The largest and deepest Atlantic trench is named for this island, whose second- and third-most populous cities are Bayamon and Carolina. Desecheo Island is located in the Mona Passage off the western end of the island, and the Navy bombing range of Vieques Island lies to the east. Arecibo, Ponce, and San Juan are located on what Caribbean Island?

This author wrote about Charlie Wale’s attempt to retrieve his daughter in the story “Babylon Revisited.” The life of Anthony Patch is described in his The Beautiful and Damned, while this author failed to complete his novel about Monroe Stahr and Kathleen Moore, The Last Tycoon. He wrote about Dick and Nicole Diver in Tender is the Night. Name this author of the Great Gatsby.

This rock forms the Coconino [koh-koh-NEE-noh] and Tapeats layers of the Grand Canyon. Paleocurrents can be tracked by planar cross‐bedding in this rock, like that at Zion Canyon. This rockʹs “arkose” variety contains more than 25 percent feldspar. Compression‐driven metamorphism of this rock in orogenic [OR-oh-JEH-nik] belts can form quartzite. Name this sedimentary rock that forms out of a namesake granular material found on beaches.

One of this songʹs performers dedicated it to Vail Cerullo, a Berklee College student who died in a motorcycle crash. Its refrain asks “how can we not talk about family when family is all we got?” This song plays as Brian shares a final drive with Dominic Toretto, portrayed by Vin Diesel, in The Fate of the Furious. Name this Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth song written as an elegy for the actor Paul Walker.

They include Asbolus and Nessus, whom Heracles nailed to a cross and shot with an arrow coated with the Hydra’s poison. Most were born of Ixion and the cloud Nephele, but the tutor of Achilles and Asclepius- one named Chiron-was the son of Cronus. They attempted to abduct Hippodamia and the Lapith women during her marriage before being stopped by Theseus. Name these half-men, half-horse creatures.

Its presence has allowed the Erythrean Invasion, a migration of marine species. Along its course are Lakes Manzala and Timsah and the Small and Great Bitter Lakes. Former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating its namesake crisis. Ferdinand de Lesseps oversaw the completion of what Egyptian waterway connecting its namesake gulf with the Mediterranean Sea?

In one of them, a meeting with Ignatius Gallaher is anticipated by Thomas CHandler. In another, Farrington slips away fro a drink, while a third Joe Hynes reads a poem. In addition to “A Little Cloud,”, “Counterparts”, and “Ivy Day in the Committee Room”, they include “An Encounter,” and a story about Gabriel Conroy, “the Dead”. Name this collection of stories set in a samesake Irish city by James Joyce.

Planckʹs constant is about 4.14 times 10 to the –15 times this unit times seconds. Particle masses are often reported as powers of 10 times this unit over c squared; for instance, the proton has a mass of about 938 million times this unit over c squared. The (*) binding energy of ground‐state hydrogen is 13.6 of this unit. A joule is roughly 10 to the 19 of what unit of energy symbolized eV?

This author of Not on Our Watch, about the Darfur crisis, played Private Washburn in Hamburger Hill and Rooster in Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead. He adopted inner-city D.C. slang to play Petey Greene in Reign Over Me, and a posh British accent to play Basher Tarr in the Ocean’s Eleven films. Name this actor who received an Oscar nomination for playing Paul Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda.

Under equal temperament this is the ratio of the pics of middle C to that of middle G. It is also the power of the orbital period to which orbital distance is proportional in Kepler's Third Law. It's the fraction of Gilgamesh that was divine, and the fraction of the year the Persephone had to spend with Hades. Give this fraction equal to the minimum supermajority required to override a veto.

This colony’s lieutenant governor, William Bell, was almost captured during the 1739 Stono Rebellion. Slaves outnumbered white after 1708 in this colony, where Eliza Lucas Pinckney planted indigo. Later politicians born here included rice planter Henry Laurens and nullification advocate John. C Calhoun. Georgetown and Port Royal were early settlements in what state dominated by Charleston?

He quit his job as a copywriter after the success of his first book, 1931's "Hard Lines". One of his works was a response to Dorothy Parker's "men seldom make passes" quip, while another parodies Joyce Kilmer's "trees". Other poems of his are often read during performances of Carnival of the Animals. Name this poet whose witticisms include the "one-L lama he's a priest/ the two-L llama he's a beast."

