Prominent (Brilliant) NAQT Educational Quizlet 7
Brown Versus Board
Mendez v. Westminster affirmed the right guaranteed in this later case, as did Sweatt v. Painter. During arguments over this case, Felix Frankfurter remarked that Fred Vinson's death was the first affirmative proof he'd ever seen of God's existence. This case was extended to the District of Columbia in Bolling v. Sharpe. Kenneth and Mamie Clark testified in Briggs v. Elliott, a component of this case, about their "doll" experiment. The Alexander case struck down this case's requirement that a central action should occur with "all deliberate speed." For 10 points, name this 1954 case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, ruling that segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
Absalom, Absalom!
Near the end of this novel, a character's attempts to call an ambulance are thwarted when Clytie burns the manor house. One character in this novel begins an affair with the teenaged Milly shortly after his son Charles Bon is murdered in front of his manor's gates. The final sections of this novel involve the meeting of Miss Rosa Coldfield and the author's recurring character Quentin Compson, who learns the story of the central family. This novel opens when Thomas Sutpen buys land to build his plantation. For 10 points, name this Biblically-titled novel by William Faulkner.
The Glass Menagerie
Once character in this play admonishes another character not to push with his fingers, and instead to use a crust of bread. When the son of the central family decides to pay the dues to join the Merchant Marine, the family's lights go off in the middle of a crucial dinner. One character skips school to visit the zoo, and that character's mother is delighted to learn that she had a crush in high school. The climax of this play comes when Jim O'Connor steps on a toy unicorn. For 10 points, name this play in which Tom and Amanda fight about a potential "gentleman caller" for Laura Wingfield, by Tennessee Williams.
Tennessee Williams
One character created by this man drops out of Rubicam's Business College after failing a typing exercise, while another is falsely reported to have been engaged to Emily Meisenbach. In another of this man's works, Maggie complains about Gooper and Mae's children and talks to Brick about their promised inheritance from Big Daddy. During the final scene in one of his plays, Blanche Dubois remarks that "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" after suffering a breakdown. For 10 points, name this American playwright whose works include The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and A Streetcar Named Desire.
Main Street
One character in this novel, Cy Bogart, earns the respect of his fellow townspeople by beating up the son of a local German-American farmer during wartime, though he later causes the teacher Fern Mullins to lose his job. Vida Sherman marries Raymond Wutherspoon in this novel, and the protagonist's maid, Bea Sorenson, marries Miles Bjornstam; Bea and her child later die of an illness. The protagonist decides to marry Will, a doctor, though she finds that his descriptions of Gopher Prairie fall short of her expectations. For 10 points, name this novel by Sinclair Lewis.
Slaughterhouse Five
One character in this novel, who invites people to visit him in Wyoming, is Wild Bob. After returning from war, this novel's protagonist finishes optometry school before having two children, one of which becomes a Green Beret [buh-RAY]. After a plane crash in Vermont, the protagonist of this novel loses his wife before having brain surgery. The protagonist of this novel describes his travels through time, including time spent in a zoo on Tralfamadore [tral-FA-muh-dor]. Name this novel set against the backdrop of the firebombing of Dresden, written by Kurt Vonnegut.
All Quiet On The Western Front
One character in this novel, who misses his wife, asks the other characters to shoot some dying horses. The protagonist of this novel is writing a play about Saul, stabs the printer Gerard Duval, and is taught by Kantorek. In this novel, the hungry bed-wetter Tjaden ["tyaduhn"] farts at the brutal Himmelstoss. The protagonist of this novel gets Kemmerich's boots after Müller dies. In this novel, the protagonist carries Katczinsky, who dies of a splinter wound in his arms. For 10 points, name this novel in which Paul Bäumer dies in a trench of World War I, written by Erich Maria Remarque.
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
One character in this play describes a sixteen-year-old who made bar-goers laugh by ordering "bergin and water," and discusses his fear that everyone will become the same through rearrangement of "chromozones." In this play, a gun shoots out an umbrella and a "slim-hipped" character goes to vomit in the bathroom before the second act, entitled "Walpurgisnacht." In this play, Honey and her biologist husband Nick play games such as "Hump the Hostess" and "Bringing Up Baby" at the house of an academic couple whose alleged child never existed. For 10 points, name this play in which George's wife Martha often sings the title question, by Edward Albee.
The Sound And The Fury
One character in this work delivers phony checks to his mother, who immediately burns them. Another character in this work picks a fight with the hostess' son at a party and is a Harvard student who commits suicide by drowning himself. The narrator of this work is castrated for embracing a schoolgirl, thinking that it was his sister Caddy. This novel begins with Luster and Benjy walking along the golf course, which was once a large plantation. For 10 points, name this work about the Compson family, a novel by William Faulkner.
The Glass Menagerie
One character in this work misses her meeting with the DAR after stopping to check on her daughter's progress at typing school. Another character in this play earns the nickname "Shakespeare" for his avid love of literature. That character, Tom, goes to the movies every night, much to his mother's dismay. In this play, the central family awaits the arrival of Jim O'Connor, a potential suitor for a disabled girl who is concerned about the title objects. Name this play in which Amanda is worried about the well-being of her daughter Laura Wingfield, a work by Tennessee Williams.
Plessy Versus Ferguson
One lawyer in this case wrote the newspaper column "A Bystander's Notes," calling for resistance against the central law in this case. That lawyer, Albion Tourgée, was hired by a "committee of citizens" as a lawyer for the plaintiff five years before it. The law in question in this case was called a "badge of servitude" by the lone dissenter, Justice John Marshall Harlan, and the "octoroon" plaintiff in this case resisted an 1890 Louisiana law by refusing to sit in a segregated railroad coach. For 10 points, name this 1896 court case which upheld the constitutionality of "separate but equal."
Tennessee Williams
One of this author's protagonists refers to her brother-in-law's children as "no-neck monsters". One of this author's characters attempts to lobotomize Catherine to prevent her from telling the circumstances of Sebastian's death. This author created a character who complains of "mendacity" when he finds out his family has lied about his spastic colon being cancerous. Besides writing Suddenly Last Summer and creating Big Daddy Pollit, this author created a character who dreams of being carried off by Shep Huntleigh, before being assaulted by Stella's husband, Stanley Kowalski. For 10 points, name this American playwright of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire.
