science
The "law of" these objects states that the torque ("tork") on one side is equal to the torque on the other side. These objects can be classified as first class, second class, or third class depending on the location of the fulcrum. For 10 points, name these simple machines, familiar examples of which include a wheelbarrow and see-saw.
levers
This character claims that the Avox Lavinia looks like Delly Cartwright after being questioned by his stylist Portia. This character draws an "X" with blood on Cato's hand, and earlier disguises as a rock after being injured in the leg. This character gains support from Capitol viewers during a relationship with Katniss Everdeen. For 10 points, name this male tribute from District 12 in the 74th and 75th Hunger Games.
peeta mallark
Citizens of this country practice an ideology called Juche (JOO-chay), or "self-reliance," in praise of its leaders. Douglas MacArthur landed at Inchon to fight this country, which sided with the Soviet Union in a 1950s war that led to this country's southern border at the 38th parallel becoming the Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ. Pyongyang is the capital of, for 10 points, what country currently led by Kim Jong-un?
north korea
Three windows in this work’s background align with a real-life doorway in the Santa Maria dele Grazie that cuts off the feet of this painting’s central figure. A man in this work knocks over a salt cellar and clutches a bag of silver while the men around him argue about the revelation that their leader will be betrayed. For 10 points, name this painting by Leonardo da Vinci that shows Jesus’s final meal with his disciples.
the last supper
This game's 1972 World Championship was lost by Boris Spassky. In 1999, a team of fifty thousand people voted to use the Sicilian Defense in this game's "Kasparov versus the World" match. Bobby Fischer was a Grandmaster in this game, whose current world champion is Magnus Carlsen. For 10 points, name this board game in which players must protect their king from pieces like knights, rooks, and pawns.
chess
Eisenstein's criterion tells if certain types of these are irreducible over the rational numbers. If they involve only one variable, these objects will have at most n-1 ["n minus 1"] extrema and n-2 ["n minus 2"] inflection points if they are of degree n. One over x is not this type of expression, because the exponent on the variable must be a positive integer. For 10 points, name this type of mathematical expression, exemplified by quadratics such as x squared plus 3x minus 5.
polynomials
This work's protagonist is mistaken for Nathoo and sent to live with Messua after a fight at Council Rock, where he confronts Akela and Shere Khan. Stories in this collection describe "Toomai of the Elephants" and "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," a mongoose who protects a British family from venomous snakes. The "man-cub" Mowgli is raised by wolves and taught by Baloo, a wise old bear in, for 10 points, what episodic Rudyard Kipling novel containing stories of humans and animals in rural India?
the jungle book
This creature was fed cake soaked in wine by the Sibyl of Cumae to help Aeneas pass it, and this creature so terrified King Eurystheus that he hid in a jar. This brother of Orthrus was unable to pierce the Nemean Lion skin worn by Heracles during his twelfth labor, during which this creature was captured from Hades. For 10 points, name this three-headed guard dog of the Greek underworld.
cerberus
This artist created a Lobster Telephone and made the film An Andalusian Dog with Luis Bu˜nuel. This artist painted a Disintegration of one of his paintings, in which a bare tree trunk separates into segments. Ants crawl on the surface of a red object in a painting by this artist set on a Catalonian beach, in which a distorted face with long eyelashes is draped with a soft-textured clock. For 10 points, name this Spanish Surrealist artist of The Persistence of Memory.
salvador dali
In one music video, this singer is shown imitating a romance novel cover with a love interest. The Harvard men’s baseball team and the U.S. national swim team appear in viral videos singing a song by this artist. In a recent collaboration, this artist sings with the band Owl City about the title “Good Time.” First appearing on her EP Curiosity before her recent album Kiss, this singer’s most famous song begins, “Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy.” For 10 points, name this Canadian singer who released the 2012 hit “Call Me Maybe.”
