February 4
Quick Hits
Questions
Shown are stills from two motion pictures. The pieces of music that accompany the scenes from which the stills are taken serve as leitmotifs for their respective films, and these two musical works share a name. In turn, these pieces share that title with several other compositions of this name, with one example by Verdi (as sung by Jessye Norman, audio credit Monada Arts) selected below. What title?
What 1982 work begins as follows?
Shown is the filmography - minus the one credit that would have been too helpful - for what Oscar superlative?
It took its name from the potato farmer who used to own the land that this structure sat upon. This structure was connected to a laboratory built by Stanford White, with that laboratory more or less intact today, as enthusiasts are converting it into a museum. However, in order to pay off creditors, the shown structure was torn down beginning in 1917, with it only ever being used once, and quite briefly at that. This building had been built in 1901, and it was designed to perform with greater power and over a greater distance what would be accomplished at Signal Hill that same year. What is the name of this tower?
Shown is the famous shot that culminates a 1957 film which some critics consider to be the breakthrough work for its director. The film was based on a Humphrey Cobb antiwar novel of the same name that had been published twenty years earlier. Cobb took the title of his novel from what poem?
The first experimental confirmation of the ideas behind Niels Bohr’s quantized model of the atom came with what doubly-named 1914 experiment? As shown below, the two namesake scientists of the experiment used a heated vacuum tube containing a small amount of mercury to launch electrons toward an anode. The current was noted to increase in a near linear fashion up until certain points - with each of those drops found to measure 4.9 eV, which the duo posited was the exact amount of energy needed to cause electrons in the shells of mercury atoms to jump to higher energy states.
Shown is a still from a production of what opera? This opera makes use of a trope seen countless other times in fiction, with the film Bedazzled, Stephen King’s novel Needful Things, Douglass Wallop’s novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, the legend of Theophilus of Adana, and (of course) an 1808 play in two parts being some other examples.
Among those who have won the NFL’s AP Defensive Player of the Year award, a pair of surnames each can claim four awards. The first surname is Taylor, as Lawrence Taylor won the award three times, and Jason Taylor won the award once. What is the other surname?
Shown are three examples of the work by what fashion photographer? The first photograph, titled Rue Aubriot, French Vogue, Paris, 1975, helped popularize Yves Saint Laurent’s Le Smoking jacket. The second, Elsa Peretti in Halston Bunny Costume II, New York, 1975, serves as a good example of the voyeuristic nature of this man’s work, while the last photograph, Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, Paris, 1983, represents some of this man’s later output, where he began to focus more on portrait photography, albeit with his unique and unconventional eye.
“High-power drive circuit for a vaporizer heater” (Patent number: 12507734), “Vaporizer device with charging and reverse-charging capability” (12543799), and “Mouthpiece for vaporizer including positive temperature coefficient of resistivity heater” (12471629) are among the patents assigned to what San Francisco-based company founded in 2015?
