Scattergories 3 Questions by Will Nediger and Jaimie Carlson Round 9

1. The artist David Lovejoy created an installation with an icon of the Virgin Mary on the body of a mannequin wearing roller skates in one of these places, which contains old bank vaults and a floor tiled with pennies. One of these places in China is filled with short staircases and mirrored ceilings. Due to height limitations, one of these buildings features an elaborate glass spire topped with an electric globe; that Art Nouveau one of these places is in the Singer Building on Nevsky Prospect. An opera house was converted into the El Ateneo Grand Splendid, one of these places in Buenos Aires, which has (*) more of these places per capita than any other city. One of these places contains a precarious-looking freestanding quarter-cylindrical tunnel and a “Labyrinth.” That Los Angeles building is known as “The Last” one of these places. One of these places in New York has “18 miles” of its namesake wares shelved by color. For 10 points, name these places which include The Strand. ANSWER: bookstores [prompt on stores; anti-prompt on specific names of bookstores such as The Last Bookstore or Dom Knigi or House of Books or Chongqing Zhongshuge or El Ateneo Grand Splendid or The Strand]

2. This is the final indignity that the unnamed soldier inflicts upon Ian in Sarah Kane’s Blasted. A character rants about a “faithful and true … godslave” before performing this action and then collapsing to the ground and repeatedly yelling “Find me! KILL ME!” In the Euripides play, Hecuba kills Polymestor’s children and then punishes him in this manner. When asked why he performed this action, a character says that “it was Apollo” who “brought on these troubles, the awful things I suffer.” After being tied to a chair and having his beard (*) plucked, a man is interrogated about why he sent the title character to Dover, and is subjected to this indignity. Alan Strang performs this action on some horses near the end of Equus. In another play, the Second Messenger reports how the title character performed this action using a pair of gold pins used to hold this mother’s dress together. For 10 points, name this fate suffered by Gloucester [gloster] in King Lear and by Oedipus. ANSWER: being blinded [accept having their eyes sucked out of their sockets and eaten; accept stabbing their eyes with a spike; accept having their eyes gouged out; accept stabbing their own eyes with a pair of gold pins]

3. This city’s art museum contains a Mercedes Benz-shaped coffin by Kane Quaye as well as a metallic armor made out of dog tags, Do Ho Suh’s Some/One. This city is home to a garden of 12 steel towers which whistle in the wind known as A Sound Garden. A museum in this city features a large inverted cone sculpture made of guitars and is home to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. A installation in this city holds a yellow ball of tendrils next to a large greenhouse. A sculpture garden in this city is home to Louise Bourgeois’ aptly-named Eye Benches and Alexander Calder’s bright red (*) Eagle. This city is home to a Frank Gehry-designed museum consisting of various brightly colored amorphous shapes smashed together, the MO-Pop, which has this city’s monorail running through it. This city is home to the Chihuly Garden and Glass, and has an art museum commonly known as SAM. For 10 points, name this city home to the Olympic Sculpture Park. ANSWER: Seattle

4. Many recent portraits by Ewa Juszkiewicz, such as Untitled (After Joseph Wright), unusually depict their subjects in this manner. A nude Catherine Opie is depicted in this manner with a child’s drawing carved into her skin in the photograph Self-Portrait/Cutting. This is the most distinctive feature of the two people in the painting Stonehenge (With Two Persons). The only person depicted in this manner in Goya’s Charles IV of Spain and His Family is the future wife of Fernando VII. Many of John Baldessari’s works use (*) dots for this purpose. Supposedly, the discovery of an artist’s mother, who had drowned herself, inspired an artist to depict people in this manner in paintings like The Lovers in the late 1920s. Unusually, both a man and his reflection in a mirror are depicted in this manner in the painting Not to Be Reproduced. For 10 points, name this effect achieved by a green apple in Magritte’s The Son of Man. ANSWER: their face is not shown [or their face is obscured; accept clear equivalents; accept facing away from the viewer or clear equivalents; accept their face is covered by other objects or their face is replaced by other objects ]

