "light-wingèd Dryad of the trees" and notes that he feels as if he'd taken "hemlock" or "some dull opiate," as his "heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains." For 10 points, name this poem about an "immortal bird" that "wast not born for death," a work of John Keats.

One stanza of this poem counters "fast-fading violets covered up in leaves" with "the murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves." This poem describes the "Queen-Moon" in one of its stanzas, which opens with a contrast between "Bacchus and his pards" and "the viewless wings of Poesy." This poem's speaker describes the "sad heart of Ruth," who "stood in tears amid the alien corn." Its speaker calls this poem's title creature "soft names in many a musèd rhyme" and "light-wingèd Dryad of the trees" and notes that he feels as if he'd taken "hemlock" or "some dull opiate," as his "heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains." For 10 points, name this poem about an "immortal bird" that "wast not born for death," a work of John Keats.

One stanza of this poem counters "fast-fading violets covered up in leaves" with "the murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.

Ode_to_a_Nightingale

Ode_to_a_Nightingale

“Ode to a Nightingale”

guesstrain

Literature

European

ACF Winter

College

273-full

5476990eea23cca905506e62

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Both the Atkinson-Stiglitz Separability theorem and the Cortlett-Hague theorem relate this quantity for commodities to goods that are substitutable for leisure. The Lindahl form of this entity is employed in an equilibrium dependent on the personal marginal benefit of a public good. Christina and David Romer's recent study found the multiplier of a reduction in this entity to be roughly three. Ramsey developed an optimal set of rules based on the quantity demanded of each good to minimize total burden. Externalities can be limited by the Pigouvian type of them. Deadweight losses are caused by the imposition of, for 10 points, which financial charges collected by the government to finance the nation's budget?

Both the Atkinson-Stiglitz Separability theorem and the Cortlett-Hague theorem relate this quantity for commodities to goods that are substitutable for leisure. The Lindahl form of this entity is employed in an equilibrium dependent on the personal marginal benefit of a public good. Christina and David Romer's recent study found the multiplier of a reduction in this entity to be roughly three. Ramsey developed an optimal set of rules based on the quantity demanded of each good to minimize total burden. Externalities can be limited by the Pigouvian type of them. Deadweight losses are caused by the imposition of, for 10 points, which financial charges collected by the government to finance the nation's budget?

Both the Atkinson-Stiglitz Separability theorem and the Cortlett-Hague theorem relate this quantity for commodities to goods that are substitutable for leisure.

Tax

Tax

taxes [do not accept more specific answers]

guesstrain

Social Science

Economics

ACF Winter

College

274-full

5476990eea23cca905506e63

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Subdivisions of these units of land were once called cantreds, but that term was superseded by divisions of them known as baronies. The Chief Herald of the nation in which these divisions of land lie has granted many of them coats of armor since 1943, including a seal that depicts Patrick Sarsfield outstretching his hand. Naas is the seat of government of one of these units. The King's and Queen's examples of these units were established during the British Plantations movement in their home country, and those ones are today known as Offaly and Laois. These units are subdivisions of larger provinces like Leinster, Munster, and Connacht. For 10 points, name these divisions of land that include Limerick, Tipperary, and Cork, and are located on the Emerald Isle.

Subdivisions of these units of land were once called cantreds, but that term was superseded by divisions of them known as baronies. The Chief Herald of the nation in which these divisions of land lie has granted many of them coats of armor since 1943, including a seal that depicts Patrick Sarsfield outstretching his hand. Naas is the seat of government of one of these units. The King's and Queen's examples of these units were established during the British Plantations movement in their home country, and those ones are today known as Offaly and Laois. These units are subdivisions of larger provinces like Leinster, Munster, and Connacht. For 10 points, name these divisions of land that include Limerick, Tipperary, and Cork, and are located on the Emerald Isle.

Subdivisions of these units of land were once called cantreds, but that term was superseded by divisions of them known as baronies.

Counties_of_Ireland

Counties_of_Ireland

the counties of Ireland

guesstrain

History

European

ACF Winter

College

276-full

5476990eea23cca905506e65

protobowl

A dioxane-chloro version of the reagent in this reaction was developed by Kanth to increase selectivity for terminal substrates. Padra and Node developed the odorless reagents Dod-S-Me and MMS for this reaction. A common reagent used in this reaction is synthesized by adding 1,5-cyclooctadiene and some dimethyl sulfide to another compound. Its second stage involves addition of a hydroperoxide anion followed by a rearrangement with retention of configuration, while skipping that step allows the reactant to undergo a Suzuki coupling. The initial step of this reaction occurs with a particular stereochemistry due to steric hindrance, resulting in an anti-Markovnikov product. For 10 points, name this method of adding hydroxyl groups to alkenes, using boron.

A dioxane-chloro version of the reagent in this reaction was developed by Kanth to increase selectivity for terminal substrates. Padra and Node developed the odorless reagents Dod-S-Me and MMS for this reaction. A common reagent used in this reaction is synthesized by adding 1,5-cyclooctadiene and some dimethyl sulfide to another compound. Its second stage involves addition of a hydroperoxide anion followed by a rearrangement with retention of configuration, while skipping that step allows the reactant to undergo a Suzuki coupling. The initial step of this reaction occurs with a particular stereochemistry due to steric hindrance, resulting in an anti-Markovnikov product. For 10 points, name this method of adding hydroxyl groups to alkenes, using boron.

A dioxane-chloro version of the reagent in this reaction was developed by Kanth to increase selectivity for terminal substrates.

Hydroboration–oxidation_reaction

Hydroboration–oxidation_reaction

 hydroboration-oxidation

guesstrain

Science

Chemistry

ACF Winter

College

277-full

5476990eea23cca905506e66

protobowl

This person holds the dubious distinction of having been replaced by Derek Jeter in a Gillette commercial with Roger Federer and Tiger Woods. This player scored the goal that eliminated Brazil from the 2006 World Cup. Just before that, this player lost in the Champions League final to the club he currently plays for. He sits behind only Alan Shearer and Andy Cole on the list of top Premier League scorers. He scored over 20 goals for five straight years at Arsenal. He has recently come under fire for a handball which set up the winning goal in a World Cup Qualifying Playoff to beat Ireland. For 10 points, name this French striker who is currently plying his trade at FC Barcelona.

This person holds the dubious distinction of having been replaced by Derek Jeter in a Gillette commercial with Roger Federer and Tiger Woods. This player scored the goal that eliminated Brazil from the 2006 World Cup. Just before that, this player lost in the Champions League final to the club he currently plays for. He sits behind only Alan Shearer and Andy Cole on the list of top Premier League scorers. He scored over 20 goals for five straight years at Arsenal. He has recently come under fire for a handball which set up the winning goal in a World Cup Qualifying Playoff to beat Ireland. For 10 points, name this French striker who is currently plying his trade at FC Barcelona.

This person holds the dubious distinction of having been replaced by Derek Jeter in a Gillette commercial with Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.

Thierry_Henry

Thierry_Henry

Thierry Daniel Henry

guesstrain

Trash

Pop Culture

ACF Winter

College