Literature;;This work discusses a place"where you will split the heavens of Long Island and resurrect your living human Jesus from the superhuman tom" and"where you bang on the catatonic piano the soul is innocent and immortal it should never die ungodly in an armed madhous".  The second section of this work begins with the line,"What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination" and discusses"Moloch whose mind is pure machinery"  This work also contains a description of a group"who bared their souls to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminate".  For ten points, name this work, whose first section discusses"the best minds of my generatio", a poem by Allen Ginsberg.;;Howl
Art;;One character in this work stares into a small bouquet of flowers, and another character in this work is a small girl wearing a white bonnet and a red dress who is running towards something.  In the distance, the viewer can make out smoke coming from the smokestack of a small ship, and a young man with a top hat sits against a tree, apparently deep in thought, in this work, which also contains a dude in a black safari hat playing the trumpet.  In the foreground of this work, a mustached man carries a bottle of booze under his arm and a cigar between his fingers, and next to him stands a woman with a humongous ass and an umbrella over her left shoulder, while in her right hand she holds the leash of a monkey.  For 10 points-name this painting by Georges Seurat.;;(A) Sunday Afternoon (on) (the) (Island) (of) (La) (Grande) (Jatte)
Literature;;One poem in this collection claims,"I was only a tunnel.  The birds fled from m" after comparing the title object to"white hill" and saying,"I will persist in your grac".  Another poem in this collection contains the lines,"On all sides I see your waist of fog, and your silence hunts down my afflicted hour" and begins,"Ah vastness of pines, murmur of waves breakin".  A more well known poem in this collection contains the line,"The night wind revolves in the sky and sing" and claims,"She loved me, sometimes I loved her to", and another work in this collection begins,"The memory of you emerges from the night around m".  For 10 points-name this collection, containing"Body of a Woma","Ah Vastness of Pine", and"Tonight I Can Writ", a collection of twenty-one poems by Pablo Neruda.;;Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair|Veinte poemas de amour y una canción de desesperada
Art;;In the foreground of this work, a brown and white dog walks along the banks of a clear body of water.  A boat is half obscured in the rushes on the right of this work, while smoke emerges from the chimney of a house with a crumbling roof on the left side of this work.  Two black oxen pull a rickety conveyance across a shallow stream in the center of this work, and two young men ride in the title vehicle.  For 10 points-name this landscape painting by John Constable.;;(The) Hay Wain
Literature;;The title character of this work is observed"Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battl" and who is as"Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for actio".  Earlier, that character was seen"flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on jo" and"with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunnin".  The narrator of this work admits,"it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free and kill agai", and tells the title character"I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boy".  This work opens by describing the title character as"Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Whea".  For 10 points-name this work about an American city, a poem by Carl Sandburg.;;Chicago
Music;;He wrote a symphony whose fourth movement is marked Allegro vivacissimo and is sometimes performed separately as"Carnaval à Rom", and he composed incidental music for the Alphonse Daudet play L’Arlésienne.  This composer of the Roma Symphony wrote a piano work containing movements entitled"Soap bubble" and"Blind Man’s Bluf", while his other symphonic works include one whose second movement is marked Andante Adagio.  In addition to his Symphony in C major and Children’s Games, he wrote an opera in which the title character sings a Habanera and Escamillo sings a Toreador song.  For 10 points-name this composer of Carmen.;;(Georges) Bizet
Literature;;This character reads Of Human Bondage, A Farewell to Arms, and Out of Africa, before meeting a cab driver named Horowitz, who is unable to answer his question about where ducks go when their pond freezes over.  This character also meets two nuns, with whom he discusses Romeo and Juliet before giving them some money.  This character has violent encounters with Maurice the pimp, who beats him up over a difference of five dollars, and his roommate Stradlater, whom this character attacks after Stradlater's date with Jane Gallagher.  One of his prized possessions is a baseball glove with poetry written on it in green ink, which belonged to his now-dead brother Allie.  For 10 points-name this brother of D.B. and Phoebe, the protagonist of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.;;Holden (Caulfield)
Music;;One movement in this work opens with a fast moving melody in the violins before they hold out a long high note over soft descending harmonies in the piano.  Another movement in this work opens with several striking notes played by the trumpets and trombones before a melody played by the tubas leads to a rumble in the timpani and the start of a main theme played by three bassoons.  The final movement of this work features a section in which the harps play arpeggios over slow chords played by the trumpets and trombones, and later features arpeggios played by a celesta.  Those movements are subtitled"The Mysti","The Magicia", and the"Winged Messenge" and join other movements subtitled"The Bringer of Jollit" and"The Bringer of Wa".  For 10 points-name this work, featuring movements named Uranus, Neptune, and Mars, an orchestral suite by Gustav Holst.;;(The) Planets
Literature;;In one scene in this work, a drunken sailor claims to be from the moon, causing another character to swear allegiance to him and kiss his foot.  In another scene of this work, a banquet vanishes when a harpy appears before"three men of si" and angrily reprimands them for an incident that happened twelve years prior to this work.  That incident led to the enslaving of a son of Sycorax and the freeing of a spirit, Ariel, who helped the protagonist of this work cause a shipwreck.  For 10 points-name this work, containing Trunculo, Caliban, Ferdinand, Miranda, and Prosparo, a comedy by William Shakespeare.;;(The) Tempest
Art;;The scroll of a cello obscures the face of one of the title characters in this man’s painting Musicians in the Orchestra, and a man pulls sharply on the reins of his horse to avoid running into a large group of other riders in his painting At the Races.  Several men sit in chairs reading newspapers and doing other mundane activities while other men deal in the title quantity in one painting by this man, and he painted a somber girl sitting at a table wearing a bonnet with a glass of the title liquid in another of his works.  For 10 points-name this painter of New Orleans Cotton Exchange and L’Absinthe who also painted a lot of scenes of ballerinas and dancers.;;(Edgar) Degas
Literature;;One poem by this author contains the lines,"Thinketh, it came of being ill at ease: He hated that He cannot change his cold, nor cure its ach", and he wrote another poem which begins,"Gr-r-r-there go, my heart’s abhorrence!  Water your damned flower-pots, do"  This author of"Caliban Upon Setebo" and"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloiste" wrote a poem in which the speaker claims,"I warily oped her lids: again laugh’d the blue eyes without a stai" after strangling the title character with"one long yellow strin" made from her hair.  For 10 points-name this author of"Porphyria’s Love", who wrote about a woman who"had a heart...too soon made gla" and was painted by Fra Pandolf in his poem"My Last Duches".;;(Robert) Browning
Literature;;One character in this work is the orphan son of an Italian pianist, and at one point in the work, presents the Pickwick Group with a postbox after being allowed to become a member.  That character, Theodore Lawrence, would later propose to two sisters after being rejected by the first sister.  Another character in this work receives a piano as a gift from Mr. Lawrence, the neighbor of the protagonist of this work, but dies from illness near the end of the work.  This work opens with the protagonists giving their Christmas breakfast to the Hummel family.  For 10 points-name this work about Mamee, Amy, Meg, Beth, and Jo March, a novel by Louisa May Alcott.;;Little Women
Music;;He wrote an opera in which Araspe loves Seleuce, the wife of the title character, and one in which Sesto sings the aria"Svegliatevi nel cor" and Cleopatra sings the aria"Tu la mia stella se".  This composer of Tolomeo and Giulio Cesare wrote incidental music to The Alchemist which features movements taken from the extended overture to his opera Rodrigo, and he wrote 3 oboe concertos, as well as 24 concertos for organ.  Another work by this composer includes three suites in F, D, and G major and four minuet movements, and he wrote one work whose fourth movement is called"La Réjouissanc" and whose finale movement consists of two minuets.  For 10 points-name this composer of Water Music and Music for Royal Fireworks who wrote an oratorio including sections entitled"For Unto Us a Child is Bor" and a notable"Halleluja" chorus, his Messiah.;;(George) (Friedrich) Handel
Literature;;The Hooded Man and the unnamed son of the Elderly Woman are in prison in one of this man's plays, while another play by this author ends with Deborah claiming that her parents are on a cruise to Bangkok with Estelle, though they are actually dead.  This author of Mountain Language and A Kind of Alaska created a play consisting entirely of a dialogue between a minicab Controller and a Driver, and one in which Rebecca calls Devlin a"fuckpi" after describing a man whom she told to put his hands around her throat.  In addition to Victoria Station and Ashes to Ashes, this author wrote a more famous work in which Aston receives shock treatments and Mac Davies attempts to conceal his Welsh heritage, one in which the hit-men Ben and Gus argue about lighting the kettle before Ben is told that his victim will enter with his fly open, and one about Goldberg and McCann meeting piano player Stanley Webber at the title event.  For 10 points-name this author of The Caretaker, The Dumbwaiter, and The Birthday Party.;;(Harold) Pinter
Religion/Mythology;;One character in this work sees the river of filth and the great and spacious building, part of his vision of the Tree of Life.  That character is the namesake of another character who is later accused of being a conspirator in the murder of a chief judge after he correctly predicts the murder and who the murderer was.  Another character in this work leads an army of two thousand stripling warriors into battle, and none of them died because they followed what their mothers had taught them.  Another section of this work claims that a group of people known as the Jaredites migrated in large barges soon after the Tower of Babel but were destroyed because of wickedness, and especially"secret combination".  For 10 points-name this work, containing Ether, Helaman, and Nephi, which was revealed by Moroni to Joseph Smith, the holiest book of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.;;(The) Book of Mormon
Literature;;One character in this work passes out from heatstroke after crying at a funeral, and he had earlier fallen behind the procession because he didn’t want to work up a sweat and catch a chill later.  In addition to Thomas Perez, another character in this work stares at a robotic-looking woman while eating at Celeste’s, and later helps Raymond Sintes to write a letter when he suspects infidelity by his Moorish mistress.  That character later attacks a priest after being imprisoned for his heat-induced shooting of an Arab while walking along a beach.  For 10 points-name this work which begins with the funeral of Maman and ends with the public execution of Meursault, a novel by Albert Camus.;;(The) Stranger|(L’)etranger
Literature;;Ofeyi searches for an egalitarian community and enters the Aiyero commune in one novel by this man, while he wrote the lines,"I dreamt I saw him on a village water line, a parched land where water is a go" in one poem.  This author of Season of Anomie and"After the Delug" wrote a play in which Eman acts as the Yoruba god Ogun and carries out the ritual of egungun, and an autobiographical novel which wonders how society could accept"without a squaw" the disappearance of Gogo Chu Nzeribe.  In addition to The Strong Breed and The Man Died, this author wrote one play in which Elesin and Olunde commit suicide after Mr. Pilkings interferes with a tribal ritual, and one in which Lakunle and Baroka fight over the right to marry Sidi.  For 10 points-name this author of Death and the King's Horseman and The Lion and the Jewel.;;(Wole) Soyinka
Literature;;He wrote one play in which the alcoholic Sid Davis is the uncle of Yale football player Arthur and a radical poet who is in love with Muriel McComber, Richard Miller.  In addition to Ah, Wilderness!, the only comedy by this man, he wrote about Piet Wetjoen, Cecil Lewis, and Jimmy Tomorrow, who were all involved in the Boer Wars, as well as Ned Darrell, who fathers Gordon Evans with Nina Leeds after she marries Sam Evans, and about a woman with a morphine addiction who is married to a wealthy, aged actor in a play about the Tyrone family.  For 10 points-name this author of Strange Interlude, The Iceman Cometh, and Long Day's Journey into Night.;;(Eugene) O'Neill
Literature;;He described a woman whose"love was sought, I do aver, by twenty beaux or more; The King himself has followed her-when she has walk'd befor" in"An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaiz", while the lines"A kind and gentle heart he had, to comfort friends and foes; the naked every day he clad, when he put on his clothe" come from this author's poem"An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Do".  More well known works by this author include one which described a place"where health and plenty cheered the labouring swai" and"where smiling spring its earliest visit pai" and a play in which George Hastings is in love with Constance Neville and Kate Hardcastle is courted by Charles Marlow.  For 10 points-name this author of The Deserted Village and She Stoops to Conquer who wrote about the marriage of George Primrose and Arabella Wilmot in his novel The Vicar of Wakefield.;;(Oliver) Goldsmith
Literature;;One early poem by this man contains the lines,"I will prick you and you won't stand it, and you won't forget me.  Little rose, little ros", while another poem by this author contains a character who"threw the holy goblet far deep down into the wave" and"watched it fall...and never drank a dro".  This author of"Heath Rosebu" and"The King in Thul" wrote one work which was a reworking of a tragedy by Euripides, Iphegenia in Tauris, and one in which the title character chops a broom in half with an axe after enchanting it to fetch water.  In addition to The Sorceror's Apprentice, this author wrote one work in which the Duke of Alba kills the title character, leading to the suicide of his lover Klärchen, and one work in which Jarno introduces the title character to the plays of Shakespeare.  For 10 points-name this author of Egmont and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, who wrote about the suicide of Albert using two pistols and the lover of Gretchen who makes a deal with Mephistopheles in his works The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust.;;(Johann) (Wolfgang) (von) Goethe
Literature;;One character in this work is a"pale young gentlema" who has an affair with a woman named Ciara, and shares an apartment with the protagonist of this work after attempting to fight him the first time they meet.  Another character in this work adopts the stage name Mr. Waldengarver when he quits his job as a clerk of the church to pursue an acting career.  In addition to Mr. Wopsle, one character in this work is married to Belinda and tutors Starpop, Bentley Drummle, and the lover of Ciara, Herbert Pocket.  The protagonist of this work falls in love with Estella, even though she has warned him that her ability to love was ruined by Miss Havisham.  For 10 points-name this work about Phillip Pirrip, or"Pi", a bildungsroman by Charles Dickens.;;Great Expectations
Literature;;He wrote the lines,"All along the valley, while I walked today, the two and thirty years were a mist that rolls awa" in one poem, while another poem by this author begins,"I had a vision when the night was late: a youth came riding toward a palace-gat".  In addition to"In the Valley of Cauteret" and"Vision of Si", this author wrote,"Now folds the lily all her sweetness u" and"Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghos" in one poem, and discussed how"the wind is raving in turret and tre" in one work which also describes how"the earl was fair to se" before being stabbed to death.  This author of"Now Sleeps the Crimson Peta" and"The Sister's Sham" wrote a more well-known work which claims that"all experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untraveled worl" and describes"an idle kin" who has"drunk delight of battle with his peer" before ending with the line,"to strive, to seek, to find and not to yiel".  For 10 points-name this author of"Ulysse" who described the death of a certain six hundred in the"Valley of Deat" in his"Charge of the Light Brigad".;;(Alfred) (Lord) Tennyson
Literature;;At one point in this work, Alfred is nearly forced to appear in a private performance of The Rape of the Sabine Women, while a troupe of actors hide impossibly in barrels before being discovered by two courtiers of a king in another scene of this work. Two characters in this work bet on whether a birth year doubled is an odd number and one of them theorizes that they are"within un-, sub- or supernatural force" after a flipped coin lands heads ninety-two straight times, and in the third section of this work, they are sent on a ship with a letter from the prince that demands their execution. For 10 points-name this work about two doomed buddies of Hamlet, a play by Tom Stoppard.;;Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Literature;;One character in this work is forgiven by his wife for an affair with a governess before beginning one with a ballerina.  Another character in this work is a sickly, thin man who eventually starts dating a reformed prostitute, Marya Nikolaevna.  In addition to Stiva and Nikolai, another character in this work declares,"I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray, and I shall still go on prayin" at the end of the work, though he had earlier failed in his courtship of Ekaterina Shcherbatskaya.  Another character in this work rejects Ekaterina before having an affair with the title character and moving to St. Petersburg.  For 10 points-name this work in which Levin marries Kitty and the title lover of Count Vronsky throws herself under a train, a novel by Leo Tolstoy.;;Anna Karenina
