2003 Mad City Masters The Whole Family (Andrew Yaphe, Subash Maddipoti, Paul Litvak) Tossnps by Andrew Yaphe
1. His worst novel is probably The Coast ofBohemia, which appeared in the same year as The World ofChance and An Imperative Duty. His last novel, 1916's The Leatherwood God, depicts the Ohio frontier, while Boston was the setting for The Minister's Charge and New York City for A Hazard ofNew Fortunes. FTP, name ~his great American novelist of Indian Summer, A Modern Instance, and The Rise ofSilas Lapham.
Answer: William Dean Howells
2. William Dean Howells married a cousin of this man, who was also the subject ofa biography by Howells. He was derided as "Granny" and "Queen Victoria in britches," for his conservatism but not as much as his pro temperance wife, Lemonade Lucy. He vetoed Congress's repeals ofthe Force Acts and the Bland-Allison Act, but he split his party by suspending Alonzo Cornell and Chester Arthur in an attempt to break the corrupt Conkling machine. FTP, name this Republican, who ended Reconstruction when he was elected President in 1876 in a controversial race with Samuel Tilden.
Answer: ~utherford B. Hayes
3. William Dean Howells's poem "Pordenone" is about his rivalry with this artist for the hand of Violante. The Duke of Ferrara commissioned this man's The Worship of Venus and Bacchanal ofthe Andrians, while Philip II commissioned his Diana and Actaeon, and the Holy Roman Emperor commissioned his Charles Vas the Victor of Mulhberg. FTP, name this pupil of Giorgione and painter of Sacred and Profane Love and the Venus of Urbino.
Answer: Titian or Tiziano VeceUio
4. William Dean Howells suggested that its discovery would make the Utopia he envisioned in Through the Eye of the Neeille possible. As a result of it, commercial level 99.5% pure ingots were produced for the first time. It creates a product that is denser than the molten cryolite bath in which the reaction takes place, which allows the desired substance to be collected. The first plant using the process was opened at Pittsburgh in 188S by one of its co-discoverers. FTP, name this process discovered independently by a French and an American scientist, by which aluminum is produced.
Answer: Hall-Heronlt process
5. This was William Dean Howells' favorite novel, and he persuaded Rutherford Hayes to read it. He especially liked the scene in which the title character's husband perceives that he cannot forgive with dignity and yet forgives anyway. It begins with the discovery of an affair between a French governess and Stepan Arkadyich Oblonsky, and ends in the nursery of Kitty and Levin. FTP, name this novel about an adulterous woman who throws herself under a train, a work of Leo Tolstoy. .
Answer: Anna Karenina
6. William Dean Howells thought that Longfellow'S sonnet on the death of this man, which praised him for having ''read Nature's mysterious manuscript," was ''un surpassable." After completing his journey to California around Cape Horn, he opened his summer school of zoology in Buzzards Bay Massachusetts. His early work was on glaciers and fossil fish, but he broadened his scope to all of natural history after accepting a chair at Harvard in 1848. FTP,namethis Swiss-born scientist, one of the last major opponents of Darwinism.
Answer: Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 7. William Dean Howells made this work a "sensation" by giving it its most favorable review, though what he found most interesting about it was the fact that the titular entity was English in spirit rather than American. The book's final chapters consider survivals of the non-invidious interest and the ''higher learning" as an expression of pecuniary culture, while earlier chapters ofthis "economic study of institutions" introduce the concepts of "pecuniary emulation" and "conspicuous consumption." FTP, name this 1899 book by Thorstein Veblen.
Answer: The Theory ofthe Leisure Class
8. The title of William Dean Howells' The Shadow of a Dream comes from this work. It ends with Peona, the title character's sister, going home in wonderment, and it begins with a preface written from Teignmouth that dedicates the "poetic romance" to Thomas Chatterton and expresses hope that the mythology of Greece has not been dulled by the author's mawkishness. FTP, name this long poem in four books and 4,000 lines that begins "A thing of beauty is ajoy for ever," a work ofJohn Keats.
