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0 | literature | Seven young women from the audience make offerings to begin a drama from this region in which the hero defeats the Scrotum King and is peppered with cannon fodder by the Smallpox King. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>Niger</u></b> River <b><u>Delta</u></b> [accept <b><u>Ogoni</u></b>land, <b><u>Delta State</u></b>, <b><u>Rivers</u></b> State, Oil <b><u>Rivers</u></b>, or <b><u>Bayelsa</u></b>; prompt on lower <u>Niger</u> River, the <u>Delta</u>, southern <u>Nigeria</u>, southeast <u>Nigeria</u>] (Th... |
1 | fine-arts | Maya Plisetskaya often replaced this antagonist’s most iconic sequence with vigorous piqué turns. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>Odile</u></b> (“oh-DEEL”) [or <b><u>Black Swan</u></b>; or le <b><u>Cygne Noir</u></b>; reject “Odette”]",
"answer_primary": "Odile",
"clean_answers": [
"Black Swan",
"Odile",
"Cygne Noir",
"le Cygne Noir; reject Odette"
],
"difficulty_modifier": n... |
2 | history | The market for this plant took off in response to John Appleby’s invention of the mechanical reaper-binder. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>henequén</u></b> [or Agave <b><u>fourcroydes</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "henequén",
"clean_answers": [
"fourcroydes",
"Agave fourcroydes",
"henequén"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": "Name this pla... |
3 | science | The 1966 paper that introduced these compounds touted their use in the Hill reaction, as well as succinate oxidation in bean mitochondria. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>Good’s buffer</u></b>s [or <b><u>Good buffer</u></b>s]",
"answer_primary": "Good’s buffers",
"clean_answers": [
"Good buffer",
"Good buffers",
"Good’s buffer",
"Good’s buffers"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,... |
4 | literature | One of these events occurs after a couple studies “the wild pantheism of Fichte, the modified palingenesis of the Pythagoreans, and the doctrines of Identity as urged by Schelling.” For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "the <b><u>death</u></b> of a beautiful <b><u>woman</u></b> [accept any answer that indicates that a <b><u>woman</u></b>, <b><u>wife</u></b>, or <b><u>beauty</u></b> is <b><u>dying</u></b>; prompt on answers that indicate only <u>death</u> by asking “of what sort of character?”]",
"answer_p... |
5 | history | Douglass Adair argued that this essay’s “most amazing political prophecy” was actually taken from Hume’s “Parties in General.” For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "Federalist No. <b><u>10</u></b> [or the <b><u>Ten</u></b>th Federalist Paper]",
"answer_primary": "Federalist No. 10",
"clean_answers": [
"the Tenth Federalist Paper",
"10",
"Federalist No. 10",
"Ten"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": ""... |
6 | fine-arts | Pauline Oliveros directed this institute after it moved to Mills College in 1966. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>San Francisco Tape Music Center</u></b> [or <b><u>SFTMC</u></b>; accept <b><u>Mills Tape Music Center</u></b> or <b><u>MTMC</u></b>; accept <b><u>Center for Contemporary Music</u></b> or <b><u>CCM</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "San Francisco Tape Music Center",
"clean_answers": [
... |
7 | mythology | Bart Ehrman likes to begin lectures by talking about a prophesied miracle-worker who was put on trial by the Romans and ascended to heaven, then revealing he’s talking about this man. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>Apollonius</u></b> of Tyana",
"answer_primary": "Apollonius of Tyana",
"clean_answers": [
"Apollonius",
"Apollonius of Tyana"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": "Name this Pythagorean philosopher who travels... |
8 | science | In a classic experiment testing this effect, Drosophila embryos exposed to ether vapors developed a second thorax and after 20 generations those bithorax flies could be bred without ether. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>genetic assimilation</u></b> [prompt on <u>genetic accommodation</u>]",
"answer_primary": "genetic assimilation",
"clean_answers": [
"genetic assimilation"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": "Name this process by ... |
9 | modern-world | Val Napoleon has argued that Allan McEachern’s infamous decision in this case stemmed from his treatment of oral histories as “cultural artifacts” rather than “embedded” law. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u><em>Delgamuukw</u></b> v. British Columbia</em> [or <b><u><em>Delgamuukw</u></b> v. The Queen</em>; or <b><u><em>Delgamuukw</u></b>-Gisday’wa</em>]",
"answer_primary": "Delgamuukw v. British Columbia",
"clean_answers": [
"Delgamuukw v. British Columbia",
