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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 5. This instrument relies on Townsend discharges in the “avalanche zone” near the anode to magnify one interaction into an easily-detectable signal. | Geiger(-Müller) counter |
| This country's capital is just west of the caldera Lake Ilopango [ee-loh-PAHN-go] and this country is home to the volcano Izalco [ee-ZAHL-koh] popular with tourists. | El Salvador |
| Great White Spot. A crater spans almost one-third of the diameter of its moon Mimas, while a ring system is thought to exist around its moon (*) Rhea. | Saturn |
| thought to exist around its moon (*) Rhea. This planet is orbited by the only moon to have a dense atmosphere, Titan. For 10 points—name this gas giant that boasts a series of prominent rings. | Saturn |
| Another of his sons, a one-eyed robber with a bronze club, was slain by Theseus. | Hephaestus |
| dropped into the one “of Four Rivers.” Ottorino Respighi's composition about those “of Rome” features the (*) Triton and Trevi. | fountain |
| name this home of Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham, and Mark Sanford. | South Carolina |
| name this Argentine-born Marxist, a revolutionary and second-in-command of Fidel | Ernesto “Che” Guevara |
| tracker. A character in this novel is switched at birth with Wee Willie Winkie's son, whose most notable features are his strong knees as compared to the protagonist's telepathic nose. | Midnight's Children |
| ame this novel whose namesakee group of 1001 people receives magic powers after being born at the instant of India’s independence, by Salman Rushdie. | Midnight’s Children |
| name this hormone, carried in “pens” to treat anaphylaxis [ann-uh-fuh-LACK-sis], that is also released in the “fight-or-flight” response. | epinephrine or adrenaline |
| 19. In one poem by this author, the speaker hopes to get “a swig in Hell” from a “bhisti” [BEESS-tee] whom he regards as “a better man than I am.” | Rudyard Kipling |
| SA paramilitaries in civilian clothes attacked storefronts with sledgehammers, but Reinhard(*)Heydrich [HI-drik] insisted on leaving non-Jewish property alone. | Kristallnacht |
| name this effect, the shift in frequency of waves received moving sources. | Doppler effect |
| name this physician and poet of “This is Just to Say” and “The Red Wheelbarrow.” | William Carlos Williams |
| One poem by this author describes the “dim dreaming life” of a creature which no longer unfurls “webs of living gauze,” or “flings / On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings.” | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| name this poet of “The Chambered Nautilus” and “Old Ironsides.” | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| He culled “superstars” at his studio, consistent with his quote about everyone's (*) ”fifteen minutes of fame.” | Andy Warhol |
| At that art studio, The Factory, he produced silkscreen prints of popular figures like his diptych [DIP-tick] of Marilyn Monroe. | Andy Warhol |
| Later, the Nimrod Expedition landed at its (*) McMurdo Sound, violating an agreement with Robert Scott that had been made by Ernest Shackleton. | Antarctica |
| In sodium pentothal [PEN-tuh-thaal], the sodium is bound to an atom of this element. In British anti-Lewisite, two atoms of this element scavenge toxic elements such as arsenic and mercury | sulfur |
| name this nonmetal, once called “brimstone,” with atomic symbol S. | sulfur |
| On this show, a character named Jan would complain about her oldest sister by (*) repeating her name three times. | The Brady Bunch |
| Martin Heidegger [HYE-duh-gur] wrote a four-volume work on this thinker that discusses this man's concept of “the eternal recurrence of the same.” | Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche [KNEE-chuh] |
| This man contrasted the Apollonian [ap-uh-LOH-nee-un] and the Dionysian [dye-uh-NYE-see-un] in his first work, and included a chapter entitled “Why I (*) Write Such Good Books” in another work. | Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche [KNEE-chuh] |
| Flowing from northern British Columbia to the (*) Bering Sea in Alaska, it transported prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush. | Yukon River |
| what is this North American river that shares its name with Canada's westernmost territory? | Yukon River |
| In its opinion, the Supreme Court interpreted the Necessary and Proper Clause of the Constitution, and concluded that states lacked the power to (*) tax the Second Bank of the United States. | McCulloch v. Maryland |