Philosophy;;One character in this work tells the story of Gyges's discovery of a ring of invisibility and his seduction of the queen and murder of the king.  Another character in this work is forced to go to the house of Cephalus in Piraeus, and later discusses levels of"bednes", claiming that as each bedness shares its form with the original bed, if they are associated with each other ad infinitum, it creates an infinite regress of form.  That character also describes how a man who sees the fire and the sun would at first want to turn his head or go back, but that his duty is to go back and get the other prisoners and help them to escape in a section usually called,"the Allegory of the Cav".  For 10 points-name this Platonic dialogue, in which Socrates claims that the best type of government is one ruled absolutely by a philosopher-king.;;(The) Republic
Literature;;Don Carlos, Bartolome Roman, and the count of Lara are characters in his play The Spanish Student, while Paul Flemming's journeys in Germany make up this man's novel Hyperion.  One poem by this man focuses on"a youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, a banner with the strange devic", and another begins by pleading,"Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream"  This author of"Excelsio" and"A Psalm of Lif" wrote a narrative work in which the title character accepts a challenge by Thor"to avenge his father slain, and reconquer realm and reig", and another work which ends with the lines,"Christ save us all from a death like this, on the reef of Norman's Woe"  For 10 points-name this author of"The Saga of King Ola" and"The Wreck of the Hesperu", who also wrote about"the shores of Gitche Gume" in his"Song of Hiawath".;;(Henry) (Wadsworth) Longfellow
Literature;;In one work by this author, the title character goes to Onitsha with a wooden box made by the carpenter James Okeke, while he wrote a poem which contains the lines,"yesterday they picked the eyes of a swollen corpse in a water-logged trench and ate the things in its bowe".  This author of Chike and the River and Vultures wrote one novel in which Ezeulu is the chief priest of Ulu who feuds with the people of Okperi and T.K. Winterbottom before his village converts to Christianity, and one novel about Sam, a military officer trained at Sandhurst, who becomes the leader of the nation of Kangan, before he and Comissioner for Information Chris Oriko are killed.  For 10 points-name this author of Arrow of God and Anthills of the Savannah, who also wrote about the murder of Ikemefuna by the father of Nwoye, Okonkwo, in his novel Things Fall Apart.;;(Chinua) Achebe
Literature;;This author wrote about the marriage of Maureen and Peter Tarnopol in his novel My Life as a Man, while the death of Drenka drives Mickey Sabbath to suicide in this author's work Sabbath's Theater.  Brothers Ira and Murray Ringold are influences on the narrator of another work, while this author of I Married a Communist created one-armed outfielder Bud Parusha, a member of the Port Ruppert Mundys of the Patriot League in The Great American Novel.  This author wrote about a counter-Zionist movement called Diasporism in another novel which contains the trial of John Demjanjuk, and created a character who seeks out E. I. Lonoff before writing the novel Carnovsky and living next door to Athena College classics professor Coleman Silk.  For 10 points-name this creator of Nathan Zuckerman, the author of Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Portnoy's Complaint.;;(Phillip) Roth
Literature;;One character in this work is forced to wear ballet tights and a yellow sweater, and had earlier been assaulted by another character outside the D.H. Holmes department store.  His aunt, Santa Battaglia, befriends another character who drinks muscatel wine after heating it in her oven and lives next door to Miss Annie.  That character had earlier crashed her car into a pole, which occurred after an argument started by her son ended with the arrest of Claude Robichaux, who would later appear as a suitor to the mother of the protagonist of this work.  That protagonist befriends Mr. Gonzalez and Miss Trixie while working at Levy Pants before being replaced by Mr. Zalatino when he attempts to lead a factory strike.  For 10 points-name this work about Irene and Ignatius J. Reilly, a novel set in New Orleans by John Kennedy Toole.;;(A) Confederacy of Dunces
Music;;He wrote an opera in which the title character is forced to marry Almuzir, though she loves Abenamet, and another opera by this composer contains characters named Jafet, Sem, and Noè, and is based on the Biblical story of Noah.  This composer of Zoraida di Granata and The Great Flood wrote another opera in which Doctor Malatesta is the physician of the title elderly bachelor, Don Pasquale.  His Larghetto for Piano in A Minor is based on the aria"Una furtiva lagrim". that was originally sung by Nemorino in the second act of one this man’s more well known operas.   That opera focuses on an object sold to Nemorino by Dr. Dulcamara to make Adina fall in love with him, while another well known work by this composer sees Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood kill himself after discovering that the sister of Lord Enrico Ashton has died.  For 10 points-name this composer of The Elixir of Love and Lucia di Lamermoor.;;(Gaetano) Donizetti
Literature;;One character in this work is the"son of a sadistic schoolmaste" who was married to a woman named Velma and tricks the protagonist into killing his dog, Bob.  Another character in this work is known as the Maginot Line and lives with other characters named China and Poland.  In addition to Soaphead Church and Miss Marie, one character in this work is accused of killing a cat by Junior and is called a"little black bitc" by his mother, Geraldine, after being raped by Cholly while doing dishes.  That character later gives birth to a child prematurely, after which Claudia and Frieda MacTeer plant marigolds in hopes that if they bloom, the child will live.  For 10 points-name this work about Pecola Breedlove, a black girl who wishes she was white, a novel by Toni Morrison.;;(The) Bluest Eye
Literature;;In one play by this author, Odysseus and Diomedes kill Dolon before stealing the horses of the title character, while he wrote another play in which Theseus and the Athenians invade Thebes in order to bury the dead bodies which Creon refused to bury.  In addition to Rhesus and The Suppliants, he wrote a play in which Demophon and Iolaus protect the title characters from Copreus and Eurystheus, and one in which Pylades and Electra capture Hermione in revenge against their betrayal by Menelaus.  This author of Heracleidae and Orestes wrote a more well known play in which Dionysis punishes Pentheus by dressing him as a woman.  For 10 points-name this author of The Bacchae.;;Euripides
Art;;He depicted General George Augustus Eliot on horseback during the Great Siege of Gibraltar in one work, while other works by this artist of The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar include portraits of James Warren, Nicholas Boylston, and Margaret Kemble Gage.  This artist depicted a black man with a scruffy goatee in his Head of a Man, and a small glass of water sits on a table with a small animal on a leash held by a character wearing a blue jacket and a gold vest in another of this man’s works.  This artist of Boy With a Squirrel painted one more well known work in which a group of people in a small boat attempt to rescue a naked man from the ocean and an approaching predator, which is about to be harpooned by one character.  For 10 points-name this painter of Watson and the Shark, who also painted the most well known portrait of Paul Revere.;;(John) (Singleton) Copley
Literature;;He addressed a"mysterious sta" and claimed that he"could not love except where death was mingling his with Beauty's breat" in a poem which draws from the seventh Sura of the Qu'ran, which was collected with another poem that described the life of a Middle Eastern warlord who claimed he"reach'd my home-my home no mor" after falling in love with a woman named Ada.  In addition to"Al Aaraa" and"Tamerlan", this author claimed that the best way to double your money is to fold it in half in one short poem, and in another describes a play put on by mimes for an audience of angels.  This author of"Epigram for Wall Stree" and"The Conqueror Wor" wrote about objects that signify youth, marriage and death in one work, and in another, describes lying down beside a tomb in the sea of a woman with bright eyes.  For 10 points-name this author of"The Bell" and"Annabel Le".;;(Edgar) (Allen) Poe
Art;;A hazy orange cloud partially obscures a bright yellow sun in this man’s painting Cotopaxi, and he depicted a ship sailing through Arctic waters beneath glittering bands of teal and gold light in his Aurora Borealis.  The setting sun dyes the bottom of some of the gray clouds red in his painting Twlight in the Wilderness, while a flock of birds glides along the water near the reflection of the pearl-white sun in this painter’s Morning in the Tropics.  More well known works by this man include one containing the mast of a wrecked ship lying on a massive sheet of ice, and one in which a small cross lies in the shadow of the snow-capped Mount Chimborazo.  For 10 points-name this painter of Icebergs and The Heart of the Andes.;;(Frederic) (Edwin) Church
Art;;He painted Mary being laid in a coffin while a large crowd watches breathlessly in his Dormition of the Virgin, and a balding man with a white ruffled collar makes up his Portrait of an Old Man, believed to be a self portrait by this painter.  He also painted one work in which the title character stands on a sickle-shaped moon as angels in the clouds and angry-looking guys on earth look on, and one in which a man is starting to carve something into a piece of wood while a guy in a green shirt takes Jesus’ red cloak off.  This painter of The Assumption of the Virgin and The Disrobing of Christ painted a darkening landscape which goes from lush to barren and contains several ruined-looking walls, and depicted a guy in a funny Catholic hat helping to lay the body of the title character in his grave as a priest watches his ghost talk to Mary and Jesus in heaven.  For 10 points-name this painter of The Burial of Count Orgaz and View of Toldeo.;;El Greco
Literature;;In one work about this character, Stephen Foxx and Professor Wilford-Smith attempt to find a videotape of him after discovering a video camera at an archaeological dig.  In another work, this character is the subject of a novel by a man who meets Bezdomny in a psychiatric clinic.  In another work featuring this character, his childhood pal Biff tells about this character's life, while this character is told by God that he is tired of only being the God of one race while the other gods get all the glory in another work, and at the end of that work, he exclaims,"Men, forgive Him, for He knows not what He has don".  For 10 points-name this subject of works by Andreas Eschbach, The Master, Christopher Moore, and Jose Saramago, who is also the main character of the first four books of the New Testament.;;Jesus (Christ)|(Jesus) Christ
Music;;One song in this work concludes,"I don’t say I’m better than anybody else, but I’ll be danged if I ain’t just as goo" and another song in this work claims that its title location is"better than a magic lantern sho" and contains"a skyscraper seven stories hig".  Another song in this work claims that its title character"was the most misunderstood ma" in this work’s title location, and is"lookin so purty and so nic", before saying,"it’s a shame that he won’t keep, but it’s summer, and we’re runnin’ out of ic".  Another song in this work pleads,"Don’t start collecting things, give me my rose and my glov" and"Your eyes mustn’t glow like min" before another character responds,"Why do y’ take the trouble to bake my favorite pie" and"Your hand feels so grand in min".  For 10 points-name this work, containing the songs"The Farmer and the Cowma","Kansas Cit","Pore Jud is Dai", and"People Will Say We’re in Lov", as well as"The Surrey With the Fringe on To" and"Oh What a Beautiful Mornin", a musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.;;Oklahoma(!)
Music;;One character in this work sings a duet on the song"Ciel, mio padre!  Rivedrai le foreste imbalsamat", and had earlier sung"Che veggo!  Egli?  Mio padre?  Anch’io pugna" after disguising himself and claiming to have been killed in battle.  That character is the father of another character who sings the arias"Ritorna vincito" and"O patria mi" after watching the man she loves go to war against her own country of Ethiopia.  That character would later die in the arms of her lover in the vault of a temple of Vulcan after singing"Immenso Fth", and a duet,"La fatal pietra sovra me si chius" with her lover Radames.  For 10 points-name this work about an Ethiopian princess living as a slave in Egypt, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi.;;Aida
Literature;;One character in this work sings,"What the bright steel, sons of the White Dragon!  Kindle the torch, Daughter of Hengis" after telling another character,"thou shalt perish like the fox in his de" and lighting his castle on fire.  In addition to Ulrica, other characters in this work include one who accuses a woman of bewitching a knight to fall in love with her, and one known as"Desdichad" who wins a joust even though he was unseated when his opponent dies from"the violence of his own contending passion".  For 10 points-name this work in which the Black Knight is revealed to be Richard the Lion-Hearted and Sir Brian Bois-de-Guilbert is defeated by the title character, a novel by Sir Walter Scott.;;Ivanhoe
Literature;;He wrote about a battle between Catalina and Yumí to control the title moon spirit in one work, while he criticized the Central American fruit industry in a series containing the novels The Cyclone, The Green Pope, and The Eyes of the Interred.  This author of Mulata de tal and The Banana Trilogy wrote a work which describes pre-Colombian Mayan civilization using elements of magical realism, and his more well known works include one in which Nicho is transformed into a coyote and Gaspar Ilom is killed by planters, and another in which Colonel Sonriente is murdered by the Zany, but Abel Carvajal and General Canales are accused of the crime.  For 10 points-name this author of Leyendas de Guatemala, Men of Maize and El Señor Presidente.;;(Miguel) Asturias
Literature;;He described the dark empty gate at Kermanshah and the gilded sand of Africa in one poem which also features references to"the wheel rut in the ruined ston" of"Palmyra's stree" and"the air still flashing with the landward gull" over Sicily.  This poet of"You, Andrew Marvel" wrote another poem which claims that the title object should be"motionless in time as the moon climb","wordless as the flight of bird", and"dumb as old medallions to the thum" in a poem that ends,"a poem should not mean, but b".  For 10 points-name this poet of"Ars Poetic", who set a modern version of Job in a circus in his play J.B..;;(Archibald) Macleish
Literature;;One character in this work fails to show up for his berth on a crowded train, and a director of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits is able to assist the protagonist by giving him that character's berth.  In addition to Mr. Harris and Monsieur Bouc, one character in this work is the son of a district attorney and is surprised to see the protagonist near the beginning of this work, which begins when the protagonist receives a telegram reading,"development you predicted in Kassner case has come unexpectedly.  Please return immediatel" and ends after he claims that Hector MacQueen and Natalia Dragomiroff were involved in the murder of a man named Cassetti, who had earlier kidnapped and killed Daisy Armstrong.  For 10 points-name this work in which 12 people stab Samuel Ratchett to death, a Hercule Poirot mystery novel by Agatha Christie.;;Murder on the Orient Express
Literature;;This author created a narrator nicknamed"Chic" who is a longtime friend of the title character in one work, which also sees Sam Partiget meet the title character after he discovers he is dying of AIDS.  In another work, this author wrote about a day in the life of a middle-aged failed actor named Wilhelm Adler, while he also wrote about a Holocaust survivor who was"sorry for all and sore at hear".  This author of Ravelstein, Seize the Day, and Mr. Sammler's Planet also wrote about the gangster Rinaldo Cantabile attempting to get the poet Charlie Citrine to sell out in one work, and another work features a character who plans to shoot Valentine and Madeleine after hearing about a woman who killed her three-year old son by throwing him against a wall.  For 10 points-name this author of Humboldt's Gift and Herzog, who wrote about Stella's marriage to the title character in Chicago in The Adventures of Augie March.;;(Saul) Bellow
Literature;;He wrote about Gimpei Momoi, a former schoolteacher, who has a relationship with his student Hisako in one work, while another work by this author sees Oki Toshio meet Otoko Ueno and her maid Keiko Sakami.  In addition to The Lake and Beauty and Sadness, he wrote about a battle between Minoru Kitani and Honinbo Shusai in one work, while Old Eguchi constantly visits the title building in another work.  This author of The House of the Sleeping Beauties and The Master of Go, he wrote a more well known work in which Shuichi and Fusako are the children of Yasuko and Shingo Ogata, and one in which Shimamura has an affair with Komako in the hot springs of Yuzawa.  For 10 points-name this author of The Sound of the Mountain and Snow Country, who described the Japanese tea ceremony in his novel Thousand Cranes.;;(Yasunari) Kawabata
Music;;He wrote an opera about a character who often repeats the phrase"Oh, it’s so ho", and contains the songs"Va tutto be" and"Per un figlio gia pentit", while another opera by this composer contains the arias"Tu che i miseri confort" and"Or che dici?  or che respondi" and focuses on an exiled Syracusean soldier in love with Amenaide.  This composer of Il Signor Bruschino and Tancredi wrote an opera in which Selim and Zaida fall in love and Geronio forgives Fiorilla, The Turk in Italy, and wrote about Fabrizio Vingradito accusing Ninetta of stealing a spoon in an opera which contains the notable aria"Deh, tu reggi in tal mement".  For 10 points-name this composer of The Thieving Magpie who wrote about the murder of Gesler by the title character, who sings the aria"Sois immobil" in his opera William Tell.;;(Gioachino) Rossini
Literature;;In one scene in this work, two characters row a rowboat all night across a lake, while in another scene in this work, an engineering sergeant is killed for insubordination by a character who was earlier hospitalized for jaundice, which Miss Van Campen believed was caused by his excessive drinking.  One character in this work is killed by an Italian sniper after striking out on foot with three other men, one of whom killed a sergeant who refused to help pull an ambulance out of the mud.  In addition to Aymo and Bonello, one character in this work meets Ettore Moretti and the Meyerses in Milan, and is introduced by Rinaldi to a woman whose small pelvis would lead her to eventually die while bearing a stillborn child in Switzerland.  For 10 points-name this work about Catherine Barkley and Frederic Henry, a novel by Ernest Hemingway.;;(A) Farewell to Arms
