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Michigan MLKTournament 2004 - -- --- Round by -_ .... Carleton ·· and . Notre Datne A / Packet by Carleton A (Ezra Lyon, Jack Rousseau, Kevin Clair and Mike Austin) and Notre Dame A (Troy Androli et al.) 1. The losing commander blamed the whole thing on FitzJohn Porter. Half the Confederate army went with Stonewall Jackson to raid Union supply lines. This caused the Union army to turn and attack his position on Groveton Heights. Jackson held out until the rest of Lee's army arrived and together, on August 30-311862 they counter-attacked and forced John Pope to retreat back to Washington in, for 10 points, what battle fought on the same site as the first major battle of the Eastern theatre. Answer: Second Manassas or Second Bull Run 2. In the Iliad, Phoenix tries to persuade Achilles to fight by telling the story of the-this King of the Aetolians, who had !:efuse~_ to participate iIi a fight with the Curetes because he was angry with his mother. In other versions, his mother Althea becomes mad at hun for killing . her brothers and kills him by throwing on the fire a log whose existence was fated to end with his life. For 10 points, name this man whose father pissed off Artemis so much that she sent down the Calydonian Boar, which this man hunted. Answer: Meleager 3. The title character is walking with her stepfather when they encounter her mother with another man, called the Captain, whom she has to talk to while the mother and stepfather argue. Neither Beale nor Ida Farange cares much for the title character, who finds her step parents more congenial. The former Miss Overmore gets Claude and the title character stays with Miss Wix in, for 10 points, what novel by Henry James that deals with the . epistemological status of the innocent title heroine? Answer: . What Masie Knew 4. This process is regulated by such factors as the caspases, Bax and Bcl-2. Its stages include membrane blebbing, nuclear condensation and DNA fragmentation. The process is often stimulated by some sort of DNA damage, such as that from UV radiation, and can also be brought on by cytotoxic agents, chemotherapy, and heat shock. FTP, name this cellular process, often known as programmed cell death. A: apoptosis 5. In 1917, St.John Philby, father of the spy Kim Philby, became the first Englishman to cross it. Wilfrict Thesiger, who died in 2003, was there in the 1940s and made an expedition north from the Hadramaut mountains that had to be secret because local rulers still banned Europeans from their territory. Exploration for oil in the region may eventually cause Oman, Yemen and Saudi Arabia to draw formal lines in the sand, but for the moment there are still no formal borders or indeed much of anything else in, for 10 points, what massive virtually uninhabited region of the Arabian Peninsula? Answer: Rub al-Khali or the Empty Ouarter 6. He appointed Fuficius Fango in 40 B.C. to get control of North Africa, which eventually happened, but he continued to be ignored until, in 37, he was called on to help suppress Sextus Pompey in Sicily and tried to take the island over, at which point Octavian talked his soldiers into defecting and left him to live under near house~arrest for 25 more years Thus Octavian and Antony could get down to killing each other after the removal of, for 10 points, what third member of Rome's Second Triumvirate? Answer: Marcus Aemilius Lepidus 7. Soon after his mentor, George Wishart was burned at the stake, he was captured by the French and became a galley slave before being returned to England two years later. He then fled England for continental Europe, where he met up with John Calvin. Returning to his native land in 1559, he helped overthrow the Catholic ruler, Mary, Queen of Scots, and established his own reformed church as the state religion. FTP, name this man, founder of Presbyterianism. Answer: John Knox 8. Jane Yolen and Vladimir Vagan turned this story into a children's book in 2002. Ivan, a young prince, falls in love with Tsereyna, a beautiful princess held captive by the ogre Kastchei. __ _ With the help of the title creature, Ivan enters Kastchei's castle, lulls the ogre's servants to sleep and smashes the giant egg that holds the ogre's soul. Freed from Kastchei's magic, Tserenya marries Ivan. FTP, name this Russian folktale turned ballet, composed by Igor Stravinsky. - Answer: The Firebird 9. Late in life, this man accused Isaac Newton of stealing his ide~s on planetary motion and sank into depression. He was a skilled astronomer, and made detailed maps of the Moon's craters, but he is better known for using the compound microscope he invented, to make detailed drawings of sperm, plant cells, and microorganisms