Trivia Misses

SNL alum and namesake of a cancer support org

Gilda Radner

Which Russian tsar, the second of that name, succeeded his father Nicholas I in 1855 and was assassinated by members of the 'People's Will' movement in 1881?

Alexander II

Name this mountain range whose tallest peak, Cross Fell, is located in the ceremonial county of Cumbria. The Tyne Gap separates these mountains from the Cheviot ("CHEE-vee-ut") hills

Pennines

The word PEZ was built from the first, middle & last letters in the German word for this candy

Peppermint

Rock band from Cleveland named for an avant-garde play from Alfred Jarry, debut album The Modern Dance and debut single 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, only permanent member is vocalist David Thomas

Pere Ubu

It's the official commission to honor America in 2026--we'll be halfway to 500

Semiquincentennial

Martin Kove is best known for playing this type of Japanese-named instructor

Sensei (Karate Kid)

Allmusic's "Hollywood" Steve Huey writes that this song by R&B duo P.M. Dawn, which famously samples Spandau Ballet's 1983 hit "True," is "about letting go of personal attachments once they had outlived their importance." Name the song.

Set Adrift on Memory Bliss

The catalog of MoMA's first exhibition called this artist who died in 1891 a "man of science" & "inventor of a method"

Seurat

The German Eurodance group who had early 1990s hits with The Power and Rhythm is a Dancer share what name with a children's card game?

Snap!

For 10 points, name this novel in which the poet Ka investigates a string of suicides by headscarf-wearing girls during a blizzard, written by Orhan Pamuk.

Snow

What literary and film character is in the title of the song clip heard here, a huge international hit for the Italian band Baltimora? The song spent six months on the US Top 100 in 1985-86?

Tarzan

At the end of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie feels at peace after she imagines this character, who wears "the sun for a shawl." Janie is forced to shoot this character after he is bitten by a rabid dog during a hurricane.

Tea Cake

She holds a PhD in animal science & authored "The Autistic Brain" & "Humane Livestock Handling"

Temple Grandin

In Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde, Lord Darlington declares, "I can resist everything except"... what?

Temptation

During the French Revolution, Percy Blakeney uses as his secret identity the name of this flower; note the flower's bright reddish color

The Scarlett Pimpernel

What Burmese honorific, a male counterpart of "Daw," came to worldwide attention in 1961 when a diplomat addressed that way was appointed to a prominent international position?

U

Mia Hamm won 4 national soccer titles with this southern school

UNC

"Law & Order" man Fred Dalton Thompson, from 1994 to 2003 was what?

US Senator

Name this poet whose friendship with Auguste Rodin was the subject of Rachel Corbett's biography You Must Change Your Life, which takes its title from one of this author's poems.

Rilke

Name this disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii.

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

"Arch" sometimes comes after this front part of a stage: it has wings behind it on either side

proscenium

This structure contains dorsal and ventral horns, the latter of which are destroyed by the poliovirus

spinal cord

The Master is a 2021 biography of Roger Federer by Christopher Clarey. Early in the book, Roger's youth in and near what city where he was born is discussed? This Swiss city is located on the Rhine River and is bordered by both France and Germany.

Basel

1968 Dion hit that is a tribute to four assassinated Americans

Abraham, Martin, and John

The next-to-last episode of Sanford and Son featured what prolific blues performer? The closing three minutes were a jam session with his guitar, Lucille.

B.B. King

BTO was this group; the "O" was originally a trucking magazine

Bachman-Turner Overdrive

The holy scripture of this religion includes the Book of Certitude and the Kitab-i-Aqdas, which was written in Acre, near this religion's center in Haifa. For 10 points, name this religion based on Bábism, which was founded by Bahá'u'lláh

Bahai

During the Russian Civil War, the 26 Commissars founded a commune in this city, which replaced Ganja as capital of a brief republic. Dashnaks fought the Müsavat Party in the March and September Days in this oil-rich city

Baku

Of the four Olympic apparatuses used in Women's Artistic Gymnastics All-Around competition events, two are also used in the men's competition. Name BOTH apparatuses that are unique to the women's competition.

Balance Beam, uneven bars

Said ("SAH-eed") bin Sultan began recruiting soldiers of this ethnic group from Gwadar into the Omani military. People of this ethnic group, mainly from the Makran coast of Pakistan, make up around 30 percent of Oman's population

Baloch people

This city has often been called the "Silicon Valley of India" because it houses the headquarters of tech companies like Flipkart. This capital of Karnāṭaka state contains the Lal Bagh botanical garden.

Bangalore

In much of Southern Africa, the Iron Age corresponds with a long-term "expansion" out of Cameroon by this ethnolinguistic group, who likely created the Lydenburg heads. These peoples include the Sotho-Tswana and Nguni

Bantu

Sea directly north of Norway/Russia named for a Dutch explorer

Barents Sea

Second Battle of Guinegate between England/HRE and France known as the Battle of this given the haste with which French cavalry left the field

Battle of the Spurs

Battle of Northallerton in 1138 between England and Scotland also known as what?

Battle of the Standards

The horseback sports known across various Central Asian countries as buzkashi, kokboru, kokpar, kupkari, and ulak tarysh are notable for throwing what unusual (and large) item into the goal.

Goat carcass

2 words that completed Red Skelton's signoff, "Good night and..."

God Bless

Actress whose roles include Molly McGrath in Wildcats, Marianne Graves in Bird on a Wire, Helen Sharp in Death Becomes Her, title character in Private Benjamin

Goldie Hawn

Name this state where rural terrorists called "White Caps" arose. The alloy tycoon Elwood Haynes exploited the Trenton field gas boom that drove this state's 1880-1920 industrialization, as depicted by Booth Tarkington.

Indiana

To Canada to visit some of the national parks including Banff in Alberta & this larger, adjoining park to the north

Jasper

Body-of-water battles included the Coral Sea, Philippine Sea & this one that allowed Japan to seize Jakarta

Java Sea

Author of the Earth's Children novels

Jean Auel

Pope Francis is the current head of the global Roman Catholic Church, and is almost always seen wearing white. There is another very senior religious man nicknamed the Black Pope who is head of "the largest Catholic, male religious order." This man is the Superior General of what order? The fictional Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist was also a member of this order.

Jesuits

What happened in Cana

Jesus transforms water into wine at a wedding

The mouse Josephine titles a story by this author. In a different story by this author, the ape Red Peter presents a report on how he achieved human-level intelligence

Kafka

This author, who is dated to the 4th or 5th century CE, wrote a play in which a ring found inside a fish is shown to Dushyanta, allowing him to identify his wife. For 10 points, name this Sanskrit author of Cloud Messenger and The Recognition of Shakuntala

Kalidasa

WHAT TWO ANIMALS appear on the Australian coat of arms?

Kangaroo, Emu

This man is generally known as the father of radio astronomy due to his discovery while at Bell Labs in 1931 that celestial bodies could emit radio waves as well as light waves.

Karl Jansky

Seen here is a photo taken in 1967 of race manager Jock Semple attempting to physically remove what first woman to run the Boston Marathon as an officially registered competitor?

Katherine Switzer

This telescope, located in Hawaii, is the largest optical telescope in the world.

Keck

Which Italian king, the first of that name, succeeded his father Victor Emmanuel II in 1878 and was assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci in 1900?

Umberto I

Name this quality that is sometimes equated with greatness. A treatise by Edmund Burke associates this quality with the strong emotions invoked by fear, as opposed to beauty, which is invoked by love

sublime

What word is used for the type of laws, mainly historical, that were designed to regulate consumption, often to reinforce social hierarchies by limiting luxuries or extravagances to certain ranks?

sumptuary

ball gown/wedding dress material from the Persian for 'twisted woven'

taffeta

During the Qīngmíng festival, people burn joss paper and clean these places. The Qīngmíng festival is sometimes named for the sweeping of these places.

tombs

In Henry IV, part 2 a stage direction calls for the personification of Rumour to enter, painted full of what?

tongues

Gricer and ferroequinologist are terms for what kind of enthusiast?

trainspotter

Olympic gymnastics are divided into three categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, and a third introduced in 2000 and known as what? Belarus's Ivan Litvinovich and China's Xueying Zhu won gold in this category in Tokyo in 2021.

trampoline

n the 1950s Sarkis Acopian invented the solar-powered one of these devices, still good to have for emergencies

transistor radio

As its name indicates, this device on a satellite responds to a signal, sending it out again on another frequency

transponder

The intermediate in SN2 reactions has this geometry, which has a central atom with dsp3 ("D-S-P-3") hybridization bound to two axial and three equatorial ligands. This is the geometry of phosphorus pentachloride.

trigonal bipyrimidal

U' word meaning to criticize harshly

upbraid

How did Perseus kill the monster Cetus

used the head of Medusa

Elements responsible for the green color of emeralds

vanadium and chromium

What Yiddish slang term is used in English for the fee or percentage taken by a bookmaker for accepting a gambler's wager?

vigorish/vig

Yehudi Menuhin, Vanessa-Mae, and Nigel Kennedy play what instrument

violin

Feynman diagrams with extra vertices arise when considering the existence of these particles. Forces are mediated by the exchange of gauge bosons of this type that only exist for brief periods of time.

virtual particles

The bolted-in bench type of this clamp that holds an object in place is often used in metalworking

vise

The woven ridges in corduroy are also called these; very narrow ones are pin-these

wales

Shawnee word for an elk

wapiti

Thomson discusses this novel, which contrasts the "cut-up" Prue and the "partially blind" Hagar with the angelic Eva St. Clare. In this novel, Ophelia is asked to educate the young girl Topsy

Uncle Tom's Cabin

On August 30, 2003 Katie Hnida became the first woman to score in a college football Division I-A game, playing for what university, that might be best known for its basketball arena, The Pit?

University of New Mexico

These sacred writings of Hinduism explain the fundamental tenets of the religion

Upanishads

Word for a small amount of fluid volume, 1/480th of an ounce, and a type of musical note

minim

What is the word used for the type of freestyle skiing competition where competitors ski down a steep and bumpy path, and are scored based on turning, jumping, and speed? The word is also used for the bumps themselves.

mogul

In his letters, Degas often compared the ballerinas he painted to these animals.

monkeys

This division of plants, whose gametophyte generation is dominant, contains several epiphytes. These plants develop their dominant stage from a protonema and, with liverworts and hornworts, make up the bryophytes.

moss

In season 4 Fred tries to build a tower of junk to emulate a nearly 100-foot tall artwork of rebar and concrete most commonly named for the neighborhood where it, and the Sanfords, reside. Name this Los Angeles neighborhood.

Watts

A village in northeastern Ohio and a county south of Cleveland share this name, the surname of a general who led an attack in the Battle of Monmouth. The general would gain additional fame for his victories in the Northwest Indian War, making quite an impact on maps of the Midwest. The second most populous city in Indiana and the most populous county in Michigan are also named for him.

Wayne

In 2021 communiter (together) was added to this Olympic motto that means "faster, higher, stronger"

citius, altius, fortius

For 10 points, steel and what fuel name a precursor of the EU?

coal

In 2010 Rocky Robinson reached 376.363 miles per hour, the fastest land speed ever riding one of these

motorcycle

Far from hardcore, this type of film is about young people, often adrift & talking a lot (but not loud)

mumblecore

The Greek for "mushroom" gives us this word for the study of fungi

mycology

Greek letter identifying Poisson's ratio, or how much a material decreases in width and increases in length when stretched

nu

Ariely et al.'s 2012 paper is part of a literature on these interventions, which aim to change behavior without significantly altering options or incentives. These interventions title a 2008 book by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler.

nudges

One of Colorado's state songs is where these wildflowers grow

columbine

It can mean joint rule of a territory, but we associate this word more with an individually owned apartment

condominium

Larger than bongos, these hand-played drums often come in pairs mounted together

conga drums

Two ways to serve a prison sentence beginning with 'C'

consecutive and concurrent

This architectural term often refers to so-called "false arches" lacking a keystone, which instead are constructed from several offset horizontal pieces of stone that meet in the center

corbels

This cereal invented in the 1890s was bleached & used as nice, crunchy underfoot snow in early sound films

corn flakes

Originally a stand-up comedian and protégé of Foxx's, this actor appeared on his first of seven episodes of Sanford and Son before playing a restaurateur on "Happy Days" and a martial arts instructor in a series of four films. Name the actor.

Pat Morita

Pope who excommunicated Henry VIII

Paul III

A son of Antigonus I with this name and the epithet "the Besieger" attacked the Nabateans to control Arabia's bitumen deposits. An "invincible" Greco-Bactrian ruler with this name invaded Arachosia in the Mauryan Empire.

Demetrius

OSA occurs in 50 percent of patients with this disorder, whose sufferers often have a single transverse palmar crease. Patients with this disease have a high incidence of Alzheimer's due to having an extra copy of APP.

Down's Syndrome

Rob Halford leads this band that has celebrated 50 heavy metal years

Judas Priest

Pervez Musharraf took power after a conflict in this region that began with infiltrations across the Line of Control. The Kargil War was fought over, for 10 points, what mountainous region?

Kashmir

Prince William's wife

Kate Middleton

Quentin's father gives him one of these objects that represents the "mausoleum of all hope and desire." Quentin tries to break this object, but he continues to be tortured by the sound it creates

a watch

Hanuman's devotion to Rama is often considered to be an example of this concept. This term also refers to religious movements devoted to a supreme deity such as Vishnu or Shiva.

bhakti

Liquid nitrogen in conjunction with a doctor's scalpel can be used to perform this, a superchilled operation

cryosurgery

Another of the Black Paintings shows two men up to their knees in mud who, according to the painting's conventional title, are having a "Fight" with these specific weapons

cudgels

Jurchen households were organized by Nurhaci ("nur-HAH-chee") into a system of this many banners, with each functioning as a separate army. An alliance of this many nations attacked the Qīng ("ching") dynasty to suppress the Boxer Rebellion

eight

That 2012 book by Acemoğlu ("ah-jay-MOH-loo") and Robinson is titled Why [these entities] Fail. David Ricardo's original example of comparative advantage involved two of these entities exchanging wine and cloth

nations

Experiments to measure this particle's electric dipole moment make use of ones that have been slowed down from spallation sources using moderators.

neutron

Fungi that parasitize plants often also function as this type of decomposer. These decomposers feed on the decaying organic matter of the plants they kill.

saprophytes

You can feel the wind in your hair with this cocktail of vodka, cranberry juice & grapefruit juice

seabreeze

Cilantro & this other "C"-soning both come from the same plant, but at different stages in its life cycle

Coriander

Crowbar-wielding Richard Hillman gave chills on "Corrie", aka this perennial British soap opera

Coronation Street

Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn are what signs of what classical element?

Earth

Which President of Haiti, elected in 2016, was assassinated on the 7th of July 2021?

Jovenel Moise

The 1993 film Shadowlands chronicles the relationship between C.S. Lewis and which woman, played by Debra Winger

Joy Davidman

This traditional county, whose flag depicts a white rose, contains the cities of Leeds and Sheffield.

Yorkshire

Colombian F1 and driver for Williams and McLaren between 2001 and 2005, won Indy 500 in 2000 and 2015

Juan Pablo Montoya

An author with this surname wrote about a boy who escapes from an industrial mill in the novel Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy. Another author with this surname wrote the Chronicles of Barsetshire series.

(Frances and Anthony) Trollope

Sicilian dish made with tomato sauce and aubergine

Pasta alla Norma

This Native American finished devising a Cherokee syllabary of 86 symbols around 1821

Sequoyah

Identify the university in New Jersey named after the first canonized native-born American and founder of the first order of nuns in the United States (the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph).

Seton Hall

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" contains the sad line "I have measured out my life with" these utensils

coffee spoons

This type of chromosome, the only one to not have a "sub" version, occurs when the p arm is too short to be visible. The Y chromosome in humans is one example of this type of chromosome.

acrocentric

From the Hindustani word bangla, it's a one-story house with a thatched roof

bungelow

The original and traditional version of the Viennese indulgence known as Sachertorte is a dense chocolate layer cake coated with dark chocolate and served with whipped cream, with the cake layers sandwiching a layer of jam made from what fruit?

apricot

Alligator pear is another name for this superfood

avocado

Chapter 7, part of this code, has to do with liquidation of property

bankruptcy

Exam to become a lawyer

bar exam

Its milk, a popular Saharan beverage, has 3 times the vitamin C of a cow's

camel

pipes on a bagpipe that aren't fingered or blown

drones

A text-driven computer RPG can be conducted in a virtual domain called an M.U.D., or multi-user this

dungeon

In the "Markup Language" abbreviated XML, which provides greater flexibility over languages such as HTML with customized tags for the storage, organization, and presentation of data, what word is represented by the "X"?

extensible

Sometimes also known as pearl tea, which form of tea whose leaves have been rolled into small round pellets gets its English name from a black substance that those pellets resemble?

gunpowder tea

This food item with a body part & a dairy product in its name is actually a type of sausage

head cheese

Belying their name, these succulents often used as ground cover are native to Africa

ice plants

The aorta eventually splits into these arteries at the L5 spinal level, which then bifurcate into external and internal branches after crossing into the pelvis

iliac

From the Greek for 'zeal'

jealousy

An American lawyer & political activist, James Otis died in 1783 after he was struck by this

lightning

The largest internal organ in humans, it destroys old red blood cells

liver

A system of state-established agricultural markets in India

mandi

A type of Greek robe gives us this word for the skirt-like addition to the top

peplum

To have knowledge in a particular field is to know these veggies, though some say the word is a reference to a lexicographer

onions

Ph.D. exams taken in the third year

oral exams

It's not typically written, but this system's entries were originally named based on the text "Ut queant laxis" ("oot kway-ant lack-sis") by the monk Guido of Arezzo. The Kodály ("KO-dai") method of pedagogy is largely based on a "moveable" form of this system of solmization"

solfege

If the Supreme Court wants the government's views on an issue, a CVSG "calls" for the "view" of this "10th justice"

solicitor general

Shrill and SNL actress

Aidy Bryant

21st century: this NBA team sails over to Steve Ballmer for $2 billion"

Clippers

This great German printmaker left a diary of his travels across Europe, including his wife having her purse stolen in Antwerp

Durer

Designer of the black dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's

Givenchy

So-called 'father of trig' credited with discovering the precession of the equinoxes

Hipparchus

Modern English's biggest hit

I Melt With You

name shared by a hero in Russian folklore who hunts the Firebird"

Ivan

Washington's most populous county has this 4-letter name, just like a "Dome" once in the state

King

Country with megalithic structures at Ggantija, Skorba, and Tarxien

Malta

Civil War bullet named for a Frenchman

Minié

King Ludwig was a patron of Wagner, so this castle of his featured murals of Lohengrin & Parsifal

Neuschwanstein

Channel 4 sitcom which ran from 2003-2015 based around central characters Mark Corrigan and Jeremy Usborne?

Peep Show

Ankle wear big with Sinatra fans

bobby socks

Vlasic mascot

stork

Name these objects that title a story about Elizabeth Bates's failed relationship with her husband Walter, who is killed in a coal mining incident

(Odour of) Chysanthemums

In a poem, consuls and praetors wear embroidered, scarlet togas with amethyst and emerald-studded bracelets in order to dazzle these people. Name these people. A poem by Constantine P. Cavafy ("cuh-VAH-fee") ends with the observation that these people were "a kind of solution" after the speaker realizes that they no longer exist.

(Waiting for the) Barbarians

This "peaceful" city of 170,000 is the westernmost state capital in the contiguous United States

Salem

Scotch must be aged in oak casks a minimum of how many years?

3

Which three-digit number is the NHS non-emergency phone number in the UK and is also nicknamed a Nelson in cricket?

111

It's the highest atomic number for any known element: oganesson, formerly called ununoctium

118

How many tricks do you need to win in bridge for a small slam and a grand slam

12 for small, 13 for grand (all of them)

"Name this three-volume novel in which Aomame ("ah-oh-MAH-meh") reads In Search of Lost Time while in hiding after killing "The Leader." This Japanese novel is partly set in a world with two moons in the title alternate year.

1Q84

Bree and Shasta are title characters of what novel

A Horse and his Boy

Harry Shearer voices both Mr. Burns & this devoted executive assistant

Smithers

Clybourne Park, the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, is a spin-off to what 1959 oft-revived play, which won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award but not the Pulitzer nor the Tony? Clybourne Park is a fictional Chicago neighborhood inspired by the Washington Park subdivision.

