Bay Area Quiz Club March Quiz

SF BAY AREA QUIZ CLUB March 24, 2013

• What is the individual time trial that takes place as the opening stage of the Tour-de-France called?

• Prologue

• Wikipedia describes this principle as applicable to an endeavor in which a deficiency in any one of a number of factors dooms it to failure. Consequently, a successful endeavor (subject to this principle) is one where every possible deficiency has been avoided. Jared Diamond coined a name for this principle by making a literary allusion in the title of chapter 9 of his award-winning book Guns, Germs and Steel. There he used this principle to illustrate why so few wild animals have been successfully domesticated throughout history, as a deficiency in any one of a great number of factors can render a species undomesticable. What is the name of the principle?

• “Anna Karenina” principle, alluding to its opening lines• “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”

• Who is the designer of this range of furniture and is said to have remarked “chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois”?

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• Le Corbusier

• Theme 5 questions

This scene has been painted several times over – most famously by Delacroix. What is it depicting?

• John Milton dictating Paradise Lost to his daughters

• Keith ______ and Greg _____ met at Fillmore West in San Francisco and on working together, found their styles to be compatible and complementary. They were looking for a drummer when, well, I’ll let Greg finish it:

• “J used to come and watch King Crimson,” Greg said, “When Keith and I got together we went looking for a drummer. The first person I talked to was Mitch Mitchell because J’s band had just broken up ….. Mitch was available at the time, and he said maybe we should get J together. He’ll be finished with……, and we can get together and maybe the four of us should play. I said, ‘fair enough,’ and that’s how we left it.”

• “A couple of days later,” he continues, “we got a call from Roger Stigwood (Bee Gees and Cream manager), who said ‘Look, I’ve got the perfect drummer for you. A guy called Carl ______.’ We played together, it was instantaneously obvious that the chemistry was right. That was the band we were looking for. And so that was it really. We made a decision on the spot. A short while after J was found dead in an apartment in London. The press got a hold of the story that we might jam with J, and speculated that the group would be called “Help”. But, alas, it was just a rumor.” What was the band? Who was J?

• Emerson Lake and Palmer, Jimi Hendrix

Only two men have performed this athletic feat in this venue. The first was Lord Burghley in 1927 and nobody else is said to have done it until Sam Dobin in 2007. What feat?

• Beating the “clock” in the Trinity Great Court Run

• Starting at the first gong of the clock at noon and completing the run around the quadrangle before the final gong.

What is being described here?

• 1 Blessings and the first cup of wine• 2 Wash hands• 3 Appetizer• 4 Breaking of the middle matzah• 5 Relating the Exodus• 6 Ritual washing of hands• 7 Blessings over the Matzah• 8 Bitter herbs• 9 Sandwich• 10 The meal• 11 Eating of the afikoman• 12 Grace after Meals• 13 Songs of praise• 14 Nirtzah

• Passover Seder

• From the collection “Songs of experience”, it is a sister poem to “The Lamb” from the “Songs of innocence”. The choice of “y” in the spelling of the title was already archaic when the poem was written. The poet used “i” in his other works suggesting perhaps that the choice of “y” was for effect and to make the point that the title is a metaphor. Name the poem and the poet.

• William Blake’s The Tyger

• Theme?

• The hymn Jerusalem

• The hymn is the poem "And did those feet in ancient time" by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem (whose protagonist is John Milton) set to Parry’s music.

• Emerson Lake and Palmer recorded a version of the hymn for their album Brain surgery. It was banned on radio in the UK as it was thought to be degrading “an anthem of England”.

• The line from the poem "Bring me my Chariot of fire!" inspired the name of the movie. The Trinity Great Court Run is one of its most famous scenes (although picturised in Eton not Cambridge and inaccurate).

• The Passover Seder ends with the cry "L'shanah haba'ah b'Yerushalayim! - Next year in Jerusalem!" Jews in Israel, and especially those in Jerusalem, recite instead "L'shanah haba'ah b'Yerushalayim hab'nuyah! - Next year in the rebuilt Jerusalem!“. Rebuilding a new Jerusalem in England was the theme of the poem.