George Orwell
One of this author's protagonists, George Bowling, tires of his associations with the classically oriented Old Porteus. He also wrote an essay in which the title action is performed by a police officer in Burma. In addition to writing Coming Up For Air and "Shooting an Elephant," he wrote a novel that includes the state of Oceania, whose residents include Winston Smith and that is ruled by the regime of Big Brother. For 10 points, name this British author of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Carl Sandburg
One of this man's poems repeats the line "Shovel them under and let me work" and asks to "pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo." He also described something that "sits looking over harbor and city" and comes "on little cat feet." In addition to "Fog" and "Grass," this poet also wrote about "painted women under the gas lamps" in a city that he describes as the "Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat" and "Hog Butcher for the World." For 10 points, name this American poet of "Chicago."
Sophocles
One play by this author opens as a character sits upon a stone and is ordered by villagers to leave, as he trespasses on lands sacred to the Furies. In another play, the chorus proclaims that punishment brings wisdom after the suicides of Eurydice (you-RID-uh-see) and Haemon (HIGH-mahn). That play is about Ismene's (is-MEH-nay) sister, who buries one of her brothers. This author wrote about the self-induced blindness of the title character in another play, who defeats the Sphinx, kills his father, and marries his mother. For 10 points, identify this playwright of Antigone and Oedipus Rex.
The Color Purple
One story in this novel concerns Samuel and Corrine, missionaries that take in two characters later revealed to be the children of an incestuous relationship between the main character and her father. The main character threatens to serve her father-in-law another woman's urine after he insults Shug (*) Avery, an entertainer the main character eventually leaves for Tennessee with. For 10 points, name this novel consisting mostly of letters written to God and Nettie by Celie, the best-known work of Alice Walker.
Virgil
One work by this author predicted the birth of a "miraculous child," and is sometimes called the Bucolics; another includes the passage "Praises of Italy" and concerns rural agriculture. Those works are the Eclogues and Georgics, and his most famous work is about a man who escapes with Anchises (an-KI-seez) and Ascanius, opens, (*) "of arms and the man I sing," and sees a man leave Troy to found Rome. Name this Roman poet of the Aeneid (uh-NEE-id).
Nathaniel Hawthorne
One work by this man takes place in a location that is "festooned with cobwebs" and contains a bust of Hippocrates, which is reported to have spoken the word, "Forbear." In another of this man's works, Elizabeth breaks off her engagement to Mr. Hooper, who wears an unorthodox article of clothing. This author of "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" and "The Minister's Black Veil" also described a romance between Holgrave and Phoebe Pyncheon, who helps her elderly cousin Hepzibah take care of Clifford after he is released from prison in The House of the Seven Gables. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter.
Gideon Versus Wainwright
The author of the majority opinion of this case was joined by William Douglas in his celebrated dissent in Adamson v. California, and the winning attorney would go on to become a Supreme Court Justice and write In re Gault, Abe Fortas. It involved incorporation of the 6th Amendment to state laws and expanded upon Powell v. Alabama, which concerned the Scottsboro Boys. Betts v. Brady was overturned because the plaintiff requested a case review after he was sentenced to five years in prison for breaking into a pool hall in Panama City, Florida. For 10 points, name this Supreme Court case that ruled that defendants have the right to counsel in criminal cases.
Baker Versus Carr
The case was reargued before the court before a clear decision was attained, and Justice Charles Wittaker recused himself from it. The dissenting opinion upheld a prior decision in Colegrove vs. Green and suggested, "Courts ought not to enter" a "thicket." However, in a 6-2 decision with a concurring opinion from Douglas, Justice Brennan agreed with the plaintiff, a resident of Shelby County, that the issue violated the equal protection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment. Shifting the court's prior "political question" doctrine, and supplemented by Reynolds v. Sims, for 10 points, name this Warren court case which dealt with reapportionment of districts in Tennessee.
Salome
The clarinet opens this opera with a rising scale split halfway between C-sharp major and G major. After one character condemns the protagonist's mother, she replies by praising that character's ivory skin, black hair, and red mouth. The opening motif of this opera plays again as the moon disappears behind the clouds, shortly before the protagonist is crushed to death by soldiers' shields at the command of her stepfather. At this opera's premiere, Marie Wittich refused to perform "the Dance of the Seven Veils." This opera's libretto was based on Hedwig Lachmann's translation of an Oscar Wilde play. For 10 points, name this Richard Strauss opera whose title character asks for the head of the prophet Jochanaan.
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
The daughter of a rich preacher in this play starts peeling labels off liquor bottles once it's revealed that she only married after having a false pregnancy. This play begins with a character quoting the Bette Davis film line, "What a dump!" A character in this play constantly complains about genetic engineering to a genetics professor. A character in this play tells a story about a boy who dies in a car crash, swerving to avoid a porcupine, before revealing that the boy is his imaginary son. In Act II of this play, "Walpurgisnacht", Nick and Honey get to play "Get the Guests." For 10 points, name this play about terrible party hosts George and Martha, written by Edward Albee.
Marbury Versus Madison
The doctrine established in this case was argued against by John B. Gibson in the dissent of the Pennsylvania case Eakin v. Raub. The decision argued that the body in question lacked the original jurisdiction under the Constitution, given to it under Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789, to issue a writ of mandamus, which its author had entrusted to his brother to deliver while Secretary of State to the plaintiff, appointed as one of John Adams's "midnight judges." For 10 points, name this Supreme Court case decided by John Marshall, which established judicial review.
Plessy Versus Ferguson
The group that instigated this legal case eventually stated "In defending the cause of liberty, we met with defeat but not with ignominy." That group was the Comité des Citoyens [koh-mee-tay day see-toy-ehn]. The lone dissent to this case, which stated "There is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens," was written by John Marshall Harlan. This case started in Louisiana when the plaintiff sat in a certain train car, and was overturned in 1954 by the unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Name this 1896 case that established the doctrine of "separate but equal."
Hammer Versus Dagenhart
The law in question involved a thirty-day window for one class of persons and a prohibition on night (*) hours for another, and Holmes wrote in his dissent that "indirect effects" could not make a law unconstitutional. Arising out of a North Carolina cotton mill, for 10 points name this Supreme Court case which declined, in 1918, to uphold a law against child labor.
