Packet by Matt Weiner

BOB 2007 Packet by Matt Weiner Edited by Andrew Uzzell

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In the 1990s, this organization was led by a former rock singer and holder of a black belt in judo, Robert Hue. It resurged in 1981, when its candidate Georges Marchais got fifteen percent of the vote, but did not reach the heights of the interwar period, when it published the daily newspaper L'Humanité and paralyzed the nation with its control over the CGT's general strikes. Though it won a quarter of the votes in first election held for a Fourth Republic government, it never had as much influence as when it joined the Popular Front along with Leon Blum's Socialists. FTP, name this Western European political party affiliated with the Third International. ANSWER: French Communist Party Parti or Parti Communiste Français or PCF or anything that mentions France and Communism and is not confused with the French Socialist Party

In one of her stories, the prostitute Hermelinda entertains Pablo with a game called Toad's Mouth, while Elena attempts to seduce Berna in another story by this author. One of her novels ends after Huberto changes his name to Comandante Rogelio and starts a guerilla army, and follows a girl who empties a chamber pot onto a cabinet minister and becomes a television writer. This author also told of the magic powers of a political prisoner's grandmother, who is married to one of the right-wingers trying to overthrow the author's uncle. FTP, name this author of Eva Luna who created Clara Trueba in The House of the Spirits. ANSWER: Isabel Allende

This country adopted a new parliamentary system in 1961 in order to end a showdown between president Goulart an war minister Denys. It had faced an earlier political crisis in 1954 when newsaper editor Carlos Lacerda was murdered on the orders of the president, leading to the rise to power of J.C. Filho. Throughout the 1920s, the "tenentes" or junior officers led abortive coups in this country, whose first non-royal leader was Manuel Fonseca. This country had seen passage of the Law of the Free Womb and the Golden Law, decades before it was ruled by the "estado novo" of Getulio Vargas. FTP, name this large country once colonized by Portugal. ANSWER: Brazil

A week after this event, the attack on bicyclist Marcella Sherwood which helped prompt it was punished by the issuance of the "Crawling Order." This incident was investigated by the Hunter Committee, and it resulted in the assassination of Michael O'Dwyer over twenty years later. It involved troops positioned in the only entrance to an illegal meeting of over fifteen thousand people, when the commander of the Jullundur Brigade, Reginald Dyer, ordered those troops to fire into the crowd, killing four hundred. FTP, name this 1919 atrocity in a city of the Punjab which became a ralling point for Indian activists. ANSWER: Amritsar massacre or Jallianwala Bagh massacre

At one point in this novel, the main character borrows a gun from Billy Biasse in order to protect himself from the maniacal, razor-wielding Zeddy Plummer. During a sojourn to Pittsburgh, the main character discusses racial politics with Jake. The protagonist is disgusted by Congo Rose's desire to be struck by her boyfriends and is given a freebie by the prostitute Felice, with whom he moves to Chicago at the end of the book. That lead character is a native of Petersburg in Virginia, who skipped out on the army during World War I. FTP, name this Claude McKay novel in which Jake Brown moves to a New York neighborhood. ANSWER: Home to Harlem

This man furtively took his own mares to mate with the divine horses of Laomedon, producing fine warhorses which were ultimately stolen by Diomedes. The arrow of Acestes catches of fire during the funeral games for this man, who predicts the future rise of the Caesars from the underworld. While working as a rancher on Mount Ida, he was spotted by a goddess who claimed to be the daughter of Otreus and seduced him, and he was later hit by a thunderbolt for bragging about that encounter with Aphrodite. The thunderbolt's crippling of him is why he was carried by his son out of the destruction of Troy. FTP, name this father of Aeneas. ANSWER: Anchises

Form II is found only in proteobacteria, while the more common Form I of it is an octodimer composed of sixteen chains, eight small S chains and eight large L chains. Making up over sixty percent of the soluble protein in a leaf, it allows for two molecules of 3-phosphoglyceric acid to be produced when it catalyzes a reaction between one molecule of carbon dioxide and one molecule of RuBP. Thus, its activity controls the rate-limiting step in photosynthesis. FTP, name this enzyme, known far and wide as the most common enzyme on earth. ANSWER: rubisco or ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase

