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Eugene Dennis was one of the first eleven of these people convicted of violating the Smith Act. A namesake “Control Act” outlawed formal organizations of these people, which had previously been forced to register with the Justice Department under the (*) McCarran Act. Howard Hughes bought and shut down RKO Studios to remove and “blacklist” some of these people. The Hollywood Ten was a group of these people involved in the film industry, while a namesake “Loyalty Program” targeted these people in the federal government. For 10 points, name these people targeted by Joseph McCarthy in the Second Red Scare.
what is communist?
The building depicted in this painting is shaped like a Greek cross, while a meander is painted on its main arch. A portrait of Michelangelo is used for a character who rests his head on his arm while writing on parchment in this painting, where another character has his chest and shoulder revealed as he lies on some (*) steps. One of the two central figures of this painting wears a blue robe trimmed with gold, and accompanies a man carrying a book and gesturing towards the sky. The Stanza della Segnatura in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican contains, for 10 points, what fresco depicting the philosophers Aristotle and Plato, a work by Raphael?
What is the school of Athens
When performing one piece by this composer, clarinetists open the left-hand tone holes while moving from F to B flat, in a part originally improvised by Ross Gorman. Another piece by this composer introduced the 32-bar progression “Rhythm Changes” and was written for the musical Girl Crazy. Four (*) taxi horns were used at the premiere of this composer’s An American in Paris, while another of his compositions premiered at a concert titled An Experiment in Modern Music and opens with a clarinet glissando. For 10 points, name this American composer of “I’ve Got Rhythm” and Rhapsody in Blue.
Who is George Gershwin? Gershwin excepted.
According to John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, the creation of this construct occurs behind a “veil of ignorance” and emerges from the “original position.” Another idea of this construct based it on the “supreme direction of the general will” and according to (*) Leviathan, the establishment of this construct ends the “war of all against all” caused by the “state of nature.” “Man is born free, and everywhere, he is in chains,” was written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in a book titled for, for 10 points, what agreement under which freedoms are forfeited in exchange for protection by a government?
What is the Social contract?
The PI curve graphs the performance of this process, rising as you move along the x-axis until a namesake “reaction center” is damaged in “inhibition” caused by high intensity. Malic acid is stored in vacuoles as part of one form of this larger process, while in another form of this larger process oxalo•acetate is released in (*) bundle sheath cells after it is formed in mesophyll cells. In the most common form of this process, NADP+ is reduced to NADPH, and it takes place across the thylakoid membrane of chloroplast organelles. CAM, C4, and the Calvin Cycle are alternate forms of, for 10 points, what process, in which ATP is produced from sunlight?
What is Photosynthesis?
During this conflict, the Mimi and Toutou [too-too] were brought by train and road to take control of Lake Tanganyika, and Maximilian von Spee was killed at the Battle of the Falkland Islands. The Breslau and Goeben were chased across the Mediterranean before they were gifted to the (*) Ottoman Empire during this conflict. During a battle in this conflict, Admiral John Jellicoe crossed the T of a German fleet. The Battle of Jutland allowed the blockade of Germany to continue in, for 10 points, what conflict in which unrestricted submarine warfare resulted in the sinking of the Lusitania?
what is Word War 1
A woman in an orange dress fishes near a seated man wearing a top hot and holding a cane in this work, which also depicts a small girl in a white dress staring directly at the viewer as she is accompanied by a woman in red with a matching (*) umbrella. In the foreground of this painting, a black dog points its head towards the ground behind a man laying on his back and smoking a pipe. To the right, a woman in black holds an umbrella and walks a monkey on a leash. People lie along the banks of the Seine in, for 10 points, what pointilist painting by Georges Seurat?
what is a sunday afternoon
“O Lord, Save Thy People,” an Orthodox troparion, is a repeated theme in this piece, and towards its end is played loudly by the brass alongside a national anthem and chimes meant to represent bells. Earlier in this piece, a descending run represents an (*) army’s retreat, while a battle is represented by competing sections playing folk music and “La Marseillaise.” “God Save the Tsar” is played, and cannons are fired at the end of, for 10 points, what Tchaikovsky “overture” commemorating Russia’s successful defense of a French invasion?
what is the 1812 overture
When he was dying of starvation, this mythical figure was told to bathe in the Pactolus river. This character received a gift after entertaining the satyr Silenus before bringing him back to Dionysus, and is often referred to as the adopted child of Gordias and Cybele [SIB-a-lee]. After siding with Pan in a (*) music contest with Apollo, this figure was given the ears of a donkey, and this Phrygian king lost his desire for wealth following a period in which all his food and drink, and possibly his daughter, turned to gold. For 10 points, name this figure who possessed the golden touch.
