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Quizbowl Need-2-Know
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Le Corbusier | Architect, Villa Savoye, swiss french, modern |
| Eero Saarinen | Architech, Gateway arch, finnish american |
| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, "Mies" (Myez) | Architect, Bauhaus, German American |
| Renzo Piano | Architect, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Shard in London, Italian American |
| Jørn Utzon, Peter Hall | designed the sydney opera house |
| Louis Sullivan | skyscrapers and stuff |
| Zaha Hadid | Woman, Heydar Aliyev Centre, Iraqi british |
| Sigmund Freud | His best known works are The Interpretation of Dreams and The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. "free association" |
| Carl Jung | "analytic psychology," "collective unconscious" |
| Alfred Adler | The Neurotic Constitution, "inferiority complexes" |
| Pavlov | conditioned reflex, Nobel Prize in 1904 |
| John B. Watson | first prominent exponent of behaviorism, Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology, Conditioning |
| B. F. Skinner | one of the leading proponents of behaviorism in works like Walden II and Beyond Freedom and Dignity |
| Jean Piaget | He is most famous for his theory of four stages of development: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. His most famous works are The Language and Thought of a Child and The Origins of Intelligence in Children |
| Erik Erikson | "psychohistories" best known for his theories on how social institutions reflect the universal features of psychosocial development |
| Abraham Maslow | Motivation and Personality and Toward a Psychology of Being, that introduced his theory of the "hierarchy of needs" (food, shelter, love, esteem, etc.) and its pinnacle, the need for "self-actualization |
| Stanley Milgram | Though he did the work that created the idea of "six degrees of separation" and the "lost-letter" technique, he is mainly remembered for his experiments on "obedience to authority" |
| Alfred Stieglitz | Photography, married georgia O'keefe, The terminal |
| Ansel Adams | Photography, Natural world, El capitan Yosemite |
| Akira Kurosawa | Japanese, Seven Samurai, High and low, the hidden fortress |
| Federico Fellini | Italian, la dolce vita, 8½. Guido is a character |
| Orson Welles | portrayed Harry Lime in The Third Man and wrote and starred in Citizen Kane, war of the worlds |
| Ingmar Bergman | Persona and The Seventh Seal are films by what Swedish director |
| Jean-Luc Godard | French New Wave director of Pierrot le Fou and Breathless |
| Martin Scorsese | Saul Bass used timelapse photography for the title sequence of this director’s 1993 version of The Age of Innocence. This director also made Taxi Driver and Goodfellas |
| Francois Truffaut | The 400 Blows |
| Marina Abramovic | performance art” who spent 12 days in the Sean Kelly Gallery without food in her piece House with the Ocean View. She also performed The Artist is Present |
| Giacomo Puccini | Italian composer of the operas Madame Butterfly, Turandot, and the aforementioned La Bohème |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Alfredo throws his casino winnings at the feet of Violetta Valéry, who later dies of tuberculosis. For 10 points, name this Italian composer of Otello and La traviata |
| Aida (Opera) | priests sing hymns to Ptah. For ten points, name this four-act opera by Giuseppe Verdi about a romantic tragedy in the Old Kingdom of Egypt. |
| Rigoletto (Opera) | the Duke of Mantua sings about the flightiness of women in the aria “La donna e mobile.” Giuseppe Verdi opera about a hunchbacked jester. |
| Turandot (Opera) | Prince Calaf, who later sings the “Nessun Dorma” aria to marry this character. this title Chinese princess of a Giacomo Puccini opera |
| The Magic Flute (Opera) | Mozart died roughly two months after conducting the premiere of this opera, in which Tamino plays the title instrument to help pass the trials of water and fire. An aria in this work sung by the Queen of the Night hits the F above high C. |
| Tosca (Opera) | After Scarpia’s treachery, the title singer of, for 10 points, what Puccini opera throws herself off the Castel Sant’Angelo? |
| Don Giovanni (Opera) | this Mozart opera in which a statue of the Commendatore drags the title nobleman to Hell |
| La Boheme (Opera) | Puccini opera, premiered in 1896 by Toscanini, which centers around the love of Rodolfo and Mimi and is set in the Latin Quarter of Paris. |
| La Traviata (Opera) | this opera about the courtesan Violetta Valery, who is loved by Alfredo. This opera is based on The Lady of the Camellias by Alexander Dumas |
| Shiva | Name this god of destruction and rebirth, whose consort is Parvati. This god forms the Trimurti alongside Brahma and Vishnu, and is the father of Ganesh |
| John Maynard Keynes | believing in booms and panics. This author wrote The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. For ten points, name this English economist who opposed Classical Economics. |
| Margaret Mead | For the point, what cultural anthropologist who advocated for a broadening of sexual attitudes wrote Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies and Coming of Age in Samoa? |