5. This poet wrote a Greek verse calling William Marshall’s unflattering portrait of him “the wretched picture of a wretched artist”; Marshall engraved that poem underneath the portrait, unaware of its content since he didn’t speak Greek. This poet tutored a contemporary theologian in Hebrew in exchange for Dutch lessons. “On the Approach of Spring” and two poems addressed to his best friend Charles (*) Diodati are among a set of elegies this poet wrote in Latin. Ezra Pound criticized this poet for the non-English syntax of the line “Him who disobeys, me disobeys,” saying that this poet was “chock a block with Latin.” One of this author’s works takes its title from a Greek speech delivered by Isocrates named after a hill in Athens that was used as a law court. For 10 points, name this poet who coined the Greek-derived term “pandemonium” in his epic Paradise Lost. ANSWER: John Milton (The theologian he tutored was Roger Williams.)

6. This country’s indigenous music is the subject of the weekly radio show Reclaimed. Post-classical rearrangements of traditional songs from this country make up a 2018 album by Jeremy Dutcher. A Christmas carol originally written in a language from this country repeats the refrain “Jesus your king is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria.” A singer from this country covered the first track from Come On Pilgrim by Pixies for the first track of her album (*) Animism. An indigenous singer from this country wrote the song “Universal Soldier,” which became a hit when it was covered by Donovan. Indigenous musicians from this country include Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tanya Tagaq, the latter of whom won the 2014 Polaris Prize and the 2015 Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year. For 10 points, name this country whose indigenous people include the First Nations and the Inuit. ANSWER: Canada

7. After a woman wearing a dress of this color talks about running away together with her lover, we hear the sound of a train whose vibrations cause a glass to fall off a table, in an allusion to Stalker. Luo Hongwu searches for a woman who’s almost always seen wearing a dress of this color in the 2018 film Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Barbara’s dress of this color starkly contrasts with the outfits of the other patrons when she arrives at the Royal Garden restaurant in Jacques Tati’s Playtime. Bucking tradition, this is the color of the dress worn by (*) Kajol in the “Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna” scene from the Bollywood romance DDLJ. While wearing a dress of this color, Cecilia has sex with Robbie against a bookshelf in the library before they are interrupted by Cecilia’s younger sister, Briony. That iconic dress of this color is worn by Keira Knightley in Atonement. For 10 points, name this color of the dress worn by Tinker Bell in Disney’s Peter Pan. ANSWER: green

8. A work of this type includes a passage which promises “extensions of one’s personality on several simultaneous planes” and which notes “almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better.” One of these works describes guests at a party putting on pajamas made of different materials and being sprayed with perfume by peoples who also dance to music made by turning a crank. An installation based on one of these works featured writing in pig’s blood on white gallery walls. That one of these works by Jacob Samuel and Marina Abramovic features phrases like “13,000 (*) grams of jealousy.” Another one of these works recommends “a battery of scientific instruments” such as ozonizers, ultra-violet ray lamps, and colloidal mills. Filippo Marinetti wrote a Futurist one of these things which claimed that a traditional element of Italian culture “makes people heavy, brutish… slow.” For 10 points, what type of work by Alice B. Toklas included a recipe for hashish fudge? ANSWER: artists’ cookbooks [or recipe books; anti-prompt on recipes]

9. Ludwig Fleck wrote an influential study of the “genesis and development” of one of these things. A book named after one of these things consists of an essay about suicide in Las Vegas entitled “What Happens There” with commentary by Jim Fingal in the left and right columns. The “microprocessing” of these things is discussed in a book that analyzes these things using the case of TRF(H). E. H. Carr’s What Is History? distinguishes between “historical” examples of these things and these things “of the past.” A 2012 John (*) D’Agata book is named for “the lifespan of” one of these things. Steve Woolgar and Bruno Latour’s Laboratory Life is about the construction of these things. When these things cannot be explained, they are described by the adjective “brute.” For 10 points, values are often distinguished from what things, often defined as statements that are known to be true? ANSWER: facts [accept scientific facts or historical facts]

