QuizBowl Flashcards
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- The title character of a novel by this author, who was explored in detail in an earlier short story titled for being “On Bond Street,” dislikes the religious teacher Doris Kilman. In another novel by this author, Andrew is killed during World War I and Prue dies during childbirth in the experimental (*) “Time Passes” section. In the final section of that novel by this author, Lily Briscoe completes her painting and James gets to visit the title structure. For 10 points, name this author of Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.
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ANSWER: Virginia Woolf [or Adeline Virginia Stephen]
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- A letter to this philosopher was the first to ask if a blind person experienced at touching objects could recognize the objects upon being granted sight. This recipient of the Molyneux (MOHL-in-oo) Problem wrote that properties such as color and texture are “secondary” in a book that denies the existence of (*) “innate ideas.” This author of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding endorsed slavery in his constitution for the Province of Carolina, despite his 1689 defense of natural rights. For 10 points, name this author of the Second Treatise on Government.
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ANSWER: John Locke
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- This politician argued for the winning side in the Supreme Court case Van Orden v. Perry, which permitted the display of the Ten Commandments on state property. This governor was criticized over supervision of ERCOT after his state endured a power (*) grid failure in February 2021 following ice storms. This politician was interrupted by his 2022 Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke, during a press conference about the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde (yoo-VAL-dee). For 10 points, name this current governor of Texas.
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ANSWER: Greg Abbott [Gregory Wayne Abbott]
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- A monarch from this city initiated a process of “gathering lands” under its rule using high-interest loans and thus became known as “Kalitá” (KAH-lit-AH) or “moneybags.” A “Grand Prince” from this city reclaimed autonomy from the Tatars at the Great Stand on the (*) Ugra River. That prince of this city married the former Byzantine princess Zoe Palaiologina (PAIL-ee-oh-LOWG-ee-nah) and promoted the idea of this city as “the third Rome.” A form of the word “Caesar” began to be used in 1547 by the grand princes of this city. For 10 points, name this city where Ivan IV (ee-VAN the fourth) proclaimed himself “tsar.”
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ANSWER: Moscow [or Grand Duchy of Moscow; do not accept or prompt on “Muscovy”]
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- After this player was reportedly “blown away” by the Clippers’ free agent pitch, that team signed GM Doc Rivers’s son Austin instead. This player tweeted that he “can’t win a championship with those cats” in the third person, revealing that he used burner accounts. After winning the 2014 MVP, this player gave an emotional speech in which he told his (*) mother, “You the real MVP.” For 10 points, name this current Net and former Thunder player who joined the Golden State Warriors in 2001, where he won two finals MVPs.
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ANSWER: Kevin Durant [Kevin Wayne Durant]
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- This lower of the two featured instruments in Mozart’s E-flat sinfonia concertante (sin-FOH-nee-ah kahn-sir-TAHN-tay) is labeled “da braccio” (dah BRAH-choh) in the sixth Brandenburg Concerto. This instrument is usually tuned “C G D A,” unlike a similar instrument called “da gamba.” Parts for this instrument are typical “inner voices” in Classical (*) quartets and are in the alto clef. This instrument is the second most numerous in most orchestras, after another instrument also played on the shoulder. For 10 points, name this bowed instrument pitched between the larger cello and smaller violin.
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ANSWER: viola [or viola da braccio; do not accept or prompt on “viola da gamba” or “viol”]
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- Choctaw aid during this event is commemorated by the sculpture Kindred Spirits in Midleton. Charles Trevelyan’s (trev-EL-yin’s) staunch laissez-faire (LAY-zay FAIR) beliefs limited direct aid toward victims of this event. Protestant schools engaging in “Souperism” during this event caused friction with the local population. (*) Coffin ships transported people across the Atlantic away from this event, which pushed Robert Peele to repeal the Corn Laws. A disease known as “blight” led to, for 10 points, what event that depleted the population of a European island in the 1840s?
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ANSWER: Irish Potato Famine [or Great Famine; or Great Hunger; or an Gorta Mór]
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- In the Lyman series, this form of radiation is emitted when an electron jumps to a higher energy level in a hydrogen atom. The prediction that a black body would emit an unbounded amount of energy at this radiation’s wavelength is known as its “catastrophe.” A type of spectroscopy (spek-TRAH-skuh-pee) measures absorption in both the (*) visible region and this region of the spectrum. Blacklights emit this form of radiation, which lies just above X-rays on the EM spectrum. For 10 points, name this harmful type of radiation from the sun that sunscreen protects against.
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ANSWER: ultraviolet [or UV]
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- The narrator of this book decries men who live like ants, claiming that a man need not “count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases… add his ten toes” while preaching “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” This book claims that many people “lead lives of quiet (*) desperation.” The main character of this book splits his needs into “Food, Shelter, Clothing, and Fuel” in its opening chapter, “Economy,” while planning to practice a self-sustaining life. For 10 points, name this book about “Life in the Woods” near a pond, by Henry David Thoreau.
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ANSWER: Walden [Walden: or, Life in the Woods]
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- TOP10 and DH10B are strains of this organism that are utilized in cloning experiments. The O157:H7 strain of this organism produces Shiga toxin and can cause hemolytic uremic (HEE-moh-lit-ik yoo-REE-mik) syndrome. The majority of urinary tract infections are due to a (*) pathogenic strain of this organism. This non-viral organism was used to study semi-conservative DNA replication by Meselson (MEE-zul-sun) and Stahl. The lac operon (LAK AH-puh-ron) was first characterized in this organism. For 10 points, name this Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that can cause food poisoning.
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ANSWER: E. coli [Escherichia coli]
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- In an opera by this composer, a slave girl notes how the title character is “girdled with ice” in the aria (AH-ree-ah) “Tuche di gel sei cinta” (TOO kay dee jel say CHEEN-tah). The Jasmine Flower Song represents the title character of an opera by this composer, which was stopped by Arturo Toscanini (ar-ah-TOO-roh toh-skah-NEE-nee) in Act 3 where this man died writing. A (*) gong is struck three times in an opera by this composer, who wrote an aria sung by a man who answers three riddles and predicts a woman will not know his name, titled “Nessun Dorma” (nay-SOON DOR-mah). For 10 points, name this Italian composer of the China-set opera Turandot (too-RAN-dot).
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ANSWER: Giacomo Puccini
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- A speech by this politician told of people begging him “don’t frighten us by telling us the facts.” That speech by this politician posited the “spearhead of resistance to world conquest” as part of the “Arsenal of Democracy.” This man discussed the freedoms of speech and worship, and from (*) want and fear, in his Four Freedoms speech. In his first inaugural address, this President stated, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” For 10 points, name this President who gave the “Day of Infamy” address after Pearl Harbor.