In one of her movies, she played the natural daughter of a couple portrayed by Edie Falco and Martin Donovan who adopt a deaf mute, while her other roles include a character described as "crazy about English guys" and nicknamed "the American Goddess" in Love Actually. In 2007, a picture of her playing a dead body was used in controversial ads for Captivity, while a more notable saw her character fall in love with her psychologist Barry Landes after the death of her mother Teri and apparent death of her father Jack. FTP, name this actress who starred opposite Emile Hirsch as Danielle, a former porn star, in The Girl Next Door and portrays Kim Bauer on 24. ANSWER: Elisha Cuthbert

The current one was created by the author of the poem "Alfred Goldsmith Bailey," the historian George F.G. Stanley. Until 1924, it included a composite shield showing seven different coats of arms. That version was modified for use until 1965 and led to its displayers' neutrality being questioned during the Suez Crisis, because it included a Union Jack in the upper left. Known as the "red ensign," that version's replacement led to the creation of the "Bowtie Banner" or "Pearson Pennant," and to a vitriolic debate in the Commons with Opposition leader John Diefenbaker. FTP, name this emblem of a certain country which now shows red, white, and red stripes behind a red maple leaf. ANSWER: the Canadian flag [accept obvious equivalents, but not specific things like "Maple Leaf flag" since the question describes multiple Canadian flags]

A Shirley Jackson short story titled after one of these items follows a bus trip to New York undertaken by Clara Spencer. Galactic Jack constructs rankings of the world's best murderers, which Hoss attempts to climb, in a Sam Shepherd play about the one "of crime." In The Bluest Eye, Pauline Breedlove is frustrated about one that is rotten. The title character of McTeague sometimes saves time by removing them directly with his hands, and the lives of Archie and Samad are followed in a Zadie Smith novel about white ones. FTP, name these anatomical entities which belong to a dragon in an Upton Sinclair novel and whose "skin" titles a play about the Antrobus family by Thornton Wilder. ANSWER: tooth or teeth or equivalents

One of them was named after a vision of a pile of gems seen by his pregnant mother, while another of them was painted so realistically by an artist that the artist had his thumb cut off for spying on her. The penultimate one of these explained how the "206 spinsters" acquired the ability to emit light and was killed several times by his evil brother Kamath. Rishabhdev Bhagavan was the first in the line of twenty-four of them, known as the "ford-makers," while the last had "ten great dreams," preached ahimsa, and was called Mahavir. FTP, name these venerated figures in Jainism. ANSWER: tirthankaras

The melting of ice at ground level in a permafrost-laden region causes the "thermo-" kind of this, which is common in the north of China, while in dry zones, the removal of fine particles by groundwater can form networks of tubes known as its "pseudo" variety. The Yucatán, the Causses area of France, and Kentucky are common places to find its true form, in which large structures called poljen are formed after a period of time. Characterized by pepino hills, lapies, natural bridges, and sinkholes, it is caused by the dissolution in acidic water of calcium carbonate. FTP, name this kind of terrain which occurs in areas with high amounts of limestone. ANSWER: karst topography He was the musical delegate to the "Week of the Modern Art," where performers executed his Characteristic African Dances. An advocate of the a capella style he dubbed "Orpheonic singing," he inspired Juan Mena Moreno to write a sequel to his most prominent piece. Even while writing his over two thousand career works, this man served as national director of musical education, and, in a noted work featuring such sections as "O Canto do Capadocio" and "Lembranca do Serato," he fused the neo-baroque fugue with indigenous music. FTP, name this man whose adoration for The Well-Tempered Clavier led him to compose the Bachianas Brasilieras and become the greatest composer ever produced by the Southern Hemisphere. ANSWER: Heitor Villa-Lobos

In one of her novels, Theodore Peyrou is shockingly found to the son of the priest Armand La Luc, and the Marquis de Montalt catches a man trying to rob him, interrupting the romance of Adeline and Pierre de la Motte. In another novel, a ghost says that no one should try to find out the real identify of Ellena di Rosalba, but Vincentio di Vivaldi disregards the advice. In addition to The Romance of the Forest and The Italian, she wrote a novel in which a mysterious picture bequeathed after a man's death in the Pyrenees sets into motion a plot that comes to bear when Valancourt marries Emily St. Aubert. FTP, name this author, parodied by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey, who created the successful gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho. ANSWER: Anne Radcliffe