that were published in the book Micrographia in 1665. FTP, name this English scientist, namesake of a law governing the motion of springs. Answer: Robert Hooke 10. He was born about 1100 and distinguished himself as abbot of the monastery at St. Rufus in France in 1137. He was appointed a cardinal by Eugene III and spent three years in Scandinavia organizing the bishopric of Trondheim. He succeeded Anastasius IV as pope and crowned _ Frederick Barbarossa as Holy Roman Emperor, a move which angered the Romans and forced him into exile. FTP, name this man, born Nicholas Brakespear, the only Englishman to be made pope. Answer: Pope Adrian IV (accept Nicholas Brakespear on early buzz) 11. They emerged from the San Francisco scene of the late 1960s, and the decline of the civil rights movement in the early 1970s influenced their second albuin, There's a Riot Going On, which included the single "Thank You For Talkin' to Me Africa". The first famous fully integrated band in popular music was, FTP,whatband whose singles include "Everybody Is A Star" and "Everyday People." Answer: Sly and the Family Stone __ 12. Forced labor quotas were causing great hardship, and tensions mounted when the Franciscans preached against kiva ceremonies and attempted to destroy masks and kachina dolls. Under the Tewa religious leader Pope, a surprise attack was launched on the Spanish l colony, killed most of the clergy, destroyed the church at Pecos and drove the Spanish out of northern New Mexico and Arizona.FTP, name this 1680 uprising that shares its name with the dwellings of the Native American tribes that rebelled. Answer: Pueblo Revolt 13. It is located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and was primarily a relay station managed by the Eastern Telegraph Company from 1922 until 1964. In World War II~ the US built "Wideawake" Air Field there, but the island remained a dependency of st. Helena. Currently, it is the home of the European Space Agency's Ariane Earth Station. FTP, name this island with c~pital at Georgetown that was discovered on and named for the day Christ rose into heaven. Answer: Ascension Island 14. Although it is found in atomic hydrogen, its main use is in molecular rotational . spectroscopy. An atom is polarized by an applied electronic field and then interacts with the electric dipole movement. Degenerate orbitals and spin orbitals emit light at slightly different wavelengths than in the absence of the applied electric field. In 1913, the namesake ' German physicist discovered, for 10 pointsJ what effect, where spectral lines are split by an applied electric field. Answer: . Stark effect 15. As an Atlanta Brave, he hit the first ever home run in Fulton County stadium. Nine times during his career, he was selected to represent the National league in the All-Star game and. hit a career .297 with 252 horne ruris. His first managerial job carne with the Mets in 1977, before stints with St. Louis and Atlanta. FTP, name this catcher and manager who has won 4 world championships with the New York Yankees Answer: Joe Torre 16. She recently spent a day in prison for opposing nuclear testing her home country. Her recent The Cost of Living is an expose that claims that 50 million people.have been displaced by dam construction there. The Malayalam-speaking Syrian Christian community in the state of Kerala, and specifically one family and its pickle factory, are the subject of the most famous novel by, for 10 points, what Indian writer of The God of Small Things? Answer: Arundhati Roy 17. The director aimed to capture the gritty realism of the book by leasing a city block of San Francisco, filming Trina's murder at an actual murder site, and traveling to Death Valley to shoot the deaths of Marcus and McTeague. After filming concluded, MGM demanded a commercial length film and transferred the project away from Erich Von Stroheirn. FTP, name this 1924 silent movie about a kind woman transformed into a miserly shrew after winning a lottery. Answer: 18. After studying under Emil Fischer he began his own work as a professor at Kiel!t University in Germany in 1904. He switched his focus to organic chemistry, using selenium to dehydrogenate various compounds. A diene reacts with a carbonyl or carboxyl group to yield an unsaturated cyclic compound in the reaction that won a Nobel prize in 1950 for what man and his colleague Kurt Alder? A: Otto Diels 19. It is divided by the Sliabh Luachra mountains into northern and southern regions, historically known as Desmond to the north and Thomond to the south. It contains Carrauntoohill and the mouth of the Shannon and is made up of counties Waterford, Limerick, Tipperary, Clare, Cork and Kerry and bordered by Connaught and Leinster.