GHETTO WARZ HOUSE PACKET 1 WRITTEN BY MIK LARSEN, YOGESH RAUT, MARC SPRARAGEN, LUKE HARDMAN, GRACE CHENG,

MICHAEL GORDON, GAREN TORIKIAN 1. (Mik)Like Jesus, his fathers name was Joseph, although he was born in Brookline instead of Bethlehem. In 1935, he enrolled in the London School of Economics, then Princeton, which he stopped attending due to jaundice. His thesis at Harvard, Why England Slept, was a best-seller, as well as his second book, a Pulitzer-Prize winner about the lives of famous senators, written while he himself was the Democratic senator from Massachusetts. FTP, name the author of Profiles in Courage, who would go on to be the 35th President. A: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (or reasonable equivalents) 2. (Scott) First defined by Clausius in 1850, for reversible processes it can be written as d U equals T d S minus p d V. Realizing that p d V equals delta W and t d S equals delta Q and integrating both sides yields its more familiar form. Essentially the conservation of energy law applied to heat, FTP, name this law, which states that the change in internal energy of a system is equal to the head added to the system minus the work done by the system. Answer: first law of thermodynamics 3. (Yogesh) It was written in 1882 at the suggestion of Alexander William Kinglake, and its prologue is addressed to General Hamley. It makes reference to the gallant three hundred men commanded by James Yorke Scarlett. Like a more famous poem by the same author, it describes events that took place on October 25, 1854, during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. FTP, name this poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about a successful odds-defying attack on the Russian cavalry, a more optimistic sequel to his 1854 masterpiece about the ride of the six hundred into the Valley of Death. Answer: The Charge of the Heavy Brigade 4. (Yogesh) It was the lovers theme in David Leans film Brief Encounter, and Marilyn Monroe went to pieces every time she heard it in The Seven Year Itch. The third movement was the basis for Frank Sinatras 1945 song Full Moon and Empty Arms. The second movement was used in Eric Carmens 1976 hit All By Myself. The composer was known for his large hands, and one point the pianist is required to cover 9 whole steps with one hand! FTP, name this 1901 composition in C minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff. A: Piano Concerto No. 2 (accept Rach 2 or other equivalents) 5. (Marc) Some people credit Cajun-Creole fusion chef Paul Prudhomme with inventing this dish, and other stories of its origin center on towns in Louisiana. Whether braised, roasted, grilled, or barbecued, it presents what its connoisseurs label a complex, layered taste. The dishs recursion was taken to a new level in South Africa, by adding an outermost ostrich layer. FTP, name the chimerical dish, popularized by TV gourmand John Madden and consisting of a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken. turducken 6. (Scott) He first practiced law before turning to politics in 1973, the first of 7 consecutive elections to the legislature. Working his way up through the government, he was the Minister of Health before being the first Likud member to serve as Mayor of Jerusalem. In October 2003 he took over as Finance Minister when Netanyahu resigned and first stated his agreement to pulling out of Gaza, a policy he will likely continue to follow now that his party, Kadima, won a majority in March elections. FTP, name this man, who on April 14th, 2006, became prime minister of Israel. A: Ehud Olmert 7. (Grace) The stage name of Colleen Fitzpatrick, it also describes a biological molecule. If one takes over the suggested limit, variable in every individual, it may cause diarrhea, which Robert Cathcart termed the Bowel Tolerance Limit which ranges from 5 grams in healthy individuals to 30 grams in people with AIDS and cancer. Most animals besides humans synthesize their own, which led Linus Pauling to conclude that