A Raisin in the Sun

Ennio Flaiano, best known as the co-screenwriter with Federico Fellini for classics such as La Strada, La Dolce Vita and 8 ½, also won the very first Strega Prize for what novel in 1947, set mostly in Italian-controlled Ethiopia of the 1930s? The novel was made into a 1989 film starring Nicolas Cage. Coincidentally, also in 1989, an American author's debut novel, which dealt with racial relations in the American South, was published with the same English title. This author would go on to be one of the bestselling authors of the 1990s, and his first seven novels would all be adapted into films. English or Italian title acceptable.

A Time to Kill

The anhydrous form of this acid forms ice-like crystals and is thus termed "glacial." This acid is synthesized in both the Cativa and Monsanto processes.

Acetic Acid

Name this region that Homer used as a collective demonym for Hellenic Greeks, like Danaans and Argives. The historian Polybius joined a "league" named for this area of the Peloponnese, which fought Rome and Aetolia.

Achaea

Which Australian state capital lies at the mouth of the river Torrens, where it empties into Gulf St Vincent?

Adelaide

Which aunt of Maria Altmann was a Viennese socialite and patron of the arts who was depicted in two paintings by Gustav Klimt?

Adele Bloch-Bauer

The Battle of Maiwand in 1880 was a British military reversal where?

Afghanistan

5-letter Greek word referring to God's love for man and a Christian's love for others

Agape

This evangelist opened the Angelus Tempus in Los Angeles & preached there to a flock of thousands

Aimee Semple McPherson

Europe's top commercial aircraft manufacturer, its planes include the A220, A320 & the A350

Airbus

Name this Russian author of "Poem Without a Hero," who described families who die from famine and mass displacement in her poem Requiem

Akhmatova

Won Emmys as the voice of Lois in Family Guy and Susie Myerson on Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Alex Borstein

The fourth and most recent player in MLB history to join the 40/40 club for home runs and stolen bases in a season was what Nationals outfielder who did it in 2006, four years after falling one home run short with the Yankees as an infielder?

Alfonso Soriano

Due to a curse, Karna forgets the mantra to summon the Brahmāstra, leading to his defeat by this Pāndava warrior. The Bhagavad Gita relates how Krishna revealed himself as this warrior's charioteer.

Arjuna

Stereochemically opposite products are generated when reacting this functional group with sodium metal in liquid ammonia versus with Lindlar's catalyst. This functional group, which can be internal or terminal, contains a bond between two sp-hybridized atoms. For 10 points, name this functional group that consists of a carbon-carbon triple bond.

Alkyne

1946 Novel based on the life of Huey Long

All the King's Men

This man, who rose to fame in the 1950s, taught poetry at Brooklyn College from 1986 to 1997

Allan Ginsberg

This L-shaped metal wrench with hexagonal ends bears a manufacturing company's name

Allen wrench

In a March 2020 referendum, this president supported a controversial plan to reset term limits, allowing him to run for a third term. Name this president of Guinea. He was recently deposed in a military coup led by Mamady Doumbouya, who had previously attended a US army training session.

Alpha Conde

Ora Washington was barred from playing in U.S. Tennis Association tournaments because of her race, but starting in 1929, won a record seven consecutive titles playing in the American Tennis Association, which calls itself the oldest African American Sports organization in the United States. Washington's record stood until 1954, when it was broken by what other woman, who went on to win 10 straight ATA titles, and who would become the first African American to compete in a USTA tournament?

Althea Gibson

What name is missing in this geographically ordered west-to-east partial list of municipalities on the Sorrentine Peninsula: Positano, Praiano, Furore, Conca dei Marini, ______, Atrani, Scala, Ravello.

Amalfi

Political patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy, from 1938 to 1940 was what?

Ambassador to the UK

Applying this law to the second London equation shows that magnetic fields exponentially decay within a superconductor, quantifying the Meissner effect. This law relates current density to the curl of the magnetic field.

Ampere's Law

Hayastan is the name of what country in its native language?

Armenia

In 1960, Japan witnessed the largest popular protests in its modern history, as millions of people around the nation took to the streets to protest the US-Japan Security Treaty, which is the treaty that still allows the United States to maintain military troops on Japanese soil to this day. Although the protests failed to stop the treaty, they did bring down the government of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and forced the cancellation of a visit to Japan by US President Dwight Eisenhower. The common Japanese nickname for these protests is a two-syllable word which is also an abbreviation for the Japanese name of the Security Treaty. What is that word?

Ampo/Anpo

What is the FULL name of the South Korean archer who, in 2021, became the first person to win three gold medals for archery in a single Olympics--with her women's team, mixed team, and as an individual? Her name is a homophone of the 16th largest city in South Korea.

An San

N.T. Rama Rao served three terms as chief minister of this state. The Nandamuri-Nara family still holds much influence in this predominantly Telugu-speaking state, whose northwestern neighbor was split from it in 2014.

Andhra Pradesh

Name this writer, who claimed that "the simplest surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly... into the crowd" in the first Surrealist Manifesto.

Andre Breton

On December 1, 1948, President Jose Figueres Ferrer used a mallet to break a wall in the Cuartel Bellavista in downtown San Jose. Figueres did this to symbolize his country's elimination of what institution that same day? This structural change is credited with effectively "coup-proofing" the nation's democratic government in the years since, even as many neighbors saw authoritarian regimes rise.

Army (Costa Rica)

What artist, who famously declared, "I want to be a machine" in 1963, got his wish in 1982, when Colombian engineer Alvaro Villa created a robot in his likeness?

Andy Warhol

Now, it's time to get into the "ridiculously good at hockey" part of this quiz. Name the player on the right side of this photo, considered the first superstar of modern women's hockey, and one of the first two women inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. She remains the only Black woman to ever captain Team Canada.

Angela James

At this country's Battle of Quifangondo ("key-FAHN-goan-doo"), opposing sides were aided by South Africa and Cuba. During this country's independence war, Agostinho ("AH-gohs-teen-yoo") Neto and Jonas Savimbi led rival parties. Along with Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, this mainland African country fought the Overseas War against the Estado Novo

Angola

What queen has been portrayed at various times by Elsa Lanchester, Elvi Hale, Pia Girard, Joss Stone, and Genesis Lynea? It is unknown which of these actresses most closely resembled the Holbein portrait delivered to Henry. She not only was queen for the shortest time, but she also outlived the other five wives.

Anne of Cleves

1908 classic of Canadian Lit

Anne of Green Gables

Despite not medalling in the 1968 or 1972 Olympics, gymnast Cathy Rigby's appearances popularized the sport in the United States. Rigby would find later success in a different field, the Broadway stage, as what title character, also famously played by Mary Martin and Sandy Duncan?

Annie

"Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you"

Annie Get Your Gun

My Antonia main character

Antonia Shimerda

Associate of Garibaldi known for inventing an early telephone

Antonio Meucci

This Moon mission after Armstrong's suffered a lightning strike 36 seconds in & all 3 fuel cells in the service module went offline

Apollo 12

At one point, this Central Asian body of water was the fourth-largest lake in the world. However, due to over-irrigation by diverting the Syr Darya and Amu Darya Rivers as part of the Soviet Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature, it has lost about 90% of its surface area.

Aral Sea

Jairus's daughter is told "Talitha Kum" in this language that, along with Hebrew, was used to write the Book of Daniel. For 10 points, name this language of the Assyrian Empire

Aramaic

"Anne Boleyn impressed Henry VIII with her skills in what sport (inspiring the shape of her burial receptacle) due to his love for hunting? Her daughter, Queen Elizabeth I, also took up this sport.

Archery

Aconcagua is in which country?

Argentina

Name this home country of the poet Alfonsina Storni. Alejandra burns down her house to commit suicide in a novel from this country, Ernesto Sabato's On Heroes and Tombs

Argentina

From 1988 to 1997, the Women's College World Series was dominated by two schools that combined to win every title and met in the championship series on five separate occasions. Name both of these softball powerhouse schools, which were led by Mike Candrea and Sharron Backus, respectively.

Arizona, UCLA

Nieuwe Kunst and Modernista are different names for this art movement

Art Nouveau

Wasabi was cultivated as medicine during this period, when Japan first imported chopsticks. Goguryeo ("koh-goor-yuh") influenced tombs in Yamato during this 538-710 CE period, which ended when Empress Genmei moved the capital to Nara

Asuka period

The WNBA made headlines outside of the sports pages in 2020 when one team's players took on the franchise's then co-owner, a now-former US senator, calling for the owner's removal from the league over her vocal opposition to Black Lives Matter. Name the franchise. City AND team name required.

Atlanta Dream

On the Operation: Doomsday track "Dead Bent," Rapper MF Doom samples the pacific song "Always" — a 1987 number one hit by what band (from its platinum album, All in the Name of Love)?

Atlantic Starr

At the 2021 competition at Whistling Straits, Bernd Wiesberger became the first golfer ever from which central European country to represent Europe in the Ryder Cup?

Austria

Name this state whose 18th-century realms included Hainaut, Namur, and Flanders. This state's rivalry with Prussia, "German Dualism," continued after it allied with France instead of Britain in the "diplomatic revolution."

Austria

The 2013 documentary Venus Vs.chronicles Venus Williams' successful fight for equal pay for women athletes at Wimbledon, culminating in her being awarded the same prize money as Roger Federer when she won her fourth Wimbledon championship in 2007. The film was directed by what groundbreaking filmmaker, who, like Venus, grew up in Compton, California, and was nominated for an Oscar for a different documentary in 2016?

Ava DuVernay

Schubert piece with a Latin title published in his lifetime

Ave Maria

Serving from June to November 1993, who was the only woman to be PM of Canada?

Avril 'Kim' Campbell

These cells use imprecise non-homologous end-joining on their 14q32 locus to link together their V, D, and J chains. After these cells are clonally selected in germinal centers, they differentiate into memory cells and plasma cells. For 10 points, antibodies are secreted by what lymphocytes that mature in the bone marrow?

B cells

It was the first sequel in Sue Grafton's alphabet mysteries

B is for Burglar

With the christening of the Chiefs' home in March 2021 as GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, there remain exactly three stadiums that are primary homes to NFL teams and are not named after a corporate entity. Give the full name (city and team name) of any one of the three teams that play in these three stadiums

Bears, Bengals, Packers

Sea north of Alaska/Yukon

Beaufort

Which 2003 hit for Christina Aguilera opens with the lyrics "Everyday is so wonderful, and suddenly, it's hard to breathe. Now and then I get insecure, from all the pain, feel so ashamed"?

Beautiful

Name this country divided by the medieval Principalities of Turov and Polotsk. A rushnyk folk pattern appears on the red, white, and green flag of this country, which historically included Black and White Ruthenia

Belarus

After Expo 58, this country's capital became a byword for bad urban planning since it demolished the Art Nouveau "House of the People." The "People's Union" agitated for the 1962 language border across this country, which, from 1935-1945, was led by the fascist Rexist party. This country, which renovated its Royal Museum for Central Africa due to a book by Adam Hochschild, directed the murder of Prince Rwagasore in its colony of Burundi.

Belgium

Identify this period discussed "beyond Paris" in Dominique Kalifa's cultural history. The Second Industrial Revolution modernized this period of high-society frivolity from Haussman's remodeling of Paris to World War I

Belle Epoque

At 81, he was the oldest delegate to the Constitutional Convention

Ben Franklin

Fans at Nationals Park can order halfsmokes from a concession stand run by what iconic DC eatery, a mainstay of the city's African American community, which has a three-word name reflecting its founder and main product?

Ben's Chili Bowl

In medieval times this order of monks translated medical texts in their library at Monte Cassino in Italy

Benedictine

There is a particular order of monks that operates as a collection of autonomous monasteries. The monks in this religious order are often called Black Monks. One of the most recognized monks from the order is undoubtedly Dom Pierre Pérignon, a French monk whose name is often associated with champagne wine. What is this order of monks?

Benedictine

Sue Tilley, depicted sleeping in a 1995 painting by Lucian Freud is described in the title of the painting as what kind of supervisor?

Benefits Supervisor

One of the best-selling nonfiction books of all time was published in 1946 by what physician, a former Olympic gold medalist who would run for U.S. president in 1972 as the nominee (logically, given his anti-war activism) of the left-wing People's Party?

Benjamin Spock

Another empire ruled by this people, which was named for "ribat" frontier fortresses, supposedly sacked Kumbi Saleh. The Umayyad conquest of al-Andalus was led by one of these people, Ṭāriq ibn Ziyad, who also names the Strait of Gibraltar. Religious leaders within the Sanhaja, this ethnicity's largest tribal confederation, encouraged the formation of the Almoravid Empire.

Berber

Fill in the blank with the name of the Boston area college that Aimee Mann attended from 1978-1980

Berklee College of Music

In a 2012 Maria Semple novel, the titular character is an architect and MacArthur Fellow whose sudden mysterious disappearance leads to the question posed in the novel's title (The answer is Antarctica). The novel was adapted into a 2019 film starring Cate Blanchett as the aforementioned MacArthur Fellow. What is the name of this character?

Bernadette

While he was an accomplished painter, what 17th-century Neapolitan is also widely regarded as the inventor of Baroque sculpture, with numerous monumental works in Rome and the Vatican that include the design of St. Peter's Square?

Bernini

The binary entropy function used to constrain a noisy channel is the entropy of a random variable from a distribution named for this mathematician. This mathematician names "trials" with exactly two outcomes.

Bernoulli

This gigantic red star's name comes from the Arabic ibt al jauzah, meaning 'armpit of the central one'. It is particular bright and prominent star (the tenth brightest in the sky) and shines with a red-orange light. With Bellatrix, it forms the shoulders of Orion the Hunter.

Betelgeuse

Suffragist leader Susan B. Anthony once said: "Let me tell you what I think of redacted. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance." What athletic pursuit has been redacted?

Bicycling

"Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" was the sequel to this outstanding movie

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Shot and killed at Fort Sumner in NM by sherriff Pat Garrett

Billy the Kid

According to German law, in order for a dessert to be called by what regional name, it must contain kirschwasser, a clear spirit made from sour cherries? The dessert's name may be inspired by the traditional costume worn by women from the region, a characteristic hat with big, red pom-poms on top.

Black Forest Cake

The speaker of a Carl Sandburg poem calls this historical figure "a slanting look of the eyes, / A slanting look under a hat on a horse" and beseeches this figure to "Give us again the ache of our boy hearts." Name this historical figure who used to "break one two three four five pigeons just like that" and "ride a watersmooth-silver / stallion" in a poem that asks "how do you like your blue-eyed boy / Mister Death."

Buffalo Bill

SF and Fantasy have been much enriched over time by contributions from writers with reputations established in the broader literary field -- one might mention the Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing; or the Booker Prize winner Kingsley Amis. More recently, Jamaican writer Marlon James, who won the Booker Prize for his novel A History of Seven Killings, published which colorfully titled fantasy novel, first of a planned trilogy based on African history and mythology?

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Name this group of paintings, which includes The Dog as well as murky works like Witches' Sabbath. These paintings originally adorned the walls of the "House of the Deaf Man."

Black Paintings

Telfar Bag inspired by bags of this store at 59th and 3rd Ave

Bloomingdale's

It is generally accepted that Henry VIII enjoyed the pursuit of several mistresses outside of his marriages. He only acknowledged one illegitimate offspring -- Henry Fitzroy. Who was Fitzroy's mother?

Blount

In which 1961 film, featuring an American state in its title, did Elvis Presley play Chadwick Gates, who leaves the army and is expected to take over his father's fruit company but ends up working as a tour guide with his girlfriend Maile Duval?"

Blue Hawaii

What celebrity chef, who has hosted a myriad of eponymous shows on the Food Network (in addition to his appearances on Iron Chef America, Chopped, Worst Cooks in America, Food Network Star, The Best Thing I Ever Ate, and many others), has been on the network since its debut in 1994, and is set to celebrate his 30th anniversary on the channel after a new three-year contract was settled in November 2021.

Bobby Flay

"Holding Out for a Hero" is a hit by her

Bonnie Tyler

If you want to write a novel about a politician, it's generally wise to wait until your inspiration has passed away and can't sue. American journalist Edwin O'Connor didn't wait: His novel The Last Hurrah, a thinly-veiled version of the life of charismatic and corrupt machine politician James Michael Curley, came out in 1956, two years before Curley's death. Curley considered taking O'Connor to court, but later told him that he enjoyed the maudlin death scene that O'Connor had written for his alter ego Frank Skeffington. What city elected Curley to four terms as mayor and two in Congress? He also served one term as governor of the state of which this city is the capital.

Boston

The title math teacher feuds with "Redshirt" but allies with "Porcupine" in this Natsume Sōseki novel, which remains a standard assigned reading in Japanese schools.

Botchan

While songwriters George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam are best known for writing the Whitney Houston mega-hits "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," they are also members of what band, whose biggest hit, 1988's "Waiting for a Star to Fall," was featured in the 1990 movie Three Men and a Little Lady?

Boy Meets Girl

Name this superweapon from Hindu mythology that is capable of annihilating the world. This weapon, which is named after the god who created it, can only be summoned via intense concentration on destroying an enemy

Brahmastra

In July 2021, he became the first billionaire space company owner to ride his own craft into the heavens

Branson

On an unweighted graph, Dijkstra's algorithm reduces to this algorithm since the priority queue becomes equivalent to a standard queue. This algorithm searches all neighbor nodes before continuing to the next node.

Breadth-first search (BFS)

Scientist who hosts BBC 4 series The Infinite Monkey Cage with comedian Robin Ince

Brian Cox

Guitarist and founding member of Queen w/ Ph.D in astrophysics

Brian May

Billy Dee Williams is his friend Gale Sayers & James Caan is the title dying football player in this TV movie

Brian's Song

What was the last name of the brothers who operated a haberdashery for many years on the corner of 49th Street and Broadway in Manhattan, in a building they would come to own for decades (and name after themselves), and which would become a locus for American popular music?

Brill

In 2020, Rolling Stone magazine named a 1998 song by what artist as the greatest debut single of all time—a song which, it could easily be argued, is also the most successful single of all time whose title begins with an ellipsis?

Brittney Spears ("...Baby One More Time")

Fava beans is an American English name for the beans known in the UK by what name?

Broad beans

Name this neighborhood, which titles a 1945 collection that includes the sonnet sequence "Gay Chaps at the Bar." That collection titled for this neighborhood also includes a poem that opens "abortions will not let you forget."

Bronzeville

Josip Broz Tito ruled Yugoslavia from the end of World War II until his death in 1980. He mandated that Yugoslavia's ethnic divisions be subsumed by a commitment to Bratstvo i jedinstvo, which most frequently translates to what pair of ideals in English?

Brotherhood and Unity

What Grammy-winning singer-songwriter had a range of hits with his own band in the 1980s but also co-wrote or performed in several other artists' hits, perhaps most notably Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" (recorded in 1990) and Don Henley's "End of the Innocence" (1989)?

Bruce Hornsby

Second-largest city in Zimbabwe

Bulawayo

Ferdinand in a children's book by Munro Leaf is one of these animals

Bull

After the Meiji Restoration overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, Japan's old caste system was abolished, bringing an end to the samurai class and emancipating former outcasts engaged in professions such as begging, butchering, and executions. Despite being ethnically indistinguishable from other Japanese, these "untouchables" and their descendants have continued to face discrimination. By what euphemism, meaning "people of the village," is this group known today?

Burakumin/Buraku

three-letter tax professional standardized in 1917

CPA exams

In one performance, Paik ran into the audience, poured shampoo over this composer, and cut off his tie. This composer used the gamut technique for the ballet The Seasons, choreographed by his partner Merce Cunningham

Cage

Winner of Book of the Year at the National Book Awards, which journalist wrote the bestselling 2011 non-fiction book How to be a Woman?

Caitlin Moran

This character plans a coup against a magic-wielding dictator and enlists the help of Stephano and Trinculo. For 10 points, name this character, the son of Sycorax and the slave of Prospero in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

Caliban

What US state has two new National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) expansion franchises set to start playing in the league in 2022? This state did not have a team in the league prior to this year. One of these teams has a majority female ownership group of more than a dozen superstars, including former team USA stars Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy and Abby Wambach.

California

In 2018 it was reported that this British firm had accessed the personal data of up to 87 million Facebook users

Cambridge Analytica

Both 2021 Women's Singles tennis US Open finalists were teenagers that stunningly beat everyone in their paths and were born in what country?

Canada

Name this Nearctic plateau covered in boreal and mixed forests like the North Woods. Nickel and copper are mined from the Sudbury Basin on this plateau of Precambrian rock, which names a craton that included Greenland.

Canadian Shield

SA Parliament meets in this city established in 1652 as a Dutch East India Company refreshment station

Cape Town

This 1978 movie starring Elliot Gould and James Brolin, centers on a team of scientists stages a phony Mars landing in order to protect the reputation of the U.S. space program.