Because this attraction increases strength with atomic mass, iodine is a solid, bromine a liquid, and chlorine a gas. It is responsible for the liquefaction of noble gases, since it is the only intermolecular force between nonpolar molecules. It occurs sue to small, transient changes in electron density. Identify these “forced” sometimes named for German-American physicist Fritz London.

The British Freedom of Information Act became law during this leaderʹs premiership. This leader struck the so‐called Granita Pact in 1994 with the man who would succeed him. The Good Friday Agreement advanced the Northern Ireland peace process during this manʹs second year as prime minister. Gordon Brown succeeded what “New Labour” leader who, with George W. Bush, initiated the War in Iraq?

This character used to run commands in the background in most Unix shells, and it introduces character entities in HTML files. In C++ indicates that an argument is passed by reference, and it concatenates strings in Visual Basic and Microsoft Excel. In Java, one of them indicates a bite wise and, while two of them symbolize a logical and. Give this character found above the seven used to type AT&T.

Prior to this battle, the British had intended to fortify the hills on Dorchester Heights. In response, Artemas Ward ordered Israel Putnam to organize defenses on the Charlestown Peninsula where several thousand Patriot troops awaited the arrival of William Howe's men the next morning. Name this June 17th, 1775, battle that was actually fought mostly on Breed's Hill near Boston.

She married a man whose first wife, Heloise, lied about her fortune, and died shortly after her deception was revealed. This character also deceived her husband, a country physician, by meeting the landowner Rodolphe and the lawyer Leon for affairs; when she realized her ruin, she committed suicide by drinking arsenic. Name this title character of a novel by Gustave Flaubert.

The unusual molar teeth of leopard seals enable this behavior, which, in sponges, relies on cells called choanocytes. A siphon allows bivalves such as clams and oysters to perform this behavior. Lamellae in the flamingo beak allow the birds to perform this behavior to consume brine shrimp. Baleen whales feed on krill via what behavior in which an animal captures food floating in water?

This man appointed Bernard Koushner ,a co-founder of Doctors Without Borders, as his foreign minister, leading to Kouchner’s expulsion from the Socialist Party. In May 2009 his country passed a strict anti-piracy law under which illegal downloaders would lose internet access. The union for a popular movement is led by what successor to Jacques Chirac as president of France?

Abbot Suger is considered the father of this architectural style since his building program at the Basilica of Saint-Denis included ribbed-vaulted ceilings, pointed archways, and a rose window designed to create a very tall, light-filled structure. Westminster Abbey and Notre Dame also exemplify which style that preceded the Renaissance in Europe and is associated with flying buttresses?

An activist from this country, Orlando Letelier was assassinated by a car bomb in Washington, D.c. in 1976. The Battles of Maipu and Chacabuco took place during its war for independence, which was led by Bernardo O’Higgins. The Tanquetazo was an attempt to overthrow a government that had nationalized the copper industry of what South American country once led by Augusto Pinochet?

This man’s model of sympathetic magic remains relevant, though Claude Levi-Strauss refuted his model of totemism. He worked by sending questionnaires to missionaries and colonial officials, and argued for the evolution of human beliefs from magic to religion to science in a work named for a token that permitted entrance to the Underworld for Aeneas. Name this author of The Golden Bough.

This protein, the first one to be isolated from a dinosaur, comprises about one percent of muscle mass, and contains unusual amino acids hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine, both of which require vitamin C for their synthesis. This protein that contains a triple helix is partially hydrolyzed to form gelatin. Name this main protein found in connective tissue.

In 2000 an appellate court accepted his Laustration Statement in which he denied being the collaborator “Bolek”. He lost his 1995 re-election bid after his opponent mocked his education, a vocational school where he trained as an electrician. In 1980 he led a strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk as the leader of the Solidarity trade union. Name this Polish politician.

(Pencil and paper) Josh knows that some number x is positive and that the dot product of the two vectors (4, x) and (2, x) is 17. The value of x can be found by applying the formula that holds that the dot product of (a,b) and (c,d) is ac plus bd. What is x when the dot product of (4, x) and (2, x) is 17?