our failure is a massive genetic defect. First isolated in 1932, name this nutrient with formula C6H8O6, a vitamin known for preventing scurvy. Answer: vitamin C or ascorbic acid 8. (Yogesh) John Jay, Baron Friedrich von Steuben, and a young Alexander Hamilton were injured during this event, and Sir John Temple nearly killed when a mob mistook the phrase Sir John for surgeon. It began on April 13, 1788, when a medical student brandished a cadavers arm at a boy and jokingly told him that it belonged to the boys mother. By coincidence, the boys mothers body was missing, and the hospital was soon surrounded by an angry mob. The disturbance spread throughout New York City until Governor Clinton order the military to fire on the crowds, killing five people. FTP, name this event in which members of the medical profession were targeted. Answer: The Doctors Riot 9. (Marc) Founded in 1863 as an offshoot of the Millerite movement, this sect of evangelical Christianity draws on traditional fundamentalist values, including those of temperance, health and educational aid, and the view of Jesus as a loving disciplinarian. It has strict dietary rules, most prominently vegetarianism; John Kellogg of cereal fame was one of the sects proponents in this area. FTP, identify the denomination, which takes its name from its strong veneration of Saturday as the Sabbath. A: Seventh Day Adventists 10. (Yogesh)First and last names are the same. The great-grandson replaced Porter Goss as US congressman from Florida in 2004. The grandson served two terms as a US senator from Florida and in 2005 was named chairman of President Bushs Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform. The original was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as a charter member in 1937. As manager-owner, he led the Philadelphia Athletics to 9 American League pennants and 5 World Series championships and holds the major league records for wins, losses, and number of games managed. FTP, give the first and last names shared by four generations of a prominent family, a shortened form of Cornelius McGillicuddy. Answer: Connie Mack (accept Cornelius McGillicuddy before last clue; prompt on Mack or McGillicuddy) 11. (Mik)His most famous work served as the inspiration for the Metallica song One off And Justice For All, and his last and unfinished work, Night of the Aurochs, tells the story of WWII through Nazi eyes. After writing over thirty scripts under pseudonyms such as Millard Kaufman and Richard Rich he won an Oscar for The Brave One under the latter name, he was reinstated into the Writers Guild of America due in part to the efforts of Kirk Douglas. FTP, name the screenwriter responsible for Exodus and Spartacus, a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten best known as the author of Johnny Got His Gun. A: Dalton Trumbo 12. (Mik) Defined by the US Geological Survey as a channel, its ocean mouth is defined by Carmanah Point, Tatoosh Island, and Cape Flannery. The Olympic Peninsula forms its southern border, and cities on its banks include Port Angeles, Sooke, Artacortes, and Victoria. Named by John Meares after a Greek sailor who sought the Strait of Anion, FTP, name this outlet for Puget Sound that forms part of the USCanada border in the State of Washington. A: Strait of Juan de Fuca 13. (Mik) Ye Mingshen, the governor of Guangxi and Guangdong provinces, ordered nonresistance, but the defenders of Guangxu launched a defensive after being bombarded by the American warship Levant. After British and French reinforcements carried the city, combat moved to Pei Tang and then Baijing as the emperor refused to ratify the Treaty of Tientsin. Named after an eponymous ship that was boarded to stop narcotics shipping, FTP, what 1856-60 conflict ended with the destruction of the Summer Palace and forced Western ambassadors on China? A: The Second Opium War (Accept Arrow War)

14. (Mik) Hes the deity Encolpius offends in Petronius Satyricon, and attempts to take advantage of the drunken Lotis in Ovids Fasti. The offspring of Aphrodite with either Dionysus or Adonis, statues of him were placed in fields to ensure fertility, or as scarecrows versus either birds or thieves. FTP, name this Greek/Roman protector god who threatens intruders with sodomy in a namesake collection of epigrams, usually depicted with large, erect genitals. A: Priapus (Mutinus Mutunus) 15. (Luke) They would have broken Sonny James record of 16 straight #1s had Christmas in Dixie reached the top. Formerly known as Wild Country, this band was formed in the late 1960's by cousins Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry. They reeled off 42 number 1 singles (or 33, as Billboard claims) and have been dominant in country with songs such as "Lady Down on Love", "The Closer You Get", "The Cheap Seats", "Dixieland Delight", "Mountain Music", and "Tennesse River". FTP, name this geographically titled band. A: Alabama 16. (Scott) First developed by Xerox in 1970, Digital Equipment and Intel jumped on board in 1980, leading to the first specification and leading to it being accepted as an official standard in 1983. Covered by the IEEE (I-triple E) standard 802.3, it beat out its primary competitor despite having risks of collision and no priority system. The most common implementation of a CSMA/CD protocol, FTP, name this protocol, used by 85 percent of local area networks. A: Ethernet 17. (Mik) Philopeomen and Flamininus. Eumenes and Sertorius. Pelopidas and Marcellus. Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus. Cimon and Lucullus. Crassus and Nicias. Solon and Poplicola. Themistocles and Camillus. Lysander and Sulla. Pyrrhus and Marius. Aratus, Artaxerxes, Galba, and Otho are the only unpaired books in, FTP, what massive set of comparative biographies, the master-work of Plutarch? A: The Parallel Lives of Plutarch (prompt on Lives) 18. (Scott) Work on it kept being interrupted by deaths: first Arnolfo di Cambios in 1302 only 6 years after he begun, then Giottos 3 years after he started work, then the plague of 1348, which led to a new design. By 1375 it was finally ready for use, though it was not consecrated until 1436. Finishing the faade was more problematic: it was not until almost 1886 that the familiar white and green marble front was finally completed. Also known as Santa Maria del Fiore, it is most famous for its massive dome, designed by Brunelleschi, FTP, name this cathedral, the most well-known in Florence. Answer: Duomo (accept Santa Maria del Fiore before mention) 19. (Michael) First observed in 1923, it occurred when a graphite target was fired at by x-rays, which deflected them, causing them to pass through a series of slits and a spectrophonometer, which allowed the namesake scientist, using an ionization chamber, to measure the wavelengths of the rays. Occurring with photons of energies between .5 and 3.5 Mega-Electron Volts, FTP, name this phenomenon, the increase in wavelength when X-ray photons interact with electrons of a given material. A: Compton Scattering (or the Compton effect) 20. (Mik) They were named after the grandfather of their first ruler, who inherited the governorship of Persis from his father Papag, a Zoroastrian priest named Ardashir who rebelled and destroyed the Parthian empire of Artabanus IV. His son Shapur I conquered as far as Transoxiana and the Silk Road, and successors presided over two golden ages as rivals to the Eastern Roman Empire. FTP, name this dynasty of the Second Persian Empire, whose last ruler, Yazdegerd III, had his empire overrun by Muslim conquerors in 651 AD. A: The Sassanid (Sassanian) Dynasty or Empire 21. (Mik) The Huainanzi came from the Huang-Lao texts of the Han Dynasty, and Zhang Daolings revelations led to the formation of the Tianshi sect in the 2nd century AD. The Taipingjing from the Warring States Period serves as the appendix to the main text, consisting of almost 1500 separate pieces, separated

into 3 dong: Zhen, Yuan, and Shen. That text, the Daozang, FTP, is the central canon for what general term for Chinese folk religion, based on the Dao de Jing of Lao-Tzu? A: Daoism (Taoism)

BONI (NOTE: modify based on results of Italian election) (accurate as of 4/11) 1. (Scott) Italy is still debating their hotly contested election. FTSNOP: A FTPE, name the incumbent and his party, which he founded in 1993. Answer: Silvio Berlusconi, Forza Italia (accept Go Italy with much muttering) B. FFPE, name Berlusconis challenger, an economics professor who hopes to repeat his 1996 defeat of Berlusconi, and the coalition he leads whose largest members include the Left Democrat, the Daisy, and the Communist Refoundation parties. Answer: Romano Prodi and the Union (lUnione) 2.(Mik)Name these Caribbean islands from clues, FTPE: 1. First colonized in 1635, its capital was almost completely destroyed by the eruption on Mount Pelee in 1902. A: Martinique 2. Named after a Spanish church by Columbus in 1493, its far more flat than many Caribbean islands, including the other island, slightly later in the alphabet, with which it formed a nation in 1981. Capital at St. Johns. A: Antigua 3. Slightly south of Cuba, they were originally linked with Jamaica until being divided into separate territories in 1962. Theyre named after the neo-Taino word for crocodile. A: Cayman Islands (or Cayman) 3. (Mik) Name the following murdered civil rights activists, FTPE: 1. After being rejected from the University of Mississippi Law School in 1954 on racial grounds, this NAACP leader led the campaign to desegregate that school. Byron de la Beckwith, who murdered him in 1963, was not convicted until 1994. A: Medgar Evers 2. This head of the South African Students Organization and Black Peoples Convention was arrested in the aftermath of the Soweto riots and died in police custody in 1977. He was memorialized in a song by Peter Gabriel. A: Stephen Bantu Biko 3. This co-founder of the Black Panthers was murdered by a drug dealer in Oakland in 1989, after being convicted of mismanaging funds for Black Panther operations during that decade. A: Huey Percy Newton 4. (Scott) How much do you know about your REALLY early childhood? Answer these questions regarding embryology, FTPE: A. At this stage, the embryo consists of a hollow ball of cells containing a fluid-filled interior. Answer: blastula B. Following the blastula, the blastopore appears indicating this stage in which germ layers are formed. Answer: gastrula C. This stage is marked by the development of the neural tube and primitive spinal cord. Answer: neurula 5. (Michael) They say that both Notre Dame and pot have something in common: They both get smoked in a bowl. FTPE, answer these questions about Notre Dames bowl-losing streak. 1. Notre Dames most recent bowl loss was to what team in the 2006 Fiesta Bowl? A: The Ohio State University 2. As of the end of the last bowl season, Notre Dame tied with West Virginia for the title of longest bowl losing streak at this many losses. A; 8 3. Who was the head football coach at Notre Dame when their streak began at the 1995 Fiesta Bowl? A: Lou Holtz 6. (Mik)Name the Puccini operas given short descriptions FTPE:

1. An opera singer tries to rescue her painter boyfriend after he tries to safeguard a political prisoner in Napoleonic-War Italy; she kills the chief of police, the painter gets the firing squad, and she jumps off a castle. A: Tosca 2. The Prince of Persia tries and fails to answer the title characters three riddles; the Prince of Tartary answers them right, but we never see if she manages to guess his real name in the original work. A: Turandot 3. The title character sways between the affections of the debauched Tigrana and faithful Fidelia; when Tigrana betrays him for money, he rebukes her, then she stabs Fidelia to death. A: Edgar 7. (Mik) Name the following people involved in the Investiture Controversy, FTPE: 1. This pope from 1073-1085 declared in the dictatus papae that religious appointments could only be made within the church, and his quarrel with HRE Henry IV resulted in the incident at Canossa and the popes death while fleeing unfriendly forces in Rome. A: Pope Gregory VII (Hildebrand) 2. William the Conqueror had flown papal flags when invading England, but his appointees failed to comply with papal commands, and this author of the Monologion and Proslogion was forced to retire to an abbey by Henry I of England. A: St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury 3. This Duke of Swabia originally allied with Henry IV, but was elected antiking after his excommunication and attempted to usurp the throne for three years before being defeated and killed in 1080. A: Rudolf von Rheinfeld 8. (Scott) Name these fathers of quantum physics, FTPE. A. Quantum physics can be traced to this man, who in 1900 suggested that energy may be quantized. Answer: Max Planck B. This man created his namesake equation describing the relativistic electron, as well as bra-ket notation and his delta function. Answer: Paul Dirac C. After working on the Manhattan Project, this man broke ground in quantum electrodynamics with his integrals that swept infinities under the rug. Answer: Richard Feynman 9. (Garen) 4: Strong women are frightening or sexy! For ten points each, Name the title of H. Rider Haggards book whose title character is described thusly: I have heard of the beauty of celestial beings, now I saw it; only this beauty, with all its awful loveliness and purity, was evil at least, at the time, it struck me as evil. A: She (prompt on Ayesha) Name the Shakespearean Scottish wife who convinces her husband that murder is the only way to the crown. A: Lady Macbeth (Do NOT accept Macbeth) Name the Midwestern woman from Steinbeck who breastfeeds a homeless man in a boxcar at the end of the novel she appears in. A: Rose of Sharon (prompt on Sharon) 10. (Mik)Name these heresies of the early Christian church, FTPE: 1. Coming from the Greek roots for against and Law, followers of this heresy believed that no formal church structure is necessary, relying instead on salvation by personal faith. Charges of this were leveled against Protestants and Quakers in more modern times. A: Antinomianism (accept clear equivalents) 2. This sect revolved around the extreme rejection of possessions by its namesake founder, a 12th-century lay cleric, but who did so without permission and was excommunicated. After being declared schismatics by 4th Lateran, they were incorporated into Catholicism as the Poor Catholics.

