Prominent (Brilliant) NAQT Educational Quizlet 1
Universal Suffrage
A call for pacifism by members of this movement was made with the Open Christmas Letter addressed to Austrians and Germans. A league prominent in this movement was founded by a person who was arrested, released, and re-arrested 12 times under the "Cat and Mouse Act" for advocating violent protests. Others involved in this movement went to Exeter Hall in 1907 in the Mud March. An early victory for this movement was achieved thanks to individuals like Kate Sheppard in (*) New Zealand. An 1867 Parliamentary petition advocating this cause was presented by J. S. Mill, a man who had written an article on the "subjugation" of the people the petition concerned. For 10 points, name this cause led in the United Kingdom by Emmeline Pankhurst, which effectively doubled the voting population.
Aaron Copland
A high B-flat flourish in the closing cadenza coda of a concerto by this composer was removed because it was too difficult for the soloist to read off a score. This composer's sextet for string quartet, piano, and clarinet consists of material salvaged from a symphony he dedicated to Carlos Chavez, who also premiered a tone poem this man based on folk songs like "La Jesusita" and "El Mosco." For conductor Eugene Goosens, this composer produced a piece that opens with loud percussion followed by the trumpets playing the rising notes F-B flat-F; that piece was inspired by Henry Wallace's optimistic speech on the outlook of the middle class. For 10 points, name this American composer of El Salon Mexico and Fanfare for the Common Man.
Isaac Asimov
A novel by this author features the scientist Beenay from Saro University in Lagash, who learns about the Apostles of Flame. Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov pose the title inquiry for the first time to Multivac in a short story by this man. Roj Nemmenuh Sarton, a resident of Spacetown, is found murdered in this author's The Caves of Steel. In another of his novels, Hari Seldon's development of psychohistory uses the laws of mass action to predict the future. This author of "The Last Question" and Nightfall put forth "Three Laws" for machines in the short story "Runaround" For 10 points, name this American science fiction author of the Foundation series and "I, Robot."
Arnold Schoenberg
A sextet by this composer was rejected for performance because it contained an inverted ninth chord. One of this composer's pieces features a single chord repeated with different instruments, illustrating his principle of "tone-color-melody"; that work, "Summer Morning by A Lake," is one of his Five Pieces for Orchestra. His first major work was a string sextet based on the poetry of (*) Richard Dehmel. This composer employed sprechstimme in a melodrama about a "moondrunk" Commedia dell'arte character, and developed a method of composing in which all the notes of the chromatic scale must be used before any can be repeated. For 10 points, name this Austrian composer of Transfigured Night and Pierrot Lunaire who pioneered atonality and twelve-tone music.
Medusa
According to Ovid, this figure's blood was said to have caused the formation of corals in the Red Sea. Unlike her siblings Stheno and Euryale, this daughter of Keto and Phorcys was mortal. In one story, this figure was cursed after she was caught making love with Poseidon in Athena's temple. This figure's children included Chrysaor and Pegasus, who were born after she was beheaded by Perseus. For 10 points, name this Gorgon with snake-like hair whose gaze could turn people to stone.
Miguel Hidalgo
According to one account, this man planted 84 mulberry trees to feed silkworms after reading a manual on the subject, and he hosted a group at his home known as "Chiquita Francia" because they studied French books. Known as "El Zorro" or the "Fox" for his cunning, he met his end at the "Wells of Baján" after he was tricked into believing a shipment of weapons was there for him to take. His key victory over general Torcuato Trujillo at "Monte de Las Cruces" is now commemorated by La Marquesa National Park. After meeting at Charo, he directed his subordinate José Morelos to raise troops on the southern coast. This man, captured and executed after the Battle of Calderon Bridge, gained fame after he joined the Queretaro conspiracy and allegedly shouted "Long live Ferdinand VII!" and "Death to Bad Government!" out of a window, an event called the Grito de Dolores. For 10 points, name this Catholic priest who died in 1811, an early father of Mexican independence.
Minotaur
After his half-brother Androgeus was killed in Athens, this figure received a yearly tribute. This creature was sometimes known as Asterion due to his connection with Aldebaran, and Aegeus committed suicide after this figure was slain because its killer forgot to put up (*) white sails after accomplishing the feat. Daedalus built a wooden contraption that allowed Pasiphae to conceive this creature after Minos refused to sacrifice a white bull. Ariadne helped a hero kill this monster by giving him a ball of string that allowed him to navigate the Labyrinth. For ten points, name this half-bull, half-man creature that was killed by Theseus.
Diggers
After the disbanding of this group, one of its founders became an employee at the estate of the mystic Lady Eleanor Davies, who claimed to be the prophet Melchisedecke, the Queen of Peace. This group issued the Wellingborough Declaration, in which they claimed it is better to "die by the Sword than by the Famine." A faction of this group was locked in a battle with John Platt after they settled at Cobham Heath, while another faction settled at St. George's Hill and renamed it George Hill. Led early on by William Everard, the philosophy of this group was put forth in The New Law of Righteousness, the primary text by its major leader Gerrard Winstanley. The True Levellers is often a moniker for this group of Protestant radicals. For 10 points, name this English religious group that took their moniker from their penchant for carrying shovels.
Mozart Requiem Mass In D Minor
Alternate editions of this work have been created by Duncan Druce and Franz Beyer. One movement of this work opens with a solo trombone playing a melody consisting of a B-flat arpeggio before a bass soloist sings the same melody. In one movement in this work, dotted-rhythm melodic fragments in A minor imitated between tenors and basses describe the flames of hell; those figures alternate with sopranos and altos singing a C major melody beginning "voca me" in its (*) "Confutatis" movement. This work includes a double fugue in D minor for its "Kyrie eleison" movement. This work's Sanctus and Agnus Dei sections were written by the man who completed its "Lacrimosa", Franz Sussmayr. For 10 points, name this unfinished final work by Mozart, a mass for the dead.
Chimera
Amisodarus raised this mythical being, who was depicted in a bronze statue found at Arezzo made by Etruscans. In The Aeneid, the helmet of Turnus depicts this figure. This non-human met one foe after accusations of adultery with Stheneboea were written up in a letter by Proetus. A story about this creature is followed by an exchange of gold armor for bronze when Glaucus describes it to Diomedes in Book Six of the Iliad. Iobates ordered this creature's (*) death when it lived in Lycia. It suffocated on an arrow tipped with lead before its killer tried to fly to Olympus atop Pegasus. For 10 points, name this fire-breathing beast slain by Bellerophon, which had the heads of a snake, goat, and lion.
Sphinx
Another daughter of Echidna was this riddle-telling creature with the face of a woman, body of a lion, wings of an eagle, and tail of a serpent.
