Wednesday, February 09, 2011

trivia practice - questions recap

- vaginas covering body
- slayed Vritra
- god of storms and rain
INDRA

- cobbler hans sachs is helpful
- walther loves ava
- singing contest
- richard wagner
MASTERSINGERS OF NUREMBURG

- made fun of holland
- `The Garden,`Ùpon Appleton House`
- time`s winged chariot
- world enough and time
ANDREW MARVELL

- tax on negative externalities
ARTHUR PIGU
- tax on foreign exchange markets
TOBIN
- Progress and Poverty
- tax on land
HENRY GEORGE

- all humans have 83 problems
- son of Mahamaya
- married Yasudara
- encountered diseased mon, corpse, monk
- fire sermon
- four noble truths
BUDDHA


- triphenolphosphene and akylhalyde
YLIDE
- phosphonial ylides
WITTIG REACTION

- spinless particle
- carries electromagnetic force
PHOTONS

- loves Duc De Namour but joins convent
PRINCESS OF CLEAVES
- sienkiewicz
QUO VADIS
- umberto eco
- william baskerville
NAME OF THE ROSE

- joseph ubara yager gets her pregnant
- employed by sally tomato
- Òther voices, other rooms`
- holly golightly
TRUMAN CAPOTE

- two girls with flowers and lanterns
CARNATION LILY LILY ROSE
- madame x
JOHN SINGER SARGEANT
- woman flailing arms
EL JALIEL


- battle of dirachium
- vespers
- capital Palermo
SICILY

- association of british colonies
NEW ENGLAND
- governor of new england, isle of wight
- also a friend of queen elizabeth
DUDLEY
EDWARD ANDROS

- secretes mucus
- sodium glucoses cotransporters
- electrlytes into the lumin of it
SMALL INTESTINE

- mountain range in east australia
GREAT DIVIDING RANGE
GREAT BARRIER REEF
- north part of great div range
- borders taurus strait
CAPE YORK

- rotten apples theory
- ontological argument
- limiting all unsure beliefs
- deceiving demon
DESCARTES

recommended: three-minute philosophy

- cayuga hime is from the moon
BAMBOO-CUTTER
- murasaki
TALE OF GENJI
- myth collection
- popular with national learning movement
KOJIKI

- karl marx alley
- vertical integration
- prestige
- Bertolt Brecht
- egon krenz
- secret police: stasi
- honecker
- before reunification
EAST GERMANY

-golliwog`s cakewalk
DEBUSSY
- three movements after whistler
NOCTURNE
- creator of nocturnes
- irishérussian
JOHN FIELD

- end of a linked list
- null type
POINTER
- sends you along

- terpsichore
MUSES
- epic muse from iliad and odyssey
CALLIOPE
- in Sappho
ERATO
- muses of erotic (eratic) things

- father of the poor
- prince alfonso
- getulio vargas
- isabel abolished slavery
- house of braganza
- ruled by pedro ii
BRAZIL

- f(a)=f(b)
- f`(c)=0 somewhere
ROLLE`S THEOREM
- endpoints joined
MEAN VALUE THEOREM
INTERMEDIATE VALUE THEOREM

- under tomin and lemin
- 8 humoresques
DVORAK
- new world symphony

- opposed to the turks
- vatican, france, and HRE
- against venice
LEAGUE OF CAMBRAI
- warrior pope
JULIUS II
- founded by man who married a borgia
FERRARA

- the hour and the ghost
- epigraphs to sonnet of sonnets
- `who has seen the wind`
- nursery rhymes in sing-song
- `come buy, come buy`
- goblin market
- sister of dante
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

- tolland addressed this outlook
- all things are one
PANTHEISM
- identifies god with nature
ETHICS
BARUCH SPINOZA

- act named for man killed in wyoming
- fixed civil rights act
- cancelled goodyear lawsuit
- matthew shephard act
- restored funding for abortion groups
BARACK OBAMA

- forms fetal skeleton
- intramembranous ossification
ENDOCONDURAL OSSIFICATION
- fused to determine age
- growth plates
EPHESES
- turn to osteocytes
OSTEOBLASTS

- jonathan turnbull
- settled by thomas hooker
- case western reserve
- demise of federalists
- hartford convention
CONNECTICUT
- capital hartford

idaho: famous potatoes
rhode island: hope

- kipling says it ends in oppression and shame
- tribute
- ethelred gave up
DANEGELD
- defended wessex from danes
- the great
ALFRED
- became kind in 1013
- son of harald bluetooth
SVEN FORKBEARD

