History & Geography
This state’s town of Wallace claims to be the center of the universe since no one can prove it otherwise. Three tourists from Hawaii who died while exploring this state are the namesake of Owyhee County. Challis National Forest contains this state’s highest point, Borah Peak, which is found in the Lost River Range. Twin Falls is found near this state's Craters of the Moon National Park. This state features the ski town of Coeur d’Alene, located in its north, which is in a different time zone from the rest of this state. This state, which lies west of the Bitterroot Range, is home to Lewiston in its panhandle, and a potato museum in its city of Pocatello. Name this state with capital Boise.
Idaho
This book’s preface objects to deletions made by its supposed publisher, Richard Sympson. In this novel, the ghost of Caesar confesses that Brutus’s actions were more glorious than his own. This book’s protagonist receives the title “nardac” for defeating an enemy fleet, and his description of gunpowder horrifies a king who mistook him for a piece of clockwork. Debates between the Big- and Little-Endians in this novel center on the optimal heel size and the proper way to crack an egg. A race of intelligent horses despise humanoid Yahoos in this novel. Name this Jonathan Swift novel whose titular voyager encounters giant Brobdingnagians and tiny Lilliputians.
Gulliver’s Travels
(or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships)
The small-angle approximation states that if the input to this function is small, it is approximately equal to this function's output. This function gives the y-coordinate of a point rotated around the unit circle. A law named for this function states that, for a triangle, the ratio of a side length to this function of the opposite angle is the same for each side. Name this trigonometric function calculated “opposite over hypotenuse”.
Sine
The wildly inaccurate artwork Rhinoceros is a work made in this material by Albrecht Dürer. Pieces of this material were used by the artist Hokusai to add overlapping sections of colored ink to Fine Wind, Clear Morning and The Great Wave off Kanagawa. This material is used in ukiyo-e [ooay], a technique that makes prints with blocks of this material that might be cut along or against the grain. Name this natural art supply harvested from the trunks of trees.
Wood (or Woodblock)
The Nazirite vow requires that the person taking it abstain from consuming this product. On the shabbat, obligatory blessings called kiddush are made over this product. During the Passover Seder, everyone present drinks four cups of this substance. Along with the host, a sacramental type of this substance is an element of the Eucharist. Name this alcoholic drink made from fermented grape juice that is significant in Jewish and Christian traditions.
Wine
This body of water is the primary source of Beluga Caviar. The Absheron Peninsula, which juts into this body of water, contains the world’s lowest-altitude capital city. That city, Baku, has grown rich off of the oil reserves in this body of water. The Volga and Ural Rivers empty into this largest inland lake in the world. What body of water lies north of Iran, between the Caucasus Mountains and Kazakhstan?
Caspian Sea
One work by this thinker begins by describing how mankind disrupts the beauty of nature by cross-breeding fruit trees. This thinker argued that citizens should be required to affirm only general religious tenets as part of a civil religion. This thinker defined self-preservation and the desire for others’ approval as two forms of “self love” called amour de soi and amour propre. This thinker outlined the ideal education of the title boy in Emile. This thinker wrote that in a perfect society, citizens’ self-interests would combine to form the “general will.” Name this philosopher who wrote, “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains” in The Social Contract.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Z-scheme is a part of this process in which the oxygen evolution reaction produces electrons that are donated to P680. The Calvin cycle in this process uses RuBP (r-u-b-p) and RuBisCO to convert carbon dioxide and other compounds into glucose, and is called the light-independent phase of this process. Name this process which occurs in chloroplasts where light is converted into energy for plants.
Photosynthesis
A player of this instrument, who composed A Night in Tunisia and Salt Peanuts, was Dizzy Gillespie. Another player of this instrument composed songs such as All Blues and So What for his album Kind of Blue. A player of this instrument sings that he sees “trees of green” in the first recording of What a Wonderful World. Miles Davis and Louis (loo-EE) Armstrong played what three-valved brass instrument?
