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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| After woodwinds, this instrument picks up the fugato “The Cuckoo Sat on the Fence” in a concerto based on folk tales. | viola |
| Holidays celebrating Talent and Labor after the end of Fructidor were named for this umbrella term for lower-class French revolutionaries who wore trousers instead of bourgeois knee-britches. | sans-culottes |
| This summer month of the calendar names an event in which the Directory usurped the power of the Committee of Public Safety and Maximilien Robespierre, thus ending the Reign of Terror. | Thermidor |
| The decimalized calendar was introduced to weaken the power of the Catholic Church by replacing this other calendar, the most widely used today. This calendar named for a pope replaced the Julian calendar. | Gregorian Calendar |
| A compound with this many carbons names the ability for fuel to withstand compression in an engine. There are this number of hydrogen atoms in a cyclobutane [sye-kloh-BYOO-tayn] molecule. | eight |
| Name this material used to create Chinese puzzle balls. This material is harvested from the tusks of elephants. | Ivory |
| An ivory head of Queen Esigie was one of the thousands of artworks looted from this African kingdom in the 1800s. Brass plates depicting obas of this kingdom make up its namesake “bronzes” at the British Museum. | Benin bronzes |
| An ivory yakshi depicting Lakshmi was discovered at this site in 1938. Darius III retreats from the Battle of Issus in the Alexander Mosaic found at this site’s House of the Faun. | Pompeii |
| After surviving a serious wound, this man was said to be blessed with “baraka” and promoted by his king. The terrorist group ETA emerged when this leader reduced autonomy in “traitor regions.” | Francisco Franco |
| Name this task, which can be performed in single-variable calculus by setting the derivative of a function to 0 to search for critical points. In multivariable calculus, this task can be performed by examining the gradient. | optimization |
| Gradient descent is a common algorithm for optimization in this field. Computer models in this field are often trained by minimizing a loss function, leading to better accuracy in tasks like imitating human behavior. | Artificial Intelligence/AI |
| A tricky situation in gradient descent is getting trapped in one of these points that have zero gradient but are not local minima, as they are concave up in some directions and concave down in others, forming a namesake shape. | saddle points |
| In a story from this country, a grasshopper is offered to children playing with colorful lanterns. A character from this country realizes that a beautiful drum player is 14 when she emerges naked from a bathhouse in a “Palm-of-the-Hand” story. | Japan |
| Name this architect, a proponent of geodesic [jee-uh-DESS-ik] domes, who lends his name to a 60-carbon molecule | Buckminster Fuller |
| Geodesic domes use triangles that can easily distribute this quantity in architecture. This quantity refers to the force on a material, while strain is the deformation of that material. | stress |
| Fuller’s ideas inspired the first enclosed geodesic dome called the Climatron, which was built for this city’s botanical garden. Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan designed a terracotta-adorned skyscraper in this city. | St. Louis, Missouri |
| An artist from this city painted a self-portrait with a Chinese Lantern Plant and a Portrait of Wally; that artist was mentored in this city by the painter of the rejected murals Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence. | Vienna |
| Name this poem, which tells the title figure, “thou art no thy-lane, / In proving foresight may be vain” when things “Gang aft agley.” | "To a Mouse" |
| This author of “To A Mouse” compared his “Luve” to “the melody… sweetly played in tune” in the poem“A Red, Red Rose.” | Robert Burns |
| Burns also wrote this poem, which asks, “Should old acquaintance be forgot” and is usually sung at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. | "Auld Lang Syne"(old long sign) |
| One work by this poet describes “potent oblivion dwell[ing]” on his lover’s lips. Another work by this poet describes his lover “like the stab of a knife, enter[ing] my plainitive heart.” | Charles Baudelaire |
| Name this family that owned the New York Journal and included a man who told Frederic Remington “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war” about Cuban independence and inspired Citizen Kane. | Hearst |
| This rival of William Randolph Hearst owned the New York World. This man names a series of annual awards given to newspapers and books through Columbia University. | Joseph Pulitizer |