Who is Midas?
In environmental chemistry, a form of this quantity is used in conjunction with the non-ideality factor gamma and the mole fraction to represent fugacity and calculate the chemical potential of a liquid mixture. The log of one form of this quantity is related to temperature and the constants A, B, and C by the (*) Antoine Equation. Raoult’s Law is used to find one form of this quantity, which is higher for more volatile substances. For any isobaric process, this quantity times volume is equal to n times R times T. For 10 points, name this measure of force per unit area, a quantity often given in bars or atmospheres
What is Pressure
A siege of a weapons depository at Hull marked the beginning of this conflict, during which the “Ironsides” were an elite cavalry unit. One battle in this conflict was lost by the Earl of Manchester and Lord Fairfax following the Siege of (*) York, and Irish involvement in this conflict ended after massacres at Wexford and Drogheda. During this conflict, the Long Parliament was shrunk into the Rump Parliament, which tried Charles I for treason. The New Model Army was formed by Oliver Cromwell during, for 10 points, what conflict that pitted the Parliamentarians against the Royalists
What is the English civil wars?
A 50-foot-tall steel sculpture in this city of what is believed to be either a woman, an Afghan Hound, or a baboon was designed by Pablo Picasso. In this city’s Crown Fountain, two towers facing each other on opposite sides of a pool display changing faces that have water squirt out of their mouths. A set of red arches forms Alexander Calder’s (*) Flamingo sculpture in this city’s Federal Plaza, while a 66-foot long steel sculpture designed by Anish Kapoor for a park in this city is titled Cloud Gate. For 10 points, name this city whose Millenium Park includes “the Bean.”
Chicago
This A chord with three perfect fourths followed by a major third is named for a track on this album. A song on this track has a chord structure later used in “Impressions,” gives the main theme to the double bass, and uses an AABA structure with D Dorian and E-flat Dorian. Wynton (*) Kelly appeared on just one song in this album, which was recorded in part by Bill Evans, “Cannonball” Adderley, and John Coltrane, and whose tracks include “So What,” “Flamenco Sketches,” and “Freddie Freeloader.” For 10 points, name this 1959 album by Miles Davis.
What is Kind of Blue
In one novel set in this country, the title character refuses to work and starves an entire town after the death of Susanna San Juan. Juan Preciado meets several ghostly characters in the town of Comala in that novel from this country. Another author from this country included “The Dialectic of Solitude” and “The Conquest and (*) Colonialism” in a set of essays discussing this country’s separate Spanish and indigenous cultures. Juan Rulfo, the author of Pedro Páramo [PAH-ra-mo], is from this country, as is the author of The Labyrinth of Solitude. For 10 points, “Sunstone,” a 584-line poem inspired by the Aztec calendar, was written by Octavio Paz, an author from what country?
What is Mexico?
The first steps of the urea cycle take place in this organelle. An inner barrier in this organelle allows for the buildup of a hydrogen ion gradient, creating potential energy for a process in which those hydrogens become water molecules. Because this organelle has its (*) own genome, the endosymbiotic theory hypothesizes that this organelle is descended from early prokaryotes. The electron transport chain takes place in the cristae of the “Inner Membrane” of this organelle, and the Krebs Cycle takes place in its matrix, as part of the process of cellular respiration. For 10 points, name this “powerhouse of the cell.”
What is Mitrochondria
A 1906 race riot in this city led to the development of a black business district in its Sweet Auburn neighborhood. In 1973, Maynard Jackson became the first black mayor of this city, which had called itself “too busy to hate.” In a 1964 case involving a motel named for the (*) “Heart of” this city, the Supreme Court upheld a prohibition on discrimination in public accomodations. African-Americans were told to “cast down your bucket where you are” in a speech given by Booker T. Washington as part of a “compromise” named for this city. For 10 points, name this city where Martin Luther King Jr. preached at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the capital of Georgia.
Atlanta
A woman in an orange dress looks out of the window of a white house next to a meadow in this artist’s Cape Cod Morning. This artist depicted a man in a vest working at a red pump in Gas, and an usher in a blue uniform leaning against a wall by the exit in New York (*) Movie. A woman in an orange hat waits at a table in another work by this artist, who showed a red-haired woman and a man in a fedora waiting at a bar topped by an advertisement for Phillies 5-cent cigars. For 10 points, name this American artist of Automat and Nighthawks.