Answer: Endvmion
9. This man claimed that a single sentence about black walnut in The Rise ofSilas Lapham changed the entire course of American architecture. He started out working for McKim, Mead, and White in New York, and he would later design that city's Federal Courts Building, but he established a name for himself in Minnesota, where he designed the state capitol. FTP, name this architect whose designs in Washington, D. C. include the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the Supreme Court building.
Answer: Cass Gilbert
10. William Dean Howells was appointed consul to this city in 1861, 1135 years after its first known leader, Orso Ipato, came to power. In 1848, under Daniele Manin, it revolted and became part of its current nation in 1866 after the Seven Week's War. Along with the republics of La Spezia, Amalfi, and Genoa, it rose to dominate the Mediterranean in the 14th century, but this most serene republic was conquered by Napoleon in 1797 and made a part of Austria-Hungary. FTP, name this Italian city, whose notable residents besides Howells include Casanova, Marco Polo, and a number ofDoges.
Answer: Venice
11. William Dean Howells highly praised this book, writing that one might read passages aloud to even the tenderest female from the chapters on Instinct, Hypnotism, or Habit. Dedicated to Francois Pillon, it was finally published in 1890 as the culmination of over a decade of work, and also includes chapters on the Automaton Theory, the Perception of Time, the Consciousness ofSelt: and the Stream of Thought. FTP, name this enormous work by William James.
Answer: The Principles ofPsvchologv
12. He was delighted to meet William Dean Howells at Portsmouth, and claimed to have read all of his novels. He succeeded Vyshnegradsky as Finance Minister and continued his protectionist policies, but his attempts at reform proved unpopular with the Tsar and he was replaced by Ivan Goremykin in 1906. FTP, name this Russian politician, who became Prime Minister after the October Manifesto was issued in 1905.
Answer: Count Sergei Witte
13. William Dean Howells' father edited ajournal, The Retina, devoted to expounding the views of this man, and when Henry James Sr. wrote a book on this man's "secret" Howells quipped that James had kept it. Kant attacked this man's views in his Dreams ofa Spirit-Seer, while Blake paid tribute to him in ''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" and Emerson depicted him as "The Mystic" in Representative Men. FTP, name this author of Heavenly Arcana and The New Jerusalem, a Swede who wrote at length about his spiritual visions.
Answer: Emanuel Sweden borg 14. A performance of this play inspired William Dean Howells to write A Modern Instance. The work ends with the title character fleeing to King Aegeus in a chariot belonging to her grandfather Helios, following the death of the daughter of the king of Corinth. That daughter died as a result of a bewitched dress offered as a wedding gift. FTP, name this play about a Colchian princess who takes revenge on her husband Jason, a work of Euripides.
Answer: Medea
15. Howells wrote a novel about Lydia Blood, the "lady" of a ship with this name. Its most prominent city, Presque Isle, was the subject of a massing of 50,000 volunteers at its greatest time of crisis. This resulted as its namesake river was the basis of some controversial Canadian lumberjacking, and both New Brunswick and Maine summoned their militias following the arrest of Rufus McIntire there. FIP, name this Anglo-American boundary, over which a "war" was fought in 1839.
Answer: Aroostook (accept The Ladv ofthe Aroostook on the first sentence)
16. It is commonly carried by the vivax species though it is the falciparum species that causes the majority of fatalities. William Dean Howells' sister Victoria died of this disease, and it was caught in Cuba by Howells' friend Stephen Crane. If caught via transmission by the Anopheles genus, the disease attacks the liver, from which it spreads into red blood cells, the destruction of which can lead to anemia or jaundice. FTP, name this disease caused by a mosquito-born parasite, Plasmodium.
Answer: malaria
17. William Dean Howells wrote that ifnothing but this author's work had come out of American life, it could be said that America had made a distinctive addition to the literature of the world. Recent editions have been edited by Ralph Franklin and Thomas Johnson, but the one Howells read was edited by Mabel Todd, who was sleeping with the poet's brother Austin, and Colonel Thomas Higginson. FTP, name this author of almost 1,800 lyric poems, including ones that begin "I heard a fly buzz when I died" and ''Because I could not stop for death."