"Delgamuukw-G... |
10 | history | The Cooper Union speech tars John Brown by association with this man, whose actions prompted Palmerston to introduce a Conspiracy to Murder Bill that brought down his government. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "Felice <b><u>Orsini</u></b> [accept <b><u>Orsini</u></b> bomb]",
"answer_primary": "Felice Orsini",
"clean_answers": [
"Felice Orsini",
"Orsini",
"Orsini bomb"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": "Name this I... |
11 | literature | The twentieth chapter of a novel titled for this place reads in its entirety, “I lay at your feet like a rug, Alya!” For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>Berlin Zoo</u></b> [or <b><u>Berlin Zoo</u></b>logical Garden; or <b><u>Zoo</u></b>logischer Garten <b><u>Berlin</u></b>; prompt on <u>zoo</u> by asking “in what city?”]",
"answer_primary": "Berlin Zoo",
"clean_answers": [
"Berlin Zoological Garden",
"Zoo",
"Ber... |
12 | science | Maria and Hernando Quevedo proposed a geometric interpretation of this field of physics in terms of a contact structure invariant under Legendre transformations. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>thermodynamics</u></b> [accept <b><u>geometrothermodynamics</u></b> or <b><u>geometrical thermodynamics</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "thermodynamics",
"clean_answers": [
"thermodynamics",
"geometrical thermodynamics",
"geometrothermodynamics"
],
"difficu... |
13 | fine-arts | This artist’s barbaric and childlike drawings are described in a work that praises him as a “passionate spectator” and a “man of the world.” For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "Constantin <b><u>Guys</u></b> (“gheez”) [or Ernest-Adolphe <b><u>Guys</u></b> de Saint-Hélène; prompt on <u>M.G.</u>]",
"answer_primary": "Constantin Guys",
"clean_answers": [
"Ernest-Adolphe Guys de Saint-Hélène",
"Guys",
"Constantin Guys"
],
"difficulty_modi... |
14 | social-science | In a 5,000-year history, the founder of this economic school argued that “confidence in money” underlies the “viability of market economies.” For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>regulationism</u></b> [or <b><u>regulation</u></b> school]",
"answer_primary": "regulationism",
"clean_answers": [
"regulation school",
"regulationism",
"regulation"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": ... |
15 | literature | The speaker of a poem by this author bitterly asks, “What later purge from this deep toxin cures? / What kindness now could the old salve renew?” For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "William <b><u>Empson</u></b> (The book is <em>Seven Types of Ambiguity</em>.)",
"answer_primary": "William Empson",
"clean_answers": [
"William Empson",
"Empson"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "The book is Seven Types of Ambiguity.",
"number"... |
16 | religion | The theory that the Qur’an anticipates later science is often called Bucailleism after a doctor who claimed to find salt crystals on this person’s body. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>Pharaoh</u></b> [or <b><u>Firaun</u></b>; accept <b><u>Merneptah</u></b> or <b><u>Ramesses II</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "Pharaoh",
"clean_answers": [
"Ramesses II",
"Merneptah",
"Firaun",
"Pharaoh"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanatio... |
17 | history | Unlike Athenian heiresses, fatherless girls without brothers called patrōiōkos could reject marriage to their father’s nearest kin in this city. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>Gortyn</u></b> [or <b><u>Gortyn</u></b>a; or <b><u>Gortys</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "Gortyn",
"clean_answers": [
"Gortyn",
"Gortys",
"Gortyna"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": "Name this city, a r... |
18 | other-science-(math) | William Lawvere was inspired by Hegelian dialectics to promote this subfield as the basis of mathematical foundations. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>category</u></b> theory [accept <b><u>categories</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "category theory",
"clean_answers": [
"category",
"category theory",
"categories"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": "Name ... |
19 | philosophy | According to Barbara Cassin, this “signifier of the signifier” is a “false cut,” since it was coined by removing two letters from an Ancient Greek word for “nothing.” For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u><em>den</em></u></b> (Democritus may have removed the negative prefix <em>me</em> from <em>meden</em>, meaning nothing, to get <em>den</em>; by analogy, the <em>not</em> is removed from <em>nothing</em> to get <em>hing</em>.)",
"answer_primary": "den",
"clean_answers": [
"d... |
