Science
This particle consists of 2 up quarks and 1 down quark. This particle is a positively charged baryon. For 100 points, name this particle found in atomic nuclei alongside neutrons
Proton
One of these orations was delivered in Fulton, Missouri and describes how the title structure has “descended across the continent,” while one given after the Battle of Britain declares “This was their finest hour.” For 100 points, identify these addresses, including the “Iron Curtain,” that were delivered by the British Prime Minister during World War II
Speeches by Winston Churchill
This poem’s “canto of the queens” describes the adultery of Paolo and Francesca da Rimini. A gate in this poem is inscribed with “abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” For 100 points, name this first part of The Divine Comedy, in which Dante travels through the circles of hell
Inferno
An artist in this movement made multiple paintings in different times of day of the Rouen Cathedral and haystacks. That artist in this movement had a garden in Giverny, where he painted water lilies. For 100 points, name this art style practiced by Claude Monet
Impressionism
A statue of this god in the Temple at Olympia was one of the Ancient Wonders of the World. A French artist added a raised arm holding a thunderbolt to a Smyrnan statue of, for 100 points, what sky god, the head of the Greco-Roman pantheon
Zeus
One of these figures can have two pairs of adjacent equal length sides and are called kites. For 200 points, name these polygons that include trapezoids and rectangles, both of which have four sides
Quadrilaterals
This system was dismantled by the Pendleton Act after a man seeking to benefit from it, Charles Guiteau, shot president Garfield. For 200 points, Andrew Jackson began what system of rewarding political supporters with public office
Spoils system
Sydney Carton takes Charles Darnay’s spot at the guillotine in, for 200 points, what novel set in French Revolution era London and Paris by Charles Dickens that begins, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
A Tale of Two Cities
This artist created a depiction of Vladimir Lenin that led to its destruction by Nelson Rockefeller. For 200 points, name this Mexican muralist of Man at the Crossroads and Detroit Industry Murals and husband of Frida Kahlo
Diego Rivera
This man also discussed “Idols” of the tribe, cave, market, and theater in another work. This is the last name of a philosopher who wrote The New Atlantis and laid out the predecessor to a process involving a hypothesis and experimentation in Novum Organum. For 200 points, give this shared last name of Roger and the father of the scientific method, Francis
Bacon
This is the amount of spin on the Higgs boson, as well as the amount of (*) mass in a photon and the amount of pressure in a perfect vacuum. For 300 points, name this quantity, equal to the velocity of a stationary mass
zero
This successor to Konstantin Chernenko removed troops from Afghanistan and instituted liberal policies such as the "restructuring" Perestroika. President Ronald Reagan told this man to "tear down this wall," which he subsequently did. For 300 points, name this predecessor of Boris Yeltsin, the last leader of the Soviet Union before its collapse
Mikhail Gorbachev
This poet, who imagined taking a carriage ride with Immortality and Death, described hope as “the thing with feathers.” For 300 points, name this Belle of Amherst who wrote “Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson
He played alongside Cannonball Adderley on Kind of Blue, and was a pioneer of modal jazz with Miles Davis. He recorded Giant Steps and a cover of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things.” For 300 points, name this man behind A Love Supreme, a famous saxophonist
John Coltrane
Another of his films sees Lady Eboshi decapitate the Forest Spirit and the cursed Ashitaka fall in love with San, the eponymous Princess Mononoke. In one film, Zeniba helps the lonely No-Face find peace, and Haku breaks free of Yubaba with the help of Chihiro. For 300 points, name this director of Spirited Away
Hayao Miyazaki
A thesis states that this man’s namesake “machines” can compute all possible computable functions. For 400 points, name this computer scientist who helped break the Enigma code during World War II
Alan Turing
In this war, Henry VI’s attempt to regain the throne was crushed at Tewkesbury by Edward IV, but Edward’s successor was defeated at Bosworth Field. Including the death of Richard III, For 400 points, name this English dynastic war between the Houses of York and Lancaster
War of the roses
The first part of a novel by this author is set a few weeks after its protagonist’s mother’s funeral, when Meursault shoots an Arab on the beach. For 400 points, name this French-Algerian absurdist author of The Plague and The Stranger
Albert Camus
This opera features the antics of a page named Cherubino and is based on a sequel to Pierre Beaumarchais’s play The Barber of Seville. For 400 points, name this Mozart opera featuring Susanna, Rosina, and Count Almaviva, which is set during the preparations for a wedding
The Marriage of Figaro
The inevitable measuring of worth with money is defined as “commodity fetishism” in this text which also argues that profit is created from the exploitation of surplus labor. That is known as the “labor theory of value”. For 400 points, identify this text titled for an economic input written by Karl Marx
Das Kapital
Voyager 1 will probably reach this region in about three hundred years. For 500 points, name this outer boundary of our solar system, almost a light year away from the Sun and a thousand times farther away than the Kuiper Belt
Oort-cloud
This man depicted his most famous victory in the Bayeux Tapestry and called for the creation of the Domesday Book. For 500 points, name this victor over Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings
William the Conqueror
This woman is the title character of a novel that states “All happy families resemble one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” For 500 points, name this woman who throws herself in front of a train in a novel by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
The last movement of a work by him features a wordless six-part female chorus. This man wrote a work containing a movement with a col legno march-like ostinato in 5/4 time, and has movements subtitled “the Mystic” and “the Bringer of War.” For 10 points, name this composer who named movements after Jupiter and Mars in his The Planets
Gustav Holst
The highest peak in this range is Mount Toubkal, and these mountains are inhabited primarily by the Berber peoples. For 500 points, name this mountain range which stretches across northern Africa from Morocco to Tunisia
Atlas Mountains