Answer: Emily Dickinson
18. After Roger Pryor's appeal on behalf of the accused in this incident was denied, William Dean Howells wrote a letter to the New York Tribune asking for clemency. Governor Oglesby responded by commuting two ofthe death sentences, though not that of Augutus Spies, and seven years after this May 4 incident three men were freed by Governor Altgeld. FTP, name this event of 1886, in which seven policemen were killed by a bomb while breaking up an anarchist meeting in Chicago.
Answer: Haymarket Square Massacre
19. In a William Dean Howells short story, this man appears as a belligerent drunk who falls into a river. He demonstrated that quartz caused rotation of the plane of polarized light, and he used a thermometer to discover infrared radiation. John Dreyer compiled 7,840 of the objects he discovered in the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters ofStars. FTP, name this German-born astronomer who discovered Titania, Oberon, and Uranus.
Answer: William Herschel
20. William Dean Howells traced the beginning of Mark Twain's financial decline to his investment in a biography of this person. He began his career as governor ofPerugia before becoming nuncio to Belgium, and while in office he opened the archives of the Vatican to scholars and entered the arena of social policy with his encyclical Rerum Novarum. FTP, name this man, born Gioacchino Pecci, who in 1878 succeeded Pius IX as Pope.
Answer: Leo xm (accept early buzz of real name) 21. William Dean Howells studied law for a short time with this man in 1855. When he succeeded Lafayette Foster as president pro tempore of the Senate in 1867, he became acting vice-president, but two years later Allan Thurman replaced him and he became attorney for the Northern Pacific railroad. After Charles Sumner was beaten, he almost fought a duel with Robert Toombs, and his hatred ofthe South manifested during the Civil War when he joined with a Maryland representative to condemn Lincoln's plans for reconstruction. FTP, name this Ohio senator, who collaborated on a bill with Henry Davis.
Answer: Benjamin Wade
22. Herbert Howells succeeded this man as director of music at St. Paul's Girls School. His choral works include "The Hymn to Jesus" and a setting of Whitman's "Ode to Death," while his operas include The Perfect Fool, At the Boar's Head, and Sita. FTP, name this British composer of Egdon Heath and a suite in seven movements written during World War I, The Planets.
Answer: Gustav Holst 2003 Mad City Masters The Whole Family Bonuses by Subash Maddipoti
1. Name these contributors to the Atlantic Monthly, FTP each: A. This novelist of The Traveler from Altruria and Through the Eye ofthe Needle, served as editor-in-chief ofthe magazine for ten years. Answer: William Dean Howells B. His story "The Goophered Grapevine" became the first work by a black author to be published in the Atlantic Monthly. His major work is the story collection The Conjure Woman. Answer: Charles Waddell Chesnutt C. The Atlantic Monthly, unfortunately, gave this poet her first big break resulting in such collections as the Pulitzer Prize winning The Wild Iris and The House on Marshland. Answer: Louise Gluck
2. Charles Chesnutt won the Spingarn Medal. Name these African-American scientists who also accomplished that feat, FTP each: A. In 1896 he became head of the Department of Agricultural Research at Tuskegee, where he began a series of exhaustive experiments on peanuts. Answer: George Washington Carver B. He first showed that blood plasma lasts longer than whole blood and won the 1944 Spingarn Medal for helping establish blood banks to help the Allies during World War II, thereafter trying to make the public aware that blood banks should not be segregated by race. Answer: Charles Richard Drew C. In 1935 he synthesized physostigmine, the drug used to treat glaucoma and later first used soybean to synthesize progesterone, testosterone, and cortisone. Answer: Percy Lavon Julian
3. George Washington Carver was born in Diamond, Missouri. Name these Missouri cities, FTP each: A. This state capital is pretty much known for being just that. Answer: Jefferson City B. This seat of Boone County is the site of the Univen;ity of Missouri's flagship campus. Answer: Columbia C. This town on the Mississippi River was the boyhood home of Mark Twain, a good friend of William Dean Howells, and served as the inspiration for much ofthe locations in Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. It shares its name with the victorious general at Lake Trasimeno. Answer: Hannibal