20 | literature | In William Cullen Bryant’s translation, a José María Heredia poem personifies one of these events as a giant in “gray skirts” and exclaims, “He is come! He is come!” For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>hurricane</u></b>s [accept “En una tempestad: Al <b><u>huracán</u></b>,” “Oda al <b><u>huracán</u></b>,” “The <b><u>Hurricane</u></b>,” <em>Hurricane Season</em>, or <em>Temporada de <b><u>huracane</u></b>s</em>; prompt on <u>season</u>s or <u>temporada</u>]",
"answer_primary": ... |
21 | other-science-(math) | The sup-norm of the difference between a CDF named for this adjective and the CDF of the reference distribution is used as the statistic in a Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>empirical</u></b> [accept <b><u>empirical</u></b> cumulative distribution function or <b><u>empirical</u></b> CDF]",
"answer_primary": "empirical",
"clean_answers": [
"empirical cumulative distribution function",
"empirical",
"empirical CDF"
],
"difficul... |
22 | social-science | A meta-analysis by Bond and DePaulo found that people detect this phenomenon with 53 percent accuracy when given audiovisual or audio cues, but only 50 percent of the time with just visuals. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>lying</u></b> [or telling a <b><u>lie</u></b> or <b><u>deception</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "lying",
"clean_answers": [
"deception",
"telling a lie",
"lying",
"lie"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"ques... |
23 | history | Dennis Tedlock theorized that the “test houses” of Xibalba in the Popol Vuh are based on the five types of this object’s cycles. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>Venus</u></b> [or <b><u>Nohoch Ek</u></b>’; prompt on Great <u>Star</u> or <u>ek</u>]",
"answer_primary": "Venus",
"clean_answers": [
"Nohoch Ek",
"Nohoch Ek’",
"Venus"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question... |
24 | fine-arts | An artist with the surname Boggs who gave himself the moniker “Just Some Guy” made a career out of selling hand-drawn, multicolored paintings resembling this stuff. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>money</u></b> [accept equivalents like <b><u>cash</u></b>; accept <b><u>dollar</u></b>s or <b><u>pound</u></b>s; accept <b><u>bill</u></b>s; accept a million <b><u>quid</u></b>; reject “paper”]",
"answer_primary": "money",
"clean_answers": [
"dollars",
"dollar",
... |
25 | other-academic | A Soviet researcher working with expert blacksmiths produced “cyclograms” while studying “intertrial variability” in this phenomenon. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "bodily <b><u>motion</u></b>s [or bodily <b><u>movement</u></b>s; accept <b><u>motor</u></b> skills or <b><u>motor</u></b> learning; accept <b><u>kinesis</u></b> or <b><u>kinesiology</u></b>; accept <b><u>motion</u></b> studies or time and <b><u>motion</u></b> studies]",
"answer_primary": "... |
26 | literature | In one of a ridiculous number of letters discussing oysters with his Harvard pen pal Cornelius Felton, this author expressed admiration for notorious illegal oyster glutton Edward Dando. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "Charles <b><u>Dickens</b></u>",
"answer_primary": "Charles Dickens",
"clean_answers": [
"Charles Dickens",
"Dickens"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": "Name this author who put remarks about oysters in the mouths... |
27 | history | This concept is attributed to both Aristotle and Ardashir in Ibn al-Batriq’s Secretum Secretorum, which illustrates it in a verse beginning “the world is a garden for the state to master.” For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>circle of justice</u></b> [or <b><u>circle of equity</u></b>, <b><u>circle of power</u></b>, <b><u>daire-i adalet</u></b>, <b><u>daire-e adalet</u></b>, or <b><u>dairat al-adala</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "circle of justice",
"clean_answers": [
"circle of equity circle of... |
28 | science | The Fakhri lab realized a “living chiral crystal” of starfish embryos displaying “odd dynamics,” which can be described theoretically as this type of matter. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>active</u></b> matter",
"answer_primary": "active matter",
"clean_answers": [
"active matter",
"active"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": "What adjective describes profoundly out-of-equilibrium systems that... |
29 | religion | Charles Johnson’s essay “Why Buddhism for Black America Now?” appears in an essay collection titled for this activity, which he wrote decades after his slave narrative novel titled for it. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>ox-herd</u></b>ing [accept <b><u><em>Taming the Ox</em></u></b> or <b><u><em>Ox-Herding</u></b> Tale</em>]",