Mozart Piano Concertos
Arthur Hutchings wrote a "companion" to these works. Four early ones were discovered to be "pasticcios" whose movements were transcribed from other composers' sonatas. Many of them feature a first movement in double exposition form, including the seventeenth, which was written for the composer's pupil Barbara Ployer, and includes a third movement opening theme learned by its composer's pet starling. Beethoven composed several cadenzas for the twentieth of them, its composer's K466. The ninth of them was composed for Louise Jenamy, and is nicknamed "Jeunehomme," while the twenty-first gained its nickname by being used in the film Elvira Madigan. For 10 points, name this group of twenty-seven pieces for a soloist and orchestra written by the composer of the Jupiter symphony.
Medusa
Drops of this figure's blood became the giant Chrysaor [KREE-"sour"], and this figure's siblings were named Stheno [s-THEH-no] and Euryale [yoo-ree-AH-lee]. Athena cursed this woman for lying with Poseidon in her temple, and used this figure's face to decorate her (*) Ægis [EE-jis]. Perseus used his shield to see this woman as he killed her, since her glance could turn mortals to stone. For 10 points, name this only mortal Gorgon, a woman with snakes for hair.
George Gershwin
Earl Wild composed Seven Virtuoso Etudes based on this composer's songs. This composer's only piano concerto was commissioned by Walter Damrosch, and includes a theme based on the Charleston in its first movement. An opera by this composer includes a song doubting the truthfulness of the Bible, "It Ain't Necessarily So," which is sung by (*) Sportin' Life. He composed his Concerto in F a year after writing a work which begins with a wailing clarinet glissando, which was premiered by Paul Whiteman's band in 1924. For 10 points, name this American composer of songs such as "Summertime" and "I Got Rhythm," the opera Porgy and Bess, and Rhapsody in Blue.
Calydonian Boar Hunt
Eurytus's son Hippasus had his thigh cut during this event, after his opponent sharpened his weapons on an oak tree. During this event, a man prayed to Apollo to make his spear accurate, but another deity removed the spear's tip. Another participant in this event was killed after boasting about how he would do better than a girl. In addition to Mopsus and Ancaeus, other participants included Echion, who threw the first (*) spear; Telamon, who tripped over a tree root; and Jason, who accidentally killed a dog. At the end of this event, a man murdered his uncles Toxeus and Plexippus, prompting Althea to burn a log tied to her son's life and then hang herself out of remorse. For 10 points, name this event in which Atalanta and Meleager killed a creature sent by Artemis to ravage the countryside.
Phillip Glass
He adapted a J.M. Coatzee novel for his opera Waiting for the Barbarians, while he also used a Kafka story as the libretto for a chamber opera in his work In the Penal Colony. "V2 Schneider" and "Sons of the Silent Age" are movements in one symphony by this man, while "The Corn", "The Hikuri" and "The Blue Deer" movements make up another symphony. This composer of symphonies entitled Heroes and Toltec wrote a chamber opera about a character named "M" called 1000 Airplanes on the Roof and wrote a more well known opera which contains scenes entitled "Night Train" and "Spaceship" and a notable "Bed" aria. For 10 points-name this composer of Einstein on the Beach.
Agustin De Iturbide
He lost his military commission for profiteering and allegedly killing three hundred rebels on Good Friday. Later, this man created the hereditary title Prince of the Union and suffered a blow with the creation of United Provinces of Central America. He was overthrown by proponents of the Plan of Casa Mata like Guadeloupe Victoria, causing him to flee to England for a few months before unwisely returning to Mexico where he was executed. With the aid of Vicente Guerrero he had come to power by supporting independence from Spain, equality of all with Spanish blood, and the primacy of the Catholic Church as part of his Three Guarantees espoused in the Plan of Iguala before being overthrown by Santa Ana. For 10 points name this man who ruled as Emperor of Mexico for eight months between 1822 and 1823.
Lollards
Henry Knighton's chronicle provides a harsh primary source view of this group, who were the namesake of a "pit" of corpses in Thorpe Wood. John Scrivener was one of this group's leaders, and Thomas Harding was executed for his involvement with them. This group was targeted for extermination when Sir John Oldcastle used its ideals as support for a rebellion against Henry V, and one offshoot of this group petitioned Parliament with the "Twelve Conclusions," which were posted on the door's of St. Paul's. For 10 points, name this group that called for the reform of the Catholic Church in Britain, led by John Wycliffe.
Leonard Bernstein
His lectures on music at Harvard are collected under the name of a Charles Ives work, "The Unanswered Question", and this composer of the Jeremiah and Kaddish Symphonies is famous for a series of televised Young People's Concerts. One musical by this man includes "New York, New York;" in addition to (*) On the Town, he is most famous for a musical featuring the songs "Cool" and "Something's Coming" that sees Riff stab Bernardo in a fight between the Jets and the Sharks. Name this American composer of Candide and West Side Story.
Cosi Fan Tutte
In a comic scene in this work, a maid disguised as a doctor produces a huge magnet and pretends to cure two men, intoning "Questo e quel pezzo." The talents of Adriana Gabrielli, who had recently become the librettist's mistress, induced its composer to write challenging skips and an astonishing range into the aria "Come scoglio." This opera's action is spurred by a wager of one hundred sequins between the cynical Don Alfonso and the officers Ferrando and Guglielmo, who have misplaced faith in the sisters Dorabella and Fiordiligi. FTP name this light opera with libretto by da Ponte and composed by Mozart whose title translates roughly as "Women are like that."
Mozart Symphony Number 41
In her monograph on this symphony, Elaine Sisman wrote of its finale's relation to Kantian notions of the mathematical sublime. This work's Andante cantabile second movement includes a stormy C minor section in between its F major first subject and C major second subject. This development of this symphony's first movement begins in the flat mediant key of E-flat and makes use of the melody to the composer's aria "Un bacio di mano". This symphony shares a key with its composer's earlier "Linz" Symphony. This symphony's nickname was purportedly coined by Johann Peter Salomon. Its Molto allegro finale begins with a four note theme, C-D-F-E, and culminates in a five-voice fugato that combines all of the themes it contains. For 10 points, name this final symphony by the composer of The Magic Flute.
John Adams
In one of this composer's operas, the second act begins with the "Hagar Chorus"; that opera by this non-Satie composer includes the "Aria of the Falling Body (Gymnopédie)." Another opera by this composer begins with the chorus "We believed that matter can be neither created nor destroyed but only altered in form." In Act II of another of his operas, the title character and his wife watch the ballet The Red Detachment of Women; after the ballet, a coloratura soprano angrily shrieks "I am the wife of Mao Tse-Tung" at the title character. For 10 points, name this American composer of The Death of Klinghoffer, Doctor Atomic, and Nixon in China.
Stephen Sondheim
In one work by this composer, Jules and Yvonne are friends of Dot, the title pointillist's mistress. In another work, Madame Armfeldt hosts a party and Desiree sings "Send in the Clowns." This creator of the Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music also imagined a rendezvous in the title location between Jack, Rapunzel, and Little Red Ridinghood, among others. He composed a musical in which Judge Turpin sentences Benjamin Barker to 15 years of transportation after which he returns as the title "Demon Barber." For 10 points, name this composer of Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd.