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ANSWER: Franklin Delano Roosevelt [or FDR; prompt on Roosevelt]
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- These languages can be grouped by which dorsal consonant starts the word for “hundred” in their centum/satem (KENT-um/SAY-tum) distinction. A reconstructed text demonstrating an extinct form of these languages incorporates these languages’ presumed ancient concern with livestock, wheeled vehicles, and (*) plains. A branch of this language family underwent the Grimm’s Law sound change. Sanskrit, Persian, Greek, and Russian are examples of, for 10 points, what large language family that also includes the Romance languages and Germanic languages such as English?
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ANSWER: Indo-European languages
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- This device utilizes a shielding element constructed from Kapton E, and it appears purple due to doped silicon in its outer layers. This device, which is deployed near the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, is named after the NASA (*) administrator during the Apollo program. The primary component of this device is separated into eighteen hexagonal segments made of gold-plated beryllium. This device works primarily in the infrared (IN-fruh-red).spectrum. For 10 points, name this successor to the Hubble Space Telescope whose first photos were released in July 2022.
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ANSWER: James Webb Space Telescope [or JWST; prompt on Webb]
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- A painting from this movement shows American flags hanging along Fifth Avenue in the rain. A painting by an artist from this movement depicts a woman in a striped dress cleaning a smaller person’s feet in a water basin. After moving to Paris, an American artist who was part of this movement painted (*) The Child’s Bath. Louis Leroy gave this movement its name after visiting an exhibition including a sketch-like painting of an orange sunrise. For 10 points, name this 19th-century art movement whose artists included Mary Cassatt and Claude Monet (MOH-nay).
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ANSWER: Impressionism [or American Impressionism; or The Ten or Ten American Painters before “moving to Paris” is read]
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- A poem by this author describes someone wondering if a sailing cloud will “hit or miss the moon.” That poem by this author features a dialogue between Warren and Mary about how to help the title character, Silas. This author of “Death of the Hired Man” wrote a poem whose speaker says “I have (*) promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.” In another poem, this author wrote about a decision that “made all the difference.” For 10 points, name this poet who wrote “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “The Road Not Taken.”
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ANSWER: Robert Frost [Robert Lee Frost]
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- The product of the principal curvatures at a given point gives a curvature named for this mathematician. Row-reduction is a form of this mathematician’s namesake elimination. This mathematician showed how to use just a straightedge and compass to construct a (*) heptadecagon. The central limit theorem states the sampling distribution of a random variable’s mean approximates a distribution commonly named for this mathematician. For 10 points, identify this German mathematician who names the normal distribution, also known as the bell curve.
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ANSWER: Carl Friedrich Gauss
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- An instigating factor for this event was the death of over sixty people in Jaleh (JAH-leh) Square on “Black Friday.” This event ultimately brought to power a man who advocated the Guardianship of the Jurist system. During this event, the SAVAK (SAH-vahk) secret police were dissolved and a man whose ideas were popularized on clandestine (*) cassette tapes returned from exile in Najaf (nah-JAHF). Student supporters of this event stormed an American embassy and took 66 hostages. The Pahlavi (PAH-lah-vee) Dynasty ended in, for 10 points, what 1979 event that brought Ayatollah Khomeini (AI-uh-toh-lah koh-may-NEE) to power?
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ANSWER: Iranian Revolution of 1979 [or Islamic Revolution; or Enqelāb-e Eslāmī]
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- A novel by this author features a plan to smuggle information using a microdot hidden on a tattoo. That novel by this author is told primarily through a frame narrative called the Ardua Hall Holograph. This author wrote that novel, The Testaments, as a sequel to a novel in which a Latin phrase meaning (*) “Don’t let the bastards grind you down” inspires a protagonist who is forced to play Scrabble with the Commander. For 10 points, name this author who described Offred joining the Mayday movement in The Handmaid’s Tale.
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ANSWER: Margaret Atwood [Margaret Eleanor Atwood]
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- This island’s territory of Mongibel (MAHN-jee-BEL) was often used as the location of Morgan le Fay’s castle in Arthurian romances. A volcano on this island, which once erupted so much lava that it filled in the harbor of Catania, is legendarily where the philosopher Empedocles (emp-ED-uh-kleez) jumped to his death. The Aeolian (ay-OL-ee-un) Islands, just off this larger island’s north, include the namesake of (*) strombolic (strahm-BAH-lik) volcanoes. Mount Etna is about ninety miles southeast of Palermo (puh-LAIR-moh) on, for 10 points, what island that is separated by the Strait of Messina from the “boot” of Italy?
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ANSWER: Sicily [or Sicilia]
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- In this play, the title character stands on a mountain and watches clouds shaped like two women diverge. This play has both a prelude set “in the Theatre” and a prologue set in Heaven. The title character of this play and a being who earlier disguised himself as a poodle watch a performance on Walpurgis (vahl-POOR-gis) Night. In this play, (*) Helen of Troy is summoned for the Emperor. The title scholar of this play signs a pact in blood with the demon Mephistopheles (meff-eye-stoff-O-leez). For 10 points, name this two-part tragedy by Johann (YO-hahn) Wolfgang von Goethe (GUR-tuh).
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ANSWER: Faust [or Faust, Part One; or Faust, Part Two; or Faustus; do not accept or prompt on “Doctor Faustus”]
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- A painting of one of these events in the Louvre includes depictions of Suleiman (SOO-lay-mon) the Magnificent and Charles V (the fifth). That ten-meter mannerist painting by Paolo Veronese (paa-OW-low ver-oh-NAY-zay) shows one of these events from John 2 (John chapter two). A convex (*) mirror surrounded with scenes from the Passion of Christ is in the back of a painting often titled for one of these events that shows a man in a fur-trimmed hat and a woman in a green dress. For 10 points, name this type of event for which Jan (yahn) van Eyck’s Arnolfini (AR-nul-FEE-nee) Portrait was likely created, and which Veronese painted “at Cana.”
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ANSWER: wedding [or marriage; or matrimony; or The Wedding Feast at Cana; or The Wedding at Cana; or The Marriage at Cana; or The Arnolfini Wedding; or The Arnolfini Marriage]
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- The negative derivative of the Hamiltonian with respect to position gives the generalized form of this value. The phase space consists of all possible values of position and this quantity, which is the Fourier (FOO-ree-ay) transform of position. According to Noether’s (NUR-tar’s) theorem, this quantity is conserved due to (*) translational invariance. This quantity squared over two times the mass gives the kinetic energy. The change in this quantity is impulse, and it is conserved in inelastic collisions. For 10 points, name this product of mass and linear velocity.
