| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| During manufacture, components of these devices are transported using Front Opening Unified Pods, or FOUPs. These devices are manufactured in specialized factories, colloquially called "fabs," short for fabrication sites. For the point, name these devices, which contain a set of electronic pathways on a single chip of semiconductor material. | Integrated circuit (or IC; or Monolithic Integrated circuit; accept Silicon chip, Microchip, or Semiconductor before mentioned) |
| This man’s casket supposedly claimed, “Whomsoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” This man and Genghis Khan shared a common ancestor, Tumanay Khan, and this bey was legendarily disabled while attempting to steal a sheep. For the point, who was this Turco-Mongol conqueror who attempted to rebuild the Mongol Empire? | Timur the Lame (or Tamerlane) |
| This composer once personally played the celesta for a piece whose "B" section is inspired by American blues music. Ross Gorman improvised the opening clarinet glissando for one work by this composer, who used taxi horns brought from the title city in An American in Paris. For the point, the concert "An Experiment in Modern Music" included the premiere of what composer's Rhapsody in Blue? | George Gershwin (or Jacob Gershwine) |
| In this book series, the librarian, Morgan le Fay, often sends the protagonists of this series on their missions. Entries in this series include Dinosaurs Before Dark and Night of the Ninjas. For the point, name this series of historical fiction and fantasy novels by Mary Pope Osborne, in which the siblings Jack and Annie travel back in time in the titular structure. | Magic Tree House |
| American theorist Carl Pomerance argued and proved that any odd versions of these mathematical entities must have at least seven distinct prime factors. For the point, give this term for any number which is equal to the sum of its positive integers, excluding itself, examples of which include 496, 28, and 6. | Perfect number (prompt on descriptive answers) |
| This city was the target of Operation Rugen, the success of which led to the fall of Bilbao. This city was the target of an early example of strategic targeting in an attack by the Condor Legion of the Luftwaffe [[LOOFT-vah-fuh]] carried out at the request of Francisco Franco. For the point, name this Basque city, whose bombing in the Spanish Civil War inspired an anti-war painting by Pablo Picasso. | Guernica [[guhr-NEE-kah]] (accept phonetic pronunciation and pronunciation accenting the first syllable) |
| This play's second act ends with a character pretending to be the insane Tom o' Bedlam. In this play, a duke, whose son Edmund forges a letter, is mutilated by Cornwall and Regan. A "fool" wanders the heath with the title character of this play, who mistreats Cordelia after being flattered by Goneril. A pre-Roman monarch of Britain has a rocky relationship with his three daughters in, for the point, what Shakespeare play? | King Lear |
| In audio contexts, this process can be accomplished by Vorbis, and David E. Huffman names a type of code, often used in this process, which utilizes fewer bits for symbols that appear more frequently. MP3s are the product of this process, which can exist in lossy and lossless forms. Frequently performed by zip files, for the point, what is this process in which the size of a file is reduced? | Data Compression (accept Lossy Compression; accept Lossless Compression; accept word forms) |
| One man from this school served as tutor and advisor to the Roman emperor, Nero. Epictetus and Seneca the Younger were members of this school of thought. For the point, what Hellenstic school of thought lends its name to an English word describing someone who can endure pain without showing much emotion? | Stoicism (accept word forms) |
| This language often uses proverbs such as "luck comes only once" or "bahati haiji mara mbili." This language, which developed out of Pokomo, is used alongside English as a primary medium of instruction in Tanzania. For the point, name this language, which combines Bantu grammar and substantial Arabic vocabulary, a common lingua franca of East Africa. | Swahili or Kiswahili |
| This network aired See It Now, the program Edward R. Murrow used to criticize Joseph McCarthy. William Paley built this network from a small radio community to a major TV network and, during the Watergate scandal, briefly tried to gag this network’s Evening News and its anchor, Walter Cronkite. For the point, name this television network, one of the Big Four networks with FOX, ABC, and NBC. | CBS Broadcasting, Inc. (or Columbia Broadcasting System; prompt on "Eye Network" or "Tiffany Network") |