| Hearst’s newspapers often referred to this governor of Cuba as “The Butcher” in articles which exaggerated his cruelty. This man tried to put down Cuban rebellions by resettling civilian populations in Spanish forts. | Valeriano Weyler |
| A chair depicting one of these creatures commemorates a visit to Zennor in Cornwall by a ceasg [keask]. Alexander the Great’s sister Thessalonike transformed into one of these creatures. | Merpeople |
| Name this action. An object relating to the 62nd of these actions by one player in 2022 has an estimated value of two million dollars. | hitting a home run |
| Nick Castellanos, who became infamous for his poorly-timed home runs, currently plays for this MLB team. This team, which plays from Citizens Bank Park, defeated the Padres for the National League title in 2022. | Philadelphia Phillies |
| After winning the NLCS, the Phillies lost this best-of-seven championship series to the Houston Astros. The Astros may have used signals like banging on a trash can to influence the outcome of one of these series in 2017. | World Series/Fall Classic |
| People of this ethnicity recorded riddles in the Zuyua language in the Book of Chilam Balam. The activist Rigoberta Menchú supports people of this ethnicity through the Winaq party. | Mayan |
| Name this color that titles another novel about the part-wolf and part-dog son of Kiche and One Eye, who fights Lip-Lip. | white |
| White Fang is by this author, who also wrote about John Thornton and the sled dog Buck in The Call of the Wild. | Jack London |
| In a credo attributed to London, he writes “I would rather be ashes than [this substance!]” The quote “I will show you fear in a handful of [this substance]” inspired the title of an Evelyn Waugh [EEV-lin WAW] novel about Tony Last. | dust |
| These animals were operant-conditioned to have “superstitious” behaviors in an experiment by B. F. Skinner, who had earlier led a U.S. Navy-sponsored project to use these animals to guide missiles. One of these animals was named President Wilson. | pigeons |
| Name these enzymes with a “serine” subtype that break down proteins by catalyzing the hydrolysis[high-DRAH-luh-siss] of peptide bonds. | proteases |
| Because it is a prodrug, Lufotrelvir contains one of these functional groups that is removed to form its active state. This functional group symbolized P-sub-i is attached to one molecule by a rotor-shaped synthase [SIN-thayss]. | phosphate |
| Unlike other Covid drugs, Lufotrelvir must be administered through an IV [I-V] rather than by this method commonly achieved with a pill. | oral ingestion |
| Albert Einstein deduced that experiencing a constant value of this quantity is locally indistinguishable from being in an inertial reference frame. Radius times the square of angular frequency. | acceleration |
| Name this Irish philosopher who coined the phrase “to be is to be perceived” in his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. This man also wrote Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. | George Berkeley |
| Berkeley’s master argument demonstrates the impossibility of conceiving an unconceived one of these objects. A thought experiment asks if one of these objects that falls in the forest makes a sound if no one is around to hear it. | trees |
| Berkeley’s immaterialism is sometimes described as the subjective form of this philosophical position. This position holds that reality is dependent on the mind. | subjective idealism |
| Because of her many names, the main character of this novel is nicknamed “Alphabet” as a child. One character in this novel exclaims “so this is a marriage!” after watching a bee pollinate a blossom. | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Name this third highest bridge in the United States, spanning over 3,000 feet. This longest single-arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere can be found off Route 19 in West Virginia. | New River Gorge Bridge |
| The New River Gorge Bridge spans over this mountain range located as far south as Alabama and as far north as Newfoundland. The Great Smoky Mountains are a subrange within this larger mountain range. | Appalachian Mountains |
| Aside from BASE jumping, the New River is also a popular location for this activity, typically taking place in its rapids. Levels in this activity range from 1 to 6 depending on the difficulty of a river. | whitewater rafting |
| This object is cleaned with perfume on the first day of Sha’baan. After proclaiming the arrival of the Mahdi, the Qarmatian sect stole this object. A “water spout of mercy” removes rainwater from this object. | Kaaba |