Polyphemus
In the Aeneid, Achaemenides recounts his encounter with this character. In one story, this character is the topic of a conversation between the sea nymph Doris and her sister. That sister, who is called a "milk white maid" by this figure in his love songs about her, later fell in love with the prince Acis, who was killed by this character. Although not (*) Pygmalion, he fell in love with a woman named Galatea. In a more famous appearance, this character returned to his home to find men eating his cheese. He implored his father Poseidon to curse a man he originally thought was named "Nobody," who escaped from this character by hiding under a flock of his sheep after blinding him. For 10 points, name this cyclops from the Odyssey.
The Abduction From The Seraglio
In the first scene of this opera's third act, one character signals his lover by singing the ballad "In Mohrenland gefangen war." A bass in this opera revels in the gruesome punishments he's ready to dish out in the aria "Ha, wie will ich triumpheren." In its second act, its female lead tells her English chambermaid Blonde that she's willing to suffer unimaginable torture to avoid sleeping with another of its characters in the aria "Martern aller Arten." This opera incorporates percussion instruments such as the bass drum, the triangle, and cymbals in its overture, and ends with a ruler freeing its main characters even after learning that one of them is the son of his enemy Lostadatos. Throughout this opera, Pedrillo helps Belmonte attempt to reunite with his lover Konstanze, who is held captive by Osmin in the title location. For 10 points, name this comic opera by Mozart, which is set in the Pasha Selim's harem.
Chisholm Versus Georgia
In this 1793 case the court ruled that a South Carolina man could sue the state of Georgia in the federal court. The ruling in this case was soon rendered moot by the Eleventh Amendment.
Mozart Requiem Mass In D Minor
It is believed that the composer of this work did not know the identity of its commissioner, and this composition was played at the funerals of Frederic Chopin and Franz Joseph Haydn. It includes a solo quartet in its Recordare and Tuba Mirum movements, while it also contains a notable Kyrie. Its Sanctus and Benedictus movements were likely written by Franz Sussmayer. For 10 points, identify this work, K626, that was left unfinished by its composer, a young Austrian prodigy.
George Gershwin
John McCormack noted that after hearing one of this man's works, Rachmaninoff started to play jazz pieces in his spare time. His song "Rialto Ripples" was the basis for the theme of the last of his Three Preludes, intended to be part of a large work called The Melting Pot. Walter Damrsoch commissioned this man to write a work that begins with a rhythm based on the Charleston, his Concerto in F. Another one of this composer's works, subtitled "An Experiment in Modern Music," was inspired by a train ride he took from Boston to New York and begins with a clarinet glissando. For 10 points, name this composer of Rhapsody in Blue.
Luddites
Lord Byron composed a "song for" this movement after making his first speech in the House of Lords defending it. This group was responsible for the murder of William Horsfall seven days after they attacked Rawfords Mill under the leadership of George Mellors. In response to their actions, Parliament passed the Frame Breaking Act. Most of these people were skilled workers whose livelihoods were threatened by new mechanized looms. For 10 points, name this group of early nineteenth century British dissenters, whose name now denotes those who avoid using technology.
Chartists
Members of this movement rioted after learning that some of their leaders, such as Henry Vincent, were imprisoned in the Westgate Hotel in Newport. This movement was popularized by a namesake Thomas Carlyle pamphlet, and it took its name from a document drafted by William Lovett. This movement advocated the (*) secret ballot, universal male suffrage, and payment for Members of Parliament among its six demands. For 10 points, name this mid-nineteenth-century social movement in Great Britain, which wrote a petition known as the People's Charter.
Cosi Fan Tutte
Notable pieces in this opera include the duet "Il core vi dono," in which a character gives away a locket containing a portrait of her husband, and the aria "Come scoglio," in which the same character expresses her constancy. The opera's title comes from a line spoken by Basilio in a trio which appears in an earlier opera by the same composer. At the end of Act I, a doctor uses a large magnet to cure a poisoning, but turns out to be the maid Despina in disguise. She later presides over the final marriage scene in which Ferrando and Guglielmo, dressed as Albanians, swap their wives, Dorabella and Fiordiligi, thus fulfilling a challenge issued by Don Alfonso. FTP, name this Mozart opera whose title translates as "So do they all."
Kurt Vonnegut
One character created by this author is a member of the volunteer fire department who accepts fifty-seven children as his heirs and gives away lots of money to the denizens of his Indiana town. Another of his characters nicknames his son Leon Trotsky, has his finger bitten off by Dwayne Hoover, and authors Venus on the Half-Shell. A third character created by this author meets Montana Wildhack on Tralfamadore after becoming unstuck in time. For 10 points, name this creator of Eliot Rosewater, Kilgore Trout, and Billy Pilgrim, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five.
The Magic Flute
One character in this opera announces his profession in the aria "Der vogelfanger bin ich ja" (DER FOH-gehl-FON-ger BIN ICK YAH) before having his mouth padlocked. The aria "O Isis und Osiris" is sung by Sarastro (sah-RAHSS-tro), whose servant Monostatos (mah-NO-stah-TOSSE) tries to take away the love interest of the protagonist. In this opera, (*) Tamino is asked by the Queen of the Night to find her daughter Pamina with the aid of the bird catcher Papageno (pa-pa-GAY-no) and the title instrument. For 10 points, name this opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Anti-Corn Law League
One leader of this organization was a Quaker who later resigned from the Gladstone government to protest the war with Egypt. Another important figure in this group went on a world tour and wrote the book England, Ireland, and America. Financed by Samuel Courtauld, this group's leader made a speech which caused (*) Robert Peel to flee the Parliamentary chamber during a debate on the Irish famine. For 10 points John Bright and Richard Cobden let what group which sought to end import duties on grain?
Levellers
One member of this group wrote tracts under the name Martin Marpriest, and another wrote about "New Chains Discovered." A rallying cry for this group was the murder of Thomas Rainsborough, and they published the newspaper The Moderate. This group was opposed by the Grandees, and supporters of this group wore sea-green ribbons. Richard Overton was a leader of this group, which was opposed at the Putney Debates by Henry Ireton. This group supported the document "Agreement of the People" and was led by John Lilburne. This group's goals included universal male suffrage. A group which claimed to be the "true" form of this one was also known as the Diggers. For 10 points, name this group of democratic agitators active in Civil War-era Britain.
Aldous Huxley
One of this author's characters uses a disguise called "The Complete Man" and invents a pair of pneumatically cushioned pants. In another of his novels, Jeremy Pordage is hired to catalogue the "Hauberk Papers" by the millionaire and immortality-seeker Jo Stoyte. Another of his characters was born in the Malpais community when his mother misused her (*) "Malthusian Drill" after being impregnated by Thomas Thomakin. This author of Antic Hay and After Many a Summer chronicled a mescaline trip in The Doors of Perception. He described the Bokanovsky Process in a novel that features characters like Bernard Marx and Mustapha Mond. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about John the Savage in his dystopian novel Brave New World.