| This piece's "Allegro" ends with an immediate transition to a triumphant horn theme in the final movement. The opening sonata of this symphony features a series of variations on a sudden four-note fortissimo sequence. For the point, name this Beethoven symphony in which the "Fate knocking at the door" motif is represented by a "short-short-short-long" sequence. | Beethoven's Symphony Number Five (accept answers regarding the Fifth Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven) |
| This element has the third-highest electronegativity and the highest electron affinity of any element. At room temperature, this element is a yellow-green gas, and sodium forms a common compound with this element. For the point, name this element, a halogen with atomic number seventeen. | Chlorine (or Cl; accept 37Cl; accept 35Cl; accept Chlorine gas; do not accept or prompt on "Chloride" or "Sodium Chloride") |
| The portal vein carries blood to this entity, and the Cantlie line is an imaginary line which divides this entity. Hepatitis is the inflammation of the tissue of this organ which is the only internal organ that can naturally regenerate tissue. The second-largest organ in the human body, for the point, what is this organ which is responsible for filtering blood? | Liver |
| This game allows players to choose between professions like carpenter and farmer, and a notable affliction in this game is dysentery. Players can navigate through the Willamette Valley after leaving from Independence, Missouri in this game. For the point, what 1971 educational video game is based on an overland route taken by some pioneers heading west? | The Oregon Trail |
| A particle's sedimentation rate in one of these devices is measured in Svedberg units and can be used to isolate the 40S and 60S subunits of the ribosome. Tubes in these devices must always be balanced before use, and blood is separated into platelets and plasma using one of these devices at around 3000 RPM. For the point, name these devices which separate samples by spinning them at very high speeds. | Centrifuge (accept Centrifugation; accept Ultracentrifuge; accept Microcentrifuge) |
| The physician James McCune Smith wrote an introduction to a work by this man. That work by this man describes how the husband of Sophia Auld disapproved of this man learning the alphabet. William Lloyd Garrison wrote a preface to one noted work by this author of My Bondage and My Freedom. For the point, name this orator who wrote a namesake "slave narrative." | Frederick Douglass (accept Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave) |
| Though this country failed to establish a kingdom under Frederick Charles in 1918, it created a strong presidency, once occupied by Urho Kekkonen. This country is the most recent to have joined NATO, doing so in 2023, though its neighbor’s accession has been held up due to objections from Turkey. The first Nordic republic, for the point, what is this country, which, during the Winter War, was bombed in Helsinki? | Republic of Finland (or Suomi; or Republiken Finland; or Suomen tasavalta) |
| To denote this direction, optometrists use the term "oculus sinister." A political movement in the 1960's, named for this viewpoint and the word "new," campaigned for a wide range of social issues. In sports, a "southpaw" is a player with this hand dominance, and this is also the side of the body on which the heart is located. For the point, what the direction names the political ideology that focuses on achieving social equality? | Left (accept New Left; accept Left-handed) |
| In a study conducted in 2018, scientists who drilled thirteen cores of this substance concluded that this substance in the Arctic contains 793 gigagrams of mercury. The dissolving of this substance causes the development of "drunken forests" in which trees are rotated from their vertical alignment. For the point, name this subsurface layer of soil, which remains frozen for at least two years and is typically found in the tundra. | Permafrost (prompt on "Soil" or "Sediment" or similar answers) |
| The Organic Act of 1890 reduced this territory by half. This territory was partitioned following the Land Rush of 1889 and the settlement of the Boomers and Sooners. This territory was reunited with the Oklahoma Territory and admitted as a state in 1907. For the point, name this former territory which was once home to the so-called "Five Civilized Tribes." | Indian Territory (or Indian Territories; prompt on “Oklahoma”) |