| Name these locations. One of them used Archimedes’ screw to pump water from the Euphrates and was supposedly built by Nebuchadnezzar II to resemble the Median homeland of his wife Amytis. | gardens |
| The Hanging Gardens was an ancient wonder in this city home to the Ishtar Gate. “An eye for an eye” appears in Hammurabi’s law code for this city-state. | Babylon |
| An inscribed cylinder considered the first-ever declaration of human rights refers to a Persian garden built under this leader at Pasargadae. This leader defeated Croesus of Lydia and conquered Babylon by diverting the Euphrate | Cyrus the Great |
| The “gargouillades” [gar-goo-YAHD] featured in a solo in this ballet are sometimes replaced with the pas de chat [pah de schaht]. Men perform a fast-paced tarantella in the “trepak” dance in this ballet. | The Nutcracker |
| Fully hydrogenated [high-DRAH-juh-nay-tud] compounds, which have linear chains and no double bonds. | saturated fats |
| Vitamin that the body requires to absorb calcium. This vitamin can be synthesized by human skin. | Vitamin D |
| DHA is one of these unsaturated fatty acids that have a double bond three atoms away from the terminal methyl group. | omega-3 |
| In this region, weapons such as the Armalite may have been smuggled using money from NORAID. The escalation of the dirty protests led to a hunger striker in this region’s Maze prison winning an election before dying the next month. | Northern Ireland |
| Name this novel in which Amina visits the Al-Husayn Mosque, but is punished because she didn’t get permission from her husband, the patriarch of the al-Jawad family. | Palace Walk |
| Palace Walk is the first novel of this author’s Cairo Trilogy. This Egyptian author also wrote Midaq Alley. | Nahgiub Mahfouz |
| Mahfouz wrote a sequel to this collection titled for it “and Days.” In this collection, Scheherazade[shuh-HAIR-uh-zodd] tells the stories of Sinbad and Ali Baba to delay her execution. | Arabian Nights |
| In archaea [ar-KEE-uh], this structure may consist of methano•chon•droitin or pseudo•murein. Formation of this structure is inhibited by cephalo•sporins and penicillins. | cell wall |
| Name this country also home to a pianist known for his manic mannerisms while playing, who was inspired by the Tom and Jerry episode The Cat Concerto to take up piano. | China |
| This composer of Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? gave it the marking “Gritty, funky, but in Strict Tempo; Twitchy, Bot-like.” This composer’s operas include Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic. | John Adams |
| This city’s Philharmonic, directed by the Venezuelan composer Gustavo Dudamel, premiered Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. | Los Angeles |
| Juan Romero was pictured shaking the hand of the target of an assassination in one of these locations. A 1964 case regarding Congress's power under the Commerce Clause concerned discriminatory actions taken by one of these locations. | hotels |
| Name these holidays. The shofar is blown 100 times in the Jewish occurrence of this holiday, which also includes eating apples dipped in honey and throwing bread into water. | New Years |
| Haft Sin tables, children banging on pots asking for candy, and jumping over bonfires are a few ways that the Iranian diaspora celebrates this Persian New Year on the spring equinox. | Nowruz |
| The Hebrew calendar is based on the phases of this celestial object, which also gives the date for the Chinese New Year. | the moon |
| An oft-criticized parliamentary building in this country designed by Enric Miralles [un-REEK mee-RALL-uss] is located at the foot of Calton Hill. An athletic competition most often held in this country features events like the caber toss. | Scotland |
| Name this man who Saenz served as an archivist. This leader governed Gran Colombia after freeing many South American countries from colonial rule. | Simo(')n Bolivar |
| Manuela Saenz was born in what is now this modern-day country. Forces led by Antonio José de Sucre defeated Spanish royalists at the battle of Pichincha in what is now this modern-day country. | Ecuador |
| Saenz was eventually exiled to this island where during Bolívar’s own exile, he wrote a letter advocating for a united Latin America. Queen Nanny led the first of the Maroon Wars on this British colony. | Jamaica |
| The first “wild” one of these things contains a poem with the phrase “SEND IN THE CLONER!”. The United States may have used one of these things to sabotage nuclear centrifuges in Iran. | malware |
| Name this author who wrote about Carlos Daneri, who writes mediocre poetry using a special property of his cellar. Another work by this author features “Purifiers” who seek out the “Crimson Hexagon.” | Jorge Luis Borges |