John Adams
One of this composer's symphonies extracts the "panic" and "military matters" music from one of his operas. His self-described "opus one" is a piano piece which shifts through various keys, alternating between the Lydian and namesake modes. A commission from the Great Woods Festival resulted in a fanfare by this man which opens with a pulsing (*) woodblock ostinato that is soon joined by four trumpets. Another of his works is a "memory space" featuring a children's chorus and recorded readings of victims' names. This composer of Phrygian Gates and Short Ride in a Fast Machine also created the 9/11 memorial On The Transmigration of Souls. For 10 points, name this American minimalist composer of Doctor Atomic.
Typhon
One of this figure's relatives was the pet of Phaia and was slain by Theseus, while another of his offspring was clubbed to death on Mount Abas by the same person who strangled another of this character's children in a cave. The firebrand-wielding Iolaus assisted in the death of the child of this character who lived at Lerna, and, like Cronos, this character earlier used an adamantine sickle to cut the sinews of Zeus. For 10 points, name this monster that fathered Orthros, the Nemean Lion, and the Hydra with Echidna.
Samuel Barber
One piece by this composer ends with a third movement Presto in moto perpetuo and was written for Iso Briselli. A series of poems by Irish monks formed the basis for his Hermit Songs, and his first piece for solo piano is called Excursions. In another piece by him, the soloist proclaims "It has become that time of evening when people sit on their porches." Another of his works, which was later re-used for his setting of the (*) Agnus Dei, was premiered in 1938 on the radio by Toscanini and the NBC Symphony. He set a prose poem by James Agee in his Knoxville: Summer of 1915, but is most famous for a reworking of the second movement of his String Quartet. For 10 points, name this American composer of Adagio for Strings.
Sirens
One story states that these creatures were born from the blood of Achelous's broken horn. Upon dying, several of these creatures turned white and transformed into islands in the sea of Aptera. They were granted wings after the abduction of their childhood playmate Persephone, but their feathers were plucked by the Muses after Hera coaxed them into a singing contest. Aphrodite saved Butes from these figures, from whom the (*) Argonauts were protected by Orpheus' music. One hero put beeswax in his ears and was tied to the mast of his ship to gain immunity against their power. For 10 points, name these maidens encountered by Odysseus, who sang so beautifully that ships crashed into their island.
Aaron Copland
One work by this composer ends in 12-note chords the composer called "aggregates", and starts with three chords that each contain four notes of the piece's tone row. This composer of Connotations wrote a clarinet concerto whose two movements are linked with a cadenza featuring Latin American themes, and that was commissioned by Benny Goodman. One of his pieces opens with a rendition of "Springfield Mountain" and closes with a narrator reading the (*) "Gettysburg Address". "El Malacate" and "El Palo Verde" are two movements of his piece named for a Mexican dance hall. For 10 points, name this American composer of A Lincoln Portrait and El Salón México, who included variations of the hymn "Simple Gifts" in his Appalachian Spring.
Typhon
Orphism, this being is believed to have killed Zagreus who would later be reincarnated as Dionysus. This figure's death was preceded by him cutting out Zeus's sinews and imprisoning him in the Coryican cave. Instead of fingers, this being had fifty dragon heads on each of his hands, and vipers instead of legs. The last child of (*) Tartarus and Gaia, this largest creature in Greek mythology stood as high as the heavens. The Lernaean Hydra, Nemean Lion, Sphynx, and Cerberus were all offspring of his with his wife, Echidna. Zeus eventually defeated this being by throwing the island of Sicily on top of him, trapping him beneath Mount Etna. For ten points, name this fearsome monster from Greek mythology whose influence over strong storm winds is the etymology for a pacific hurricane.
Polyphemus
Ovid tells a story in which this character protests that he has already met his fate when it is told to him by the seer Telemus. This son of Thoosa is seen washing his face by Aeneas, who hears his story from Achaemenides before being chased by him. In the Metamorphoses, he plays a one hundred reed pipe and sings a pair of songs to his lover. When his songs prove ineffective in securing the love of (*) Galatea, he throws a boulder at his rival Acis, whose blood is transformed into a river. In one story, this character shouts out curses against a person named "nobody" after being tricked by men who consume his cheese and ride the underside of sheep out of his cave. For 10 points, name this Cyclops who is blinded by Odysseus in the Odyssey.
Ray Bradbury
Peter and Wendy Hadley send their parents to their deaths in a virtual reality machine in this man's short story "The Veldt." This man wrote a novel in which the main character, Douglas Spaulding, nearly dies after learning about his own mortality. That novel by this man is Dandelion Wine. This man wrote a novel whose protagonist begins to memorize the Book of Ecclesiastes at the end. In that novel by this man, Guy Montag is a fireman whose job is to burn books. For 10 points, name this author of Fahrenheit 451.
Fabian Society
Richard Crossman edited a later collection of essays expressing this group's principles, and Edward Reynolds Pease was its historian. The authors of Industrial Democracy and The History of Trade Unionism, (*) Sidney and Beatrice Webb, founded it along with George Bernard Shaw, and was named for a Roman general who achieved success in the Second Punic War by delaying. For 10 points name this Socialist group.
Levellers
Soldiers sympathetic to this group were killed after the Banbury mutiny, after a group of officers named Grandees began to reject their ideas. William Walwyn was one of these people, whose supporters wore rosemary springs and sea-green ribbons. The manifesto An Agreement of the People, written in part by John Lilburne, laid out this movement's beliefs. These participants in the Putney debates were the basis for a more extreme splinter group known as the Diggers. For 10 points, name these believers in universal male suffrage and radical social equality, who were put down by Oliver Cromwell after the English Civil War.
Chartists
Some leaders of this movement called for a "sacred month," and it saw notable gatherings at Hatshead Moor and Kersal Moor. One leader of this movement broke with its main body to found a National Association, and with John Collins co-wrote a tract supporting it while in jail. Another leader of this movement published the Northern Star, and George Julian Harney was among those who supported the drafting of "ulterior methods" for achieving its aims.
Griswold Versus Connecticut
Support for this case was galvanized by a dissenting opinion authored four years prior which argued that liberty was a "rational continuum" and condemned the court's dismissal of several suits filed against State's Attorney Ullman. That concurrence was written by Justice Goldberg, who noted that "the concept of liberty protects those personal right that are fundamental," and rested his argument on the 9th. Representing the first use of William Douglas' "penumbral" reasoning, the principles established in this case were later extended by Eisenstaedt v. Baird, and this case is famous for Justice Stewart's dissent, in which called the law in question "uncommonly silly."