4. Hannibal was the victor at Lake Trasimeno, but lost the more pivotal battle ofZama, ending the Second Punic War. FTP each: A. In what year was the battle ofZama fought? Answer: 202 BC (prompt on just number) B. What Roman general was the victor at Zama? Answer: Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus the Elder (Scipio and Elder are needed) C. Scipio's victory was ensured by the cavalry led by this founder ofthe kingdom of Numidia and grandfather of Jugurtha. Answer: Massinissa 5. Scipio the Elder shares his nomen, or center name, with Peter von Cornelius. Answer these questions about Peter von Cornelius, FrP each: . A. Peter von Cornelius was a member of what early 19th-century German art school, a communal group dedicated to the ideals of the Italian Renaissance and the revival of the fresco? They were commonly called the Lucas Brotherhood. Answer: the Nazarenes B. What painter of Italia and Germania and The Triumph ofReligion in the Arts is the preeminent member of the Nazarenes? Answer: Friedrich Johann Overbeck C. The Nazarenes were a subset of the German romantic painting movement, which was pioneered by what artist of Polar Sea and The Cross in the Mountains? Answer: Caspar David Friedrich
6. Caspar Friedrich typified the Romantic in art. Name these works that typify the Romantic in literature, ITP each: A. This Goethe novel ends with the suicide ofthe title character, who is unable to gain the love of Lotte. Answer: The Sorrows o(Young Werther B. The preface to the second edition of this 1799 to 1800 collaborative poetry collection could be said to be a manifesto ofliterary romanticism. Answer: Lyrical Ballads C. Romantic realist depictions of English rural life can be found in this collection of verse tales by George Crabbe, which includes the stories of Peter Grimes and Ellen Orford. Answer: The Borough
7. Benjamin Britten based his opera Peter Grimes on George Crabbe's The Borough. Name these Benjamin Britten compositions, FrP each: A. Britten's largest choral work is this 1962 composition based primarily on the poems of Wilfred Owen. Answer: War Requiem B. Britten's other literary inspirations for the operatic form, include this novella by Herman Melville. Answer: Billy Budd C. American folk tales were the basis for this 1941 opera by Britten with a libretto by W.H. Auden. Answer: Paul Bunyan
8. Paul Bunyan had a big blue ox. Name these things about cows, FTP each: A. Cows fall under this classification used to describe any hoofed mammal. It is no longer used in formal classification, as the four major orders comprising it, including Proboscidea and Hydracoidea, are preferred. Answer: ungulates B. Cows fall specifically into this order of even-toed ungulates. Answer: Artiodactyla C. Cows fall into this suborder of Artiodactyla, most of whose members have four-chambered stomachs and a two toed foot. It takes its name from the first chamber of the stomach. Answer: ruminants or Ruminantia
9. Mrs. O'Leary's cow probably started the Great Chicago Fire. Name these things about fire in religion, ITP each: A. The Vedas initially gave this Hindu fire god the responsibility ofthe being the messenger of the gods. Answer:~ B. Members of this almost extinct religion, that venerated Ahura Mazda, worshipped fire as the most basic of all life's principles. Answer: Zoroastrianism C. This fire deity received numerous child sacrifices throughout the ancient Middle East. His name derives from the Hebrew for "Icing." . Answer: Moloch or Molech 10. Moloch is the sub-boss in the latest edition in this series of video games from Midway Enterprises. FTP each, name: A. That series of the video games, also the basis for two motion pictures. Answer: Mortal Kombat B. This Chinese warrior was the winner of the first Mortal Kombat tournament and the primary good guy in the first two games. He is killed by Shang Tsung and Quan Chi in the introduction to Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance. Answer: Liu Kang C. In the Mortal Kombat movies Liu Kang is attracted to Princess Kitana, a role played by this actress. Her first big break came as one of the bond girls in License to Kill and she has since been seen in Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever_and as the new wife of Benjamin Bratt. Answer: Talisa Soto
