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This leader befriended Tomochichi, the chieftain of the Yamacraw tribe, whose warriors helped
this man at Gully Hole Creek after a voyage on the ship Ann. After the death by smallpox of his
friend Edward Castell, this man worked with the Earl of Egmont in a group of twenty-one Trustees
to co-found a place to which he (*) physically brought the Methodists John and Charles Wesley for a brief
voyage. This man led an attack against St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear, during which he won
the Battle of Bloody Marsh against the Spanish. He established a layout of square "wards" and banned rum
in a settlement intended for the resettlement of debtors' prisons. For 10 points, name this founder of
Savannah and the Georgia colony. |
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| The Funeral of the Count of Orgaz [or The Burial of the Count of Orgaz] |
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2. In this painting, a harpist and two other musicians sit to the left of a figure in yellow who holds
some keys. The parish priest who commissioned it may be the figure in the white translucent gown
with his back to the viewer in its bottom right. The artist's signature can be found on the
handkerchief of a young boy, who was modeled after the artist's own illegitimate son. A kneeling (*)
John the Baptist looks up towards Jesus while Mary, seated across from him, stares down at this painting's
title figure. That title figure is supported by the elaborately-robed Saints Augustine and Stephen. This work
is located in the Church of Santo Tome in Toledo. For 10 points, name this El Greco masterpiece where the
title nobleman dies and is welcomed into Heaven. |
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| looms [or power looms; accept frame looms until "Frame Breaking" is read] |
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The first completely automated type of this device was invented by the creator of the "Digesting
Duck," Jacques Vaucanson. Users of these devices in Lyon in the 1830s began the Canut revolts.
Before computers, Joseph Jacquard designed one of these devices which inspired Charles Babbage's
idea for an "analytical engine" programmed with punch cards. John Kay's improvement to this
device meant only one person was needed to operate it, and Edward (*) Cartwright sold his version of
this machine to manufacturers in Manchester. The Frame Breaking Act also made violence against these
objects illegal. The flying shuttle improved these machines, which unemployed men destroyed in the
Luddite uprisings. For 10 points, name these machines used for weaving textiles. |
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| Evelyn Waugh [or Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh] |
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The title character of one of this man’s novels hears a woman he names Goneril convince Captain
Steerforth to kill a man while aboard the SS Caliban. The protagonist of another of his works refuses
to divorce Brenda so he need not sell Hetton Abbey. In that novel by this man, a trip to South
America results in Tony (*) Last being captured and forced to read Dickens aloud. This author of the The
Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold created an alcoholic son of the Marquis of Marchmain who tries to join a
monastery in Carthage. That novel by this man focuses on Sebastian Flyte, who befriends the narrator, a
painter named Charles Ryder. For 10 points, name this British author of A Handful of Dust and Brideshead
Revisited. |
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| firstborn son [or equivalents, such as the first male child; prompt on sons] |
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A person with this status is obliged to fast on the Fourteenth of Nisan in Judaism. Another Jewish
rite named for these people takes place 31 days after birth and requires that five shekels be given to a
kohein for their sake; that ritual is the "Redemption" of a person with this status. (*) Reuben loses the
rights of this status by sleeping with Rachel's maid, Bilhah. The Book of Genesis notes that Jacob gained
his name by clutching at a rival's heel to try and gain this status. Jews with this status were protected from
death by lamb's blood painted on their doors in Egypt. For 10 points, identify this status of the Egyptian
children killed by the angel of death during the Tenth Plague. |
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| atomic nuclei [or atomic nucleus; prompt on atoms] |
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A combination of two earlier models of this thing that incorporates vibration and rotation is the
so-called collective model. A correction term in a formula for these things adds or subtracts a term
equal to 11.18 MeV over A to the one-half for even-even and odd-odd types of them, respectively.
That formula, developed by Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker, incorporates empirical data and
assumes that this thing behaves as an incompressible liquid drop, and is used to calculate the binding
energy of these things, which is the energy needed to (*) split them into multiple parts. These things are
more stable when their constituents are present in so-called "magic numbers". Its existence was confirmed
by the results of the gold foil experiment. For 10 points, what part of the atom consists of protons and
neutrons? |
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The second movement of Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite is one of these pieces, as is the
Elgar-inspired first movement of Shostakovich's first violin concerto. It's not a serenade, but
Benjamin Britten dedicated a song cycle for tenor, seven instruments, and strings named for this
genre to Alma Mahler. Another composition of this type for wordless female choir and orchestra,
whose movements are titled (*) "Clouds", "Festivals", and "Sirens" and were inspired by Whistler
paintings, was composed by Claude Debussy. Piano pieces of this type were first composed by John Field,
whose work inspired a set of 21 of these pieces composed by Frederic Chopin. For 10 points, name this
type of musical composition that depicts nighttime. |
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Llinas and Nicholson found that, in alligators, cells in this structure have dendritic spikes
originating from a massive, 2D dendritic arbor. The red nuclei receive signals from the motor cortex
and this part of the brain. Damage to this structure is checked with the vestibuloocular reflex.
Signals from it originate in its vestibular, fastigial, intersposed, and dentate nuclei, known collectively
as its (*) deep nuclei. Like the hippocampus, this part of the brain receives signals from mossy fibers. Its
cortex is comprised of Purkinje cells. This structure sits behind the pons. For 10 points, name this part of
the brain important for balance and motor control, whose name means “little brain.” |
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| Ancient Greek [or Koine Greek] |
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9. A poem written in this language begins with a word meaning either "on a many-colored throne"
or "of a many-colored mind". Another poem in this language claims "the fox knows many things,
but the hedgehog knows one big thing". A third poem in this language ends with a force of crabs
preventing the annihilation of frogs by mice, and is attributed to an author who began another of his
poems with the word (*) "rage". That poem in this language includes an ekphrasis about a shield in its
18th book. The Five Ages of Man are related in Works and Days, a didactic poem written in this language
by the author of Theogony. For 10 points, name this language in which the "Hymn to Aphrodite" was
written by Sappho, and which was also used by Hesiod and Homer. |
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