Literature;;One character in this work meets a Moorish boy in Toledo, who sells him a manuscript written by Cide Hamete Benengel, and that character had earlier dedicated a work to the count of Benalcazar and Banares.  In one scene of this work, Leonela discovers that Lothario and Camilla are having an affair after Camilla's husband Anselmo tells Lothario to seduce her and gives him four thousand crowns.  Another character in this work writes the lines,"And now I die, and since there is no hope of happiness for me in life or death, still to my fantasy I'll fondly clin" after dying of a broken heart over the shepherdess Marcela.  At the funeral of that character, Chrysostom, one character appears who had earlier been attacked by a lady's attendant and had his ear-wound healed by a shepherd, after having promised his squire the governorship of an island.  For 10 points-name this work, in which the the title character is in love with Dulcinea and has a squire named Sancho Panza, a novel by Miguel Cervantes.;;Don Quixote
Art;;Eight eyes stare off in all directions from the two pillars of one stone sculpture by this man, who also carved twelve drum-like stools to sit around a large counter for another sculpture.  In addition to The Kiss Gate and the Table of Silence, which, along with The Endless Column, form his Sculptural Ensemble, he created one sculpture of a young naked woman crossing herself, and one work which consists entirely of a bronze head which is supposed to look female.  This artist of The Prayer and Sleeping Muse sculpted two stone blocks with their arms wrapped around each other in one more well known work, while he created several marble and bronze propellor looking things which supposedly represent flight.  For 10 points-name this sculptor of The Kiss and Bird in Space.;;(Constantin) Brancusi
Literature;;This author wrote about Dr. Czinner and Coral Musker, passengers on the title locomotive, in one work, while he described how Dreuther ruins the wedding of Cary and Bertram in another work.  This author of Stamboul Train and Loser Takes All also wrote about how a vacuum salesman named James Wormold kills Carter with Captain Segura’s gun to avenge the death of Dr. Hasselbeck in one work, wrote about the investigation of the suicide of Pemberton by Henry Scobie in another work, and described how a mestizo betrayed a whiskey priest to the Mexican government in another work.  For 10 points-name this author of Our Man in Havana, The Heart of the Matter, and The Power and the Glory.;;(Graham) Greene
Religion/Mythology;;The Fuke sect of this religion practices suizen, while some sects of this religion practice a loud belly chant known as the katsu.  Guiyang, Linji, Caodong, Yunmen, and Fayan are known as the"Five House" of this religion, and it was founded by a man originally named Bodhitara.  Shikantaza and the Zenshuji mission are commonly associated with the Soto sect of this religion, and kinhin, sesshin, and zazen are the most common forms of meditation in this religion.  For 10 points-name this religion, founded by Bodhidharma, which has produced a large amount of paradoxical stories and sayings, known as koans.;;Zen (Buddhism)
Literature;;Vincent Dungarven is a virgin schoolteacher living with his mother in The Jealous God, a work by one member of this group.  Another work by that man discusses Joe Lampton's philandering and eventual return to his wife Susan in Warley and is called Life at the Top.  Another author of this group wrote about Patrick Standish's seduction of Jenny Bunn in his novel Take a Girl Like You, though he is more well known for a novel about Medieval history lecturer Jim Dixon.  A more well known author of this group wrote Epitaph for George Dillon and Personal Enemy with Anthony Creighton and wrote a play in which Helena leaves Jimmy after discovering that Alison suffered a miscarriage, allowing Jimmy and Alison to get back together.  For 10 points-name this movement featuring John Braine, as well as the authors of Lucky Jim and Look Back in Anger, Kingsley Amis and John Osborne.;;Angry Young Men
Literature;;In one story by this author, Long Norton and William Monkhouse Lee are attacked by Edward Bellingham's reanimated mummy, while Joyce-Armstrong discovers that air-jungles of jellyfish and snake-like creatures live above 40,000 feet.  This author of"Lot No. 24" and"The Horror of the Height" wrote about Theodore Nemor being killed by his own invention and a war between the Doda and the Accala in two novels in a series about a man who was killed by a large sentient being he found when he drilled to the center of the earth in the story"When the World Screame".  For 10 points-name this creator of Professor George Challenger whose novels His Last Bow and The Valley of Fear focus on a character first introduced in A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes.;;(Arthur) (Conan) Doyle
Music;;One of his works calls for the lead melody to be played by two hand horns in G, while he wrote a notable piano work which contains such sections as"The Valley of the Bell" and"A Boat on the Ocea".  In addition to Pavane For a Dead Princess and Mirrors, he wrote an orchestral rhapsody whose third section is an orchestration of a habanera and whose second section is supposed to resemble a fandango.  This composer of Rapsodie Espagnole wrote a ballet whose second orchestral suite contains the popular"danse general".  For 10 points-name this composer of Daphnis et Chloé, who wrote a work in which an ostinato rhythm is repeated on the snare drum throughout the work, his Boléro.;;(Maurice) Ravel
Literature;;One character in this work claims to be hopeless at the tarantella, causing another character to be distracted by helping her.  Another character in this work is dying from congenital syphilis, and professes to be in love with the protagonist of this work.  In one scene in this work, the protagonist claims that for her to return home,"the most wonderful thing of all would have to happe", before saying that she"doesn't believe any longer in wonderful things happenin".  Dr. Rank, Kristine Linde, and Nils Krogstad leave before the final event in this work, which sees Torvald discover a fraud committed by his wife, Nora Helmer.  For 10 points-name this play by Henrik Ibsen.;;(A) Doll's House
Literature;;He wrote about Sandy Rodgers, who grows up in the town of Stanton, Kansas in one work, and one of his poems claims that"Christ is a nigger, beaten and blac" before ending,"Nigger Christ on the cross of the Sout".  This author of Not Without Laughter and"Christ in Alabam" wrote a poem that contains the lines,"America never was America to m", and the speaker of one of this man’s poems says he"slept like a rock or a man that’s dea" after he heard a"drowsy, syncopated tun". In another poem, he describes building a hut on the banks of the Congo and bathing in the Euphrates.  For 10 points-name this author of"The Weary Blue" and"The Negro Speaks of River" who described an object that"just sags like a heavy loa" in his poem" A Dream Deferre".;;(Langston) Hughes
Art;;Amidst the swirling texture of one section of this work, the viewer can make out a horse head, a dragon head, the wings of a bird of some kind, several human-body shaped forms, and a guy lying on his back who seems to be jacking off.  The artist’s earlier work I Am Beautiful is among the groups on the right side of this work, while the top of this work contains several intertwining vines that look like barbed wire, which run below a pedestal on which stands the artist’s The Three Shades.  Below that, a crowd of naked people fights behind a guy sitting nude in an awkward position, apparently meditating on something.  For 10 points-name this work, containing its sculptors works The Kiss and The Thinker, a sculpture depicting a scene from Dante’s Inferno by Auguste Rodin.;;(The) Gates of Hell|(La) Porte de l’Enfer
Literature;;One character in this work demands to be called Mary Agnes when she begins her singing career after earlier mothering Susie Q. with another character, who was separated from his wife Sofia after he attempted to assert his dominance by beating her.  In addition to Squeak and Harpo, this work contains one character who tells his stepchildren he is their father to inherit their mother's estate, and who rapes and abuses one character until she is eventually driven to a loveless marriage with a man named Albert and a sexual relationship with a female nightclub singer, Shug Avery.  For 10 points-name this work, framed as letters from Celie to God, a novel by Alice Walker.;;(The) Color Purple
Music;;He wrote one symphony in which an F# chord changes rapidly to an F#7, B, B minor, and C#7 in its first movement, and opens its third movement with a D major minuet.  Another symphony by this composer opens with a movement with siciliano character and whose first, second and fourth movements are in sonata form.  This composer of the Linz and Haffner symphonies wrote an opera in which Dorabella sings the aria"Smanie implacabil" before singing the duet"Il core vi don" with Guglielmo, and one in which Tamino sings the aria"Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schö" and the aria"O zittre nicht, mein lieber Soh" is sung by the Queen of the Night.  For 10 points-name this composer of Cosi fan tutte and The Magic Flute, whose final symphony contains the air"Voi siete un po tond" in its first movement and is nicknamed the Jupiter Symphony.;;(Wolfgang) (Amadeus) Mozart
Art;;The middle section of this building features a garden and a small rectangular reflecting pool, and has a ramp leading to a rounded section on the roof of this building.  Under the ramp, a triangular window with thin rectangular pieces of glass emerges, and looks in on the master bedroom.  The sun room of this building contains a fireplace which is notably pierced by a structural support, and the radiators of the building are left exposed throughout.  The master bathroom of this building features a blue-tiled bathtub, though the kitchen is left completely white.  The building is lifted on stilts, to allow the owners to grow a garden underneath the floor.  For 10 points-name this building in Poissy, France, a house designed by Le Corbusier.;;Villa Savoye
Music;;He wrote an opera in which Ada is turned into stone before being saved when Arindal plays the lyre and sings the aria"O ihr, des Busens Hochgefühl", and wrote another opera in which Isabella enters a convent before visiting her brother Claudio in prison and discussing a proposal by Friedrich.  In addition to The Fairies and The Ban on Love, this composer wrote an opera in which Erik loves Senta, the daughter of Daland and wife of the title character, one in which Elsa sings"Alone in dark day" before the title character arrives in a boat pulled by a swan, and a cycle of operas that ends after Brünnhilde orders the building of a funeral pyre for Siegfried and the Rhine overflows its banks.  For 10 points-name this composer of The Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin, and The Ring of the Nibelung.;;(Richard) Wagner
Religion/Mythology;;He falls in love with Fand, the former wife of Manannán mac Lir, when he defends her from three Formorians.  In another story, this character wins a contest over Conall Cernach and Lóegaire Búadach when he agrees to let Cú Roí behead him.  His ghost is said to have appeared to king Lóegaire when Saint Patrick was attempting to convert him to Christianity, and this man killed his son by Aífe, Connla, who claimed that they would have"carried the flag of Ulster to the gates of Rome and beyon" as he dies.  This man is more famous for fighting the heroes of the army of Connacht one at a time when Medb attempts to invade Ulster and abduct Donn Cuailnge.  For 10 points-name this hero of the Cattle Raid of Cooley, who was said to have seven eyes with seven pupils each.;;Cu Chulainn|Setanta
Music;;One work by this name opens with a movement in alla breve time and modulates from C minor to E-flat before switching to E-flat minor in a section marked Allegro di molto e con brio.  That movement begins with an introductory theme marked Grave, and the work also contains movements marked Adagio cantabile and Rondo: Allegro.  Another work with this name contains a movement that ends with a wind chorale playing over descending pizzicato B major scales, and is marked Adagio-Allegro non troppo, and that work also contains movements marked Allegro con grazia and Allegro molto vivace.  For 10 points-name this common name of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 and the 6th Symphony by Tchaikovsky.;;Pathetique
Literature;;Praxagora is the leader of a group of woman who institute a socialist government in one of this man's plays, while another play by this man discusses how Dikaiopolis negotiates a private peace treaty during the Peloponnesian War.  This author of The Assemblywomen and The Acharnians wrote about Trygaeus, who rides a dung beetle into heaven before freeing the title goddess in his play Peace, while more well known works by this man include one in which a dog is put on trial for the theft of cheese after an argument between Anticleon and Procleon, one in which Strepsiades enrolls Pheidippades in the Thinkery, and one in which the women of Athens deny their husbands sex until they end the Peloponnesian War.  For 10 points-name this author of The Wasps, The Clouds, and Lysistrata.;;Aristophanes
Literature;;Nan and Virginia St. George travel to Europe in hopes of finding potential husbands in one work by this author, while in another work by this author, Stephen Glennard publishes Margaret Aubyn's love letters, causing him to feel intensely guilty and eventually confess his betrayal to his wife.  In addition to The Buccaneers and The Touchstone, this author wrote about Raymond De Chelle, Ralph Marvell, and Elmer Moffatt, who all marry Undine Spragg in one work, while her more famous works include one about Lawrence Selden, who is loved by Lily Bart, one in which Newland Archer has an affair with Ellen Olenska, and one that contains a sled crash with Mattie Silver and the husband of Zeena.  For 10 points-name this author of The Custom of the Country, The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, and Ethan Frome.;;(Edith) Wharton
Music;;One song in this work claims,"There’s a place for us, a time and place for us.  Hold my hand and we’re halfway ther" after discussing how they will"find a new way of living...a new way of forgivin" in the song’s title location.  Another song in this work contains the lines,"Take it slow and Daddy-O, you can live it up and die in be", which is sung by a character who is later killed in a knife fight after the protagonist of this work holds him back, and that protagonist would later avenge his murder by killing the lover of Anita.  For 10 points-name this work, featuring the songs"Coo" and"Somewher", in which Riff is killed in a knife fight by Bernardo and is avenged when Chino shoots Tony, a musical by Leonard Bernstein.;;West Side Story
Art;;An angry looking woman glares at a calm Jesus in this man’s painting The Marriage at Cana, and he painted an altarpiece known as the Ognissanti Madonna.  Other works by this man include the oldest known portrait of Dante and a depiction of The Last Supper in which one of the disciples cries into Jesus’ arms.  He depicted angels leading Joseph and Mary on a donkey in The Flight into Egypt, which was painted for the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, along with this man’s The Kiss of Judas.  In his most well known work, cherubim fly overhead as several women and men weep over the body of Jesus.  For 10 points-name this artist of Lamentation, a Pre-Renaissance fresco artist and student of Cimabue.;;Giotto (di) (Bondone)
Literature;;She wrote about a man called"The Collecto" attempting to retrieve the title statue in one work, while in another work by this author, Kosongo usurps command of Ngoubé from Nana-Asanta and employs Sombe and Maurice Mbembelé.  Those works, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon and Forest of the Pygmies, form a trilogy with another novel by this author about International Geographic reporter Kate Cold and her grandson Alexander, who are guided by Cesar Santos in a trip along the Amazon.  This author of City of the Beasts wrote a work in which Riad Halabi adopts the title character before his wife Zulema has an affair with his cousin Kamal, and one in which Aurora del Valle is the granddaughter of Eliza Sommers.  For 10 points-name this author of Portrait in Sepia, Daughter of Fortune, and Eva Luna, who wrote about the Trueba family in her novel The House of the Spirits.;;(Isabel) Allende
Literature;;Agnes is the daughter of the Vedic god Indra in a play by this author whose prologue and epilogue consist of an insistent ringing telephone, while the narrator of another work by this author casts a black magic spell on his own daughter after associating with a group of Parisian artists.  This author of A Dream Play and Inferno wrote a trilogy which begins with the meeting of a Stranger and a Lady on a Street Corner and features a scene in which the Stranger yells,"Strike me with your lightning if you dare!  Frighten me with your thunder if you can"  In addition to The Road to Damascus, this author wrote a more well known work in which The Count leaves his gloves and boots on the stage throughout the play and Jean kills a bird before giving a razor to the title character.  For 10 points-name this author of Miss Julie.;;(August) Strindberg
Art;;He designed the Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston, and with Richard Foster, designed the Kreeger Museum in Washington, D.C.  He used steel hexagonal columns and large glass-paned windows in his design for the New York State Theater, and had a lopsided cross engraved into the west side of a church which also contains a corpus donated by the Menil family, the Chapel of St. Basil in Houston.  He is more well known for a building made by gluing over 10,000 panes of glass to an irregular polyhedral shape which has a tall glass prayer spire outside of it, and he co-designed a building which features non-structural bronze girders and blinds that only have three positions.  For 10 points-name this designer of the Crystal Cathedral, who co-designed the Seagram Building with Mies van der Rohe and built a famous Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut.;;(Phillip) Johnson
Literature;;One work by this man sees Haremhab and Nefertiti interviewed by Meriamun about the title pharoah, while he wrote about how Nefisa's betrayal by the grocer's son turns her to prostitution in another.  In addition to Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth and The Beginning and the End, this author created Illish, who marries Nabawiyya after betraying his friend Said Mahran in one work, and wrote another work in which the murder of the boss of the protagonist is interspersed with the assassination of Anwar Sadat.  This author of The Thief and the Dogs and The Day the Leader Was Killed wrote about the landlord Radwan Hussainy and the pedophile cafe owner Kirsha in a more well known work, while one series by this author focuses on three generations of the family of El-Sayyid Ahmad Abdel Gawad.  For 10 points-name this author of Midaq Alley, who wrote the novels Palace of Desire, Sugar Street, and Palace Walk for his Cairo Trilogy.;;(Naguib) Mahfouz
