Mise en Page - Watteau is considered the master of what technique, literally meaning "placement on page" that concerns the arrangement of figures within a painting?[1][2]
Country Full of Swedes -> "Possibly Erskine Caldwell’s best known story, the narrator Stan describes the devastation on Jim Frost’s farm that occurs when hard times drive workers from the sawmill towns of Maine into the countryside."
Elvis Shrugged - This 1991 parody, with art by Dave Webber, imagines a future in which only one record company exists. Chased by the floating head of Col. Parker, artists led by (*) Madonna break with the stifling monopoly and join forces with Elvis, who faked his own death, and others in exile to innovate. The plot and dialogue are hilariously true to the original, featuring the catch-question “"Is Elvis alive?”" For 10 points -- For 10 points--name this Revolutionary Comics spoof of Ayn Rand’'s best-known novel. [7]
Studies In Logic - Charles Sanders Pierce hammered out the ethical and practical forms of pragmatism as a definition of meaning in sensu strictu in this 1883 collection of essays that also extended the title subject to mathematics via pragmatism.[8]
the Nausea - “Something has happened to me, I can’t doubt it anymore. It came as an illness does, not like an ordinary certainty, not like anything evident.” The last sentence is an entry of Antoine Roquentin’s journal, the first time he describes the feeling which is also the title of this 1938 novel. For ten points, name this work by Jean-Paul Sartre which introduces in fiction form his conception of existentialism.
the Witch of Coos - A mother and son tell a traveler a story of how a skeleton made its way from the cellar, through the kitchen, up to the bedroom and finally up into the attic, where it still resides behind the door and the headboard of the mother's bed. FTP, this action takes place in what poem by Robert Frost?[9]
YAnfinsen cage, Anfinsen's Cage -> named after Christian B. Anfinsen, a proposed model for chaperone-assisted protein folding in which a chaperone, GroEL for instance, provides an environment in which a denatured protein can unfold and correctly refold. See also Anfinsen's dogma Yacrotism -> the absence / imperceptibility of a pulse (heartbeat) YAlpha-Aminolevulinate, Alpha-Aminolevulinic acid -> "Porphyrin rings are synthesized by assembling eight of these subunits together. In animals, they are created by by their namesake synthase from succinyl-CoA and glycine." Yarchiteuthus dux -> species of giant squid YCantlie line -> used in liver anatomy, an imaginary line that runs from the inferior vena cava to the base of the gall bladder YC4 photosynthesis -> alternative photosynthetic pathway that allows for spatial separation of the light and dark reactions
areas of Cohnheim -> "muscular fiber is divided into these polyhedral areas made up of transversely divided sarcostyles and surrounded by sarcoplasm."
Guanine Nucleophile Binding proteins -> heterotrimeric signal involved in second messenger cascades that transducing molecules using the exchange of guanosine diphosphate for guanosine triphosphate as a signaling mechanism.
Heterophils -> most common type of granulocyte in bird species.
Inducible systemInducible regulation The type of operon regulation in which the repressor binds to the operator, forming a barrier that prevents RNA polymerase from transcribing the structural genes. [10]
Little bags theory -> set of evolutionary theories, proposing that life evolved from the mixtures of organic chemicals that became trapped in tiny vesicles
Open juncture -> (from Dictionary.com): a transition between successive sounds marked by a break in articulatory continuity, as by a pause or the modification of a preceding or following sound, and often indicating a division between words
Association colloid - "In association colloids molecules of soap or other surface-active substances are associated together to form small aggregates (micelles) in water." [11]
Circular reaction -> 3 types of movements or actions that create their own repetition,and states that fugacity of each species in an ideal solution is proportional to the mole fraction of the species.
Hicks decomposition,orients with Earth's current magnetic field before solidifying its orientation. This is how scientists know Earth's magnetic field has changed directions in the past.
Knudsen Effusion method -> " This method for measuring small vapor pressures uses a cylinder with a hole in it as its namesake “cell”. The rate of effusion through the orifice is measured,and combinations.
Randall rule -> This simple law is the analog of Raoult’s Law for fugacity,stepwise elution,Sublimation nucleus < Meteorology: Any particle upon which an ice crystal may grow by the process of sublimation
Sigmatrophic shifts -> "Another class of pericyclic reactions is this one,his theory of acids and bases,i.e. which tend to attract and condense ambient water vapour.
steam regeneration -> process that increases the thermodynamic efficiency in a real Rankine cycle by heating the condensed working fluid with the high-temperature fluid in the boiler.