10. These two people are described in the last chapter of Marcel Schwob’s Imaginary Lives, which was translated by Borges. They were also fictionalized as Macfarlane and Fettes by Robert Louis Stevenson. The doctor who dissected one of these men after his death used his blood to write, and a pocketbook was made from the skin of the other. These men gave whisky to a man known as Daft Jamie, and they were aided by Helen MacDougal. Seventeen tiny wooden dolls found in a city park are generally associated with the (*) crimes of these people. The name of one of these men became a verb meaning “to strangle.” A street rhyme about these men described “the boy that buys the beef,” Doctor Robert Knox, who purchased the products of their most famous murder. For 10 points, name these two men who went on a crime spree in 1828 Edinburgh in order to sell corpses. ANSWER: William Burke and William Hare

11. One poet with this first name wrote “we know his oceanic beard” but “we know next to nothing, when we consider we have not heard his voice” in “Of Lincoln.” That author wrote “we learn...more than we ever wanted to know about things we wish we’d never heard of” in an essay about her daughter’s struggle with an autoimmune disease in the collection “An Enlarged Heart.” Another author with this first name wrote a story in which the secretaries of Henry James and Joseph Conrad have an affair and switch paragraphs from their works. That author with this first name wrote about a man who finds the notation “Great Pan lives” in the diary of a man who meets a nymph and commits suicide in a park, the title (*) “Pagan Rabbi.” That New York author with this first name wrote about a baby being thrown into an electric fence after using the title object for sustenance in a concentration camp in “The Shawl.” For 10 points, name this first name shared by the authors Zarin and Ozick. ANSWER: Cynthia [accept Cynthia Zarin or Cynthia Ozick]

12. While residing at one of these places, a woman flung herself on her crush’s doorstep and fell asleep, leading to her crush just stepping right over her when she had to leave her room to go to dinner. One of these places keeps records in “tombstones” on the walls. Spalding Gray’s “Monster in a Box” monologue describes his experience in that location. Sadie goes to one of these places at the end of the film (*) Private Life. One of these places was co-founded by and named after the composer of “To a Wild Rose,” while another was founded by Spencer and Katrina Trask and named for a child’s rhyme for “shadow.” McDowell and Yaddo are examples of these places, where works like Strangers on a Train and Giovanni’s Room were created. For 10 points, name these places where writers and artists go to practice their work in seclusion. ANSWER: writers’ or artists’ colonies or retreats (The first clue is about Carson McCullers and Katherine Anne Porter, respectively.)

13. In Scotland this disease was once called “grandgore,” which probably ultimately derives from a French word imitating the cry of a pig. Eponyms used in the study of this disease include Kassowitz’s law, Argyll Robertson pupils, and Hutchinson’s teeth. A Latin word for “plague,” lues [LOO-eez], was formerly used as a name for this disease in English. A shepherd contracts this disease as a punishment for insulting Apollo in a poem by Girolamo Fracastoro, which coined the most common name for this disease. The term (*) “smallpox” was used to distinguish smallpox from this disease, which was once called “the great pox.” For 10 points, name this venereal disease which has been called the “Italian disease” in France and the “French disease” in Italy. ANSWER: syphilis

14. A man with this surname introduced Carol Reed to amphetamines, allowing Reed to pull 22-hour days so he could finish The Third Man in time. That man with this surname unsuccessfully tried to convince a director to end a movie with a plume of smoke forming the letter “R” in the sky. A man with this surname wrote the controversially risqué script for King Vidor’s Duel in the Sun, and had an affair with the film’s star, Jennifer (*) Jones, which broke up both of their marriages. The films Wonderstruck and Hugo are both based on books by an author and illustrator with this surname. A producer with this name won back-to-back best pictures in 1939 and 1940. For 10 points, identify this surname of the producer of Rebecca and Gone with the Wind, David O. ANSWER: Selznick [accept Brian Selznick or David O. Selznick]

15. An author whose most characteristic novels are set during this decade classified her heroes as either brusque “Mark I” heroes or suave and debonair “Mark II” heroes. That author, known for her encyclopedic knowledge of this decade’s history, set novels like An Infamous Army in this decade. The novel Glenarvon was published in this decade, containing a thinly-veiled portrait of the author’s lover, who himself published his most important works during this decade. Georgette (*) Heyer [“HAY”-er] is best known for her romance novels set during this decade. Frankenstein was published near the end of this decade, having been written while Mary Shelley and her friends were cooped up indoors during this decade’s Year Without a Summer. For 10 points, the Regency period spanned what decade during which Jane Austen published her major novels? ANSWER: 1810s