Capricorn One

They play their home games in Busch Stadium

Cardinals

Reindeer is a familiar term in North America—thanks in no small part to a certain red-nosed fellow—but the species (Rangifer tarandus) is more often referred to in Canada and the US by what other common name?

Caribou

The second most popular pilgrimage site in France (after Lourdes) is the Basilica of Lisieux dedicated to St. Thérèse of Lisieux. From which one of the four great mendicant orders did St. Thérèse of Lisieux come? This order reputedly was named after a mountain on the coast of northern Israel. The Shrine of the Báb was built on the slopes of this mountain as was the city of Haifa.

Carmelites

This scientist's Agricultural Research Foundation in Tuskegee was founded after he donated most of his life savings in 1940

Carver

In the 18th century the reggia (royal palace) was designed by Luigi Vanvitelli and completed by his son Carlo for the Bourbon kings of the era, who intended it to be their capital, inland from the larger port city of Naples. By volume, it is the largest palace in the world and was used as a set for two Star Wars films, Angels and Demons and Mission Impossible III. In what city can this tourist attraction and UNESCO World Heritage Site be found?

Caserta

In the 1920s, author Zane Grey built a Pueblo-style house near Avalon Bay on this island

Catalina

During the "democratic six years" that overlapped with France's Belle Époque, this region's leaders led its country's First Republic. This region's textiles were its country's main industry under a king called "the African."

Catalonia

"Now and Forever" was the tagline for what musical, which, with 21 years in London and 18 on Broadway, did seem to run forever, figuratively speaking?

Cats

Mountain range running from Black Sea to Caspian Sea that serves as traditional divider b/t Europe and Asia

Caucasus

With this man the Entertainer as host of the Emmys in 2021, the ratings went up from the previous year

Cedric

This team has won 17 NBA titles

Celtics

Which word precedes 'Cup' in the name of the competition, founded in 1896, that is the most prestigious knockout rugby league tournament in the UK?

Challenge

Vermont's smallest county is Grand Isle, which sits in this lake

Champlain

Cynisca of Sparta is the first woman recorded as winning an Olympic Games event, doing so in 396 BCE, at a time when women were not even allowed to attend the games. What event did she win, which she was able to enter by exploiting a loophole?

Chariot racing

Cliff Clavin is the mailman in this show

Cheers

The UK's only South American supporter in the Falklands War was what nation , whose emigrants now account for five percent of the islands' population?

Chile

Which country is the setting for Puccini's opera Turandot?

China

Bernini also sculpted a memorial to Maria Raggi, a nun from this island. An 1824 painting of suffering people on this island borrows from Antoine-Jean Gros's Plague at Jaf a and arranges the figures in two human pyramids.

Chios

Breton probably would have disliked the staged nature of the 1971 performance art piece Shoot, in which this artist was shot in the shoulder with a .22-caliber rifle by a friend.

Chris Burden

This 17th century Dutch scientist was among the first to use a balance spring in the design of watches

Christian Huygens

What common, informal Italian term, borrowed into many different languages including English, originally was derived from the word "slave" in Venetian dialect, as a servant's common way to salute and show respect to his or her master? Its first documented modern-day use was in Giovanni Verga's 1874 novel Eros and, later, it was part of the title of a popular Italian protest song and anthem.

Ciao

Name this confederation of twelve Muslim tribes whose homeland is now a republic within Krasnodar Krai. After a century of conflict, the Russian Empire massacred and expelled over a million of these people in a genocide.

Circassians

Identify these locations exemplified by Cahaba, the "Old Brick Capitol," Point Lookout, and Johnson's Island. The Dix-Hill Cartel regulated these places, which included Libby, the site of a rodent nest nicknamed "Rat Hell."

Civil War prison camps

This scientist names a [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement that forms an unsaturated carbonyl from an allyl vinyl ether. He also names a condensation which combines two esters into a beta-ketoester.

Claisen

The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation usually goes to TV episodes or movies, so it was surprising to see an experimental rap group nominated in the Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) category two years running for an album (Splendor and Misery) and a song ("The Deep"), both SF-themed. ("The Deep" garnered them a third Hugo nomination when Rivers Solomon turned it into a collaborative novel.) (One group member, Daveed Diggs, is probably better known for his work on a certain historical musical than for his SF-related work!) Name this group.

Clipping

John Laurens tried to recruit a "Black Battalion" before his death at a 1782 battle on this river. A Black feminist "collective" is named for this river near Beaufort, South Carolina, where Harriet Tubman led an 1863 raid

Combahee

In retaliation for similar conduct by Texas Instruments a few years earlier, a competing company then led by Jack Tramiel began selling its contemporaneously introduced system at a series of increasingly deep discounts in order to force a price war. Name this competing company

Commodore

Located in Tajikistan, Ismoil Somoni Peak is both the highest mountain in Central Asia and the highest point in the former Soviet Union. However, most people recognize it by one of its former names, one it held from 1933-1962 or another it held from 1962-1998. Give either of these former names.

Communism or Stalin Peak

What singer, better known for "Who's Sorry Now?" and "Where the Boys Are," wished for a "Robot Man" and his dependable "robot love" in a 1960 song that reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart?

Connie Francis

This astronomer's master work is De Revolutionibus.

Copernicus

That infamous battle of the bands pitted Webb's house band against a band led by this Kansas City pianist, whose Orchestra had hits with "Jumpin' at the Woodside" and a version of "April in Paris."

Count Basie

High in pectin, the quince is commonly used to make jam, jelly and pudding. In fact, the word "marmalade" (from the Portuguese) originally referred to a quince jam. However, the word "quince" takes its name from an ancient site on what Mediterranean island, considered the birthplace of Zeus?

Crete

To pay Venetian debts before Constantinople, Enrico Dandolo had crusaders sack a port in this country during the Fourth Crusade. This country contained the mercantile cities of Ragusa and Zara, as well as Diocletian's Palace in Split. For 10 points, what Balkan country on the Adriatic contains most of Istria, Slavonia, and Dalmatia?"

Croatia

Arthur Jarvis is murdered by Absalom Kumalo in what Alan Paton novel?

Cry, the Beloved Country

For 10 points, the cha-cha-cha, conga, and mambo originate in what country whose capital names the habanera dance?

Cuba

The full name of this 1966-76 upheaval commences with "Great Proletarian"

Cultural Revolution

What publishing partnership, formed in 1857 between an established lithographer and his firm's bookkeeper, promoted its lithographs for many years as "Colored Engravings for the People"?

Currier and Ives

Akrotiri and Dhekelia are British Overseas Territories where?

Cyprus

Archbishop Makarios was the first President after independence of which country?

Cyprus

The replacement of the koruna with the euro has been postponed in what country?

Czech Republic

Odour of Chrysanthemums" was written by this author, who wrote about the alcoholic coal miner Walter Morel in his novel Sons and Lovers.

DH Lawrence

The products of this process are bound by the protein mutated in Rett syndrome. The mismatch repair pathway distinguishes template and daughter strands based on this process, which is studied using bisulfite conversion. This process occurs heavily at repetitive elements. This process most often occurs at the N6 position of adenine and C5 of cytosine. Its occurrence at CpG islands in promoters silences genes. For 10 points, name this chemical modification of nucleotides in which a CH₃ ("C-H-3") group is added.

DNA Methylation

A protein key to this process is cleaved by subtilisin to form the Klenow ("KLEN-ow") fragment. An experiment in which E. coli were alternately grown in nitrogen-15 and nitrogen-14 media showed that this process is semi-conservative. In eukaryotes, this process requires ligase to join Okazaki fragments on the lagging strand."

DNA Replication

Which popular garden plant with large daisy-like flowers was introduced to Europe from Mexico in the late 18th century and named after a Swedish botanist?

Dahlia

Name this 1848-1856 Governor-General of India whose "non-regulation system" tolerated local laws. Despite Rani Kittur Chennamma's 1824 rebellion, this later leader formalized the doctrine of lapse to annex princely states.

Dalhousie

During the Seleucid dynastic wars, Demetrius III Eucaerus ("yoo-kai-russ") ruled from this city on the king's highway, which lost power after Seleucus I Nicator founded Antioch. This ancient capital city names a strong Wootz-type material

Damascus

Dude's name which is also the term for a rank in martial arts

Dan

Michelle Pfeiffer plays the idealistic teacher in this movie. She finds herself confronted with a classroom of tough, sullen teenagers, from low income backgrounds, involved in gang warfare and drugs. At first they don't accept her, but she manages to connect with them and draw out their inner beauty and they all learn a lesson from each other. What was the name of this 1995 drama?

Dangerous Minds

The Scranton branch of the Dunder-Mifflin Paper Company was managed for many years by Michael Scott. Who is his English equivalent, the long-time manager of the Slough branch of Wernham Hogg Paper Merchants?

David Brent

1964's "Picture of a Hollywood Swimming Pool" was the first of many pool paintings by this Brit who made a big splash in the USA

David Hockney

British painter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy

David Hockney

Mostly known as a prolific, legendary producer of such classic films as La Strada, Serpico and all of the Hannibal Lecter films except Silence of the Lambs, what Italian also opened an eponymous Italian-themed food market/restaurant in New York and California that is considered to be a prelude to Eataly? It may also have inspired his famous granddaughter, whose culinary TV career earned her a Daytime Emmy and the Gracie Award as television host.

De Laurentiis

Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickock are buried next to each other in Mount Mariah Cemetery in what town in SD?

Deadwood

"This needs to be perfect, these emails have to prove that we were actually friends"

Dear Evan Hansen

Damian Warner first Canadian Champion in this and first to pass 9K points

Decathlon

Name this generalized function that is equal to zero everywhere except for at the origin, where it equals infinity

Delta function

What actor starred as Private Peterson in the original 1981 Off-Broadway production of A Soldier's Play? In 2010 he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role in a revival of a the play that won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize and reprised that role in a 2016 film, which earned him his seventh of eight Academy Award nominations for acting.

Denzel Washington

After Murad I died at the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, Serbia became a disloyal Ottoman vassal ruled by men with this title, like Stefan Lazarević ("lah-zah-reh-veech"). Medieval rulers of Dobruja, Epirus, and the Morea took this Byzantine Greek title.

Despot

Main character in Invictus played by Matt Damon

Francois Pienaar

flask which holds liquefied gases

Dewar flask

Gem-named volcanic tuff cone on Oahu

Diamond Head

The discovery of a 3.03-carat one in 1990 had Arkansas' Crater of these State Park living up to its name

Diamonds

In 2013, at the age of 64, on her fifth attempt, what aptly named author, journalist, and longtime contributor to NPR swam from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark tank? She claims to have been the first to do so, but her feat has yet to be ratified by any recognized swim body.

Diana Nyad

Name these items, one of which a woman hurls at a telescreen as she angrily yells "Swine! Swine! Swine!" At the novel's end, the protagonist joins a "sub-committee of a sub-committee" that arises in the creation of these items.

Dictionary (Newspeak)

What Italian clothing company, which sounds more like something associated with cars, was founded in Breganze, Veneto in 1978 by Renzo Rosso and Adriano Goldschmied? Though it produces many types of clothing, it is primarily known for its denim products and has both an eponymous line and a "Black Gold" line of ready-to-wear luxury clothing and accessories employing advertising campaigns that have used social consciousness and ironic plays on global issues as themes.

Diesel

One of five LPGA major championships, the Chevron Championship was known as the ANA Inspiration from 2015 to 2021, but is still often referred to by its original name, that of its founder, who was what music and television personality and 1994 honorary LPGA Hall of Famer?

Dinah Shore

Mathematician who gives his name to a type of polynomial equations whose solutions of interest only have integer coefficients

Diophantus

Which equation, named for the British physicist who formulated it in 1928, was the first quantum mechanical theory to account fully for special relativity, and predicted the existence of antimatter?

Dirac

Currently, what is the only Olympic field event in which the world record held by a woman (76.8 meters) is better than the record held by a man (74.1 meters)?

Discus

Hughenden Manor was the home of this 2-time British prime minister nicknamed Dizzy

Disraeli

At 17 hours & just over 9,000 miles, one of the world's longest flights is from Auckland to this capital of Qatar

Doha

Which one of the four great mendicant orders recognized in 1274 by the Second Council of Lyon is missing? Saint Thomas Aquinas was a member of this order.

Dominicans

This thinker contended that if a "Swampman" suddenly replaced him, its thoughts would be meaningless because it has no causal associations.

Donald Davidson

Various versions of a certain African American spiritual include lines such as "Gonna lay down my sword and shield", "Gonna put on my golden shoes", and "Gonna meet my dear old mother". What line, sung three times, follows each of these preceding lines, is a common title of the spiritual, and is the location where these activities will take place?

Down by the Riverside

In December 1577 he set sail from England with 5 ships & a crew of more than 150 men on a voyage around the world

Drake

There are at least five bars in the Falklands' capital alone, and the local cocktail is the "Falkland Islands Warmer", comprised of lemon juice, sugar, hot water, and what honey-and-whisky based liqueur that reflects the heritage of many Falkland inhabitants?

Drambuie

The play "Chantzhe in Amerika" is about a woman wanting to learn this modern skill; "How I Learned to" do it is a non-Yiddish play

Drive

The Rasa'il al Hikmah or Epistles of Wisdom is the foundational sacred text of the faith of which Middle Eastern ethnoreligious group?

Druze

Prince William given this title on wedding day

Duke of Cambridge

Francois Gerard painted a painting of this Duke

Duke of Wellington

Edward VIII given this title after abdicating in 1936

Duke of Winsor

Name this author whose novel Georges was influenced by his part-African ancestry. Many plot elements in Georges resemble a different novel by this author whose protagonist marries his Turkish slave Haydée

Dumas (pere)

This man uses his method of "ratiocination" to deduce that Madame L'Espanaye's killer was an "Ourang-Outang." For 10 points, "The Purloined Letter" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" feature what detective created by Edgar Allan Poe?

Dupin

Kāli uses her tongue to defeat Raktabīja after she emerges from the forehead of this warrior goddess who is an aspect of Shakti. A nine-night long Hindu festival celebrates this goddess's defeat of the buffalo asura Mahishasura.

Durga

We'll quote half a poem by Frost: "The way a crow / Shook down on me /" This title "From a hemlock tree"

Dust of Snow

Born Arthur Flegenheimer, he was gunned down in 1935 after his plan to murder prosecutor Thomas Dewey alarmed other mobsters

Dutch Schultz

This poet wrote about the "majesty and burning of the child's death" during the London Blitz. This author described men whose "words had forked no lightning" in another poem whose speaker prays "Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears." That poem evokes men whose "Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay," a reference to this poet's dying father"

Dylan Thomas

Name this town, a childhood home described in "How it Feels to be Colored Me." In a novel set in this town, a character is compared to Abraham Lincoln after he buys Matt Bonner's sad mule for five dollars.

Eatonville, FL

The Panama hat is made from the young leaves of the jipijapa & actually originated in this country

Ecuador

Semi-hard Dutch cheese named after a town in North Holland, sold in flat-ended spheres with a coat of red paraffin wax

Edam

Which American photojournalist captured the iconic 1968 image of the summary execution of a Viet Cong captain during the Tet offensive by a South Vietnamese brigadier general, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography the following year?

Eddie Adams

Serving from May 1991 to April 1992, who was the only woman to hold the title PM of France

Edith Cresson

The new tallest building in Africa will be the Iconic Tower in this country's New Administrative Capital, due to be completed in 2022

Egypt

This Israeli airline has been in business since 1948, when the state of Israel was founded

El Al

The Canadian-American businesswoman Florence Nightingale Graham was better known by what name, also the name of the cosmetics empire she founded in 1910?

Elizabeth Arden

Naples has a rich, distinctive language and culture that its immigrants have spread around the world and its residents have enjoyed for centuries. Two of its classic songs, heard here sung by Luciano Pavarotti, were recorded in Neapolitan and remade in 1960 into English versions with which American singer scoring #1 hits with both?

Elvis Presley

Some adaptations of Pictures at an Exhibition add *new* pictures that Mussorgsky never saw. What trio included "The Sage" and "Blues Variation" in a 1971 reimagining of Mussorgsky's suite - certified gold by the RIAA

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

In 1992, Manon Rhéaume became the first woman to play in any of the major North American pro-sports leagues. What position did she play?

Goalie

Hard Rock's iconic music memorabilia collection began in 1979 when what now-legendary musician, a regular at the first restaurant in London, had management hang his red Fender Lead II guitar over his regular seat to claim his spot?

Eric Clapton

Maker of Chanel No. 5

Ernst Beaux

Denny Zager and Rick Evans may have been the ultimate one hit wonder. Their song "In The Year 2525" was #1 for 6 weeks, a record for an artist that never had another Hot 100 single. Give the subtitle of this song, which was also the subtitle of the album on which it appeared. Caveat: you must include both the beginning & end of the subtitle.

Exordium and Terminus

In his poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo," Rilke compares these objects to "ripening fruit." In "The Panther," the curtains of these objects "[lift], / quietly" and "An image enters in."

Eyes

Private detective in Walter Mosely novels

Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins

2009 Campion film Bright Star tells of the romance between John Keats and what woman played by Abby Cornish?

Fanny Brawne

This agency's official Roy Stryker trained photographers like Jack Delano and Gordon Parks

Farm Security Administration

Spencer Tracy adjusts to life as a grandfather in the 1951 sequel "Father's Little" this math term

Father's Little Dividend

The style of wine bottle seen here, with a round body and bottom partially or completely covered with a close-fitting straw basket, has what appropriate name that describes what may happen if one person consumes the entire bottle?

Fiasco

Which 2002 hit for Christina Aguilera opens with the lyrics "After all you put me through, you'd think I'd despise you, but in the end, I wanna thank you, 'cause you made me that much stronger"?

Fighter

Frank Bainimarama has been the prime minister of what country since leading a military coup - allegedly delayed several hours because of an intra-governmental rugby match - in 2006? He had previously served as a naval officer, commander of the armed forces, and an earlier stint as interim prime minister in 2000-01 after overthrowing a prior government. Both coups resulted in the country's suspension from the Commonwealth of Nations.

Fiji

Derived from the French verb meaning "to spin thread", what is the four-letter name of the herb—dried sassafras leaves reduced to powder—that can be used to thicken and flavor soups, stews, and, most notably, gumbo?

Filé

Billie Eilish's brother, who helps write her music

Finneas O'Connell

Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius are associated with what classical element

Fire

Joshua Slocum did this single-handedly in a boat called the Spray in 1898

circumnavigate the globe

Name this reaction that creates an ester by refluxing a carboxylic acid and an alcohol in the presence of an acid catalyst.

Fischer Esterification

Dante's depiction of Paradise in the Divine Comedy follows Ptolemy's cosmology, putting Earth at the center. The first sphere of Paradise is the sphere of the Moon, followed in order by Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. That makes only seven spheres, however, and Dante depicted nine. Name either of the other two spheres of Paradise; one of them also appears in Ptolemy's cosmology, and one does not.

Fixed Stars, Primum Mobile

Milady de Winter had a darkly criminal past, as evidenced by a symbol branded on her shoulder. What was that symbol, often associated with the French monarchy, which was used to brand both criminals in France and runaway slaves in French Louisiana?

Fleur-de-lis

Calcium gluconate is used to neutralize an acid which contains this element as an anion ("AN-eye-on") and which is commonly used to etch glass. This element is bonded to carbon in the repeating unit of Teflon

Fluorine

City founded in Brazil in 1928 as a center for rubber production that was abandoned four years later

Fordlandia

Thanks to a suggestion by Nerdist's Chris Hardwick, the video for Folds's song "Do It Anyway", off his 2012 reunion with the rest of the Five, The Sound of the Life of the Mind, celebrated the 30th anniversary of the debut of what Jim Henson children's show that is slated to return in 2022 thanks to streaming TV?

Fraggle Rock

Outspoken about the racism she faced in her sport, Bonaly said "I wanted to do something to please the crowd, not the judges. The judges are not pleased no matter what I do." What nation did Bonaly compete for?

France

Andrew Cuomo stepped in and arranged for the construction of the statue pictured here in Battery Park, dedicated on Columbus Day 2020. Who is this honoree, the first US citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church?

Frances Xavier (Mother) Cabrini

Raza (1942), a film about a family torn apart by civil war, was based on a semi-autobiographical novel by what dictator writing under the pseudonym "Jaime de Andrade"? Eight years later, the same dictator's regime would censor the film, resulting in a second version intended not to antagonize his country's new allies.