Who is the bearded gentleman in the lower left panel?

• Paul Krugman

• In the 19th century, workers in certain Cuban factories would sacrifice a portion of their salary to hire a "lector" to regale them in the factory. A famous French novelist’s work was so popular among the workers that they wrote to the author in 1870 asking permission to name their product after the novel's hero. The author let them run with the idea. What was the product?

• Monte Cristo cigars

What phrase connects the two images to the clip?

• The video clip was that of the game-winning home run by New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thompson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca in the 3rd and decisive playoff game at the Polo Grounds to win the National League pennant in 1951.

• Shot heard round the world

• The first image is that of the “Concord Minute Man”. Built in commemoration of the centenary of the first successful armed resistance to British forces. Inscribed on the pedestal is the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 Concord Hymn with the immortal words, "Shot heard 'round the world.“

• The second image is the arrest of Gavrilo Principe after he shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand – an incident also labelled as a “Shot heard ‘round the world”.

• The phrase was also applied to the game-winning home run by New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thompson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca in the 3rd and decisive playoff game at the Polo Grounds to win the National League pennant in 1951.

• An article recapping the game in the New York Daily News was accompanied by the headline, "The Shot Heard 'Round the Baseball World". The phrase quickly spread to other media, and soon became a widely-recognized slogan for Thomson's homer.

What is the decision that was studied in this paper?

• The decision was whether to kick a field goal, punt or go for it on 4th down in the NFL.

• Photographer Yaniv "Nev" Schulman lived with his brother Ariel in New York City. Abby Pierce, an eight-year-old child prodigy artist in rural Ishpeming, Michigan, sent Nev a painting of one of his photos. They became Facebook friends, which broadened to include Abby's family: including Abby's mother Angela and her attractive older half-sister Megan, who lives in Gladstone, Michigan. For a documentary, Ariel and Daniela Torrico filmed Nev as he began an online relationship with Megan. After Nev’s suspicions are raised, they travelled to Michigan to meet Megan and discover that it was really Angela who had been posing as Megan with an alternate Facebook account and mobile phone.

• That day they talk to Angela’s husband Vince who among other things tells them the following story (related partially here):

• They used to transport live cod in giant vats on ships from Alaska to China. But by the time the codfish got to China their flesh would become mushy and tasteless.

• So what was done as a solution to this problem?

• The fishermen put catfish in the vats with the cod to keep them active by chasing them, and thus ensured the quality of the fish.

• Vince talked of how there are people in everyone's lives who keep us active, always on our toes and always thinking. It is implied that he believes Angela to be such a person. Hence the name of the movie Catfish.

Theme – 4 questions

• This “piece of art” is an animated night sky that is also a live representation of the world’s stock markets, with each star representing a traded company. Fed by massive streams of live financial information, the stars glimmer and pulse, immediately flickering brighter whenever their stock is traded anywhere in the world. It is called _____ _______ Stock market planetarium as a pun on a Nobel prize winning innovation. FITB.

• Black Shoals (pun on Black-Scholes options pricing formula)

• This is the schematic of this scientist’s most famous experiment. He initially did not understand the magnitude of his discovery. "It’s of no use whatsoever," he once told a student. "This is just an experiment that proves Maestro Maxwell was right,…”. But the world did and a unit was named after him. While he identified as a Lutheran, his father grew up as a Jew and so the Nazis wanted to denigrate him. One Nazi functionary attempted to overturn the use of his name as a unit. He suggested to the Physical Society of Berlin that instead they use the name of his teacher instead, which would cleverly maintain the same abbreviation of the unit for the benefit of foreign colleagues. Who was the scientist?

• Heinrich Hertz (his advisor was Helmholtz).