Literature;;This work claims that,"Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears, men reckon what it did, and mean", before describing how"Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show to move, but doth, if th' other d".  Other lines in this work include one that discusses how"dull sublunary lovers' love-whose soul is sense-cannot admit of absence, 'cause it doth remove the the thing which elemented i" before claiming that"Our two souls therefore, which are one, though I must go, endure not yet a breach, but an expansion, like gold to aery thinness bes".  This poem also describes how"trepidation of the spheres, though greater far, is innocen" and begins with the lines,"As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper their souls to g".  For 10 points-name this work, which pleads,"So let us melt, and make no noise, no tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests mov", a poem by John Donne.;;(A) Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Literature;;He wrote the lines,"Now all the truth is out, be secret and take defeat from any brazen throa" in one poem, while another poem by this man begins"we sat together at one summer's end, that beautiful mild woman, your close friend, and you and I, and talked of poetr".  In addition to"To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothin" and"Adam's Curs", this author pleaded"May she be granted beauty, and yet not beauty to make a stranger's eye distraugh" in one work, and in another discussed"Cuchulain battling with the bitter tid" and"The Druid, grey, wood-nurtured, quiet-eye".  This author of"A Prayer For My Daughte" and"To the Rose Upon the Rood of Tim" is more well-known for a poem which describes how"a shudder in the loins engenders...the broken wall, the burning roof and tower and Agamemnon dea" and one that begins"turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falcone".  For 10 points-name this author of"Leda and the Swa" and"The Second Comin".;;(William) (Butler) Yeats
Literature;;She wrote one work in which Kurt Muller kills Teck de Brancovis before going to Germany to help his friend Max Freidech, while in another work by this author Oscar Hubbard lusts after Laurette Sincee, a local whore.  In addition to Watch on the Rhine and Another Part of the Forest, this author wrote about Julian Berniers' marriage to Lily and the effect of money on Carrie and Anna Berniers in one play, while Regina Giddens is married to wheelchair-bound Howard in another play by this author.  In her most well-known work, Martha Dobie commits suicide after being accused by Mary Tilford of having a sexual relationship with Karen Wright.  For 10 points-name this author of Toys in the Attic, The Little Foxes, and The Children's Hour, the lover of Dashiell Hammett.;;(Lillian) Hellman
Art;;One man in this work rides a she-lion naked while pointing a large fish like a lance toward a man riding a gray leopard in front of him.  Another man in this work takes a grape from the mouth of a duck, which is held up to his mouth by the feet of another man inside a brightly decorated barrel.  A blue creature sits in a throne and eats people, who crawl out of his ass into a dark hole, and two giant ears are pierced by an arrow and a huge knife in one section of this work.  In the left-most section of this work, a unicorn drinks from a stream and Jesus takes the wrist of a young naked woman.  For 10 points-name this work, depicting the beginning of the world, scenes of debauchery, and punishment in hell, a triptych by Hieronymous Bosch.;;(The) Garden of Earthly Delights
Literature;;In one poem, this author wrote,"If so be you ask me where they do grow, I answer: There, where my Julia's lips do smil", while another poem by this author contains the lines,"A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility: do more bewitch me than when art is too precise in every par".  This author of"Cherry-rip" and"Delight in Disorde" wrote"how sweetly flows that liquefaction of her clothe" in a poem entitled"Upon Julia's Clothe", while a more well-known poem by this author claims"That age is best which is the firs" and"The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, the higher he's a-gettin", and begins with the line,"Gather ye rosebuds while ye ma".  For 10 points-name this author of"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Tim".;;(Robert) Herrick
Literature;;He wrote one play which opens with the Young Man performing calisthenics near the title object, though he reveals to the Grandmother that he is actually the Angel of Death at the end of the play.  This author of The Sandbox wrote another play in which Martin Gray reveals a bestial affair to his family on the talk show"People Who Matte", and one play in which HIMSELF tells the story of his life to MAN and WOMAN.  In addition to The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? and The Man Who Had Three Arms, he wrote a play in which Jerry attempts to frame Peter for his own murder after telling him his life story on a bench in New York City.  For 10 points-name this author of The Zoo Story who created the party games"Hump the Hostes" and"Get the Guest", which are played by Martha, George, Nick, and Honey in his play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?;;(Edward) Albee
Literature;;He was depicted in one work slamming his enemy against a wall and forcing him to sing about the hardness of it, and earlier in that work the narrator had noted how this character's lips don't move along with his words.  In another work, this character avenges the death of Aeschere, and had earlier claimed that"in the waves I slew nicors by nigh".  That work begins with the funeral of Scyld Scefing, and contains a scene in which this character rips off the arm of a beast, before his sword Hrunting fails him in the battle against that creature's mother.  For 10 points-name this character, the namesake of an Old English epic in which he kills Grendel.;;Beowulf
Literature;;This work claims that"The strongest man had but three fingers on his right hand; the best shot had but one ey" after discussing a character with"the melancholy air and intellectual abstraction of a Hamle".  That character, Oakhurst the gambler, would later give the protagonist of this work a handkerchief as a gift.  That protagonist dies in the same flood that kills Stumpy and Kentuck, who earlier in this work had called the protagonist,"the damned little cus" before he was named"Thoma" by Oakhurst.  For 10 points-name this work about a small mining town where Cherokee Sal gives birth to the title infant, a story by Bret Harte.;;(The) Luck of Roaring Camp
Literature;;The preface to this work claims that it is addressed to"enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor and clean English to slan".  This work claims that the story of the beheading of John the Baptist is Biblical proof of centaurs, and describes a circus as"a place where horses, ponies, and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the foo".  This work also describes conservatives as being men"who are enamored of existing evil", as opposed to liberals,"who wish to replace them with other".  For 10 points-name this work, containing many satirical definitions of political and religious terms, a book by Ambrose Bierce.;;(The) Devil's Dictionary
Art;;A creepy guy with a mustache looks down the shirt of an ugly girl as she dries the title piece of glassware in one of this man’s paintings, while a pregnant woman wearing a black and white coat over a gold dress fiddles with the title instrument of measurement in another.  This painter of The Girl With the Wineglass and Woman Holding a Balance depicted a long-haired man in a blue robe playing with a globe in his painting The Astronomer, and he may be more well known for one work in which a chick in a bonnet pours from a clay jug into a large clay vase and one in which a slightly cloudy sky sits over the red-tiled rooftops of buildings in the artist’s hometown.  For 10 points-name this painter of The Milkmaid and View of Delft who painted a woman wearing the title piece of jewelry in his Girl With a Pearl Earring.;;(Jan) Vermeer
Art;;Dark clouds swirl in the background of this man’s Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma, and people on the ground stare in admiration at the central figures, carried by cherubs, in his painting of The Angel and Child Adored by Angels.  The Consignment of the Regency and The Council of the Gods are paintings in his Marie de’ Medici cycle, while he depicted a poor shepherd with Hermes at his shoulder and a golden apple in his hand in The Judgement of Paris.  The asscrack of an attractive woman is barely visible as she stares at herself in a piece of glass held by an orange-haired kid in one more well known painting by this man, and he is probably most well known for a depiction of a bunch of muscular dudes putting up a cross with Jesus already on it.  For 10 points-name this painter of Venus at the Mirror and The Raising of the Cross, who is known for painting chubby nudes.;;(Peter) (Paul) Rubens
Philosophy;;He claimed that"every action can only take place in consequence of a sufficient motiv" in one work, which also claims that"moral laws...cannot rightly be assumed as existing without proo".  In addition to On the Basis of Morality, this author wrote"To preach Morality is easy, to found it differen" in a work which discusses how"it must be possible for phenomenon to act upon things from inside, instead of from outsid" in a section entitled"Animal Magnetism and Magi".  This author of On the Will in Nature also wrote a work which claims that the"Ontological Proof is really a charming jok" and that"the immensity of God from which it follows that God needs no caus", his On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason.  For 10 points-name this philosopher, who criticized Kantian philosophy and discussed electricity and gravity as fundamental forces of the first title concept in his The World as Will and Representation.;;(Arthur) Schopenhauer
Literature;;One poem by this author begins,"In noon's blaze in a dale in Dagestan, a bullet in my breast, my body la", while another poem by this author contains the lines,"Alas, it is not joy he flees from, nor is it happiness he seek", before noting,"But it is storm the rebel asks for, as though in storms were peac".  In addition to"The Drea" and"A Sai" , another poem by this author ends,"The prince walked away for he could not abide: would he ever forget the princess of the tide", and this author of"The Princess of the Tid" wrote a more well known work in which the protagonist says,"afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died ther" and falls into melancholy after the death of Bela and his victory in a duel with his friend Grushnitsky.  For 10 points-name this man, who wrote about the Byronic hero Pechorin in his novel A Hero of Our Time.;;(Mikhail) Lermontov
Literature;;One character in this work who works on a high platform built on top of a strawberry farmer's water tank, and is later told a parable about suicide and authority by Furusawa before getting Furusawa fired from his position as that character's literature teacher.  He would later wear a medallion with the letter"" around his neck after having an affair with a woman named Nagisa, before breaking off his engagement with Momoko over a letter she sends to Nagisa.  At the end of this work, he attempts to commit suicide by drinking methanol after Keiko tells him that if he does not die in 1975, Honda will know he is not a reincarnation of Kiyoaki.  For 10 points-name this final novel of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy, a novel by Yukio Mishima.;;(The) Decay of the Angel
Literature;;One character in this work reveals that he used to walk around with rubber balls in his hands and horse chestnuts and crab apples in his cheeks because he wanted apple cheeks, while another character in this work retorts,"I’d rather have peanut brittle crumbs on my face than flies in my eye" after assuring another character that he didn’t see flies in his eyes.  In addition to Orr, Havermeyer, and Appleby, one character in this work is informed of a promotion while playing basketball and later jumps out of his office window to avoid talking to a character who received a medal naked and who asks,"where are the Snowdens of yesteryear"  For 10 points, name this work about Major Major, Doc Daneeka, Chief White Halfoat, and Yossarian, a novel by Joseph Heller.;;Catch-22|Catch 22
Music;;The fourth movement of this work opens with a pulsing triplet figure played by the piano in the upper register, and also contains an extremely slow rendition of Offenbach’s"Can-Ca" from Orpheus in the Underworld.  The eighth movement of this work consists of the violins alternating between high and low notes, in loud buzzing tones, and is the shortest movement of this work.  In addition to"Tortoise" and"Characters With Long Ear", this work contains a section in which two pianos play overlapping ostinatos and glissandos in the glass harmonica to depict the stillness of the title location, while the xylophone is used to evoke the noise of bones clacking together in the twelfth movement of this work.  For 10 points-name this work containing the movements"Aquariu" and"Fossil", as well as"Introduction and Royal March of the Lio" and"The Swa", a composition by Camille Saint-Saens.;;(The) Carnival of the Animals|(Le) Carnaval des Animaux
Art;;He used reinforced concrete and glass to achieve a tent-like structure on a hexagonal base for the Luce Memorial Chapel, while a spiraling complex leads to a wedge-like structure connected to an elliptical glass room where a large American flag hangs from the ceiling in his John F. Kennedy Library.  A tiltled rectangular building that is seemingly held off the ground by large stone pillars comprises his design for the Dallas City Hall, while he claimed that he designed one building to look as though it were"carved out of the mountai".  This designer of the National Center for Atmospheric Research also designed a building which had early problems when the wind blew out many of the glass panes.  For 10 points-name this designer of the John Hancock Tower, who also designed an infamous Glass Pyramid outside the Louvre.;;(I.M.) Pei
Music;;One character in this work climbs a tree after seeing a big, grey animal come out of the forest, while another character in this work scolds the title character for being in the meadow.  A theme in the oboe is played mutedly near the end of this work, while a triumphal march is played in the same key as the letimotif in the strings found throughout this work.  In one scene in this work, the title character convinces a bird to fly overhead to distract a beast, which he then catches using rope.  At the beginning of this work, the narrator announces that the clarinet represents the cat and the timpani represents gunshots being fired by hunters.  For 10 points-name this work in which the bird’s theme is played by the flute and the grandfather’s is played by the bassoon, a composition by Sergei Prokofiev.;;Peter and the Wolf
Literature;;He wrote a poem which reads,"Cut / Scalped / Pounded into pieces / Light an incense / Blow the whistle / Come / Gone / Out and ou", and painted a work entitled Le gout de l'encre.  This author of"Sky Buria" wrote one story which claims,"the sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.  It has swallowed the riverbank and now wants to swallow the city along with your childhood memories and min", while a novel by this man Margarethe and Sylvie are lovers of an unnamed narrator, who frequently has flashbacks about the Red Guard and Mao-era China.  For 10 points-name this author of"A Fishing Rod for My Grandfathe" and One Man's Bible who wrote about a journey to the sacred mountain Lingshan in his novel Soul Mountain.;;Gao (Xingjian)
Literature;;One character in this work is laid up with a broken leg, while another character in this work jokes about being late for a meeting by saying,"Wouldn't have me leave m'dishes in the sink, now, would you"  This work begins on a clear summer day, and takes place in the square, between the post office and the bank.  The central event takes less than two hours in a town of three hundred people, and one character disputes the fairness of the event by noting that her husband Bill was hurried during it.  That character, Tess Hutchinson, is later found with a heavy black spot on a slip of paper, which leads to her being stoned to death.  For 10 points-name this story by Shirley Jackson.;;(The) Lottery
Literature;;One character in this work discovers that he doesn’t love his wife anymore after his neighbor rubs a dandelion on his chin.  That neighbor earlier informed the protagonist that there was dew on the grass in the mornings and a man in the moon after telling him a story about when her uncle was pulled over for driving forty miles per hour.  In addition to Clarisse McClellan, who is later killed by a group of teenagers in a silver beetle car, this work also features a character who engages in a shouting match with a subway advertisement for toothpaste by quoting Matthew 6 after being deeply affected by a woman who is burnt to death after quoting Hugh Latimer.  For 10 points, name this work, featuring Captain Beatty and Guy Montag, an anti-censorship classic by Ray Bradbury.;;Fahrenheit 451
Literature;;One character in this work is shot after being distracted when a schoolboy comes out from under a table, and that character had earlier broken off an engagement by letter while trying to convince a dancer to go on with a performance.  Another character in this work is killed by Jack the Ripper after deciding to sleep with him for less than her normal fee, and earlier in this work had married a Painter after he did a portrait of her.  That character is loved by the lesbian Countess Geschwitz, and has sex with Alwa, the son of her third husband, on the same couch where his father bled to death.  For 10 points-name this work about the marriages of Dr. Goll, The Painter, and Dr. Schön to the title character, an opera by Alban Berg.;;Lulu
Literature;;One character in this work is told that the best remedy for a hangover is"to put two shots of absinthe on a little cracked ice and float on a shot of ry".  That character would later go in the middle of the night to a city one hundred and thirty miles southwest of Mason City, only to be told"No man has ever been able to intimidate m" by a man who betrayed him by endorsing Callahan.  That man, Judge Irwin, is eventually tied to the suicide of Mortimer Littlepaugh, which leads him to shoot himself.  Another character in this work takes a long road trip after discovering an affair between his boss and his childhood girlfriend, during which he discovers the Great Twitch.  For 10 points-name this work in which Anne Stanton marries Jack Burden after Adam Stanton kills Willie Stark, a novel by Robert Penn Warren.;;All the King's Men
Literature;;The speaker of this work describes a river which meandered through wood and dale"with a mazy motio".  That river sprang from a fountain which burst forth from a chasm and which also produced huge fragments which"vaulted like rebounding hail, or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flai", and among whose tumult the title character of this work heard voices prophesying war.  This work ends with the line,"For he on honey-dew hath fed, and drunk the milk of Paradis", and also describes"a miracle of rare device, a sunny-pleasure dome with caves of ice"  For 10 points-name this narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.;;Kubla Khan
