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1. This man traded kingdoms with his cousin Megapenthes because he did not want to inherit Argos
through murder, and he fulfilled a prophecy when he visited Larissa after defeating a sea monster and
accidentally killed his grandfather with a discus. That king, Acrisius, had received that prophecy from
the Oracle at Delphi and responded by locking his daughter Danae in a tower, but Zeus came to her in
the form of a shower of gold and impregnated her. FTP, name this rescuer of Andromeda and slayer of
Medusa.
A: Perseus
2. One of his first major works was an irregular String Quartet in G Minor which utilized the Phrygian
mode. Each piano etude in his set of twelve is geared towards a different technical development,
including repeated notes, sixths, and octaves. He made use of the whole tone scale in works like his
piano Arabesques. His orchestral works include one with the movement “Play of the Waves” and
another based on a Mallarme poem. FTP, name this French composer of La Mer and Prelude to the
Afternoon of a Faun.
A: Achille-Claude Debussy
3. Raoult’s Law, which states that the partial pressure exerted by the solvent vapor is equal to the product
of the mole fraction of solvent times the predetermined vapor pressure of pure solvent, governs one of
these. The last of these only occurs near semipermiable membranes, but can be found by multiplying
the molarity of the solution times the Ideal gas constant times the temperature in Kelvin. The Van’t
Hoff factor, i, or the number of particles into which compound will dissociate into solution, greatly
affects two others. FTP, name these properties of solutions that depend on their concentration, which
include Vapor pressure lowering, boiling point elevation, freezing point depression, and osmotic
pressure.
A: Colligative Properties
4. The protagonist's children meet him at his gates and assist in building a bridge. After journeying
through chaos and night, that protagonist, disguised, gets past the watchman and turns himself into a
cormorant to survey the land he has reached. Other forms he takes include a toad, and the watchman
Uriel continues searching for him. Written in blank verse, this poem also sees intervention by Michael,
Raphael, and Gabriel after Satan leaves Pandemonium. FTP name this epic poem by John Milton about
the rebellion of the angels and the expulsion of man from the Garden of Eden.
A: Paradise Lost
5. This man created a special fund to discredit opponents, the Reptiles Fund, and in his later years
advocated a program which established worker health insurance and pensions. His first position of
power was given to him in the midst of a budget crisis in 1862 when he was appointed MinisterPresident of his country. This man showed his harsh foreign policies with the invasion of SchleswigHolstein and the Seven Weeks’ War. In 1871 he began a program attacking the Catholic Church
known as Kulturkampf. Known as an advocate of Realpolitik, FTP, name this “Iron Chancellor” of a
unified Germany.
A: Otto von Bismarck
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6. A clean version of one of this artist's early hits opened the 2002 Kids' Choice Awards with its title
exhortation. One song from her next album suggested that if the title is true, then life is a dance floor.
Along with God is a DJ, that album, Try This, featured a song with a Wild West video that lamented a
lack of both lawyers and opiates, Trouble. Her song Feel Good Time appeared in Charlie's Angels: Full
Throttle. FTP name this colorfully named singer whose recent songs about her divorce with Cory Hart
include the sorrowful Who Knew and the defiant So What.
A: Pink Accept Alicia Moore
7. This man's domestic policy saw the establishment of the Office of Economic Opportunity, which was
disbanded by his successor. He was also the first president to use federal money for education, with the
Elementary/Secondary Education Act. His presidency saw the introduction of the Head Start program.
This man appointed Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court and won over 60% of the popular vote,
steamrolling Barry Goldwater in part due to the shocking Daisy Ad. FTP, name this man whose Great
Society program largely failed due to the Vietnam War, the successor of JFK.
A: Lyndon Baines Johnson or LBJ prompt on Johnson
8. This deity found a thirst for blood fighting Raktabija whose blood created duplicates. The demoness
Long Tongue, found in the Sanskrit Brahmanas, may be this deity’s precursor. In the Devi-mahatmya,
she comes from the anger of Durga. One of her names, Kaushika, means “the Sheath,” referring to an
alternate view of her creation when Parvati became “the Fair One.” Frequently wearing only a skirt of
human arms and a necklace of heads, she often holds a sword, a shield, a noose, and a head in her four
arms. FTP, name this Hindu goddess with a name meaning black, the wife of Shiva.
A: Kali Accept Kaushika early Prompt on Devi
9. One definition of this curve is the locus of all points whose distances to a fixed point and to a vertical
line are in the same ratio of r greater than one. A more common definition of this curve the locus of
points the difference whose distances to two fixed points are the same positive constant. The
eccentricity of this curve is greater than one. Resulting from the intersection of the double-sided right
circular cone with a plane parallel to the axis of the cone, name this conic section.
A: hyperbola
10. One of his plays concerns King Pelasgus of Argos’ protection of the fleeing Danaids. Another of his
plays is about the defeat of Xerxes at the Battle of Salamis. One of his greatest contributions was the
addition of the second actor to allow more conflict on stage. In addition to The Suppliant Maidens and
The Persians, he wrote a play in which two brothers kill each other outside the gates of the title city,
Seven Against Thebes. FTP, name this Greek playwright, the author of a trilogy about the death of
Agamemnon and its aftermath, the Orestia, who is considered the first of the great tragedians.