The Turn Of The Screw
The plot of this novella is narrated by Douglas at a house party, and in this work, a strange apparition is seen in the tower and later through the dining-room window. One character does not attend church after one of her charges proposes to reenter school, and that character is employed at the country estate of Bly. At the end of this work, Mrs. Grose takes one of the children to her uncle, and the governess is instructed at the beginning not to contact her employer. The ghosts of Miss Jessel and Peter Quint haunt Miles and Flora in, For 10 points, what novella by Henry James?
The Color Purple
The protagonist of this novel advises her stepson Harpo to beat his wife Sophia, then asks God for forgiveness. Although the protagonist of this novel is raped by her stepfather and married off to the abusive Albert, she overcomes adversity with the help of her husband's lover, Shug Avery, and her sister, Nettie. This novel's plot develops through a series of letters written to God by the protagonist, Celie. For 10 points, name this epistolary novel by Alice Walker.
John Steinbeck
The quintessential zeugma, "He took his hat and his leave", originates from one of this author's novels. Grip the Raven, a character in another of his novels, inspired Poe's "raven." This author's Christmas novels are divided into sections called "staves" and "chirps", the latter appearing in The Cricket on the Hearth. This author collected his nonfiction "sketches" into a work he published under the name Boz. The periodical Master Humphrey's Clock published this man's novels serially, though he wasn't actually paid by the word. For 10 points, name this author of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Pickwick Papers, and Great Expectations.
Leo Tolstoy
The title character in one of this author's works discovers that Gerasim is his only true friend. A novel by this author sees Helene Kuragina marry Pierre Bezhukov, and in another of his novels, Kitty rejects (*) Levin for Count Vronsky, but is spurned in return. This author of The Death of Ivan Ilyich explored the impact of the Napoleonic Wars in an enormous novel. For 10 points, name the Russian author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
Herman Melville
The title character of one of this author's novels is engaged to Lucy Tartan and murders Glen Stanley. In one of this author's novellas, a falling tarp reveals the corpse of slavemaster Alexandro Aranda on the San Dominick as Babo chases (*) Benito Cereno. Nippers, Turkey, and Ginger Nut work with the title character of one of his short stories who responds to requests with "I would prefer not to." This author of "Bartleby the Scrivener" wrote a novel featuring the First
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
The title character of this work breaks off a relationship with Amy Lawrence, and states that the first two disciples were David and Goliath, after receiving a prize Bible at Sunday school. With Joe Harper, the title character of this work spends a week living as a pirate, and then appears at his own funeral, after the town of St. Petersburg, including his Aunt Polly, believes he has drowned in the Mississippi. For 10 points, name this novel in which Injun Joe commits a murder witnessed by Huckleberry Finn and the title character, a work by Mark Twain.
Winslow Homer
This artist painted the opposing directions two ducks face after they are shot just taking flight in the work Right and Left. He based his Prisoners from the Front on his sketches of the Civil War, while his most famous works were painted while living in Prouts Neck, Maine. A series of boys joined in a line on the prairie play a game in this artist's (*) Snap the Whip. He showed a man and four boys sailing in fair weather in Gloucester in his Breezing Up, while his most famous painting depicts a black man alone in a stranded boat surrounded by sharks. For 10 points, name this American artist of The Gulf Stream.
Voltaire
This author a book about a philosopher's love for Semire, Azora, and finally Astarte, the queen of Babylon. In another book by this author, the protagonist meets the Anabaptist Jacques after fleeing a battle between the Bulgars and the Abares. In that novel by this author, the protagonist's mentor contract syphilis and is hanged at an auto-da-fe following the (*) Lisbon earthquake. One of this author's title characters is evicted from Castle Thunder-ten-Tronckh for kissing Cunegonde. For 10 points, name this French author who mocked Dr. Pangloss's optimistic philosophy in Candide.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
This author of 24 Roman Elegies wrote novels based on the "apprenticeship" and "journeyman years" of Wilhelm Meister. He created a character who loves Charlotte but kills himself after he discovers she is engaged. In this man's most famous work, a (*) black poodle transforms into Mephistopheles, who offers the title scholar everything in return for his soul. For 10 points, name this German author of The Sorrows of Young Werther and a two-part Faust.
Louisa May Alcott
This author started writing to support her family when her father's utopian community Fruitlands failed. Over a century after her death, the manuscript to her thriller A Long Fatal Love Chase was published. She also wrote such works as Hospital Sketches, based on her work as a nurse during the Civil War, but is likely best known for a novel in which Mrs. Kirke's governess marries Professor Bhaer and Beth dies of scarlet fever. For 10 points, name this author who created Beth, Amy, Meg, and Jo in Little Women.
Louisa May Alcott
This author wrote a novel in which the orphan Christie Devon and a woman of ill repute named Rachel are taught self-respect by the laundress Cynthy Wilkins. In addition to Work, she wrote a sequel to her most famous work in which Dan Kean kills a man in self-defense following a card game. Professor Bhaer and his wife run the Plumfield school in several of her novels which center on (*) Meg, Amy, Beth, and other members of the March family. For 10 points, name this author of Jo's Boys and Little Women.
Leo Tolstoy
This author wrote a short story in which Simon takes in a freezing man, Michael, as his apprentice shoemaker. This author of "What Men Live By" wrote about a government clerk who imagines himself stuffed into a bag and later finds solace in Gerasim while accepting his mortality. In another work, this author of The Death of Ivan Ilyich wrote about Kitty's marriage to Konstantin Levin and the title character's relationship with Vronsky, ending in her suicide by throwing herself in front of a train. For 10 points, name this author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
Charlotte Bronte
This author wrote about Louis Gerard Moore's courtship of the owner of Fieldhead, Mrs. Keeldar, in her novel Shirley. In another novel by her, we learn that the brat John grows up to be an alcoholic and dies early, while Helen Burns succumbs to an epidemic of fever. Jean Rhys wrote a prequel to this author's major work, which sees the title character sent to live with the harsh Mrs. Reed before arriving at Thornfield. In that work, a fire reveals that Bertha Mason still lives upstairs. For 10 points, name this writer who created Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre.