Literature;;He discussed the movie industry and advised the flood of young filmmakers coming to Hollywood to go back in his work Bambi vs Godzilla, while Don Dubrow, Teach Cole, and Bobby plot to steal a coin collection from Fletcher in this man's play American Buffalo.  In another of this man's plays, Morton Gross and Lawrence Oberman are two attorneys who meet the inventor of the title device, Charles Lang.  This author of The Water-Engine also wrote a play which consists of an argument between Bobby Gould and Charles Fox, and one about the theft of sales leads from a real estate agency by Dave Moss and Shelley Levene.  For 10 points-name this author of Speed-the-Plow and Glengarry Glen Ross.;;(David) Mamet
Literature;;He wrote a sonnet which contains the lines,"Their martyred blood and ashes sow o'er all the th' Italian fields where still doth sway the triple tyran", and one masque by this author concerns the Lady's imprisonment by the title god of mockery.  In addition to"On the Late Massacre in Piedmon" and Comus, this author wrote one work in which he claims that"he...who therefore seeks to part, is one who highly honors the married life, and would not stain i", and another work which contains the line,"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the ey".  This author of Doctrine and Disciple of Divorce and Areopagitica wrote one poem in which he claims,"They also serve who only stand and wait", and an elegy which contains the lines,"Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth: And, O ye Dolphins, waft the helpless yout".  For 10 points-name this author of"When I Consider How My Light is Spen" and Lycidas who wrote about the fall of Adam and Eve in his Paradise Lost.;;(John) Milton
Literature;;In one scene in this work, a boy sticks his boots into a pile of lime while a group tours a flax factory, and another scene in this work features an operation on the clubfoot of Hippolyte Tautain, who later has his leg amputated by Doctor Canivet.  Another character in this work is introduced when he says,"It is so tedious to be always riveted to the same plac", and later meets the protagonist at a performance of Lucia de Lamermoor. One character in this work leaves a letter for the protagonist in a basket of apricots, and another character is introduced at the beginning of this work as a"new fello" wearing clothes that do not fit him.  For 10 points-name this work in which Leon Dupuis and Rodolphe Boulanger have affairs with the title wife of Charles, a novel by Gustave Flaubert.;;Madame Bovary
Literature;;The Providers order that Al-lith marry Ben Ata in one of this author's works, which is the second part of a series that ends with Krolgul and Klorathy returning to Shammat.  In addition to The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five and The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, both part of this author's Canopus in Argos series, this author wrote about the birth of Ben to Harriet and David Lovatt in The Fifth Child and the cat-dog Hugo that accompanies Emily Cartwright in Memoirs of a Survivor.  More well known works by this author include one in which Moses kills Mary, the wife of Dick Turner, and one in which stories from Anna Wulf's life are interspersed with excerpts from the novel Free Women.  For 10 points-name this author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.;;(Doris) Lessing
Literature;;He discussed the derivation of the Middle English word for draught-horse from the Proto-Germanic root for energy and vigor in his essay"The Devil’s Coach Horse", and contributed to the translation of the Jersualem Bible.  One posthumous work of this author was inspired by the Poetic Edda and was entitled The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, while his other posthumous works include one in which a wizard turns a dog into a toy and back again, and one which contains essays discussing Anglo-Saxon and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.  For 10 points-name this author of Roverandom and The Monsters and the Critics, a British author who is better known for creating the characters Legolas, Gimli and Aragorn in his Lord of the Rings trilogy.;;(J.R.R.) Tolkien
Literature;;This work claims that people are"but helpless pieces in the game He plays upon this chequer-board of Nights and Day" and describes how,"the worldly hope men set their Hearts upon turns ashes-or it prosper".  This collection discusses how"the idols I have loved so long have done my credit in Men's Eyes much wron" and asks,"Ah, love! could thou and I with Fate conspire to grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entir".  A more well known section of this work contains the lines,"A Book of Verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and Thou beside me singing in the wildernes".  For 10 points-name this collection, famously translated by Edmund Fitzgerald, a poetry collection by Omar Khayyam.;;Rubaiyat (of) (Omar) (Khayyam)
Art;;He painted a statue which covers its face as its other gigantic hand reaches towards another face which is kissing a grasshopper and has all kinds of unidentifiable objects springing from it in his painting The Lugubrious Game.  A similar object, this time with a partial woman’s body coming out of it, but still making out with a grasshopper, would appear in this man’s painting The Great Masturbator.  A fish eats one tiger, while another tiger leaps toward a sprawled naked figure in his painting Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening.  More well known works by this man include one in which a large human-shaped figure rests its head on its knee as a bunch of naked people travel on a path directly behind it.  For 10 points-name this artist of Metamorphosis of Narcissus, who painted a bunch of ants and melting clocks in his The Persistence of Memory.;;(Salvador) Dali
Literature;;He wrote a novel in which La Môle has an affair with the title wife of Henri de Bourbon, and another work by this author sees Thibault wish for an injury to the Lord of Vez before being mortally wounded while his soul is in the body of Lord Raoul of Vauparfond.  In addition to Queen Margot and The Wolf-Leader, this author wrote a work about Maurice Lindey's involvement in a Royalist plot to rescue Marie Antoinette, and one work about a man of mixed race living on the island of Mauritania.  This author of Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge and Georges wrote a more well known work in which the English jailer Felton is seduced by Milady de Winter and Constance dies in the arms of d'Artagnan.  For 10 points-name this author of The Three Musketeers.;;(Alexandre) Dumas(,) (pére)
Literature;;He wrote the lines,"Wandering between two worlds, one dead the other powerless to be born, with nowhere yet to rest my head like these, I rest on earth forlor", while another poem by this author begins when"the first grey of morning fill'd the eas" and adapts a story from the Shahnameh.  In addition to"Stanzas from the Grande Chartreus" and"Sohrab and Rustu", this author wrote one poem which contains the lines,"And near me on the grass lies Glanvil's book-and here til sun-down, shepherd! will I b" and begins"Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hil", and this author of"The Scholar Gips" wrote a more well-known work which claims that"The Sea of Faith was once, too, at the ful" and that"Sophocles heard it long ago on the Aegea", before ending by describing"a darkling plain...where ignorant armies clash by nigh".  For 10 points-name this author of"Dover Beac".;;(Matthew) Arnold
Literature;;He wrote the lines,"Say not of me that weakly I declined the labours of my sire" in one poem, while another poem by this author claims,"I am a kind of farthing dip, unfriendly to the nose and eye".  In addition to those poems from his collection Underwoods, this author wrote a novel whose title character"plays Haroun-al-Raschi" in its second chapter, and eventually visits the Prince of Grunewald, and also wrote a novel about the Napoleonic soldier Capitaine Jacques St. Ives.  This author of Prince Otto and St. Ives created a novel in which Ephraim Mackellar is the steward of the Durrisdeer estate and James Durie is the title character, and one in which Ransome and Captain Hoseason abduct Ebenezer Balfour's nephew David.  For 10 points-name this author of The Master of Ballantrae and Kidnapped!, who also wrote about Billy Bones, Jim Hawkins, and Long John Silver in his novel Treasure Island.;;(Robert) (Louis) Stevenson
Literature;;One character in this work is hit by a hot buttered biscuit during a dinner in which a couple exchanged tactical signals while attempting to become endeared to a dying man.  That man would later claim to have been to"death's countr", which allows him to know that his son is lying to him about Skipper.  This work ends when one character claims to be in love with another character, who drunkenly replies,"wouldn't it be nice if that were true", though that first character had earlier claimed that she would stab herself in the neck if the second character would never have sex with her again.  For 10 points-name this work about Big Daddy, Maggie, and Brick, a play by Tennessee Williams.;;Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Music;;He wrote a tone poem in which the theme of the first movement appears in unsion horns and strings before a sequence of trumpet fanfares reaches a climax in G flat in the fourth movement, and another work by this author begins with a unison B-flat held by the horns and woodwinds before they play a B-flat minor descending scale.  This composer of A Hero’s Life and An Alpine Symphony wrote an opera in which Herod offers the title character jewels, peacocks, and the sacred veil of the temple instead of the head of the prophet after she dances the Dance of the Seven Veils, and one opera in which Baron Ochs duels Octavian before Sophie and Octavian sing the duet"Ist ein Traum/Spür’nur dic".  For 10 points-name this composer of Salome and Der Rosenkavalier, who wrote a work that begins with a sustained double low C before introducing the three-note"daw" motif, his tone pome Also sprach Zarathustra.;;R(ichard) Strauss
Literature;;One work in this collection claims,"what I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grape", while another discusses"a ring of amethyst I could not wear here, plainer to my sight, than that first kis".  Other works in this collection include one that describes how"equal light leaps in the flame from cedar-plank or wee" and one that begins,"My letters! all dead paper, mute and whit".  More well known works in this collection include one that ends,"Dearest, teach me so to pour out gratitude, as thou dost, good" and one which contains the line,"I love thee with a passion put to use in my old griefs, and with my childhood fait".  For 10 points-name this collection, containing"Because thou hast the power and own'st the grac" and"How do I love thee? Let me count the way", a poetry collection by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.;;Sonnets from the Portugese
Literature;;One character in this work writes,"it is not permissible to keep men unskilled for the sake of unskilled wor" after receiving a letter from Washington Lefifi claiming,"how this club would be arranged without your participation, would be a mystery to many minds among u".  That character had earlier written a manuscript on native criminals, and his father observes his obsession with Abraham Lincoln when he visits his study after that character is shot and killed by the son of a priest from Ixopo.  That priest would come to Johannesburg to find his sister, Gertrude, and his son, Absalom, with the help of Theophilus Msimangu.  For 10 points-name this work about Stephen Kumalo, a novel by Alan Paton.;;Cry(,) the Beloved Country
Literature;;He discussed how the Episcopalian church has turned a proletarian Jesus into a symbol of wealth and privilege in one work, while Abner Shutt works for Henry Ford in another of this man's works.  In addition to The Profits of Religion and The Flivver King, this man wrote about the socialist art expert Lanny Budd in such novels as O Shepherd, Speak!, Wide is the Gate, World's End, and Dragon's Teeth, and created the characters Paul Watkins, James Ross, Bunny Ross, Bush Harper, Buck Halloran, Jack Duane, Mike Scully, and Jurgis Rudkus in more famous novels.  For 10 points-name this muckraking author of Oil! and The Jungle.;;(Upton) Sinclair
Art;;He painted a self portrait in which he wears a gray jacket and holds the outside of his collar with his right hand, while a black hat hangs askew on his head.  Three angels attempt to restrain a terrified-looking lion, horse, and eagle in another painting by this man, while he also painted a baby tied to a board on the left of one painting which focuses on two white men kneeling and offering gifts to Native American tribal leaders.  In addition to The Power of Love in the Three Elements and Penn’s Treaty with the Indians, he painted a more well known work in which a guy with crazy hair clasps his hands and an Indian watches the central action with detached interest as the British commander at the battle of the Plains of Abraham bites the dust.  For 10 points-name this painter of The Death of General Wolfe.;;(Benjamin) West
Literature;;One character in this work claims,"The human race progresses, perfecting its power" after earlier exclaiming,"My sun!  My spring" upon seeing another character go into her bedroom.  Another character in this work claims that he used to take sealing-wax for any illness before being locked in a house at the end of this work, where he is most worried about Leonid Andreyevitch going outside in a light overcoat.  In addition to Fiers and Trofimov, another character in this work gives gold to a tramp because she has no silver, though another character reminds her that the servants have nothing to eat, after which Lopahkin futilely tries to remind them of the importance of an auction on August 22nd.  For 10 points-name this work in which Lyuba Ranevsky eventually sells the title estate, a play by Anton Chekhov.;;(The) Cherry Orchard
Religion/Mythology;;In one story, this character was dangled by a rope from a tree by Adamanthea, while another story concerning this character claims that this man was raised by the goat Amalthea nearby a group of noisy Kouretes.  A nymph named Chelone was changed into a tortoise when she failed to attend this character’s wedding, and this character’s wife was hung upside down after attempting to drown one of his sons.  That son of this character was chosen by him to help defeat a tribe of earth-born Giants, and was born to this character by the mortal woman Alcmene.  For 10 points-name this father of Heracles, who may be better known for being the chief god of the Greek pantheon.;;Zeus
Literature;;Mary Johnson is the drunkard mother of Jimmy and the protagonist of one of this man's works, while his short stories include one in which the marriage of Jack Potter ends his feud with Scratchy Wilson and one in which the Swede is killed over a card game being played for fun.  This author also wrote about Billie, an oiler, who drowns off the coast of Florida, and about the Tattered Soldier and Jim Conklin in another work which sees Henry Fleming get hurt.  For 10 points-name this author of"The Bride Comes to Yellow Sk","The Blue Hote", Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,"The Open Boa", and The Red Badge of Courage.;;(Stephen) Crane
Art;;On the left side of this work, an old man holds a baby and stares at a man in blue, who is too busy reading to take notice.  On the right side, two dudes in funky hats hold large gray circular objects, and one of them twirls it around his fingers like a baller.  Another character in this painting balances on one leg against a wall while attempting to write something down, and next to him a character leans against the wall and reads what he’s writing.  In the center of this work, a scantily clad old man lies prostrate on some stone steps and reads from a piece of paper, and the two central figures walk towards him, paying no attention to anything but the copies of Timaeus and the Nicomachean Ethics they hold in their arms.  For 10 points-name this work depicting Plato and Aristotle and a bunch of other guys in the title location, a painting by Raphael.;;(The) School of Athens|Scuola di Atene
Literature;;One poem by this author claims,"my kiss will give peace now and quiet to your hear", while another pleads,"I pray you, cease to comb out, comb out your long hai".  Other poems by this author include one which contains the lines,"his hand is under her smooth round breast; so he who has sorrow shall have res", and one which describes a man who"travels after a winter sun, urging the cattle along a cold red roa".  In addition to those poems, collected in Pomes Ponyeach and Chamber Music, this author created one work in which two washerwomen turn into a stone and a tree after gossiping across the Liffey about ALP and HCE, and one work in which Blazes Boylan has an affair with Molly Bloom and Leopold Bloom wanders around Dublin on June 16, 1904.  For 10 points-name this author of Finnegans Wake and Ulysses.;;(James) Joyce
Music;;He composed a piece for chamber orchestra that contained a movement marked Tempo giusto, and a ballet in which the Joker has the chameleon-like ability to become any other card.  This composer of the Dunbarton Oaks Concerto and Card Game wrote a work in which chromatic scales are used to depict the swooping of the title bird, and his Symphony in C contains a notable Larghetto concertante movement.  This composer of Song of the Nightingale also wrote one ballet in which Prince Ivan enters the realm of Kashchei the Immortal and meets thirteen princesses, and another which contains sections entitled Ritual Action of the Ancestors and Ritual of the Two Rival Tribes.  For 10 points-name this composer of The Firebird and The Rite of Spring.;;(Igor) Stravinsky
Music;;He wrote a song which contains the lines,"Do not sing; do not bloom!  Spring is ove" and one which begins"I have a red-hot knife, a knife in my breas" for the song cycle Songs of a Wayfarer.  Other works by this composer include a symphony which begins with a dark melody played by the baritone horn and contains a scherzo marked Schattenhaft, fließend FLEE-send aber nicht zu schnell.  Another  work by this composer of Song of the Night wrote a more well known song cycle whose songs include"In diesem Wetter" and"Wenn dein Mütterlei", called Kindertotenleider.  For 10 points-name this composer of Songs on the Death of Children, who wrote"Of Yout" and"The drunken man in sprin" for his Song of the Earth and wrote notable symphonies called Tragic, Resurrection, and Titan.;;(Gustav) Mahler
Literature;;He wrote about Dr. Woodly, a lover of Harold Ryan’s wife, in one work, and in another, Eugene Debs Hartke realizes he has killed the same number of men as the number of women he has had sex with.  In addition to Happy Birthday, Wanda June and Hocus Pocus, he wrote one novel in which Bunny is a gay pianist at the Holiday Inn and the main character is inspired to go on a rampage by the science-fiction novel Now It Can Be Told, and about how an airplane crash and Papa Monzano’s suicide led to the freezing of all the Earth’s oceans.  For 10 points, name this author of Breakfast of Champions and Cat’s Cradle who wrote about Billy Pilgrim in his Slaughterhouse-Five.;;(Kurt) Vonnegut(,) (Jr.)