Franco

Hilary Swank plays the idealistic teacher in this movie. She finds herself confronted with a classroom of tough, sullen teenagers, from low income backgrounds, involved in gang warfare and drugs. At first they don't accept her, but she manages to connect with them and draw out their inner beauty and they all learn a lesson from each other. What was the name of this 2007 drama?

Freedom Writers

Channel 4 sitcom ran from 2011-2020, centered around the weekly gatherings of the Goodman family

Friday Night Dinner

Which popular garden shrub with pendulous teardrop-shaped flowers was introduced to Europe from Hispaniola in the early 18th century and named after a German botanist?

Fuchsia

This most populous Georgia county is thought to be named for a steamboat pioneer

Fulton

Joseph II promised Luxembourg to France to bolster his plan to trade the Austrian Netherlands for Bavaria, which provoked Frederick the Great into creating this German alliance in 1785

Fürstenbund

Name this character who, in a novel titled for her by Clarice Lispector, finds a drawing of two people and a dog on the wall, and kills and eats a cockroach that emerges from a wardrobe

GH

Russian GPS

GLONASS

Euro-alternative to GPS headquartered in Prague, launched 2016

Galileo

President who was mayor of Buffalo

Garfield

In May 2021, a Hard Rock Casino location opened in what City & State which features memorabilia from local natives the Jackson 5?

Gary, IN

This Oscar-winning actor was back on the beat as New York cop Popeye Doyle in "French Connection II"

Gene Hackman

This ruler and his brother Qasar legendarily killed their older half-brother for stealing a fish. To ensure that no blood was spilled, this leader's blood brother Jamukha was executed by back-breaking. The Ilk Khorig, or Great Taboo, may contain this leader's unknown tomb. This husband of Börte was said to have been born with a blood clot in his hand

Genghis Khan

Belfast City airport renamed in 2006 for whom?

George Best

What former (and future) heavyweight champion appeared as an amateur actor in 1976's "The Director"? In the episode (of Sanford and Son) Fred claimed he sent this boxer a get well card after he lost the title in Zaire.

George Foreman

DC absorbed this town 3 miles NW of the Capitol

Georgetown

Black Moth, Regency Buck, and My Lord John all written by whom?

Georgette Heyer

What European country has had eight politicians in the last decade see their doctorates revoked on account of plagiarism, leading to the resignation of three ministers under its long-serving head of government who recently left office?

Germany

This colorful Italian composer, who killed his wife and her lover, composed highly chromatic madrigals like Moro lasso al mi duolo. Aldous Huxley praised his music as a "bridge back to the human world."

Gesualdo

In the Purgatorio, Dante noted that this painter of the Scrovegni Chapel severely overshadowed his teacher, Cimabue

Giotto

Italy has more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any other country. Italy's latest one, inscribed in 2021, is a cycle of frescoes in and around the Scrovegni chapel in Padua. Who is the artist of these frescoes, who is also known for designing a well-known tower in Florence and, possibly, a set of frescoes dedicated to the life of St. Francis?

Giotto

The songs from Aimee's November 2021 album, "Queens of the Summer Hotel", were intended to be part of a stage adaptation (so far delayed by the pandemic) of a best-selling 1993 memoir by Susanna Kaysen about her time spent in a psychiatric hospital. The book was adapted into an award-winning 1999 movie starring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, and Whoopi Goldberg. Name the book or the film of the same name.

Girl, Interrupted

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which is known as COP26 (as it is the 26th "Conference of the Parties" to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), convened on October 31, 2021, in what city?

Glasgow

Propane-1,2,3-triol is the systematic name for a compound with the formula C3H8O3 that features three hydroxyl groups and is used as a solvent and a sweetener. What is its one-word common name?

Glycerol

Identify the cheese, the most popular of the Italian blue cheeses, which is among the earliest of all veined cheeses (having been introduced to the Po Valley in the 9th century) and is named after a village outside Milan.

Gorgonzola

Name this Australian leader who visited Zhōu Ēnlái's China before Nixon to renew wheat contracts. This leader backed Suharto's invasion of East Timor and passed the Racial Discrimination Act before his 1975 dismissal

Gough Whitlam

Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 and China proper in 1937, before eventually launching an ill-fated war against the United States with the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. However, it was not until 1940 that Japanese leaders came up with an ex-post-facto justification for their ongoing war in Asia by claiming that they were liberating Asia from western imperialism for the mutual benefit of all Asian peoples. The English translation of this concept is sometimes abbreviated GEACPS. What is the full English name of this idea?

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Of this title object Keats asked, "What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape, of deities, or mortals, or of both"

Grecian Urn

An anarchist of this ethnicity wrote the labor history "I do mind dying." In 1909, racists burned this ethnic group's enclave in South Omaha. Teddy Roosevelt sent warships to end the 1904 kidnapping of a millionaire of this ethnicity in Tangier. This was the ethnicity of a centrist Maine senator with surname Snowe and a governor credited with the "Massachusetts miracle." This ethnic group founded many 24-hour diners and a Detroit "Town" that appears in the novel Middlesex

Greek

A 2007 column by the New York Times' Thomas Friedman is credited as the origin of this 3-word term

Green New Deal

CFL Championship trophy

Grey Cup

The Social Life of Opium in China recounts how people would use opium with prostitutes on "flower boats" in this city. Trade that took place in this city's Thirteen Factories was regulated by a system named for this city.

Guangzhou

This indie band is led by former Ohio schoolteacher Robert Pollard

Guided by Voices

Largest Ecuadorian City

Guyaquil

The collection A Street in Bronzeville is by this poet, who wrote about pool players who "lurk late" and "strike straight" in the poem "We Real Cool."

Gwendolyn Brooks

According to local lore in Northern Ireland, one easy way to reveal whether someone is a Catholic or a Protestant is by the way they pronounce the name of what consonant? The less common "Catholic" pronunciation, still flagged as nonstandard by most dictionaries, has been gaining popularity throughout the UK and Australia in recent decades.

H

German musical note instead of B-natural

H

Cover versions of four songs from this Broadway musical, by four different artists, appeared on the Hot 100 in 1969, one each at #1, #2, #3 and #4. By what name is this show, subtitled "The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical", commonly known?

Hair

This single-named songbird tugged at our heartstrings with "You Should Be Sad"

Halsey

This play character says when the wind is southerly, he knows a hawk from a handsaw

Hamlet

Resident composer to James Brydges, Duke of Chandos, composed 11 "Chandos Anthems

Handel

A chant named for this figure wishes him victory and says that he "illuminates the three worlds." Name this figure praised in a namesake chalisa by Tulsidas. A festival named for the Jayanti of this figure is held during the month of Chaitra to mark his birth.

Hanuman

Oduduwa became the first ruler of this legendary Yoruba city, which is considered the birthplace of humanity. Oduduwa planted a palm nut at this location that became the progenitor of nature.

Ile-Ife

In a scene written by this author, a character gets his glasses broken and attempts to rape Lulu during a game of blind man's bluff. In that play by this author, Meg gives Stanley a toy drum, which is broken during a night with Goldberg and McCann. For 10 points, name this playwright of Betrayal and The Birthday Party.

Harold Pinter

1982's Falkland/Malvinas war is notable in military history for featuring the first widespread use of these avian-named British jump jets that employed "V/STOL" technology?

Harrier

Thomson also cites this author, who wrote about her experience of becoming physically debilitated after spending seven years confined in a tiny crawl space in her autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

Harriet Jacobs

A 2020 Grammy tribute to essential workers, "United We Sing", saw this crooner & daughter Georgia celebrate heroes around the country, including, of course, the Crescent City

Harry Connick Jr.

What city, founded in its present location in 1519 by Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez, was originally located on its country's south coast, and was the site of a disputed event that triggered a war in 1898?

Havana

Two instrumentals from TV shows peaked in the Top 20 in 1969. One, by the Ventures, had the same title as the TV show. The other, by the Charles Randolph Greane Sound, was named for a werewolf who became a zombie. Name either TV show.

Hawaii Five-O, Dark Shadows

This character gives a pistol to the academic rival of her husband George and coaxes him into shooting himself. For 10 points, name this title character who kills herself at the end of a play by Henrik Ibsen.

Hedda Gabler

Drama on Starz about pro wrestlers featuring Stephen Amell

Heels

At the end of this period, Tomoe Gozen, one of the first onna-musha, or female samurai, fought in the Genpei War. A list of "hateful things" was included in a zuihitsu work from this period; that famous Pillow Book was written by Sei Shōnagon. Lady Murasaki wrote the Tale of Genji during, for 10 points, what 8th-to-12th century period of Japanese history that preceded the Kamakura shogunate?

Heian

Hoist gloves protect first responders' hands while aboard these vehicles performing rescues

Helicopters

This scientist found that double layers act as dielectrics while observing electrodes in electrolyte solutions. He also names a thermodynamic quantity representing how much useful work can be extracted from a closed system

Helmholtz

On the silver screen this beloved actor played both "Mister Roberts" & "Young Mr. Lincoln"

Henry Fonda

Jack Cade's Rebellion took place during the reign of which English king?

Henry VI

Namesake law states the amount of dissolved gas in a liquid is proportional to its partial pressure above the liquid

Henry's Law

Generally acknowledged as the world's largest, WHAT MOTH endemic to northern Australia (and New Guinea) has wings with the biggest surface area of any insect, reaching over one foot in width?

Hercules Moth

Slavophile movements such as Russia's Pochvennichestvo ("POACH-vyin-yit-shist-vuh") and Ukraine's Ruthenian Triad drew on this "Counter-Enlightenment" philosopher, whose concept of Volksgeist also inspired Germany's Völkisch movement.

Herder

One of the earliest named historical figures in Japanese history whose existence is corroborated by contemporary chronicles was the shamaness-queen of the kingdom of "Yamatai." Although she ruled in the 3rd century CE, she has more recently made numerous appearances in films, comics, and video games, such as when Lara Croft searched for her tomb in the 2018 reboot of Tomb Raider. What was the name of this shamaness-queen?

Himiko/Pimiko

This poem asks "if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?" and states, "The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them." Name this poem collected in Leaves of Grass, whose final section contains lists such as "Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows" in a celebration of human anatomy.

I Sing the Body Electric

Glima wrestling, in which competitors wear a special belt is native to which country?

Iceland

Which President of Chad, in office since 1990, was shot dead while commanding his troops against militants on the 20th of April 2021?

Idriss Deby Itno

The aforementioned self-portrait is by this painter, who included his dog Trump in The Painter and his Pug. A black dog appears next to a drunk man in this artist's engraving Gin Lane.

Hogarth

Rose Marie, George Gobel, Vincent Price, and, most centrally, Paul Lynde were stars that appeared regularly on the classic version of what game show?

Hollywood Squares

This Jesuit priest discussed his religious doubt in six "terrible sonnets," which include "Carrion Comfort." This author dedicated a poem to five Franciscan nuns who died in a shipwreck and opened another: "Glory be to God for dappled things." For 10 points, name this poet who used his characteristic sprung rhythm in poems like "The Wreck of the Deutschland" and "Pied Beauty."

Hopkins

The Marx Brothers took the field in this "equine" comedy about Huxley College's football team

Horse Feathers

His 1926 funeral was attended by many mourners & a wand was ceremonially broken on his coffin, beginning an annual tradition

Houdini

Blustery ABC broadcaster who said 'The Bronx is Burning' and reported the murder of John Lennon on a 1980 broadcast of MNF

Howard Cosell

Freckled marionette figure, whose name comes from a greeting, appeared alongside host Buffalo Bob Smith on his namesake children's TV program from 1947-1960

Howdy Doody

Meng Wanzhou, CFO of this giant tech company, went home to China after nearly 3 years' confinement in Canada

Huawei

The early 1800s London lectures of this discoverer of sodium brought so much traffic, Albemarle St. had to be made one-way

Humphrey Davy

Instruments like the cimbalom are included in a folk opera from this country called Háry János

Hungary

German aerospace engineers like the "father of space medicine" Hubertus Strughold settled this city's "Kraut Hill" enclave. Wernher von Braun developed NASA's Saturn rockets at this city's Marshall Space Flight Center

Huntsville, AL

From 2004 until March 2020, Anthony Cools headlined at the Paris Hotel and Casino, in a custom-built showroom named after himself. In recent years he boasted of having the longest-running show, of its kind, on earth. He is not a singer, nor a magician, nor a stand-up comic. What is Anthony Cools' profession?

Hypnotist

What play would not make a good high school play given that it has the smallest cast of all Pulitzer winners, with only one actor playing multiple roles? The play focuses on Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a transgender woman who survived both the Nazis and the Communists in East Germany.

I Am My Own Wife (by Doug Wright)

The narrator of this novel is kept up at night by a magic lantern that projects on his bedroom wall and relies on his mother's goodnight kiss to sleep. In this novel's section The Fugitive, the narrator learns that his former lover Albertine was a lesbian. C. K. Scott Moncrieff died before he finished translating this novel, which uses a "little phrase" from Vinteuil's ("vahn-TUH-ee's") violin sonata to represent Odette de Crécy and Charles Swann.

In Search of Lost Time

In April 2021, this resourceful helicopter made history, taking off on Mars for a series of experimental flights

Ingenuity

In 1982, after maintaining a comfortable lead for most of the competition, Julie Moss famously collapsed and crawled across the finish line 29 seconds behind the winner, to finish second in what annual event? Her dramatic finish made her a national symbol of grit and determination, and put the event itself on the map.

Ironman Triathlon

This location is rebuilt every 20 years along with its two torii gates. For 10 points, the Yata no Kagami, the sacred mirror of the sun goddess Amaterasu, is in what major pilgrimage site, a grand Shinto shrine?

Ise

Your smiths will let you wrestle with this one: two members of the onion family — the scallion and the shallot — both get their names from the city of Ashkelon, in what Middle Eastern country?

Israel

The name of what place likely evolved from the Oscan word meaning "land of young cattle"? Another theory holds that it stems from the Greek, from the name of a legendary king of the Oenotrians who was supposedly the son of Penelope and Telegonus, a son of Odysseus.

Italy

The number 42 is associated with what baseball player?

Jackie Robinson

In Stand and Deliver, Edward James Olmos teaches calculus to inner city students in Los Angeles. Lou Diamond Phillips is one of the young students. What was the name of the real life teacher upon which the 1988 movie was based?

Jaime Escalante

Of all of Henry's wives and lovers, this is the one he loved the most, as evidenced by the fact that he is buried alongside her. You can B Positive she shares a name with a Bond Girl and a Medicine Woman.

Jane Seymour

She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1995

Janis Joplin

This historic German region was home to Hohenzollern Castle, a home to Frederick William IV, king of that region

Prussia

What Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and current Princeton professor published her first Italian language novel, Dove Mi Trovo, in 2018? She continues to write in Italian despite it not being her native language, an experience she documented in her book In Altre Parole and a New Yorker article entitled, "Teach Yourself Italian" in 2015.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Name the astronauts played by Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon (respectively) in the movie Apollo 13

Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert

In 1954 DC Comics debuted a series about "Superman's Pal", this copy boy-turned-cub reporter

Jimmy Olsen

Since 1985, Frank Marino "The Queen of Las Vegas" has produced and starred in several incarnations of his "female impersonator" revues where a cast of men perform as legendary female stars. Frank himself is best known for a segment of the show titled "Can We Talk?" where he performs his signature impersonation of which legendary comedian and television host?

Joan Rivers

In which South African city can you find the Leonardo, the tallest building in Africa and the Carlton Centre which held that title until 2019

Johannesburg

You came into this quiz with a mind full of mush, but hopefully you will leave thinking like a llama. The Paper Chase was a book by John Jay Osbourne about his grueling time at Harvard Law School. The book became a movie and later a TV show. What longtime stage actor, producer, and Orson Welles collaborator played the cantankerous Professor Kingsfield and won an Oscar for the role? If you get this answer correct, you will earn it.

John Houseman

Liverpool airport renamed for whom in 2001

John Lennon

Gabe Kaplan played Mr. Kotter in Welcome Back Kotter, as a teacher returning to teach a class in the Brooklyn high school he had previously attended. . The theme song also became a number one hit by this singer, a former member of The Lovin' Spoonful and a Woodstock perfomer. Name the singer.

John Sebastian

First and last name of 1990s Labour leader, Yorkshire brewery, actual name of A-Team character Hannibal

John Smith

The 2021 film Tick, Tick... Boom! is the only biopic about a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama directed by another winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The film includes a cameo-filled diner scene featuring many Broadway stars including Bernadette Peters, Adam Pascal, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and Wilson Jermaine Heredia. This scene was inspired by a work that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Name both the Pulitzer winner who is the subject of Tick, Tick... Boom! and the work that inspired the diner scene.

Johnathan Larson, Sunday in the Park with George

Name this character who refuses to do her work because of her captivating ability to whistle in the short story in which she appears.

Josephine (the mouse)

In the Gospel of John, this man, who may have died in Akeldama, criticized Mary for anointing Jesus with fancy perfume because this man kept the money bag. This man's money was used to buy the original potter's field, also known as the Field of Blood.

Judas

17-year-old Liza Minnelli performed in the 1963 "Christmas Show" of this woman, her mom

Judy Garland

Along with David Lang and Michael Gordon, this composer founded the contemporary music organization Bang on a Can. Name this American composer whose Steel Hammer is based on the ballad of John Henry. Her most recent orchestral piece, Fire in my mouth, is based on the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire.

Julia Wolfe

The ABA was a rival basketball league that merged with the NBA in 1976. Playing for the New York Nets before the merger, and the Philadelphia 76ers after it, who was the only player ever to have been voted Most Valuable Player by both leagues?

Julius Erving

What does Liberty Leading the People commemorate?

July Revolution that toppled Charles X in 1830

In 1769 in San Diego, this priest, now a controversial figure, founded his first California mission; he went on to found 8 more

Junipero Serra

Grover Washington Jr. was so smooth with this title, "building castles in the sky", this title again, "you & I"

Just the Two of Us

What was the last name of the patriarch and self-made millionaire who was the first chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, chair of the powerful US Maritime Commission in 1937, and the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1938?

Kennedy

An author from this home country of Grace Ogot described a "cultural bomb" in a book that reproduces part of his play about a shoe factory owner's son's wedding with Gathoni, I Will Marry When I Want. An author from this country, who wrote a novel about Mugo's betrayal of the revolutionary Kihika, described his abandonment of English in his book Decolonizing the Mind. For 10 points, name this home country of the author of A Grain of Wheat, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who now writes in Kikuyu.

Kenya

Massive mounded-earth tombs called kofun were constructed for rulers, court officials, and other key figures during Japan's eponymous Kofun Era (ca. 250-700 CE) and include some of the largest tombs in the world. The largest of these tombs, called zenpōkōenfun, are shaped like what, specifically?

Keyhole

The intersection of aggregate income and aggregate expenditure is this person's namesake "cross." Sticky prices are key to this economist's policy prescription of countercyclical government spending.

Keynes

Widely considered one of the world's best volleyball players, give the FULL NAME of the South Korean who set the scoring record with 207 points, and won MVP in the 2012 Olympics despite her team not medaling.

Kim Yeon Koung

"I think there be six Richmonds in the field; five have I slain today instead of him"

King Richard III

The title Shah Jahan translates as this 4-word phrase, heard in the movie "Titanic"

King of the World

The quartet consisting of the three brothers and one cousin Followill reached their commercial zenith with the 2008 album Only by the Night under what royal band name?

Kings of Leon

Played in two films by Elliot Page, which member of the X-Men has a so-called 'phasing' ability, allowing them to become intangible and pass through solid objects, disrupting electrical fields in the process?

Kitty Pryde

Tributary of the Yukon river famous for gold

Klondike

Much less successful than the Dayton conference was a February 1999 negotiation in Rambouillet, France, designed to quell hostilities between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo. The Serb delegation refused to sign the agreement forged by U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright, but the Albanian delegation and its leader Hashim Thaçi did sign it. Thaçi, who was indicted for war crimes in 2020, was the political leader of what three-word-named ethnic Albanian guerrilla force?

Kosovo Liberation Army

Dragons are a very popular motif in China where they have served as a symbol of power, strength, and good luck for centuries. What is the name of the neighborhood in Hong Kong, whose name translates to "nine dragons"?

Kowloon

Jews like Moses Isserles settled an island district of this city named for the king who chartered its Wieliczka ("vee-eh-LEECH-kah") Salt Mine and built its Wawel ("vah-vell") Castle. Casimir III ruled from this city, which eclipsed early royal centers like Płock ("p'wotsk") and Gniezno ("g'nee-EZ-naw") after the pagan king Jogaila was baptized in its cathedral so he could marry the saint Queen Jadwiga ("yahd-VEE-gah"). This final Piast dynasty capital was the center of a "golden age" of print culture at Copernicus's first alma mater, Jagiellonian University. For 10 points, what city was the Renaissance-era capital of Poland, before Sigismund III Vasa moved to Warsaw?

