The magazine Die Dame (“dee DAH-muh”) commissioned Tamara de Lempicka (“lem-PEE-kah”) to paint herself as a fashionable woman with a green one of these objects. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects that Filippo Marinetti claimed were “more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace” in The Futurist Manifesto.
ANSWER: motor cars [or an automobile; accept a racing motor car or a roaring motor car; accept Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti)]
[10e] Name these things, “skeletal” pairs of which are counted by Wade’s rules. In a Lewis diagram, these things are indicated by dots placed around atomic symbols.
ANSWER: electron pairs [or lone pairs; or nonbonding electrons; accept skeletal electron pairs]
[10e] Lempicka mostly painted in this style, which was also used for automobile designs like the Phantom Corsair. The Chrysler Building is in this characteristic style of the 1920s and ‘30s.
ANSWER: Art Deco [accept Arts décoratifs; accept Streamline Moderne]
[10m] Polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory is used to predict the structure of clusters of this element, as in Wade’s rules. The canonical 3-center-2-electron bond is found in a compound containing this element and hydrogen.
ANSWER: boron [accept diborane or borane]
[10h] A figure’s hair is blown straight back in Victoire, this designer’s Art Deco hood ornament for Citroën. The Streamline Moderne style took cues from this glassmaker’s interiors for the SS Normandie.
ANSWER: René Lalique (“luh-LEEK”) [or René Jules Lalique]
[10h] Wade’s rules give this prefix to a boron cluster that has n vertices and n + 1 skeletal electron pairs. This prefix, contrasted with nido- and arachno-, indicates that a cluster compound is a complete deltahedron.
ANSWER: closo-borane [or closo clusters]
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