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|---|---|
| A poem named for this place asks if its central object might "fester like a sore / and then run." The third line of that poem named for this place is the source for the title of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun. A Langston Hughes poem named for this location asks, "What happens to a dream deferred?" For the point, name this New York neighborhood, home to a 1920s African-American cultural movement. | Harlem (accept Harlem Renaissance) |
| This painter was one of the first Europeans to paint a Black woman as a primary subject with his Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus. Justinus van Nassau hands a key to Ambrogio Spinola in another painting by this artist, who depicted the king and queen of Spain in the mirror of a large portrait. For the point, name this Spanish artist of The Surrender of Breda and Las Meninas. | Diego Velázquez (or Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) |
| This city's strategic value has been described as being its proximity to supply lines to Kramatorsk and Sloviansk. This city contains the Artemsil Salt Mines in its urban area and houses the world's largest underground room in the suburb of Soledar. This city, in the northeastern part of Donetsk Oblast, has been recently targeted by Wagner Group mercenaries. For the point, name this city in eastern Ukraine. | Bakhmut |
| After accepting a dishonorable ride from a dwarf, this figure becomes known as the Knight of the Cart. This figure's affair with Elaine leads to the birth of his son, Galahad. For the point, name this knight of the Round Table, whose affair with Guinevere led to the downfall of Camelot. | Lancelot du Lac (or Lancelot of the Lake; accept Launcelot) |
| English colonists and enslaved persons in this country developed its current lingua franca, the creole Sranan Tongo. The Treaty of Breda granted sovereignty over this country to the Netherlands in exchange for relinquishing New Amsterdam to England. For the point, name this country in northern South America, governed from Paramaribo. | Republic of Suriname (or Republiek Suriname) |
| Along with William Strunk, Jr., this man authored The Elements of Style. The protagonist of one of this man's novels protects the songbird Margalo from the cat Snowball and fishes his mother's wedding ring from a drain. For the point, name this author of multiple children's novels including The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little, and Charlotte's Web. | E. B. White (or Elwyn Brooks White; accept Strunk and White) |
| A rediscovery of this person's accomplishments occurred after their notes were published in B. V. Bowden's Faster Than Thought. This student of Mary Somerville wrote a series of notes, labeled from A to G, for an Analytical Engine to compute a series of Bernoulli numbers. For the point, name this daughter of Lord Byron, who published the first algorithm to be executed by a machine and is often considered the first computer programmer. | Ada Lovelace (or Augusta Ada King; or Countess of Lovelace; accept Augusta Ada Byron before mentioned) |
| The convergence of the lower portions of this pair of bones results in the condition genu valgum. A ridge, called the line aspera, is found on the posterior surface of the shaft of these bones, while the head of these bones, near the greater trochanter, articulates with the acetabulum of the pelvic bone. For the point, name these strongest and longest bones of the human body. | Femur (prompt on "Thigh" or "Thighbone") |
| The coronation of every British monarch is preceded by this composer's Zadok the Priest, initially composed for King George the Second, while a barge-based concert on the River Thames was the source of this man's Water Music. Trumpet's play alongside the lyrics "and he shall reign for ever and ever" during this composer's "Hallelujah Chorus." For the point, name this German-British composer of Messiah? | George Frideric Handel (accept "Georg" in place of "George"; accept "Frederick" or "Friedrich" in place of "Frideric"; accept pronunciation as [[HEN-duhl]]) |
| Belts and pulleys can be used for the "continuously variable" type of these devices, which allow an engine to maintain a near-constant rotation per minute. These devices are mechanically linked to the engine by the clutch, and the input shaft and drive shaft are linked at specific gear ratios by these devices. For the point, name this automobile component which is typically either “manual” or “automatic.” | Transmission (or Gearbox; or Drivetrain; accept Continuously Variable Transmission; accept Manual or Automatic Transmission; prompt on "CVT") |