| In this Borges story, a fictionalized version of Borges is given a coin which starts to take over all of his thoughts until it becomes the only thing he can think about. | The Zahir |
| Borges set both “The Zahir” and “The Aleph” in this home country of his. In another Borges story, the protagonist leaves the title “Book of Sand” in this country’s National Library in Buenos Aires. | Argentina |
| At the beginning of this play, a cobbler jokes that he is a “mender of bad soles.” A character in this play pauses in the middle of a speech because “[his] heart is in the coffin there.” | The Tragedy of Julius Caesar |
| An exoplanet’s placement in this zone around its star, which is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water. This zone is often named for a fairy tale girl who chooses to eat porridge that is “just right.” | Goldilocks Zone |
| A risk to life for Goldilocks zone planets is this quality, which means that the planet and its star have achieved synchronous rotation. Eyeball planets have this quality also possessed by Pluto and Charon. | tidal locking |
| Strip of land between the hot and cold sides of the planet. It shares its name with a layer of the ocean that lies above the midnight zone. | twilight zone |
| Ancel Keys limited 36 conscientious objectors from performing this action in a University of Minnesota experiment. Rats with lesions on their ventromedial hypothalamus were unable to stop performing this activity. | eating food |
| At an October 2021 race at Talladega Speedway, a reporter attempting to speak over a crowd coined a pejorative phrase for Joe Biden, “Let’s Go [what name]”? | Brandon |
| This governor signed an anti-vaccine mandate bill in the city of Brandon. The aftermath of this governor’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill led to him revoking Disney World’s special taxing district. | Ron DeSantis |
| Mark Kelly sponsored the unrelated Brandon Act to expand mental health resources to these people. Jon Stewart was a longtime activist for the 2022 PACT Act, which expanded healthcare to these people affected by burn pits. | veterans |
| A location in this state simply called “The Lake” is near the Bethesda Fountain and the Ramble. Lake Tear of the Clouds is on the slopes of this state’s highest point, Mount Marcy. | New York State |
| Ivan Pavlov studied digestion in dogs while working in what profession? | doctor |
| In his writings, this Jewish head of the Red Army called out “a new Soviet variety” of antisemitism. This founder of the Fourth International was assassinated with an ice pick while in exile in Mexico. | Leon Trotsky |
| Pogroms and religious persecution lead many Soviet Jews to immigrate to Israel, an action designated by this Hebrew term. The Law of Return promotes this action which translates to “the act of going up.” | aliyah |
| This empire’s Periwig Era saw its strong currency deter trade, coining the name for an economic “disease.” The term rangaku referred to books sold by this empire’s traders on the island of Dejima near Nagasaki. | Dutch |
| Name this quantity defined as the amount of energy that needs to be added for an object’s temperature to increase by one degree. | heat capacity |
| The ratio of the heat capacity at constant pressure and heat capacity at constant volume gives an “index” described by this term. In this type of thermodynamic process, there is zero heat exchanged. | adiabatic |
| An adiabatic process has a constant value for pressure times this quantity to the power of the adiabatic index. This quantity can be expressed in meters cubed or liters. | volume |
| One character in this play states that his wife is a “sensitive-plant” after acknowledging she clings onto a coat he owns with twelve bullet holes in it. That character in this play also complains about the lack of nighttime and his missing toothbrush. | No Exit |
| Name this leader of En Marche, who was accused of hypocrisy by Iran for his management of the Yellow Vests protests. This president defeated Marine Le Pen to win re-election in 2022 | Emmanuel Macron |
| Macron showed solidarity for protests over the September 2022 death of this woman. This woman fell into a coma after being detained by Iran’s “morality police.” | Mahsa Amini |
| Mahsa Amini was arrested for improperly wearing one of these pieces of clothing, which are mandatory for Iranian women. Marine Le Pen advocated for a nationwide ban of these Islamic headscarves | hijabs |
| The duty cycle is equal to pulse width over one form of this quantity. Resistance times capacitance gives a constant named after this quantity. Crystal oscillators measure this quantity and frequently use piezoelectric materials such as quartz. | time |
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