carly rae jepsen
The tic and toc proteins facilitate transport across the membrane of this organelle. Cyanophora is considered to be one of the first organisms to contain this organelle, and a variety of sea slugs possess the klepto variety of these organelles. Along with mitochondria, this organelle is theorized to have started out as an individual prokaryote before undergoing endosymbiosis. Grana in this organelle are formed from stacks of thylakoids, (#) whose membranes are the location where this organelle turns carbon dioxide and water into glucose. For 10 points, name this plant organelle in which photosynthesis occurs.
chloroplasts
In one of this author’s novels, a mechanic named Abdu, an illegal Arab immigrant, meets a wealthy white woman named Julie whose car breaks down in the street. Besides The Pickup, another novel revolves around a dead body found on Mehring’s farm, The Conservationist, while a third novel by her features Maureen Smales, who flees to the village of the title character, their black servant, during a fictional civil war. For 10 points, name this Nobel laureate whose novel July’s People was banned in her native South Africa.
Nadine Gordimer
The "10,000 Islamic rabble" killed a Japanese diplomat during this event, which the Seymour Expedition was sent to suppress. In one battle during this conflict, Russian forces bombarded the city of Peking, while American forces stormed the castle. The Eight-Nation Alliance was created in response to this rebellion. An ultimatum was sent to Empress Cixi to call off rebel forces in this rebellion, but she instead declared war on the Alliance. For 10 points, name this anti-imperialist uprising in China, led by the Righteous and Harmonious Fists Society.
boxer rebellion
This artist painted a series on the patients of his friend Étienne-Jean Georget. Those paintings by this artist include portraits of an “Insane Woman” and a “Kleptomaniac.” This artist painted several horses with their hooves off the ground in the middle of a race in A Derby at Epsom. In another painting by this artist, a man waves a shirt in an attempt to draw the attention of passing ships. Critics accused this artist of using dead bodies as models for that painting, which depicts the survivors of a shipwreck. For 10 points, name this French Romantic painter of The Raft of the Medusa.
Théodore Géricault
In the latest installment in this franchise, the company Biosyn produces genetically modified locusts. That movie from this franchise includes a reunion between Dr. Ian Malcom and Dr. Ellie Sattler. The title location for the first three movies in this franchise is owned by John Hammond and is on Isla Nublar (EES-kah noo-BLAR). The Chris Pratt-played Owen Grady is introduced in the fourth film in this franchise as the trainer for Blue and other velociraptors. For 10 points, name this movie franchise about a theme park filled with dinosaurs.
jurassic park
This physical quantity is unchanged in certain situations, according to the Stretch Rule. This quantity for a uniform rod is four times as large when measured from the end instead of from the center. When measured through the center of a uniform sphere, this quantity is equal to two fifths times the total mass times the radius squared. The parallel axis theorem can be useful for determining this quantity. It is equal to angular momentum over angular velocity or torque over angular acceleration. For 10 points, name this quantity equal to mass times distance squared, the rotational analog of mass.
mass moment of inertia
A character in this play tells Gobbo that “our house is hell” before sending him off with gold and a letter for Lorenzo. In a scene from this play, a pair of gloves and two wedding rings are requested by two women disguised as Stephano and Balthazar in return for their services as lawyers. In this play, the phrase “Whoever chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath” is engraved on a lead casket that is chosen by Bassanio to win Portia’s hand in marriage. Antonio is sued by Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, for a pound of flesh in, for 10 points, what Shakespeare comedy?
This philosopher said that "it's embarrassing to be solemn and treatise-like" about a phenomenon that includes La Lupe, Bellini's operas, and Tiffany lamps. This philosopher discussed Virginia Woolf's answer to the question "How in your opinion are we to prevent war?" in the book Regarding the Pain of Others. This philosopher, who defined the title concept of their most famous essay as "love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration," discussed the work of Diane Arbus in a collection of their New York Review of Books essays, On Photography. This philosopher explored societal beliefs about disease in their books AIDS and its Metaphors and Illness as Metaphor. For 10 points, name this critic and feminist who wrote "Notes on 'Camp'" and the essay collection Against Interpretation.