In the 1940 election, a political party of this name was led by a minister from Shreveport who was a fanatical supporter of Huey Long and published The Cross and the Flag, Joseph K. Smith. The better- known group by this name was led by such men as the North Dakota senator who praised the value of mules, Joseph Nye, and the former general who was by then president of the Sears company, Robert Wood. The third of its three major leaders made a speech in Des Moines which revealed its true attitude towards Jews. FTP, name this organization, affiliated with Charles Lindbergh, that clamored against U.S. aid to the Allies at the start of World War II. ANSWER: America First (Party or Committee or whatever)

In the first act, "the Bonze" speaks out against religious conversion and a song about the upcoming honeymoon, "Vieni la sera," is sung. Containing the Humming Chorus, it opens with a song about hedonistically wandering the world, "Dovunque al mondo," after we see Goro negotiating a 999-year lease. The title character dismisses the laziness of the gods in “Un bel dì,” and while putting a blindfold on her son, sings "Tu, piccolo Iddio” after the appearance of Kate makes the situation clear to Sharpless. FTP, name this Puccini opera where the American naval officer Pinkerton abandons Cio-Cio-San in Nagasaki. ANSWER: Madama Butterfly or Madame Butterfly [do not accept M. Butterfly]

In one form of this phenomenon, "energy gap D" must be applied to finalize the process of achieving it. This condition leads to film creep, and when this effect is induced in a rotating vessel, angular inertia ceases to apply to the vessel's contents, which has been proven analogous to the Meissner effect. Sometimes seen in the tripartite anomalous phases A, B, and A1, it occurs below the lambda transition, sometimes due to Bose condensation. FTP, name this phenomenon in which liquid helium just above absolute zero loses all resistance to flow. ANSWER: superfluidity

The native language of this place shows an intriguing affinity, in words such as "holly," "lamb," and "hill," with the Basque tongue, and the chief dialect of this location's native language is Logudorese. Macomer, Oliba, and Oristano are some of the cities on this home to Gennargentu Massif, while the Flumendosa River flows to Muravera and enters the Tyrrhenian Sea from this island. FTP, name this island on the south of the Strait of Bonifacio, whose capital is Cagliari and which is the second-largest off-mainland possession of Italy. ANSWER: Sardinia or Sardegna

A pendulum-like object is suspended from a four-legged frame with a sculpture on top in this man's Hour of the Traces, while sharp, concave triangles just out from the spine of the prostrate bronze figure in his Woman with Throat Cut. After becoming known for such works as 1 plus 1 equals 3 and Composition With Seven Figures and a Head, he was invited to design the sets for the 1963 revival of Waiting for Godot. At the same time, he was creating iconic series such as the "Tall Figures." FTP, name this sculptor who created thing, elongated miniatures of human forms. ANSWER: Alberto Giacometti

One of his advisors was the editor of the Russian Courier who was obsessed with the idea of excluding lower-class children from schools, Mikhail Katkov. However, this man, who refused to sign the Loris- Melikov Constitution, was most influenced by the director of the Most Holy Synod, a fanatical hater of modernity named Konstantin Pobedonostsev. He presided over the end of the Russian alliance with Germany following the accession of Wilhelm II, and he cancelled his father's order to create representative assemblies on the day that he took power following that father's assassination. FTP, name this penultimate Russian tsar, who was succeeded by Nicholas II. ANSWER: Alexander III

A new one of these arose temporarily in the "slot region" in 1998, and an extra permanent one had been discovered by the CRRES mission in 1990. They are produced by the "magnetic mirror effect" acting on the results of cosmic ray interactions. One of them is made of up protons that approach a twenty thousand particle per second intensity, while the other has helium ions captured from solar wind. Discovered by analyzing data from U.S. Explorer in 1958, FTP, name these toroidal zones of charged particles found in the Earth's magnetic field. ANSWER: Van Allen belts Yale BOB 2007 Packet by Matt Weiner—Bonuses