A: Waldensians (from Peter Waldo) 3. The namesake of this creed was denounced at Nicaea in 325, and its teachings, which remained in vogue in Germany for generations, held that Christ was wholly divine and a direct creation of God. A: Arianism 11. (Mik)Given the Nazi code name for a planned invasion, name the country that was the intended target of the attack , FTSNOP: (5) Operation Barbarossa A: USSR (accept Soviet Union, prompt on Russia) (10) Operation Sea Lion A: United Kingdom (Accept UK, Britain prompt on England) (5) Case White A: Poland (accept Croatia) (10) Case Green A: Czechoslovakia 12. (Grace) Bonus: Lets see if you know your chemistry equilibrium concepts: For ten points, give the name of what K represents in any equilibrium problem Answer: equilibrium constant What quantity is the same as the equilibrium constant expression, but for partial pressures or concentrations of the reactants and products before the system reaches equilibrium, denoted as Q? Answer: reaction quotient If the reaction quotient is greater than the equilibrium constant, in which direction will the reaction shift: towards products or backwards to reactants. Answer: towards products 13. (Marc) Given three songs with cryptic titles, name the illicit drug each was written about FTPE. a. Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie heroin (accept any opiate) b. White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane LSD (accept any psychedelic) c. Geek Stink Breath by Green Day crystal methamphetamine 14. (Scott) The Vatican Museum is home to some of the western worlds most famous art. FTPE, name a few of those pieces. A. Unearthed in 1506, this marble statue created in the first century BC influenced the Italian Renaissance with its violent muscular movement of a man and his children trying to escape serpents. Answer: Laocon and his Sons (accept Laocon Group) B. This massive Michelangelo fresco depicts a terrifying Christ casting sinners down into hell and provides an additional reason to visit the Sistine Chapel. Answer: The Last Judgment C. Located in the Popes personal apartment, this Raphael work in the Stanza di Eliodoro depicts the release of an apostle from prison. Answer: The Liberation of St. Peter 15. (Garen) 3: For ten points each, answer these questions about a famous Victorian poet. At first overshadowed by his literary wife, he was jokingly referred to as Elizabeth Barretts husband. A: Robert Browning Browning is best known for producing works through this technique, one he perfected, in which his subjects confess perfidy, murder, jealousy, or rage, without knowing it themselves, such as in My Last Duchess. A: Dramatic monologue (prompt on dramatic)

Q: The year's at the spring / And day's at the morn; / Morning's at seven; /The hill-side's dew-pearled / The lark's on the wing; / The snail's on the thorn; / God's in his Heaven - / All's right with the world! are the lines from which Browning poem? A: Pippa Passes 16. (Yogesh) FTPE, answer these related questions. This Polish cavalry officer was fatally wounded in the groin in 1779 while leading American troops during the Revolutionary War. Answer: Casimir Pulaski Pulaski died in this state, which is currently the home of Fort Pulaski National Monument. Answer: Georgia This singer-songwriter has a song titled Casimir Pulaski Day, after a regional holiday celebrated on the first Monday in March, on his 2005 album Illinois. Answer: Sujfan Stevens 17. (Yogesh) FTPE, name these famous literary hoaxers. This author of the bestselling memoir A Million Little Pieces was chewed out by Oprah after it was discovered that he had fabricated parts of his story. Answer: James Frey In 2005, it was reported that The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things and other works supposedly written by this former teenage prostitute were actually written by Laura Albert, and the author himself who did not exist was impersonated by Alberts sister-in-law. Answer: JT Leroy This 18th-century British poet, who committed suicide at 17, falsely claimed to have discovered several medieval poems which he actually wrote himself. Answer: Thomas Chatterton 18. (Yogesh) FTPE, name these people who claim to be able to talk to the dead. This Crossing Over host was labeled the Biggest Douche in the Universe by South Park. Answer: John Edward Possibly the second-biggest douche in the universe is this psychic, who co-executive produces the CBS drama Ghost Whisperer. Answer: James Van Praagh This psychic, whose life is the basis for the NBC drama Medium, claims to have helped the Texas Rangers find criminals, though the Rangers deny ever having consulted her. Answer: Alison Dubois 19. (Marc) FTPE, identify these beings and concepts from Scientological mythology (termed space opera by L. Ron Hubbard). a. The ruler of the Galactic Confederacy who, 75 million years ago, brought millions of space aliens to Earth, then known as Teegeeack, and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Near volcanoes. Xenu or Xemu b. These are the souls of the space aliens nuked by Xenu, who cluster in the bodies of living humans, causing illness and disability. body thetans c. According to L. Ron Hubbard, the space aliens were brought to Teegeeack by Xenu in interstellar ships which exactly resembled what modern-day craft? Douglas DC-8s 20. (Luke) Identify the author from works, 30-20-10. (30) El Embajador, The Porcelain Gourd, Portrait in Sepia (20) Eva Luna, The Infinite Plan, Forest of the Pygmies (10) Of Love and Shadows, The House of the Spirits. A: Isabelle Allende