"answer_primary": "ox-herding",
"clean_answers": [
"Ox-Herding Tale",
"ox-herding",
"Taming the Ox",
"ox-herd",
"Ox-Herding"
],
"diff... |
30 | fine-arts | A 13th-century Old Galician collection of these pieces dedicated to the Virgin Mary is unusually attributed to the King of Castile, Alfonso X. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>canticle</u></b>s [or <b><u>cántiga</u></b>s; accept <b><u><em>Canticle</u></b> of the Sun</em> or <b><u><em>Cántiga</u></b>s de Santa María</em> or <b><u><em>Canticle</u></b>s of St. Mary</em>]",
"answer_primary": "canticles",
"clean_answers": [
"cántigas",
"Cántiga"... |
31 | history | At a meeting of the National Indignation Convention, J. Evetts Haley quipped that he was against this “moderate” movement, and was instead “for hanging.” For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>Impeach Earl Warren</u></b> [accept <b><u>impeach</u></b>ing Earl <b><u>Warren</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "Impeach Earl Warren",
"clean_answers": [
"Warren",
"Impeach Earl Warren",
"impeach Warren",
"impeach",
"impeaching Earl Warren"
],
"d... |
32 | literature | A trucker drives across this state to go on a disappointing date with a schoolteacher in a story from Maile Meloy’s collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>Montana</u></b> [or <b><u>MT</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "Montana",
"clean_answers": [
"Montana",
"MT"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": "Name this state, the setting of The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir... |
33 | philosophy | In one book, this philosopher discussed whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be killing the elderly by failing to raise old-age pensions. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "Jonathan <b><u>Glover</b></u>",
"answer_primary": "Jonathan Glover",
"clean_answers": [
"Jonathan Glover",
"Glover"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": "Name this author of Causing Death and Saving Lives. This Engl... |
34 | science | Valence isomers are constitutional isomers that interconvert via these reactions. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>pericyclic</u></b> reactions [prompt on <u>electrocyclic</u> reactions or <u>electrocyclization</u>s, <u>cycloaddition</u>s, <u>cycloelimination</u>s, <u>sigmatropic</u> reactions, <u>ene</u> reactions, or <u>cheletropic</u> reactions by asking “what is the general class of reactions?”]"... |
35 | fine-arts | Answer the following about lost artworks that inspired essays in Judith Schalansky’s book An Inventory of Losses, for 10 points each. | [
{
"answer_line": "the <b><u>Moon</u></b> [accept the Earth’s <b><u>moon</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "the Moon",
"clean_answers": [
"the Earth’s moon",
"the Moon",
"moon",
"Moon"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": "Scha... |
36 | literature | The author’s acquaintance with Fulcanelli may have inspired a manifesto’s claim that this process, like surrealism, allows “man’s imagination to take a stunning revenge on all things.” For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "making the <b><u>philosopher’s stone</u></b> [or descriptions of <b><u>making gold</u></b>; or <b><u>magnum opus</u></b>; or <b><u>great work</u></b>; or <b><u>chrysopoeia</u></b>; prompt on <u>transmutation</u>; prompt on <u>alchemy</u>; prompt on <u>hermetic</u>ism]",
"answer_primary": "... |
37 | science | In one technique, production of these molecules begins with the fusion of antigen-exposed B-cells to HGPRT negative, immortal myeloma cells. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>monoclonal antibodies</u></b> [or <b><u>mAb</u></b>s; prompt on <u>antibodies</u> or <u>immunoglobulin</u>s]",
"answer_primary": "monoclonal antibodies",
"clean_answers": [
"mAb",
"mAbs",
"monoclonal antibodies"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"expla... |
38 | history | Odo of Deuil’s account of one of these events claims that its participants got spooked by a snake charmer and started a riot in the city of Philippopolis. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>crusade</u></b>s [or <b><u>croisade</u></b>s; accept <b><u>crusading</u></b> movement or <b><u>croiserie</u></b>; prompt on holy <u>war</u>s, <u>iter</u>, or <u>peregrinatio</u>]",
"answer_primary": "crusades",
"clean_answers": [
"crusading",
"crusades",
"croisa... |
39 | modern-world | A 2023 HHS report on this issue compares its effects to smoking 15 cigarettes daily. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>loneliness</u></b> [accept synonyms like <b><u>isolation</u></b>; accept answers about a <b><u>lack</u></b> of social <b><u>connection</u></b>; accept <b><u>loneliness</u></b> epidemic; reject “solitude”]",
"answer_primary": "loneliness",