Literature;;One character in this work first meets the narrator on a bus, and spends fifteen days with him in a tent while he attempts to pick cotton to support them.  In addition to Terry, this work contains one character who leaves a note on his door to invite the narrator in through the window, and later takes the narrator to see Duke Ellington at the Metropolitan Opera, one who takes benzedrine tubes with an airgun and goes into the bathroom twice a day to shoot heroin, and one who rubs his belly and drives his Hudson like a maniac.  For 10 points, name this work, containing Remi Boncoeur, Old Bull Lee, Carlo Marx, Dean Moriarty, and narrator Sal Paradise, a novel by Jack Kerouac.;;On the Road
Literature;;One character in this work claims,"repression is the only lasting philosoph" after giving another character a gold coin to make up for the death of his child.  That character, the Marquis St. Evremonde, is later murdered in his sleep by the father of the child he killed, and is left with a note reading,"Drive him fast to his tomb.  This, from Jacque".  The family of the Marquis had earlier been condemned"to the last of their rac" by another character, despite the fact that his daughter would later marry the nephew of the Marquis, Charles Darnay.  For 10 points-name this work, containing Dr. Manette, Lucie Manette, Sydney Carton, and Madame Defarge, a novel about London and Paris by Charles Dickens.;;(A) Tale of Two Cities
Art;;Several people walk along various walkways in this painter’s blue-dominated landscape, A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon, while unidentified objects make up the bizarre headpiece of the title character of his multicolored Woman With a Hat.  Two bottles of wine sit on a table with randomly strewn pieces of fruit as a woman looks down at a plate of food in his painting The Dessert: Harmony in Red, and he painted golden wheat springing up behind the title character in his The Blue Nude.  More well known works by this man include one in which several contorted red bodies cavort in a circle, and a multicolored portrait of his wife.  For 10 points-name this painter of La Danse and The Green Line.;;(Henri) Matisse
Philosophy;;This work claims that a just cause, rightful intention, and sovereign authority are the three major things necessary for a war to be just, and Ulpian is cited in this work as"The Legal Exper".  Another section of this work discusses drunkenness and concludes that it is not a sin because every sin is voluntary, but drunkenness is not voluntary.  The Islamic scholar al-Ghazali is cited in this work in saying that it is"impossible for an actually infinite multitude to exist absolutel" and is called"Algaze", while Aristotle is referred to in this work simply as"The Philosophe".  For 10 points-name this work, which seeks to be a better compilation of Catholic doctrine than the author's earlier Summa Contra Gentiles, a work by Thomas Aquinas.;;Summa Theologica
Music;;He wrote an opera in which Princess Olga believes she is the daughter of Prince Tokmakov before he reveals that she is actually the daughter of Tsar Ivan.  This composer’s Symphony No. 1 was originally written in E flat minor and was transposed to E minor by this composer to make it easier for orchestras to play.  In addition to The Maid of Pskov, he wrote a symphonic suite which contains movements"The Kalendar Princ" and"The Sea and Sinbad’s Shi", while his more well known works include one which begins with traditional asturian music to celebrate the rising of the sun, and another which contains a solo violin cadenza, which precedes a playing of the hymn"An Angel Cried Ou".  For 10 points-name this composer of Scheherazade, Capriccio Espagnol, and Russian Easter Festival Overture.;;(Nikolai) Rimsky-Korsakov
Literature;;In one work by this author, Dy Burbank and Zermah are taken to Carneral Island after the destruction of Camdless Bay, while in another work by this author, Jean and Sergeant Martial attempt to find Colonel de Kermor in Venezuela.  In addition to North Against South and The Mighty Orinoco, this author wrote about lovers attempting to witness the title phenomenon in one work, while six traveling companions become citizens of enemy countries when the Crimean War breaks out during an expedition in another work.  This author of The Green Ray and The Adventures of Three Russians and Three Englishmen in South Africa created the characters Otto Lidenbrock, Phileas Fogg, and Captain Nemo in his more famous works.  For 10 points-name this author of A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, and Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.;;(Jules) Verne
Literature;;This author wrote about Scott Martineau, the assistant of the novelist Bill Gray in his novel Mao II, while his first novel was narrated by David Bell and was titled Americana.  He published a short story entitled"Midnight in Dostoyevsk" in 2009, while his other short stories include"Baghdad Towers Wes","Human Moments in World War II", and"Pafko at the Wal".  His more well known works include a work of historical fiction that analyzes Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and one in which Jack Gladney is a Professor of Hitler Studies at College-On-The-Hill.  For 10 points-name this author of Libra and White Noise.;;(Don) DeLillo
Music;;This composer uses whole octave leaps in the choral harmonies to depict waves in one work, which also sees a gentle atmosphere created by rests interspersed with the chorus singing"dolc", and his first symphony in C minor has a first movement that contains a large orchestral sonata section marked Allegro and a long violin solo in the second movement, which is marked Andante sostenuto.  In addition to New Love Songs, this composer wrote a more well known orchestral work whose final section is marked Tempo primo ma tranquillo and is writen completely in D minor, and one whose finale uses the theme from"Gaudeamus igitu" and also uses the tunes of"Fuchslie" and"Wir hatten gebauet ein stattliches Hau".  For 10 points-name this composer of the Tragic Overture and the Academic Festival Overture, who wrote a choral work which begins with the line,"Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforte", his work A German Requiem.;;(Johannes) Brahms
Literature;;One character in this work claims to have lost a watch and four horses in a card game, and the protagonist observes that"one of his whiskers was less bushy in appearance than the other on".  That character later claims to have gone through seventeen bottles of Bonbon champagne with Ponomarev, before refusing to pay eighty kopecks for a cup of vodka.  Another character in this work claims,"governors who appoint capable subordinates are deserving of the most ample meed of prais" and is praised even by Sobakevitch as"a very pleasant fello" before being thought to be Napoleon in disguise at the end of this work.  For 10 points-name this work in which Paul Chichikov buys the deeds to deceased serfs, a novel by Nikolai Gogol.;;Dead Souls
Literature;;One character in this work says"our flesh and blood is grown so vile, my lord, that it doth hate what gets i" and concludes one monologue with the line"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.  They kill us for their spor".  That character would later claim that"woes by wrong imaginations lost the knowledge of themselve" before he hears a drum and another character replies"Give me your hand.  Far off methinks I hear the beaten drum.  Come, father, I'll bestow you with a frien".  Those characters, Edgar and the Earl of Gloucester, had earlier been out on the heath during a storm with the title character of this work when he denounced his daughters, about one of whom he had earlier said"how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child"  For 10 points-name this Shakespearean tragedy.;;King Lear
Literature;;He wrote a mythographical account of the Greco-Roman gods in his On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles, while Palemone and Arcita compete for the love of Emilia in one epic poem by this man about the reign of Theseus, Teseida.  Another work by this author contains biographies of Julian the Apostate, King Arthur, Hannibal and Agamemmnon, while he wrote about the love of Fiametta for Panfilio in a first person novel.  This author of On the Fates of Famous Men and The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta wrote another work which contains the stories of the mercenary Ser Ciapelletto, Posthumous's wager on the chastity of Imogen, and Lisabetta and the pot of basil.  For 10 points-name this author who wrote about ten Florentines escaping the Black Death in his Decameron.;;(Giovanni) Boccaccio
Literature;;He composed the lines,"if mine had been the painter's hand, to express what then I sa" in one poem which also claims,"I would have planted thee, thou hoary pile, amid a world how different from thi", while another work by this author begins,"twas summer, and the sun had mounted hig" before discussing a character who"resolved to pass the remnant of his days, untasked with needless service", named the Wanderer.  In addition to"Elegaic Stanza" and The Excursion, this author wrote"there is blessing in this gentle breez" and asked,"in what vale shall be my harbour?  underneath what grove shall I take up my home" in a semi-autobiographical work entitled The Prelude.  More well-known works by this author include one with the lines"we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon" and"I'd rather be a Pagan suckled in a creed outwor" and one in which he describes poetry as"the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelin".  For 10 points-name this author of"The World is Too Much With U" who co-authored Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.;;(William) Wordsworth
Literature;;He wrote one work in which Catherine Creek, Dolly Talbo, and Colin Fenwick discover a treehouse in a Chinaberry tree, and wrote another in which Grady has an affair with the Jewish parking attendant Clyde.  In addition to The Grass Harp and Summer Crossing, this author created a character who gives the weather report to Sally Tomato every Thursday and calls the narrator Fred before her engagement to Jose Yberra-Jaegar is broken off and she disappears, and wrote a work in which Herb and Bonnie Clutter are murdered by Perry Smith and Dick Hickock after they discover that the Clutters keep no cash at their Kansas farmhouse.  For 10 points, name this author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood.;;(Truman) Capote
Art;;A baby pounds on a turtle in one section of this work, which also sees a black kid with a parrot on his lap stare at a picture of a human skull being projected on a screen.  In another section of this work, a handless statue of Zeus attempts to throw a thunderbolt at the central figure, and just above him, a massive army of bayonet-wielding men in gas masks stands opposite a multi-national army of men and women in camouflage uniforms carrying red flags.  Below that army, a headless statue sits peacefully and a group of bearded men hold onto a large red cloth with writing on it, and one of them looks over to the right-center of the painting, where Vladimir Lenin stares off into the distance.  For 10 points-name this mural by Diego Rivera.;;Man at the Crossroads
Literature;;Mori and his father attempt to assassinate the Patron in one work by this author, who wrote about the novelist K and his son Eeyore in another work.  In addition to The Pinch Runner Memorandum and Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!, he wrote a novel in which a group of conspirators sing the Bach cantata Gladly I shall bear the cross before being wiped out by American agents in disguise, and another about a group of boys who are later joined by the Korean deserter Li in a barren village infected by the plague.  A more well known work by this author of The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away and Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids includes the characters Natsumi, Takashi and Mitsusaburo and contains a scene in which a character commits suicide by painting his head crimson and hanging himself with a cucumber in his anus.  For 10 points-name this author of The Silent Cry.;;(Kenzaburo) Oe
Literature;;Tariq Khalil hires Doc Sportello to find Glen Charlock before Doc and his lawyer Sauncho take a schooner from the Golden Fang corporation in one of this man’s novels, and he wrote a novella in which Meatball Mulligan helps to end a party by calming people down one by one and Callisto discusses Clausius’ Theorem and the Laws of Thermodynamics while attempting to care for a sick bird.  This author wrote about Miles, Dean, Serge and Leonard, who make up a band called The Paranoids in one more famous work, which also sees Dr. Hilarius prescribe LSD to Oedipa Maas; and he also created Byron the Bulb in another work which sees Major Duane Marvy being kidnapped and castrated in place of Tyrone Slothrop.  For 10 points, name this author of Inherent Vice,"Entrop", The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow.;;(Thomas) Pynchon
Art;;One character in this work wears a crown and carries a lance, while in the background of this work, one man wears a top hat and holds aloft a spear.  Next to that man is a character who looks like a Roman centurion, and next to him is a man waving a blue and gold flag.  In the foreground of this work, there is a ghostly looking girl, who stands next to a red-clad man carrying a rifle and the central figure of this work, who wears a red sash around his chest and has his hand outstretched as he says something to the man in white standing next to him.  For 10 points-name this work, also called The Company of Franz Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, a painting by Rembrandt van Rijn.;;Night Watch|(The) Company (of) Franz Banning Cocq (and) (Willem) (van) (Ruytenburch)
Music;;He wrote an opera in which a visit by the Singer and his Friend help a Husband and Wife to realize that their relationship is based on love, while a group of Jews sing the Shema Yisroel prayer as German soldiers attempt to perform a head count in his Opus 46, for men’s chorus and orchestra.  This composer of From Today to Tomorrow and A Survivor From Warsaw wrote an unfinished oratorio which begins with a cello hexachord ostinato and an opera containing the arias"Du sohn meines Vater" and"Dieses Bild bezeug".  In addition to Jacob’s ladder and Moses and Aron, he wrote a more well known work which was controversial due to a"nonexisten" inverted ninth chord, and one which uses expressionistic and atonal techniques to set poems by Albert Giraud to music.  For 10 points-name this composer of Transfigured Night and Pierrot Lunaire.;;(Arnold) Schoenberg
Literature;;God explains to the wife of a man named Job why he didn’t attempt to interfere when she was accused of withcraft in one play by this man, while he wrote a poem which contains the lines,"I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass I skimmed this mornin".  This author of A Masque of Reason wrote one poem which discusses a boy who lives"too far from town to learn basebal", and a"buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yar" before causing the death of a young boy in another of his poems.  He wrote the lines,"the land was ours before we were the land’" in another poem, while he claims that"he is all pine and I am apple orchar" in another poem that asserts,"good fences make good neighbor".  For 10 points-name this author of"After Apple-Pickin","Out, Out","The Gift Outrigh","Birche", and"Mending Wal", who penned the lines,"My little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse nea" in his poem"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evenin".;;(Robert) Frost
Literature;;One character in this work goes into the woods at night to commune with the devil, and at one point attempts to get the protagonist to come with her, but is rejected.  In addition to Mistress Hibbins, other characters in this work include one who was captured by Native Americans and delayed his trip to Boston, one whose chest is revealed to carry a stigmata in the shape of the title object after his death at the end of this work, and another whose daughter Pearl is rumored to be fathered by the devil.  For 10 points-name this work, containing Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Hester Prynne, a work by Nathaniel Hawthorne.;;(The) Scarlet Letter
Literature;;One character in this work shaved her head because her hair was too cumbersome, and wore a coarse cassock so she could wear clothes and still preserve the feeling of being naked, before causing the death of a strange man who climbs up on the roof to watch her bathe through rotting tiles on the roof.  That character was named after a woman who died of blood poisoning while pregnant with twins, and had been married to a character who makes little golden fish in his workshop before becoming a military leader and fathering 17 sons, who all bore his name.  For 10 points-name this work, containing Remedios the Beauty, Colonel Aureliano Buendia, and the village of Macondo, a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.;;One Hundred Years of Solitude
Literature;;One group in this work"cling to that hope which springs eternal in the human breas" after"a straggling fe" leave a sporting event"in deep despai".  Earlier in this work,"a sickly silenc" had fallen upon that group after Cooney and Barrows"died at firs".  Two other characters in this work are described as"a lul" and"a cak" before they surprised"the patrons of the gam" by hitting a single and a double, respectively.  After those characters, Flynn and Jimmy Blake, reach base,"from 5000 throats and more there rose a lusty yel" as the title character leaves the dugout.  This work ends by observing,"The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, and somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shou", before claiming that the title character taking two strikes and swinging at the third has caused the joy to be gone in Mudville.  For 10 points-name this poem by Ernest Thayer.;;Casey at the Bat
Art;;He drew the title object in the motion of banging its mallet in Clockwork Panda Drummer, while 17 pictures of cats makes up his book 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy.  Strips of colored paper are overlayed on a da Vinci-style depiction of the title scene in one painting from his series The Last Supper, and a yellow discoloration in a table lies beneath the title object of his Skull.  This artist is more well known for painting the cover of the album The Velvet Underground and Nico, as well as his"cow wallpape", his"oxidation painting" and his depictions of Campbells’ Soup Cans and Marilyn Monroe.  For 10 points-name this Pop Artist.;;(Andy) Warhol
Literature;;The lines"the eyes are not here, there are no eyes here in this valley of dying star" open the fourth section of one of this man's works, which also contains the lines"here the stone images are raised, here they receive the supplication of a dead man's han" and describes"eyes I dare not meet in dream".  In another work by this man, the title character laments,"I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent sea" and asserts that he is"not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to b" before asking,"do I dare eat a peach"  That work by this author begins with an epigraph referring to Dante's meeting with Guido da Montefeltro in the Inferno, while another work by this man begins by simply noting,"Mistah Kurtz- he dea".  For 10 points-name this author of"The Hollow Me" and"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufroc".;;(T.S.) Eliot
Music;;The third movement of this work opens with the strings playing a single quarter note while the flute, oboe, and clarinet play a double eighth note and hold a half and dotted half note, before the violins play a fast-moving arpeggiated section over that movement’s main theme.  The first movement of this work contains a solo flute passage meant to evoke the melody of"Swing Low, Sweet Chario", and is marked Adagio-Allegro Molto.  The second movement of this work is marked Largo and drew its inspiration from Negro spirituals, while the Scherzo of this work is meant to depict an Indian dance.  For 10 points-name this last symphony of Antonín Dvor?ák.;;New World Symphony|(Symphony) From the New World|Symphony No. 9 (in) (E) (minor)
Literature;;Two movers continuously bring in more furniture in one of this man's plays, while in another play by this author, Archduke Duncan breaks his promises of land and titles to Banco and the title character.  In addition to The New Tenant and MacBett, this man wrote about Marguerite and Marie, who are the wives of King Berenger I, and also created Choubert and Madeleine, who live together in a flat where nothing ever happens.  This author of Victims of Duty and Exit the King wrote more well known works in which the Smiths, the Martins, Mary and the Fire Chief have a dinner party, and another in Daisy originally resists transfomartion, but eventually gives in, leaving Berenger as the only character who is not one of the title creatures.  For 10 points-name this author of The Bald Soprano and Rhinoceros.;;(Eugene) Ionesco
