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Sun 'N Fun IX: the Medusa Laughs Again, Or Avoiding the Curse of the Ninth…We Hope Packets by Ahmad Ragab Et Sun 'n Fun IX: The Medusa Laughs Again, Or Avoiding the Curse of the Ninth…we hope Packets by Ahmad Ragab et. al Round 2 Tossups: 1. [AR]One text in this author's "Elemental Series" strategically engages Derrida and the titular philosopher in Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche. In another work, she discusses the possibility of yoga and other Eastern meditative techniques to reveal insight into the question of sexual difference in Between East and West. A student of Jacques Lacan, this dual-PhD holder in Philosophy and Linguistics broke with him in her work, Speculum of the Other Woman. Arguing that the history of philosophy, psychology, and structural linguistics have subsumed the female subjective position into a discussion of matter in nature, for 10 points, name this French deconstructionist author of The Sex Which is Not One who is often associated with Helene Cixous and Julia Kristeva. ANSWER: Luce Irigaray 2. [JR] While digging for mystic treasure on St. Andrew's Eve, the main character's friends find a metal sign with the words "United States Geodetic Survey, 1915, Elevation 600 Feet". Things bartered for wine in this story include someone’s blanket and someone’s pants, paper roses, the plunder of a downed Coast Guard ship, a vacuum cleaner with no motor, and a house. The local purveyor of wine, Mr. Torelli, often comes up short on the trades or sees the bartered items stolen back. A party featuring more than 30 gallons of wine and a keg of potato whiskey leads to the death of Danny, whose house burns down soon afterward. For 10 points, name this tale of oenophile Monterey paisanos, penned by John Steinbeck. ANSWER: Tortilla Flat 3. [AR] Violent gravitational interactions among members are prevalent, as evidenced by NGC 4438's long tidal tail of debris produced by ram-pressure stripping. Its mean distance from the Earth is approximately 16 megaparsecs and has a mass-to-light ratio of 500 solar units. The first exhaustive analysis of this region was carried out by the Du Pont Telescope survey in the 1980's by Sandage and Binggeli. Its distribution density resembles two superimposed areas of concentration five degrees apart, one centered on M49 and the other centered on the massively luminous elliptical galaxy M87. Parts of it extend into the neighboring constellation of Coma Berencies, and it is also the home of the Sombrero Galaxy. For 10 points, name this closest large cluster of galaxies surrounding its namesake constellation, a feminine sign of the Zodiac. ANSWER: Virgo Supercluster [accept Local Supercluster] 4. [AR]In 1842, he was appointed a second lieutenant in Corps of Topographical Engineers and he designed a number of lighthouses in the Florida Keys. After serving in the Mexican-American War under Zachary Taylor at the Battle of Monterrey, he was promoted to brigadier general at the start of the Civil War under the recommendation of Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin. Born in Cadiz, and as a result of his distinguished performances at South Mountain and Fredericksburg where he temporarily broke through Stonewall Jackson's line, he was thrust into his most important role by Lincoln after Joseph Hooker's defeat at Chancellorsville. For 10 points, name this Union General best known for his key victory as head of the Army of the Potomac against General Lee in the Battle of Gettysburg. ANSWER: Gen. George Meade 5. [AR]Fearing retaliation from the satrap of Sardis, Artaphernes, the primary instigator of this series of conflicts, initially sought the aid of Cleomenes I of Sparta who declined, but then found support from the Athenians. The conclusion of this set of events was sealed by a decisive victory at the Battle of Lade. This series of events was triggered when Aristagoras, the ruler of Miletus, after a failed coup of Naxos incited a general rebellion in the area. One of the major conflicts during this event was the 498 BC Battle of Ephesus. For 10 points, name this series of revolts that occurred in the namesake region in Asia Minor at the start of the 5th century BC against the Achaemenid Empire that were quickly crushed by the Persians under Darius I. ANSWER: Ionian Revolts or Rebellions [accept Aristagoras before "this series"] 6. [AR]One of the secondary constituents of this includes peroxyacetyl nitrate, which can be generated by the oxidation of VOCs. The primary constituent of this mixture is a phytotoxin and can be generated via multiple pathways including one where an excited oxygen atom produced from a photon at a wavelength between 280 and 310 nm, generates an OH seed that subsequently participates in a chain reaction involving the photolyzation of NO2 and formaldehyde. The incremental reactivity of the present hydrocarbon, the most reactive being terminally bound olefins and the least reactive being ethane, with the hydroxyl