Universal Suffrage
The Silent Sentinels agitated for this cause, which landed them in a workhouse. One group attempted to use the "New Departure" strategy to achieve this cause. Leser v. Garnett extended this right to the states. This cause was advocated by the "Golden Lane" demonstration at the 1916 Democratic National Convention in St. Louis. Two organizations that supported this cause were merged into the (*) NAWSA. A group of supporters of this cause had a convention in Akron, Ohio, during which Sojourner Truth gave a notable speech. Wyoming was the first state to grant this right. This cause was realized when Tennessee ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. For 10 points, name this cause, advocated by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Cerberus
The aconite plant was formed after this figure's saliva hit rocky ground. In the Aeneid, the Cumaean Sybil threw this creature a cake laced with drugs, enabling Aeneas to visit Anchises. Auxiliary features of this creature included a snake's tail and a mane of serpents. King Eurystheus cowered inside a jar upon seeing this brother of Orthrus, who could not pierce the skin of the Nemean Lion, enabling the hero wearing that skin to subdue it with his bare hands. The twelfth labor of Heracles was to capture this creature alive. For 10 points, name this guardian of the underworld in Greek and Roman mythology, a dog usually depicted with three heads.
Schenck Versus United States
The decision in this case claimed that the character of an act depends on its circumstances, citing Aikens v. Wisconsin. The precedent established by this case was altered in the case whose dissent introduced the marketplace of ideas, Abrams v. U.S. Elizabeth Baer was originally a co-defendant with the namesake of this Supreme Court case. The results of this case were ultimately weakened by the "bad tendency" test introduced in Patterson v. Colorado and used in Whitney v. California
Mozart Symphony Number 40
The development section of this symphony's final movement includes a tone row which anticipates Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, omitting only the tonic. The fact that the composer revised this symphony by adding two clarinets and altering the oboe part to accommodate them is evidence that the composer did hear it performed, contrary to a popular legend. This symphony begins with the violins introducing a theme consisting of "E-flat, D, D" repeated three times followed by a higher B-flat. This symphony's fourth movement begins with a Mannheim rocket. This symphony is the second of the only two minor- key symphonies by its composer, and is nicknamed the "Great G Minor." For 10 points, name this penultimate symphony of an Austrian composer, preceding the Jupiter.
Mozart Piano Sonatas
The eighth of these pieces in A minor opens with a dotted passage over throbbing quaver accompaniment and has an F major second movement marked Andante cantabile con espressione. For 10 points name these eighteen works for a solo instrument, a group including the aforementioned K310, as well as K309 written for Rosa Cannabich.
Munn Versus Illinois
The first of the Granger cases was this 1877 decision, which saw the namesake operator of a Chicago grain elevator use Field's ruling from the Slaughterhouse Cases to appeal a state-level fine. Waite delivered a majority opinion supporting a state's right to police individuals. This case was a victory for an organization led by Oliver Hudson Kelley, though it was overturned in a case that presaged the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Wabash case.
Mozart Symphony Number 40
The first two of Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures analyzed the structure of this symphony, whose score unusually omits trumpets and timpani. Although its woodwind section was originally scored for flute, two bassoons, and two oboes, its composer revised this symphony's oboe music to include two B-flat clarinets. Its finale's development begins with a ten-tone row which omits G natural, the tonic of this symphony's key. Unusually for Classical symphonies, its first movement opens with an accompaniment played by the violas before the violins introduce its main melody, which repeats the notes E flat, D, and D three times and then ascends to a quarter note in B flat. To differentiate it from its composer's 25th symphony in the same key, it is often known as its composer's "Great" symphony in G minor. For 10 points, name this symphony by Mozart, who composed it before the Jupiter symphony.
Cerberus
The god Serapis was often pictured with this creature at his feet. According to some accounts, the plant aconite was created from the slaver of this creature dripping on a field. The mother of Voluptas was advised by a tower on dealing with this creature, and in the Aeneid, when the Sibyl sees the snakes sprouting from this creature's neck she tosses it a drugged sop. Eurystheus quailed in fear before this son of Typhon and Echidna, who was captured by Heracles without the help of weapons, as stipulated by Hades. FTP, name this guardian of the far bank of the river Styx, a three-headed hound.
Diggers
The leader of this faction set forth many of its ideas in the tract The New Law of Righteousness, and later published the pamphlet The Law of Freedom in a Platform as an exposition of its ideal society. He was joined by a former solider William Everard, who quickly abandoned this group leaving Gerrard Winstanley as its primary spokesman. They initially occupied St. George's Hill but were driven to Cobham Heath; all the while local landholders assaulted and burned their communities as tacitly encouraged by Oliver Cromwell. They referred to themselves as the "True Levellers." FTP, name this egalitarian faction of the English revolution, so named because of their affinity for planting crops on common land
Lawrence Versus Texas
The majority in this case cited the ruling in Romer v. Evans as evidence for the ongoing erosion of the precedent set by the earlier ruling that this case overturned. Stevens' dissent in that overturned case was cited in the opinion this ruling's majority opinion, written by Anthony Kennedy. An infamous (*) dissent in this case rejected comparisons to Loving v. Virginia and warned that if promotion of majoritarian morality no longer constituted a legitimate state interest, then rational-basis review would overturn laws against bigamy, incest, and bestiality. For 10 points, name this 2003 case that overturned Bowers v. Hardwick and ruled a Texas sodomy law unconstitutional.
The Abduction From The Seraglio
The middle section of this opera's overture presents a minor-mode version of its first aria, "Hier soll ich dich den sehen." Several numbers, including the overture, feature piccolo, triangle, cymbals, and bass drum. At one point, one character sings a romance accompanied only by pizzicato strings, "Im Mohrenland," to signal to the protagonist as they carry out their plot. Toward the end, this opera's main antagonist sings two low D's in "O, wie will ich triumphieren," an aria expressing his desire to send the protagonists to the gallows. Its best-known aria, sung by the lead soprano in response to the threat of torture, is "Martern aller Arten." It also features a famous chorus of Janissaries. For 10 points, name this opera by Mozart in which Belmonte rescues Konstanze from Pasha Selim's harem.
Mozart Piano Sonatas
The sixth of these works was dedicated to and named for Baron von Dürnitz, and the last of them is sometimes nicknamed for its hunting-call-like opening motif. For ten points, name these eighteen solo keyboard works. The eleventh of these, in A major, opens with a set of variations on a theme in 6/8 marked "Andante grazioso", and closes with a piece imitating Janissary percussion.
Mozart Piano Concertos
The theme for the finale of one of these works is shared by its composer's Sehnsucht nach dem Fruhling; none of that piece's movements are in a minor key. The composer of these works wrote that the orchestration the fourteenth one in E flat major could be reduced to a string quartet, eliminating the woodwinds. Another of these works contains a stately minuet in the middle of its third movement rondo and is nicknamed "Jeunehomme." The twentieth, in D minor, is one of only two in a minor key, and one of them in D major is nicknamed (*) "Coronation." The twenty-third of these shares some material with its composer's opera Don Giovanni. For 10 points, name these 27 works for a solo instrument and orchestra by the composer of The Magic Flute.