Music;;He recycled an aria from his unfinished opera Les francs-juges as the second movement of his last symphony, The Grand Funeral and Triumphal Symphony."Serenade of a Mountaineer of the Abruzz" and"Orgy of the Brigand" are movements in a work he created for Paganini, while his operas include one in which Balducci suggests Fieramosca to replace the title character as the sculptor of a statue of Perseus for Pope Clement VII and an operatic adaptation of The Aeneid.  In addition to composing Benvenuto Cellini,  Les Troyens and Harold in Italy, he wrote a work whose movements include one in which an interplay between the oboe and the English horn represents a conversation between shepherds,"Scene in the Field" and one which contains an idée fixe in the clarinet,"March to the Scaffold" For 10 points-name this composer of Symphonie Fantastique.;;(Hector) Berlioz
Literature;;One character in this work speaks in rhymes to his new wife and marvels at her long black hair for the first year of their marriage, but then begins to believe she has been spoiled.  In addition to Logan Killicks, one character in this work becomes the mayor and postmaster of an all-black community, while another character in this work criticizes Jody's impotence in public and is beaten before killing her third husband and being acquitted of the crime by an all-white jury.  For 10 points-name this work in which Tea Cake is bitten by a rabid dog, causing Janie Crawford to move back to Eatonville, Florida, a work by Zora Neale Hurston.;;Their Eyes Were Watching God
Literature;;In one work by this author, Wang Shih-ku and Yen-ko are disappointed after seeing a painting by the artist Ta Ch'ih, and he wrote about the suicide of the artist Yoshihide after watching his daughter Yuzuki burn to death in a carriage in another work.  This author of"Autumn Mountai" and"Hell Scree" wrote another work in which Shakyamuni watches the criminal Kandata attempt to escape from hell, and his other works include one in which a woman stealing hair from dead bodies is robbed of her robe by an unemployed servant, and one in which Masago is raped by Tajomaru, who claims to have killed Takehiro.  For 10 points-name this author of the short stories"The Spider's Threa","In a Grov", and"Rashomo".;;(Ryunosuke) Akutagawa
Art;;The fringe of a blanket is just visible beneath the central image of this work, and the central figure wears a brown wristband with a small tassel.  In the background, a large glass bowl lined with paper and filled with flowers is held by a black servant, who looks with a terrified wonder at the central figure of this work.  That central figure wears medium wooden heels with a silver strap and has a bow tied around her neck with black lace, and is sitting on a couch holding onto a tan blanket with one hand and covering her vagina with her other hand.  For 10 points-name this painting of a nude prostitute by Édouard Manet.;;Olympia
Literature;;The narrator of one story by this man finds a one-man cross country race after stopping when his pedometer measures twenty-five, while Kuno is threatened with"Homelessnes" by the Machine in another of his stories.  In addition to"The Other Side of the Hedg" and"The Machine Stop", he wrote about Lilia Herriton, who travels to Tuscany and gets married to Gino Carella in one work, and another of his novels sees Helen Schlegel advise Leonard Bast to quit his job as an insurance clerk, before dying of a heart attack.  For 10 points-name this author of Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howards End, who wrote about Adela Questad’s accusations of rape against Dr. Aziz in his novel A Passage to India.;;(E.M.) Forster
Music;;One character in this work receives a crossbow as a twenty-first birthday president from his mother, and later commits suicide when he is told that he must marry a woman who tricked him into declaring his love for her.  Another character in this work is killed when a bunch of birds turn into humans and drown him, and would later convince the protagonist of this work that his daughter is the woman that protagonist is in love with.  Wolfgang is the major domo of the court and the tutor of the protagonist of this work, and Bennon von Summerstein helps him to throw a party at the beginning of this work.  For 10 points-name this work in which Odile is the daughter of the sorcerer von Rothbart and Siegfried falls in love with Odette, a ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.;;Swan Lake
Literature;;He wrote about the shooting of Wolfgang by Konny in Schwerin in one work, which is narrated by a man born during the sinking of WIlhelm Gustoff, Paul Poriefke.  In addition to Crabwalk, he wrote an autobiography called Peeling the Onion, and wrote a novel which parodies the style of Being and Time.  More well known works by this author include one in which Pilenz describes the theft of a German U-Boat captain's Iron Cross by Joachim Malke, and one in which Sister Dorothea is killed after rejecting the advances of virtuoso jazz drummer and dwarf Oskar Matzerath.  For 10 points-name this author of Dog Years, Cat and Mouse, and The Tin Drum, all part of his Danzig Trilogy.;;(Gunter) Grass
Literature;;One character in this work has a mulberry-colored mark on his face, and dies in a fire after having a nightmare about a snakelike monster.  Another character in this work is thought to be a huge, deformed ape after being killed in an air battle and landing with his parachute on the top of a mountain.  In one scene of this work, a character discovers that something that was thought to be a sleeping monster was actually a dead body before being followed down a mountain by flies and killed by ritualistic savages, who wear face paint discovered by Samneric.  Samneric had earlier fallen asleep while tending a fire which would later be re-set on a beach before a burning forest leads a British naval officer to stop at the central island.  For 10 points-name this work about Jack, Simon, Ralph, and Piggy, a novel by William Golding.;;Lord of the Flies
Literature;;Works by this author include one about the mechanic David Beeves' Midas touch and one in which a car accident reveals the truth about Lyman Felt's double life in New York City and Elmira.  In addition to No Villain, The Man Who Had All the Luck, and The Ride Down Mount Morgan, this author wrote one work about the suicide of Maggie, the first wife of Quentin, and another work in which Joe Keller sells faulty airplane parts to the United States government during World War II.  For 10 points-name this author of After the Fall and All My Sons who created Biff, Happy, and Willy Loman in his play Death of a Salesman.;;(Arthur) Miller
Literature;;He wrote about an English gentleman serving in the Swedish army of Gustavus Adolphus in one work, while another work by this author discusses"the Natural Causes and Original of Wind" in its first chapter.  In addition to Memoirs of a Cavalier and The Storm, this author wrote an essay that compares contraception to infanticide, and a novel about a woman who courts a prince while married to a jeweler and has several children.  This author of"Conjugal Lewdnes" and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress, he wrote a novel about a woman who returns to England with her Lancashire husband at the age of 69 to live"in severe penitence for the wicked lives they have le".  For 10 points-name this author of Moll Flanders who created a castaway and his man Friday in his novel Robinson Crusoe.;;(Daniel) Defoe
Literature;;This work describes how"through the drifts the snowy cliffs did send a dismal shee" and how"the ice was here, the ice was there, the ice was all aroun".  Another section of this work discusses how"day after day, day after day, we stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocea".  This work also describes how"the death-fires danced at night; the water, like a witch's oils, burnt green, and blue and whit" when the title character has vengeance taken upon him for killing the character"that made the breeze to blo", who in another section of this work causes the title character's ship to be filled with"water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrin".  For 10 points-name this work in which a guest at a wedding is accosted by the title albatross-killer, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.;;(The) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Literature;;This poet described a painting of"Celestial Salem blooming in endless sprin" in one poem, while she penned the lines"No more, America, in mournful strain of wrongs, and undressed grievance complai" in another poem.  In addition to"To S.M., A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works" and"To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmout", this poet wrote about a character who exclaims"The gods on thee their volleyed curses pour, and beasts and birds of prey thy flesh devou" to a character who then proceeds to slay him with a sling in"Goliath of Gat", while her more well-known poems include the lines,"Hail! happy saint, on thine immortal thron" and"'T was mercy brought me from my heathen lan".  For 10 points-name this poet of"On the Death of the Rev. George Whitefiel" and"On Being Brought From Africa to Americ".;;(Phyllis) Wheatley
Literature;;Susan Barton attempts to find her kidnapped daughter before meeting Daniel Foe, Cruso and Friday in one of this man's novels, while in another work by this author the classics professor Mrs. Curren grows close to her servant Florence as she grows weaker and weaker.  In addition to Foe and Age of Iron, this author created the typist Anya and the aging writer Señor C in one work, and another work discusses the title fictional author of The House on Eccles Street.  This author of Diary of a Bad Year and Elizabeth Costello wrote about a man who makes a garden in Prince Albert before meeting a woman who has sex with him after escaping from a rehabilitation camp in Cape Town, and another work about a frontier town whose peaceful existence is ended by Colonel Joll.  For 10 points-name this author of The Life and Times of Michael K and Waiting for the Barbarians who wrote about professor David Lurie in his novel Disgrace.;;(J.M.) Coatzee
Art;;One character in this work has a D-shaped mark in his stomach, and a mark that looks like a hickie right below his neck.  That character is missing his left hand, and is staring at the central figure of this work.  The central figure of this work has a cracked leg, and is missing his right hand and his penis, though his testicles are notably intact.  Titian parodied this work as a group of apes, while a well known copy of this work was commissioned by Pope Leo X and carried out by Baccio Bandinelli.  For 10 points-name this work depicting a scene in the Aeneid directly following its central figure’s striking of the Trojan Horse with a spear, a sculpture of a Trojan priest being strangled by sea serpents.;;Laocoon (and) (his) (Sons)|Laocoon (Group)
Religion/Mythology;;One character in this work becomes pregnant after eating a lingonberry and gives birth to an unnamed son who is later named king by Ukko.  Another character in this work is the brother of Untamo and later uses magic to change cows into bears before killing himself in a berserk rage.  In addition to Kullervo, one character in this work plays a kantele made from the jaw-bone of a giant fish and visits the belly of the ground giant Antero Vipunen, and that character, along with Lemminkäinen and Seppo Ilmarinen, later steals the Sampo from the people of Pohjola.  For 10 points-name this work, featuring the heroic shaman Väinämöinen, a compilation of Finnish folklore by Elias Lönnrot.;;Kalevala
Literature;;One character in this work recounts the tale of Queen Margot, before kissing the lips of her lover’s severed head.  Another character in this work uses pre-written love letters to woo Madame de Fervaques before being jailed for assault.  In another scene in this work, Monsieur de Croisenois is killed in a duel that he fights over the honor of another character, who had been engaged to that man despite being desperately in love with the protagonist of this work.  That protagonist would later shoot Madame de Rênal and would be condemned to death by a jury led by Monsieur Valenod.  For 10 points-name this work about Julien Sorel, a novel by Stendhal.;;(The) Red and the Black|(Le) Rouge et le Noir
Literature;;This author wrote about Kim Capran, who changes her name to Hilella in one work, while another work by this author focuses on the diagnosis of environmental activist Paul Bannerman with thyroid cancer.  This author of A Sport of Nature and Get a Life collected the stories"A Watcher of the Dea" and"The Umbilical Cor" in The Soft Voice of the Serpent, and wrote one work in which Mehring and Jacobus find a dead body by a river.  This author of The Conservationist also wrote a work which sees Conrad sleep with the title character, Rosa, who attempts to deal with Lionel's legacy as a member of the SACP, and one in which Victor, Gina and Royce ride in a bakkie to a remote village with their parents Maureen and Bamford Smales.  For 10 points-name this author of Burger's Daughter and July's People.;;(Nadine) Gordimer
Literature;;One character in this work is criticized for not keeping up his estate, despite the fact that his is the only well-kept area surrounded by barren fields.  That character, Munodi, would also encourage the protagonist of this work to visit a university where one professor attempts to teach students math by having them eat wafers with mathematical proofs on them and one man writes a paper on the malleability of fire.  The protagonist later discovers that Alexander the Great died of excessive drinking and watches Pierre Gassendi and René Descartes describe their philosophies to Aristotle.  That protagonist would later be forced to leave one land when he bathes in a river and the horse-like rulers of that land see that he looks like a Yahoo.  For 10 points-name this work containing the lands of Laputa, Houyhnhnm, Brobdignag and Lilliput, a novel by Jonathan Swift.;;Gulliver's Travels
Religion/Mythology;;One character in this work is called Dorcas and dies in Joppa before being brought back to life.  Another character in this work had lain daily at the gate of the temple called Beautiful but is told by one man,"silver and gold have I non" before being healed of his lifelong disability.  In addition to Tabitha and an unnamed lame man, this work, dedicated to Theophilus, also contains one character who is called as an apostle in Greece with Timon and Parmenas, and later sees Jesus on the right hand of God while being stoned to death in Jerusalem.  For 10 points-name this work about the Christian church directly after the death and resurrection of Christ, the fifth book of the New Testament.;;Acts (of) (the) (Apostles)
Literature;;Lyle Britten is tried for the murder of Richard Henry in one of this man’s works, while another of this man’s works is addressed to his nephew and subtitled"On the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipatio".  This author defined integration as"we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they ar" in one work, which also describes the"wages of si" and is an autobiographical account of the author’s teenaged religous crisis.  This author’s most famous work is framed as three prayers by Florence, Gabriel, and Elizabeth, which reveal that Florence’s ex-husband Frank was killed in World War I and that Gabriel is not the father of John, the protagonist.  For 10 points, name this author of the essays"My Dungeon Shoo" and"Down at the Cros" from his collection The Fire Next Time, the play Blues For Mister Charlie, and the novel Go Tell it On the Mountain.;;(James) Baldwin
Literature;;One episode in this work revolves around a drunken car accident, after which one man attempts to find a gasoline station and the other announces he knows nothing about driving or mechanics.  One of those men was earlier observed in the library of a large mansion during a party, and is referred to by the narrator as"Owl Eye".  Another character in this novel discusses the night that Rosy Rosenthal was murdered outside the Metropole before showing the protagonist his cufflinks made from human molars, and is later revealed to have fixed the 1919 World Series.  For 10 points, name this work about an apprentice of Dan Cody, which features characters such as Meyer Wolfsheim, Dr. T.J. Eckelstein, Jordan Baker, and Nick Carraway, an ultra-famous novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.;;(The) Great Gatsby
Literature;;She described a town whose reputation grows by word of mouth despite only one family actually living there in one unfinished work, while in another unfinished work, she wrote about the arrogant Tom Musgrave and Lord Osborne, who live near to the title family.  This author of Sandition and The Watsons wrote one work under the guise of"a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant historia" and declared that Richard III must have been"a very respectable ma", as he was a Lancastrian.  That work, The History of England, was published posthumously with another work, consisting entirely of letters to Isabel, Marianne, and Laura, and was subtitled"A collection of juvenile writing".  For 10 points-name this author of Love and Freindship, who also wrote about Fanny Price, Anne Elliot, and Catherine Morland in her novels Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey.;;(Jane) Austen
Literature;;One character in this work is injured at a baseball game when he heckles a hitter and is hit in the head with a foul ball.  In addition to the dwarf Otto P. Zipp, one character in this work witnesses the death of scout Sam Simpson before discovering the intention of a star hitter to throw a playoff game for $35,000.  That star hitter had earlier struck out a man called the Whammer when he was a pitcher, but was shot by Harriet Bird and didn't get to the major leagues until sixteen years later, when he was signed for $3,000 by the New York Knights and manager"Po" Fisher.  For 10 points-name this work about Roy Hobbs and his bat"Wonderbo", a novel by Bernard Malamud.;;(The) Natural
Music;;He wrote the arias"Firenze è come un albero fiorit" and"Si corre dal notari" for one opera which also contains the more well known aria"O mio babbino car".  This composer of Gianni Schicchi wrote one work in which Fidelia sings"Nel villagio d’Edga" and Frank sings"Questo amor, vergogna mi" and another opera which contains the arias"Se come voi piccin" and"Torna ai felici d".  In addition to Edgar and Le Villi, this composer wrote one opera in which Mario Cavaradossi sings"Qual occhio al mond" to the title character and one in which a Persian prince is executed and a Prince of Tartary revealed to be Calaf sings"Nessun dorm" to the title Chinese princess.  For 10 points-name this composer of Tosca and Turandot who wrote about Marcello, Rodolpho and Mimi in his opera La bohème and about Pinkerton’s marriage to Cio-Cio San in Madame Butterfly.;;(Giacomo) Puccini
Art;;In one painting by this artist, plasticine trees and shrubs stretch off on idyllic green hills in the distance, while a handplow seemingly pushes itself in the foreground.  He also painted an overdeck truss bridge in one painting of a picaresque village with a peaceful brook running through it.  In addition to Fall Plowing and Stone City, he painted a horse and rider galloping past a tall white church in a darker painting of a similar town, his Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.  This artist reproduced Emmanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware in the background of one more well known painting of three ugly women, one of whom holds a porcelain teacup.  For 10 points-name this artist of Daughters of the Revolution, who also painted a constipated-looking dude with a pitchfork in his American Gothic.;;(Grant) Wood
Literature;;This work discusses passions"which yet surviv", and describes"the hand that mocked them and the heart that fe".  The author of this work wrote it to compete with his friend Horace Smith, who wrote a work on the same theme which features the lines,"we wonder, and some Hunter may express wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness where London stood...he meets some fragments hug".  This work also depicts how"the lone and level sands stretch far awa" from the central object, which is described to the narrator by"a traveller from an antique lan", who begins his account by saying,"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the deser".  For 10 points-name this poem by Percy Shelley.;;Ozymandias
Art;;An empty light fixture appears in the upper left of this work, while two indistinguishable paintings appear on the back wall of the main room in this work.  A young girl puts her foot on the back of a surprised-looking dog in the foreground of this work, and on the other side of the work a man with a red cross on his black shirt holds a palette with white, orange, red, and yellow paint on it and looks forlornly at the viewer.  Next to the girl with her foot on the dog stands an equally forlorn-looking midget, and three other little girls stand between the midget and the painter.  For 10 points-name this work depicting the"Maids of Hono", a painting by Diego Velasquez.;;Las Meninas
Literature;;He wrote essays about"The World of José Luis Cueva" and Miguel de Cervantes, and he wrote short story collections entitled The Masked Days and Song of the Blind.  In one novel by this author, a Mexican student goes to medical school in New York, while Felipe Montero edits the memoirs of General Llorente in another novel by this author.  In addition to The Crystal Frontier and Aura, he wrote a novel in which a dying tycoon recalls his involvement in the formation of the PRI and other historic events, and one novel which fictionalizes the last days of Ambrose Bierce.  For 10 points-name this author of The Death of Artemio Cruz and The Old Gringo.;;(Carlos) Fuentes