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ANSWER: linear momentum [or translational momentum; do not accept or prompt on “angular momentum”]
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- In a novel by this author, Guitar joins the radical Seven Days organization, which randomly kills White people. In that novel by this author, Freddie the janitor nicknames the main character Milkman Dead. Another novel by this author features a man who follows a trail of flowers after escaping from a (*) chain gang. That novel by this author begins, “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom” and describes how Sethe (SETH-uh) kills her daughter to prevent her return to slavery. For 10 points, name this author of Song of Solomon and Beloved.
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ANSWER: Toni Morrison [or Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison]
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- A demonym for people from this city sometimes names the Saint Thomas Christians of India and became a Quranic term for Christians. ISIS soldiers sprayed the first letter of that demonym for this city onto Christian homes, inspiring a protest symbolized by the Arabic letter “nun.” In this city, competing Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches mark proposed sites of the (*) Annunciation. After the flight into Egypt, Joseph returned to this city with Mary and a child born in Bethlehem. For 10 points, name this childhood hometown of Jesus.
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ANSWER: Nazareth [or an-Nasira; or Natsrat; or Nasrath]
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- A thixotropic substance was added to one of these devices perfected by Paul Fisher in 1965, who mass-marketed that example as the AG7 and “bullet” models. The Sheaffer and Parker companies specialize in luxury examples of these things that feature (*) metal nibs. The Museum of Modern Art displays a best-selling example of these things called the Bic Crystal. Rollerballs are sometimes used in these devices, which are often capped by a ball to control liquid flow. For 10 points, name these devices with ballpoint and fountain varieties for writing.
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ANSWER: pens [or space pens; or ballpoint pens; or fountain pens]
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- The April 26 Editorial criticized people in this location, some of whom went on a hunger strike prior to a Soviet leader’s visit. People at this location drafted a list of seven demands that denounced the campaign against “bourgeois (booj-wah) liberalization.” Jeff Widener (*) photographed a man in this location whom Time Magazine dubbed the “Unknown Rebel.” Taiwan, Tibet, and this location form the “three Ts” of contentious issues surrounding the CCP. For 10 points, name this public area in Beijing where the Tank Man photo was taken in 1989.
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ANSWER: Tiananmen Square
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- Two groups of these objects, the Planctae (PLANK-tee) and Symplegades (simp-LEG-uh-deez), were given the epithets Wandering and Cyanean (sai-uh-NEE-un) respectively. Polyphemus (pahlif-EE-mus) killed Galatea’s (gal-uh-TAY-uh’s) lover Acis (AY-sis) with one of these objects out of jealousy. One of these objects called the Omphalos (ahm-FAA-lus) marked (*) Delphi as the center of the world. The husband of Merope (mer-OH-pay) is given a punishment involving this type of object after tricking Thanatos (THAN-uh-tohs) and temporarily stopping death. Sisyphus’s punishment involved endlessly rolling for 10 points, what type of object up a hill?
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ANSWER: rock [or stone; or boulder]
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- During this decade, women such as Ruth Nichols and Beryl Markham achieved record success in aviation. During this decade, Hattie Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to the Senate. A woman who chaired the Committee on Economic Security during this decade served as the fourth (*) Secretary of Labor and helped draft the Social Security Act. Frances Perkins became the first female U.S. cabinet secretary during this decade, under FDR. For 10 points, name this decade in which women advocated for equality during the Great Depression.
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ANSWER: 1930s [prompt on 30s]
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- This composer called for a 5/8 (five eight) jarabe (hah-RAH-bay)-style trumpet solo before quoting “Goodbye, Old Paint” in a suite that uses clashing kettle drums and snare drum to depict a “Gun Battle.” This composer’s Four Dance Episodes end with a movement that quotes old-time musician William Hamilton Stepp’s version of “Bonaparte’s Retreat.” In a (*) “doppio movimento” excerpt, this composer wrote five variations on Joseph Brackett’s Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts.” For 10 points, name this American composer of the ballets Billy the Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring.
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ANSWER: Aaron Copland
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- This organism is utilized in the biopharmaceutical industry to produce hepatitis vaccines and insulin. This organism was genetically modified to ferment xylose (ZAI-lohs) to facilitate the production of ethanol from paper waste. One of these model organisms was the first eukaryote (yoo-KAIR-ee-oat) to have its (*) genome fully sequenced. Candida albicans (CAN-did-uh ALB-ik-anz) is a pathogenic species of these organisms, and the most commonly used species of these organisms is Saccharomyces cerivisiae (SAK-air-oh-MAI-seez ser-uh-VISS-ee-ay). For 10 points, name this singlecelled microorganism that causes bread to rise.
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ANSWER: yeasts [or Saccharomyces cerivisiae until “Saccharomyces cerivisiae” is read]
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- A poem by this author worries about never tracing “shadows with the magic hand of chance.” This poet, who described concerns about his death in “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be,” wrote in another poem how he had “been half in love with easeful Death.” That poem by this author ends by asking (*) “Do I wake or sleep?” This author wrote about the “flowery tale” of a “Sylvan historian” in a poem that ends by asserting “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” For 10 points, name this author of odes “to a Nightingale” and “On a Grecian Urn.”
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ANSWER: John Keats
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- This man plays electric guitar with his band Corroded Coffin every Tuesday night at The Hideout. Erica notices a chandelier blinking an S.O.S. message being sent by this character, which leads to a journey to the (*) trailer this character shares with his uncle. This character, played by Joseph Quinn, is close friends with Dustin Henderson, and he witnesses the killing of Chrissy Cunningham by Vecna. For 10 points, name this Hawkins High senior who is the leader of the Hellfire Club in Stranger Things season four.
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ANSWER: Eddie Munson [or Edward Munson; or Eddie the Banished; prompt on Munson; prompt on The Freak]
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- This object titles a Rodgers and Hart song cited as the earliest use of the ’50s progression, whose lyrics state “You saw me standing alone / Without a dream in my heart.” The first number one hit for Mary Ford and Les Paul was titled “How High” this object is. This object now titles Bart Howard’s (*) “In Other Words,” which declares “Fill my heart with song and let me sing forevermore.” For 10 points, a request to “see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars” appears in a song whose title says to “Fly Me to” what heavenly body?