Weak field - This is the term for ligands which result in less splitting between the HOMO and LUMO energies in the complex,secondary,usually continuing iron,which involves migration of a sigma bond that is flanked at either or both ends by conjugated pi-systems"
The Filling Station -> ballet by Virgil Thomson that centers on Mack, the attendant, who is visited by a golfer and his family, two truck drivers, a gangster, and a state trooper.
YDavis-Moore thesis -> Theory that says job positions near the top require more investment in time, money, and education and therefore should have higher rewards. YLucas wedge < Aggregate amount of loss in output for economy, resulting from slowdown in growth rate of real gross domestic product.
Prepaid asset and Deferred asset -> expenditures for future costs or expenses, such as incurance, interest, or rent that are set up as assets to be amortized over an applicable period. (that's the definition from NYSE.com, by the way, so don't use those exact words when writing an article)
Fundamental class process -> in Marxian economics, the process by which workers transfer surplus product to capitalists
YSteinmetz's equation, Steinmetz equation, Steinmetz' equation -> In ferromagnetism, this equation allows for the calculation of the loss of the loss of energy per magnetization cycle per volume. YMascheroni construction -> "It is a geometric construction done solely with a movable compass. Its namesake proved that all constructions possible with a compass and a straightedge were possible with a movable compass alone. His name is also paired with Euler in identifying the Euler constant." YVelocity function -> mathematical function used to calculate the velocity, usually found by getting the first derivative of the position function. Questionable notability.
Biased notation - This convention is call biased notation with the bias being the number subtracted from the normal, unsigned representation. - [16]
Bohemian dome -> quartic surface given by the parametric equation x=a*cos(u), y=b*cos(v) + a*sin(u), z=c*sin(v) where v is between 0 and 2*pi
Existence and Uniqueness Theorem -> A mathematical theorem that can prove that a solution to a given problem is both possible (existent) and / or there is only one, zero, or multiple solutions (uniqueness). Used mostly in differential equations
Heaviside transform - "Incredibly useful in solving an ordinary differential equation with homogeneous coefficients, this transform involves guessing a general solution of an exponential raised to the negative [kt] power." - [17]
Matchstick construction -> "It states that every point that can be constructed with a straightedge and compass, and no other points, can be constructed using identical movable line segments. The nickname for the movable line segments gives this construction its name."
Sum of the nonconservative forces -> "In a general one dimensional system, it is the difference between the time derivative of the derivative of the lagrangian with respect to velocity and the derivative of the lagrangian with respect to position (that is, d/dt(dL/dq)-dL/dq)"
Weierstrass-Mandelbrot function - The function itself is defined as S (1, „) b^n cos[(a^n)px] where n is any odd integer, and it has the property of being continuous but nowhere differentiable. The secondary author of the function is better known for his work in fractals, and he developed an influential function in that field as well, and the primary developer of this function was a man who in college was said to have majored in "fencing and beer drinking", though even with that shortcoming he managed to develop Abelian Function theory with Riemann and emerge as the father of modern analysis, as well as, ftp, providing a handy substitution function for future calculus students along the way. [18]
Anthem chorus -> "The first chorus of Messiah, And the Glory of the Lord, also has lyrics taken from Isaiah 40. It is an example of this kind of chorus in which each specific line of text is represented by a particular line of music."
Beethoven String Quartets -> "The second movement of the first one was thought to have been inspired by the tomb scene from Romeo and Juliet. A section of the Cavatina movement of the 13th one is marked Beklemnt, and the finale of the seventh is based on a Russian folk theme. The finale of the last one is marked with an epigraph that reads "The difficult resolution," while the Molto Adagio of the 15th one is a song of thanksgiving in the Lydian mode. The original finale of the 13th is now known as the Grosse Fugue. FTP, name this group of sixteen works, with subtitles such as "Serioso," "the Harp" and "Razumovsky." "
YDamysos - was the swiftest of Gigantes who waged war on the gods. The speed of his feet was extracted by Kheiron and placed in the heel of Akhilleus. - [20]fr:Damysos
YLemuel Hopkins -> One of the Hartford Wits- the only one without an article YMartay Jenkins -> Arizona Cardinals player who set a record for most kickoff returns in a season YMichael Rogin -> historian, Berkeley professor. Wrote Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot; Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian; 'Ronald Reagan,' the Movie, and Other Episodes in Political Demonology YOgodei Khan -> son of Genghis Khan YRose Winslow -> American women's suffrage activist YTony Sands of Kansas - NCAA all-division recorder holder for rushing yards in a single game from 1991-1993 YVivian Villarreal -> professional billiards player, the Texas Tornado YVictor Barna, Angelica Rozeanu, Chuang Tse-Tung -> famous table tennis players YWladzui Valentino Liberace, Walter Valentino Liberace -> American pianist (1919-1987)
Damon Shelton - After playing the entire season, the loss of this fullback to steroid suspension just before the playoffs may have been a factor in the Bears' poor running game against the Eagles.[21]
Iron Shield, American Horse -> "This cousin of Red Cloud fought alongside him at the Fetterman Massacre and throughout the campaigns in and around the Bozeman trail. But he was captured at the battle of Slim Buttes in 1876 and executed."