He is less famous for converting from Judaism to Catholicism than for a paper he jointly authored in 1924. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Polish mathematician who joined with Stefan Banach to explain how a mathematical sphere may be cut apart and reassembled into two spheres of equal volume to the first. ANSWER: Alfred Tarski [10] Tarki's showed that "first-order theory of the real numbers under addition and multiplication" can be described by this adjective, meaning that an algorithm can determine if a statement belongs to the theory or not. ANSWER: decidable [10] However, Tarski also showed that a lot of stuff is not decidable, such as the theory of these discrete subgroups of a finite-dimensional vector space. ANSWER: lattices

After first coming to office on the heels of a popular revolt, he was himself overthrown in 1344, only to enlist the help of the Visconti. For 10 points each: [10] Name this two-time ruler of Genoa and subject of a Verdi opera, who was finally poisoned at a banquet in 1363 and who was part of a movement to establish a Venetian-style dogeship in the city. ANSWER: Simone Boccanegra [10] Boccanegra was the local leader of this faction in Italian politics, which opposed the Guelphs. ANSWER: Ghibellines [10] Boccanegra avoided factional threats by hiring bodyguards from outside of Genoa; in fact, they all came from this city, which Genoa had smashed at the Battle of Meloria in 1284. ANSWER: Pisa

It is the lowest-energy conformation available for its substance, and has all hydrogens staggered rather than eclipsed. For 10 points each: [10] Name this arrangement of a molecule with formula C6H12. ANSWER: chair conformation [10] The chair, boat, and twisted boat are available conformations of this molecule with the aforementioned formula. ANSWER: cyclohexane [10] Since the various conformations of cyclohexane differ only in the spatial arrangement of the atoms, and not in the way in which the atoms bond to each other, they are this kind of isomers. ANSWER: stereoisomers

Its movements are "Old Folks Gatherin," "Children's Day," and "Communion." For 10 points each: [10] Name this symphony based on the hymns of the Central Presbyterian Church, which incporporates all of "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" and fleeting portions of "Silent Night." ANSWER: The Camp Meeting Symphony [or Charles Ives's Third symphony or obvious equivalents] [10] The Camp Meeting Symphony was composed by this Connecticut-based creator of Three Places in New England and New England Holidays. ANSWER: Charles Edward Ives [10] Strings representing "the silence of the Druids" cycle through harmonies while a trumpet repeats the title melody only to cue repeated chaos in the flutes in this Ives piece, which is sometimes performed alongside "Central Park in the Dark" as "Two Contemplations." ANSWER: The Unanswered Question

It identifies "transcendence," "rootedness," and "relatedness" as fundamental needs that human societies must meet, and that "alienation" from nature and labor is the cause of mental illness. For 10 points each: [10] Name this 1955 book which posits that only a total revolution can produce the title entity, which both capitalism and communism work against. ANSWER: The Sane Society [10] The Sane Society was written by this author of The Revolution of Hope and May Man Prevail?, who examined the lure of totalitarianism in Escape from Freedom. ANSWER: Erich Fromm [10] The concept of a gradual "alienation" from the product of one's labor was previously condemned as "mechanical solidarity" in The Division of Labor in Society by this author of Suicide. ANSWER: Emile Durkheim

Name these outsider artists, for 10 points each. [10] This upstate New York farmer began painting in her seventies and was discovered by Louis Caldor. Her paintings became popular on greeting cards. ANSWER: Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses [10] This man worked for fifty years as a hospital janitor, and after his death his landlord found a fully illustrated nineteen thousand page manuscript about "The Story of the Vivian Girls" in his Chicago apartment. ANSWER: Henry Darger [10] Much like Trygve Meade, this Englishman enjoyed painting jaunty cats dressed up in Edwardian clothing. However, he is better known today for the bizarre paintings of his hallucinations which he executed while institutionalized with severe schizophrenia. ANSWER: Louis Wain

Name these Zimbabwean authors, for 10 points each. [10] This British-Persian-Rhodesian-whatever woman wrote The Cleft in 2007, and has previously created such novels as The Golden Notebook and the Children of Violence series. ANSWER: Doris Lessing [10] This dramatist of She No Longer Weeps told the story of Tambu and Nyasha in the novel Nervous Conditions. ANSWER: . Tsitsi Dangarembga [10] Writing in both Shona and English, this author of Sister Sing Again Someday and Up in Arms got a lot of world attention for his 1988 novel Bones. ANSWER: Chenjerai Hove