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ANSWER: the Moon [or “Blue Moon”; or “How High the Moon”; or “Fly Me to the Moon”]
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- The location where this politician denounced a “super-state exercising new dominance” became the name of the Bruges (brooj) Group. This politician’s government passed an ordinance banning “flying pickets” during a years-long clash with Arthur Scargill over striking coal miners. The “Big Bang” was the sudden deregulation of the (*) London Stock Exchange under this prime minister, who also transferred all water utilities in England and Wales into the private sector. For 10 points, name this Conservative Party leader who was U.K. prime minister in the 1980s.
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ANSWER: Margaret Thatcher [or Margaret Hilda Roberts]
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- The slope of a plot with inverse temperature on the x axis, and natural log of pressure on the y axis, yields a form of this quantity divided by the ideal gas constant. This quantity remains constant in a throttling process. This quantity minus the product of temperature and change in entropy equals (*) Gibbs free energy. This quantity can be added or subtracted for each step of a chemical reaction to yield its total value, according to Hess’s law. For 10 points, name this thermodynamic quantity denoted H.
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ANSWER: enthalpy [or H until “H” is read; prompt on heat of vaporization until “throttling” is read]
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- German missionary Johann Rebmann names a glacier near the summit of this mountain, which contains the hiking area of Barranco (bah-RAHN-koh) Wall. The nearby town of Moshi is the starting point for some climbs on this mountain, whose three volcanic cones include (*) Kibo (KEE-boh), Shira (SHEE-rah), and Mawenzi (mah-WEN-zee). The summit of this mountain, the highest in the world that is not part of an adjacent range, was renamed to mean “freedom peak” in Swahili. For 10 points, name this dormant volcano in Tanzania, the tallest mountain in Africa and the tallest volcano in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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ANSWER: Mount Kilimanjaro
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- An estimator of this function, which is applied to the partition function to derive the MaxwellBoltzmann equation, is used on large numbers and is called Stirling’s approximation. The gamma function extends this function for complex numbers. In the general formula for a (*) Taylor series, this function appears in the denominator. This function of n gives the number of permutations for n distinct objects. For 10 points, name this function that gives the product of a number and all lesser positive integers, and is represented by an exclamation point.
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ANSWER: factorial
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- This empire’s army snuck through an aqueduct to take control of a city from the Gothic king Vitiges (VID-ig-eez). This empire’s historian John Skylitzes (skee-LIT-seez) wrote about a disastrous defeat it suffered to Alp Arslan in 1071 when it lost to the Seljuks at Manzikert (MAN-zik-urt), despite the presence of this empire’s elite, (*) Viking-dominated Varangian (vaa-RANG-ee-un) Guard. In this empire’s capital, the Nika (NEE-kuh) Riots ended when the general Belisarius (bel-is-AIR-ee-us) slaughtered thousands of chariot racing fans. For 10 points, name this empire that Justinian the Great ruled from Constantinople.
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ANSWER: Byzantine empire [or Eastern Roman Empire; do not accept or prompt on “Roman Empire”]
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- In a novel by this author, Chris and Sam are killed at a naming ceremony for a daughter whose name means “may the path never close,” and Samsonite Ossai tortures people with a stapler. This author wrote a novel in which the protagonist is exiled after his gun explodes, killing Ezeudu’s (EZ-ay-OO-doo’s) son (*) Ikemefuna (IK-ay-muh-FOO-nah). The main character of a novel by this man gains acclaim for defeating Amalinze (AA-muh-LIN-zee) the Cat in wrestling. For 10 points, name this Nigerian author who wrote about Okonkwo’s (oh-KAHN-kwoh’s) time in Umuofia (OO-mohFEE-ah) in Things Fall Apart.
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ANSWER: Chinua Achebe (ah-CHEB-ay)
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- A deputy chief of staff for this country’s president impersonated a police officer and beat a protester in 2018 in what became known as the Benalla (beh-NAH-lah) affair. Teacher Samuel Paty (sam-yoo-EL paa-TEE) was beheaded after a false accusation in this country, five years after this country’s Hypercacher (ee-PAIR-kaa-SHAY) market and (*) satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo (SHAH-lee eb-doh) were attacked over cartoons depicting Muhammad. This country’s 2022 presidential election ended in the run-off defeat of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen (mah-RIN lay pen). For 10 points, name this country led by president Emmanuel Macron.
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ANSWER: France [or French Republic; or République française]
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- Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez was the first Latin American in this profession, serving on a project partly named “38.” A politician falsely claimed that a man with this profession said, “I didn’t see any god.” Three people in this profession died above the Kármán (KAAR-mahn) line after leaving Salyut 1. Valentina (*) Tereshkova (ter-ESH-koh-vuh) was the first female member of this profession, which was held by a man who shouted “Poyekhali!” (POH-yeh-KAH-lee) while on Vostok 1. For 10 points, name this profession of Yuri Gagarin (gaa-GAA-rin), who worked on the Soyuz 1 mission for the Soviet space program.
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ANSWER: cosmonauts [or Russian astronauts; or Soviet astronauts; prompt on astronauts]
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- This man removed Peter Strzok (struck) from an investigation after text messages between Strzok and Lisa Page were leaked. Don McGahn threatened to resign rather than follow an alleged order to (*) fire this man. This man became the director of the FBI one week before the September 11 attacks. William Barr was accused of issuing a misleading summary weeks before a document helmed by this man was released in 2019. For 10 points, name this former director of the FBI who investigated Russian election interference in a namesake 2019 report.
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ANSWER: Robert Mueller (MULL-er) [Robert Swan Mueller III]
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- When variables have this property, the formulas for Boolean decomposition and orthogonal linear interpolation are the same. Two events with a covariance of zero have this property, as do the outcomes of Bernoulli trials. A collection of variables with the mutual form of this property also has its pairwise form. If the probability of A times (*) the probability of B equals the probability of A and B, then events A and B have this property. Dice rolls are events with, for 10 points, what property in which one outcome does not affect subsequent outcomes?
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ANSWER: independence [or independent events; or mutual independence; or pairwise independence]
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- A secessionist movement named for this mountain range uses the “Doug flag” and grew out of the 1940s “State of Jefferson” movement. Mount Adams is the highest point of this mountain range’s Gifford Pinchot (pin-CHOH) National Forest. The only mountain in the continental U.S. on the Decade Volcanoes list is in this range that is home to (*) Crater Lake. The Columbia River Gorge cuts into this range, which contains climbing sites such as Mount Hood. For 10 points, name this range of the Pacific Northwest that includes Mount Rainier and Mount Saint Helens.
