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| This poet answers the titular question of one poem with "purely, as they turn from praise" and "with the breath / Smiles, tears, of all my life." This poet exclaimed, "Yes, call me by my pet-name!" in Sonnet Thirty-Three of a work referencing Luís Vaz de Camões [[KAHM-oh-eesh]], (+) the author of The Lusiads. "Let me count the ways" is said after asking, (*) "How do I love thee?" in the 43rd of the Sonnets from the Portuguese by, for the point, what British poet? | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (or Elizabeth Barrett Browning; or Elizabeth Barrett Moulton- Barrett; prompt on "Browning") |
| This opera ends after a character, who sings the duet "C'est toi! C'est moi!" [[say TWAH, say MWAH]] with the title character, is enraged by seeing a ring thrown to the ground. Near the start of this opera, the title character compares love to a rebellious bird in the (+) "Habanera" aria. At Lillas Pastia's inn, a bass-baritone character in this opera sings about the life of a bullfighter in the "Toreador Song." Escamillo competes with Don José for the title character in this opera, which is set in (*) Seville. For the point, name this opera about a Romani girl by George Bizet [[bee-ZEH]]. | Carmen |
| An empire centered in this city, after the Battle of Carchemish and two sieges of Jerusalem, destroyed the First Temple and took Jewish prisoners in a namesake "captivity." The Chaldean Empire was based in this city, in which it built the blue-glazed (+) Ishtar Gate. Earlier, this city developed a legal code based on the philosophy of "an eye for an eye." Led by Nebuchadnezzar (*) and Hammurabi, for the point, what is this Mesopotamian city? | Babylon (accept Babylonian Captivity; accept Babylonian Empire; or Neo-Babylonian Empire; accept First or Second Babylonian Empire; accept Old Babylonian Empire) |
| Oliver Heaviside often lends his name to the "E" layer of this region, which is known for certain reflective qualities that allow for the return of certain radio waves to lower altitudes. In the 1970s, the US Air Force developed a model to study the affects of this layer on GPS (+) technology. Playing a key role in atmospheric electricity and experiencing one process due to solar (*) radiation, for the point, what is this charged portion of Earth's atmosphere? | Ionosphere (prompt on “exosphere”; prompt on “thermosphere”; prompt on “mesosphere”) |
| The losing side in this battle was entrenched within the already-sieged Petersburg and later retreated to the west. Taking place near Mechanicsville, this was the final battle in a campaign also involving the Battle of the Wilderness. (+) In his memoir, Ulysses S. Grant wrote that the final charge of this battle was the biggest regret of his life. Part of the 1864 Overland Campaign and considered the final major (*) victory for the Confederacy, for the point, what is this Civil War battle? | Battle of Cold Harbor |
| Work on this piece continued for nearly forty years at the Hotel Biron. Part of this sculpture depicts a man carrying a woman over his shoulder and is titled I Am Beautiful. The Three Shades are part of this work and were originally intended to point to the phrase (+) "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." The Thinker and The Kiss (*) were created as part of, for the point, what massive sculpture by Auguste Rodin, based on Dante's Inferno? | The Gates of Hell |
| The historical Margaret Garner inspired this novel, which ends after Mr. Bodwin is attacked with an icepick while attempting to offer a job to Denver. Paul D learns what happened at Bluestone Road when "Schoolteacher" arrived from the (+) Sweet Home plantation in this novel. Sethe [[SETH- uh]] is haunted by a child who was earlier (*) killed to avoid being subject to slavery in, for the point, what 1987 novel by Toni Morrison? | Beloved |
| These structures are referred to as "saturated" when their pressure head is equal to atmospheric pressure. When bound in by impermeable substances, these structures are referred to as "bound" and are less susceptible to pollution contamination. (+) These structures can be depleted through over-drafting and are recharged through deep percolation. (*) For the point, name these underground rock layers that store groundwater. | Aquifer (accept Saturated aquifer; accept Bound aquifer) |
| In one myth, this figure causes the first man and woman to be flooded out of the Third World after stealing the children of Water Buffalo. This character's evil nature is shown when he helps his wife, Changing Bear, kill her brothers, and he disrupted the formation (+) of constellations by throwing a blanket of stars into the sky, creating the Milky Way. A creator and (*) trickster in Navajo mythology, for the point, who is this creature? | Coyote |
| This city was the site of a secret 1943 conference at which the Allies began to plan Operation Overlord. This city's Château Frontenac is named for the leader of this city's defense in King William's War, and this city contains the first church in the Americas to be designated as a basilica. Richard (+) Montgomery and Benedict Arnold failed to capture this city in a December 1775 attack. Taken by the British shortly after the 1759 Battle of the Plains (*) of Abraham, for the point, what is this provincial capital? | Québec City |
| This man wrote of Americans, "There is no peace with them, but the peace of the King" in his "Short Review of the Declaration." This man advocated for penal reform with his panopticon concept and aimed to create a code of law centered around his "Pannomion." (+) This man's philosophy was furthered by his student, John Stuart Mill. Regarded as the founder of the "greatest-happiness" (*) principle and the philosophy of utilitarianism, for the point, who was this English philosopher and social reformer? | Jeremy Bentham |
