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2007 ACF Nationals - Packet by Brown - #16 [report this tossup]
One of his children was the nymph-goddess Chione, while another of his children, Butes, violated a bacchant named Coronis, who responded by driving him insane. Later, he fell in love with Danaus' mare and fathered 12 horses who could ride over fields of grain without destroying vegetation. Two of his other offspring played an important role in the quest for the Golden Fleece by saving King Phineas from the harpies. Those two heroes were Zetes and Calais, and they were born to Oreithyia, who was originally abducted from the river Ilissus by this god. FTP, name this son of Aestraus and Eos who was often contrasted with Zephyrus, a deity who represented the North Wind.
Answer: Boreas

2004 ACF Fall - Packet by Matt Weiner - #2 [report this tossup]
In her later years, she edited the letters of Anton Chekhov, wrote the plays The Autumn Garden and Toys in the Attic, and defended herself from charges of fabricating parts of her biographies in An Unfinished Woman and Pentimento. In her major works, she created such characters as Mary Tilford and Regina Hubbard. Perhaps more famously she refused to indicate her connections to Communism in a 1952 hearing, stating "I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions" and she was the model for Nora Charles, a creation of her lifelong lover Dashiell Hammett. FTP, name this American playwright of Watch on the Rhine, The Children's Hour, and The Little Foxes.
Answer: Lillian Hellman

2003 ACF Nationals - Packet by Maryland and Vanderbilt - #9 [report this tossup]
First described in a 1976 paper by Metcalfe and Boggs, it implements Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detect (CSMA/CD) technology. Its developers envisioned its segments as shared buses with decentralized control, in which each attached transceiver would be responsible for detecting packet collisions and implementing exponential backoff. Hosts are identified by globally unique 48-bit MAC addresses that are burned into each interface card. Described by IEEE standard 802.3, this is, FTP, what early local area networking technology still in use today?
Answer: ethernet