Krakow

Holi, a spring festival in India, is celebrated in honor of this eighth avatar of Vishnu

Krishna

A popular puppet show from the early days of television starred singer and comedian Fran Allison interacting with various puppets, two of whom were most prominent. Give the name of either of these two characters

Kukla, Ollie

Arjun defeats Karṇa and almost uses the Brahmāstra himself in this war between the Pāndavas and Kauravas. The Mahābhārata is mainly set during this war.

Kurukshetra War

Leland McKenzie, Douglas Brackman, Ann Kelsey, Arnie Becker, and Stuart Markowitz were among the large cast of characters on what acclaimed ensemble drama, which aired Thursday nights at 10:00 pm (ET) on NBC from 1986 to 1994?

L.A. Law

Babe Didrikson Zaharias garnerned two gold medals in track and field in the 1932 Olympics and claimed an AAU Basketball Championship in 1931. Later she became a dominating force in another sport, winning 10 major titles between 1940 and her death in 1956. In 1950, she became a founding member of what official sports organization?

LPGA

Comedian with law degree from University of New South Wales

Rebel Wilson

While much of the Hispanic world and beyond celebrated Three Kings Day earlier this month, Italy had its own, particular way of celebrating. According to legend, a woman hosted the Magi at her house on their way to find the baby Jesus, declined their invitation to join them, regretted it and now flies on her broom over Italy on the eve of the holiday, leaving presents for good Italian kids and coal for bad ones in the hope that one is Jesus. Sound familiar? What is this character's name, likely derived from the name of the traditional, religious name for the holiday?

La Befana

Alexandre Dumas's son, Alexandre Dumas fils, was best known as an author in his own right. His romance La Dame Aux Camelias (The Lady of the Camellias) was adapted into what Verdi opera?

La Traviata

Dr. Grenvil examines Violetta in act 3 of this Verdi opera, but it is too late--she dies in her lover's arms

La Traviata

Which political party did UK Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson and Gordon Brown all represent?

Labour

Belfast lies at the mouth of which 53-mile-long river?

Lagan

The author of one of Italy's most revered 20th century novels, Il Gattopardo, shares a last name with the southernmost point of the Republic of Italy, an island which in recent years has seen a dramatic, however temporary increase in population. What name do they share?

Lampedusa

"Many poems about this person were [emphasize] translated by Thomas Wyatt, who introduced those poems to the English court. A poem describes being "bound" by this person's "lovely eyes" on a day "when the sun's ray was darkened in pity for its Maker." A collection dedicated to this person addresses her as "You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes." For 10 points, the collection Il Canzoniere ("eel can-zon-YEH-ray") includes many sonnets to what woman, the muse of Petrarch?"

Laura

Person who walked 20 miles to warn of a surprise American attack at Beaver Dams Ontario in the War of 1812

Laura Second

From the late 1960s to the 1980s Italy experienced a spike in terrorism, coming from both the extreme right and extreme left. Due to its violence, this period is known in Italy as "The Years of ____." Fill in the blank with a word that is also on the periodic table of elements.

Lead

What TV sitcom's 1963 episode titled "Family Scrapbook", during which the central characters reminisce as the title character prepares to enter Mayfield High while his older brother gets ready for State College, is widely credited as the first primetime sitcom episode explicitly presented as a series finale?

Leave It to Beaver

Before John Denver's solo career took off, he wrote a song that became a #1 hit for another artist in 1969. The song originally appeared on that artist's Album 1700. Name this song, which was the final chart single for that trio.

Leaving On a Jet Plane (Peter, Paul, and Mary)

Which actress, also known for her role in Game of Thrones, played Julia Knight, a.k.a. 'Sweet Saraya', the mother of the wrestling-obsessed family in the 2019 film Fighting with My Family?

Lena Headey

What actress, chanteuse, and unrequited celebrity crush of Fred's at last visited his junkyard in season 2 of Sanford and Son? She didn't sing in the episode, but Fred did treat us to a few bars of "Stormy Weather"

Lena Horne

The deaths of Andrei and Ostap are depicted in a rhapsody by this composer based on Nikolai Gogol's novel Taras Bulba. This composer set a text in Old Church Slavonic in his Glagolitic Mass. A famous Sinfonietta was composed by, for 10 points, what Czech composer?

Leos Janacek

Many refugees from Africa dwell in Kara Tepe II, a refugee camp on this Greek island also known for its poetic heritage

Lesbos

Language of Latvia

Lettish

This term is used to describe the amount of radiation, including light, produced by a star. Generally speaking, it is dependent on the mass of the star.

Luminosity

Name this poetry collection that also contains "The Day Lady Died," a poem about Billie Holiday's death. It was the debut collection by Frank O'Hara, the leader of the New York School of poets.

Lunch Poems

WHAT IS THIS ANIMAL, one of which is said to have nibbled on the finger of Linus Torvalds and helped inspire a logo in the world of computing?

Penguin

Master Sergeant Samuel Doe overthrew William Tolbert in 1980 to take power in which country? Although Doe was the country's twenty-first President, he was its first President to have zero ancestors from the Americas.

Liberia

In Dublin, the Ha'penny Bridge spans this river

Liffey

What two-word term for members of the insect family Lampyridae is also the name of Ben's podcast on the Kast Media Network, and can also be found in the title of his 2019 memoir?

Lightning Bug

Star of Grace and Frankie, 9 to 5 opposite Dolly Parton

Lily Tomlin

City in south-central France known for its porcelain

Limoges

The French départements of Corrèze, Creuse, and Haute-Vienne constituted, until 2016, a former administrative région in southwest France that gave its name to a certain type of automobile (though the etymological link is long unknown). What is that vehicle?

Limousine

Ottawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charleston, Galesburg, Quincy, and Alton were the seven towns that famously hosted large crowds (reportedly upwards of 18,000 in Galesburg) that gathered to watch what duo?

Lincoln/Douglass

He was the man behind 1985's "Sun City", about artists refusing to play at that resort in apartheid-era South Africa

Little Steven (Steven Van Zandt)

In the original 1955 Broadway run of the musical Damn Yankees, Gwen Verdon played what character, the devil's assistant who gets whatever she wants?

Lola

And if it's both, it's named after what place — fittingly located between Manhattan and New England?"

Long Island

What Mexican golfer spent 158 weeks at #1 on the Women's World Golf Rankings between April 2007 and May 2010?

Lorena Ochoa

Born in 2018, who is this younger brother of Prince George & Princess Charlotte?

Louis

Not primarily known as a suffragist, in 1879 she became the first female resident of Concord, Mass. to register to vote in local elections

Louisa May Alcott

Love Medicine (1984), The Plague of Doves (2008), The Round House (2012), and The Night Watchman (2020) are novels by what Pulitzer winner, a pre-eminent author of Native American fiction?

Louise Erdrich

Three winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn, Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley, and Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies were all featured in the Humana Festival of New American Plays, which is produced annually by the Actors Theater of what city? The festival is sponsored by Humana, which is headquartered in this city, and the festival features ten minute (not two minute) plays.

Louisville

On December 13 Scandinavians celebrate this female saint; young girls wear white & wear lighted wreaths on their heads

Lucia

This designer and a female collaborator created the Brno chair while furnishing a villa for Fritz and Greta Tugendhat. This designer's frequent collaborator Lilly Reich worked with him to create an object with two rectangular leather surfaces for the 1929 International Exposition, the Barcelona chair. The Farnsworth House was designed by this last director of the Bauhaus. For 10 points, name this German architect of the International Style who co-designed the Seagram Building and coined the phrases "less is more" and ""the devil is in the details"".

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Vittorio De Sica directed his final film, The Voyage, with Sophia Loren and Richard Burton, based on a novella by what famed Italian novelist, poet and playwright? More known for his work as a playwright, with plays such as Henry IV and It Is So (If You Think So), he was nominated by Guglielmo Marconi and won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre."

Luigi Pirandello

The subject of a New York Times documentary short by Ben Proudfoot that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, what Queen of Basketball led her team to three national championships, scored the first basket in women's Olympic history, and was officially drafted by the New Orleans Jazz in 1977?

Lusia Harris

The Austrian Netherlands included much of Belgium and this duchy, whose fortress was besieged by French Republicans. The Belgian Revolution partitioned this still-extant Low Country that became a grand duchy in 1815

Luxembourg

Who is the only woman has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama multiple times? She won in 2009 for Ruined and in 2017 for Sweat.

Lynn Nottage

Winner of Book of the Year at the National Book Awards, which journalist wrote the bestselling 2003 non-fiction book Eats, Shoots & Leaves?

Lynne Truss

Reigning from 867 to 886, the Byzantine emperor Basil I was known as Basil the ____, in reference to his home province and the dynasty of the same name he founded which ruled the Empire until 1057. Which demonym, linked to a presentday country, fills in the blank?

Macedonian

Other dogs in Brazilian novels include Quincas Borba, who is owned by the identically-named philosopher Quincas Borba in a novel by this author of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and Dom Casmurro.

Machado de Assis

The American Book Award-winning The Testing of Luther Albright was the debut novel from 2005 of an author who, according to Bloomberg, is the 23rd-wealthiest individual in the world in 2021. What is her name?

Mackenzie Scott

In the 1800s this Michigan island was the headquarters for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company

Mackinac

In which other US sitcom did Lisa Kudrow first play the waitress Ursula, who later reappeared as Phoebe's twin sister in Friends?

Mad About You

In naming the route, she cited inspiration from "the most dangerous female pirate in history," a woman who, at the height of her powers, led a pirate confederation of hundreds of ships in the South China Sea

Madame Ching

On June 8, 1975, Jackie Tonawanda became the first woman to fight in what specific venue? Tonawanda knocked out Larry Rodania and earned the nickname "the Female Ali," because Muhammad Ali had just had a second "Super Fight" the previous year at the same venue.

Madison Square Garden

US non-profit from 1980 fulfills word in namesake every 34 minutes

Make-a-Wish Foundation

The Chewa people, known traditionally for their distinctive nyau masks, are the largest ethnic group, comprising around 35% of the population, in which African country? Most of the rest belong to other Bantu groups including the Lomwe, Yao and Tumbuka.

Malawi

Senegal's flag has a star; the starless but similarly striped one belongs to this 4-letter West African nation above Burkina Faso

Mali

Enjoy the days & knights of this nation in the Central Med composed of 5 islands including Cominotto

Malta

Hitchcock's adaptation of Rebecca includes several exterior shots of this lavish estate, which Mrs. Danvers burns down. Daphne du Maurier's original novel famously opens, "Last night I dreamt I went to [this estate] again."

Manderley

In this people's mythology, the first woman was created from a pool of water that cast a reflection of the first man, Tiki. According to this people's mythology, the explorer Kupe discovered a certain region located under a long, white cloud. They're not Hawaiians, but the mountains in part of this people's homeland were created when men cut into a giant fish that was caught with a jaw bone by the culture hero Māui. For 10 points, name this people who use the mythological name Aotearoa ("ow-TAY-ah-row-ah") for their homeland

Maori

A Pāli text describes the nun Soma successfully getting rid of this figure, who raises doubts about women's capacity to achieve enlightenment. In some stories, this figure sent his three daughters to distract the Buddha.

Mara

Ash Wednesday, a holy day of repentance & fasting, directly follows this day

Mardi Gras

A Scottish princess with this name married the Dauphin Louis XI of France. A Scottish saint who founded the Firth of Forth's Queensferry shared this name with the "Maid of Norway," who died as a child in Orkney in 1290

Margaret

Michael Johnson won both the men's 200- and 400-meter races at the 1996 Summer Olympics. What French sprinter accomplished the same feat on the women's side in the same Olympic Games?

Marie-Jose Perec

Italian-born American who won the F1 Driver's championship in 1978 and the Indy 500 in 1969

Mario Andretti

Dubbed "Super Mario" and the "savior of the Euro" due to his pivotal role in battling the Eurozone debt crisis as president of the European Central Bank in 2011-2019, what man was sworn in as prime minister of Italy in the "government of national unity" in February 2021?

Mario Draghi

This man's ghost is the first to appear to Scrooge in a Christmas Carol

Marley

Al Bundy is a shoe salesman in this TV show

Married...with Children

The Czechoslovak government's initial consideration - rather than outright, immediate rejection - of what U.S. initiative was the final straw that led the Soviet Union to launch a 1948 coup, one that brought Czechoslovakia under communist control for the next four decades?

Marshall Plan

Although there is no concrete proof, some historians believe that Catherine and Henry Carey may be of royal fathering. Who was their mother, an early mistress of the King? She was played in a 2008 movie by a future Avenger.

Mary Boleyn

Who was the last French player to win the women's singles at the French Open tennis? Her win in 2000 was the second of her two grand slam singles titles, following the 1995 Australian Open.

Mary Pierce

A fresco series that is mainly by this painter includes a weeping Adam and Eve being expelled from Eden next to a work which depicts Christ directing Peter to retrieve a coin from a fish's mouth. For 10 points, name this Florentine artist of a famous Holy Trinity, whose works in the Brancacci Chapel include The Tribute Money.

Masaccio

One of the most powerful women in all of Japanese history was the wife of first shogun Minamoto Yoritomo. After Yoritomo's death, she became a Buddhist nun, but also served as de facto ruler of the country for two decades, earning her the nickname "the Nun Shogun." Her given name, when Romanized, is the same as that of the current Empress of Japan. What was her given name?

Masako

Some online courses are available with a subscription, as opposed to being strictly free. Name the company that offers tutorials with celebrities in their fields, including Christina Aguilera Teaches Singing and Gordon Ramsay Teaches Cooking.

Masterclass

Fans of theme park podcast "Podcast: The Ride" will know that Hard Rock Park, located in what southern U.S. coastal city, was open a mere 5 months before declaring bankruptcy in 2008?

Myrtle Beach

A judge meets a woman with this name in a John Greenleaf Whittier poem that claims the saddest words are "it might have been!"

Maud Muller

Park Chung-hee's 1961 coup in South Korea, the 2021 seizure of power by Colonel Assimi Goita in Mali, and the attempted overthrow of U.S. President Jordan Lyman by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff James Scott all took place in which calendar month?

May

Corbelled vaults are characteristic of this civilization's architecture, as seen at the Governor's Palace at Uxmal ("oosh-MAL"). A 1920's and '30s architectural "revival" was named for this civilization.

Mayan

Series of graded primers used as textbooks in the 19th and early 20th century

McGuffey Readers

Elbow is an inept constable in this Shakespeare play

Measure for Measure

Of the actual historical people after whom elements of the periodic table are named, two are women. One is Marie Curie, while the other was a Viennese-born Swedish physicist who was a co-discoverer of nuclear fission in 1938. What is her name, commemorated in element 109?

Meitner

Beale Street in this city has historically served as a magnet for blues musicians

Memphis

6-letter word for standing stones derived from Breton

Menhir

The protagonist of this author's 1995 novel ""Wonder Boys"" was inspired by his University of Pittsburgh writing professor

Michael Chabon

In December 2021, President Joe Biden announced that he intended to nominate what two-time Olympic medalist in figure skating to be United States Ambassador to Belize?

Michelle Kwan

Anthonij de Bordes and His Valet is a painting by this 17th c. Flemish painter of the Baroque period

Michiel Sweerts

Dennis Quaid plays Admiral 'Bull' Halsey

Midway

Italy is set to host the 2026 Olympics, with two different sites acting as co-hosts. One of these two locations is a major Italian city and the other is a small hamlet in the Dolomites that has hosted the Olympics previously. Name either of these locations.

Milan, Cortina D'Ampezzo

Though little celebrated in the US and many places, in Italy March 8 - International Women's Day - is a big deal. Italians of all ages traditionally give women acacia dealbata, a flower relatively abundant and inexpensive, blooming in season, and with a color symbolizing strength, sensitivity, and sensibility. What is this flower's common name, its color also inspiring the name of a sparkling wine cocktail?

Mimosa

In 1984, the philologist Syme works on the definitive Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak dictionary for this organization. Winston Smith and Julia both work for this organization within the Party government of Oceania.

Ministry of Truth

At this play's opening, the cook Kristin explains how the title character opted not to go to Midsummer celebrations. This play's title character abandons a plan to elope to Lake Como after a valet decapitates her pet bird. For 10 points, name this play about Jean's manipulation of the title young heiress by August Strindberg.

Miss Julie

Between November 2014 and March 2017, UConn's women's basketball team won 111 straight games, the longest winning streak in Division-I NCAA Basketballl. What team, coached by Vic Schaefer, defeated UConn in the 2017 Final Four?

Mississippi St.

Which US state has used their nickname of 'The Show-Me State' on their license plates?

Missouri

Red Sorghum was written by this Chinese novelist, who was widely criticized for a lack of solidarity with oppressed Chinese authors after he won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Mo Yan

With a 70 mph fastball, what pitcher led her team to victory as the first girl to pitch a shutout in postseason Little League history, and was named 2014's "Sports Kid of the Year" by Sports Illustrated Kids?

Mo'ne Davis

Dharmendra and his son Sunny Deol have joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is currently the party of this prime minister. Smriti Irani, a former television actress, serves in this current Indian prime minister's cabinet.

Modi

Gen. MacArthur said this man's death by "violence is one of those bitter anachronisms that seems to refute all logic"

Mohandas Gandhi

What is the name of Alfonso Bialetti's 1933 invention (seen here) that enabled the inexpensive brewing of espresso at home? He named it after a Middle Eastern city that was once known as the major marketplace for coffee.

Moka pot/express

Name this Soviet satellite whose 1921 revolution expelled both the White Guards and Běiyáng ("bay-yahng") Army. The Stalinist Marshal Choibalsan led this majority-Buddhist country, where the USSR fought Japan at Khalkhin Gol

Mongolia

Highland, the estate of this fifth president, was formerly called Ash Lawn, due to the trees on the grounds

Monroe

NHL team that had players like Guy Carbonneau, Guy Lapointe & Guy Lafleur

Montreal Canadiens

Ceuta and Melila are Spanish enclaves in what country

Morocco

Graham Nash wrote a song that was considered "not commercial enough" for the Hollies, but it became the first Top 40 hit for Crosby, Stills & Nash. The song, which mentions ducks, pigs, chickens and cobras, was inspired by a train trip Nash took in what African country?

Morocco

Hard Rock was founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and the son of the founder of what chain of steak restaurants, which claim to have the best steaks anywhere?

Morton's

In 2017, immediately after the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia upheld his war crimes conviction and 20-year prison sentence, Bosnian Croat General Slobodan Praljak shouted his objections and committed suicide by drinking cyanide. Among other charges, Praljak had been accused of destroying a 16th-century Ottoman-built "Old Bridge" in a city whose population was, and still is, equally Croat and Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim). What is that city, whose name is derived from the Serbo-Croatian word for "bridge"?

Mostar

& here's to you, this character who seduces Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate"

Mrs. Robinson

The written word has caused the downfall of many a ruler, but none quite so literally as the Emperor Humayun, who died on January 27th, 1556 after slipping down the stairs of his library with his arms full of books. Of what empire was Humayun the second monarch?

Mughal

Troubled hubby Michael Keaton is cloned several times in this 1996 screwball comedy

Multiplicity

Hockey players and teams are notorious for lying or being vague about injuries. But this particularly ridiculous moment involved the Penguins' Sidney Crosby, who insisted that he did not have what disease during this post-game interview? Supposedly, the Penguins believed this symptom was caused by a salivary gland injury, but your smith is skeptical. It was later confirmed that Crosby did, in fact, have this disease. In total, fourteen players were diagnosed with this disease across the NHL in 2014.

Mumps

Identify this name shared by two earlier Ottoman sultans who conquered Edirne and Thessalonica and each fought a Battle of Kosovo. Mehmed II succeeded the second sultan of this name, who halted the Crusade of Varna.

Murad

"I could have danced all night, and still have begged for more"

My Fair Lady

The 2005 iteration of what specific competition is believed to be the first time in sport that the prize awarded to the women's champion ($130,000) was larger than that awarded to the men's champion ($100,000)? The winner that year was Jeļena Prokopčuka of Latvia

NYC Marathon

Senegalese French troops occupied a river region of this country, whose "South West Africa" colony was the site of the Nama and Herero genocide.

