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The Death of Ivan Ilyich

The title event occurred on February 4, 1882, as three of the title character's colleagues discover on the opening page. The title character is the second son of a minor official, who joined the Court of Justice, married Praskovya Fedorovna Mikhel, and slipped off a step-ladder while showing his upholsterer how he wanted the curtains to hang, an accident which would prove to be fatal. For 10 points, identify this short novel, first published in 1886, which ends with the title character's declaration that "Death is finished," and which was written by Leo Tolstoy.

Battle of Zama

This battle ended when the successor of Syphax, Masinissa, attacked the loser's flank. The losing commander had been isolated following the Battles of Ilipa and the Metaurus River, which saw the losses of Mago and Hasdrubal, and was thwarted by the victor's formation of intentional gaps in their lines between hastati and principe troops, negating the loser's war elephants. Ending a conflict which began with battles at Lake Trasimene and Cannae in Italy, for 10 points, identify this clash in Northern Africa where Scipio Africanus defeated Carthage under Hannibal, winning the Second Punic War for Rome.

Tom Joad

When speaking to his mother, this character remarks "Wherever you can look-wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there." This character attempts in vain to convince his brother Noah to stay with the family instead of wandering off and splitting them up. Upon returning home after spending (*) 4 years in prison, this character is surprised to find that his family home has been abandoned. This character later breaks his parole and crosses Oklahoma state lines in order to stay with his family. This character is forced into hiding after he kills another man for killing Jim Casy, causing him to leave his family and fight for workers' rights. For ten points name this character, the main protagonist of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.

Algernon Swinburne

This author described the title "philosopher and martyr" as "son of the lightning and the light that glows / beyond the lightning's or the morning's light" in his "For the Feast of Giordano Bruno." He used a double sestina to recast the seventh novel of the Decameron in his poem "The Complaint of Lisa." He mused "Clearly the soul is the body: but is not the body the soul?" in a work that ends "Fiddle, we know, is diddle: and diddle, we take it is dee" - that work is his 26-line response to an Alfred Tennyson poem entitled "The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell." His interest in Thomas Mallory inspired the book-length Tristram of Lyonesse. He mused "Yea, is not even Apollo, with hair and harpstring of gold / a bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold?" in a work that begins "I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end." The author of that Hymn to Proserpina, For 10 points, name this decadent poet who wrote an elegy for Charles Baudelaire with his "Ave Atque Vale."

Stephen Crane

One work by this author focuses on a slave named Henry Johnson, who is transformed into the title figure while saving his master’s son, Jimmie Trescott, from a fire. Besides The Monster, this man authored a story in which the title character fall into prostitution after her lover, a bartender named Pete, leaves her for a woman named Nellie. One of his short stories takes place after a shipwreck survived by the oiler, captain, correspondent and cook, but he is best remembered for a novel centering on Union soldier Henry Fleming. For 10 points, name this American who authored “The Open Boat” and The Red Badge of Courage.

Beowulf

This man's father killed Heathloaf, a member of the Wulfing tribe, causing him to pledge loyalty to another man. A bard likens this man to Sigemund and contrasts him with the king Heremod. This man claims he killed nine sea monsters during a swimming contest with his friend Breca. The only one to help this man slay a (*) dragon angered by the stealing of his golden cup is Wiglaf. This man defeats a monster by ripping off its arm after fighting it with no weapons. This man, along with Hrothgar and others from Hall Heorot, ventures into the lair of that monster's mother to kill her too. Grendel is defeated by, for 10 points, what Geatish hero, the subject of an old English poem?

Dream of the Red Chamber

The naming of Yuan-chan as an Imperial Consort brings great pride to the family in the beginning of this work, and her later death begins the clan's fall from favor. Early versions of the novel, featuring 80 chapters, were hand copied with commentary by Red Inkstone. Compassion Spring, Pervading Fragrance, and Bright Design are serving maids of the protagonist, who is tricked by the Chia family, including Madame Wang and the Lady Dowager, into agreeing to marry Pao-Chai, after which Tai-yu, or Black Jade, dies. Pao-yu is born with a mystical jade piece in his mouth at the beginning of, For 10 points, which Qing dynasty classic, written by Cao Xueqin?

Igor Stravinsky

This man's use of folk traditions from his home country was the subject of a 1996 book by Richard Taruskin (ta-RUSS-kin). This composer may have borrowed from his teacher a system of pitch organization that led Arthur Berger (burger) to coin the term "octatonic"; he used that system for a ballet that includes the tableaus "The Bridegroom's House" and "The Wedding Feast" and is titled Les noces (lay NUSS). He combined clashing C major and F-sharp major (*) triads in a chord from one ballet. He used a Lithuanian folk melody as the basis for the high-pitched opening bassoon solo from "The Adoration of the Earth" in another ballet. He wrote Petrushka for Sergei Diaghilev's (dee-AH-gill-ev’s) Ballets Russes (ballet ROOSE). For 10 points, name this Russian composer of The Rite of Spring.