Francis Fitzgerald
This author wrote about the golf caddy Dexter Green's unrequited love for Judy Jones in "Winter Dreams." He wrote of Charlie Wales's separation from his daughter Honoria as he is haunted by his past excesses in "Babylon Revisited." He wrote about the Princeton student Amory Blaine in his debut novel This Side of Paradise, and partially based the character of Daisy Buchanan in another novel on his own wife Zelda. For 10 points, name this author who included Nick Carraway as the narrator of The Great Gatsby.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
This author wrote about the struggle of two members of the Knights of the Golden Fleece against Catholic oppression in the Netherlands, leading to the imprisonment and execution of Clärchen's love, Lord Egmont. He also wrote about a young man who goes to Walheim to relax and read Homer, but instead falls in love with Albert's fiancee, Lotte, and commits suicide. In another work of his, Wagner helps create the spirit of learning Homunculus and the title character loses his bet with Mephistopheles. For 10 points, name this German author of The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust.
Jack London
This author wrote an unfinished novel about a murderers' agency which turns on its founder, The Assassination Bureau, Limited, and Professor Smith survives an outbreak that begins in 2013 in his "The Scarlet Plague." This author also wrote a novel in which the Everhard Manuscript depicts America's fall to an oligarchical regime, called The Iron Heel. He depicted Humphrey van Weyden's adventures aboard the ship Ghost, a man suffering from extreme cold on the Yukon trail, and an animal who kills Yeehat Indians after pulling a sled. For 10 points, name this American author of "To Build a Fire" and The Sea-Wolf, who wrote of the dog Buck in The Call of the Wild.
John Steinbeck
This author wrote of a Single Gentleman who sought to aid his brother, who gambled away the income from the title establishment. In another novel by this author, Monsieur Blandois [mon-sur blan-dwah] blackmailed the title character's employer regarding the withholding of funds. This author wrote of Orlick's attack on Mrs. Joe Gargery, who took in her brother Pip. Name this author of David Copperfield and Great Expectations.
William Shakespeare
This author wrote of a time when "forty winters shall besiege thy brow/And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field." In another poem, this man evokes "sweet silent thought" by "[summoning] up remembrance of things past." The speaker of another of this author's poems begins "Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments." In one work, this poet stated "so as long eyes can see/So long lives this and this gives life to thee". This man began a late poem "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun", and also asked the Dark Lady "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" For 10 points, name this Elizabethan-era poet who wrote 154 of his namesake sonnets.
Francis Fitzgerald
This author wrote of an apparition of a man in a brown suit wearing slippers that curl up; the observer became convinced it was the Devil. In one novel, this author wrote of the star of Daddy's Girl becoming romantically involved with a clinical psychologist who married Nicole Warren. This author of Tender is the Night and This Side of Paradise also wrote a novel narrated by Nick Carraway. Name this author of The Great Gatsby.
John Steinbeck
This author's characters include the bouncer Joe Valery. In one book by this author, Lee discusses the meaning of the word "timshel" with a group of rabbis, and Faye is poisoned by Cathy, who takes over a brothel. This man created the narrator Samuel Hamilton, who tells us that Caleb failed to impress his father Adam Trask. In another novel by this author, a violent strike kills the former preacher Jim Casy, and Rose of Sharon breastfeeds a man after her baby is stillborn. For 10 points, name this American author of East of Eden, who detailed the Joad family's struggles getting to California from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl in The Grapes of Wrath.
Virgil
This author's death is referenced in a novel by Hermann Broch. This author wrote of a son who will bring about a new age in a work, while another discusses agriculture and animal husbandry. His most famous work ends with the title character killing a character for wearing Pallas' belt. This author of The Eclogues and The Georgics wrote of a character who "sing[s] of arms and the man." The title character in that work kills Turnus and causes Dido's suicide. For 10 points, name this author of The Aeneid.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This author, who is not Lillian Hellman, published works like Little Foxes under the name Christopher Crowfield, but did not use a pseudonym for works such as Palmetto Leaves and The Minister's Wooing. The sequel to this woman's most famous novel is titled "A Key" to its titular building. The beginning of that novel sees Arthur and Emily Shelby sell Eliza's son, as well as the titular character. Famous for a novel that features the evil Simon Legree, for 10 points, who is this American author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Carl Sandburg
This man defended his poetry by writing "Kill my style/and you break Pavlowa's legs/and you blind Ty Cobb's batting eye." He wrote a poem in which he notes that the title place is wicked because he has "....seen your painted women and the gas lamps luring the farm boys." This man wrote a collection of children's tales called (*) Rutabaga Stories, and described the "War Years" and "Prairie Years" of one of his subjects. For 10 points, name this biographer of Abraham Lincoln and the poet of "Chicago."
Oscar Wilde
This man wrote a story about Lord Arthur Saville, who attempts to fulfill a prophecy before a marriage by murdering someone, while the Dance of the Seven Veils leads to John the Baptist's beheading in a French play by this man. Along with Salome, he penned the line "each man kills the thing he loves" in his poem "The (*) Ballad of Reading Gaol" ["Redding Jail"]. Mrs Erlynne protects her daughter by lying about borrowing the title object in this man's play Lady Windermere's Fan and in his only novel, Basil Hallward paints the title object, which ages and grows more grotesque as its subject sins. For 10 points, name this author of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Victor Hugo
This man wrote a three volume epic poem about history from the Old Testament to the 19th century entitled The Legend of the Centuries. In a play by this man, the tutor Ruy Gomez poisons Dona Sol and the title bandit. That play by this man is Hernani. This man also wrote a novel that includes the innkeepers the Thenardiers, who mistreat Cosette. That novel also focuses on Inspector Javert's pursuit of Jean Valjean. For 20 points, name this French author.
Dante Alighieri
This man wrote about creatures who blow trumpets with their butts. He coined the term "sweet new style" to describe an artistic movement he le co-led, and reimagined a waterspout as the cause of Ulysses's death. This man is moved to fainting upon hearing how two lovers read each other knightly romances. This exile from his native city wrote of Paolo and Francesca in a terza rima poetic cycle starting "halfway along our life's path" in which he sees ice encasing a three-headed Devil. For 10 points, name this poet in love with Beatrice Portinari, who lets Virgil guide him through the afterlife in his own Divine Comedy, starting with the Inferno.
The Rape Of The Lock
This poem compares a vanity table to an altar, and ends with Clarissa advising valuing good humor rather than looks. A Gnome empties a bag of spleen over the head of the heroine of this work, whose lapdog, Shock, and other possessions are usually protected by a troop of Sylphs. This poem begins "What dire offence from amorous causes springs." During a round of the card-game ombre, the Baron carries out this poem's title action on Belinda, who is surrounded by spirits like Ariel and Umbriel. For 10 points, this is what mock-epic poem about a stolen strand of hair by Alexander Pope?