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ANSWER: Cascade Range [or Cascades]
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- This was the primary instrument played by the lead artist on the album Moanin’ who cofounded the Jazz Messengers. Art Blakey and Gene Krupa played this instrument, the latter collaborating with clarinetist Benny Goodman on “Sing, Sing, Sing.” Krupa also appeared on “Bernie’s Tune,” which has a six-minute solo by another player of this instrument, (*) Buddy Rich. Performers of this instrument often choose between a traditional or a matched grip. For 10 points, name this jazz instrument which has bass and snare varieties.
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ANSWER: drums [or drum kit; prompt on percussion]
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- The smallest scales of this phenomenon are the Kolmogorov (kul-MAH-GOR-off) microscales, which facilitate energy cascades. Time-averaged equations such as the Reynolds-averaged NavierStokes (NAV-yay-stoaks) equations are used to model this phenomenon in computational fluid dynamics. This form of (*) fluid flow occurs at very high Reynolds numbers. Eddies and vortices are produced in this form of fluid flow, which is contrasted with laminar flow. For 10 points, name this chaotic form of fluid flow that can cause bumpy airplane rides.
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ANSWER: turbulence [or turbulent flow]
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- A collection by an author of this ethnicity features a character who is repeatedly told about his father seeing Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. That man of this ethnicity wrote a novel in which a blues trio meets Robert Johnson, and adapted for film his collection titled for the Lone Ranger. An author of this ethnicity wrote of the death of his (*) sister in a novel in which youth basketball star Junior is born with hydrocephalus. For 10 points, name the ethnicity of Sherman Alexie, who wrote about this group in an Absolutely True Diary.
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ANSWER: American Indian [or Native American; or Spokane; or Coeur d’Alene; prompt on Indian]
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- The Lambing Flat riots targeted people originally from this present-day country at Stoney Creek and other gold fields. Ned Kelly’s first run-in with the law was being accused of robbery by a pig farmer originally from this country. Many people fled to Australia from this country during the (*) Punti-Hakka clan wars. A city in this country is the namesake of a practice of forcibly retaining sailors on ships. An 1882 “exclusion act” curtailed immigration to the U.S. from, for 10 points, what country that provided many workers on the Transcontinental Railroad?
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ANSWER: China [People’s Republic of China; or Zhongguo; or PRC; or Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo]
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- One of these two men claimed to have seen six extra birds in an augury contest, after which the other member of this pair humiliatingly jumped over a low wall constructed by the other. These two men kill King Numitor’s (NOO-mit-or’s) usurper, Amulius (am-YOO-lee-us), who earlier sentenced them to death. A dispute between these two men near the (*) Palatine (PAL-uh-tyne) and Aventine (AV-en-tyne) Hills leads to one of them dying. The Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia (RAY-uh SIL-veeuh) gave birth to these two men, who were set afloat on the Tiber (TAI-bur) River and suckled by a wolf. For 10 points, name these twin founders of Rome.
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ANSWER: Romulus and Remus [answers may be given in either order, but do not accept or prompt if only one answer is given]
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- This singer starred in a music video that also featured Andrea Denver and Sean O’Pry and was filmed at Oheka Castle as part of a collaboration with American Express. In 2021, this performer announced plans to re-record earlier material to regain publishing rights, starting with Fearless, in a series labeled her (*) “version.” This singer of “Wildest Dreams” sings about Joe Jonas in her song “Forever and Always” and Jake Gyllenhaal in “All Too Well.” For 10 points, name this singersongwriter of the songs “Willow,” “Cardigan,” and “Bad Blood.”
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ANSWER: Taylor Swift [Taylor Alison Swift; or Taytay]
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- Within two years in this city, unarmed Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo (AH-muh-doo deeAH-loh) was killed and Haitian-born Abner Louima (loo-EE-muh) was assaulted by police. Matias Reyes ultimately confessed to a crime in this city for which five Black boys were originally accused in the assault of a (*) jogger, prompting a full-page ad advocating the death penalty placed by Donald Trump. The practice of stop-and-frisk increased in this city under a police commissioner appointed by mayor Rudy Giuliani. For 10 points, name this city that was the site of the Central Park Five case.
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ANSWER: New York City [or NYC]
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- These entities socially construct the meaning of anarchy according to Alexander Wendt’s foundational article of constructivist theory. The modern concept of these entities is often dubbed the “Westphalian” (west-FAIL-yun) definition. A capability trap in the power of these entities can result in an erosion of these things’ monopoly on the (*) legitimate use of force, leading to these things becoming “failed.” For 10 points, name these things whose power politics towards each other are the subject of international relations theory.
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ANSWER: states [or countries; prompt on nations; prompt on governments]
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- A ballet based on writings by this author debuted in 1940, with Galina Ulanova (GAH-lee-nah oo-LAH-noh-vah) and Konstantin Sergeyev (kahn-stan-TEEN sair-GAYV) playing lead roles at the Kirov and a score incorporating a gavotte (gaa-VAWT) from the Classical symphony. For a 1962 ballet inspired by this author, George Balanchine (BAAL-an-sheen) adapted incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn, including the (*) “Wedding Dance.” The “Dance of the Knights” appears in a Sergei Prokofiev (SUR-gay pro-KAH-fee-ev) ballet named for a play by this author. For 10 points, name this author who inspired the piece “Montagues (MAHN-tug-yooz) and Capulets” (KAP-yoo-lets) in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.
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ANSWER: William Shakespeare
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- The Ludus Magnus was a large facility for training people of this profession. Female members of this profession were included in a munus (MOO-nus) held by Domitian (doh-MISH-un) that described them as Amazons. Emperor (*) Commodus (KAH-mud-us) frequently participated in this profession, whose members often ate barley for strength. The “turned thumb” gesture was used by the public to judge the fate of people in this profession. For 10 points, name this profession of people trained to fight in the Colosseum for entertainment.
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ANSWER: gladiators [prompt on slaves]
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- A short story by this author features the question, “In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?” A character in a story by this author describes knowing “the Secret,” which is a “British artillery park on the Ancre” (AHN-kur). A story by this author features a hunt by the “Purifiers” through (*) infinite hexagonal rooms. Richard Madden kills sinologist Stephen Albert to signal the Germans in a story by this author. For 10 points, name this author whose Ficciones (FEEK-see-OH-nays) includes “The Library of Babel” and “The Garden of Forking Paths.”
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ANSWER: Jorge Luis Borges (BOR-hays)
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- This artist painted six identically-dressed men in black and white in a painting that became an iconic symbol of a cigar brand. This artist’s only seascape was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. This artist of Syndics of the Drapers Guild and Storm on the Sea of Galilee, who used his wife (*) Saskia as a model, painted a gun blending into feathers on a hat and a girl in a white dress wearing a dead chicken on her waist. The militia of Frans Banning Cocq (“coke”) was painted by, for 10 points, what Dutch artist of The Night Watch?