NC State offensive linesman Kalani Heppe was called for this unusual penalty in a November 24, 2007 game against Maryland. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this 15-yard personal foul, apparently a football ref's humorous way of referring to "repeatedly punching an opponent on the ground," which was invoked for the second time ever by referee Ron Cherry. ANSWER: "giving him the business" [10] The first referee to penalize a player for "giving him the business" was Ben Dreith, who called it in a 1986 NFL game against this Jets player, the patriarch of a reality show family and former holder of the single-season sack record. ANSWER: Mark Gastineau [10] Mark Gastineau retired from football in 1989 to spend more time with Brigitte Nielsen, who later married a string of men and is currently dating this clock-wearing former Public Enemy member with a romantic reality show of his own. ANSWER: Flavor Flav or Flava Flav or William Jonathan Drayton, Jr.

Name these heroes of Philippine independence, for 10 points each. [10] This leader of the Katipunan was the face of the anti-American revolt until captured by Frederich Funston, and he later worked for the Japanese occupation. ANSWER: Emilio Aguinaldo [10] This author of Noli me tangere and El filibusterismo took charge of the Propaganda Movement and the Philippine League, advocating the equal incorpration of the Philippines into Spanish political life, but was executed after the 1896 revolt. ANSWER: José Protasio Rizal Mercado Y Alonso Realonda [10] This second in command to Aguinaldo and author of the constitution for the abortive Philippine Republic was exiled to Guam after the American takeover. ANSWER: Apolinario Mabini

Soviet novels often dealt with crazy inventions. For 10 points each: [10] This Vladimir Dudintsev novel revolves around a new way of casting iron pipes, which is not credited to Lopatkin due to petty ministerial politics, and shows that fish oil is added to the title stuff in what is called the "inventors' diet." ANSWER: Not by Bread Alone or Ne khlebom yedinim [10] The "zeks," including Nerzhin and Rubin, labor to construct a vocoder in this Solzhenitsyn novel with a title taken from Dante. ANSWER: The First Circle or V kruge pervom [10] Mstislav Los finds out that the new explosive "ultralyddite" can propel a ship to Mars in Aelita, a novel by this 1920s Soviet science fiction author who shares his surname with another Russian, who wrote Resurrection and "Hadji Murad." ANSWER: Alexei Tolstoy

Name these bands who sang about Mexican things, for 10 points each. [10] This Stan Ridgeway-led group's 1982 album Call of the West featured their most enduring song, "Mexican Radio." ANSWER: Wall of Voodoo [10] "Mexican Wine" is, along, with "Bowling Shoes" and "Hung Up on You," an of the underappreciated deep tracks from this band that is more well known for "Stacy's Mom." ANSWER: Fountains of Wayne [10] "Mexican Moon" was the title track from the last-ever album by this group which scored such alternative hits as "God is a Bullet," "Caroline", and "Joey." ANSWER: Concrete Blonde

Interferons and colony-stimulating factors are two types. For 10 points each: [10] Name these short-lived proteins released by some cells to regulate other cells' function. ANSWER: cytokines [10] Another type of cytokines are these proteins, named for their original discovery in white blood cells, whcih do things like activate T adn B lymphocytes and prompt antibody secretion. ANSWER: interleukins [10] Yet another type of cytokines are these macrophage-produced substances which lead to the drastic weight loss in cancer and parasitic infection patients, as they are released in the presence of endotoxins to cause septic shock. ANSWER: cachetins or TNFs or tumor necrosis factors

Name these people who saved Jews during the Holocaust, for 10 points each. [10] He saved 1100 people from the Gross-Rosen and Auschwitz camps with his fake munitions plant in Bruennlitz, thus creating his namesake "list." ANSWER: Oskar Schindler [10] Working with the awesomely named Per Anger at the Swedish consulate in Budapest, this man saved over fifteen thousand Hungarian Jews through a variety of methods before being killed by the Soviet invasion force for still-unclear reasons. ANSWER: Raoul Wallenberg [10] Possibly the most lives saved by any one person should be credited to this Portuguese consul in Bordeaux, who issued unlimited visas to French Jews seeking refuge in neutral Spain. ANSWER: Arístides de Sousa Mendes