The Rape Of The Lock
This work includes a scene in which Sir Plume demands the title item from another character, while his sister Thalestris is among the protagonist's friends. In Canto IV of this work, a gnome named Umbriel travels to the Cave of Spleen, and after a fight between characters inspired by the Lord Petre and [*] Arabella Fermor, the title object becomes embedded in the sky. This poem begins, "What dire offense from amorous causes springs," and several spirits called sylphs, including Ariel, fail to protect the protagonist when her enemy approaches her with scissors. For 10 points, name this mock epic about the Baron's theft of Belinda's hair, written by Alexander Pope.
All Quiet On The Western Front
This work's protagonist bribes a wagon-driver to help him steal a goose, which he shares with his best friend and a character who is a chronic bed-wetter. While working at a supply depot, the protagonist of this novel joins Leer and Kropp in swimming naked across a canal, where they meet three French women. This novel's narrator feels remorse over killing Gerard Duval, and Kemmerich's boots are inherited by Mueller in this novel. For 10 points, name this novel in which Paul Bäumer fights in World War I, a work by Erich Maria Remarque.
Dante Alighieri
This writer described wisdom as the "mother of all origins" and proposed a "l'umana operazione". This author of the Convivio contrasted the powers of the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope in the Monarchia. An unfinished canzone and his commentary on his own life are contained in his La Vita Nuova. In one of his works, the letter P is erased from his forehead each time he passes a terrace. That work ends with an encounter with a rose and three circles of identical size. He glimpses the inscription "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" while passing through nine circles of hell accompanied by the poet Virgil. For 10 points, name this poet and lover of Beatrice who wrote The Divine Comedy.
George Orwell
This writer proposed six rules to improve the accuracy and clarity of one's language in "Politics and the English Language". A man is killed by an animal in must and the narrator commits the title action to avoid looking like a fool in his "Shooting an Elephant". In The Road to Wigan Pier, he described the life of the industrial working class and their attitudes toward socialism. "Unperson" and "doubleplusungood" are words in a fictional language created by this writer. In that novel by this writer, "Do it to Julia!" marks the protagonist's breaking point in Room 101 after torture by O'Brien. For 10 points, name this author who created Newspeak and Big Brother in 1984.
Sense And Sensibility
A character in this novel is disgusted with a man who doesn't like the writing of Cowper. Several characters in this novel debate over the origin of a lock of hair after a woman notices a locket-shaped ring. This novel's central family is forced to live with the Middletons at Barton Cottage after John and his wife Fanny give them only 2000 pounds. One character is spurned by the duplicitous John Willoughby, and another woman marries the former fiancee of Lucy Steele, Edward Ferrars. This novel ends with a marriage proposal by Colonel Brandon. For 10 points, name this novel whose title contrasts the philosophies of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, written by Jane Austen.
Leo Tolstoy
A grave that is only six feet long ultimately turns out to answer the title question in this author's short story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" A man named Olenin leaves for the Caucasus in his novel The Cossacks. In another work by this author, the title civil servant reflects back on his life after suffering a fatal fall installing curtains in his apartment. This author of The Death of Ivan (*) Ilyich wrote a work in which the lover of Count Vronsky commits suicide on a railway. For 10 points, name this author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
Roe Versus Wade
A quote from Joseph McKenna in this case's majority opinion explained its mootness exemption. Harris v. McRae was a follow-up to this case which upheld the Hyde amendment. Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington played important roles in this case, which was filed on behalf of Norma McCorvey. In this case, Blackmun's majority opinion described a "penumbra" within the right to privacy guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, though its "trimester" framework was later removed. For 10 points, name this 1973 Supreme Court case followed up by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which protected a woman's right to abortion.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Among his scientific works was Treatise on the Astrolabe, written for his ten-year-old son, and one of his earliest works was an elegy for Blanche, the first wife of the Duke of Lancaster: Book of the Duchess. The first recorded use of the word "galaxy" is found in his House of Fame. Most of his works were left unfinished, but one of his completed poems took the plot from (*) Boccaccio's Filostrato and saw rhyme royal used in English for the first time. That poem, Troilus and Criseyde, is often considered to be his best work, although his most famous depicted a storytelling contest between pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas a Becket. FTP name this author of The Canterbury Tales.
Roe Versus Wade
Arguments over this case produced the immortal line, "when a man argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they are going to have the last word." A 1989 case overturned the Court's decision in this case by permitting legislation in the face of "undue burden." Harris v. McRae upheld the constitutionality of the Hyde Amendment, which was passed as a result of this case. Concurrently argued with Doe v. Bolton, this case had a majority opinion written by Henry Blackmun, who sided in favor of Norma McCovey. For 10 points, name this 1973 court case which used the "right to privacy" to guarantee a woman's right to an abortion.
Winslow Homer
Cases that used this one as a precedent include Pace v. Alabama, though it would later be overruled by McLaughlin v. Florida. The defendant sought a writ of prohibition, and was defended by Albion Tourgee. The event that sparked the case saw the plaintiff stopped at Covington and fined. Justice Brown wrote for the majority, while Harlan was the sole dissenter. The case was prompted by a certain Louisiana regulation, and the doctrine it established would be overruled by Brown v. Board. For 10 points, name this Supreme Court decision that created the doctrine of "separate but equal."
Brown Versus Board
Clarence Thomas argued that this case had been misunderstood by the courts in Missouri v. Jenkins. Collins J. Seitz presided over one case combined with this case, Gebhart v. Belton, and Kenneth and Mamie Clark were called as witnesses for another such case, Elliott v. Briggs. Psychological doll experiments were used as evidence in this case, whose unanimous decision included the instructions to perform an action "with all deliberate speed." The Equal Protection Clause was violated by the "separate but equal" doctrine that this case overruled. A Warren Court decision, for 10 points, name this landmark Supreme Court case nullifying Plessy v. Ferguson that ended segregation.
Marbury Versus Madison
Clerks Jacob Wagner and Daniel Brent were called to testify in this case, as was Acting Secretary Levi Lincoln. Justices hearing this case included Bushrod Washington, and documents involved in this case were supposed to be affixed with the Great Seal and delivered. The majority opinion in this case stated the court had no jurisdiction in mandamus proceedings, and declared section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional. Dealing with the "Midnight Judges" court appointments, for 10 points, name this landmark Supreme Court ruling by John Marshall which established the precedent of judicial review.