| These people were imprisoned in concentration camps run by Lord Kitchener during the second of their namesake conflicts. These people established an independent state following the Great Trek out of the Cape Colony. These people were the primary European (+) inhabitants of the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State. Naming a set of wars (*) against the British, for the point, who are these descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa? | Boers (accept Afrikaners before "namesake" is mentioned; accept First or Second Anglo-Boer War; accept Boer Republics; prompt on “Dutch” or “South Africans” before read) |
| This agency operates the world's only two Lockheed WP-3D Orion aircraft, and this agency's flag is emblazoned with a seabird. Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross was accused of calling this agency's head, Neil Jacobs, to reverse his contradiction of Donald Trump. (+) This agency was embroiled in the "Sharpiegate" scandal when President Trump claimed that Hurricane Dorian could have impacts on Alabama. Including the National (*) Weather Service, for the point, what is this federal agency which tracks the seas and skies? | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (or NOAA) |
| This man was given a Flying Fortress that he was promised by Walter Bedell Smith after capturing Sfax [[suh-FAKS]]. One politician allegedly described this man as "in defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable." This man was put in charge of the First and Ninth Army (+) of the U.S. as part of his command of one shoulder of Allied troops during the Battle of the Bulge. Commanding another country's Eighth Army during the invasion of Sicily, (*) for the point, who was this British general during the Second World War? | Bernard Law Montgomery (or 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein; prompt on "Monty") |
| An object in this work is described as having the ability to both forge money and grind flour. A post-war effort to build "new towns" took place in a district of Espoo [[ESS-poh]] named Tapiola, the name of which was inspired by this epic. A zither-like instrument, called the kantele, (+) is created in this work in which multiple characters vie for the daughters of Louhi. Ilmarinen and Vainamoinen appear in this work, which inspired The Swan of Tuonela by Jean (*) Sibelius. For the point, name this Finnish epic. | Kalevala |
| The oldest examples of these animals possessed holochroal eyes with hexagonally packed lenses with a single cornea. These animals evolved a volvation defense technique in which they rolled into a ball to protect themselves from anomalocarids. The Proetida (+) order of these animals was the only one to survive the Late Devonian extinction before they died out in the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event. Named for their (*) three body lobes, for the point, what were these marine arthropods? | Trilobite |
| In Ancient Greek, this word means "cycle of little animals," and this coordinate system is comprised of equal parts occupying thirty degrees of longitude. This belt-shaped region stretches approximately eight degrees above and below the ecliptic. The Chinese (+) model of this system covers twelve years, while this schematic is divided into twelve symbols, roughly equivalent to (*) months, in Western astrology. For the point, Cancer and Capricorn, are signs found in what celestial coordinate system? | Zodiac |
| The first story in this work recounts the wicked Ciapelletto [[chee-ah-peh-LEH-toh]], who is wrongly accepted as virtuous after a friar foolishly believes his yarn while giving Last Rites. Saladin and his courtier discuss the merits of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the (+) "Tale of Three Rings," the third tale told in this work. Florentines fleeing the plague tell one hundred (*) stories over ten days in, for the point, what work by Giovanni Boccaccio [[boh-KAH-chee-oh]]? | The Decameron (or Decamerone [[deh-kah-meh-ROH-neh]]) |
| This artist, who painted the Bathers at Asnières [[ahz-NYEHR]], includes a depiction of a woman walking a pet monkey in one noted work. This artist collaborated with Paul Signac to create an art form which critics termed “Neo-Impressionism,” (+) including works such as A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Known for a dot-centric style of art called (*) pointilism, for the point, who was this French artist? | Georges Seurat (or Georges Pierre Seurat) |
| The term for this technique was first used by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and comes from the French word describing the proportion of precious metals in coins. A common indicator used in this technique is phenolphthalein [[fee-NOHLF-thay-leen]]. A ring stand and a burette (+) are essential to perform this technique, which involves the addition of a reactant to a solution of a second reactant known as the analyte. Used to determine the (*) acid or base concentration of a solution, for the point, what is this lab technique? | Titration (accept Titrimetry; accept Volumetric analysis) |
| This man's neighbor, Tom Parsons, is jailed and sent to the work camps after his daughter reports him for unorthodox thoughts while "sleeptalking." This man, who willingly consumes "Victory Gin" despite it worsening his gout, doctors historical documents (+) for the Ministry of Truth. This man is tortured by Inner Party member O'Brien in Room 101. (*) A resident of Airstrip One, for the point, who is this central character of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four? | Winston Smith (accept either underlined portion) |
| In one novel set in what is today this country, Olanna has a relationship with the British author Richard Churchill. In that novel from this modern country, Kainene disappears while running a refugee camp, and Ugwu is forcibly conscripted into a rebel army. In another novel from this country, (+) Ikemefuna is executed by Okonkwo, who later attacks British court officials. The setting of Half of a Yellow Sun and Chinua (*) Achebe's [[CHIN-wah uh-CHEH-behs]] Things Fall Apart, for the point, what is this African country? | Federal Republic of Nigeria (do not accept or prompt on "Biafra") |