El Lissitzky

This artist trained to be an architect, but few of his buildings were ever built, with his only extant design being the Ogoniok print shop. This artist represented God as an arm holding a sword extending from an eye in the final illustration in a series inspired by a song traditionally sung at seders, Had Gadya. One painting by this artist features a black-and-white shaded cube with a thin red curve on one side and a blue one on the other; that work was part of a series with a title meaning “design for the confirmation of the (*) new.” Another work by this member of UNOVIS is a political poster with a background diagonally split between black and white, in which a triangle stabs into a white circle. This artist coined the term “Proun” [“pro-oon”] to name a series of works. For 10 points, name this Jewish Russian artist of Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge who, along with Malevich, helped develop Suprematism.

A Streetcar Named Desire

One character in this play remembers entertaining strangers at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms. One of its plot points centers on the loss of the family estate of Belle Reve. One of its characters is called a “survivor of the Stone Age” after throwing a radio out a window when it interrupts his poker game with Mitch. A central character of this play declares “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers” after moving to the Elysian Fields with Stella and Stanley Kowalski. For 10 points, name this Tennessee Williams play about Blanche Dubois.

Talcott Parsons

This thinker analyzed the pursuance of "transcendental ends" in an essay about the "Place of Ultimate Values" in a certain theory. A book by this thinker named a rectangle representing the title concept along axes of "derivations" and "residues" after an Italian sociologist he criticized. This thinker defined five dichotomies, such as "affectivity vs. affective neutrality," that he termed "pattern variables." This thinker developed a four-part hierarchy of systemic necessities including (*) integration, latency, and adaptation. A book by this thinker claims that the "evolution of scientific theory" provides the answer to its opening question of "Who now reads Spencer?" "Sanctioned deviance" forms the basis of the sick role devised by this sociologist, who also formulated the AGIL paradigm. For 10 points, name this sociologist who wrote The Structure of Social Action.

The Drumroll Symphony e

Some performances of this symphony restore the thirteen bars that its composer decided to remove towards the end. The finale of this symphony begins with a call for only two horns, followed by a pause, after which one of the horns accompanies a violin. The first movement of this symphony contains a waltz-like melody played by the oboe and violin, but the coda abruptly and unexpectedly reprises the introduction. The violin solo in this symphony's second movement was intended for Giovanni Battista Viotti. The clarinets are absent from the second movement of this symphony, which is in double-variation form, alternating between C major and C minor, and is marked "Andante piu tosto Allegretto." Like the symphony that follows it, the opening melody of this symphony's last movement is taken from the (*) Croatian folk song "A little girl treads on a brook." After this symphony introduces its title feature on E-flat, the bass instruments play a theme whose first four notes are taken from the Dies Irae. For 10 points, name this penultimate Haydn symphony, nicknamed for the long stretch of timpani notes at the start.

Zora Neale Hurston

In one work by this author, Missie May sleeps with the ice cream parlor owner Otis Slemmons to steal his money, but realizes that they are actually the title coins. This author of "The Gilded Six-Bits" is given the epithet "The Genius of the South" in an Alice Walker essay titled "Looking for [this author]." That epithet is placed on this author's tombstone in (*) Eatonville, which is also the setting of one of her novels in which the protagonist's husband is bitten by a rabid dog during a hurricane. That novel by this author follows Janie Crawford, who is forced to shoot Tea Cake after he contracts rabies. For 10 points, name this author of Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Cantatas by Bach

Four of these works by this composer were written for solo soprano, including Jauchzet Gott in allenLanden!, which includes a part for trumpet. One set of these works by this composer mostly begins with afantasia on a cantus firmus and ends with a four-part harmonization. The most common structure of theseworks is to open with a chorus and conclude with a chorale, with a mix of recitatives and arias in between.A longer example of these works is split into two parts that both conclude with tune "Jesu, Joy of Man'sDesiring". Some of these works by this composer were settings of texts by Picander, including the funeralmusic for Leopold of Anhalt-Kothen and the secular "Peasant" and "Coffee" ones. At least three cycles ofthese works were written while their composer was cantorate of St. Thomas's in Leipzig. For 10 points,identify these non-oratorio vocal works written by the composer of Mass in B minor.

Aristophanes

In a play by this author, the protagonist kidnaps a flute girl from a party after turning his house into a courtroom where he can perform jury service. In another play by this author, one character is sent to school to learn how to win debates with creditors; that school is later burned down by his father. One play by this author focuses on The (*) Thinkery, a school run by Socrates, while in another of his plays women withhold sex from their husbands in hopes of stopping the Peloponnesian War. For 10 points, name this Greek comedian, the author of The Clouds and Lysistrata.

Theodore Roethke

In a poem by this author, the speaker declares "I hate my epidermal dress" and wishes to "sleep immodestly" as "a most incarnadine and carnal ghost." This poet wrote "I measure time by how a body sways" in a poem whose first line describes the title character as "lovely in her bones." This author of "Epidermal Macabre" and "I Knew a Woman" used four-line stanzas and lines of three iambs to mimic the title dance of a poem beginning "the whiskey on your breath / Could make a small boy dizzy." This poet wrote "I feel my fate in what I cannot fear / I learn by going where I have to go" in a villanelle which begins with the line "I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow." For 10 points, name this poet from Michigan who wrote "My Papa's Waltz" and "The Waking."