radical, characterizes the rate of formation for ozone , the primary constituent. With the largest concentrations of this occurring 10-100km from the main hydrocarbon emission source, for 10 points, name this atmospheric pollutant responsible for the characteristic haze over L.A. and pretty sunsets. ANSWER: photochemical smog [prompt on smog] 7. [RF] He often dashed off poems during mealtimes such as those collected in The Lunch Poems. A writer for Art News and curator at the Museum of Modern Art, his work often discussed visual art, such as the poem "Why I Am Not A Painter". With poets like James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, and John Ashberry, they formed a school which emphasized immediacy and the blending of high and low culture. His work often consisted of a collage of random events he called "I do this I do that" poem, such as his account of what he was doing when he learned of the death of Billie Holiday, "The Day Lady Died". He died on Fire Island after he fell asleep on the beach and was run over by a dune buggy. For 10 points, name this American poet and leading member of the New York School ANSWER: Frank O'Hara 8. [AR] An early practical application of this was utilized in the scientific newsletter Spectroscopia Molecular from 1952-1980. Some of its design specifications were based on the work of Edgar de Wahl, a naval officer and teacher, whose namesake rule allows a semi-naturalistic conversion of verb infinitives into derived nouns and adjectives. It has no explicitly defined phonotactics and its founding organization the IALA decided to model its creation after the moderately naturalistic Occidental rather than the slightly schematic Novial. Despite the fact that English and Russian operate as control languages, it has been criticized as "Standard Average European" rather than the more universal aims it creators would suggest. For 10 points, name this international auxiliary language whose name comes from the Latin for "between tongues." ANSWER: Interlingua 9. [AR]Their chairman a managing partner in the US Law Firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Bruce Buck, is the only other person to hold shares in this organization other than the majority owner. Their April 14th draw against Wigan Athletic will likely eliminate them from catching up to their long-time rivals; however, they had at the time an opportunity to collect silverware in the UEFA Champions League. The departure of Jose Mourinho saw the installation of the first Israeli manager of an English Premier League Team, Avram Grant. Owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and led by their captain John Terry and their superstar striker Didier Drogba, for 10 points, name this Greater London soccer team who have played its games at Stanford Bridge since 1905 and are nicknamed the Blues. ANSWER: Chelsea F.C. 10. [AR]The Slate writer Ron Rosenbaum's private and public correspondence with the literary executor of this work has included an angry ALL CAPS e-mail, and much controversy surrounds the work even though only one other person, Brian Boyd, has read the work and even that only on 138 edited index cards. According to Delage- Toriel, it involves a central female character, Flora, who is the heroine of a novel within this novel, who is either literally destroyed or figuratively merged into a character named FLaura with a capital F and L. It also possibly involves Phillip Wild who is married to a woman named Flora because she reminded him of a woman named Aurora Lee. Some interpretations of the work suggest that it is a reworking of another controversial novel written about an incomplete woman. After 30 years of controversy, the executor has finally decided to publish the work against his father's dying wishes. For 10 points, name this soon to be published work written by the father of Dmitri Nabokov. ANSWER: The Original of Laura 11. [AR]She directed a movie starring Molly Ringwald and Carol Kane about a secretary who allows a computer technician to die and then suddenly becomes comfortable with killing, 1997's Office Killer. During the 1980's, in response to the NEA's cutting of funding to controversial artists such as Mappelthorpe and Serrano, she took pieces of medical mannequins and rearranged them in compromising positions in "The Sex Pictures." Always interested in the reconsumption of image and the destabilization of identity many of her other series, "Fairly Tale Disasters," "Working Girl," and "Centerfolds" recontextualizes many familiar scenes with a singular identity. For 10 points, name this MacArthur Fellowship artist and photographer famous for placing herself in many of her pictures such as in "Untitled Film Stills." ANSWER: Cindy Sherman 12. [AR]If we use Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker equations to describe an isotropic universe filled with a perfect fluid then this is equal to the pressure divided by the mass density of the fluid.
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