| In 1883, Enrico Mazzanti produced the first illustrated version of this character. Along with his friend, Candlewick, this character is transformed into a donkey after spending several months in the Land of Toys. The creation of Carlo Collodi, for the point, who is this a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy? | Pinocchio (accept The Adventures of Pinocchio) |
| This vessel was built after Bruce Ismay and Lord Pirrie vowed to build a ship larger than any in the Cunard Line. On its maiden voyage, Edward Smith captained this second of three Olympic-class ocean liners. Operated by the White Star Line and the largest ship afloat when it entered service, for the point, what was this fated passenger ship? | RMS Titanic |
| One site in this country is home to a ruin that includes the Semi-Subterranean Temple, the Kalasasaya courtyard, and the Gateway of the Sun. That site, Tiwanaku, is located near this country’s southern shores of Lake Titicaca. For the point, name this South American country, governed today from Sucre and La Paz. | Plurinational State of Bolivia (or Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia) |
| This man was instructed to capture one creature in a snowbank by the centaur Chiron [[KYE-run]]. At the request of his cousin, Admete, this man retrieved the girdle of the Amazon Hippolyte. Pholus was killed when he picked up and dropped one of this man’s arrows, which was poisoned with Hydra blood. For the point, name this Greek hero who, after killing his family, had to perform tasks for his cousin Eurystheus. | Hercules (or Heracles) |
| A mock battle was fought during this war to transfer control of a capital from one power to another while excluding local insurgents. Gatling gun fire from John Henry Parker helped one unit, led Leonard Wood, to gain a position during this war's Santiago Campaign. George Dewey's Asiatic Squadron won the battle of Manila Bay during, for the point, what 1898 war fought in Cuba and the Philippines? | Spanish-American War |
| This action is at the center of an 1889 Thomas Eakins painting, in which the main subject watches a team in white coats before an audience. Another notable work by Eakins depicts Samuel D. Gross performing this action while treating a man for osteomyelitis of the femur. The Agnew Clinic and The Gross Clinic depict, for the point, what medical practice, specific types of which include mastectomies and organ transplants? | Surgery (or Operation; accept Mastectomy before "Gross" is mentioned; accept word forms; prompt on descriptive answers) |
| The first of these governments was established by a man noted for controlling his country's flood problems, Yu the Great. The first of these governments, which was established after the Warring States, buried its emperor with an army of terracotta warriors. For the point, name these historical regimes of China, absolute monarchies dominated by a single family. | Dynasties of China (accept Xia Dynasty; accept Qin Dynasty; accept Great Yuan Dynasty) |
| This character was censored from Chinese websites in 2017 after memes compared him to Xi [[SHEE]] Jinping. This character dreams of Heffalumps and Woozles and lives in an area based on Ashdown Forest in England. For the point, what creation of A.A. Milne is a mammal whose friends include a tiger, a donkey, and boy named Christopher Robin? | Winnie-the-Pooh (accept either underlined portion; accept Pooh Bear) |
| Members of one music group from this country made a 2022 announcement indicating they would take a break from music to perform mandatory military service. That band from this country cited attempts to bring positivity during the COVID pandemic as a reason for their release of "Dynamite." For the point, name this country, whose "entertainment diplomacy" efforts have involved bands like BTS. | South Korea (or Republic of Korea; or Taehan-minguk; or Han'guk; accept ROK; prompt on "Korea") |
| A perilous air route called “The Hump” was traveled to avoid using this route to fly above the eastern Himalayas. This route, which allowed for the transport of supplies loaded off of ships in Yangon, was built during the Second Sino-Japanese War. For the point, name this route, which connected Southeast China to a modern-day country called Myanmar. | Burma Road (prompt on "Burma") |
| Article Two, Section Two of the U.S. Constitution allows the politician at the center of these actions to also perform them, an action notably taken by Gerald Ford. One of these actions is ceremonially performed every year toward a turkey, near the end of November, by the Commander-in-Chief. For the point, name these events, in which the head of the Executive branch relieves an individual of legal consequences due to crimes or offenses they may have committed. | Presidential Pardon (accept clear-knowledge equivalents, including synonyms for "pardon") |