Richard III
Colley Cibber's adaptation of this work eliminated Queen Margaret, who curses the title character as a "bottled spider." The title character of this play murders Clarence in the Tower of London and states that he is "determined to prove a villain" because of his (*) hunchback. He dies at the Battle of Bosworth Field, exclaiming "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" For 10 points, name this Shakespeare history play in which the title monarch opens, "Now is the winter of our discontent / made glorious summer by the son of York."
Hammer Versus Dagenhart
Congress attempted to get around the restrictions imposed by the Supreme Court in this case by passing tax legislation, but the case of Bailey v. Drexel struck down that attempt. The dissent in this case, which opined that "regulation means the prohibition of something," was quoted approvingly when this case was reversed by United States v. Darby. The majority opinion by William Rufus Day adds "expressly" to the wording of the 10th Amendment to denote limitations on the Commerce Clause, while the dissent declares that states are "no longer within their rights" when they "seek to send their products across state lines;" that dissent in this case was by Oliver Wendell Holmes. This case involved the owner of a cotton mill in North Carolina, who sued to stop the enforcement of the Keating-Owen Act. For 10 points, name this 1918 Supreme Court case which struck down federal restrictions on child labor.
Homer
George Chapman translated this author's two main works into English. This author used the epithets "wine-dark" to describe the sea and "grey-eyed" to describe Athena. One of this author's title characters is attacked by the Laestrygonians, and calls himself "No-Man" to escape from the Cyclops Polyphemus. An epic poem by this author begins by depicting the wrath of Achilles, and ends with a victorious army hiding inside the Trojan Horse. For 10 points, name this ancient Greek poet of The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Joseph Conrad
In "The Hollow Men," T.S. Eliot quotes this author's statement that "Life is very long," which is spoken by Captain Lingard to Peter Willems in his story, An Outcast of the Islands. The title character of another of his novels allows Doramin to shoot him after the death of Dain Waris. In one of his stories, a captain near the Gulf of Siam allows Leggatt to escape after seeing him swim away from the Sephora. This author of (*) "The Secret Sharer" wrote a more famous novella about Kurtz, who is praised as a god in the Belgian Congo and yells "The horror! The horror!" to Charles Marlowe. For ten points, name this author of Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.
Oscar Wilde
In Act III of one of this man's plays, a character jokes she's never met a man whose "origin was a Terminus." In another of his plays, a businessman gives his love a diamond brooch and stops building canals in Argentina. One of this author's characters suspects her husband of having an affair with Mrs. Erlynne, and accidently leaves the title object with Lord Darlington. This playwright of An Ideal Husband also wrote about the love between Gwendolyn Fairfax and Jack Worthing, who instead goes by a punny name. For 10 points, name this Irish playwright of Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest.
Jack London
In a dystopian novel by this author, the Everhard Manuscript details the rise and fall of the The Oligarchy. One of his protagonists is haunted by the warning of an old-timer not travel alone in bad weather, before dying of cold after feeling to perform the title action. The most famous protagonists of this author of The Iron Heel and "To Build a Fire" are a son of Kiche who is sold to Beauty Smith by Grey Beaver, and a dog who finally becomes free after the death of his last master John Thornton. For 10 points, name this creator of Buck, the author of White Fang and The Call of the Wild.
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
In one appearance, this character causes Peter the cat to destroy a windowsill full of flowerpots when he feeds the cat painkiller. He asks a doodle-bug why burying a marble and saying hexes didn't cause all of his lost marbles to reappear. This spunk-water aficionado convinces his friends to give him an apple, a kite, and a dead rat for the privilege of whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence. He escapes from a cave with Becky Thatcher after being trapped with Injun Joe. For 10 points, name this friend of Huck Finn and title character of a Mark Twain novel.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
In one novel by this author, Mary Scudder is loved by Dr. Hopkins. This author of Dred: A Story of the Great Dismal Swamp and The Minister's Wooing wrote about Topsy being educated in another work. A novel by this author includes Eva, who is saved by the title character. This author included a scene where Eliza jumps over ice floes on the Ohio River to reach freedom in that work. Simon Legree beats the title character of this author's bestseller to death. For 10 points, name this author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin .
Joseph Conrad
In one novel by this author, The Professor always carries a suicide bomb, and Verloc is tasked with destroying the Greenwich Observatory. In another work by this author, Charles Gould uses his money to support Ribiera's dictatorship of Costaguana. As well as The Secret Agent and Nostromo, this author wrote of a sailor who abandons a sinking ship on its way to Mecca. The narrator of that work by this author finds a note reading "Exterminate all the brutes" in a novel describing an insane ivory trader on the Congo River, whose last words are "The horror! The horror!" For 10 points, name this author of Lord Jim who wrote of Marlow and Kurtz in Heart of Darkness.
Victor Hugo
In one novel, this author wrote of a poet who was to be hanged if he could not find a wife in a thieves' den. He also wrote of a goat that learned to use alphabet blocks to spell Phoebus. This author also wrote of a man who rose from working in a glass factory to becoming mayor of a town under the name Father Madeleine, a name he took after leaving prison as Jean Valjean [jahn vahl-jahn]. Name this author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables.
Charlotte Bronte
In one of her novels, Luddites attack Robert Moore's mill, and this author created Lucy Snowe in her novel Villette. This author of Shirley also wrote a novel in which the title character is haunted by the ghost of Uncle Reed and learns that Reverend St. John Rivers is her cousin. That character created by this author is employed in a household where Grace Poole looks after Bertha Mason, the crazed wife of Edward Rochester. For 10 points, name this author of Jane Eyre.
Jane Austen
In one of this author's novels, Lady Russell convinces the protagonist to break off her engagement with Frederick Wentworth. In another, Mr. Yates encourages a production of the play Lovers' Vows while Thomas Bertram is away. In addition to writing about Anne Elliot in (*) Persuasion, this author wrote a book in which John Willoughby hits on a woman who sprains her ankle in the rain, Marianne Dashwood. This author's most famous work sees clergyman William Collins marry Charlotte Lucas, and Georgiana helps her brother Fitzwilliam Darcy end up with Elizabeth Bennet. For ten points, name this author of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.