11. Talisa Soto was born to a Puerto Rican family. Name these historical things about Puerto Rico, FTP each: A. Puerto Rico was the site ofthis general's pivotal landing at Guanica and subsequent campaign during the Spanish-American War. He had earlier gained fame for capturing Geronimo and pursuing Crazy Horse. Answer: Nelson A. Miles B. By the terms of this March 1917 act of Congress U.S. citizenship was given to all Puerto Ricans. Answer: Jones Act C. In 1946 Harry Truman appointed this man as the island's first Puerto Rican governor. He shares his surname with the Latino poet and playwright of the Tony-nominated Short Eyes and basis of a 2001 film starring Benjamin Bratt and Talisa Soto. Answer: Jesus T. Pinero [Miguel Pinero is the playwright]
12. Miguel Pinero isn't the only Pinero who could write. There's also Arthur Wing Pinero. Name these things about British playwright Arthur Wing Pinero, FTP each: A. Pinero's best-known effort might be this 1893 play about the titular societal woman with a questionable past. Certainly it's not about a brand of gin. Answer: The Second Mrs. Tanquerav B. In Our Theatres in the Nineties this English critic alludes to The Second Mrs. Tanqueray as an example of the prototypical English play that shows men and women of good social position and then broaches some behavior that breaks their genteel code. His own plays include Devil's Disciple and Major Barbara. Answer: George Bernard Shaw C. Pinero collaborated on the libretto for this man's operetta The Beauty Stone, though this man had an even more famous librettist for his compositions like The Gondoliers, Ruddigore, and Yeoman ofthe Guard. Answer: Sir Arthur Sullivan
13. We know of course that Sullivan's famous collaborator was W.S. Gilbert not Gilbert Norton Lewis. Name these things about Gilbert Norton Lewis, FTP each: A. Lewis was the first to isolate this isotope, which he used to prepare a sample of heavy water in 1933. Answer: deuterium B. In Lewis' theory of acids and bases, a base defined as a substance able to donate one of these. Answer: electron pair (do not prompt on "electron") C. Working independently of Gilbert Lewis, this American also theorized the covalent bond but was the first to use the term covalence. He also invented an atomic hydrogen blowtorch capable of producing temperatures greater than 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit and won the 1932 Nobel-in Chemistry. Answer: Irving Langmuir 14. Irving Langmuir also wrote essays on the importance of Abraham particularly in his role as a reformer who resisted the ancient worship of Moloch by child sacrifice. Name these other interpretations of Abraham: A. For 10 points, Johannes de Silentio asserts that we can not understand Abraham's sacrifice ofIsaac only that faith requires passion in this 1843 work. Answer: Fear and Trembling B. For 5 points, This Dane, who perhaps feared the prospect of consummating his relationship with Regine Olsen, wrote Either/Or and Fear and Trembling, the latter under the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio. Answer: Soren Aabye Kierkegaard C. For 15 points, Kierkegaard's thoughts on the Abraham tale are also briefly mentioned in this sequel to Either/Or that concentrates on titular three "existence spheres," and includes such fabulous pseudonyms as Hilarius Bookbinder and Frater Taciturnus. Its title could very likely be inspired by a Caspar Friedrich painting. Answer: Stages on Life's Way
15. The second section of both Stages on Life'S Way and Either/Or are written by Judge William. Name these people related to Judge William, William O. Douglas that is, FTP each: A. William O. Douglas was nominated to the Supreme Court by this president. Answer: FDR or Franklin Delano Roosevelt B. William O. Douglas declined the nomination for vice president at the 1948 Democratic National Convention, which opened the way for this man to become Harry Truman's vice president. Answer: Alben Barkley C. In 1975 Gerald Ford nominated this man to fill the vacancy left by Douglas' death. A recipient of a Bachelors. in English lit from the University of Chicago, this man is still on the court. Answer: John Paul Stevens