16. An anonymous artist from Bologna is known as the “master” of some of these objects he produced in Brussels. A work commissioned by St. Oswald influentially incorporates a “lion-mask” into its depiction of one of these objects. These objects were often depicted in the “puzzle” style, in which they had red and blue sections separated by a thin white line. They’re not (*) borders, but these objects are “inhabited” when they contain decorative figures and “historiated” when they contain an identifiable figure or scene. A “diminuendo” effect following these objects is characteristic of insular art, in which these objects are often surrounded by red dots and are unusually large. For 10 points, name these letters which are often elaborately drawn in illuminated manuscripts. ANSWER: initials [prompt on letters before “letters”; prompt on first letters of words/sections/chapters, etc.; prompt on words]

17. This genre was transmitted to the late Roman Republic by a now-lost Cicero work titled for this genre, in which he apparently argued that his daughter Tullia should be deified. Three works in this genre by Seneca are addressed to his mother, Claudius’s secretary Polybius, and Marcia, the daughter of the historian Aulus Cremutius Cordus. Works in this genre often started with the statement that “all must die.” A book titled for this genre is the major work of the philosopher who Lorenzo Valla called “the last of the Romans and the first of the (*) Scholastics.” In that book titled for this genre, a woman wearing a dress embroidered with the letters pi and theta discusses topics like the transitoriness of wealth and the fact that evil people frequently prosper, and uses the metaphor of the “wheel of fortune.” For 10 points, name this genre which was typically used to comfort mourners, and which titles the magnum opus of Boethius. ANSWER: consolatio [or consolation]

18. Dishes traditionally eaten by these people include seaweed soup in Korea and pork knuckles and ginger stew in the Guangzhou region. They’re not sick people, but a hot drink called caudle was traditionally served to these people in Britain until the Victorian era. These people are not allowed to read books or expose themselves to cold weather, and cannot receive visitors for a period of twelve days, according to a Chinese practice called (*) “sitting the month.” A practice involving this people is known as cuarantena in Spanish because it traditionally lasts forty days, and is archaically known in English as “lying-in.” The use of doulas may reduce the incidence of PPD, a condition most commonly suffered by these people. For 10 points, name these people who, in many cultures, participate in a period of recuperation called postpartum confinement. ANSWER: new mothers

19. When Heinrich Heine first visited Goethe, he made a mundane comment about these items, despite having spent “long winter nights” thinking about “what lofty and profound things” he would say to Goethe if he ever met him. In the 19th century, it was thought that one of these objects in a nursery rhyme was a reference to the deeds of Mells Manor, which were stolen just before the dissolution of the monasteries. Sylvia Plath’s “The Colossus” describes “counting the red stars and those of” the color of these objects. This is the second of the three title objects of a song which notes “I have read the right books to (*) interpret your looks,” by Joanna Newsom. In the nursery rhyme “Little Jack Horner,” Jack pulls one of these objects out of a Christmas pie. For 10 points, name these “delicious,” “sweet,” and “cold” items eaten by the speaker of William Carlos Williams’s “This Is Just to Say.” ANSWER: plums

20. This character blows off several hats by whistling and punches another character for keeping telegrams in his briefcase. This character tries to get into a club by saying he might be Dostoyevsky; when he is told Dostoyevsky is dead, he says “I protest! Dostoyevsky is immortal!” This character plays chess by a method of “careful analysis” which entails meaningfully winking at the board until his king walks off. He claims that he “ain’t misbehaving, ain’t bothering anybody, just (*) fixing my Primus” before getting shot, drinking some paraffin, and shooting up a room while swinging from a chandelier. At the end of the novel in which he appears, his true form is revealed as a “page-demon, the greatest jester that there ever has been.” This friend of Koroviev is mocked for gilding his whiskers before attending the Spring Ball, and he decapitates audience members during a magic show. For 10 points, name this sarcastic black cat in Woland’s retinue in The Master and Margarita. ANSWER: Behemoth