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ANSWER: Rembrandt [Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn]
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- The rate of increase in this quantity is equal to genetic variance according to Fisher’s fundamental theorem. The frequency of a particular genotype in a population will decrease if it has a low value for this quantity. The “inclusive” form of this quantity is increased in (*) kin selection, and parental investment is a strategy to increase this quantity. Inbreeding decreases this quantity, which in sterile animals is zero. For 10 points, name this measure of an organism’s ability to pass its genes on to the next generation.
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ANSWER: fitness [or W]
59
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- This company’s New Global Architecture initiative designed its Dynamic Force product line. This company’s origin in making looms influenced ideas such as “continuous improvement” or kanban that form its much-emulated “Production System.” The last phase of the (*) ChadianLibyan conflict in the 1980s is named for the use of this company’s Hilux product. In the 21st century, this company surpassed four banks and Tokyo Electric to become the largest firm in Japan. For 10 points, name this auto manufacturer that produces the Corolla, Prius, and Camry.
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ANSWER: Toyota [Toyota Motor Corporation]
60
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- This author appended an essay explaining “What Happened Afterward” to one of his plays after he was annoyed by edits by Herbert Tree to make the ending happier. In another play by this author, John Tanner is the author of The Revolutionist’s Handbook, and the main character converses with Don Juan in (*) Hell. Another play by this author of Man and Superman revolves around a bet made by Henry Higgins with Colonel Pickering about passing off Eliza Doolittle as a duchess. For 10 points, name this author of Pygmalion.
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ANSWER: George Bernard Shaw
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- This man suggested lighting all synagogues on fire in his treatise On the Jews and Their Lies. Frederick III sent men dressed as highway robbers to safely escort this man to Wartburg (VARTboorg) Castle for hiding. Charles V (the fifth) issued the Edict of (*) Worms (vurmz) after this man refused to renounce his criticisms of practices such as indulgences. Pope Leo X (the tenth) demanded that this man renounce his writings, which he may have nailed to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg (VIT-en-BAIRG). For 10 points, name this German theologian who started the Protestant
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ANSWER: Martin Luther
62
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- These events were defined using a compendium of marine animals written by Jack Sepkoski. A “gun” hypothesis describes how the breakup of methane clathrates may have contributed to one of these events. One of these events described by the Alvarez hypothesis made way for a large amount of (*) adaptive radiation in mammal species. The sixth one of these events, dubbed the Holocene, is currently ongoing, and the last one happened 65 million years ago. For 10 points, name these events, such as the K-T and the “Great Dying” in which many species end.
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ANSWER: mass extinction events
63
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- This city’s Kimmel Center is home to a non-opera orchestra conducted by Montreal-born Yannick Nezet-Seguin (yah-NEEK NEZ-eh-say-gah). The Curtis Institute of Music is in this city. Eugene Ormandy (OR-man-dee) was the longtime conductor of a “Big Five” orchestra in this city that uses a “sound” pioneered by (*) Leopold Stokowski (staw-KAWV-skee) and plays the score in most of Fantasia. The theme to Monty Python’s Flying Circus was a Sousa march named for an object in this city that legendarily rang on July 8, 1776. For 10 points, name this city whose Independence Hall is adjacent to the Liberty Bell.
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ANSWER: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [or Philly]
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- Participants in this event gathered at the Holbeche (hol-BESH) House to resist armed men under the Sheriff of Worcestershire (WUH-stuh-shirr). A letter warning about this event was sent to the Baron Monteagle, who notified the royal court. The goal of this event was the ascension of (*) Catholic-friendly Elizabeth Stuart to the throne. An effigy of a man who fought for Spain under the name Guido is burned every 5th of November in remembrance of this plan’s failure. For 10 points, name this plan to blow up the House of Lords that included Guy Fawkes (FOX).
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ANSWER: Gunpowder Plot [or Gunpowder Treason; or Jesuit Treason]
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- An opera in this language that was the landmark season opener in 2021 at the Metropolitan Opera is called Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The conjurer Zodzetrick (zod-ZET-rik) appears in an opera in this language whose title character is saved from a wasp’s nest by Remus. Jake sings “A Woman is a Sometime Thing” in an opera in this language in which (*) Crown kills Robbins and Clara sings the lullaby “Summertime.” Treemonisha (TREE-mun-EE-shuh) is a “ragtime opera” by Scott Joplin in, for 10 points, what language of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess?
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ANSWER: English
66
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- This author wrote a novel in which the title character accidentally causes the pirate Gentleman Brown to kill his trusted companion Dain Waris and meets the butterfly-collecting Stein on the ship Patna. In the pivotal scene of a short novel by this author, a man whispers “The (*) horror! The horror!” That novel by this author is narrated by Charles Marlow, who searches for the ivorytrading Colonel Kurtz in the middle of Africa. For 10 points, name this author of Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.
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ANSWER: Joseph Conrad [or Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski]
67
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- The number “135797531” (read the individual digits) was carved near a bridge in this city to mark the moment when Charles IV (the fourth) began its construction. Ottokar I (oh-tah-KAR the first) of the Přemyslid (PREM-iz-lid) dynasty reigned from this city, in whose outskirts Frederick V (the fifth) the Winter King lost the throne at the Battle of (*) White Mountain. The theologian Jan Hus (yahn hoos) spent much of his life in this city. The Thirty Years War began after officials were thrown out windows in the second “defenestration of” this city. For 10 points, name this most populous Bohemian and Czech city.
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ANSWER: Prague [or Praha]
68
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- Edward Burne-Jones helped lead a revival of this artform and used it to depict a woman named Cecilia playing a handheld organ. The United Nations headquarters commissioned a tribute to Dag Hammarskjöld (HAA-mark-HOLD) in this form. Another very blue artwork in this medium by Marc Chagall is named for America and is located in the (*) Art Institute of Chicago. Three pieces in this medium made to resemble a rose were saved from a 2019 fire. Louis Comfort Tiffany created many lampshades using, for 10 points, what medium used to decorate Notre-Dame’s (noh-truh DAHM’s) windows?
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ANSWER: stained glass [prompt on glass; prompt on windows]
69
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- The failure of the timer built into this component is signaled by a four-beep POST code. The standard form of this device is based on a revamp pioneered in 1995 and is known as the Advanced Technology Extended series. Berg and Molex connectors may be used to attach other (*) components to this hardware item, which typically includes a CMOS (SEE-moss) battery, internal buses, and areas that interface with ports which collectively comprise the chipset. The CPU is mounted into a socket found on, for 10 points, what main printed circuit board in a computer?