Namibia

He overthrew the Directory on November 9 (or 18 Brumaire), 1799

Napoleon

Emperor who declared war after being told Prussia no match for France

Napoleon III

The campaign biography is a venerable American tradition in which politicians write or commission a sanitized version of their life's story to promote a run for higher office. The first such book is often said to be that written of Franklin Pierce for his successful 1852 presidential campaign. What famous novelist, a college friend of Pierce, wrote "The Life of Franklin Pierce"? He was subsequently rewarded with an appointment to the U.S. consulate in Liverpool.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

2005's "The Rivals" told of the "Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship" of Chris Evert & her

Navratilova

What song, honored here in this redacted commemorative stamp, remains the only song ever to win, at the 1st Grammy Awards, the award for Song of the Year (and Record of the Year) in a language other than English? Its lyrics were allegedly inspired by a Marc Chagall painting, seen during a drunken episode.

Nel blu, dipinto di blu ('Volare' by Modugno)

In 2021, the Loughborough Lightning won their first title in the UK's top league for what sport? Originally an offshoot of a different game, the sport is hugely popular in Commonwealth countries and is one of the few sports globally that has higher participation by women and girls than by men and boys at all levels of the game.

Netball

One of the standard nomenclatures used to designate Galaxies and Star Clusters is NGC. What dos NGC stand for?

New General Catalogue

Sáenz first met Bolívar after he liberated this colonial territory. This Spanish viceroyalty encompassed much of what is now Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

New Grenada

A 2013 novel from this country, in which the protagonist investigates the death of Crosbie Wells alongside twelve characters who represent the zodiac, was the longest novel ever to win the Booker Prize. The prospector Walter Moody appears in The Luminaries by this country's author Eleanor Catton. In a story by an author who was born in this country, the protagonist directs the placement of a marquee and brings cream puffs to the house of her dead neighbor Mr. Scott. Laura Sheridan hosts the title "Garden Party" in a story from, for 10 points, what home country of Katherine Mansfield?

New Zealand

By 1900, the Beothuk died out on this island, whose economy relied on cod fishing in its Grand Banks.

Newfoundland

In a letter to Robert Hooke, this thinker attributed his success to standing on the "shoulders of giants."

Newton

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama has had its fair share of controversy. One of the more recent controversies happened in 2010 when the Pulitzer judges ignored the three suggestions of the Pulitzer Prize nominating jury and awarded the prize to what musical? As a result, the chair of the nominating committee, Los Angeles Times theater critic Charles McNulty, penned an angry column criticizing the judges "failure to appreciate new directions in playwrighting."

Next to Normal

Which actor, also known for his roles in the Cornetto trilogy of films, played Patrick Knight, a.k.a. 'Rowdy Ricky', the father of the wrestling-obsessed family in the 2019 film Fighting with My Family?

Nick Frost

Which Vietnamese-American photographer took the iconic 1972 image of a nine-year old girl fleeing naked from a mistakenly dropped napalm attack during the Vietnam War, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography the following year?

Nick Ut

Ben is a notable supporter of a capella, releasing an album of covers of his songs by college a capella groups and serving, from 2009 through 2013, as one of three judges on the NBC reality program The Sing Off. Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men was the other male judge during the show's run. Name one of the three different female judges - one covering the first two seasons and one each for the third and fourth?

Nicole Scherzinger, Sara Bareilles, Jewel

This daughter of Tantalus turned to stone while weeping for her slain children

Niobe

We Need New Names is a 2013 novel by this Zimbabwean author

NoViolet Bulawayo

The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award honors influential people from this state, including Western author Louis L'Amour

North Dakota

Sleepy Hollow known as this until 1996

North Tarrytown

The 12,000-square-mile Great Bear Lake straddles the Arctic circle in this "directional" political unit

Northwest Territories

At the 2021 competition at Whistling Straits, Viktor Hovland became the first golfer ever from which northern European country to represent Europe in the Ryder Cup?

Norway

"What one-word title is shared by a 1946 Alfred Hitchcock film and a 1986 hit for Duran Duran?

Notorious

Bell Inn, Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, and Ye Olde Salutation Inn all claim to be the oldest pub in England all are in what city?

Nottingham

The 3 Musketeers candy bar features a fluffy version of what confection, traditionally made with sugar or honey, nuts, and egg whites and called turrón in Spain and mandorlato in Italy?

Nougat

What industrial city on the banks of the Ob in SW Siberia is the third-largest city in Russia behind Moscow and St. Petersburg

Novosibersk

Akademgorodok, a part of this city, has been called the "Silicon Taiga." This city, which contains the Tolmachevo Airport, developed after it was chosen as the site of a railroad bridge across the Ob River.

Novosibirsk

Kazakhstan is notable for changing its capital not once, but twice, in its existence. The first was moving the capital from Almaty to Astana in 1997 and then, in 2019, changing Astana's name to what to reflect a notable recent retirement in the country's government?

Nursultan

French author Anne Desclos received the Prix des Deux Magots in 1955 for a scandalous erotic novel that she published under a pseudonym. The novel told the story of a woman known by what single-letter nickname?

O

Neapolitan song meaning 'My Own Son'

O Sole Mio

What is Billie Eilish's surname?

O'Connell

She's been nominated for 3 Oscar so far, & won for "The Help"

Octavia Spencer

This annual festival began in 1810 when Prince Ludwig of Bavaria invited the people of Munich to join in celebrating his marriage

Oktoberfest

Namesake law states that for every 1% increase in unemployment, GDP decreases 2%

Okun's Law

Candidate for Chancellor of German SDP

Olaf Scholz

This nursery rhyme guy called for his pipe, his bowl & "his fiddlers three!"

Old King Cole

This actress took up with John Mulaney in 2021

Olivia Munn

Two second-season episodes of Sanford and Son, "The Dowry" and "Sanford and Son and Sister Makes Three," were written by a pair of future comedy legends. One went on to write for and perform in Chappelle's Show before passing away in 2021. The other put out a pair of split LPs with Foxx before starring with him in 1989's Harlem Nights. Name either person.

Paul Mooney, Richard Pryor

What knickers-wearing golfer fills in the blanks in the title of Kevin Robbins' book The Last Stand of _____ _______? The book focuses on 1999, when the golfer won the U.S. Open, was on a winning Ryder Cup team, and died tragically in a plane crash after the private jet that he was on lost cabin pressure, causing the aircraft to ultimately crash.

Payne Stewart

One of the signatures foods of Central Asia is this dish similar to pilaf except that the rice is simmered in a stew as opposed to steamed. One of the names for this food shares its name with the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan.

Osh/Plov

This tribe, known by a derivation of the Algonquin word for "trader," are the namesake of an Ohio village and nearby county. As the Great Black Swamp of northwestern Ohio was drained, this tribe was first moved to reservations, including the Blanchard's Fork Reserve, site of the modern-day village. After the Indian Removal Act of 1830, this tribe was forcibly evicted from Ohio, first to Kansas and later to Oklahoma. They also lend their name to a major city in Ontario and the river that divides that province from Quebec.

Ottawa

Ska band Madness's hit

Our House

Actor Tobias Menzies says Black Jack Randall in this time-traveling TV show is a sadist & character Jamie would agree

Outlander

The first volume of this reference work was published in 1884; it became complete with the tenth in 1928

Oxford English Dictionary

What British humorist (better known for their farcical high-society stories) co-wrote the lyrics for a successful 1928 Broadway musical adaptation of The Three Musketeers?

P.G. Wodehouse

In Patterns of Culture, Ruth Benedict incorporated fieldwork that her mentor Franz Boas conducted in this geographic region. Traditional feasts in this region are discussed extensively in Marcel Mauss's The Gift.

Pacific Northwest

Prince's Minnesota home & studio has this alliterative name, also the title of a Prince song

Paisley Park

Name this building. André Malraux commissioned an artwork in this building that consisted of 14 separate scenes which were painted on a frame that covered an original work by Jules Lenepveu.

Palais Garnier

Although a group of texts named for this language describes female arhats, until recently there were no orders of female nuns in Theravāda Buddhism, which widely uses this liturgical language

Pali

Rock music was blared to drive a leader of this country out of the Vatican Embassy. A drug-trafficking leader of this country who overthrew Omar Torrijos was deposed in Operation Just Cause. For 10 points, name this Central American country once led by Manuel Noriega

Panama

In 1975, Whitlam granted independence to this territory soon after Bougainville seceded as the Republic of the North Solomons. In 1962, Indonesia took over Irian Jaya, the western half of this Melanesian country's main island.

Papua New Guinea

Name this dialogue whose title character debates with Aristoteles and a young Socrates. In a famous argument, this dialogue draws an infinite regress from applying the one-over-many principle to largeness.

Parmenides

What specific cheese, with a two-name designation based on the two provinces (and cities) in northern Italy near where it is produced, is PDO legally protected and certified? In many other countries outside the EU, an anglicized form of one of the names can be used for similar cheeses but, unless it's the authentic name, it isn't the real deal.

Parmigiano Reggiano

Among the vast contributions to American culture and cuisine by Jewish immigrants from Romania in the 19th century is what spiced, smoked, and steamed delicacy and delicatessen staple, whose name comes from the Romanian verb for "to preserve"?

Pastrami

One of 20th-century author Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh's first successful short stories—a genre in which he is regarded as a master—was titled "Farsi shakar ast", which translates to English as "_____ is Sugar" (fill in the blank).

Persian

Which Australian state capital lies at the mouth of the Swan river?

Perth

What city - the capital of Umbria, the only Italian region that doesn't border the sea or another country - was the setting for the murder trial of Amanda Knox and is the headquarters of the confection company, named after the city, that makes silver-wrapped "baci" chocolates?

Perugia

This Portuguese author used over 75 "heteronyms" like Álvaro do Campos and Ricardo Reis. This author used the heteronym Bernardo Soares to write the fragmentary work The Book of Disquiet.

Pessoa

The classic line-up of the Who involved Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, John Entwistle and which guitarist?

Pete Townshend

This much more modern architect emphasized allowing in natural light in his design for California's Crystal Cathedral. He also designed the Glass House, where he lived with his partner David Whitney for 45 years.

Philip Johnson

Leyte is just one of its more than 1,000 inhabited islands

Philippines

Spanish king on the throne when the Armada attempted to take England, husband of Mary I

Phillip II

Former professional golfer Paula Creamer, pictured here, who had 12 professional wins (including the 2010 U.S. Women's Open), shares a nickname with what large, fictional diamond?

Pink Panther

16th century: Cosimo de' Medici's wife Eleonora buys this unfinished alliterative palace"

Pitti Palace

Pope from 1846 to 1878, lost the Papal States to Italy in 1870, became the first of five popes to be effectively a prisoner in the Vatican

Pius IX

Pope who signed the Lateran Treaty in 1929, recognizing the Vatican as an independent state and ending the standoff with Rome

Pius XI

In 1665 the Great this hit London, killing thousands; the next year, the Great Fire took out 13,000 houses & much of the city

Plague

In 1985, Japan signed a historic accord with the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and West Germany, whereby the five nations agreed to inflate the value of the Japanese yen and devalue the US dollar via massive central bank interventions in worldwide currency markets. The accord had profound consequences, causing Japanese policymakers to inflate an enormous asset bubble that later collapsed and led to decades of economic stagnation. The accord was named after the iconic New York City hotel in which it was signed. What single English word is the name of both the hotel and the accord?

Plaza

Mathematical modeling suggests that human culture is adaptive when the environment changes relatively rapidly, meaning it may have evolved in response to the climatic swings of this geological epoch that ended 11,000 years ago.

Pleistocene

The Ionian Stage began 780,000 years ago, a division of this time period

Pleistocene

A character in this novel describes the million of centuries it would take for a bird to remove a mountain of sand grain-by-grain. At the beginning of this novel, Dante and Mr. Casey debate over the death of a politician, and the protagonist listens to a children's story about a "moocow" meeting a "tuckoo." In this novel, the protagonist attends Clongowes and nearly converts to Catholicism after listening to Father Arnall's sermon on hell.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

In his fake Kazakh national anthem, Borat states that Kazakhstan is the "number one exporter" of this alkali metal. This is a doubly incorrect statement as 1) this metal is usually mined in its salt form (as a compound which gives this element its name) as opposed to on its own, and 2) Canada is the largest exporter of that compound, not Kazakhstan.

Potassium

Catherine Parr was probably the most intelligent and accomplished of Henry's wives and mistresses. She has the distinction of being the first queen (in fact, the first woman) to publish a book under her own name in English. What was the subject matter of that book?

Prayers and Meditations

Dec. 1648 event in which soldiers prevented MPs hostile to the New Model Army from entering the House of Commons

Pride's Purge

The 1,000 seat showroom in the masquerade wing of the Rio All-Suite Hotel, has played home to many resident productions in its nearly 25-year existence. Possibly the most notable residency was a six-month run from fall 2006 to spring 2007, where the showroom was renamed: "Club 3121" alongside a restaurant and lounge all themed to this star's latest album. Name the artist who not only starred in this residency, but also performed an after-party show in the neighboring restaurant that reportedly would last until the early hours of the morning.

Prince

Following the outbreak of the "Troubles" in the late 1960s, the Irish Republican Army split into two wings: the "Official" IRA, and what other, which staged numerous assassinations and bombings in Britain and Northern Ireland over the subsequent three decades?

Provisional

This mathematician, geographer and astronomer's major astronomic work was The Almagest

Ptolemy

The 80-mile-wide Mona Passage separates the Dominican Republic from this island

Puerto Rico

Outlets like the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Enquirer, and Vox have described the paw paw as the largest fruit native to North America, but this is only true in a culinary sense. Using a botanist's definition, what specific fruit is the largest native to North America?

Pumpkin

Minister Thomas W. Stringer formed the African-American version of the "Knights of" him, Damon's friend

Pythias

Name this last ruling dynasty of China that came to power after defeating the Míng. This Jurchen dynasty's conquest of China was masterminded by Prince Dorgon, who allied with Míng general Wú Sānguì

Qing

Due to legislative action of 1707, she was officially the last monarch of independent Scotland

Queen Anne

Name this character who lies to his father that he committed incest with his sister. In another novel, this character and Rosa Coldfield narrate the story of Thomas Sutpen's plantation.

Quentin Compson

It took "about 20 minutes" for what composer (In the Heat of the Night, among many others) and producer (Thriller, among many others) to write the show's theme song, "The Streetbeater"? "It was raggedy...just like Redd Foxx," he said.

Quincy Jones

Drawn to the sea before seeing it by a line of poetry, she became a marine biologist & 1941's "Under the Sea-Wind" was her first book

Rachel Carson

This composer's second piano concerto in C minor and third piano concerto in D minor are among the most difficult in the repertoire. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Rachmaninoff

Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan ("buh-chuhn") resigned as an MP after he was implicated in the Bofors Scandal that involved this Indian prime minister. A suicide bomber assassinated this Indian prime minister at Sriperumbudur

Rajiv Gandhi

First name of Mr. Youssef who also plays the title character in a Hulu series

Ramy

Large facilities for this occupation were owned by the Swan Land Company and the boatman Richard King. Most Basque-Americans adopted this occupation, which was menaced by masked "Javelinas" and "Blue Devils." In 1886, the winter "Big Die-Up" decimated this occupation, which was held by both families in the Pleasant Valley War, John Tunstall in the Lincoln County War, and "Kate" Watson in the Johnson County War. Charles Goodnight invented this occupation's chuckwagon.

Ranching

Name the country artist who released the 1987 album Always and Forever, which spent 40 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Country album chart and saw four of its songs (including "Forever and Ever, Amen") reach #1 on the Country Singles chart

Randy Travis

TI doubled down on its existing strategy of relying on software sales to make the platform profitable. This practice, an instance of a business model frequently labeled "________ and ________" in reference to a common business and marketing maxim, required that TI deny most third-party software developers access to the platform.

Razors, blades

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (2006) and his sister Yingluck's government (2014) were both thrown out of office by the monarchist Thai military. Give the common name for the Shinawatras' supporters that's derived from the supporters' sartorial preferences, a name shared with a trope first seen in the 1966 television episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" and subject of a 2012 John Scalzi novel.

Red Shirts

This statement explains the evolution of sex as a response to parasitism. This hypothesis states that a species must constantly evolve in order to avoid extinction.

Red queen

While today it is common for famous celebrities to move to Las Vegas, it was less common in 1964 when this now legendary comedian and sitcom star chose to call Las Vegas home. Famous for his "Triple XXX Rated" comedy shows, which he performed regularly at various strip hotels during his career. Although he was residing in California at the time of his death (in 1991 while on the set of his latest sitcom), he is one of few major celebrities whose final resting place is a cemetery in Las Vegas.

Redd Foxx

The first athletic shoe designed specifically for women was released in 1982. Within one year, sales accounted for over 50% of the manufacturer's revenue, at least in part due to the step aerobics craze of the 1980s. Name this iconic shoe. Manufacturer and brand required.

Reebok Freestyles

This piano piece begins with a grave introduction based on music sung to the text "A cenar teco m'invitasti." Name this Franz Liszt piece, which also contains a set of A major variations on the same theme that formed the basis for Frédéric Chopin's first work for piano and orchestra

Reminiscences de Don Juan

Who wrote the 2017 book Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race?

Reni Eddo-Lodge

In 2005, Dame Ellen MacArthur set a world record, beating the previous recordholder Francis Joyon by 1 day, 8 hours, 35 minutes, and 49 seconds, by sleeping only 20 minutes at a time. What did she set a world record in?

Sailing around the world

Identify these places whose history is traced prior to the Macdonald government's Davin Report in A National Crime. In recent years, mass graves of Cree and Mohawk children have been found near these places across Canada

Residential Schools

The Eight Banners of the Qīng army were initially outperformed by the mostly Hàn Green Standard Army during this conflict. Wú Sānguì led one faction during this rebellion after resigning his Qīng governorship

Revolt of the Three Feudatories

Try this city, where the iconic Hallgrímskirkja Church can be seen for miles

Reykjavic

The October 1986 summit meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, which defied expectations by nearly ending the Cold War arms race and bringing about nuclear disarmament, took place in what European capital city?

Reykjavik

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio was the location for a 21-day long November 1995 negotiation that ended the Bosnian War and created the framework for Bosnian governance that exists to this day. What American diplomat, the subject of the 2019 biography Our Man by George Packer, presided over the delegations of Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks at Dayton?

Richard Holbrooke

Live and Smoking and Is It Something I Said? were 70s shows of which hugely successful African-American comedian and actor who also co-starred in several films with Gene Wilder

Richard Pryor

The Phenomenon is an autobiography written by what baseball player who recorded 194 strikeouts in his first full Major League Baseball season in 2000, while pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals? The stellar start to his career came to an abrupt end during a playoff game against the Atlanta Braves, when his pitching suddenly became quite erratic and he set a Major League Baseball record for most wild pitches in an inning. The rest of the book chronicles his continued struggles as a pitcher, leading him to remake himself as an outfielder, and his long road back to Major League Baseball.

Rick Ankiel

David Bowie sang about this man's "Extras" character: "chubby little loser... pathetic little fat man..."

Ricky Gervais

In addition to his successful career as a solo artist and member of the Doobie Brothers, Michael McDonald is a prolific backup vocalist. So prolific, in fact, that the sketch comedy show SCTV famously lampooned his backup singing — and how he must be "dialing it in" — by creating a fantasy making-of music video for what 1980 song by Christopher Cross (on which McDonald actually performed)?

Ride Like the Wind

This is the term for the angle between the Vernal Equinox and the celestial meridian of the object, measured to the east. Usually measured in hours, minutes and seconds, though sometimes degrees are used, too.

Right Ascension

In this opera, Gilda sacrifices herself to save a character from the assassin Sparafucile, which the title character discovers upon hearing a distant reprise of the aria "La donna è mobile."

Rigoletto

This poet spent the final years of his life gun-running in Ethiopia after he gave up writing at age 20. A poem by this author is narrated by a vehicle "lighter than cork" and "swollen...with intoxicating torpor." For 10 points, name this French symbolist poet and lover of Paul Verlaine ("vair-LEN"), who wrote "The Drunken Boat" and A Season in Hell.

Rimbaud

Gentileschi's other self-inclusions as religious figures include her self-portrait as this saint, which was rediscovered in 2017. Due to their shape, stained glass "rose windows" are often named for this saint.

Saint Catherine

This poet wrote about "Standing to America, bringing home / black gold, black ivory, black seed" in his poem "Middle Passage." This poet also wrote about his father, whom "no one ever thanked," in "Those Winter Sundays."

Robert Hayden

Austrian writer whose Man Without Qualities was unfinished at his death in 1942

Robert Musil

Wrote the novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, published posthumously

Robert Tressell

What team completes this list of participating members in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1943: South Bend Blue Sox, Racine Belles, Kenosha Comets?