John Steinbeck
In one of this author's novels, a non-functioning vacuum is given to Sweets Ramirez by Danny, the friend of Pilon. Another of his characters is based on marine biologist Ed Ricketts, and that novel sees Lee Chong, Dora Flood, and Mack help throw a party for Doc. In addition to Tortilla Flat and (*) Cannery Row, this author wrote a novel in which Curley's wife is accidentally killed by the giant, dimwitted Lennie, and in another of his works, the Joads travel west due to the Dust Bowl. For ten points, name this American author of Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.
Sophocles
In one of this author's plays, Lichas tries to convince another character that the siege of Oechalia was not to obtain Iole, but Deianeira kills Hercules anyway. Another play by this author of Women of Trachis sees Haemon kill himself after the title character is not allowed to (*) bury her brother's body. In one of this man's plays, the chorus warns that no man should be considered fortunate until after his death, and that play's title character had answered the sphinx's riddle with "man." This author's most famous protagonist blinds himself after learning he married his mother. For ten points, identify this Athenian playwright of Antigone and Oedipus Rex.
Geoffrey Chaucer
In one of this author's works, a knight who serves Love tells the poet how he lost his queen in a game of chess against Fortuna. In addition to that poem, which begins by retelling Ovid's story about Ceyx and Alcyone, this author wrote a poem in which Scipio Africanus guides the narrator to Venus's temple. This author of The Book of the Duchess and "The (*) Parlement of Foules" wrote a more famous work which features the story of Arcite and Palamon, as told by a knight, set against the frame narrative of a pilgrimage to the grave of Thomas Becket. For ten points, name this author who included tales from people like the Nun's Priest and the Wife of Bath in his collection, The Canterbury Tales.
John Milton
In one of this man's poems, the speaker asks to go "to arched walks of twilight groves" "when the Sun begins to fling his flaring beams," and justifies Vesta's incestuous relationship with Saturn after hailing their daughter, "divinest Melancholy o'er laid with black." That poem contrasts with another of his works whose speaker asks to live with Mirth, L'Allegro. In his most famous work, a character tells the Sun "how I hate thy beams" after crying "Hail horrors, hail, infernal world," having been accosted by Beelzebub in Hell. For 10 points, name this seventeenth-century English poet of Il Penseroso who depicted Satan and Eden in Paradise Lost.
John Milton
In one of this poet's works, the narrator desires for Mirth to be with "Jest and youthful Jollity" and "wanton Wiles" and ends by asserting that "I mean to live with [it]." This author wrote a closet drama in which the Philistine Dalila deceives the title character, who is "eyeless in Gaza." He is most famous for a work in which (*) Mammon and Beelzebub aid a character who claims that it is "better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven." In that work, Satan tempts Adam and Eve to commit "Man's first disobedience." For ten points, name this author of Samson Agonistes and Paradise Lost.
Main Street
In one part of this novel, the barber Del Snafflin leads a tiny orchestra in a production of The Girl from Kankakee. One subplot involves the ambitious Miles Bjornstam and his wife Bea Sorenson, who dies of typhoid fever along with her son. The protagonist scandalizes the Jolly Seventeen with her views on librarians, and she fails to produce Androcles and the Lion with the Thanatopsis Club. After her son Hugh is born, she has a brief flirtation with the tailor Erik Valborg and flees to Washington, which she finds similar to her husband's home town. For 10 points, name this Sinclair Lewis novel set in Gropher Prairie, centering on Will and Carol Kennicott.
Lyrical Ballads
In one poem in this collection, a father does not understand why his son wishes to be on the shore of Kilve rather than at Liswyn farm. Another poem in this collection begins "Her eyes are wild, her head is bare / The sun has burnt her coal-black hair." The moon follows the speaker to the cottage of his lover in one of this book's poems, while a further poem describes a girl "who seemed a thing that could not feel." In addition to a subsection containing "A Slumber did my Spirit Seal" and "Strange Fits of Passion I have Known," the Lucy poems, this collection includes verses addressed directly to Dorothy and one in which a Wedding Guest is told "water, water, everywhere / nor any drop to drink." For 10 points, identify this collection containing "Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," a volume of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
William Shakespeare
In one poem, this man lamented loving a woman "as black as hell, as dark as night"; that poem is one of the twenty-eight poems he addressed to the "dark lady." This poet wrote that "music hath a far more pleasing sound" than the voice of his lover, whose "eyes are nothing like the sun." Another of this man's poems notes that "every fair from fair sometime declines" after calling the addresse "more beautiful and more (*) temperate." For 10 points, name this Elizabethan poet of "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" and 153 other sonnets.
The Sound And The Fury
In one scene from this novel, one character feels someone's heartbeat as he says the name of her beloved. The last section of this novel features a picture of an eye embedded within the text, and at its end, one character breaks into tears because a carriage turns the wrong way. One character hunts down a man with a red tie, and this novel begins outside a golf course. T.P. and (*) Luster act as guardians to an autistic character in this novel, who, with his brothers, observes his sister's "muddy quarters". A Harvard student in this novel commits suicide after his sister, Caddy, becomes pregnant with the child of Dalton Ames. For 10 points, identify this novel about the Compson brothers by William Faulkner.
Herman Melville
In one story by this author, the title character is a salesman who fails to convince the narrator that the center of a room is the safest place during a storm. In a novel by this author, Daggoo is a 6'5" man who works for Flask and Father Mapple gives a hellfire sermon. In another story by this author, the title character used to work in a "dead letter office" and now works with Nippers and Ginger Nut. This author included "The Lightning-Rod Man" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" in his collection The Piazza Tales, and his most famous work takes place mainly upon the Pequod. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Captain Ahab hunting a giant whale in Moby-Dick.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In one work by this author, a monk is killed by an Italian named Donatello, who resembles a Praxiteles [praak-SIH-tuh-leez] statue. In a story by this author, Aylmer obsesses about a defect on Georgiana's face. In another work, a deed to ancient Indian lands is discovered after Phoebe's lover Holgrave presses a spring in a portrait of Colonel Pyncheon hanging in the title house. This author of The Marble Faun and "The Birth-Mark" also wrote about Reverend John Wilson questioning Roger Chillingworth's wife Hester Prynne after she commits adultery. Name this writer of The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter.