He is possibly the most unlikely namesake of a US naval vessel ever. For 10 points each: [10] A World War II cargo ship was named for what first American doctor of psychology and founder of the American Journal of Psychology who wrote Jesus the Christ in the Light of Psychology? ANSWER: Granville Stanley Hall [10] This 1904 book by G.S. Hall is titled for a developmental stage which Hall investigated throughout his career. It claims that religious conversion often occurs during the titular time and that it is the final stage of the developing human's recapitulation of evolution. ANSWER: Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion, and Education [10] Hall collaborated with Arthur Allin to write "The Psychology of this, Laughing and the Comic," and coined the terms "knismesis" for the type to which most vertebrates are susceptible, and "gargalesis" for the kind which only humans and apes can receive. ANSWER: tickling

Unsurprisingly, Christianity is a popular topic in Western philosophy. For 10 points each: [10] This author of "Thoughts on Death and Immortality" and "Pierre Bayle" influenced Marx and others with his skeptical The Essence of Christianity. ANSWER: Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach [10] This author of The Life of Jesus and The History of the Origins of Christianity also advocated a Prussian "national regeneration" for France. ANSWER: Ernest Renan [10] The Reasonableness of Christianity argues for a religion stripped of its historical accretions and was written by this guy, who also penned An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and two treatises on government. ANSWER: John Locke

Considered the first careful critic to edit Shakespeare, he published editions of the bard in 1726 and 1734 in response to the errors of Alexander Pope's volumes. For 10 points each: [10] Name this author of Shakespeare Restored. ANSWER: Lewis Theobald [10] For daring to correct Pope, Theobald was mocked as Tibbald, the "hero" of the first version of this poem about the goddess of dullness. ANSWER: the Dunciad [10] By attacking his rivals in the Dunciad, Pope was imitating Dryden’s skewering of this man as the "monarch of dullness" in MacFlecknoe. ANSWER: Thomas Shadwell

The title character was inspired by Peter Kurten, the "vampire of Düsseldorf." For 10 points each: [10] Name this 1931 movie in which a Grieg-whistling serial killer played by Peter Lorre is captured by the other criminals of the city. ANSWER: M [10] This auteur of Woman in the Moon and Metropolis also directed M. ANSWER: Fitz Lang [10] Lang directed four films about this criminal mastermind, including his "Testament" and his "Thousand Eyes." ANSWER: Dr. Mabuse

In 1980, he became the first African ruler to leave office voluntarily and was succeeded by Abdou Diouf. For 10 points each: [10] Name this poet of the Negritude movement and founding president of Senegal. ANSWER: Leopold Senghor [10] Senghor brought Senegal into this union with French Sudan, Dahomey, and Upper Volta, which lasted two months in 1959 and shares its name with both a medieval empire and present-day country. ANSWER: Mali Federation [10] Senghor was a member of this minority ethnic group in Senegal, but had little trouble with the Wolof majority. ANSWER: Serer

Elihu Root did a lot of stuff. For 10 points each: [10] Root authored this bill, later sponsored by its namesake Ohio Senator, which established the American-controlled government of Puerto Rico in 1900. ANSWER: Foraker Act [accept Organic Act of 1900 because you're so generous] [10] Root and this Japanese ambassador lend their names to an accord that reaffirmed the Gentleman's Agreement and Open Door policy while giving American assent to Japanese annexation of Korea. ANSWER: Takahira Kogoro [10] Root was one of the American negotiators at this 1921 to 1922 meeting which produced a Five-Power Treaty requiring the scrapping of many battleships. ANSWER: Washington Naval Conference [or International Conference On Naval Limitation]

Edward Mendelson published a work entitled "how to read" this series of poems. For 10 points each: [10] Name this 385-part cycle which includes elegies for Delmore Schwarz and poems in which figures such as Henry and Mr. Bones represent the romantic melancholy of their confessional American author. ANSWER: the Dream Songs [10] This author of Homage to Mistress Bradstreet wrote the Dream Songs. ANSWER: John Berryman [10] Berryman's own work as a critic included a book about this man, who wrote Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky." ANSWER: Stephen Crane