"clean_answers": [
"synonyms like i... |
40 | other-academic | This thinker suggested updating Kant with an “energetic imperative” reading “do not squander energy!” and wrote “Sunday sermons” for Ernst Haeckel’s Monist League. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "Wilhelm <b><u>Ostwald</u></b> [or Friedrich Wilhelm <b><u>Ostwald</u></b>; accept <b><u>Ostwald</u></b> process]",
"answer_primary": "Wilhelm Ostwald",
"clean_answers": [
"Ostwald process",
"Wilhelm Ostwald",
"Ostwald",
"Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald"
],
"di... |
41 | history | Catalan Austracists settled New Barcelona in a region named for this title, which became part of the Military Frontier after the Habsburgs won it in the Treaty of Passarowitz. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>ban</u></b> [or <b><u>bán</u></b>ok; accept <b><u>Ban</u></b>at, <b><u>Ban</u></b>ate, <b><u>Bán</u></b>ság, or <b><u>Ban</u></b>ovina; accept <b><u>Ban</u></b>at of Temesvar or <b><u>Ban</u></b>at Republic]",
"answer_primary": "ban",
"clean_answers": [
"ban",
"Banovi... |
42 | science | This species’s reference genome helped map and assemble the more complex, polyploid wheat genome and served as a scaffold for genomic assembly of multiple barley species. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u><em>B</u></b>rachypodium</em> <b><u><em>distachyon</u></b> </em>[accept <b><u><em>B. distachyon</em></u></b>; prompt on <u><em>Brachypodium</em></u>]",
"answer_primary": "Brachypodium distachyon",
"clean_answers": [
"B. distachyon",
"B",
"Brachypodium distachyon... |
43 | literature | COSAW published a collection of this poet’s previously banned poems, titled When the Clouds Clear, when he returned from exile in 1990. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "Keorapetse <b><u>Kgositsile</u></b> (“ko-ra-PET-seh ho-set-SEE-leh”) [or Keorapetse William <b><u>Kgositsile</u></b>; prompt on Bra <u>Willie</u>]",
"answer_primary": "Keorapetse Kgositsile",
"clean_answers": [
"Keorapetse William Kgositsile",
"Kgositsile",
"Keorapets... |
44 | fine-arts | Answer the following about the making of films directed by Dee Rees, for 10 points each. | [
{
"answer_line": "Gordon <b><u>Parks</u></b> [or Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan <b><u>Parks</u></b>] (The film is <em>Shaft</em>.)",
"answer_primary": "Gordon Parks",
"clean_answers": [
"Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks",
"Parks",
"Gordon Parks"
],
"difficulty_modifier": ... |
45 | history | Archibald Cox promoted the theory that George Washington created the precedent of executive privilege in the aftermath of this military disaster. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>St. Clair</u></b>’s (“Sinclair’s”) defeat [or Battle of the <b><u>Wabash</u></b> River; or Battle of a <b><u>Thousand Slain</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "St. Clair’s defeat",
"clean_answers": [
"Wabash",
"St. Clair’s defeat",
"Battle of a Thousand Slai... |
46 | other-culture | A 2015 Washington Post op-ed described how Thomas Jefferson High School failed to prevent an AI class from using this image in coursework. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u><em>Lenna</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>Lena</em></u></b>; accept Lena <b><u>Forsén</u></b>; accept Lena <b><u>Soderberg</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "Lenna",
"clean_answers": [
"Lenna",
"Lena",
"Lena Soderberg",
"Lena Forsén",
"Soderberg",
"Forsé... |
47 | science | Photons in semiconductor lasers such as VCSELs are produced by radiative recombination of electrons and these particles. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "electron <b><u>hole</u></b>s [reject “holons”]",
"answer_primary": "electron holes",
"clean_answers": [
"reject holons",
"electron holes",
"hole"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": "Name these positively-cha... |
48 | literature | Friedrich Kittler’s Discourse Networks 1800/1900 is bookended by discussions of two adaptations of this legend. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>Faust</u></b> legend [accept the legend of Doctor <b><u>Faustus</u></b>, Johann Georg <b><u>Faust</u></b>, or John <b><u>Faustus</u></b>; accept <b><u><em>Faust</u></b> Part One</em>, <em>My <b><u>Faust</em></u></b>, or <em>Mon <b><u>Faust</em></u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "Faust leg... |
49 | philosophy | In a typically difficult passage from De li non aliud, this thinker claimed that “Not-other is not other; nor is it other than other; nor is it other in an other… because Not-other is not other than anything.” For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>Nicholas</u></b> of Cusa [or <b><u>Nicolaus</u></b> Cusanus or Nicolaus <b><u>Cusanus</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "Nicholas of Cusa",