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ANSWER: motherboard [or mb; or mobo; or mainboard; or logic board; or system board]
70
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- This country filed charges against an expatriate American journalist who reported on leaked documents from this country’s Operation Car Wash investigation. During COVID, this country’s president promoted chloroquine treatments and personally contracted the disease at least three times. That president accused environmental organizations of starting 2019 (*) fires that plagued this country’s rainforests. For 10 points, name this South American country where a 2022 election pitted former president Lula da Silva against incumbent Jair Bolsonaro (jai-IR bowl-so-NAR-oh).
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ANSWER: Brazil [Federative Republic of Brazil; or República Federativa do Brasil]
71
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- The Peltier (PELT-ee-ay) effect describes the change in this quantity at a junction between two conductors with current flowing between them. The average kinetic energy for a particle in an ideal gas can be calculated as three-halves Boltzmann’s constant times this quantity. The ratio of this quantity in the two reservoirs of a (*) Carnot (kar-NOH) engine is used to calculate the efficiency of that engine. The lowest possible measure for this quantity is absolute zero. For 10 points, name this quantity that can be measured in Kelvins or Fahrenheit.
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ANSWER: temperature
72
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- This country’s capital once included 95-meter trash piles in what is now the Digital Media City. The Tamna kingdom once ruled an island in this country that speaks a unique “mal.” This country’s city of Mokpo connects via ferry to an island containing Mount (*) Songhak (SAHNGhak). Jeju (TAY-joo) is located in this country, whose capital is crossed by the Han River. This country contains the transportation hub of Incheon (INCH-ee-AHN) and a city including the Gangnam (GUNGnum) district. For 10 points, name this Asian country separated by the DMZ from its Communist neighbor.
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ANSWER: South Korea [or Republic of Korea; or ROK; prompt on Korea; do not accept or prompt on “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” or “DPRK”]
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- This novel’s popularity sparked responses from people such as Caroline Lee Hentz and The Sword and the Distaff author William Gilmore Simms. After the title character of this novel dies, two characters disguise themselves as a Creole lady and her servant. Quimbo and (*) Sambo kill the title character of this novel, on the orders of Simon Legree. This novel’s author was called the “little woman who wrote the book that started this great war” by Abraham Lincoln. For 10 points, name this anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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ANSWER: Uncle Tom’s Cabin [Uncle Tom’s Cabin: or, Life among the Lowly]
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- A form of this artistic discipline that relies on “paraprosdokian” (pair-ah-pross-doak-ee-un) is the trademark style of Steven Wright and Mitch Hedberg. Highly regarded instances of this genre from the 21st century include Roy Wood’s Imperfect Messenger and Tig (*) Notaro’s use of this genre to discuss her cancer diagnosis. Hannah Gadsby both practices and critiques this performing art, particularly objecting to Dave Chappelle’s routines in this discipline. For 10 points, name this performing art involving humorous stage monologues.
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ANSWER: standup comedy [or standup comedians; or comics; prompt on humorists]
75
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- The main character of this book is asked why he cries when he prays, and why he prays, neither of which he can answer. The main character of this book repeats the phrase “Never shall I forget” seven times. In this book, (*) Moishe the Beadle escapes a cattle train and attempts to warn Sighet (SEE-get) of what he has seen. The question “Where is God?” is often asked in this book, in which the main character’s father dies in Buchenwald (BOO-ken-vahld). For 10 points, name this Holocaust memoir by Elie Wiesel (EL-ee vee-SEL) which uses a recurring metaphor of darkness.
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ANSWER: Night [or Un di Velt Hot Geshvign; or La Nuit; or And the World Was Silent]
76
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- This prime minister proposed sharing oil revenues in the National Energy Program, leading to a national debate on “western alienation.” This prime minister outlined his urban reform and minority improvement plans called a “Just Society.” After the death of Pierre Laporte, this man told reporters (*) “just watch me” following his invocation of the War Measures Act during the October Crisis. Support for this politician inspired a namesake “mania” in a 1968 election. For 10 points, name this Liberal Canadian prime minister during the 1970s.
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ANSWER: Pierre Trudeau [Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau; prompt on Trudeau]
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- A character using this name was briefly killed off by a fan vote in the storyline “A Death in the Family” before returning as the anti-hero Red Hood. Another character who used this name was previously known as The Spoiler. In a Frank Miller-penned storyline, this role is adopted by (*) Carrie Kelley in the battle against a gang called The Mutants. Another character graduated from using this name and became Nightwing. This name is currently used by Damian Wayne, the son of Bruce. For 10 points, name this mantle used by the sidekick of Batman.
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ANSWER: Robin
78
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- The “eu” (yoo) and “pheo” (fee-oh) varieties of this compound are both synthesized by the catalyzation of tyrosinase (teer-AH-sin-ayz), and the latter requires the presence of cystine and a benzothiazine (BEN-zohth-AI-uh-neen) intermediate. Like dopamine, a form of this compound found in the brain degenerates in Parkinson’s disease, and is responsible for the (*) dark color of the substantia nigra (sub-STANT-yuh NAI-gruh). A form of skin cancer develops from the cells that produce this compound, and UV radiation stimulates the production of this compound. For 10 points, name this pigment that gives skin its color.
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ANSWER: melanin
79
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- In support of this legislation, Rosalynn Carter urged Wayne Townsend to cast the tie-breaking vote in Indiana. This legislation, co-introduced by Crystal Eastman in 1923, was opposed by the Eagle Forum, which was created by a woman with the slogan “I am for Mom and apple pie,” Phyllis (*) Schlafly (SHLAH-flee). This legislation failed to pass since only 35 ratified it by 1979. Alice Paul authored this legislation, which was ratified by Illinois in 2018. For 10 points, name this unratified Constitutional amendment that targets sex discrimination.
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ANSWER: Equal Rights Amendment [or ERA]
80
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- This architect’s live-in partner Mamah Borthwick (MAH-muh BOR-thik) was murdered during a fire at his studio. In response to a challenge from Herbert Jacobs to design a good house for under $5000, this architect drew on his earlier Broadacre City project and a term coined by James Duff Law to create early (*) Usonian homes. This architect, who ran two studios called Taliesen (TALyay-sin), also designed a house for Edgar Kaufmann outside of Pittsburgh that was built over the Bear Run creek. For 10 points, name this American architect who designed the Fallingwater house.