Trumpet
Triangular pastries in the shape of a vizier’s hat are traditionally eaten on this holiday. On this holiday, that vizier’s name is drowned out by noisemakers called groggers. The story of this holiday is told in the Book of Esther, which is called the Megillah when read aloud on it. This holiday falls on the 14th of Adar. Name this “Festival of Lots," a Jewish holiday celebrating the defeat of Haman.
Purim
A Jacques Derrida book titled in reference to this work’s first sentence coined the term “hauntology” to refer to the recurrence of historical themes in the present. This work’s author pleads guilty to “wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents” in a section that calls for an end to both family and religion. This work summarizes its thesis as “abolition of private property.” According to this text, a revolution led by the proletariat should overthrow capitalism and replace it with the title ideology. Class struggle is described in what radical left-wing pamphlet by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx?
Communist Manifesto
The narrator of this novel is reminded of Louis Armstrong’s song “Black and Blue” while imagining talking to a slave woman mourning her master’s death. This novel’s narrator is mistaken for a man named Rinehart after attending the funeral of a man who was shot selling dolls on the street. After failing to give a tour to the stakeholder Mr. Norton, the narrator of this novel is sent to New York with fake letters of recommendation by Dr. Bledsoe. At the end of this novel, the narrator kills Ras the Destroyer during the race riot and falls through a manhole into a hidden underground room. Name this novel about an unnamed Black man, written by Ralph Ellison.
Invisible Man
This organism’s MM294 strain is commonly transformed to antibiotics including ampicillin and kanamycin. In one experiment this organism was used to prove that DNA undergoes semiconservative replication. This organism’s 0157:H7 ("zero-one-five-seven h-seven") strain produces the deadly Shiga toxin. This organism was infected with T2 bacteriophage in the Hershey-Chase experiment. This organism was the subject of the Meselson-Stahl experiment, and this organism, infected by the lambda phage, was first used to study the lac operon. Name this gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria found in the human intestine, an important model organism.
E. Coli
In one painting by this artist, a green dress strung between a toilet and trophy hangs in front of skyscrapers. Another painting by this artist shows a naked girl holding a ribbon that makes a family tree with her parents and grandparents. In one painting, this artist’s face replaces the face of a deer with arrows lodged in its hide. This artist’s spine is replaced by the title Broken Column in a painting she made after a bus accident that caused her chronic pain. Two versions of this artist hold hands with each other in a painting she made shortly after her divorce with Diego Rivera. Name this Mexican artist whose self portraits feature her unibrow.
Frida Kahlo
This goddess is the mother of a figure who was worshiped under the title Despoina. This goddess transforms a Scythian king into a lynx for attempting to kill a man to whom she had earlier gifted a winged chariot pulled by snakes. A boy who makes fun of this goddess for drinking water is turned into a lizard. Triptolemus is a student of this goddess. This goddess attempts to make Demophon immortal by placing him in a fire while searching for her missing daughter, who was abducted by Hades. Name this Greek goddess of agriculture, the mother of Persephone.
Demeter
After this ruler defeated his brother, Ariq Böke, he conquered one region after the Battle of Yamen. This leader’s attempted invasions of Japan were stopped by a “divine wind," or kamikaze. While he was emperor of a Chinese dynasty, this leader’s court was visited by the Venetian merchant Marco Polo. Name this Mongol ruler of the Yuan Dynasty, the grandson of Genghis, whose name is also the title of a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Kublai Khan
Six “rude mechanicals” in this play act out Pyramus and Thisbe. The male lead in that play within this play is Nick Bottom, whose head is turned into a donkey’s head by a character called Robin Goodfellow. This play centers around romantic conflict between Helena, Lysander, Demetrius, and Hermia, as well as the trickster sprite Puck. Name this Shakespeare comedy about the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Different areas on the Ramachandran plot correspond to different outcomes for one phase of this process. According to Anfinsen’s Dogma, this process is entirely dependent upon its input. This process is aided by the hydrophobic effect. A class of heat shock proteins known as chaperonins assist in this process to ensure that it happens properly. The result of this process happening improperly may manifest itself in the form of prions. A certain class of biomolecules acquire their secondary and tertiary structures by undergoing what process in which proteins take their three-dimensional structure?