21. In Cloud Atlas, Timothy Cavendish is pleased that his romantic interest is not intellectual enough to identify a quote from this story which states that “happiness is a solid” and “joy is a liquid.” A woman fills out a questionnaire in this story by saying her hobbies are “loving the Lord and the Word of her Lord and collecting leaves but only when they are laying right on the ground.” The narrator of this story creates deodorant advertisements with “couples… who perhaps didn’t have any underarms” to apply for a position in which he views Bambi Kramer’s badly (*) painted Forgive Them Their Trespasses. That narrator of this story watches a woman arranging a storefront window and concludes “everybody is a nun.” The protagonist of this story becomes fascinated by Sister Irma’s painting while working at the Yoshotos’ correspondence art school, where he claims he knew Picasso. For 10 points, name this member of J. D. Salinger’s Nine Stories in which a teenager pretends to be related to a French artist. ANSWER: “De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period”

22. A contemporary music ensemble of this name was founded by Ingrid Culliford and Odaline de la Martinez. This Italian word is repeated at the beginning of the duet that Margarita and Faust sing when they meet in prison in Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele [may-fee-STOH-fay-lay]. The French cognate of this Italian adjective ends the title of a cello concerto inspired by Baudelaire’s poetry and written by Henri Dutilleux [doo-tee-YUH]. This adjective describes a trumpet in the title of a fanfare written by John (*) Adams for the 150th anniversary of Texas’s declaration of independence. This is the last word in the name of the aria that Wally sings when she decides to leave home in Alfredo Catalani’s La Wally. A György Ligeti [jurj LEE-geh-tee] piece of this name appears on the soundtracks of Shutter Island and The Shining. For 10 points, name this Italian word for “distant.” ANSWER: lontano [or lontana; accept Tromba Lontana or “Ebben? Ne andrò lontana; prompt on lointaine]

23. One of these poems by this author notes “I am paying rent for the lice in my cold room, and the moonlight too.” Other of these poems define “the Christmas season” as a time where prostitutes paint their lips larger, and describe snakes sitting next to cigarette butts and whiskey bottles. These poems were strung across their author’s studio by long metal rods. Unusually, these poems often feature questions, such as one that asks “Why did this spring wood grow so silent when I came? What was happening?” One of these poems runs “In the falling snow / A laughing boy holds out his palms / Until they are (*) white.” The author of these poems begun them after a failure to finish his novel The Island of Hallucination and the death of his mother Ella. Over 800 of these poems are included in a book subtitled This Other World. Their author continued them over the last 18 months of his life but threw out over three thousand of them. For 10 points, name these over four thousand Japanese-inspired poems written by the author of Black Boy and Native Son. ANSWER: haikus by Richard Wright [prompt on partial answers]

24. One inhabitant of this place is filmed jumping into a lake of seaweed as the “Slime Queen.” The inhabitants of this place get in trouble for making fun of an old portrait as “Sir Edward the Freak” when they visit the League for Spiritual Discovery in Millbrook. The inhabitants of this place are given nicknames like “Gretchin Fetchin” and “Mountain Girl.” The owners of this location try to create “The Movie” and claim that one is “either on [this location] or off [this location].” Those owners later put out signs saying they will host the (*) Hell’s Angels and the Beatles. This place is described as “a cross between Fernand Leger and Dr. Strange… as if somebody had given Hieronymous Bosch fifty buckets of Day-Glo paint.” It has a sign on the front which says “Furthur,” and it is inhabited by the Merry Pranksters. For 10 points, name this trippy vehicle driven by Neal Cassady and led by Ken Kesey, which is described in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. ANSWER: Ken Kesey’s bus from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test [accept Furthur before “Furthur”]

TB. The leaders of this project were lampooned as the “Four Wise Clerks” in Farmer Giles of Ham by J. R. R. Tolkien, who suggested that the Dutch had conflated a walrus and an unknown type of whale while working on this project. One contributor to this project was supposedly traumatized by having to brand a deserter during the Civil War, causing him to become mentally ill and cut off his own penis; that man, W. C. Minor, developed a quotation-tracking system. The (*) Scriptorium was used by James Murray, the first editor of this work. This first edition of this work, which is divided into fascicles, was begun by the Philological Society. The third version is currently under progress and will likely be too large to print; it now includes the adjective “bougie” and the pronoun “zir.” For 10 points, name this extremely large British dictionary. ANSWER: Oxford English Dictionary