Rockford Peaches

This artist taught an artist who created a work in which two naked dancers embrace. This artist taught the sculptor of The Mature Age and The Waltz, Camille Claudel. Fleeting Love is among this artist's works that depict Paolo and Francesca, who are entwined in his sculpture The Kiss.

Rodin

In 1966, what young band released the song "Con Le Mie Lacrime", an Italian version of their #6 hit song on the US charts which they played on The Ed Sullivan Show? It is the only song they ever released in a language other than English

Rolling Stones

What was the surname of Helena, the Polish-American cosmetics entrepreneur, author of My Life for Beauty, and once one of the richest women in the world, whose rivalry with Elizabeth Arden was dramatized in the musical War Paint?

Rubenstein

Mountains in this country's south contained an "Ice Maiden" in the Pazyryk burials, whose tumuli were the first described kurgans, as well as hominin fossils in Denisova Cave. This is the largest country to contain the Proto-Indo-European homeland's steppes. This country's Mal'ta-Buret' culture collected mammoth ivory from its permafrost.

Russia

French jeweller Jean Chardin wrote an account of his travels through this empire. Name this empire where the English Shirley brothers served as military advisors. After retaking Hormuz, a ruler of this empire founded the port city of Bandar-e 'Abbās

Safavid

Hannah Mills, standard bearer for UK at Olympics, competed in what sport

Sailing

This naiad pursued Hermaphroditus and fused with him, creating the first intersex person. This naiad lends her name to a fountain in Turkey that supposedly caused men who drank from it to become effeminate.

Salmacis

This doctor was convicted as part of Lincoln's murder after a boot belonging to John Wilkes Booth was found at his home

Samuel Mudd

On Netflix she's Ji-Yoon Kim, "The Chair" of a struggling English department

Sandra Oh

This name is thought to come from the Wyandot word for "water," and it names a bay, a river, a city, another "Upper" city, and a county in Ohio. The county produced football standouts Charles Woodson and Rob Lytle. The city is probably best known as the home of the Cedar Point amusement park, although it was also the setting for Tommy Boy.

Sandusky

Finnish head of state

Sanna Marin

After this flagship ran aground in 1492, Christopher Columbus ordered that its wreckage be used to build a fort on Hispaniola

Santa Maria

Author of V.I. Warshawsky novels

Sara Paretsky

These people allegedly shipped a flotilla of 12,000 slaves from Taranto to Ifriqiya. Medieval Christians gave this generic name to Arab Muslims in Aghlabid Calabria and Malta, Crete, Cyprus, and the Crusader Levant.

Saracens

In March 2018, who became the first woman to be appointed to the Church of England post of Bishop of London?

Sarah Mullaly

In a novel by this author of Death with Interruptions, a highly infectious "white sickness" affects everyone except the doctor's wife.

Saramago

Director Paul Thomas Anderson said he was inspired to write the 1999 movie Magnolia after hearing Aimee's song "Deathly". The film soundtrack features eight Aimee Mann songs, including one that was nominated for an Oscar. Name this Oscar-nominated song.

Save Me

In "The Old Castle," Hartmann included a guitar-toting troubadour singing in front of the title edifice "for scale." Composers have tended not to feature the guitar in their orchestrations of this movement, but the composer in Question #1 above did give the troubadour's solo to what other instrument also rarely seen in the symphony orchestra? Notable performers of this instrument include Johnny Hodges, Marshall Allen, and Ornette Coleman.

Saxophone

Which equation, named for the Austrian physicist who postulated it in 1925, defines the wave function of a quantum mechanical system and has both time dependent and time independent versions?

Schrodinger

Name these two medieval kingdoms that concluded the "Auld Alliance" in 1295. At the time, their respective leaders were a council of twelve magnates who had deposed John Balliol, and the anti-Templar King Philip the Fair

Scotland and France

Réminiscences de Don Juan was one of the pieces that caused this Russian composer of Prometheus: The Poem of Fire to damage his hand while learning them. In response, this synesthesiac composer wrote the funeral march of his first piano sonata.

Scriabin

In "A Very Murray Christmas", Bill re-teamed with David Johansen, a co-star as the Ghost of Christmas Past in this 1988 comedy

Scrooged

In another poem, this author of "The Tollund Man" describes "the warm thick slobber / Of frogspawn." A poem by this author describes the "poppy bruise" on the left temple of his brother, who lies in "A four-foot box, a foot for every year." This author wrote of how his grandfather "could handle a spade" in a poem that ends "The squat pen rests. / I'll dig with it." For 10 points, name this Irish poet of "Mid-Term Break" and "Digging," two poems collected in Death of a Naturalist.

Seamus Heaney

Though it is currently owned by the American manufacturer Stanley Black & Decker, the Craftsman brand of tools was originally established by, and for many decades sold at, what retailer?

Sears

Albee play in which two couples - one a pair of lizard people - are having problems in their relationships

Seascape

Elected Austrian Chancellor in 2017 at the age of 31 making him the youngest head of state in the world at the time

Sebastian Kurz

In 1975, Junko Tabei became the first woman (and mother) to summit Mount Everest, after leading an expedition of 15 women up the mountain. In 1992, after climbing Puncak Jaya, she also became the first woman to achieve what other mountaineering feat?

Seven Summits

Netflix dating show in which contestants are in costume

Sexy Beasts

Kevin O'Leary, one of the investors on this series, is frequently referred to as Mr. Wonderful

Shark Tank

Scottish singer of "Modern Girl', '9 to 5' and 'For Your Eyes Only'

Sheena Easton

The play The History Boys and the film The Full Monty were both set in which northern English city?

Sheffield

One of the more prized colors of topaz is named for this fortified Spanish wine

Sherry

The 1983 biopic Heart Like a Wheel starred Bonnie Bedelia as what drag racer, a three-time winner of the NHRA Top Fuel championship?

Shirley Muldowney

This instrument is played offstage just before some Watchers sing "It shines!" during a scene from Edward Elgar's The Apostles, although it is often replaced with a flugelhorn in performance. Name this instrument, which is imitated by the brass in the first movement of Ernest Bloch's Schelomo for cello and orchestra.

Shofar

A 1932 coup forced Prajadhipok, king of this then 4-letter country, to grant a Constitution

Siam

As of January 2022, there are presently 15 headlining magic shows in Las Vegas. This would not have been possible over 40 years ago when magicians only ever served as featured performers in variety and production shows. It wasn't until 1981 when this legendary magic act opened a show titled: "Beyond Belief" at the New Frontier hotel, and became the first to headline their own full-length evening show on the strip.

Siegfried and Roy

The mountain range known as the Lion Mountains, whose highest point is Picket Hill at just under 3,000 feet, is located on the Atlantic coast entirely within what nation?

Sierra Leone

Name this ensemble founded by Yo-Yo Ma that comprises a rotating cast of musicians from across Eurasia. Their albums include A Playlist Without Borders and Off the Map.

Silk Road Ensemble

Yurchenko double pike attempted by her in 2021

Simone Biles

Karachi is the capital of which province of Pakistan, located on the coast next to the Indian border?

Sindh

This hero's home island of Lyonesse sank in one night while he was staying at King Mark's court. This Cornish knight accidentally drinks a love potion that makes him fall for the king's bride-to-be.

Sir Tristan

"Treat Her Like a Lady" and "Too Late to Turn Back Now" were back to back hit singles in 1971 and 1972 for the Cornelius Brothers along with which other group member?

Sister Rose

He led a rockin' "Family" on such hits as "Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin"

Sly Stone

A band that included influential bass guitarist Larry Graham had their first #1 hit in early 1969, several months before they appeared at Woodstock. The band also featured Cynthia Robinson, the first female trumpeter in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Name this band, whose #1 hit helped to popularize the phrase "different strokes for different folks".

Sly and the Family Stone

What Mars rover, part of NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission, in truth became the first wheeled vehicle to explore a planet other than Earth in 1997? It was a member of the inaugural class inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame.

Sojourner

This novel opens with Robert Smith attempting to fly by jumping off a hospital roof, causing Ruth to go into labor. Against the wishes of his father Macon, this novel's protagonist befriends his navel-less aunt Pilate. For 10 points, name this novel about Milkman Dead, written by Toni Morrison.

Song of Solomon

A specialty of Tucson is a hot dog wrapped in bacon, served in a bun that is part French bread and part traditional bun, and then stuffed with beans, onions, chopped tomatoes and salsa verde. This dish is named for what desert — in which Tucson is found?

Sonoran

Bethany Hamilton, who lost an arm due to a shark attack at age 13, was portrayed by AnnaSophia Robb in what 2011 biopic, which references Hamilton's sport in its title?

Soul Surfer

What is the only winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama that is an adaptation of a work that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction? It is an adaptation of a collection of related short stories based on the author's observations as a Naval officer stationed on Espiritu Santo, the largest island in Vanuatu.

South Pacific

The Dinka people, historically known for their height, are the largest ethnic group, comprising around 35% of the population, in which African country? Most of the rest belong to other Nilotic groups including the Nuer, Luo and Shilluk.

South Sudan

What word precedes 'Corner' in the name of the area in the northeast of Hyde Park in London, where open air public discussions and debates take place?

Speakers'

What one-word title is shared by a 1945 Alfred Hitchcock film and a 1981 hit for Siouxsie and the Banshees?

Spellbound

The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum is in this Massachusetts city, Dr. Seuss' hometown

Springfield

Nagasaki houses an original letter written by this missionary, who brought Christianity to Japan after trips to Goa and China. This Jesuit companion of Ignatius Loyola names a religious university in Ohio.

St. Francis Xavier

Typically found in Chinese restaurants in Jefferson City (and elsewhere in Missouri), a sandwich consisting of an egg foo young patty, served with dill pickle slices, white onion, lettuce and mayonnaise between two slices of white bread is named for what OTHER state capital that claims F. Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Schulz among its famous residents?

St. Paul

The Falkland Islands' capital and most populous city, ______, shares its name with city parks in two major Canadian cities, a famous sports award, and a well-known literary hotel.

Stanley

The 1,600 seat showroom at what is now known as The Westgate Resort (formerly the Las Vegas Hilton, and originally The International Hotel) has been home to countless famous residencies. Elvis Presley, Liberace, and Barry Manilow have all called the theater home. From 1993 to 1997, (after a $12 million renovation) this room became home to the Las Vegas production of which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, loosely based on the story of "The Little Engine That Could"?

Starlight Express

In 1752 one of the first races in this sport was run--4 miles from Buttevant Church to St. Mary's Doneraile

Steeplechase

To Marlon Brando, "Stella" also meant this woman from a Yiddish theater dynasty, the teacher who changed his life

Stella Adler

In 2016, the Scottish Open was revived as a ranking event in snooker, with a new trophy named after which Scottish player who won seven world titles in the 1990s?

Stephen Hendry

In 2016, a new English Open was added as a ranking event in snooker, with a trophy named after which English player who won six world titles in the 1980s?

Steve Davis

Elvis Costello, Toby Keith & old pal Jon Stewart were part of this late night host's "Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!"

Steven Colbert

Though not as prestigious as the Nobel, what is Italy's highest literary prize? It shares a name with the Italian word for "witch" or a word from the title of a well-known children's book with pasta playing a major role.

Strega

Glee followed the travails of a glee club, whose teacher and class was continually set upon by a scheming cheerleading coach, played by Jane Lynch. What was Lynch's character's name?

Sue Sylvester

Founder of the Unification Church

Sun Myung Moon

A dubious Arthur Waley translation is titled for this character, who was imprisoned for 500 years under a mountain for stealing the peaches of immortality. Pigsy, Sandy and this character accompany the monk Xuánzàng ("shwen-zahng") on a trek to India. For 10 points, name this primate from Journey to the West

Sun Wukong

Harry Alonzo Longabaugh was the actual name of an outlaw, Wild Bunch member, title character of a 1969 Western movie, and film institute namesake who was known by what nickname?

Sundance Kid

Which word precedes 'League' in the name of the competition, founded in 1996, that is the top-flight of Rugby League in the UK?

Super

An ad for cold medicine showing a partially bare Mickey Rooney was pulled before it aired during this February 2005 event

Super Bowl

Two Motown vocal groups collaborated on three cover songs that charted in 1969: "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" (#2), "I'll Try Something New" (#25), and "The Weight" (#46). Name both of these superstar groups.

Supremes and Temptations

The name of this second-largest city in Wales starts with a big bird

Swansea

Gothenburg is in this country

Sweden

The author of Mexican Gothic, the 2021 winner of the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel, was born in Mexico and now lives in Canada. In addition to several outstanding novels spanning genres such as horror, noir, and science fiction, she has made major contributions as the co-editor of magazines such as Innsmouth and The Dark, and of anthologies such as Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction. Name this writer/editor.

Sylvia Moreno-Garcia

This modern Japanese architect allowed light to stream in through a cross cut in the concrete wall of his Church of the Light. Works by Hiroki Oda are displayed in this architect's "Daylight Museum."

Tadao Ando

Cardiff lies at the mouth of which 42-mile-long river?

Taff

What poet/playwright/novelist, the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in literature, also wrote the songs that became the national anthems of two neighboring countries (well after his death, as during his lifetime both were part of the same colonial empire)?

Tagore

This home stands as a "shining brow" on Frank Lloyd Wright's favorite boyhood hill in Wisconsin

Taliesin

Dravidian language official language of Puducherry

Tamil

Fleetwood Mac waltzed into the '80s with Mirage, featuring hits like "Hold Me" and "Gypsy" that were fairly consistent with the sound of the band's classic albums of the 1970s. But its second album of the decade, featuring songs like "Everywhere" and "Little Lies," was much heavier on synthesized sounds, marking a transition to a more "'80s" sound. Name that album.

Tango in the Night

Shortly after being awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, Michelle Dorrance (2015) performed on Late Show with Stephen Colbert. What specific performance medium does Michelle focus on? Other prominent artists in her field have included Bill Robinson and The Nicholas Brothers.

Tap Dancing

Name this Norman principality led from an eponymous city in Puglia, Italy from 1088 to 1465. This state's first ruler, who was the eldest son of Robert Guiscard, founded the Principality of Antioch in 1098

Taranto

The name of most any member of the Theraphosidae family, a dance derived from that animal, and a co-director of the 1995 black comedy film Four Rooms have names that are derived from what Italian city? This should not be confused with a similarly sounding and spelled large North American city.

Taranto

Slovenia and Croatia both declared independence on June 25, 1991. Slovenia won its independence before the summer ended. How long did Slovenia's war of independence last, according to the war's oft-used name?

Ten Days

Jannik Sinner, Camila Giorgi, Lorenzo Sonego, Lorenzo Musetti and Fabio Fognini are currently all successful, beloved, highly ranked professional Italian athletes associated with which sport?

Tennis

The flooding of this river in 1966 destroyed or damaged some 14,000 works of art, many of them priceless

The Arno

Johnny Depp plays Spencer Armacost and Charlize Theron is his wife Jillian in this 1999 movie.

The Astronaut's Wife

In the late 1980s Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Vicki Peterson & Michael Steele had 5 Top 10 hits as this band

The Bangles

Dennis Quaid Plays New Orleans police detective Remy McSwain

The Big Easy

Unification or Death, the Serbian secret military society whose involvement in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was one of the triggers for the First World War, was more popularly known by what name?

The Black Hand

In 1955, Sidney Poitier (RIP) was one of the students (along with Vic Morrow and Jamie Farr) and Glen Ford was the young teacher in this 1955 inner city drama, which famously included the song "Rock Around the Clock" on the soundtrack.

The Blackboard Jungle

In this novel, Medardo of Terralba literally becomes two people, one good and one evil, after a cannonball splits him in half. This novel is the first in Calvino's trilogy Our Ancestors.

The Cloven Viscount

James McBride bestseller about his white mother

The Color of Water

In this opera, the young Tyrolean Tonio sings eight high C's in an aria nicknamed the "Mount Everest" for tenors titled "Ah! Mes amis, quel jour de fête" Name this 1840 French-language opera whose title character is a vivandière ("vee-vahn-dee-air"), or canteen girl, named Marie.

The Daughter of the Regiment

The composer of La fille du régiment, Gaetano Donizetti, is also well-known for this opera, which includes the famous tenor aria "Una furtiva lagrima." In this opera, Dr. Dulcamara sells cheap wine instead of the title potion

The Elixir of Love

A grandfather's striking resemblance to a crocodile is described in this other De Quincey essay. A section of this essay details De Quincey's near collison after he ingested opium while riding the title vehicle.

The English Mail-coach

After a long "Vacation", these '80s icons returned to the charts with 2020's "Club Zero"

The Go-Gos

Diane Lockhart is a lawyer on these two shows

The Good Wife and The Good Fight

This 2006 British movie was based on a Tony Award winning play. Richard Griffiths (another Harry Potter alum) originated the role of the teacher on stage and stars in the movie as well. What was the title of the play and movie?

The History Boys

In the final chapter in this sequel, "Christopher Robin and Pooh come to an enchanted place, and we leave them there"

The House at Pooh Corner

Richard Ayoade, typing a distress email on this show: "Dear Sir/Madam ...fire! Help me!... Looking forward to hearing from you"

The IT Crowd

Starring Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, and Nicole Kidman, the 2017 film The Upside was an English-language remake of which 2011 French comedy-drama? Both films follow the relationship between a wealthy quadriplegic and the ex-con who becomes his personal carer.

The Intouchables

Masterpiece of Wilfredo Lam, a merging of human, animal, and plant forms

The Jungle

When Bilbo Baggins and his crew encounter Smaug, the last great dragon of Middle-Earth, he was chilling at home, until a hobbit and some dwarves rudely disturbed him. Hint, in Elvish, this place is called Erebor. Where did Smaug live (in common tounge)?

The Lonely Mountain

The final novel in the "D'Artagnan Romances," The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is typically subdivided into three books in English editions: The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Louis de la Valliere, and what third book, which details Aramis's efforts to replace the king with a mysterious lookalike?

The Man in the Iron Mask

This book, whose original title was Ta eis heauton ("TAH AY-ees hay-OH-ton"), encourages its reader to wipe out judgments of pain to avoid being hurt by external objects. This book promotes apatheia by telling its readers not to fear death in its third section, which was written while its author was campaigning in Carnuntum"

The Meditations

The Saturday Evening Post quipped that the two unsolved mysteries in Christie's life were her disappearance and the success of this play, which takes place at Monkswell Manor and is the longest-running West End show.

The Mousetrap

Magazine with a "Talk of the Town" section

The New Yorker

This 1973 film follows a first-year student's clashes with his contracts prof at Harvard Law School

The Paper Chase

The end of this Twain tale says while Tom Canty lived to be very old, King Edward VI lived to the age of 15

The Prince and the Pauper

Once upon a time Robin Wright played Buttercup in this film scripted by William Goldman

The Princess Bride

The protagonist reads both the novels of Derek Hartfield and novels by this character in Hear the Wind Sing, which along with Pinball, 1973 and A Wild Sheep Chase makes up Murakami's "Trilogy" named for this character.

The Rat

Somerset Maugham novel whose title refers to the sharp and difficult path to salvation

The Razor's Edge

Dennis Quaid movie he plays astronaut Gordon Cooper

The Right Stuff

Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield were not closely related, despite performing under what groovy stage name?

The Righteous Brothers

In this other short story by Lawrence, a woman laments that her husband "has no luck" and cries, "There must be more money!" A boy in this story named Paul uses the title object to predict the outcomes of races.

The Rocking-Horse Winner

Dennis Quaid plays HS baseball coach Jimmy Morris

The Rookie

Tupac poetry book

The Rose that Grew from Concrete

Peter Shafer play in which the characters 'climb the Andes'

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

Two red dots and the smell of sulfur represent Satan in a play [emphasize] within this play that is watched by characters like the doctor Dorn. In this play, Masha is in love with a writer who shoots himself in the head after he realizes that Nina will not love him

The Seagull

These 4 words begin a Hemingway title that concludes "of Francis Macomber"

The Short Happy Life

Clancy Wiggum is the police chief in this show

The Simpsons

"One must have a mind of winter", begins this Wallace Stevens poem that sets a chilly mood

The Snow Man

This all-female trio hit number two on the Hot 100 with "When Will I See You Again" and topped the chart as featured vocalists on the theme from Soul Train.

The Three Degrees

Alison Janney played press secretary Claudia Jean Cregg or C.J. in what TV series?

The West Wing

This book's section on aesthetics contains a five-level hierarchy of sublime feelings. This book argues that landscaping and architecture are the lowest art forms for only being the crudest imitations of ideas

The World as Will and Representation

Eatonville, Florida is the setting of this Zora Neale Hurston novel about the life of Janie Crawford.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

David Cameron is seen here with this home secretary, his successor as prime minister

Theresa May

What Archbishop of Canterbury declared the marriage of Henry and Anne Boleyn valid, resulting in his excommunication by Pope Clement VII? (It goes without saying that Henry was also excommunicated.)

