General Trivia

Name the author of Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse

Virginian Woolf

Name this author of the Second Treatise on Goverment

John Locke

Name the city where Ivan the IV proclaimed himself Tsar

Moscow

In an opera by this composer, a slave girl notes how the title character is girdles with ice in the aria Tuche di gel sei cinta. The Jasmine Flower Song represents the title character of an opera by this composer, which was stopped by Arturo Toscanini in Act 3 where this man died writing. A gong is struck three times in an opera by this composer, who wrote an aria sung by a man who answers three riddles and predicts a woman will not know his name, title Nessus Dorma. Name the Italian composer of Turandot

Viacom’s Puccini

A speech by this politician told of people begging him “dont frighten us by telling us the facts.” That speech by this politician posited the “spearhead of resistance to world conquest” as part of the “Arsenal of Democracy”. This man discussed the freedoms of speech and worship, and from want and fear in his Four Freedoms speech. In his first inaugural address, this president stated “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Name this president who gave the Day of Infamy address after Pearl Harbor

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

This device utilizes a shielding element constructed from Kapton E, and it appears purple due to doped silicon in its outer layers. This device, which deployed near the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, is named after the NASA administrator during the Apollo program. The primary component of this device is separated into eighteen hexagonal segments made of gold plated beryllium. This device works primarily in the infrared spectrum. Name this successor to the shuffle Space Telescope whose first photos were released in July 2022

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

A painting from this movement shows American flags hanging along Fifth Avenue in the rain. A painting by an artist from this movement depicts a woman in a striped dress cleaning a smaller person's feet in a water basin. After moving to Paris, an American artist who was part of this movement painted The Child's Bath. Louis Leroy gave this movement its name after visiting an exhibition including a sketch-like painting of an orange sunrise. For 10 points, name this 19th-century art movement whose artists included Mary Cassatt and Claude Monet.

Impressionism

A poem by this author describes someone wondering if a sailing cloud will “hit or miss the moon.” That poem by this author features a dialogue between Warren and Mary about how to help the title character, Silas. This author of “Death of the Hired Man” wrote a poem whose speaker says “I have (*) promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.” In another poem, this authorwrote about a decision that “made all the difference.” For 10 points, name this poet who wrote.“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “The Road Not Taken.”

Robert Frost

The product of the principal curvatures at a given point gives a curvature named for this mathematician. Row-reduction is a form of this mathematician's namesake elimination. This mathematician showed how to use just a straightedge and compass to construct a (*) heptadecagon. The central limit theorem states the sampling distribution of a random variable's mean approximates a distribution commonly named for this mathematician. For 10 points, identify this German mathematician who names the normal distribution, also known as the bell curve.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

An instigating factor for this event was the death of over sixty people in Jaleh Square on “Black Friday.” This event ultimately brought to power a man who advocated the Guardianship of the Jurist system. During this event, the SAVAK secret police were dissolved and a man whose ideas were popularized on clandestine cassette tapes returned from exile in Najaf . Student supporters of this event stormed an American embassy and took 66 hostages. The Pahlavi Dynasty ended in what 1979 event that brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power?

The Iranian Revolution of 1979

A novel by this author features a plan to smuggle information using a microdot hidden on a tattoo. That novel by this author is told primarily through a frame narrative called the Ardua Hall Holograph. This author wrote that novel, The Testaments, as a sequel to a novel in which a Latin phrase meaning “Don't let the bastards grind you down” inspires a protagonist who is forced to play Scrabble with the Commander. For 10 points, name this author who described Offred joining the Mayday movement in The Handmaid's Tale.

Margaret Atwood

In this play, the title character stands on a mountain and watches clouds shaped like two women diverge. This play has both a prelude set “in the Theatre” and a prologue set in Heaven. The title character of this play and a being who earlier disguised himself as a poodle watch a performance on Walpurgis (vahl-POOR-gis) Night. In this play, (*) Helen of Troy is summoned for the Emperor. The title scholar of this play signs a pact in blood with the demon Mephistopheles (meff-eye-stoff-O-leez). For 10 points, name this two-part tragedy by Johann (YO-hahn) Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

A painting of one of these events in the Louvre includes depictions of Suleiman the Magnificent and Charles V (the fifth). That ten-meter mannerist painting by Paolo Veronese (paa-OW-low ver-oh-NAY-zay) shows one of these events from John 2. A convex mirror surrounded with scenes from the Passion of Christ is in the back of a painting often titled for one of these events that shows a man in a fur-trimmed hat and a woman in a green dress. For 10 points, name this type of event for which Jan (yahn) van Eyck's Arnolfini (AR-nul-FEE-nee) Portrait was likely created, and which Veronese painted “at Cana.”

Marriage

2. The negative derivative of the Hamiltonian with respect to position gives the generalized form of this value. The phase space consists of all possible values of position and this quantity, which is the Fourier (FOO-ree-ay) transform of position. According to Noether's (NUR-tar's) theorem, this quantity is conserved due to translational invariance. This quantity squared over two times the mass gives the kinetic energy. The change in this quantity is impulse, and it is conserved in inelastic collisions. For 10 points, name this product of mass and linear velocity.

Linear momentum

In a novel by this author, Guitar joins the radical Seven Days organization, which randomly kills White people. In that novel by this author, Freddie the janitor nicknames the main character Milkman Dead. Another novel by this author features a man who follows a trail of flowers after escaping from a (*) chain gang. That novel by this author begins, “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom” and describes how Sethe (SETH-uh) kills her daughter to prevent her return to slavery. Name this author of Song of Solomon and Beloved

Toni Morrison

This composer called for a 5/8 (five eight) jarabe (hah-RAH-bay)-style trumpet solo before quoting “Goodbye, Old Paint” in a suite that uses clashing kettle drums and snare drum to depict a “Gun Battle.” This composer's Four Dance Episodes end with a movement that quotes old-time musician William Hamilton Stepp's version of “Bonaparte's Retreat.” In a “doppio movimento” excerpt, this composer wrote five variations on Joseph Brackett's Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts.” For 10 points, name this American composer of the ballets Billy the Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring.

Aaron Copland

This organism is utilized in the biopharmaceutical industry to produce hepatitis vaccines and insulin. This organism was genetically modified to ferment xylose (ZAI-lohs) to facilitate the production of ethanol from paper waste. One of these model organisms was the first eukaryote (yoo-KAIR-ee-oat) to have its (*) genome fully sequenced. Candida albicans (CAN-did-uh ALB-ik-anz) is a pathogenic species of these organisms, and the most commonly used species of these organisms is Saccharomyces cerivisiae (SAK-air-oh-MAI-seez ser-uh-VISS-ee-ay). For 10 points, name this single-celled microorganism that causes bread to rise.

Yeast

A poem by this author worries about never tracing “shadows with the magic hand of chance.” This poet, who described concerns about his death in “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be,” wrote in another poem how he had “been half in love with easeful Death.” That poem by this author ends by asking (*) “Do I wake or sleep?” This author wrote about the “flowery tale” of a “Sylvan historian” in a poem that ends by asserting “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” For 10 points, name this author of odes “to a Nightingale” and “On a Grecian Urn.”

John Keats