- baby looking at franz snyder
- family portrait
- procession of the knights of the guard
- stuff for whitehall
- iconography
- from antwerp
- 35 of henrietta maria
- painted charles i
ANTHONY VAN DYCK

- jim leslie killed
- tie tie walden
GOD`S LITTLE ACRE
- lloyd benzie
- tobacco road
ERSKINE CALDWELL
- message for genevieve
- made in ten days that shook the world
USSR

- berrypicking song
- feud with edmund wilson
- housekeeper anesia
- marriage to fat general
- dancing with olga
- best friend lensky (duel)
- pushkin
EUGENE ONEGIN

- type of magnetism
- curie`s law
PARAMAGNETISM
- doesn`t occur above curie point
FERROMAGNETISM
- 2d form with onseger
EISING MODEL

- pathway
KREBS CYCLE

note: leafs better than senators now?

- radical reformation people
- dirk willems
- delaying baptism until adulthood
ANABAPTISTS
- refugee church in strasbourg
- kicked out of geneva
JOHN CALVIN
- jacob ammin
MENO SYMONS

- worked with the free, young hegelians
- influenced by moses hess
- families are obstacles to progress
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

- imperial bao dai
- nyugen van thiu
SOUTH VIETNAM
- 1954 battle
- beat the french
DIEN BEIN PHU
- converted buddhists to christians
NGO DIN DIEM

- depicted headless by thomas nast
- goat retreating from washington
- resigned senate and then lost
- appointed a collector
- opposed by garfield
- agreed with halfbreeds
- declined supreme court
ROSCOE CONKLING

- film with razor violence
- dali plays bounded priest
UN CHIEN ANDALOU
- director, also made l'age dor
LUIS BUNUEL
- faceless man
- dream sequence
- hitchcock and dali
SPELLBOUND

- people in prison
- bad college lecture
- mugwumps versus reptiles
- work for islam inc
- dr benway
- tangiersish interzone
- william lee
- by william burroughs
NAKED LUNCH

- music from atalee, son and stranger
- music from first walpurgisnight
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
- first american ballet
NY CITY BALLET
- midsummer night's dream music
- scottish and italian symphonies
MENDELSSOHN

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new round

- postponed state of the union speech
- 3 paps
- feyman used a glass of water
- peggy noonan praised them
- "high flight" read
- christina mcauliffe
CHALLENGER DISASTER

- mural directly on plaster walls
FRESCO
- life of christ
- arena chapel
GIOTTO
- basilica of st francis
- teacher of giotto
CIMABUE

- 720X720 ft expedition hall
- collaborated with decorator lily reich
- taught in his own building: crown hall
- chicago buildings
- farnsworth house
- seagram building with johnson
- international style
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

- nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
e.e. cummings
- "upsofloating manybells down"
- sang his didn't, danced his did
anyone lived in a pretty howtown
- "deepest secret nobody knows"
- "i am never without it"
i carry your heart with me

- proposed by harry hess
- explains continental drift
- leads to plate tectonic theory
- new crust formed at ridges
SEAFLOOR SPREADING

- stereoisomers
- symmetry can't be drawn
DIOSTEREOMER
- alpha and beta
- in ring sugar
ANOMERS
- chain of monosaccharides

- asking bells to ring
- man trusted that god was love
- nature, red in tooth and claw
- 131 sections
- ABBA quatrains
- better to have loved and lost
- tennyson
- arthur henry hallam
IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.

- green door behind brown curtain
- four uneven lamps
- green ceiling
- clock says 12:15
- vase of flowers, bottles, chatting couple
- heads resting on tables
- devil's furnace
- same time as yellow house
- joseph ginoux in white by pool table
- in arles
- van gogh
NIGHT CAFE

- human sacrifice by three methods
- celtic and gaelic leaders
DRUIDS
- pliny says you climbed oaks for it
MISTLETOE
- holiday with bonfires
- origin of halloween
- costumes
SAMHAIN

- inverted torch logo
- lives on lemnos or in cave
- son of erebus and nyx
- brother of thanatos
- father of morpheus and others
- has dreams of mortals
- god of sleep
HYPNOS
- pokemon?