Fill in the blanked out names – (Red, White and Blue)

• White – Cantor• Red – Hilbert• Blue - Poincare

• According to a 1997 Physics Today article, she did not share the Nobel chemistry prize because of "a mixture of disciplinary bias, political obtuseness, ignorance and haste". The award went to her former collaborator who actually performed the experiments. She could not collaborate on them as she had to flee the country. But she and her nephew were able to propose the theory that explained the observations of the experiment. In her nephew’s words,

• “...We walked up and down in the snow, I on skis and she on foot. ...and gradually the idea took shape... explained by Bohr's idea that the nucleus is like a liquid drop; such a drop might elongate and divide itself... We knew there were strong forces that would resist, ..just as surface tension. But nuclei differed from ordinary drops. At this point we both sat down on a tree trunk and started to calculate on scraps of paper. ...might indeed be a very wobbly, unstable drop, ready to divide itself... But, ...when the two drops separated they would be driven apart by electrical repulsion, about 200 MeV in all. Fortunately _________ remembered how to compute the masses of nuclei... and worked out that the two nuclei formed... would be lighter by about one-fifth the mass of a proton. Now whenever mass disappears energy is created, according to --------------, and... the mass was just equivalent to 200 MeV; it all fitted!”

• Who?• The part marked ------------ connects the answer to the Theme and is hence

blanked out.

• Lise Meitner, collaborator of Otto Hahn and aunt of Otto Robert Frisch.

• Theme?

• Theme: Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis papers in the year 1906.The papers were on Brownian motion, Photoelectric effect, Special theory of relativity and Mass-energy equivalence (E=mc^2)

• The Black-Scholes options pricing formula assumes that stock prices follow a geometric Brownian motion.

• In 1887, Heinrich Hertz first observed the photoelectric effect• Some argue Poincare and Lorentz came up with the special theory of

relativity first. Poincaré had described a synchronization procedure for clocks at rest relative to each other in 1900 and 1904. So two events, which are simultaneous in one frame of reference, are not simultaneous in another frame. It is very similar to the one later proposed by Einstein. However, Poincaré distinguished between "local" or "apparent" time of moving clocks, and the "true" time of resting clocks in the ether.

• Lise Meitner acknowledges that she was able to explain the fission of the Uranium nucleus by using E=mc^2. (the part blanked out in Question 4).

• Venkatakrishna Mudaliar (also referred to as Chinnaswami) was a Dubash (translator and interpreter) of the East India Company and was invited often to Fort St George. Chinnaswami would often take the two sons of a musician he patronized (Ramaswami) to Fort St. George, to listen to what is known as ‘airs’- Western Music played by Irish men in the British band. The bands played simple Celtic marching tunes, lilting melodies, easy on the drums and bagpipes and flutes. It is widely conjectured that 2 significant things resulted from this. What?

• The 2 sons were Muthuswami and Baluswami Dikshitar.• The two things that resulted were• Muthuswami Dikshitar’s famous Nottuswaras (from "note swaras"), a set of 39 compositions in Carnatic classical music. These were mostly simple melodies inspired by Scots and Irish tunes.• Baluswami Diskhitar took a fancy to the violin played by the bandmembers and is said to have introduced the violin to Carnatic music.

• In about 617–18 A.D., the Chalukya king Pulakesin II invaded the Pallava kingdom defeating the king Mahendravarman I. The Pallavas long wished to avenge the humiliation. In 630, Mahendravarman I was succeeded his son Narasimhavarman I . When attacked by the Chalukyas, Narasimhavarman I met and defeated them in three separate encounters close to the Pallava capital Kanchi, forcing them to retreat.The Pallavas, then, took the offensive and pursued the fleeing Chalukya forces deep into their territory. In 642, a formidable Pallava force under the general Paranjothi was sent by Narasimhavarman I to capture the capital of the Chalukyas. Paranjothi succeeded, Pulakesin II was killed and his capital taken over by the Pallavas. According to the historian, Nilakanta Sastry, Paranjothi brought something back which was never seen before in the Pallava kingdom. What?

• During the dawn of war, Paranjothi worshipped a Ganesha sculpture on the walls of Vatapi (the capital of the Chalukyas) fort. On the return from the victorious battlefield, he took the statue of Ganesha to his birthplace Tiruchenkattankudi to be worshipped as Vatapi Ganapathi (as in the Dikshitar Kirthana).