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ANSWER: Frank Lloyd Wright
81
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- Stable examples of these entities include Fremy’s (FREH-mee’s) salt and TEMPO. EPR spectroscopy (spek-TRAH-skuh-pee) can be used to analyze these things, which are used in living polymerization (puh-LIM-ur-iz-AY-shun) techniques such as RAFT and ARTP. Halogenation (HAAluh-jin-AY-shun) reactions named for these things occur under light and are driven by the (*) homolytic (HOH-moh-lit-ik) cleavage of covalent bonds. Reactions involving these species use fish hook arrows to show the movement of individual electrons. For 10 points, name these highly reactive atoms or molecules with unpaired electrons.
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ANSWER: free radicals
82
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- The BBC show The Experiment attempted to recreate this event but contradicted its original result. This experiment’s designer recounted becoming enraged when asked “what’s the independent variable in this study?” Critics of this experiment point to its use of a “help wanted” ad offering $15 a (*) day. This experiment was stopped after just six days during which Philip Zimbardo played a “superintendent.” For 10 points, name this controversial experiment in which assigned “guards” abused other test subjects at a California university.
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ANSWER: Stanford Prison experiment [prompt on prison experiment]
83
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- A character in this play describes missing “Four thousand little rests per hour” and asks “how shall I endure my own company?” While giving a climactic speech in this play, a character strokes a mantelpiece dubbed a “bronze atrocity” by Barbedienne (BAR-bud-ee-EN). A valet lacks (*) eyelids in this play and brings the main characters into a room with Second Empire furniture. Inez is stabbed by Estelle in this play, which ends with a character realizing that “Hell is other people.” For 10 points, name this existentialist play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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ANSWER: No Exit [or Huis Clos; or In Camera; or No Way Out; or Dead End]
84
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- Most citizens entitled to wear the latus clavus (LAH-toos CLAH-voos) earned the privilege by belonging to this group. The Hostilia, Cornelia, and Julia were the successive buildings where these people worked. A group of these people was paired with the general “people of Rome” in a (*) four-letter abbreviation often found on currency and monuments. These people were temporarily meeting in the Theater of Pompey when several of them stabbed a “dictator for life” on the Ides of March. For 10 points, name these men who met to discuss Roman laws.
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ANSWER: Roman senators [or senatores; or members of the Roman Senate]
85
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- When one of these polygons is inscribed in a conic section, the intersection of its sides is described by Pascal’s theorem. Squares, triangles, and this regular polygon are the only ones that can tile the plane. Each vertex of this polygon has (*) three diagonals, and it is the fewest-sided polygon to have more diagonals than sides. Drawing this shape’s long diagonals divides it into equilateral triangles, and the sum of the internal angles of this polygon equals 720 degrees. For 10 points, name this regular polygon with six sides.
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ANSWER: regular hexagon
86
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- In 2022, after a 335-mile march to this state’s capital, its governor signed a bill easing the process for farm workers to unionize. The mayor of a city in this state was rejected in a nomination to become Ambassador to India in 2022. Another city in this state recalled its district attorney, (*) Chesa Boudin (CHAY-suh boo-DEEN). The governor of this state was criticized for attending a party at The French Laundry during COVID restrictions and survived a recall election against Larry Elder and Caitlyn Jenner. For 10 points, name this state governed by Gavin Newsom.
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ANSWER: California
87
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- The only named chapter in this novel describes Nikolai’s tuberculosis and is titled “Death.” Two characters in this novel get engaged after playing a game based on giving the first letters of words. The aristocratic Stiva cheats on his wife (*) Dolly near the start of this novel, leading to the title character’s arrival. This novel begins with a remark about how “all happy families are alike” and ends when the title character jumps in front of a train after an affair with Count Vronsky. For 10 points, name this novel by Leo Tolstoy.
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ANSWER: Anna Karenina (kah-REN-in-uh)
88
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- A book titled for this group discusses a man who led the “only successful slave rebellion in history” and was written by C.L.R. James. The Feuillants (foo-yahn) Club, which included the Marquis de Lafayette, split from this group. Extreme members of this group sat in higher seats in the assembly and were called “The (*) Mountain.” Charlotte Corday assassinated a supporter of this group, whose Reign of Terror ended after the Thermidorian (THERM-id-OR-ee-un) Reaction. For 10 points, name this group led by Maximilien Robespierre (ROH-bess-PYAIR) during the French Revolution.
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ANSWER: Jacobins [or the Jacobin Club; or The Black Jacobins]
89
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- Amy Beach stated that this piece inspired the Gaelic Symphony. A Largo theme in this symphony beginning with slurred notes “dotted eighth-sixteenth F, A-flat, long A-flat” evokes Harry Burleigh’s singing. William Arms Fisher’s (*) “Goin’ Home” is based on an English horn solo from this symphony, whose first movement has a flute solo resembling “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” After finishing this symphony, its composer left Spillville to lead “Bohemian Days” at the World’s Fair. For 10 points, a visit to the U.S. inspired what Antonín Dvořák (AAN-toh-neen div-or-JACK) symphony?
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ANSWER: Symphony From the New World [or New World Symphony; or Z nového světa; or Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor; or 9th after “Dvorak” is read; prompt on 9th Symphony before “Dvorak” is read]
90
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- This author described a location where “peace comes dropping slow” in a poem that mentions “nine bean rows” in a place where “midnight’s all a glimmer” and the speaker “will arise and go now.” This author invoked a childhood memory of a vacation spot in County Sligo in “The (*) Lake Isle of Innisfree.” A poem by this author says “The falcon cannot hear the falconer” and ends by warning of a “rough beast” that “Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born.” For 10 points, name this Irish poet who wrote “The Second Coming.”
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ANSWER: William Butler Yeats (yates)
91
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- This adjective appears in the title of a book claiming that there is no real distinction between nature and culture, by Bruno Latour. Zygmunt Bauman (zig-MOONT BAO-mon) theorized that society is in a “liquid” form of this state. A new phase that comes after this state was discussed in the major book of (*) Fredric Jameson. This adjective describes philosophy starting in the mid-17th century and physics from about 1905 onward. For 10 points, give this term for a period that is succeeded by a “post-” form in which truth and values are relative.
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ANSWER: modern [or modernity]
92
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- Thalassemia (THAA-luh-SEE-mee-uh) is a disease characterized by decreased production of this molecule. The carbon dioxide affinity of this molecule in acidic conditions can be described by the Bohr effect. When this molecule is found in the lungs or kidneys, it acts as an antioxidant and helps to regulate (*) iron. This molecule has four subunits, all containing a porphyrin (POR-fuh-rin) ring. Carbon monoxide’s affinity for this molecule is two-hundred and fifty times more than oxygen’s. For 10 points, name this iron-containing transport protein found in red blood cells.
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ANSWER: hemoglobin