16. It's unclear who has or had the greater political ability, Alben Barkley, or the possible future governor of a southern state, Charles Barkley. Name Jhese things about the Round Mound of Rebound, FTP each: A. Charles Barkley attended this university. Answer: Auburn University B. Charles frequently ridicules the comments made by this man, his fellow TNT basketball studio analyst and North Carolina alum. It's unclear why he was nicknamed ''the Jet," but he did win two NBA titles with the Rockets. Answer: Kenny Smith C. Barkley had a heated rivalry with this Detroit Piston's big man and four-time NBA All-Star. He now coaches the WNBA's Detroit Shock. Answer: Bill Laimbeer
17. While coaching the Shock, Bill Laimbeer has been known to pop in to the Union Theological Seminary. Name these other attendees of Union Theological Seminaries, FTP each: A. This author of Moral Man and Immoral SOCiety and The Nature and Destiny ofMan taught at the Union Theological Seminary in Detroit for 32 years. Answer: Reinhold Niebuhr B. This author of the three-volume Systematic Theology taught at the Union Theological Seminary in New York for 22 years. Answer: Paul Tillich C. He abandoned his study of theology at the Union Theological Seminary at New York to concentrate on psychology, which resulted in works like On Becoming a Person and his formation of client-centered therapy. Answer: Carl Ransom Rogers
18. Carl Rogers was a humanist psychologist but Carl Anderson wasn't. Name these things about Carl Anderson, FTPeach: A. In 1932 Carl Anderson discovered this elementary antimatter particle having a mass equal to that of an electron. Answer: positron B. Four years later Anderson confirmed the existence ofthese other elementary particles, which along with the baryons, are one of the two main divisions ofhadrons. Answer: meson C. To identifY the positron Anderson built an apparatus based on this instrument invented by C.T.R. Wilson in 1911. Answer: cloud chamber th 19. C.T.R Wilson was certainly no relation to Harriette Wilson, the most celebrated English courtesan of the 19 - century. Name these things about her most celebrated client,FTP each: A. Harriette Wilson's most prominent affuir came with this commander of the English armies at Waterloo, whose response to news of Wilson's Memoirs was "Publish and be damned!" Answer: Arthur WeUesley, 1st Duke ofWeUington (accept either) B. Wellington made his name in India in fighting with this sultan of Mysore, who had earlier waged a three year war with Cornwallis, and who was finally killed at the storming ofSeeringapatam, an event that inspired Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone. Answer: Tippoo Sahib or Tipu Sultan C. After returning from India in 1805, Wellington married Kitty Pakenham, a relation of General Edward Pakenham who would be killed at this battle ten years later. Answer: Battle of New Orleans
20. New Orleans was popularized in literature by the realist writer George Washington Cable, who was one of the many American writers popularized by William Dean Howells. Name these European realist writers introduced to an unsuspecting American public by William Dean Howells, FTP each: A. Among the 20 novels in this man's Les Rougon-Macquart series are Doctor Pascal and Germinal. Answer: Emile Zola B. Howell's appreciated the realist genius evident in this man's plays The Wild Duck and Doll's House. We feel the same way. Answer: Henrik Ibsen C. Howells was an equal opportunist when it came to geography as he also favored this Spanish novelist offive series of novels, 46 in all, which fall under the heading Episodios nacionales. These include Fortunata y Jacinta and Dona Perfecta. Answer: Benito Perez Galdos
21. Name these people related to Prometheus, FTP each: A. Prometheus was the son of this Titan. Answer: Iapetus B. Prometheus affected the course of history when he ensured that this sea nymph would marry a mortal, rather than succumb to the advances of Zeus and Poseidon, who were both pursuing her. Answer: Thetis C. Prometheus was the father of this figure who, with his wife Pyrrha, was one of only two people to survive the great deluge. Answer: Deucalion