"clean_answers": [
"Cusanus",
"Nicholas of Cusa",
"Nicolaus Cusanus",
"Nicholas",
"Nicolaus"
],
"difficulty... |
50 | fine-arts | In this painting, an old man wearing a Santa-hat-like cap is carried to safety in a scene inspired by Aeneas bearing Anchises away from Troy. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<em>The <b><u>Fire in the Borgo</em></u></b> [or <em>L’<b><u>Incendio di Borgo</em></u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "The Fire in the Borgo",
"clean_answers": [
"Incendio di Borgo",
"The Fire in the Borgo",
"Fire in the Borgo",
"L’Incendio di Borgo"
],
"diff... |
51 | religion | This book became Bob Dylan’s “second Bible” after he joined the Vineyard movement. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<em>The <b><u>Late Great Planet Earth</b></u></em>",
"answer_primary": "The Late Great Planet Earth",
"clean_answers": [
"The Late Great Planet Earth",
"Late Great Planet Earth"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": ... |
52 | history | The theorizer of these roles claimed that warrior-heros like Starkad, Indra, and Heracles commit “three sins” against them by undermining sovereignty, warfare, and productivity. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>function</u></b>s [accept tri<b><u>functional</u></b> hypothesis]",
"answer_primary": "functions",
"clean_answers": [
"function",
"functional",
"functions",
"trifunctional hypothesis"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"numb... |
53 | science | The Law of Matching Water Affinities predicts the formation of the “contact” type of these species. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>ion pair</u></b>s [accept intimate <b><u>ion pair</u></b>; accept contact <b><u>ion pair</u></b>; accept <b><u>ion pair</u></b> chromatography; prompt on <u>IPC</u>; reject “ion association”] ",
"answer_primary": "ion pairs",
"clean_answers": [
"intimate ion pair",
"i... |
54 | history | The philosopher Cheng Yi helped promote a “cult” centered on these people by writing that, in the face of poverty, “to starve to death is a very small matter.” For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "chaste <b><u>widow</u></b>s [or <b><u>guǎfù</u></b>; accept cult of <b><u>widow</u></b> chastity or <b><u>zhēnjié</u></b>; accept descriptions of <b><u>widow</u></b>s who did not remarry after the death of their husbands; accept <b><u>jiéfù</u></b>; prompt on <u>women</u>, <u>wives</u>, or syn... |
55 | fine-arts | This company’s large 290 model, the Imperial, featured 97 keys at Ferruccio Busoni’s request, and Victor Borge dubbed it the Rolls-Royce of pianos. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>Bösendorfer</u></b> [or <b><u>Boesendorfer</u></b>]",
"answer_primary": "Bösendorfer",
"clean_answers": [
"Boesendorfer",
"Bösendorfer"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
"number": 1,
"question": "Name this maker of costly hand-buil... |
56 | literature | An author with this surname used pigs to symbolize the “preterite” non-elect of Puritan theology in a novel that references his ancestor’s tract on The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>Pynchon</u></b> [or <b><u>Pyncheon</u></b>] (Thomas Pynchon, the descendent of William Pynchon, coined that usage of “preterite” in <em>Gravity’s Rainbow</em>.)",
"answer_primary": "Pynchon",
"clean_answers": [
"Pyncheon",
"Pynchon"
],
"difficulty_modifier": n... |
57 | social-science | This psychologist argues that burnout is caused by mismatches in workload, control, reward, community, fairness, and values. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "Christina <b><u>Maslach</u></b> [accept <b><u>Maslach</u></b> Burnout Inventory]",
"answer_primary": "Christina Maslach",
"clean_answers": [
"Christina Maslach",
"Maslach Burnout Inventory",
"Maslach"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",
... |
58 | literature | This action titles a book by Harry Levin that defines Marlowe’s tragic heroes by their impetus to perform it. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "<b><u>overreach</u></b>ing [accept the <b><u>overreacher</u></b> or Sir Giles <b><u>Overreach</u></b>; prompt on <u>reach</u>ing]",
"answer_primary": "overreaching",
"clean_answers": [
"Overreach",
"Sir Giles Overreach",
"the overreacher",
"overreach",
"ov... |
59 | other-science-(computer-science) | Data structures with this property may leverage layouts such as the Z-order curve and Eytzinger layout. For 10 points each: | [
{
"answer_line": "cache-<b><u>oblivious</u></b> [reject “cache-unaware” or “cache-aware”]",
"answer_primary": "cache-oblivious",
"clean_answers": [
"reject cache-unaware",
"cache-aware",
"cache-oblivious",
"oblivious"
],
"difficulty_modifier": null,
"explanation": "",... |
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