• The motif of Ganesha is believed to have not existed in the Pallava kingdom (and most of Tamil Nadu) until then.

Connect

• Names of hip-hop artistes

• Tupac Shakur from Tupac Amaru II (lead a rebellion of indigenous people in Peru)• Wu-Tang Clan from the movie “Shaolin and Wu-Tang”• Africa Bambaataa after the Zulu chief Bhambatha, who led an armed rebellion against unfair economic practices in early 20th century South Africa.• Snoop Dogg (Lion) from Snoopy

• It is a port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. It is famous for being the major marketplace for coffee from the 15th century until the 17th century. It is commonly believed that, after the month and a half of Marco Polo's turbulent journey, his party were forced to go ashore at Ṣūr (modern-day Tyre, Lebanon) to resupply their stocks, because the captain, William Maurice, had provided insufficient room for food storage. In the marketplace there, Polo found a Yemenite salesman who had brought coffee beans from this town, purchased some and ultimately returned with them to Europe. What is the name of the city?

• Mocha. The Mocha bean gets its name from this and is also called Sanani or Mocha Sanani beans, meaning afrom Sana'a. Mocha served as Sana’a’s port city.

• The answer is

• “The Original 9” – the nine women tennis players who rebelled against the USLTA for the unfair prize money at events. They formed their own league and competed in the Virginia Slims circuit.

• The more common theory for the origin of the name of this product is that it is derived from a topical preparation made from Enhydris chinensis used by Chinese laborers to treat joint pain. One source, Dr. William S. Haubrich in his book Medical Meanings (1997, American College of Physicians) claims that the name came from the Eastern United States. The Native Americans of New York and Pennsylvania region would rub cuts and scrapes with the petroleum collected from seeps that occurred naturally in the area. The preparation was named after these tribes and a mis-pronounciation resulted in its eventual name. The most famous seller of this product was Clark Stanley. His product was tested by the United States government in 1917. The government sued the manufacturer for misbranding and misrepresenting its product and eventually banned it.

• Hint:

• Snake Oil. Enhydris chinensis is Chinese water snake.• The other etymology is that it was a mispronounciation of Seneca Oil, Seneca being the tribe.

• "It is a strange marriage we have at _________...I am an Indian Muslim, _____ is a German Jew, and _____ is a Protestant American. Someone once described us as a three-headed god. Maybe they should have called us a three-headed monster!“ Who are the 3 people?

• Ismail Merchant, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, James Ivory

Written round

• 6 questions • Lines from Shakespeare• Just FITB• A very obvious theme – very general

• RICHARD• Now is the _________________• Made glorious summer by this son of York,• And all the clouds that loured upon our house• In the deep bosom of the ocean buried

• Henry V• Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remember'd;We few, we happy few, we ________________;

•

Blood and destruction shall be so in use And dreadful objects so familiar That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war; All pity choked with custom of fell deeds: And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip _______________; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

• QUEEN ELIZABETH• Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.• The king, on his own royal disposition,• And not provoked by any suitor else,• Aiming belike at your interior hatred• That in your outward actions shows itself• Against my children, brothers, and myself,• Makes him to send, that he may learn the ground.•

RICHARD• I cannot tell. The world is grown so bad• That wrens make prey ______________ not perch.• Since every jack became a gentleman,• There’s many a gentle person made a jack

• ______________. Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Gonzago is the duke’s name, his wife Baptista. You shall see anon. 'Tis a knavish piece of work, but what o' that? Your majesty and we that have free souls, it touches us not. Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.

• SEYTON• The queen, my lord, is dead.MACBETH

• She should have died hereafter;There would have been a time for such a word.To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayTo the last syllable of recorded time,And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of _________________,Signifying nothing.