Art;;In the upper-right hand corner of this work, a cluster of red and blue dots surround a blue structure with a road leading into it, while a larger structure in this work consists of a yellow rectangle surrounded by red and blue.  The background of this work is completely white, and the foreground contains many structures composed of interlocked rectangular shapes of red, blue, and yellow, which are all connected by gray lines overrun by red, blue and yellow dots.  For 10 points-name this work, supposed to depict the taxicabs of a certain avenue in New York City, a painting by Piet Mondrian.;;Broadway Boogie-Woogie
Literature;;Pierpoint Mauler is the corrupt owner of a meat packing plant in one of this man’s works, which also contains that characters Jackson, Paul Snyder, and Joan Dark, who are members of the Black Straw Hats.  He wrote another work in which Wong is a water carrier and Shen Te buys a tobacco shop before she reveals that her cousin Shui Ta is actually her alter-ego.  In addition to Saint Joan of the Stockyards and The Good Person of Szechwan, he wrote a play in which Simon Chachaba watches the maid Grusha Vashnadze bathe in the river, and one in which Swiss Cheese, Eilif, and Kattrin are killed by soldiers during the Thirty Years’ War.  For 10 points-name this author of The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Mother Courage and her Children.;;(Bertolt) Brecht
Literature;;It discusses how a group of"Men marched asleep.  Many had lost their boots but limped on, blood-sho", before claiming that"all went lame; all blind; drunk with fatigu".  The second section of this work describes how"someone still was yelling out and stumbling, and flound'ring like a man in fire or lim" after"tired, outstripped Five-Nines...dropped behin".  The author ends the second section of this work by claiming"in all my dreams, before my helpless sight, he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drownin" and goes on to describe a man being thrown into a wagon with a"hanging face, like a devil's sick of si" and"froth-corrupted lung", before saying,"my friend, you would not tell with such high zest, to children ardent for some desperate glory, that old li".  For 10 points-name this poem by Wilfred Owen.;;Dulce Et Decorum Est
Literature;;One character in this work bursts into laughter upon seeing some of the fashions worn in Oklahoma City and later declares his intention to study radios before wandering off along the river.  That character, Connie, is married to the sister of the protagonist of this work, and that sister gives birth to a stillborn child before using her milk to nurse a starving man back to health at the end of this work.  This work opens with the protagonist getting out of prison and meeting Jim Casy.  For 10 points-name this work, containing such characters as Rose of Sharon and Tom Joad, a novel of the Great Depression by John Steinbeck.;;(The) Grapes of Wrath
Music;;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 Schneide" and"Sons of the Silent Ag" are movements in one symphony by this man, while"The Cor","The Hikur" and"The Blue Dee" movements make up another symphony.  This composer of symphonies entitled Heroes and Toltec wrote a chamber opera about a character named"" called 1000 Airplanes on the Roof and wrote a more well known opera which contains scenes entitled"Night Trai" and"Spaceshi" and a notable"Be" aria.  For 10 points-name this composer of Einstein on the Beach.;;(Phillip) Glass
Literature;;In one story by this author, Adam, Moses and Buddha are considered celebrities in heaven, and that story also sees a cranberry farmer named Sandy McWilliams answer the title character’s questions about heaven.  This author of"Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heave" co-authored a work which contains stories about Silas Hawkins, Phillip Sterling and Henry Brierly, and the title character of another work by this author proves that Chambers and Tom Driscoll were switched at birth.  This co-author of The Gilded Age and author of Pudd’nhead Wilson wrote a novel in which Edward VI rescues Tom Canty from a beating by the Royal Guards.  For 10 points-name this author of The Prince and the Pauper, who wrote about the title character’s journey down the Mississippi with the escaped slave Jim in his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.;;(Mark) Twain
Music;;In one scene in this work, a group sings the song"O welche Lus" before remembering that they need to stay quiet or they could be caught, and that group would later sing"Leb wohl, du warmes Sonnenlich" when they are discovered roaming free in the garden by a character who sings"Ha, welch ein Augenblick" before telling another character to sound a trumpet when a minister arrives.  In addition to Pizarro, one scene in this work sees Marzelline sing"Jetzt, Schätzchen, jetzt sind wir allei", in which she reveals that she is in love with the title character, who reveals himself at the end of this work to be the wife of Florestan.  For 10 points-name this opera about Leonore by Ludwig van Beethoven.;;Fidelio
Literature;;Rosalind and Perdita fall in love with Mr. Arthur Lloyd, before Rosalind is killed by a ghost in one work by this man, while Paul Munimet and the title character are revolutionaries in another work that sees Hyacnith Robinson commit suicide.  This author of The Romance of Certain Old Clothes and The Princess Casamassima wrote about Adela Garth’s theft of furniture from the title estate in one work, and Merton Densher attempts to woo Milly Theale though he loves Kate Croy in another work.  In addition to The Spoils of Poynton and Wings of the Dove, this author wrote about Verena Tarrant’s marriage to Basil Ransom in one work, and in another wrote about the wife of Gilbert Osmond, Isabel Archer.  For 10 points-name this author of The Bostonians and Portrait of a Lady.;;(Henry) James
Literature;;In one work, this character is played by a countertenor and sings the arias"In si torbida procell" and"Vedeste mai sul prat".  In another work, which is named for this character, he is portrayed by a alto castrato and attempts to win the love of Asteria.  In addition to the Vivaldi opera Bajazet and an opera in Italian by Handel, this character appears in one play in which Mycetes, the Persian emperor, is overthrown by a coalition containing Cosroe, the brother of Mycetes, and the father of this character's wife Zenocrates.  In that work, this character would conquer Turkey and use the Turkish king Bajazeth as a footstool while keeping him and his wife Zabina in a cage, before killing his son Calyphas and burning a copy of the Qur'an.  For 10 points-name this Central Asian conqueror and title character of a Christopher Marlowe play.;;Tamerlane|Timur (the) (Lame)|Tamburlaine
Literature;;One character in this work receives a fox, a deer, and a boar, though he would be forced to wear a green sash in shame after failing to keep a bargain with the same man who had given him those gifts and who later leaves a small scar on that character's neck.  The protagonist of this work kisses another man six times over the course of three days, but later discovers that his entire adventure is the result of a game planned by Morgan le Fay.  This work ends when the second title character is revealed to be Bertliak de Hautdesert, and he does not behead the first title character, who had beheaded him at the beginning of this work.  For 10 points-name this medieval poem, generally attributed to the Pearl Poet.;;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Literature;;Anne Riordan steals marijuana cigarettes from the body of Lindsay Mariott in one work by this author, while in another work by this author, Muffy Blackstone's husband Les Valentine borrows $100,000 from Lipshultz.  In addition to Farewell, My Lovely and Poodle Springs, this author wrote about Orfamamy and Orrin Quest in his novel The Little Sister, while more well known works by this author include one that features the murder of Crystal Kingsley by Mildred Haviland, who assumes her identity, and one in which Paul Marston is the same person as a Mexican man who claims to have witnessed the murder of Terry Lennox.  For 10 points-name this author of The Lady in the Lake and The Long Goodbye, who created detective Phillip Marlowe in his novel The Big Sleep.;;(Raymond) Chandler
Literature;;Pyotr Grinyov gives a hareskin jacket to Yemelyan Pugachev in one work by this author, who wrote an adaptation of Snow White in another work.  In addition to The Captain's Daughter and The Tale of the Dead Princess, he wrote a romantic tragedy based on Don Juan and wrote one work in which a dinner at Gavrila Rzhevsky's palace is interupted by the title Tsar, who wants Ibrahim to marry Natalia.  This author of The Stone Guest and Peter the Great's Negro wrote a novel in which Vladimir Lensky is engaged to Olga Larina and her sister Tatyana falls in love with the title character, and a poem in which Evegenii is found dead in a ruined hut after being chased by a statue of Peter the Great.  For 10 points-name this author of Eugene Onegin and The Bronze Horseman.;;(Alexander) Pushkin
Art;;A girl with red hair lets out a gasp as a cowboy-hat wearing boy pecks a coy brunette on the cheek in one work by this painter, while an exhausted looking chick takes her blouse off in another of his works.  This painter of The Captured Kiss and The Shirt Removed  created one work in which two pieces of fruit lie on the side of a disheveled bed and a man in torn white pants holds tightly onto a woman in a poofy yellow dress, and he created one scene in which two children look on as a man cleans the ears of a woman in a pink dress wearing a blindfold.  For 10 points-name this painter of The Bolt and Blind Man’s Bluff, who painted a dude looking up the dress of a lady while she kicks off her shoe in The Swing.;;(Jean-Honore) Fragonard
Art;;He painted an old man holding onto a dying goat while a man with a large crown stares at a child in one painting, while the tiny penis of a small boy is visible in another painting in which a woman has her arm on the thigh of a boy holding the title flower.  This artist of Madonna with St. Margaretha, St. Peter, St. Jerome, and St. Michael and The Madonna of the Rose painted a more well known work in which a lonely Doric pillar stands behind a man in a sheer robe holding a scroll open in the background while a deformed woman looks lovingly at a big-ass baby, and a distorted portrait of a man wearing a gold ring on his pinky finger.  For 10 points-name this painter of Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror and Madonna of the Long Neck.;;Parmigianino
Literature;;He wrote one work in which the archaeologist Jocelyn Crane and the priest Father Paul travel with convicted murderer Charles Leach to the site of the"secret cave of American ancient" in Utah, and discusses residents of Kuinak, Alaska, including Jamaican Emil Greer and Isaak Sallas in another work.  This author of Caverns and Sailor Song wrote a work in which"Never Give an Inc" is the motto of Henry Stamper, who refuses to join in the logger strike in Wakonda, Oregon, and another work in which Billy Bibbit loses his virginity to a prostitute smuggled into a mental hospital and subsequently kills himself.  For 10 points-name this author of Sometimes a Great Notion, who also created Chief Bromden and Randall McMurphy in his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.;;(Ken) Kesey
Music;;The movements of one of this man’s works include"Stor","Melod","En" and"To Begi" and is a quartet for unspecified instruments, and the second movement consists entirely of overlapping voices quoting Gertrude Stein’s"The World is Roun".  This composer of Living Room Music wrote a work whose score consists of six transparent squares that can be combined in any way and belongs to a group also containing a work"for any number of players and any sound-producing mean".  This composer of Variations I-VIII wrote a work whose first performance is scheduled to end in the year 2640, and a more well known work in three movements that consists of the sounds of the environment of the performance.  For 10 points-name this composer of many works for prepared piano and the compositions As SLow aS Possible and 4’3".;;(John) Cage
Religion/Mythology;;The first part of this work begins,"This is the account of how all was in suspense, all calm, in silenc" , and goes on to discuss how"Tepeu and Gucumatz came together; then they conferred about life and righ".  In the third part of this work, Balam-Quitze and Naught travel to Tulán Zuiva, where a fire is put out by a hailstorm after it was given to those characters by Tohil.  In the second section of this work, the skull of Hun Hunahpú impregnates Xquic, who later gives birth to Hunahpú and Xbalanqué.  The lord of Xibalba is later defeated by those characters in a ball game, causing them to gain the moniker"The Hero Twin".  For 10 points-name this central religious text of the Mayans.;;Popol Vuh
Literature;;New England speaks the line,"Pray, do not fear Spain's bragging Armad" in this author's"A Dialogue Between Old England and Ne", while she pleads,"Like mullets in one river glide, let's still remain but one, till death divid" in a poem entitled"Another I".  This author wrote about a prayer offered when her"burning flesh in sweat did boi" in one poem, while another is addressed to"Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brai" and asks the title object to"take thy way where thou art not yet know".  In addition to"For Deliverance From A Feve" and"The Author to her Boo", this author wrote,"If ever two were one, then surely w" and described an event that occurred"In silent night when rest I too" in two more well known poems.  For 10 points-name this author of"To My Dear and Loving Husban" and"Verses Upon the Burning of Our Hous", from her collection The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America.;;(Anne) Bradstreet
Art;;He painted smoke drifting off the second title object in his Skull with a Burning Cigarette, and an infinity of tree branches fades in the distance of his Oriental-themed The Blooming Plumtree.  That Oriental theme would also appear in the landscape in the background of his Portrait of Pére Tanguy, though his more well known works include one in which a bottle, a water jug, and a book sit on the bedside table in a room with awkward dimensions, and one in which a pool table sits beneath the a lamp, which shines brightly in the title establishment.  For 10 points-name this painter of Bedroom at Arles and The Night Cafe, who painted a depiction of poor people eating tubers beneath a single radiating lamp in The Potato Eaters and painted a dark, swirling landscape in his Starry Night.;;(Vincent) van Gogh
Literature;;A beautiful boy is turned into a cross between a toad and a snake and is forced to find a piece of red gold in one of this man’s stories, while another story from the same collection discusses how a Dwarf’s dance is ridiculed by the title character .  In addition to"The Star-Chil" and"The Birthday of the Infant" from his collection A House of Pomegranates, this author wrote the lines,"A Lily-Girl, not made for this world’s pai" in his"Madonna Mi", while another poem by this author contains the lines"How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in" and"Each man kills the thing he love".  For 10 points-name this author of"The Ballad of Reading Gao" who created the characters Harry Wotton and Basil Hallward in The Picture of Dorian Gray.;;(Oscar) Wilde
Music;;The fourth movement of this work begins fortissimo before reaching a section marked con tutta forza and dropping abruptly to piano, then diminuendo and ending pianissimo. The sixth movement of this work attempts to approximate the Phyrgian dominant scale by using many augmented second intervals.  The ninth movement of this work contains a central andante which features a 16th note triplet tremolo and is meant to mirror the first movement and evoke the sounds of large bells ringing on a clock and of a chase.  The most well known movement in this work is marked Maestoso, con grandezza and features a secondary theme based on a Russian Orthodox hymn, and is supposed to mirror the opening promenade of this work.  For 10 points-name this work, featuring movements named"Cattl","Samuel Goldberg and Schmuÿl","The Hut on Fowl’s Leg", and"The Great Gate of Kie", an orchestral suite by Modest Mussorgsky.;;Pictures at an Exhibition
Literature;;He wrote one work in which sickly Prince Albrecht is the older brother of Klaus Heinrich, who is tutored by Dr. Raoul Ueberstein, while in another work by this author, the menopausal widow Rosalie dies from a metastatic tumor in her uterus after lusting after her son's American-born tutor.  This author of Royal Highness and The Black Swan  gave a series of lectures collected as The Coming Victory of Democracy and wrote more one more well known works in which the hypnotist Cipolla is assassinated in Torre di Venere, one in which Jasiu and Tadzio have a fight on the beach in front of the protagonist, and one in which Leo Naphta is a Jesuit and Lodovico Settembrini is a student of Giosué Carducci.  For 10 points-name this author of Mario and the Magician, who wrote about Gustav von Aschenbach and Hans Castorp in his works Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain.;;(Thomas) Mann
Literature;;An Arabic king abandons a Babylonian king in the desert after being locked in a maze in one story by this author, while a lack of Arabic words for tragedy and comedy stymie the title character's attempts to explain the concepts in another.  In addition to"The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinth" and"Averroes's Searc", he wrote one story in which Nils Runeburg writes books about the title apostle"as God and the Real Savio" and"as the human counterpart of Jesu" and wrote about a young medical student in Argentina reading the Bible to an illiterate family in another story.  This author of"Three Versions of Juda" and"The Gospel According to Mar" wrote a story about a point in space that contains all other points and is in the cellar of Daneri’s house, and one story in which Yu Tsan kills Dr. Stephen Albert to convey the name of a city to be bombed.  For 10 points-name this author of"The Alep" and"The Garden of the Forking Path".;;(Jorge) (Luis) Borges
Literature;;Max the Dutchman and Jack Blunt are among the crewmembers of the Highlander who take the title character to Liverpool in one of this man's works, which also sees a notable literary example of spontaneous combustion.  This author of Redburn also wrote a work about a desolate group of islands home to the Rock Rodando and the Peruvian mestizo Hunilla, and another work about a Sicilian general who fought the Carthaginians.  In addition to The Encantadas and Timoleon, this author wrote about his experience as a captive on Nukuheva, where he believed an infected wound on his leg kept him from being eaten, and another work in which a mutiny aboard a whaling vessel causes much of the crew to be stranded on Tahiti.  For 10 points-name this author of Typee and Omoo who also wrote about Fedallah, Tashtego, Queequeg and Captain Ahab in his novel Moby-Dick.;;(Herman) Melville
Literature;;He wrote about Eduard's relationship with a religious girl in one story, and he wrote about a man who rejects a nurse and is reminded of his attractiveness by his young wife in two other stories about Dr. Havel.  In addition to"Eduard and Go" and"Dr. Havel After 20 Year", both from his collection Laughable Loves, he wrote a novel about Frantisek, who is desperately in love with Ruzena despite the fact that she is pregnant with the child of Klima, and one in which Irene and Josef reunite on a trip to Prague.  This author of The Farewell Waltz and Ignorance wrote a more well known work in which Sabina has an affair with the surgeon Tomas, who is married to a photographer named Tereza.  For 10 points-name this author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.;;(Milan) Kundera
Literature;;This man wrote that"Eternity’s a Five Year Pla" and"Your Harry’s Tom, your Tom is Dic" before asking,"if Hate’s a game and Love’s a fuck who dares call himself a man" in his poem"Jehovah buried,Satan dead" and wrote about a man who"lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a ha" in"a man who had fallen among thieve".  This author also wrote about a man who said"‘there is some shit I will not eat" and"‘I will not kiss your fucking fla" before the"president...threw the yellowsonofabitch into a a dungeon,where he die".  For 10 points, name this poet and author of"i sing of Olaf glad and bi","anyone lived in a pretty how tow", and The Enormous Room.;;(e.e.) cummings
Music;;The third movement of this man’s third symphony is marked Andantino quasi allegretto and features a vaguely Latin American rhythm before transitioning uninterrupted into a finale marked Molto deliberato-Allegro risulto.  He wrote an opera in which Top is an itinerant worker who enlists Martin’s help in getting Grandma Moss drunk at the beginning of the second act, and he wrote incidental music for an Irvin Shaw play with trumpet, cor anglais, and string orchestra.  This composer of The Tender Land and Quiet City wrote a tone poem whose refrain comes from the Mexican folk song"El Palo Verd", and he wrote a work for full orchestra which is narrated by the reading of such documents as the Gettysburg Address.  For 10 points-name this composer of El Salón México and Lincoln Portrait who wrote the sections"Saturday Night Walt" and"Hoe-Dow" for his ballet Rodeo and who adapted the Shaker Hymn"Simple Gift" for the seventh section of his ballet Appalachian Spring.;;(Aaron) Copland