Thomas Cranmer

Silence of the Lambs Author

Thomas Harris

In 2016 the German Michael Jung became only the second person ever to complete the grand slam of which equestrian sport

Three-Day Eventing

A language from this region is often transliterated with the Wylie system.

Tibet

The TPLF, this Ethiopian region People's Liberation Front, captured the region's capital from government soldiers

Tigray

Until 2012, when Marion Cotillard won the Oscar for La Vie en Rose, only two actors had won the award for Best Actor/Actress in a Leading Role from a film in a language other than English. Both films were set in Italy, primarily during WWII, with one released in 1960 and the other in 1997. Name either film.

Two Women, Life is Beautiful

What is the two-word name of the English creole language that is the most spoken language and main lingua franca of Papua New Guinea?

Tok Pisin

Fred Sanford wore his tuxedo on at least two non-wedding occasions. One was a victory celebration for what Angeleno who served a record five terms as mayor from 1973 to 1993?

Tom Bradley

As a high school football star in a Pennsylvania steel town, this actor had "All the Right Moves"

Tom Cruise

This British diver won gold at the Olympics & won hearts by knitting in the stands

Tom Daley

The singer born Michael Cassavitis had two Top 40 hits in 1961 (clip attached) with songs that he recorded at age 16. In 1969, he reached the Top 40 again, as the lead singer of a New York studio group named Wind. He rose to greater fame (three #1 hits and a TV show) when he teamed with two female backing vocalists. What is his stage name, based on his two middle names?

Tony Orlando

In 1978, Australia and Papua New Guinea signed a border-defining treaty named for this strait between the two countries. Indigenous Australians include both Aboriginal peoples and the Islanders of this strait.

Torres Strait

Though it has a more angelic name by which it is more commonly known, whose "trumpet" is a mathematical construct with infinite surface area but finite volume? This 17th-century Italian mathematician discovered the structure, but is better known for his work in physics.

Torricelli

Thomas Merton was a notable "theologian, writer, monk, mystic, poet, and social activist" of the 20th century. Merton entered the monastery, the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, KY. His writings were widely-read, especially his autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain. The formal name for the order Merton belonged to was the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (OCSO). What is the one-word informal name of this order?

Trappist

The brief Picture "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks" was inspired by Hartmann's costume design for a ballet with what six-letter title, based on a Charles Nodier novella? A later George du Maurier work of the same name led to this word being adopted for a popular men's felt hat, similar to the fedora but with a smaller brim.

Trilby

Named for a biblical threesome, this Boston church features stained glass from the Pre-Raphaelite William Morris

Trinity

This city can be said to be twice on the Mediterranean coast; one as a world capital, the other in Lebanon

Tripoli

President who was a member of the MO national guard

Truman

What failed Donald Trump property, named after a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was then converted to Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City in 2018?

Trump Taj Mahal

"A musician who mainly played this instrument covered "My Funny Valentine" on a 1954 album titled "[that musician] Sings." This instrument was played by Chet Baker and by the composer of ""A Night in Tunisia.""

Trumpet

In an E.B. White novel, Louis, who "came into the world, lacking a voice" is one of these animals

Trumpeter Swan

Kirkipinar olive oil wrestling tournament takes place in what country?

Turkey

Coarctation of the aorta is one of the symptoms of this chromosomal abnormality, in which women have only one X chromosome. This disease also causes a shield chest and a webbed neck

Turner Syndrome

In this comedy Sir Toby Belch asks, "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes & ale?"

Twelfth Night

He had a short term as president of Czechoslovakia before becoming president of the Czech Republic

Vaclav Havel

In the Kalevala, this hero crafts the first kantele from a giant pike's jawbone. The Kalevala ends with this legendary bard sailing away from Finland.

Vainamoinen

Fitting the genre of Barbara Cartland's 723 novels, her $55 million London mansion went up for sale on this day in 2020

Valentine's Day

Mary McCarthy's "The Group" follows the lives of 8 graduates of this Seven Sisters college north of New York City

Vassar

Yulimar Rojas triple jump gold was the only gold medal of Tokyo Olympics for what country?

Venezuela

The plot of the 2021 Pixar film Luca revolves around the title character's quest to win a triathlon. He hopes to use the prize money to purchase what specific iconic product that has been produced by Piaggio in the Tuscan town of Pontedera since 1946? The name of the product is a member of the order Hymenoptera.

Vespa

Name of Magellan's ship, completed circumnavigation of globe in 1522

Victoria

On "How to Get Away with Murder", she played a professor at Middleton Law School

Viola Davis

Name this colony where the Akwamu Akan led a 1733 revolt. This colony sold sugar and rum from Cinnamon Bay Estate, Estate Catherineberg near its capital, and Estate Little Princess near Christiansted

Virgin Islands

In which 1964 film, featuring an American city in its title, did Elvis Presley play Lucky Jackson, who travels to the titular city to take part in its first annual Grand Prix Race?

Viva Las Vegas

The state song of Indiana is titled "On The Banks Of" this river "Far Away"

Wabash

Name this historical sociologist who posited a contrast between core, semi-periphery, and periphery in his multi-volume work The Modern World-System.

Wallerstein

During this conflict, Admiral Miguel Grau commanded the Huáscar to victory at the naval Battle of Iquique while he tried to secure the port of Antofagasta. After this conflict, one country became landlocked since it lost campaigns in the Atacama Desert. For 10 points, name this conflict in which Chile fought Bolivia and Peru

War of the Pacific

Using principles of just intonation, this musician developed the alpha scale, which has no octave, for her album Beauty and the Beast. This transgender musician used the Moog synthesizer on her album Switched-On Bach

Wendy Carlos

Gregory Maguire's "Son of a Witch" & "A Lion Among Men" are sequels to this book that inspired a musical

Wicked

What is the name of the British seaman who became the first Englishman to reach Japan when he navigated a Dutch ship to Japanese shores in the late 16th century, and later became the inspiration for the character John Blackthorne in the TV miniseries Shogun, based on James Clavell's book of the same name?

William Adams/Miura Anjin

Despite being stricken by polio as a young girl, what woman went on to win gold in the 100- and 200-meter dash and 4x100-meter relay at the 1960 Games in Rome, becoming the first American woman to win three gold medals at a single Olympics?

Wilma Rudolph

London Palace named after John Sheffield Duke of this

Windsor

Kelsey Grammer played the character Dr Frasier Crane for many years in both Cheers and Frasier, as well as a one-time 1992 appearance in which other US sitcom?

Wings

He makes the mistake of trusting O'Brien, which leads to a harsh re-education at the Ministry of Love

Winston Smith

Judith Light is among those who have portrayed the professor stricken with cancer in this Pulitzer-winning play

Wit

Ina Eloise Young is widely regarded as the first woman sports editor. What sporting event was she the sole woman journalist to cover in 1908?

World Series

20th century: this businessman buys the island of Santa Catalina & brings the Cubs over for spring training

Wrigley

The spring flowers that grow from these geophytic structures thrive in hardiness zones 3 to 6, since they need cold winters to emerge from dormancy. Daffodils, lilies, irises, and tulips grow from these tuber-like storage organs.

bulbs

This composer's Anastenaria triptych is based on an ancient Greek ritual that was later Christianized. The last piece in that triptych, Metastaseis, contains independent parts for 61 musicians and was inspired by Einstein's view of time

Xenakis

A man is decapitated by the god Camazotz in this place's Bat House. Two lords of this place called One Death and Seven Death are tricked into being chopped to pieces by a pair of brothers who earlier had defeated them at the ball game. For 10 points, the Hero Twins defeat the lords of what location in Mayan mythology where the dead reside?

Xibalba

Name this Plateau people who allied with the Cayuse in 1855-1858 wars that led to the Coast Salish's Puget Sound War. Isaac Stevens led a war on this people, who name a wine-growing valley and a Columbia River tributary

Yakima

Who was the last French player to win the men's singles at the French Open tennis? His 1983 win was his only grand slam singles title.

Yannick Noah

Kiteba Cilwe or Book of Revelation and Mishefa Res or Black Book are the holy books of what ethnoreligious group

Yazidis

Apologizing to the Russian people for the failures of his administration, he abruptly resigned as president December 31, 1999

Yeltsin

Dramatics magazine has been tracking the most popular high school plays and musicals in the US since its founding in 1938. Two plays, both Pulitzer Prize winners from the 1930's, have been the two most popular high school plays (non-musical) between the time of the magazine's founding until the end of the 20th century? According to the magazine, a good high school play needs a large cast, lots of female roles, and won't scare your grandma. These two plays check all three of those boxes

You Can't Take it With You, Our Town

This other mythical city disappeared into the sea when its princess Dahut opened its dikes while drunk. This Breton city was ruled by King Gradlon and is often translated as "low city."

Ys

British-Iraqi architect of the London Aquatics Center and the Beijing Daxing airport

Zaha Hadid

Biblical father of James and John

Zebedee

Named after a 1980 Police album whose title is two made up words, what is the only female horse to win the Breeders' Cup Classic, which she did in 2009?

Zenyatta

Give either the name OR the nickname of the former UFC Women's Strawweight World Champion who is the first ever East Asian UFC Champion. Her nickname is also the name of a Belgian brand of ice cream

Zhang Weili (Magnum)

This religion states that, after death, the soul crosses over to the House of Song or House of Lies. A bearded man with wings, who may be a fravashi, is a symbol of this religion, whose funeral practices involve laying the body on a raised circular structure to be eaten by vultures. This religion, which worships in fire temples, has hymns called Gathas written in the liturgical language Avestan

Zoroastrianism

This lonely alien brought "Pee-wee's Playhouse" to space so he could have playmates

Zyzzybalubah

From Old French for "good", this adjective meant good but now is mainly a companion to "companion"

boon

Hellenistic rulers typically hired Cretans to use these objects as toxotai. Egyptians called Nubia "Ta-Seti," or "Land of [these objects]," and personified their enemies as nine of them. Scythians used these objects with thumb rings, not the Mediterranean draw.

bows

What is a thoroughbred in horse racing?

breed of horse

This family of flowering plants includes epiphytes like Spanish moss. Because pineapples are in this family, the allergen within them takes its name from this family

bromeliad

To get this from brine, use the Dow process or insert 2 letters after the "br"

bromine

Name this quantity that is proportional to the mass defect. This quantity is the energy it would take to completely disassemble a nucleus.

binding energy

Westminster Council destroyed a Banksy work titled "One Nation Under [these objects],"while in another work Banksy painted the words "what are you looking at?" on a wall opposite one of these objects

cameras

The "warrah" was the Falkland Island's only native terrestrial mammal at the time of European arrival, and was driven to extinction in the late 19th century. Today its close genetic relative, the "culpeo", thrives as an introduced species and is considered a pest. To what mammalian family do the warrah and culpeo belong?

canine

In 1755 Joseph Black called it "fixed air"; today we call it a planetary problem

carbon dioxide

Missouri has plenty of these, including Mark Twain, a maze type & Marvel, with dripstones

caves

From the Greek for 'sleeping place'

cemetery

Region of a chromosome near the middle where sister chromatids are most closely in contact

centromere

Squid & octopuses are members of this class of marine mollusks

cephalopods

melody pipe of a bagpipe, played with both hands

chanter

Name this type of place where Peyalo and Elisenda imprison the title "Very Old Man with Enormous Wings."

chicken coop

Patterned calico fabric from Hindi for 'spotted'

chintz

Hobbes was an Erastian, meaning that in the tension between these 2 social entities, the first is subordinate to the second

church and state

Walter Bagehot, a Victorian who wrote on central banking, had this profession & edited the magazine of the same name

economist

Theravāda Buddhists often compare anattā to this quality. The Madhyamaka ("MUD-yah-mah-kah") school of Buddhism teaches that all beings possess this quality, based on Nāgārjuna's teaching that beings do not possess svabhāva

emptiness or sunyata

Twelfth Night precedes the feast of this, also known as Three Kings' Day

epiphany

In physics, a body at rest is in "static" this if all the forces acting on it cancel each other out

equilibrium

Word meaning a small unit of energy equal to 100 nJ or desert area covered in wind-blown sand

erg

Pyrans and furans are cyclic forms of this functional group, which can be synthesized by reacting an alkoxide with an alkyl halide in an SN2 reaction named for Williamson.

ether

Ikebana is the Japanese art of arranging these

flowers

In a story collected by Madame d'Aulnoy, one of these animals helps a king rescue his queen from the Fairy Lioness. In a Brothers Grimm tale, one of these animals helps a princess retrieve her ball from a well

frog

Under the Tokugawa shogunate, Nagasaki Christians were often required to step on these depictions of Jesus or the Virgin Mary, at the risk of torture. These objects were usually made from bronze or painted stone.

fumi-e

Actually, it's the ulnar nerve that causes the tingling sensation known as "hitting" this

funny bone

Inspiring a recent movie, "The One and Only Ivan" is one of these creatures

gorilla

Make like an old British sailor & serve this, rum & water; Admiral Edward Vernon was nicknamed "Old" it

grog

Einstein lectured that this enjoys "esteem above all other sciences" because "its laws are... certain & indisputable"

mathematics

The Navier-Stokes equations are a limit of the Boltzmann equation when the Knudsen number, and therefore this quantity, is small. This quantity is the average distance that a particle travels before interacting with another one

mean free path

vocal range above contralto

mezzo-soprano

In the Charles Dickens novel Hard Times, the millworker Stephen Blackpool, falsely accused of robbing Bounderby's bank, is on his way back to Coketown to vindicate himself when he dies by falling into a what?

mine shaft

Name this good that may be marked with images of common household items. This good is often burned during the Qīngmíng ("ching-ming") festival as an offering to spirits

joss paper

It's what Russian-American inventor Vladimir Zworykin called his early TV picture tube

kinescope

Truly "The People's Princess", Diana crusaded against these weapons of war & after her death, 160-plus nations agreed to ban them

land mines

It's a term for someone who cuts & polishes precious gems

lapidary

One of the basic tenets of intuitionism is the rejection of this logical principle. This principle holds that either a proposition or its negation is true

law of the excluded middle

"One type of these goods uniquely has a legal market in Iran. Art Caplan has advocated changing a policy about these goods to be opt-out by default. These goods are allocated in a Never Ending Altruistic Donor chain. HLA constraints make it difficult to match recipients and donors of these goods, as does blood type"

organs

Which sub-Saharan birds of the family Buphagidae get their name from the habit of perching on the backs of cattle and other large mammals and feeding on ticks and insects present there, as well as the animals blood?

oxpeckers

A drawstring can help create the ruffled waist called this, like an item to hold your purchases

paperbag waist

A popular buffer in biological applications is a saline solution named for the fact that it is titrated to a pH of 7.4 using derivatives of this ion. Calcium, hydroxide, and this anion are found in apatite.

phosphate

For 10 points, name this complex in the thylakoid membrane, which receives electrons from a later-discovered complex during the light reactions of photosynthesis

photosystem I

This common building lumber product is made up of an odd number of veneers glued together

plywood

Phosphate is in equilibrium with phosphoric acid, which is one of these acids that have multiple equivalence points on an acid-base titration curve.

polyprotic

Gwendolyn Brooks wrote a heartbreaking 32 words called "We Real Cool" about young men in this kind of "hall"

pool

This branch of linguistics often studies conversational implicatures and performative utterances. For 10 points, name this branch of linguistics that studies how context affects meaning, frequently contrasted with semantics.

pragmatics

After he escaped slavery to Ontario, Henry Bibb argued that South Carolina violated this clause by imprisoning free Black sailors. This clause in Article Four prohibits interstate discrimination and affords the right to travel

privileges and immunities (comity)

Court procedure to carry out the terms of a will

probate

Name this phase of meiosis ("my-OH-sis"), which is subdivided into leptotene, zygotene, pachytene, and diplotene stages. Oocytes arrest at this stage, during which crossing over occurs.

prophase I

Even though a barrier in the shape of the delta function has infinite height, particles can nonetheless pass through via this phenomenon, in which a particle surmounts a classically insurmountable barrier.

quantum tunneling

Before children, the Pied Piper of Hamelin led these to their doom

rats

The NHL's Rick Nash is known as "The Slim" this

reaper

Which word is used for the rights, arising from English common law, that broadly give all landowners with properties adjoining a body of water the right to make reasonable use of it?

riparian

In 2015 this disease also known as German measles was declared eradicated in the Americas

rubella

Safavid artisans made a variety of these things named for the city of Ardabil ("ar-duh-BEEL"). Two large Ardabil examples of these things with an inscription by Hafez are housed in London's Victoria and Albert Museum

rugs

To the Romans, Robigus was the god of this fungus that appears as red, orange or yellow spots on plants

rust

A cordwainer made these paired leather items

shoes

An example of motion near a minimum of potential energy is a pendulum undergoing simple harmonic motion when this condition holds. Under this condition, the sine of theta can be approximated as simply theta.

small angle approximation

Specially trained wildland firefighters who provide an initial attack response on remote wildland fires. They are inserted at the site of the fire by parachute.

smoke jumpers

Sternutation is the medical term for a convulsive reflex closely associated, by name, with what secondary Disney character?

sneezing

The female Christian warrior Bradamante ("BRAH-dah-MON-tay") carried a magical object of this kind able to remove anyone from their horse. Diarmuid ("DEER-mid") was gored by a boar after failing to bring a red object of this kind while hunting. One of these objects was kept in a cauldron of water to prevent it from catching on fire and guaranteed victory to the warrior Lugh ("loo"). During the First Crusade, the monk Peter Bartholomew had a vision of one of these objects that caused blood and water to come out of a man. One of these objects made from the bones of a sea monster was used by a warrior to gruesomely kill his half-brother Ferdiad. A soldier named Longinus ("lon-JAI-nuss") wielded one of these objects that inflicted one of the Five Holy Wounds. For 10 points, Cu Chulainn's ("coo CULL-in's") Gáe Bulg ("gay bool-gah") is what type of weapon

spear

A 1974 U.S. law mandated a national one of these, intended to improve fuel efficiency

speed limit

In the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House, the rag and bottle merchant Krook, who hoards papers and holds the key to resolving the case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, dies by what unusual means?

spontaneous combustion

Fishing accounts for over half of the Falklands' GDP. About three-quarters of the "fishing" yield in tonnage are not fish at all, but rather, the "gahi" variety of this animal that is exported to Northeast Asia and Europe post-catch?

squid

Puzzlingly heavy & long-lived particles discovered in the 1940s were dubbed this adjective later applied to even smaller particles

strange

Channel SpongeBob with this creamy condiment, like the Legal Sea Foods house brand

tartar sauce

In a Kōbō Abe novella, an amateur entomologist with this day job gets trapped with the title Woman in the Dunes. Name this job that is also held by Mr. Sneaze in Natsume Sōseki's novel I Am a Cat. The protagonist gets fired from this job after he vomits while performing it in Kenzaburō Ōe's novel The Silent Cry

teacher

The drug of choice to treat RMSF and Lyme disease is a member of this class of antibiotics, which work by binding to the 30S subunit of the bacterial ribosome. These broad-spectrum antibiotics have four characteristic rings.

tetracycline

These twins who ran a criminal empire in the east end in the 1950s were among the last prisoners to be held in the Tower of London

the Krays

In addition to the data and instruction levels, parallelism can occur on the level of these constructs. Schedulers allocate resources between these individual sequences of instructions that run in parallel on a single core.

thread

An early dance-drama called Bōtóu involves a grieving son who hunts for one of these creatures after his father's death. One of the eight Chinese "model plays" is titled for "Taking" a place named for these creatures "by Strategy."

tigers

Allegedly invented by restaurateur Ado Campeol, who passed away in October 2021 at age 93, and served at his Treviso restaurant, it contains savoiardi as one of its ingredients and was purportedly named due to its supposed aphrodisiac qualities.

tiramisu

Elements responsible for the blue color of sapphires

titanium and iron

Insect adjective for a slender midsection

wasp-waisted

This insect is also known as a snout beetle

weevil

Once meaning to go, this 4-letter verb now mostly appears before phrases like "one's way"

wend

Thought originally to be a tailoring idiom, a story said to be "cut out of" this is untrue

whole cloth

A warning in "As You Like It": "Do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in" this intoxicant

wine

marimba is a type of what musical instrument

xylophone

Name these zwitterions that are prepared with phosphonium salts for the Wittig reaction. These compounds have a positive and a negative charge on adjacent atoms.

ylides