susan sontag
One work this artist painted near the end of his first period is still used as an object of veneration in Syros. That work, inspired partially by Eastern Orthodox iconography, is the Dormition of the Virgin. One of this man’s paintings, which was known as Profane Love until 1908, depicts a man in a bright blue robe in the foreground as a part of a scene from the Book of Revelation. That painting is the Opening of the Fifth Seal. The priest Andrés Núñez (“NOON-yez”) is shown reading on the far right in one of his most famous works. This practitioner of Mannerism is famous for his View of Toledo. For 10 points, name this Cretan painter of The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.
el greco
One character in this film asks if another would like to “park,” to which the other character says “she’s parked before.” A character in this movie asks if there’s a problem “with the Earth’s gravitational pull,” and Eric Stoltz initially filmed the main lead for this movie. The protagonist of this movie harnesses “1.21 jiggawatts” [pronounced as spelled] from a lightning bolt, helps his father stand up to Biff and is aided by a character who repeatedly says “Great Scott!” A fluxcapacitor modified DeLorean leaves the protagonist of this film stuck in 1955. For 10 points, name this first movie in a trilogy about Marty McFly and Doc Brown.
back to the future
To explain the observed convective regime in this structure, the Adams-Williamson equation is modified to include a tau-alpha corrective term that models a superadiabatic thermal gradient between it and the structure below it. (#) The boundary between it and the region below it is home to ultra-low velocity zones and sees a remarkable drop off in S-wave activity, while radioactive decay and accretion heat lead to upwellings in this region whose lower bound is the D’’ (dee double-prime) layer. Convection currents in this layer of the earth cause its namesake plumes and its fluidity is the reason for plate tectonics. For 10 points, name this largest layer of the earth that sits below the crust.
the mantle
One chapter of this novel parodies religion by having one of its main characters receives three books of knowledge from the Mystic Queen of the Ninth Heaven during a dream sequence. Its main character receives two bottles of poisoned wine from the Emperor’s ministers at the end of this novel, prompting his death. It includes a scene in which “Righteous Seven” rob a convoy, and opens with the bandits of Mt. Shaohua being routed. The main characters of this novel hide in Liangshang repeatedly and are hounded the government official Gao Qiu. Protector of Justice Song Liang leads the 36 Heavenly stars and 72 Earthly stars, which collectively comprise the title group. For 10 points, name this great Chinese novel focusing on a group of bandits who hide out in a swamp.
水浒传
During this war, one ruler gave himself up as a prisoner after his son dishonorably escaped from being held captive in place of him. That king, John the Good, was ransomed in the Treaty of Bretigny after being captured at the Battle of Poitiers during this war, which grew out of a succession dispute between Philip VI and Edward III. Its major turning points included Henry V's victory at Agincourt and the siege of Orleans, which was broken by Joan of Arc in 1429. For 10 points, name this really long war between England and France.
the hundred years war
This composer's violin concerto has three movements, the second of which is subtitled “Body Through Which the Dream Flows.” One piece by this composer is subtitled “Fanfare for Great Woods” and features a constant woodblock beat. This composer of Short Ride in a Fast Machine composed a piece commissioned to commemorate the victims of the 9/11 attacks. The best known work of this composer of On the Transmigration of Souls is the origin of his Chairman Dances and portrays a president who visits Mao Zedong. For 10 points, identify this American minimalist composer who composed Nixon in China.
john coolidge adams
This band exclaimed "cold, cold water, bring me 'round" in a 2008 single that describes "sitting in" the title structure. The EP Prospekt's March accompanied an album by this group that included the songs "Lost!" and "Violet Hill." An oddly named boy and girl are referenced in the title of this band's album Mylo Xyloto. This band's first hit, from their album Parachutes, asks listeners to "Look at the stars / Look how they shine for you." "Yellow" and "Clocks" are songs by, for 10 points, what British pop band fronted by Chris Martin?
coldplay