Voltaire
In one work by this author, an alien from near Sirius tours Saturn and the Earth after writing a heretical book on bugs. Another work by this author sees the titular philosopher succeed at a number of challenges and marry Astarte to become King of Babylon. In addition to Micromegas and Zadig, this author wrote a work in which a princess gets her buttock cut off and the protagonist travels to El Dorado before reuniting with friends in Constantinople, many of whom had started out in the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh. For 10 points, name this French author who invented Cunegonde and the optimistic Dr. Pangloss in Candide.
Jane Austen
In one work by this author, the protagonist refuses Mr. Elton's advances and opposes a match between Robert Martin and Harriet Smith. Another novel by this author sees Colonel Brandon wed Marianne (*) Dashwood. Lady Susan is an early work by this author, who wrote a novel in which Charles Bingley's friend, Mr.Darcy, falls for Elizabeth Bennett. For 10 points, name this author of Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.
Slaughterhouse Five
In this book, the protagonist's obese wife rushes to the hospital to see him but dies of carbon monoxide poisoning along the way. In this book, the stealing of a teapot leads to high school teacher Edgar Derby being shot, after which a bird says "Poo-tee-weet?" In the autobiographical first chapter of this novel, its author responds to a woman exclaiming that "you were just babies in the war" by reading up on the Children's Crusade. The protagonist of this novel is put in a zoo by Tralfamadorian aliens after surviving the fire-bombing of Dresden. For 10 points, name this novel about a man who has become "unstuck in time," Billy Pilgrim, by Kurt Vonnegut.
McCulloch Versus Maryland
In this case, the Court found that a power to create implies a power to preserve, and it noted that Congress might create a corporation if necessary to execute its powers. The court found that, "The Constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties,", and William Pinckney and Daniel Webster successfully argued this case. Including the finding that the power to tax implied the power to destroy, for 10 points, name this 1819 Supreme Court decision which held that a state could not tax the Bank of the United States.
Sense And Sensibility
In this novel, Mrs. Smith disowns one character for abandoning Eliza Williams, and that character is later compelled to marry Sophia Grey to keep his wealthy lifestyle. Sir John Middleton loans a family his cottage in Devonshire after they are forced out by Fanny, and the central characters are visited by (*) Lucy Steele. A character living in Barton Park is abandoned by John Willoughby in this novel, but that character, Marianne, eventually marries Colonel Brandon and her sister Elinor marries Edward Ferrars. For ten points, name this work by Jane Austen about the Dashwood family.
Absalom, Absalom!
In this novel, one hundred people are invited to the protagonist's wedding, but only ten attend. The novel's protagonist is killed with a scythe on the same day that one of his children is born, and the novel ends with a character insisting "I don't hate it!" in response to Shreve's question. The man who later kills the protagonist rides a mule without a saddle and yells through a window that Charles Bon has been shot. Bon is killed by his half-brother, Henry, who wants to keep Bon from marrying Judith and later dies in a fire set by Clytie at the protagonist's Hundred. For 10 points, Wash Jones kills Thomas Sutpen in what novel by William Faulkner?
The Barber Of Seville
In this opera, a plan to woo the female lead is agreed upon in the duet "All'idea di quell metallo." That plan involves a nobleman impersonating a drunken soldier who seeks housing for the night. In one scene in this opera, a music teacher Basilio is bribed to feign sickness. In this work, the title character sings "Largo al factotum" as he first appears on stage. This opera ends when Count Almaviva manages to marry Rosina before her father Bartolo can interrupt the wedding. For 10 points, name this opera whose title character sings the famous lines "Figaro! Figaro! Figaro," a work by Gioacchino Rossini.
The Barber Of Seville
In this opera, two servants are given medicine that makes one of them sneeze continuously and makes the other yawn nonstop. One character boasts that "Everyone asks for me, everyone wants me," before telling himself "You'll never lack for luck" in an aria from this opera. In this opera, a character disguises himself as the student Lindoro to try and marry his love, which he ultimately does after bribing Don Basilio the music teacher. The title character of this opera sings the aria "Largo al factotum," and later appears in a Mozart opera. For 10 points, name this opera composed by Gioachino Rossini, whose title character Figaro helps Count Almaviva win Rosina.
Richard III
In this work, Queen Margaret returns from her banishment to warn the squabbling nobles about the title character. That title character has already been responsible for Edward of Westminster's death, and he has successfully wooed Edward's widow to marry him. Before plotting to and successfully having his brother Clarence murdered, the title character says, "I am determined to prove a villain." Opening with the lines, "Now is the winter of our discontent, Made glorious by this son of York" is, for 10 points, what Shakespearean history play about the last king of the House of York?
Baker Versus Carr
Jimmy Carter wrote in his book Turning Point about how this case changed Georgia and the entire South. The ruling in this case allowed the court to hear such cases as Davis v. Bandemer and Vieth v. Jubelirer, which failed to establish a specific standard to define this case's central concept. Charles Evans Whittaker was so agonized by the decision in this case that he had to recuse himself. Justice William Brennan Jr.'s assertion that the issue in this case was a question of equal (*) protection under the 14th Amendment marked a departure from the doctrine established in Colegrove v. Green, which claimed that its central concept was a "political question." The ruling in this case provided a precedent in Reynolds v. Sims. For 10 points, name this 1962 Supreme Court case that supported the idea of "one person, one vote," concerned with the reapportionment of districts in Tennessee.
Gideon Versus Wainwright
Key precedents for this case involved the "special circumstances" rule established in Powell v. Alabama. The defendant was later represented by W. Fred Turner and released on his retrial. The ruling in this case would be modified in Doughty v. Maxwell to not include cases where a guilty plea has been entered, and extended to include police interrogations in Miranda v. Arizona. The defendant had been accused of breaking into and stealing money from a poolroom. For 10 points, name this case in Florida that established the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel also applied to the states due to the due process clause of the Fourteenth.
Salome
Maud Allan created a famous production of this play titled for the "Vision" of its title character. It opens with a scene in which a Page and a Young Syrian discuss the nature of the moon, shortly after which a voice from a cistern prophesies the coming of Christ. This play was dedicated to Lord Alfred Douglas despite the fact that he'd botched the initial translation from the original (*) French, and it was illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. At the climax of this play, its protagonist kisses an item she'd requested as a reward for performing the "dance of the seven veils". For 10 points, name this tragedy in which the stepdaughter of Herod demands the head of Jokanaan, or John the Baptist, on a silver platter, a play by Oscar Wilde.