Charles Ives
The third movement of this composer's fourth symphony is an orchestration of a fugue from his first string quartet. David Katz and José Serebrier co-conducted the premiere of that symphony with Leopold Stokowski. In one of his works, an offstage string quartet plays in the background while a woodwind quartet responds to a phrase played repeatedly by a solo trumpet. That work is paired with his (*) Central Park in the Dark. One of his pieces quotes "The British Grenadiers" and "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean" in depicting Putnam's Camp, and joins pieces including "The Housatonic at Stockbridge" and one named for Boston Common. For 10 points, name this American Modernist composer of The Unanswered Question and Three Places in New England.
Sirens
These figures were the handmaidens to the young Persephone before she was abducted by Hades. These beings almost caused the death of Butes before he was saved by Aphrodite. They are sometimes considered the daughters of Achelous, and their names are given as Peisinoe, Aglaope, and Thelxiepeia. Orpheus' lyre saved the Argonauts from them. In the Odyssey, they are encountered shortly before Scylla and Charybdis, and they inspire Odysseus to tie himself to the mast. For 10 points, name these half-bird women whose beautiful singing would lure sailors to their deaths.
Muller Versus Oregon
This 1908 case ruled that states could make laws specifically limiting the working hours of women. The data-heavy "Brandeis brief" influenced this ruling.
Douglas Adams
This author described the hidden world of outdated gods in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, which features holistic detective Dirk Gently. This man created a planet inhabited by flolloping mattresses which is visited by Marvin, a (*) paranoid android who travels with Trillian and Zaphod Beeblebrox. The Vogons destroy Earth shortly after picking up Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent in, for 10 points, what author's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Kurt Vonnegut
This author graded a number of his own works, giving the present work a C, in his Palm Sunday. He created a character who is the only man to ever send fan letters to the author of works used as filler in pornographic magazines. This author, who created devoted Kilgore Trout fan Eliot Rosewater, wrote of Pontiac dealership owner Dwayne Hoover in Breakfast of Champions. In another of his novels, the main character becomes unstuck in time and travels to the planet Tralfamadore. For 10 points, name this American novelist of Slaughterhouse-Five.
Mary Shelley
This author of a historical novel about the pretender Perkin Warbeck wrote about Lionel Verney surviving a plague-ravaged world in The Last Man. Her most famous novel grew out of a ghost story writing contest with Lord Byron and her husband. The title character of that novel by this author loses his wife Elizabeth Lavenza on his wedding night and relates his story of scientific experimentation to Robert Walton. For 10 points, name this daughter of William Godwin and author of Frankenstein.
Margaret Atwood
This author outlined four "victim positions" characteristic of a certain country's literature in Survival. In a novel by this author, Simon Jordan investigates the title character, who was institutionalized after allegedly murdering her employer Thomas Kinnear. Newspaper clippings and excerpts from a fictional pulp novel about the planet Zycron punctuate a novel by this author about Alex Thomas, Richard (*) Griffen, and Iris and Laura Chase. This author of Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin penned a novel set in the theocratic Republic of Gilead, in which increasing sterility causes men like the Commander to employ concubines like Offred, the title character. For 10 points, name this female Canadian author of The Handmaid's Tale.
Douglas Adams
This author recounted accidentally stealing the cookies of a man next to whom he was waiting for a train in The Salmon of Doubt. One of his titular characters must become the "Person from Porlock" in order to prevent a ghost from possessing Coleridge. This author of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is most famous for a series that includes the questions "How many roads must a man walk down?" and "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" That series features the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, 42, and the adventures of Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect. For 10 points, name this British humorist and author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
George Orwell
This author wrote a novel in which Dorothy Hare becomes a schoolteacher after being jailed for sleeping in Trafalgar Square. In another novel by this man, the unfinished manuscript for London Pleasures is trashed by Gordon Comstock. This author of A Clergyman's Daughter and Keep the Aspidistra Flying wrote an essay in which the narrator hesitates to kill the title creature, "Shooting an Elephant." Napoleon drives Snowball out of the title location in one novel by this man, who also depicted Winston Smith's resistance against Big Brother. For 10 points, name this author of Animal Farm and 1984.
Jules Verne
This author wrote a novel in which a fifteen-year-old boy becomes the captain of the Pilgrim after the entire crew is killed on a whale hunt. Another of his nautical novels is narrated by Jeorling, who is returning to America from the Kerguelen Islands aboard the Halbrane. That novel is a sort of sequel to Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. In a sequel to one of his own works, Cyrus (*) Smith and four other Americans are stranded on an island which turns out to be the hideout of a man whose real name is Prince Dakkar. This author of The Sphinx of the Ice Fields and The Mysterious Island also wrote a novel in which a message from Arne Saknussemm is discovered by Axel and Otto Lidenbrock, telling them to descend into an Icelandic glacier. For 10 points, name this pioneer of science fiction who wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Isaac Asimov
This author wrote mystery stories involving the Black Widowers and fantasy stories featuring a demon named Azazel. In one of his novels, Andrew Harlan operates a time-travel device known as a "kettle" as one of the Eternals, while in another an amnesiac discovers that Florina's sun is about to explode. Those early works, The End of Eternity and The Currents of Space, are peripherally related to this author's most famous series. In one novel, Golan Trevize and Janov Pelorat search for Earth, while earlier in the series the science of psychohistory is invented by Hari Seldon. For 10 points, name this science fiction author known for the Foundation series and I, Robot.
Jules Verne
This author's characters include a railroad engineer from Richmond named Cyrus Smith, who helps rescue Ayrton, and a princess who gets saved from a fire named Aouda. He also wrote of an anti-nationalist who renounced the name Prince Dakkar, as told in this man's quasi-sequel The Mysterious Island. This man wrote about the hunter Ned Land and the kidnapped professor Arronax in a book that opens with reports of narwhal attacks, and in another of his books, the magic of time zones saves Phileas Fogg's wager. For 10 points, name this proto-science-fiction author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World In Eighty Days.
Miranda Versus Arizona
This case expanded on the ruling from Escobedo v. Illinois given two years earlier. The ruling in this case was upheld in the later cases of Colorado v. Connelly, Missouri v. Seibert, and Dickerson v. US, while it consolidated the cases of Westover v. US, Vignera v. New York, and California v. Stewart. The defendant in this case was mortally wounded in a knife fight at the La Amapola Bar ten years after the ruling, and separate dissents were provided by Justices Clark and Harlan
Dred Scott Versus Sandford
This case was originally filed against Dr. John Emerson, and dissents in this case were written by Benjamin Curtis and John McLean after it incorporated Harriet Robinson. As a response to this case, Stephen Douglas developed the Freeport Doctrine. One attorney in this Supreme Court case later served as Abraham Lincoln's Postmaster General, Montgomery Blair. In his dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson, Justice John Harlan claimed that Plessy would become as notorious as this case.
