literature
Jean Rhys [[ZHAHN REES]] wrote a prequel to this novel in her anti-colonial work Wide Sargasso Sea. In this novel, Mrs. Reed facilitates the public lashing of Helen Burns for her unkemptness, and she later dies in the protagonist’s arms from consumption while at Lowood. An ad to become a governess leads this novel's protagonist to move to Thornfield Hall and eventually to marry its owner. For ten points, name this novel about the title orphan who marries Edward Rochester, by Charlotte Brontë.
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
This war was preceded by the Diplomatic Revolution. The Nawab of Bengal was defeated by Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey during this war. The Miracle of the House of Brandenburg helped (*) Frederick the Great during this war. The American theatre of this war was known as the French and Indian War. For ten points, name this war that lasted a namesake number of years from 1756 to 1763.
Seven Years War
Is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature one kelvin in one gram of a liquid, and is 4.184 joules for water.
Specific heat capacity
After proving a bound on the gaps between these things, Yitang Zhang was given a professorship. The Goldbach conjecture argues that every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two of these numbers. The (*) sieve of Eratosthenes [air-oh-TOSS-theh-nees] leaves these numbers after eliminating the composites. Contrary to popular opinion, 1 is not one of these numbers. For ten points, give this term for a positive integer with no divisors other than 1 and itself.
prime numbers
Andres Segovia popularized the Flamenco style of this instrument, which is differentiated from the classical variety by its grittier sound. Name this string instrument which is plucked or strummed and whose electric variety was played notably by Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen.
Guitar
In this novel, priests of a Hindu temple in the Malabar Hills beat a French valet after he leaves his shoes on. Later on, the daughter of a Bombay merchant is saved from being burned on a pyre. In this novel, the valet Jean Passpartout [[pahs-par-TOO]] points out that one man crossed the International Date Line and is therefore a day ahead of schedule, winning a bet with the Reform Club. Phileas Fogg manages to complete the title feat in, for ten points, what Jules Verne novel?
Around the World in 80 Days
Act passed following 9/11 that expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement.
USA Patriot Act (accept Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism)
Valetudo, the most recently discovered of these bodies, likely experienced several head-on collisions. One of these objects is the most heavily cratered in the solar system, while another has no surface features older than one million years due to frequent volcanic eruptions. Water might be below the icy crust of one of these bodies, Europa. For ten points, Ganymede and Io are among what natural satellites orbiting the fifth planet?
Moon[a]s of [a]Jupiter (accept Jovian moons; accept Satellites of Jupiter before mentioned; prompt on "Galilean moons")
An ancient Greek problem involved “doubling” this shape. In one higher dimension, this shape is called a tesseract, and its most common net is made up of polygons in the shape of a cross. If this shape had a side length of A, its surface area would equal 6 times A squared. This shape has (*) eight vertices and six faces, all of which meet at 90 degree angles. A standard die has the shape of, for ten points, what figure that is the three dimensional analogue of the square?
cube
In one of this composer’s works, Leporello warns Elvira that his master has seduced more than a thousand women in Spain by singing the “Catalog” aria; his master is later dragged to Hell by a living statue. In another of this composer’s works, the (*) Queen of the Night sings a challenging aria, and Tamino and Pamina are protected from a trial by fire because of the title instrument. For ten points, name this Austrian composer of the operas Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This author concludes “it’s always ourselves we find in the sea” in a poem about a playful beach trip taken by four girls. This poet of “maggie and milly and molly and may” created a figure who “sang his didn’t” and “danced his did” in a place (*) “with up so floating many bells down.” For ten points, name this American poet of “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” known for his unusual punctuation and capitalization.
Edward Estlin Cummings (accept e. e. cummings)
During this battle, Major General Clarence Tinker was killed and the Mogami collided with the Mikuma. Captain Tomeo Kaku and Rear-Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi were killed after they chose to go down with their ship, the (*) Hiryu, which had earlier launched an attack which sunk the USS Yorktown. Akagi, Kaga and Soryu were sunk in, for ten points, which decisive 1942 victory of the United States Navy over the Imperial Japanese Navy?
Battle of Midway
This type of radiation is divided into "hard" and "soft" forms based on wavelength. The 3D structure of DNA was confirmed with crystallography using this kind of radiation which was discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen [[RENT-gun]], earning him the first Nobel Prize in Physics. This radiation has shorter wavelengths than ultraviolet and longer wavelengths than Gamma rays. For ten points, name this type of electromagnetic radiation which is commonly used to image bones.