| This man's work on the conduction of electricity in gases earned him the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics. An experiment by this scientist involved two discrete light patches off a photographic plate, which indicated the existence of neon-20 and neon-22. This teacher of Ernest (+) Rutherford and Niels Bohr proposed the plum pudding model after discovering the first subatomic particle. Having discovered isotopes as well as the (*) electron, for the point, who was this British physicist? | J. J. Thomson (or Joseph John Thomson) |
| This substance is possessed by members of the Mysticeti parvorder, and Barrow was a center of basket-making using this substance, developed by the Iñupiat people. This keratin-based substance was historically used to make backscratchers and names a (+) grouping of mammals forming the Cetacea infraorder with its "toothed" counterparts. Used to (*) filter-feed krill, for the point, what are these bristles, present in the mouths of certain whales? | Baleen (accept Baleen Whales; accept Whalebone) |
| This author wrote of the drowning of men on a ship overloaded with contraband in The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor. The Vicario brothers attempt to gain revenge on Santiago Nasar in a work by this author, who set many works in the fictional town (+) of Macondo. Seven generations of the Buendía family are chronicled in a novel by this magical realist. The author of (*) One Hundred Years of Solitude, for the point, who was this Columbian writer? | Gabriel García Márquez (prompt on partial answers; prompt on “Gabo” or “Gabito”) |
| The Canadian Caper facilitated the end of this event, which Operation Eagle Claw attempted to resolve. This event lasted 444 days before it was resolved on Ronald Reagan’s first day in the Oval Office, further marring the (+) Carter administration. American students were captured in a foreign country after Ayatollah (*) Khomeini seized power in Tehran in, for the point, what 1979 to 1981 event? | Iranian Hostage Crisis (accept word forms and descriptions including Iran and Hostage) |
| The duc de Richelieu became governor of this city after fleeing the French Revolution and joining Catherine the Great’s army. During a workers’ uprising in this city, hundreds of civilians were killed on a large stone staircase, which was later memorialized in a (+) Sergei Eisenstein film. After killing eighteen officers, the mutineers on the Russian battleship Potemkin set sail for this city. The chief Ukrainian (*) port on the Black Sea, for the point, what is this city? | Odessa |
| This man gifted a series of screens depicting Azuchi Castle to Pope Gregory the Thirteenth. At the Battle of Muraki Castle, this man defeated the forces of the Imagawa clan, gaining the Owari Province. This man lost the first Siege of Nagashima, and after taking Kyoto, (+) this man officially dissolved the Ashikaga Shogunate. Along with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, this man was one of the three “Great unifiers” (*) of Japan. For the point, name this daimyo and samurai. | Oda Nobunaga (accept in either order; prompt on "Nobunaga") |
| One of these two bodies was the site of SN 1987A, the largest supernova in modern history. The Tarantula Nebula is hosted within these objects which, before the discovery of the Canis Major and Sagittarius dwarf galaxies, were thought to be the closest galaxies to the (+) Milky Way. These two galaxies were first sighted by Europeans during the first circumnavigation of the world. Visible in the Southern Hemisphere and named for a (*) Portuguese explorer, for the point, what are these two irregular galaxies? | Magellanic Clouds (or Magellanic system; accept Large Magellanic Cloud or Small Magellanic Cloud; prompt on "Magellan") |
| In 1893, in an area which is part of this range, Alfred Pease photographed a now-extinct Barbary lion. This range’s highest peak, Toubkal, is part of the “high” region of this range located in central Morocco. Other regions of this range include the (+) Saharan region in Algeria and the Aurès Mountains, which are located between northeastern Algeria (*) and northwestern Tunisia. For the point, name this mountain range located in the North African Maghreb. | Atlas Mountains (or Jibāl al-ʾaṭlas; accept Atlas lion; accept High Atlas; accept Saharan Atlas) |
| One book by this author describes the prison experience of Walter F. Starbuck, a conspirator in the Watergate Scandal. This writer of Jailbird also published a collection of short musings following near-death experiences given by Dr. Kevorkian. This author told the story of a (+) chaplain's assistant, liberated from the titular POW camp, in a book that recounts the Allied firebombing of Dresden. (*) For the point, identify this author of Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| In 1954, a Council of Three was set up to govern this country, though its members never visited it. In 1935, this country adopted the April Constitution, under which a government-in-exile functioned until 1990. This country, whose First Republic was in fact a monarchy, (+) established its Third Republic following Round Table Talks in 1989, almost a decade after the fall of Edward Gierek. Communist rule and martial law (*) were fought by the Solidarity union in, for the point, what country? | Republic of Poland (or Rzeczpospolita Polska; accept Second or Third Polish Republic; accept Polish People's Republic) |
| Description acceptable. Barrett v. Hitchcock stated that this process should aim for “compactness” and equal population among the allotted areas. This process, which is illegal when done along racial lines, can be skewed (+) by the methods of “cracking” and “packing.” Devised by state legislatures every ten years, after the census, this process is called (*) “gerrymandering” when it’s done to benefit one political party. For the point, name this political process of determining electoral boundaries. | Redistricting (accept Gerrymandering before mentioned; accept descriptive answers) |