- russians abandoned sevastopol
CRIMEAN WAR
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
- black sea fleet beat turkish fleet
- home of diogenes
SINOPE

- blamed for fire of smyrna
- frustrated with union and progress party
- amasia circular
KEMAL ATATURK

- nihilist
BAZUROV
- fathers and sons writer
- also, "hamlet and don quixote"
- also "superfluous man"
IVAN TURGENEV
- first story in A Sportsman's Sketches
KOR AND KALINICH

- memory of dung beetle
- visits lonnie on deathbed
- invests in motors
- affairs with secretaries
- long lecture from aunt emily
- woman on mardi gras trip
- binx billing
- walker percy
THE MOVIEGOER

- alternating light and dark bands
CHLOROPLASTS

- ignores culture
- supported by beaudrillard and derrida
POSTMODERNISM
- language games
- rise of computers create a postmodern condition
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD
- history of sexuality
- coined "biopower" and "epistene"
MICHEL FOUCAULT

- served sausage during lent
- published 67 articles
- said eucharist was symbolic
- doctrine of real presence
- johann ech
- zurich
ULRICH ZWINGLI

- vartions on corelli
- first symphony ruined by drunk conductor
RACHMANINOFF
- choral third symphony
THE BELLS
- composer of carnival
- hand was ruined
- married clara
- rhenish symphony
SCHUMANN

- half-silvered mirror
MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT

- treatise with sketches
FOUR BOOKS OF ARCHITECTURE
- architect inspired jefferson
- villa rotunda
ANDREA PALLADIO
VILLA BARBARO

- orchard for a dome
- keeping the sabbath by staying at home
- tighten breathing in presence of snake
- swelling of the ground
- "narrow fell in the grass"
- carriage with immortality
- "because i could not stop for death"
EMILY DICKINSON

- kills arthur jarvis
- preacher stephen, son absalom
KUMALO FAMILY
- alan paton book
CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY
- editor of fitzgerald, hemingway
MAXWELL PERKINS

- mendelssohn, smetana
- "from my life"
- serioso and harp by beethoven
- gross fugue
- rosamunde and death and the maiden by schubert
- adapted into adagio for strings
STRING QUARTET

- heavy mass and wire, swinging
- in boston
FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM
- motion in this field
CHAOS THEORY
- force does not cause toilet thing
- non-intertial
CORIOLIS EFFECT

- founded by shuler
- head converted to judaism, got paintings
- unmarked envelopes
- scandal with employment minister
- liliane bettancourt
- cosmetics
L'OREAL

- language with mahabharata
- third-most common in india
TELUGU
- family with malaylam and tamil
- found by white-ellis
DRAVIDIC LANGUAGES
- many prexifes
- also in turkish and hungarian
AGGLUTINATION

- barbed wire destroyed by mark one
- ferdinand foch and douglas haig
- first use of tanks
THE SOMME
- includes cambrai
- charles the simple created it
- broke off from noustria
- william longsword
- robert guiscard
NORMANDY
- founder of normandy
- changed name after losing chartres
ROLLO
- dukes of normandy
- son of henry ii
RICHARD

- chamber of deputies during 1848
- said the french liked strong leaders
- criticized legislative branch
- wrote democracy in america
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

- battle with races
BLADENSBURG
- city home to national intelligencer
WASHINGTON (DC)
- war ended by treaty of ghent
WAR OF 1812

- can change index of refraction
- charge density over vacuum permitivity
- force of test charge
ELECTRIC FIELD

- pindaric ode progress of poesy
- death of horcace walpole's cat
THOMAS GREY
- mute inglorious milton
- the curfew tolls
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD
- leads but to the grave
PATHS OF GLORY

- affair with maman and therese levaseur
- opens bible to romans 13:13
- 13 books, comment on genesis
- devout mother monica
- memoirs by rousseau and augustine
CONFESSIONS

- itaipu dam
- second-largest in south america
- converges with uruguay
PARANA
- water with devil's throat
IGUAZU FALLS
- border with argentina by iguazu
PARAGUAY

- woman cheats with piano lessons
- mr l'hereux
MADAME BOVARY

- cavity fuses with blastoceal
ANCANTERON
- germ layer
- middle of three layers
MESODERM
- sonic hedgehog homologue
- chordata
THENODOCOUR

- evidence on olympic discus
- redistribution of land to perioikoi
- pausianas led coalition at plataea
- two kings
SPARTA

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