- 1. Said to be located in the middle of Lake Guatavita,
governorship of this location was given to Pedro Ursua,
Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada and finally Antionio de Berrio.
Its 'Loss' forms the title for a colonial history of Trinidad
by V.S. Naipul and it is located 'Over the Mountains of the Moon'
and 'Down the Valley of the Shadows' in a Poe poem. Walter
Ralegh mentioned it in the subtitle of his book about the
exploration of Guiana. It originally referred only to the ruler
of Manoa but soon was extended to his whole kingdom. FTP, identify
this city of gold sought by conquistadors in South America.
Answer El Dorado
- 2. Among Matt's favorite episodes were 'Full Moon' and 'The Gas
Man' although it was for 'Three Men and Adena' that creator Tom
Fontana won a best-writing Emmy in 1993. Among the more interesting
characters were cameraman J.H. Brodie played by Max Perlich and
Mike Kellerman played by Reed Diamond. Actors Yaphet Kotto,
Kyle Secor and Richard Belzer were around for the whole run
although the most notable performance was the portrayal of
Detective Frank Pembleton by Andre Braugher. FTP, identify
this artsy 1990's NBC cop-show set in Baltimore.
Answer Homicide: Life on the Street
- 3. The second stasimon is addressed to Helen calling her 'death
of ships, death of men and cities.' There is a persistent use
of yokes and nets as metaphors, which are finally embodied in
the implement used to destroy the title character, who has committed
a fatal act of hubris by walking into his palace on a lavish red
carpet. Beginning with a watchmen looking for a beacon light,
it ends with Aegisthus and his co-conspirator justifying their
actions to the chorus of Argive elders over the body of the title
character and his new concubine Cassandra. FTP, identify this
Aeschylus tragedy in which Clytemnestra kills her husband, the
first play in the Oresteia.
Answer Agamemnon
- 4. Only the lament of his Arianna survives. He created the 'excited
style' which is displayed in his The Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda,
and his most notable example of sacred work was the Vesprodella
Beata Virgine. A longtime maestro di cappella at St. Luke's, he
was employed by the Gonzaga family of Mantua during his early career.
His two most noted works concern a Roman emperor's casting off
of his wife Ottavia and marriage to his mistress and a musician
descending into the Underworld. FTP, identify this originator
of the opera who composed The Coronation of Poppaea and Orfeo.
Answer Caludio Monteverdi
- 5. According to the Historiae Augustae Alexander Severus had a
statue of this man in his sanctuary. Porphyry placed him among
the sages or divine men although Celsus believed that he was a
sorcerer who learned magic in Egypt. He was also discussed in
the controversial Testimonium Flavianum passage of The Jewish
Antiquities of Josephus. In modern times he was the subject of
a 'Critically Examined' life by David Strauss as well as a biography
by Hegel. FTP identify this religious figure, the brother of James
'The Righteous,' who was crucified during the governorship of
Pontius Pilate.
Answer Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Christ
- 6. Omens in this play include a black-footed pig eating part of
a newly bought rope and a black knot around a package which has
recently been brought by a young priest who never appears on stage.
Two sisters, Cathleen and Nora, realize that the clothes belong
to their brother, Michael. Meanwhile another brother sets off
for the fair at Connemara against the wishes of his mother. Based
on the author's experience in the Aran Islands, the climax occurs
when a group of villagers bring in the dead body of that brother,
Bentley. FTP name this work whose main character is Maurya, who
has had all six of her sons die by drowning, a short play by
J.M. Synge.
Answer Riders to the Sea
- 7. He played a major role in his country's adoption of the metric
system. His wife Marie-Anne translated his scientific works into
English for him while he worked as a gunpowder administrator.
The coiner of the term 'oxygen', he also worked as a tax collector
prior to his debunking of the phlogiston theory. The empirically-derived
law of conservation of mass is often known as his law, and he wrote
the first general textbook on chemistry in 1789. FTP, name this
'father of chemistry' who was guillotined during the French Revolution.
Answer Antoine-Laurent Levoisier
- 8. Along with his future executor Owen Barfield and J.R.R. Tolkien
he was a member of a group of Oxford Medievalists called the Inklings
and wrote a number of works on the Middle Ages including Allegory
of Love and The Discarded Image. Dr. Ransom is the hero of Out
of the Silent Planet, the first book of his Space Trilogy while
another famous work is a series of communiques between a demon
and his nephew, Wormwood, entitled The Screwtape Letters. Digory
Kirke, Eustace Scrubb, Aslan [ASS-lan], and Edmund are all characters
which appear in his most famous series. FTP, identify this author
of the Chronicles of Narnia.
Answer Clive Staples (CS) Lewis
- 9. Assessed as a part of the Hecksher-Ohlin model, one analysis
of this phenomenon is based on the labor theory of value, and it
was included in the long 1817 work Principles of Political Economy
and Taxation. Providing a strong argument for free international
trade and specialization, it is ultimately little more than an
analysis of relative opportunity costs. FTP, name this theory
of David Ricardo explaining why trade of some goods may be more
favorable for some countries due to production factors.
Answer comparative advantage
- 10. She gave her name to a race of nymph-like women with goat
legs in Umberto Eco's Baudolino and to the title of a Charles
Kingsley novel alternately titled New Foes With an Old Face. Many
of her philosophical views can be gleaned from the writings of
her pupil Synesius who became bishop of Ptolemais. Her only known
work is a commentary on Book III of her father, Theon's, edition
of Ptolemy's Almagest although she may have worked on his edition
of Euclid's Elements as well. After becoming embroiled in a conflict
with Archbishop Cyril she was killed by a mob of monks. FTP identify
this Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician from Alexandria.
Answer Hypatia