| Several elements in this group can be bonded to magnesium in Grignard [GRIN-yard] reagents; another member of this group was produced by bombarding bismuth with alpha particles. | halogens |
| Every member of this group has a total of seven valence electrons. For 10 points—name this group that includes iodine. | halogens |
| This man objects to “soft silk shirts,” purple socks, and “Old Etonian [ee-TOH-nee-in] spats.” As a member of the Junior Ganymede [GAN-ee-meed] club, this man discovers that the fascist Roderick Spode [spohd] secretly designs women's underwear. | (Reginald) Jeeves |
| name this “gentleman's personal gentleman” who serves Bertie Wooster in works by P. G. Wodehouse [“wood”-“house”]. | (Reginald) Jeeves |
| Control over a 330-foot-tall burial mound called Mamayev Kurgan [MAH-mah-yev KUR-gan] repeatedly changed hands during this battle that ended the Case Blue offensive. | Battle of Stalingrad |
| A counterattack called Operation Uranus, partly led by Georgy Zhukov [ZHOO-kahf], trapped forces under Friedrich Paulus in a city on the (*) Volga River. | Battle of Stalingrad |
| he protagonist of this novel meets several red-haired men, eats overripe strawberries, and becomes obsessed with the Polish (*) boy Tadzio as a cholera epidemic strikes the title city. | Death in Venice |
| Gustav von Aschenbach [AH-shin-bahk] appears in—for 10 points—what novel by Thomas Mann [mahn] set in an Italian city? | Death in Venice |
| This man is the namesake of a cup used to capture charged particles in a vacuum. | Michael Faraday |
| Lenz's law implies the negative sign in this man's namesake law, which relates the time derivative of (*) magnetic flux to the induced voltage. | Michael Faraday |
| This piece of equipment is to be bounced upon encountering the directive saltando [sahl-TAHN-doh], and it is flipped over when one encounters the directive col legno [kohl LAYN-yoh]. | bow |
| Itzhak [IT-sahk] Perlman makes use of—for 10 points—what piece of musical equipment that is drawn across the strings of a violin? | bow |
| As a 13-year-old, this character travels to the town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea and helps to steal a statue of the “Bombinating Beast.” | Lemony Snicket |
| name this character created by Daniel Handler, who describes the woes of the Baudelaire [boh-duh-LAYR] children in A Series of Unfortunate Events. | Lemony Snicket |
| This lowest-ranked graduate of the West Point class of 1861 did not wait for the arrival of Alfred Terry's forces in 1876, leading to (*) disaster for his 7th Cavalry. | George Armstrong Custer |
| name this officer killed at Little Bighorn, his “Last Stand.” | George Armstrong Custer |
| In this country in June 2013 the P-E-C 37 measure was widely criticized; and the Movimento Passe Livre [moh-vee-MEN-toh PAH-“say” “LEAVE”-“ray”] protested an increase in public transport fares, leading to larger demonstrations. | Brazil |
| The government of Dilma Rousseff [JEEL-muh ROO-seff] faced anger over spending on the 2013 Confederations Cup, the 2014 (*) World Cup, and the 2016 Olympics. | Brazil |
| V(D)J [V-D-J] recombination creates diverse variable regions that bind to epitopes [EP-ih-tohps]. | antibodies |
| They cause autoimmune disorders when they bind to the body's own cells. For 10 points—name these proteins created by B cells that bind to antigens [ANN-tih-jins]. | antibodies |
| In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the vessel Aronnax [aa-roh-naks] travels on before finding the Nautilus is named for this man. | Abraham Lincoln |
| Walt Whitman wrote “O Captain! My Captain!” after the death of—for 10 points—what president portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis? | Abraham Lincoln |
| This Western Hemisphere nation's main industrial center is Valencia, the state capital of Carabobo [kah-ruh-BOH-boh]. | Venezuela |
| It contains the delta of the (*) Orinoco [or-eh-NOH-koh] River, and substantial oil reserves exist in the basin of its Lake Maracaibo [mar-ah-KYE-boh]. | Venezuela |
| One deity from this country constructed a palace to obtain two elixirs of immortality, but his wife drank both and ascended to the Moon. Earlier, that god from this country had shot down nine of ten suns. | China |
| name this country, home to Yi [yee] the Archer and the Jade Emperor. | China |
| his law was challenged in cases filed by Pedersen, Gill, and Golinski against the Office of Personnel Management. Those cases ruled that its Section 3 violated the Fifth Amendment's due process clause. | Defense of Marriage Act |
| what act made “one man, one woman” the federal definition of matrimony? | Defense of Marriage Act |
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