Deletha Word -> "In the early morning hours of August 19, in Detroit, Michigan, a 33-year old lady jumped off the Belle Isle Bridge in an attempt to escape from her alleged assailants as dozens of bystanders looked on."
George Fiege -> "He took the work of Peano and extended it in his work Foundations of Arithmetic and in such defined the concept of numbers by means of purely mathematical concepts."
Manheim group -> "These composers were court musicians to Karl Theodor of Germany. They expanded orchestral music to the form which we know today, adding brass and woodwinds. The group included Franz Beck, Karl Stamitz, Franz Richter, and Ignaz Holzbauer. FTP name this group from whom the Classical period stems."
Stephen Keener - This president of Little League Baseball said that Almonte and the other boys had been treated in a “contemptible and despicable way.”[22]
R.C. Suggs < anthropologist, historian, sexologist: The Island Civilisations of Polynesia, Human sexual behavior
Charles Du Puy de Montbrun, Du Puy -> "After the death of Coligny, this ruthless warlord took up arms at the head of the Dauphinese forces, laying waste to much of the countryside, even going so far as to throw the Catholic men, women and children from the city walls of Mornas (mor-nah) after its taking. He was largely responsible for the virtual eradication of Catholics within the province of Dauphiné, for which he was captured and publicly beheaded him in Grenoble on August 13, 1575." < French Wikipedia 1530 - 1575
Robert Kiely -> "In this writer’s essay on Northanger Abbey, a close parallel is drawn between Austen’s Gothic parody and her epistolary parody in Love and Freindship. His major work is Reverse Tradition: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth Century Novel."
John Metzger -> "The white supremacist who swung the chair, hitting Geraldo Rivera in the face. He is President of the White Aryan Resistance Youth, and was also featured in a Rolling Stone article"
Fence mending - The term originated in 1879 when Ohio senator John Sherman made a trip home. It is what politicians do when they visit their electoral districts to explain an unpopular action. [23]
Separating equilibrium - Some adverse selection problems can be reduced by the insurer offering two kinds of policies, one attractive to high-risk individuals and one attractive to lower-risk individuals. What kind of equilibrium does this produce? [24]
Emergency Congress -> also known as "Hundred days congress", special session of congress that met March 9 to June 16, 1933 to discuss many issues in FDR's New Deal
Finite God -> belief system advocated by Ralph Barton Perry stating that God Himself is distinct from the universe and is in the process of achieving fulfillment
albigenes -> "A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries." Eventually defeated by the inquisition and the crusades.
Place of Fright -> The underworld in Mayan beliefs. Cold, damp place where souls go after death.
YAdorenarin doraibu Or Adrenaline drive - Directed by Shinobu Yaguchi, this parody of popular Japanese teenage romances uses slapstick to tell the not-so-classic “robbers versus robbers” story. An explosion at a Yakuza nest (*) puts a timid nurse and a rental car clerk in possession of a briefcase of blood-soaked money. The rest is a wild ride as the nurse is transformed into a glamorous heroine and outsmarts the gangsters out to recover the loot. For 10 points--name this 1999 movie starring Masanobu Ando and Hikari Ishida.[25] Ythe Snake Pit and the Pendulum -> 1967 German horror film directed by Harald Reinl. Also goes by "The Blood Demon", "Castle of the Walking Dead", "Pendulum", "The Snake Pit and the Pendulum", "The Snake Pit", "The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism", "The Torture Room", and "Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel", none of which have an article.
International Quiet Sun Year, IQSY (International Year of the Quiet Sun) -> An international cooperative effort, similar to the International Geophysical Year, extending through 1964 and 1965, to study the sun and its terrestrial and planetary effects during the minimum of the 11-year cycle of solar activity.
Dhuleti -> "This Indian holiday immediately after Holi marks the ushering in of warmer spring and is also a day of celebration."