Phillip Glass
This composer contributed to a Robert Wilson project subtitled "a tree is best measured when it is down." In one of his operas, the Civil Guard attacks the title characters in an adaptation of Coatzee's Waiting For the Barbarians, and another of his operas involves Tagore, Martin Luther King, and Leo Tolstoy watching over Gandhi in South Africa. One of his operas shows the rise and fall of the first monotheistic pharaoh, while another opera involves knee-plays separating tableaux of the title physicist. For 10 points, name this composer of Satyagraha, Akhnaten, and Einstein on the Beach.
John Cage
This composer frequently employed mesostics in works like Empty Words and based Etudes Australes and Atlas Eclipticales on star charts. A group of works by this man are labeled by the amount of performers required, his so-called Number Pieces. This student of Henry Cowell created Music of Changes, which broke new ground in the field of (*) aleatory music. This man composed the Sonatas and Interludes for an instrument he invented, while he called for variable-speed turntables and radios tuned to different stations in his Imaginary Landscapes. For 10 points, identify this inventor of the prepared piano, an avant-garde American composer who called for a pianist to sit at the piano and play nothing in his 4'33" ("four minutes, thirty-three seconds").
Leonard Bernstein
This composer parodied Gounod's Air des Bijoux in a coloratura aria that requires the soprano to laugh hysterically while declaring, "If I'm not pure, at least my jewels are!" That aria, "Glitter and Be Gay," is sung by Cunegonde in this man's opera Candide. In another of his compositions, a girl feels "pretty and witty and gay" in a bridal shop after being serenaded by Tony, who is delighted that he has "just met a girl named Maria." For 10 points, identify this composer who depicted a conflict between the Jets and the Sharks in his musical West Side Story.
Samuel Barber
This composer used the same instruments from the second Brandenburg concerto for his Capricorn Concerto. This composer has a flute and a harp play a theme imitating a rocking chair at the beginning of one work, and he used the poem "The Monk and his Cat" in his song cycle written for Leontyne Price, Hermit Songs. Staccato horns represent a streetcar in a piece ending when the soprano sings about a child being tucked into bed. He was inspired by "Prometheus Unbound" to write Music for a Scene from Shelley and he adapted a James Agee piece for Knoxville: Summer of 1915. This composer of the opera Vanessa rearranged the second movement of his String Quartet No. 1 to create a piece that was played over radio announcements of FDR's death. For 10 points, name this American composer of Adagio for Strings.
Arnold Schoenberg
This composer wrote a work that describes a sergeant barking at his soldiers to count faster. A male chorus singing the "Shema Yisroel" concludes that work by this man, in which a narrator reads an account of Jews being rounded up in a ghetto. This composer used a controversial "inverted ninth" chord in a a string sextet inspired by a poem about a woman telling her lover that she is bearing another man's child that was written by (*) Richard Dehmel. This composer of of A Survivor from Warsaw developed a system by which all the pitches of a chromatic scale are arranged without repetition into a "tone row". For 10 points, name this composer of Transfigured Night, a leader of the Second Viennese School who developed "twelve-tone technique".
John Cage
This composer's String Quartet in Four Parts drew on the Indian association of the seasons to different creative forces. His collection Sonatas and Interludes requires placing screws, bolts, and pieces of rubber inside the piano, a technique he developed called the "prepared piano." He created a piece played by twelve radios tuned to random stations, the fourth of his Imaginary Landscapes. One of his works for piano was inspired by his visit to Harvard's anechoic chamber, and consists of a performer sitting at a piano and not (*) playing for the title length of time. For 10 points, name this avant-garde American composer of 4'33'' (four minutes and thirty-three seconds).
Charles Ives
This composer's second symphony ends with all twelve notes of the chromatic scale played simultaneously. One of his Two Contemplations consists of six increasingly agitated phrases of flute music, which separate seven iterations of an unchanging trumpet melody that ends with a rising inflection. Throughout his symphonies, this composer frequently quoted songs such as "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" and (*) "Camptown Races." He paid homage to the transcendentalists in his second piano sonata, which is nicknamed "Concord". After attending Yale, this modernist supported himself by working as an insurance executive. For 10 points, name this American composer of The Unanswered Question and Three Places in New England.
Hydra
This creature lived by a lake near Amymone where murderers came to be purified, close to the spot where Dionysus descended to fetch Semele from Tartarus. The hot springs at Thermopylae were formed during an incident which saw this creature avenged on its killer with the help of an item delivered by Lichas. That item, a gift from a centaur, was a shirt infused with blood from the centaur and this creature. This creature received aid in its final battle from a giant crab, but its opponent was aided by his nephew, who used a torch to keep this creature from growing new heads. FTP, name this many-headed monster slain by Heracles in Lerna.
Hydra
This creature's remains were buried underneath a rock on the road to Eleaus. This creature lived at a spring named for the only Danaid who refused to kill her husband, Amymone. The final blow to this creature was dealt with a golden sword, whose wielder had to cover his mouth and nose with a cloth during the fight. The constellation Cancer came to be after Hera sent a giant (*) crab to assist this creature, whose venomous blood was used to coat the tips of its slayer's arrows. Iolaus used a torch to cauterize this creature's stumps. This creature lived in Lake Lerna and was killed after the Nemean Lion as part of Heracles's second task. For 10 points, name this many-headed monster from Greek mythology who could grow two heads back after one was removed.
Loving Versus Virginia
This decision overturned the state supreme court case Naim v. Naim, and limited a state power recognized in the 1888 case Maynard v. Hill. Potter Stewart filed a short concurring opinion saying that this case had already been decided by the earlier McLaughlin v. Florida. This decision confirmed that Pace v. Alabama was no longer good law, and Earl Warren's majority opinion cited Korematsu v. United States to say that strict scrutiny was appropriate for racial classifications and suggests that there is no valid legislative purpose which makes the color of a person's skin the test of whether his conduct is criminal
Puritans
This group is represented by a dove in the Book of the Three Birds, written by a Welsh member of this group named Morgan Llwyd (HLOO-id). A member of this religious group adopted the pseudonym "Martin Marprelate" to pen a series of attacks against authorities. A thousand of them presented the king with the Millenary Petition, enabling them to receive a voice at the Hampton Court Conference. The mortal enemy of this religious group was William (*) Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Between 1620 and 1640, large numbers of these people left England for Holland, though many were dissatisfied with their lives there. For 10 points, name these English Protestants who settled in New England, whose name is now synonymous with extreme straight-laced piety.
Luddites
This group, which is depicted in the novel Shirley, inspired the Swing Riots. Known as an "Army of Redressers," this group was defended by Lord Byron. Their actions, carried out with the "the Hammer of God," were made a capital offense by the Frame Breaking Act. For 10 points, name this group led by General Ned that attacked new technology in textile mills during the Industrial Revolution.