| This group only recognizes a Torah with a commandment to sacrifice on Mount Gerizim [[geh-ruh- ZEEM]] with no mention of Jerusalem. This group is called “Kutim” [[koo-TEEM]], because their Assyrian ancestry came from Kuta to join with the remnants of Israel. For the point, name this religion, a parabolic member of which aided a wounded traveler in a story told by Jesus. | Samaritans (or Samerim; or Somronim; accept Good Samaritan) |
| In The War in the Air, this author prophesied the devastating impact that aerial bombardments would later have on civilian centers. This author’s The Outline of History provided a survey that began with the creation of the earth and ended with the First World War. For the point, name this author of such sci-fi classics as The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds. | H. G. Wells (or Herbert George Wells) |
| This person is depicted in one work with two children and Uriel, set in a rocky background. Michelangelo sculpted many versions of the Pietà [[pee-eh-TAH]], depicting this person seated with a limp figure on their lap. Frequently the central figure in depictions of the Annunciation and the Nativity, for the point, who was the mother of Jesus? | The Virgin Mary (accept Madonna; accept Madonna of the Rocks; prompt on "Virgin" or "Virgin of the Rocks; prompt on "Mother of Jesus" and similar answers) |
| Social events associated with this celebration are organized by "mystic societies" and "krewes." The oldest known celebration of this event in the United States is in Mobile, Alabama. In the United Kingdom, this celebration is also known as Shrove Tuesday, named after the period before Lent during which this celebration takes place. For the point, name this celebration, the name of which translates to "Fat Tuesday." | Mardi Gras (accept Fat Tuesday before mentioned; accept Shrove Tuesday before mentioned) |
| This man released the albums Nice 'n' Easy and Come Fly with Me with Capitol Records. This singer recorded the 1966 duet "Somethin' Stupid" with his daughter, Nancy. For the point, name this leader of the Rat Pack, nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes,” an Italian-American singer. | Frank Sinatra (or Francis Albert Sinatra) |
| This country, led by King Abdullah the Second and Queen Rania, contains a narrow coastline on the Gulf of Aqaba, situated between the port of Eilat and this country's Saudi Arabian border. The second Arab country to recognize Israel after Egypt, for the point, what is this country, home to Petra and Amman? | Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (or Al Mamlakah al Urduniyah al Hashimiyah) |
| Some animals that can perform this ability produce FM and CF signals, and inside the foreheads of a few species that perform this technique is an organ, made of adipose tissue, called a "melon." A type of this technique, MBES, uses beamforming to extract data in order to map the seabed. For the point, name this ability, which animals, such as bats and whales, use to navigate the world around them through sound waves. | Bio Sonar (or Sound Navigation and Ranging; or Echolocation; or Active Sonar; prompt on "Communication") |
| This man claimed that he had the solutions to hysteria and obsessional neurosis, and this scientist developed a concept suggesting that children have more love for the opposite sex-parent then the same-sex parent. The Oedipus complex was put forth by this man in an 1899 work, which also describes “Irma’s Injection,” titled The Interpretation of Dreams. For the point, name this Austrian founder of psychoanalysis. | Sigmund Freud (or Sigismund Schlomo Freud) |
| Edward Bangs is credited with writing the most widely known lyrics to this song while serving as a Minuteman. This song's second verse states, "Father and I went down to camp, Along with Captain Gooding, And there we saw the men and boys, As thick as hasty pudding." For the point, name this song, whose titular soldier "stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni." | "Yankee Doodle" (do not accept or prompt on "Yankee Doodle Dandy") |
| After training a future author in navigating this body of water, Horace Bixby unwillingly became a celebrity. While traveling on this body of water, the protagonist and an escaped enslaved person named Jim meet a pair of con artists who call themselves the Duke and the King. Life on [this body of water], by Mark Twain, is set on, for the point, what river, central to the novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn? | Mississippi River (accept Life on the Mississippi) |