| Claude Levi-Strauss | he claimed that the heating of food was an important transition in a culture. French anthropologist and author of The Savage Mind. |
| Milton Friedman | The “k-percent rule,” which advocates increasing money supply by the same percentage each year, was proposed by this monetarist and Chicago school economist. |
| Emile Durkheim | The concept of anomie is used to illustrate reasons one may commit the title action in, for ten points, which French sociologist's work Suicide? |
| Franz Boas | studied the Kwakiutl Indians to develop his idea of cultural relativism. Columbia professor and “Father of American Anthropology” who wrote The Mind of Primitive Man |
| Max Weber | sociologist who described increased rationalization as a bureaucratic “iron cage” in his work The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism |
| Bronislaw Malinowski | “ethnographic work should deal with the totality of all social, cultural and psychological aspects of the community” in the intro to his book Argonauts of the Western Pacific |
| Noam Chomsky | This man's seminal work Syntactic Structures elaborated on his teacher Zellig Harris's generative grammar theory and became a foundational text of cognitive science |
| David Ricardo | In Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, this thinker discussed the trade of English cloth and Portuguese wine what economist developed the theory of comparative advantage |
| Ruth Benedict | asked by the US government to analyze Japan during World War II and studied under Franz Boas. name this anthropologist who wrote the Chrysanthemum and the Sword. |
| Albert Bandura | Canadian psychologist behind the Bobo doll experiment |
| Borneo | which is known as Kalimantan to the Indonesians. Brunei and a part of Malaysia are on, for the point, what Southeast Asian island, the third largest on Earth |
| Mekong River | The border between Laos and Thailand is established along, |
| Jorge Luis Borges | author whose book Labyrinths includes "The Library of Babel. |
| Wole Soyinka | A Dance of the Forests is by this Nigerian author, who explored the impacts of British colonialism on Nigeria in Death and the King's Horseman. |
| Rabindranath Tagore | Bengali author of Gitanjali |
| Naguib Mahfouz | this egyptian author who included Palace Walk and Palace of Desire in the Cairo Trilogy |
| Haruki Murakami | this Japanese author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
| Yukio Mishima | Japanese author of The Sea of Fertility tetralogy. Mizoguchi burns down the title structure in this author’s novel The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. committed seppuku after a failed coup d’etat in 1970 |
| Nadine Gordimer | Rosa is the daughter of Communists who died in prison. That novel depicts anti-apartheid activists. Name this South African author of The Conservationist and Burger’s Daughter. |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | this author's novel The Time of the Hero. This Peruvian right-winger wrote Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. |
| Octavio Paz | Another essay by this author called “The Day of the Dead” analyzes the development of Mexican culture. For 10 points, name this author of The Labyrinth of Solitude and “Sunstone.” |
| Carlos Fuentes | this author, who described a dying PRI politician in The Death of Artemio Cruz. |
| William Jennings Bryan | this man said “you shall not crucify mankind upon” the namesake object in support of “Free Silver.” This Nebraska Populist who ran for president against William Mckinley in 1896 and gave the “Cross of Gold” |
| Henry Clay | Kentucky congressman and Secretary of State who championed the Missouri Compromise |
| Daniel Webster | From Massachusetts, “Great Triumvirate” w/ Henry Clay + John C. Calhoun, Argued Dartmouth v. Woodward and McCulloch v. Maryland, |
| Mali Empire | regional governors of Kangaba Kouroukan Fouga constitution dyula merchant caste Gbara legislature. constructed the Djinguereber mosque, a part of Sankore university |
| Mao Zedong | Xi’an [shee-ahn] Incident. This leader moved to a new base in Jiangxi during the Long March. For ten points, name this longtime Chinese communist leader, Long March |
| John Keats | states that “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” For 10 points, name this British poet who wrote “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” |
| John Donne | This poet who wrote “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” also included the poem “Death, be not proud” in his collection The Holy Sonnets |
| Quasars | These highly luminous active galactic nuclei can be classified as “radio-loud” or “radio-quiet” and emit a large amount of energy |
| Arthur Rimbaud | French poet of “The Drunken Boat” and “A Season in Hell. |
| Graham Greene | author of The Heart of the Matter, who wrote about a mestizo betraying the "whiskey priest" in The Power and the Glory. |
| Clifford Geertz | “thick description” in The Interpretation of Cultures. For 10 points, name this American anthropologist who described the Balinese cockfight in his essay “Deep Play.” |
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