X-ray (or X-radiation; accept Röntgen-radiation before mentioned; prompt on "electromagnetic radiation", "Gamma rays", or "Gamma radiation" before mentioned)
Three, five, and seventeen are the first primes named for this man, which take the form two to the two to the "n," plus one. This man stated that for a prime "p," "a" to the "p" is congruent to a mod "p." Elliptic curves were used by Andrew Wiles to prove a theorem named for this man. That theorem named for this man involves the equation "a to the n" plus "b to the n" equals "c to the n." For ten points, name this French mathematician who names “little” and “last” theorems.
Pierre de Fermat
is a single-reed woodwind usually made of brass, whose alto, tenor, and baritone varieties are in most wind ensembles?
saxophone
This figure accepts a challenge from the peasant Pahom who claims “if I had plenty of land, I wouldn't fear [this figure] himself” in “How Much Land Does a Man Need." This entity, who appears as Professor Woland, visits the atheist Soviet Union in The Master and Margarita. Farmer Jabez [[JAY-bezz]] Stone is defended by Daniel Webster after making a deal with this person, who at the time was disguised as Mr. Scratch. Stone sells his soul to, for ten points, what evil entity, sometimes known as Lucifer?
The Devil (accept Mr. Scratch; accept Woland before mentioned; accept Satan; accept Lucifer before mentioned)
Following this conflict, Baldwin of Boulogne [[boo-LOHN]] established an independent kingdom. Peter the Hermit helped raise popular support for this conflict, which was preceded by a request for military assistance by Alexios Komnenos. This conflict was called for at the Council of Clermont by Pope Urban II. For ten points, name this initial conflict in a series of holy wars, which resulted in European Christians conquering the Holy Land.
This process can be induced by p53 after DNA damage. This process destroys the cells between digits during embryonic development. The release of (*) cytochrome C leads to a caspase activation cascade during this process. Cell fragmentation occurs during, for ten points, what form of programmed cell death?
Apoptosis
One of these devices was patented by Edith Clarke in 1925 and used to solve problems with electrical power lines. An early one of these devices was the stepped reckoner which Gottfried Leibniz spent 40 years working on, while another one of these was the (*) Arithmometer. A “graphic” one of these devices is commonly manufactured by Texas Instruments, while “scientific” versions of these devices are often made by Casio. For ten points, name these portable electronic devices used to perform calculations.
Calculators
With saxophonist Johnny Hodges, this musician recorded the albums Back to Back and Side to Side. This musician composed the suite Black, Brown, Beige for his debut at Carnegie Hall. This one-time bandleader at the Cotton Club wrote hit songs like "Sophisticated Lady" and "In a Sentimental Mood." This musician popularized Billy Strayhorn's song, "Take the A Train." For ten points, name this jazz pianist, who wrote "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)."
Duke Ellington (or Edward Kennedy Ellington)
In this novel, a crowd chants “We want the whip” after one character’s selfflagellation is filmed. Podsnap’s Technique is used to increase the birthrate of people in this novel created through the Bokanovsky Process. In this novel, Mustapha Mond runs a society where people take the drug (*) soma in the year 632 After Ford. For ten points, name this dystopian novel which follows Bernard Marx and John the Savage by Aldous Huxley.
Brave New World
Herodotus records that this leader died while campaigning in Transoxiana against the Massagetae [[mass-ah-GEH-tie]] tribe. This man deposed his grandfather, Astyages [[ahstee-AH-gees]] of Media, and immediately went to war with neighboring Lydia, which was ruled by Croesus [[KREE-suss]]. This ruler, who defeated Nabonidus [[nah-BOH-nih-dus]] of Babylon, supposedly allowed Jews to resettle Israel and build the second temple. For ten points, name this “Great” emperor who founded the Persian Empire.
Cyrus the Great (accept Cyrus II; accept Cyrus the Elder)
Disease which had a major outbreak in West Africa from 2013 to 2016, primarily affecting the countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
Ebola (Accept EVD, accept EHF)
Jacques Binet made a formula to estimate numbers named after this mathematician. He modeled the growth of a theoretical rabbit population with a sequence in which the ratio between numbers approaches the (*) golden ratio. In that sequence named for this man, each term equals the sum of the two terms behind it. For ten points, name this Italian mathematician who names a sequence that begins 1, 1, 2, 3, 5.
Fibonacci
One of these works by Shostakovich is dedicated to “Victims of Fascism and War” and revolves around the “DSCH,” motif. A stay in Spillville, Iowa inspired Dvorak’s “American” work of this type. Mozart dedicated six of these pieces like his (*) “Dissonance” to Haydn. The original finale of Beethoven’s 13th one of them is known as the Grosse Fuge. For ten points, name this type of work written for two violins, a viola, and a cello.
String quartet (prompt on quartet)