| One of these gems, named "Sunrise," was found in Myanmar and is currently the most-expensive colored gem. Lasers made of this gem produce pulses of coherent visible light at a 694.3 nanometer wavelength. For the point, name this gem, whose most-prized coloration is the “pigeon’s blood” shade. | Ruby (accept Sunrise Ruby; accept Ruby Laser; accept Pigeon's Blood Ruby) |
| Despite their nickname, one version of these objects, made from 1916 to 1945, do not depict Mercury. This object's last re-design was conducted to honor a politician who helped found the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. For the point, name this physically smallest piece of US coinage, whose front has featured the likeness of Franklin Roosevelt since 1946. | Dime (accept 10-cent piece; accept Mercury dime; accept Winged Liberty Head dime; accept Roosevelt dime) |
| This god, along with King Oeneus, is sometimes described as the co-father of Meleager. According to Hesiod, this god is attended by Phobos, or Fear, and Deimos, or Dread. This god turned Alectryon into a rooster after he failed to alert him that Helios was spying on him. Caught in a golden net with the wife of Hephaestus, for the point, who is this lover of Aphrodite and Greek god of war? | Ares (accept Mars before "Hesiod" is mentioned) |
| In 1941, a Japanese submarine covertly landed at this city’s Point Loma. Franklin D. Roosevelt called himself the “godfather of [this naval city]" and, as president, relocated the Pacific fleet from here to Hawaii. For the point, name this American city, which sits opposite a major border crossing from Tijuana. | San Diego |
| Triangular pendentives support the compound type of these structures, which include an example built in Florence on an octagonal drum. Sound waves reflect around the concave surface of one of these structures in the whispering gallery of St. Paul's Cathedral, and a series of triangles support the "geodesic" type of these structures. For the point, name these architectural structures, which resemble a hemisphere. | Domes (accept Compound dome; accept Geodesic dome; prompt on "Vault" before "geodesic" is mentioned) |
| The availability of the Gros Michel variety of this item has declined sharply in recent decades due to the prevalence of Panama Disease. The Tropical Race 4, or TR 4, variant of Panama Disease threatens the widespread Cavendish cultivar of this fruit, which originally flavored the filling of Twinkies. For the point, name this fruit, which nicknames "republics" in Latin America and is yellow when ripe. | Bananas (accept Gros Michel banana; accept Cavendish banana; accept Banana republic) |
| In 2021, this country reopened its Menindee Lakes System, near the silver-mining city of Broken Hill in the Barrier Range. Over-irrigation has harmed the Murray-Darling River system in this country, where the Nullarbor Plain is separated by the Great Dingo Fence from the Great Dividing Range. Queensland and New South Wales are states in, for the point, what country, which contains the Outback? | Commonwealth of Australia |
| An immortal example of these creatures was put to death to free Prometheus from his eternal torment in Greek mythology. Another example of these creatures, named Firenze, warns Harry Potter that Voldemort is plotting to restore his body in The Sorcerer’s Stone. For the point, name this race of half-equine quadrupeds. | Centaur (accept Hippocentaur) |
| This country’s soldiers included a contingent called the Garhwal Rifles, who served in Afghanistan and Burma. The "Tiger Legion" from this country served under the Waffen-SS in an attempt to gain independence from the United Kingdom. For the point, name this country, whose colonial military was formed through merging the Madras, Bengal, and Bombay armies. | Republic of India (or Bharatiya Ganarajya) |
| This ruler reigned during passage of a Reform Act that allowed middle-class citizens to vote, nearly doubling the size of the electorate in Great Britain. This ruler gave much of their royal power to PMs Robert Peel and Benjamin Disraeli. For the point, name this British monarch who reigned during the 19th century. | Queen Victoria (or Alexandrina Victoria) |
| Along with the Malagasy [[mah-lah-GAY-see]] language of this country's indigenous ethnic group, it also counts French as an official language. This country, which gained its independence from France in 1960, is known for its biodiversity and occupies 100 percent of the land on the fourth largest island in the world. For the point, name this island nation off the eastern coast of Africa, which is the exclusive home to more than 100 species of lemurs. | Republic of Madagascar (or Republique de Madagascar; or Repoblikan'i Madagasikara)) |