A: Aeschylus
11. This area is home to the Ombú, a tree known as a "lighthouse" to the inhabitants of this flat region,
while a ratite indigenous to this region is the Greater Rhea. Bounded to the south by the Colorado river
and Bahía Blanca and including the province of Entre Ríos, this region west of the Espinal includes the
city of Rosario, on the Paraná river. Named from the Quechua word for "flat surface", FTP, this
Argentine region containing Buenos Aires is home to the gauchos.
A: Las Pampas
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12. Equipped with a red lookout room, a California beach house designed by this architect is located in the
same L.A. neighborhood, Venice, as his Claes Oldenburg-aided creation with giant-binocularsentrance, the Chiat/Day office building. Another design supposedly depicts a smashed guitar, while a
current project includes the largest yet of a series of worldwide museums to be located in Abu Dhabi,
while the branch he already designed features his famous curvilinear forms. FTP, name this American
architect of the Experience Music Project and the Guggenheim Bilbao.
A: Frank Owen Gehry Accept Ephraim Owen Goldberg
13. This man spent eight years studying barnacles to establish himself as an expert on taxonomy, and he
also obtained information for his theories by studying pigeon fanciers. He wrote a book on the effects
of earthworms on the soil, as well as The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Thomas
Huxley argued for his most famous theory, which was prompted in part by Gould's classification of
finches found on this man's voyage on the Beagle. FTP, name this English naturalist, who wrote On the
Origin of Species.
A: Charles Darwin
14. After refusing to accompany a younger woman to a “church picnic,” the title character comes down
from felling timber where he sees her “brewing coffee over a gipsy fire.” That woman had lost her gold
locket but the title character finds it before all the young men. This story is recalled during an evening
almost a year later when the adulterous pair followed an old horse around Starkfield, Massachusetts.
FTP, name this work in which Mattie Silver suffers injuries while attempting to kill herself with the
title character, a novella by Edith Wharton.
A: Ethan Frome Prompt on Partial Answer until “title”
15. This modern-day country was the site of the rebellion of the Trung sisters, who, once on the throne,
held off foreign attack for several years until committing suicide when defeated by the Chinese. The
Champa, another kingdom in the south of this country, sacked the city of Angkor. As a French colony,
part of it was known as Annam, and it was not freed until after the siege of Dien Bien Phu. FTP, the
My Lai massacre took place in what modern-day country with capital of Hanoi.
A: Socialist Republic of Vietnam
16. The floor design in this painting is modeled on the Cosmati pavement in Westminster Abbey, and an
unused oriental rug is lying on the top shelf. In the upper left corner of the painting, there is a crucifix
that is partially obscured by the green curtain. The shelves in the center of the painting contain a
sundial, a lyre, and two globes, among other things. There also is an anamorphic skull on the floor.
FTP, name this Hans Holbein painting depicting the title men, one in clerical clothing and the other in
court regalia.
A: The Ambassadors
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This man’s lesser known developments include a smokeless powder for the military and a uniform
system of weights and measures within his country. He recorded most of his work in his frequently
revised book The Principles of Chemistry. Using his most famous accomplishment, he accurately
predicted the properties of such elements as Scandium, Gallium, and Germanium. FTP, name this
Russian chemist known as the father of the periodic table.
A: Dmitri Mendeleev
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18. In verse drama, this man penned Strafford early on, but moved on to a collection of pamphlets printed
as Bells and Pomegranates. A member of that collection includes the oft-quoted lines beginning “The
year’s at spring/ And day’s at the moon,” Pippa Passes. The speaker moves on to a bronze Neptune by
Claus of Innsbruck at the end of a famous long poem by this writer, who expanded on a Shakespearean
work to discuss God in Caliban Upon Setebos. FTP, name this poet of the collections Men and Women
and Dramatis Personae, which includes My Last Duchess.
A: Robert Browning
19. Linda Darling-Hammond and Arne Duncan are two possibilities for the next one, while the first one
spent the ‘60s on the California Superior Court and Court of Appeals. She, Shirley Hufstedler, was
followed by the first designated survivor, Terrell Bell, who was the first of three under Reagan. The
current one notably became the first American politician to appear on Celebrity Jeopardy but lost. FTP,
name this cabinet position responsible for writing the No Child Left Behind Act, currently held by
Margaret Spellings.
A: Secretary of Education
20. William Duer, one choice for a collaborator on them, was rejected, while Gouverneur Morris refused
an invitation to join in this project. Calder v. Bull, deciding the validity of ex post facto laws, was the
first Supreme Court case to mention these works, most of which were published in The Independent
Journal and The New York Packet. Some were opposed by Robert Yates writing as Brutus, and a
Roman consul was referenced by the pseudonym Publius. The tenth discusses factions in government.
FTP, name this series of 85 articles by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton urging the
ratification of the Constitution.
A: Federalist Papers
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This author wrote about “Billy the Kid”, “The Ladder and the Tree” and the Battle of Thermopylae in
his essay collection The Hot Gates. A Greek scientist makes several anachronistic inventions in his
comic play The Brass Butterfly. He won a Booker Prize in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the
first in his trilogy To the Ends of the Earth. One of his works features a conflict between humans and
Neanderthals. His most famous works reveal him to be a religious nutcase. FTP, name this British
author of The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, and The Lord of the Flies.
A: William Golding
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