Cirque basin -> a steep, semicircular hollow formed high on a mountain slope by the erosive action of a glacier. They usually fill up and become lakes called tarns
Crist-all -> "Created especially for Alexander II, P. Diddy is rumored to be the world’s largest purchaser of this drink, which is mentioned in the opening lines of Jay Z’s Excuse Me Miss."
Chicago group -> "literary group dealing with western themes operating from 1912 to 1925. Included Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, Edgar Lee Masters, and Theodore Dreiser."
Myth of the Metals -> In Plato's Republic, this “noble lie” is Plato’s attempt to justify the class system inherent in his state. It claims that people are predestined for certain roles by their physical makeup.
Daemonic character -> "Many of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's works, including “Gotz von Berlichingen” and “Egmont”, concern this character type possessing a powerful personality which sweeps others along in its violent destiny.
the American Caravan -> "This poetry and fiction magazine started in 1927 with Van Wyck Brooks and Lewis Mumford as its first editors. It featured works by Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Caldwell before ending its run in 1936"
Latin dance and Smooth dance -> Categories of ballroom dancing used in international competitions. It's possible that these categories are separate, as I've seen them both grouped together as well as named the "two major types of ballroom dancing".
Ur-Hu, urhu -> small two stringed Chinese string instrument, played upright with a bow.
First Order Predicate Logic -> in artificial intelligence, a knowledge representation form that involves objects, relations on those objects (such as brother of or bigger than), and properties on those objects (such as red or round)
Percy's Rebellion -> "Named for the family that rebelled against King Henry IV, its primary conflict occurred at Shrewsbury in 1403. Harry Hotspur, a member of that family, joined Owen Glendower at Shrewsbury but was killed by an arrow"
Pop'ables - Recently, my home equity loan was approved, and I could finally afford to take my nieces and nephews to a movie. Identify the treats they wanted, ten each. ... Little Billy wanted these tasty bite sized candies from the good people at Mars. The theater had four varieties – Snickers, Milky Way, Snickers Crunch, and 3 Musketeers.[26]
My Soldier - Program started by Sgt. Juan Salas where people wear red bands who have a personal connection to armed forces overseas
Goo Gone -> household cleaner manufactured by Magic American Corporation of Cleveland
Hooker Furniture -> furniture company; products often appear on the Price is Right
Cherry Merry Muffin - The last group, including Cookie n' Cream, was made in 1990 as a tie-in with Baskin-Robbins; after that Mattel sold their mold to Disney. In Germany the main character had a brother named after Sauerkraut (*). Each was sold with a recipe, a tray of baked goods, and sometimes a "helper" based on her particular flavor. Including Greta Grape, Lily Vanilly, Banancy, and the main character--for 10 points--name this line of dolls, whose delicious aromas distinguished them from Strawberry Shortcake.[27]
Deductively valid - An argument in which there is no possible world in which all the premises are true and the conclusion is false is deemed to be this. [28]
Deductively sound - An argument is considered to be this if and only if it is valid and all the premises are true in the actual world (meaning the facts as they stand now in the world). [29]
I Have a Future - Give the name of the program Foster founded in order to combat teen pregnancy.[30]
Collection lookup - operation performed by the exclamation mark in visual basic (Given a computer language, identify what the exclamation mark does for ten points each. ... visual basic[31])
Housewife refugee -> term for a woman who starts her own business after her family is grown or after she no longer needs to do household duties.
Anachorism < in mobility and place theory, a thing out of place or without place entirely, the spatial equivalent to anachronism. Again, to be clear, NOT a misspelling of "anachronism". Just less well known.
Piggy Palace Good Times Society -> organization registered in Canada in 1996 by Robert Pickton to "organize, co-ordinate, manage and operate special events, functions, dances, shows and exhibitions on behalf of service organizations, sports organizations and other worthy groups.", Although it was considerably more insidious than that.
Non-Saturating -> "ECL and Schottky TTL are both examples of this type of logic family, so named because the transistors are unable to enter a certain mode of operation. Logic families of this type are generally quite fast."
Indian Ring scandal -> In 1876, William Belknap accepted bribes from licensed companies to trade on Native American reservations. During the Grant administration, Secretary of War William Belknap took bribes from companies looking to do business on Native American reservations.quiz bowl answer
Heart-Mate -> tradename for an implantable pneumatic left-ventricular assist system which, implanted into the body, pumps blood instead of the ailing heart. This device works by assisting the heart's main pumping chamber so that it continues to perform.
Apollo and the Muses -> 1674 work by Claude Lorrain at the J. Paul Getty Museum. There are two different paintings: one called "Apollo and the Muses on Mount Helicon" and one called "Landscape with Apollo and the Muses"
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