• Answers

• RICHARD• Now is the _________________• Made glorious summer by this son of York,• And all the clouds that loured upon our house• In the deep bosom of the ocean buried

• RICHARD• Now is the winter of our discontent• Made glorious summer by this son of York,• And all the clouds that loured upon our house• In the deep bosom of the ocean buried

• Henry V• Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remember'd;We few, we happy few, we ________________;

• Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remember'd;We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

• Blood and destruction shall be so in use And dreadful objects so familiar That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war; All pity choked with custom of fell deeds: And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip _______________; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

• Blood and destruction shall be so in use And dreadful objects so familiar That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war; All pity choked with custom of fell deeds: And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.


RICHARD• I cannot tell. The world is grown so bad• That wrens make prey ______________ not perch.• Since every jack became a gentleman,• There’s many a gentle person made a jack


RICHARD• I cannot tell. The world is grown so bad• That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.• Since every jack became a gentleman,• There’s many a gentle person made a jack

• ______________. Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Gonzago is the duke’s name, his wife Baptista. You shall see anon. 'Tis a knavish piece of work, but what o' that? Your majesty and we that have free souls, it touches us not. Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.

Hamlet

• Mousetrap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Gonzago is the duke’s name, his wife Baptista. You shall see anon. 'Tis a knavish piece of work, but what o' that? Your majesty and we that have free souls, it touches us not. Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.

• The previous line asked what the name of the play is.


• She should have died hereafter;There would have been a time for such a word.To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayTo the last syllable of recorded time,And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of _________________,Signifying nothing.


• She should have died hereafter;There would have been a time for such a word.To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayTo the last syllable of recorded time,And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.

Theme:

• Titles of literary works

This word is commonly used in the sense of “a manouver, strategem or ploy”. It has its origins in an Italian expression meaning “to put forward a leg to trip someone”. Its current usage came about as follows.

Pedro Damaino, a portugese pharmacist wrote one of the first books on a subject titled Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti, published in Rome, Italy, in 1512. A Spanish priest who was an expert on the subject, and later became the bishop in Segura, visited Rome in 1560. He came across the book, disliked it and decided to write a better one. Thus resulted Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez. He felt that the Italian expression he encountered on the visit to Rome would be appropriate for something new that he introduced in Chapter 2 of the book. It spread from the subject to common usage subsequently. What is the good word?

• Gambit – from gambetto. The priest was Ruy Lopez. The King’s gambit was introduced in Chapter 2.

• Wester cwm/Valley of Silence• Lhotse face• Yellow band• Geneva Spur• The South Col• The Balcony• __________• Cornice Traverse• __________ - Fill in this blank• __________

• Hillary Step. These are milestones/landmarks on the way to the summit of the Everest. The other missing ones are the South Summit and the Summit.• Western cwm

Lhotse face

Yellow bandGeneva spur South Col

Balcony Cornice Traverse

South Summit Hillary Step

Summit

• The BBC television series Sherlock is a modern day crime drama which imagines how Sherlock Holmes would solve crimes in the modern world. Often, the plots would weave in elements of and references to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories. The last episode of Season 2 features the epic final clash between Holmes and Moriarty. In that episode, Holmes recovers a lost painting by J. M. W. Turner. Which painting?

• Falls of Reichenbach

• "You know how I deal with enemies, Why does a Neapolitan interfere in a quarrel between two Sicilians? If you wish me to consider you as a friend I owe you a service which I shall pay on demand. A man like yourself must know how much more profitable it is to have a friend who, instead of calling on you for help, takes care of his own affairs and stands ever ready to help you in some future time of trouble. If you do not wish my friendship, so be it. But then I must tell you that the climate in this city is damp, unhealthy for Neapolitans, and you are advised never to visit it."• Who sent this message to whom after the latter made an attempt on his life?

• Don Vito Corleone to Al Capone in Puzo’s Godfather

Theme: 4 questions

• Few people know the true meaning of the song or the words beyond the chorus and the first stanza. Robert Burns sent a copy of the original song to the Scots Musical Museum with the remark, "The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript until I took it down from an old man.“ The current practice is due to Guy Lombardo and his band who first played it in 1929 at a dance at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. It caught on so much so that Life magazine once commented, “If Lombardo failed to play it, Americans would not believe that the _________.” What song and practice?