Ludvig van Beethoven

He wrote the Consecration of the House Overture for the reopening of the Theater in der Josefstadt. He wrote the paired overtures King Steven and The Ruins of Athens, and the third symphony by this composer innovatively contains a funeral march as its second movement. His last symphony features a fourth movement based on a Friedrich Schiller work. For 10 points, name this composer of nine symphonies, the third of which is nicknamed "Eroica," and the last of which contains the "Ode to Joy."

Sir Christopher Wren

Residential designs by this man include Thoresby House, which burned down after it was finished, and the original structure of Tring Manor, which was later altered by George Devey. An allegorical relief sculpture by Caius Cibber adorns the square base of the 200 foot tall Doric column in Portland stone he co-designed and placed on Fish Street Hill as a monument to a disaster that began on Pudding Lane. That same disaster gave him the opportunity to design new models for such sites as St. Mary-le-Bow and the Royal Exchange. For 10 points, name this architect, who also rebuilt St. Paul’s Cathedral after the Great Fire of London.

The Merchant of Venice

Two women in this play give their husbands rings that those husbands must never give away, which the husbands naturally give away. One character in this play exclaims, “My daughter! My ducats [“duck-its”]!” after his daughter Jessica elopes with Lorenzo, and at a later time asks if a (*) wronged person is not allowed to have revenge. Bassanio correctly picks a casket of lead in this play to marry a character who later disguises herself as a lawyer and gives the “quality of mercy” speech. In this play Portia helps rescue Antonio, who owes a pound of flesh to a moneylender. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play that includes Shylock the Jew.

The Song of Roland

At the beginning of this work, the Frankish army is fighting the Muslim King Marsilla, who is making his last stand at Saragossa. The titular character dies a martyr after blowing his oliphant so hard that his temples burst and saints carry his soul straight to Paradise. Later in this work, Charlemagne arrives at the battlefield to defeat the emir of Babylon, Baligant. For 10 points, name this epic poem about of France.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

This philosopher discusses abstract right, morality, and ethical life as three spheres of "right" in one work. Alexander Kojeve ("koh-jeh-vay") gave a number of lectures on this philosopher's most famous book, while Bruno Bauer and Ludwig Feuerbach ("foy-er-balk") led a group named after and influenced by this philosopher. This philosopher remarked that Africa "is no historical part of the world" in his Lectures on the Philosophy of (*) History. "Sublation" or aufhebung ("ow-fee-boong") affects geist in a work by this philosopher which also discusses a concept often described using a thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. For 10 points, name this German idealist philosopher who included a passage about the master-slave dialectic in his The Phenomenology of Spirit.

Madame Butterfly

The title character in this opera sings the words "Fiso di tua madre la faccia" [FAHT-chah], meaning "fix your eyes on your mother's face", in the aria "Tu, tu piccolo Iddio". That character, who also sings the aria "Un bel dì vedremo", blindfolds her son and gives him a flag. Her husband, who sings "Dovunque al mondo" believing that he has the right to cancel the marriage each month, is sometimes introduced with notes from "The Star Spangled Banner" because he is a U.S. Navy Lieutenant. Name this Puccini opera in which B. F. Pinkerton marries Cio-Cio [CHOH choh] San in Japan.

Salvador Dali

A panel including Gene Rayburn was unable to identify this man's desire to draw Robert Q. Lewis on an episode of the game show The Name's the Same. This man described the "melancholic effect" of watching baseball in front of Satchel Paige during an interview, which began shortly after this man dropped an animal into Lillian (*) Gish's lap. This man was asked to confirm "you are a human being" and misleadingly tried to claim to be a writer and involved with sports on an appearance as the mystery guest on What's My Line. In several TV interviews, Alfred Hitchcock detailed how this man was told he could not pour live ants onto Ingrid Bergman during his design process for the film Spellbound. An anteater was brought to The Dick Cavett Show by, for 10 points, what mustachioed surrealist?

Battle of Actium

J.M. Carter asserted that one participant in this event chose to back himself into a corner, after losing a lieutenant called "the great horse-changer". That man's force had been depleted by malaria, and he was outmaneuvered by his opponent's liburna, which were quicker than his quinqueremes. The victor in this battle learned the loser's battle plans from Dellius, and was led by Arruntius, who oversaw his central galleys. It resulted in the suicides of the two losing commanders. For 10 points, name this 31 BCE battle, in which Octavian's navy defeated those of Marcus Antony and Cleopatra, putting an end to the Roman Republic and ushering in the Roman Empire.

David Hume

In one work, this philosopher rejects the teleological argument by noting that humans only experience a small part of the universe. He challenged rationalism by stating that "reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the (*) passions." In another work, he argued that all ideas are derived from impressions before giving the counterexample of a "missing shade of blue." For 10 points, name this Scottish empiricist, the author of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.