Protein Folding
The first of these pieces has an Allegro ending mimicking a bagpipe dance and was arranged for flute by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of these pieces in F Major is made of ritornellos representing the death of a stag and hunters “fired up by Bacchus’s liquor.” Rapid sixteenth notes in the second of these pieces’ Presto movement evoke a thunderstorm. Pizzicato strings represent rain on a window in one of these pieces, derived from a series of sonnets written by its composer. The Contest Between Harmony and Invention contains what violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi that include “Autumn” and “Winter?”
The Four Seasons
Some Sufis claim that this figure was the perfect personification of love, because he chose eternal damnation over obeying anyone other than Allah. Verses named after and inspired by this figure encouraged the worship of three pagan goddesses. This figure was made from smokeless fire and refused to prostrate before Adam, as Adam was made from clay. During the hajj, adherents throw rocks at three pillars to symbolize the stoning of this figure. In the Bible, this figure tempts Jesus for forty days and forty nights in the desert. Name this evil figure who opposes Allah in Islam.
Iblis
[or Satan or Shaitan or the Devil; also accept Azazil]
In this battle, Confederates on Corinth Road hoped to force the Union into a swamp called Owl Creek. The Union was saved from being overwhelmed by a Confederate assault by a barrage of gunboats near Pittsburg Landing during this battle. Before this battle, Lew Wallace sent reinforcements to the wrong location, causing his removal from one general’s army. During this battle, the Union defended a "sunken road" known as the "Hornet’s Nest." General Albert Sidney Johnston died during this battle, after which P. G. T. Beauregard took over the Confederate army. Name this 1862 victory for Ulysses S. Grant, fought in southwest Tennessee.
Shiloh
In this novel, a character escapes from a train full of “man corpses, woman corpses, child corpses” headed to the sea. A woman in this novel who corresponds with “invisible doctors” arranges for a man constantly followed by yellow butterflies to be shot. A plague of insomnia in this novel is caused by the dirt-eating orphan Rebeca. In this novel, a character who is tied to a chestnut tree befriends Melquíades. This novel opens with Colonel Aureliano recalling “that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice” as he is facing a firing squad. Name this novel set in Macondo about the decline of the Buendía family, written by Gabriel García Márquez.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Applying Ampere’s circuital law to the London equations derives an equation used to calculate the London penetration depth of these materials. The inverse of the magnetic flux quantum is a proportionality constant concerning multiple of these materials connected by a weak one of them in a Josephson junction. One theory of the formation of these materials describes them as being caused by the condensation of Cooper pairs. YBCOs are "high-temperature" types of these materials. These materials repel internal magnetic fields due to the Meissner effect. Name these materials in which current flowing through has no resistance.
Superconductors
On the right of this painting, two figures lean toward Simon the Zealot, gesturing wildly. Because this mural is not a fresco, it requires frequent maintenance to preserve it on the wall of the Stanza Maria delle Grazie. This painting’s figures are arranged in groups of three, with Peter and John sitting next to Judas. Name this painting by Leonardo da Vinci in which the disciples react in shock as Jesus spreads his arms over their final meal together.
The Last Supper
(or L’Ultima Cena or Il Cenacolo)
Samvatsari Pratikraman is done to ask for forgiveness on the last day of this religion’s annual holiday of Paryushan. A symbol for this religion is a hand with a chakra on its palm. A sect of this religion believes that the figure Mallinath was female, and another requires that its members be naked. Those sects are the sky-clad and white-clad Digambara and Svetambara ("svet-um-bah-rah"). Strict members of this religion do not eat root vegetables due to their fear of eating foods that come from the underworld and harming unseen organisms. This religion’s 24th Tirthankara ("tur-thank-ah-ra") was Mahavira. Name this Indian religion known as its namesake dharma, which practices nonviolence.
Jainism