Who is Edward Hopper?
One blues song by this artist includes a stop-time clarinet solo based on tap-dancing in Chicago’s Sunset Cafe. This artist played a 12-second long B-flat note towards the end of a blues standard he recorded with Earl Hines, Jimmy Strong, and Fred Robinson, who were all part of the “Hot (*) Five.” This artist of “Potato Head Blues” and “West End Blues” recorded a popular cover of “Hello, Dolly!” as well as a song where he sings of “trees of green / red roses too.” For 10 points, name this scat singer and trumpeter nicknamed “Satchmo,” who recorded “It’s a Wonderful World.”
who is Armstrong
This story was borrowed from the Giovanni Boccaccio epic Teseida and inspired the Shakespeare play The Two Noble Kinsmen. Prayers to Diana, Mars, and Venus are all answered in the climactic scene of this story. In this story, two men are found unconscious after a battle and imprisoned, after which they see a beautiful woman in a garden. (*) Emily, the daughter of the Athenian Duke Theseus, is offered to the winner of a tournament contested by Arcite [ahr-SEE-tuh] and Palamon in this story, which follows the Prologue and precedes the Miller’s Tale. For 10 points, name this Canterbury Tale told by a character who accompanies the Squire.
What is The Knight's tale?
One experiment by this man was replicated using a puppy so that participants would not suspect the victim of faking. A follow-up study to that experiment by this man found an “engaged followership” where participants were more likely to follow instructions when the importance of doing so was emphasized. (*) Reluctant participants in one experiment by this man received the prompts “the experiment requires that you continue” and “you must go on” as they were asked to deliver electric shocks to an unseen “learner,” who was actually an actor. For 10 points, identify this psychologist and namesake of an “obedience experiment.”
What is Milgram
One ruler of this empire imprisoned his father and reneged on a co-rulership pact with his brother during a succession war. That ruler of this empire won the Battle of Samugarh against Dara Shikoh, while another of its leaders created the syncretic religion Din-i-Ilahi and built a capital at (*) Fatehpur Sikri. In the 18th century, the Bengal War and the Carnatic Wars caused this dynasty to lose territory to France and Great Britain. This dynasty overthrew Ibrahim Lodhi at the First Battle of Panipat, which was won by Babur, while the Taj Mahal was built by its leader Shah Jahan. For 10 points, name this Islamic empire of India.
What is the Mugal Empire
A nude woman wears a lampshade on her head and a nude man covers himself with a tootsie pop in a collage from this movement. A drowning woman is depicted saying “I’d rather sink than call Brad for help” in one work from this movement, while in another work by the same artist, the title character covers his mouth in laughter as a (*) duck catches itself with a fishing rod. That work is the painting Look, Mickey! Richard Hamilton is an artist from this movement, whose pioneers included an artist who produced silkscreens of Marilyn Monroe in “The Factory.” For 10 points, name this movement whose artists included Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.
what is Pop art? Pop excepted
The lupophon was invented after this composer wrote a part that calls for the heckelphone to play below its possible range. A descending A major scale is played to represent sunrise and an offstage brass section mimics a hunting party in a tone poem by this composer. “Wandering By the Brook” and “Entry Into the Forest” are sections of his An (*) Alpine Symphony, while another of his tone poems uses the contrasting keys of B major and C major to represent humanity and the universe. The opening fanfare of that piece by this composer includes the “C-G-C” dawn motif later used in 2001: A Space Odyssey. For 10 points, name this composer of Also Sprach Zarathustra.
Who is Richard Strauss?
This author wrote about two people in a debate who state “I bet that is also a parable” and “in parable you have lost.” In a brief parable, this author describes a messenger’s challenge of leaving the imperial palace and the capital city, while in another parable, a man bribes a doorkeeper who still will not let him through a gate. This author of “On Parables” and “An (*) Imperial Message” included “Before the Law” in a work in which a character is put on trial and executed “like a dog” for an unnamed crime. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Josef K. in The Trial and Gregor Samsa turning into an insect in The Metamorphosis.
who is Franz Kafka
A formula showing that parabolic PDEs can be expressed as a sum is named for this scientist and Marc Kac. This scientist modeled weak decay with Murray Gell-Mann and demonstrated that weakness of O-rings in cold weather caused the (*) Challenger Disaster. This scientist discussed nanoscale machines in the lecture “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” and delivered a namesake set of “Lectures on Physics” at Caltech. For 10 points, name this physicist who helped develop quantum electrodynamics and names a type of diagram visualizing the behavior of subatomic particles.
Who is Feyman