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A rival pulls this character’s bodice laces too tight, causing her to faint, and brushes this girl’s hair with a poisoned comb. A hunter pretends to bring the organs of this girl to the queen, whose magic (*) mirror tells her that this character has gone to live with seven dwarves. For 10 points, name this protagonist of a Grimm brothers fairy tale, a paleskinned princess.$$Snow White^^^After the death of this man, The Liberators’ Civil War was fought in Macedonia. This man introduced the concept of leap years in his namesake calendar, and he claimed “The die is cast” before crossing the (*) Rubicon river. This man won the Battle of Alesia, a victory over Vercingetorix. For 10 points, name this Roman Emperor who legendarily asked, “Et tu, Brute?” while being assassinated on the Ides of March.$$Caesar^^^One of these musical works opens its Andante movement with fifteen and a half bars of soft theme followed by a sudden loud chord. Another of these works was originally dedicated to Napoleon, and is nicknamed Eroica. A (*) "shortshortshort long" motif opens one of these long musical pieces written by Beethoven. For 10 points, name this fourmovement genre of music exemplified by Haydn's [HYdin’s] Surprise, and Beethoven's Fifth.$$Symphony^^^A couple in this short story discuss shortening the name “Dillingham” to “D” on their letterbox. A character in this story pays twentyone dollars for a platinum chain after Madame Sofronie cuts her hair. Della sells her (*) hair to buy a watch fob and Jim sells his watch to buy combs in, for 10 points, what O. Henry short story about ironic Christmas gifts?$$Gift of the Magi^^^This disease is caused by the variola virus, and the major symptom of this illness include fluidfilled macules that blister, forming scars. Dr Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine against this disease by studying a related illness in (*) milkmaids. This disease was declared eradicated in 1979. For 10 points, name this infectious disease that killed many natives of the Americas and was probably a mutated form of cowpox.$$Smallpox
John Keats wrote a poem about George Chapman’s translation of this author, who wrote about unfortunate characters who eat Helios’s cattle in one of his works. This author wrote about the “Wr ath of Achilles” and about (*) Penelope, the mother of Telemachus, who undoes her weaving every night as she waits for her husband to return to Ithaca after the Trojan War. For 10 points, identify this author of The Iliad and The Odyssey.$$Homer^^^One king of this name was arrested in Varennes [vah - REN] while fleeing from a revolt. An earlier king of this name was a child when the nobles rose against him in the Fronde uprising. The House of Capet included five kings of this name. The last king of th is name took power in the 1814 (*) Bourbon Restoration, and the longest serving king of this name was nicknamed "the Sun King." For 10 points, give this name shared by eighteen royal leaders of France.$$Louis^^^This number is squared in the solution to the Basel problem. One experiment to calculate this number exploits the Buffon's needle problem. Archimedes (*) approximated this number, the number of radians in 180 degrees, by bounding it by the perimeters of 96 - sided polygons, finding that it is less than 22 over 7. For 10 points, give this ratio of a circle's circumference and diameter, an irrational number approximately equal to 3.14.$$Pi^^^A character in this work refuses a marriage proposal from St. John, and doubts Alice Fairfax, who blames strange sounds on Grace Poole. Mr. Bocklehurst causes the death of (*) Helen Burns, whom the protagonist meets at Lowood School in this novel. Bertha Mason was the first wife of Edward Rochester, who eventually marries the protagonist of, for 10 points, this novel by Charlotte Brontë.$$Jane Eyre^^^This person was impersonated after death by Claude des Armoises. Pope Callixtus III ordered a trial which found this person innocent 25 years after death. T his person accompanied Charles VII to Reims for his coronation. This person was captured at the (*) Siege of Compiegne, held in trial in Rouen, and convicted of heresy and cross - dressing. For 10 points, name this woman who, after helping end the siege of Orleans, was burned at the stake.$$Joan of Arc^^^Two of this scientist’s research subjects were the polio - stricken Mr. McGregor and David Graybeard. Important discoveri es by this anthropologist was that her subjects ate meat, even hunting colobus monkeys, and used tools, such as using straws to pick up (*) termites to eat. Goliath was the alpha male in her community at Gombe Stream National Park. For ten points, name this woman who spent over four decades in Tanzania studying chimpanzees.$$Goodall^^^In this work, Heck Tate orders the shooting of Tim Johnson, and the protagonist discusses entailment to calm down Walter Cunningham’s father. This novel’s narrator frightens Calpurnia by sitting in a balcony with ( *) Dill to watch her father defend Tom Robinson against the Ewells. Atticus Finch appears in, for 10 points, what novel about Jem and Scout, written by Harper Lee?$$To Kill a Mockingbird^^^After the Johnstown Flood, this man rebuilt the city's library. He advocated large scale philanthropy to fight wealth inequality in "The Gospel of Wealth;" this industrialist made his fortune from a company purchased in 1901 by (*) J.P. Morgan. For 10 points, name this Scottish - American founder of U.S. Steel, whose charity work included building numerous museums and libraries, as well as a namesake concert venue in New York City.$$Carnegie