Aldous Huxley
This man related finding himself standing in "Ten million emblems and mementos of Modern Love" during a beachside stroll with Thomas Mann in his essay on sanitation engineering, "Hyperion to a Satyr." He represented D. H. Lawrence as Bill Hamblin in The World of Light, and earlier represented him as the painter Mark Rampion in a work also featuring excerpts from the journal of Philip Quarles. In another work, this man described the sport of Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy, the Bokanovsky process, and a caste system of Alphas through Epsilons. For 10 points, name this author of Point Counter Point who also envisioned the Malthusian Drill in his Brave New World.
Herbert George Wells
This man wrote a story in which George Fotheringay accidentally sends Constable Winch to Hades. This author of "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" and The Outline of History wrote of George Ponderevo's attempts to market his uncle Edward's miracle cure in another novel. One of his novels opens at the Coach and Horses Inn and sees the protagonist launch a "reign of terror" from the apartment of Dr. Kemp. This author of (*) Tono-Bungay created a man who restocks his supply of matches in a ruined museum and rescues Weena from drowning. One of his novels features the societies of the Eloi and the Morlocks, while in another of his novels, Griffin changes his refractive index. For 10 points, name this author of The Time Machine and The Invisible Man.
Chimera
This monster is the namesake of Gyas' ship in the boat race from the fifth book of the Aeneid. The phrase "For Tinia" is inscribed on this creature's leg in a bronze Etruscan sculpture of it found near Arezzo. King Iobates dispatched a hero to kill this creature, which died after swallowing a lump of molten lead from a speartip. It was defeated with the help of a golden bridle obtained from the temple of Athena. This fire-breathing monster ravaged the land of Lycia. For 10 points, name this monster with a serpent for a tail, a goat on its back, and a lion as a head, which was slain by Bellerophon.
The Magic Flute
This opera includes an aria with several Fs so high that they are often nicknamed for that aria. The finale of this opera includes a chorale prelude on "Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein." At the beginning of this opera, three women save its protagonist from a serpent. This opera includes a lengthy solo for glockenspiel or celesta in an aria in which a bird catcher wishes for a "maiden or a little wife." Pamina is instructed to kill Sarastro in this opera's aria "Der Hölle Rache" ["dehr HUHR-luh RAH-khuh"]. That aria is one of two sung by the Queen of the Night in this opera. For 10 points, name this Mozart opera in which Tamino and Papageno are saved from fire and water by the title instrument.
Puritans
This religion believed that education was necessary to keep children from becoming "barbarous." John Davenport was one noted preacher in this religion, whose beliefs were expounded in the poetry of Edward Taylor. Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams left this religion to found the tolerant colony of Rhode Island. For 10 points, name this religion of early New England, some leaders of which conducted the Salem Witch Trials.
Mozart Symphony Number 41
This symphony shares a theme with Haydn's 13th Symphony, and its nickname may have been given by Haydn's chief sponsor Johann Peter Salomon. Even as late as 1862, this symphony was instead given a name meaning "Sym- phony with the concluding fugue". The first movement has a theme similar to its composer's Un baciodimano. This work also refers to the hymn Lucis creator, and its setting in C Major is theorized to conform to Masonic beliefs on light. The last of three summer of 1788 symphonies written by the composer, this is also the last symphony he ever wrote. Identify this work with a mythological name by Wolfgang Mozart.
George Orwell
This thinker labelled W.H. Auden a "pansy" over a line about the "acceptance of guilt in the necessary murder." He opened by noting "highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me" before calling for an English revolution in "The Lion and the Unicorn." This man tried to explain why socialism is not more popular in his study of the working poor in Northern England, The (*) Road to Wigan Pier, and attacked the use of overly complex diction in "Politics and the English Language." He criticized Stalinism in Homage to Catalonia, which relates his volunteer service in the Spanish Civil War, and used a Burmese market as the setting for his anti-Imperalist essay "Shooting an Elephant." For 10 points, name this author who also attacked totalitarianism through his novel about Winston Smith, 1984.
Gibbons Versus Ogden
Tom Clark cited this case in the Heart of Atlanta Motel ruling, referencing a string of cases beginning with it and ending with Katzenbach v. McClung. The concurrent opinion in this case diverges in the issue of coasting licenses, saying that labeling something as "American" does not make it any more American that it would be of its own character, and was written by William Johnson.
Lollards
William Courtenay forced some of them to renounce their beliefs, and their first martyr was William Sawtrey. The most complete statement of their beliefs was in the Twelve Conclusions, and Sir John Oldcastle led an uprising of them against Henry V. They held that the ordination of priests had no basis in scripture and claimed that transubstantiation was a "feigned miracle" that led to idolatry. With a name from a Middle Dutch word for "mumbler," for 10 points, name this pre-Reformation English religious group, which followed John Wycliffe.
Minotaur
Yearly tributes to this figure resulted when Androgeus died in an attempt to slay its father after the Panathenian festival. Its killer abandoned his companion on Naxos, after which she wedded Dionysus. This figure, whose proper name was Asterion, was conceived after Dedalus manufactured a wooden animal for Pasiphae to sit inside. After its defeat, its killer escaped its prison with the help of a golden thread given to him by Ariadne. For 10 points, name this monster from Greek mythology, which resided in the Labyrinth and was half man and half bull.
Ray Bradbury
a novel by this man, Mr. Sanderson gives the narrator new shoes in exchange for work in his store; that novel includes a subplot about Leo's happiness machine but focuses on the reminiscences of Douglas Spaulding. A story by this man describes an automated house that plays a recording of a Sara Teasdale poem after a nuclear winter; that story is part of a collection that opens by describing (*) interplanetary launches warming an Ohio winter. Those stories by this author of Dandelion Wine are "There Will Come Soft Rains" and "Rocket Summer." In a novel by him, the Mechanical Hound attacks firefighter Guy Montag, who says that "it was a pleasure to burn." For 10 points, name this author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
Herbert George Wells
one novel by this author, the protagonist stole dark glasses, sideburns, and clothes from a theatrical shop in Iping. In another novel, this author wrote of a group of cannibals that tried to trap the protagonist inside the pedestal of a white sphinx. He wrote of Griffin experimenting with making his cells transparent. He also wrote of a man who encountered the Morlocks and Eloi and travelled to 802,701 AD. Name this author of The Invisible Man and The Time Machine.
Margaret Atwood
title character of one of this author's novels takes her name from the computer game Extinctathon. Moira escapes from the Rachel and Leah Center in one of this author's novels. In another work, Jimmy grows up alongside a title character and ends up taking the name Snowman as he coexists with genetically modified humans. This author of Cat's Eye and Oryx and Crake wrote a novel whose central character illicitly plays Scrabble with the Commander. Her most famous novel is narrated by Offred, whose purpose is to function as a concubine on the orders of the dystopian government of Gilead. For 10 points, name this Canadian author of The Handmaid's Tale.