• The answer is

• “Auld Lang Syne”. The practice of singing it at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s.

• Posters at the online message board “Sons of Sam Horn” used to call the old version “the Toilet”, perhaps due to the prevailing smell or their disgust towards its “inhabitants”. Even though the dimensions of the new version are identical to the old one, due to an increased occurrence of “big flies”, they have renamed it “the bidet”. What are we talking about?

• Yankee Stadium. “Sons of Sam Horn” is a famous message board of Red Sox fans. A big fly is a nickname for a home run.

• In 2006, the hip-hop group “Three 6 mafia” won the Oscar for Best song in 2006 for their song “It’s hard out there for a pimp”. Later on in the show, the host Jon Stewart quipped "For those of you keeping score at home, ________ , zero; Three 6 Mafia, one.“ FITB?

• Martin Scorcese

• An EGOT winner herself, both her father and her mother (sort of) were Oscar winners, making them the only such family. Who?

• Liza Minnelli

• The Theme is ?

• The song “New York New York”. by Liza Minnelli

• Frank Sinatra recorded a cover of this song• Traditionally the second song after “Auld Lang Syne” at Times Square after midnight• Yankee Stadium plays the song at the end of games. In true Yankee fashion they used to play Frank Sinatra’s cover version after a win and Minnelli’s version after a loss, until Minnelli told them to stop.• The song was the signature number in Martin Scorcese’s musical drama of the same name.

• In 1934, the New York Times reported that he was working on a “Death Beam” capable of knocking 10,000 enemy airplanes out of the sky. He hoped to fund a prototypical defensive weapon in the interest of world peace, but his appeals to J.P. Morgan Jr. and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went nowhere. He did, however, receive a $25,000 check from the Soviet Union, but the project languished. Who?

• Nikola Tesla

What is the syndrome being referred to here?

• Scalp hair suddenly turning white especially under extreme stress

• The pictures are that of Sir Thomas More, dated 1527, and he reflecting in his prison cell awaiting his execution – his hair has turned grey.• Queen Marie Antoinette’s hair allegedly turned white the night before her last walk to the guillotine during the French Revolution

Theme: 4 questions

• William MagearTweed widely known as "Boss" Tweed – was an American politician most notable for being the "boss“ of the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York City and State. He was convicted and sentenced to prison for political corruption. When Tweed attempted to escape justice in December 1875 by fleeing to Cuba and from there to Spain, officials in Vigo, Spain, were able to identify and apprehend him. They thought he had kidnapped two children. How did that come about?

They came upon a Thomas Nast cartoon – in fact this one

• This was a nickname given by Republicans to members of a vocal group of Democrats located in the Northern United States of the Union who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. Republicans started using the nickname in the same sense that it was applied to Vernita Green. The Peace Democrats accepted the label, reinterpreting it to mean the likeness of Liberty, which they cut from pennies and proudly wore as badges. What nickname?

• Copperhead

• Every year it is changed to add another level of depth. The first one just had the subject next to the mantel. After the first anniversary it was replaced by one which contained the first one in the background. The original was then auctioned off at a charity event and currently hangs at a Sticky Fingers restaurant. The 3-deep one resided for some time at the National Portrait Gallery "right between the bathrooms near the 'America's Presidents' exhibit“. The current version is 7-deep and features crew-cuts and awards. What am I talking about?

• Portrait of Stephen Colbert on his set

What’s the missing word?

• Plinian after Pliny’s account of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius

• Theme?

• David Ross Locke aka Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby

• American satirist during and after the civil war. The NyTimes’ civil war blog, Disunion, calls him

• “The Stephen Colbert of the Civil War”. His methods were identical. He used to write letters under his pseudonym Nasby often with poor spelling and grammar, pretending to be a Copperhead with no courage who is against the civil war and reconstruction. A sophisticated work of ironic fiction, his letters were consciously intended to rally support for the Union cause. Nast illustrated many of these letters.

What is being advertized?

• Yellow pages

• A word of French origin, it’s literal translation is a plume, such as is worn on a hat or a helmet, but the reference is to King Henry IV of France. A beloved king he was famed for wearing a striking white plume in his helmet and for his war cry: "Follow my white plume!“. The epitome of these qualities and the virtuosness of these qualities were established in Rostand's depiction of Cyrano de Bergerac, in his play of that name. The protagonist’s last words were "yet there is something still that will always be mine, and when I go to God's presence, there I will doff it and sweep the heavenly pavement with a gesture: something I'll take unstained out of this world... my _______.“ What’s the word?

• Panache

This painting is a famous example of which artistic technique?

• Anamorphosis. An object is depicted in distorted perspective, so that the viewer has to take special action, like looking from a specific angle, to see the “correct” image.

• Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors.

• In January 1914, John Jasper (played by Frederick T. Harry) stood trial for murder in London. G. K. Chesterton was the judge while George Bernard Shaw was the foreman of the jury, made up of other authors. J. Cuming Walters while Cecil Chesterton acted for the defense. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. Whose murder?

• Edwin Drood. They were trying to find a resolution to Dickens’ unfinished novel the “The mystery of Edwin Drood”.

Theme: 4 questions

Connect the 2 pictures to something that might have been on the roof of the third

• Theories about what Humpty-Dumpty is supposed to represent

• Richard III• Tortoise Siege engine used unsuccessfully to approach the walls of the Parliamentary held city of Gloucester in 1643 during the Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War• Canon on the roof of the church of St Mary-at-the-Wall by the Royalist defenders in the siege of 1648 at Colchester

The song is by Grateful Dead. It is about a tragedy. Which one?

• The song played was West LA Fadeaway

• John Belushi’s death

• In 1889 owners of this institution requested that John Philip Sousa, the leader of the United States Marine Corps Band, compose this piece for an awards ceremony. The following dance became strongly associated with the song that it acquired the same name. What?

• Washington Post march and Washington Post two-step

• This practice was promoted by a New York Times columnist who resorted to it at every opportunity.• The New York magazine suggested that his aim in doing so was "rehabilitating ______ by relentlessly tarring his successors with the same rhetorical brush – diminished guilt by association.” The columnist himself later admitted to author Eric Alterman that, as Alterman puts it, "psychologically, he may have been seeking to minimize the relative importance of the crimes committed by his former boss with this silliness.” What practice?

• The practice of suffixing “-gate” to every scandal to make it seem comparable to Watergate• The columnist was William Safire who used to be Nixon’s speechwriter.

• Theme?

• Bob Woodward of the Washington Post

• The title “All the president’s men” was inspired by the line in Humpty Dumpty ("All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again"), an allusion similar to that made more explicitly a quarter-century earlier in the Robert Penn Warren novel All the King's Men.• His only non-political book was about John Belushi

• The person making the cameo in the following clip fro Iron Man 2 was acknowledged by the director of the movie to have been an inspiration for the title character. He is prominently missing in the picture. Who is he and what phrase has been blanked out?

• Elon Musk and the Paypal Mafia

• These insects are named after the type of food that they eat. They roll the food into balls and use them for food storage as a way to attract a mate. An ancient civilization thought that they were only male in gender, and reproduced by depositing semen into their ball of food. A new-born was seen to emerge from this ball. The supposed self-creation of this resembles that of a god who creates himself out of nothing. • Plutarch: ”The race of ______ has no female, but all the males eject their sperm into a round pellet of material which they roll up by pushing it from the opposite side, just as the sun seems to turn the heavens in the direction opposite to its own course, which is from west to east”. Name them.

• Dung beetle

• The second leg of this final football match took place between Germany and Greece at the the packed Olympic Stadium in Munich. The Germans were favorites. Beckenbauer was a surprise inclusion in their team. The German no.5 was booked (3rd time in 4 games). With just over a minute left the Greeks scored a goal. The Germans disputed it. One of their substitutes claimed that it was off-side. The replay confirmed his claim. But the result stood. Who scored the winning goal?

• Socrates in the Philosopher’s world cup

• Socrates in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vV3QGagck

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