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| This condition’s scientific name was not coined until Eugen Blueler used the term in 1908. Kurt Schneider would document what he called “first-rank symptoms” (+) of this condition, which Dr. Ernst Rüdin believed was inherited. Manfred Sakel developed insulin shock therapy to primarily treat this psychiatric condition. John Forbes Nash’s was diagnosed with, (*) for the points, what brain disorder, portrayed in A Beautiful Mind, usually involving continuous episodes of psychosis? | Schizophrenia |
| This man wrote a multivolume treatise arguing for the orderliness of nature based on ancient Greek philosophy titled Cosmos. (+) While observing cacao plantations at Aragua, this man proposed one of the earliest formulations of human-caused climate change. (*) For the points, identify this Prussian scientist and explorer who names a South American ocean current. | Alexander von Humboldt (accept Humboldt Current) |
| The early video game Tennis for Two originally used one of these instruments as a display. Howard Vollum helped develop the first battery-operated transistor variety of these devices after founding Tektronix. (+) These instruments create two-dimensional representations of electrical voltage as a function of time. Used in the graphing of signals, these are, (*) for the points, what devices sometimes referred to as "O-scopes" for short? | Oscilloscopes (accept O-scopes before mentioned; prompt on "Scope" before mentioned) |
| This subspecies' society was fit into an ideology of primitive communism amidst a revolution in the country where it was discovered. The Zhoukoudian cave site was where this subspecies resided during the Chibandian, or Middle Pleistocene. (+) During World War Two, fossils of this subspecies were sent to the U.S. for safekeeping from China. (*) For the points, name this Homo erectus subspecies named for an Asian capital. | Peking Man (accept Homo erectus pekinensis; accept Peking Man Society; prompt on "Homo erectus" before mentioned) |
| While living with Pierre Chanut, this man helped organized one kingdom's scientific academy. Using the alias "Poitevin," this man entered the University of Leiden (+) where he studied under orientalist Jacobus Golius. This thinker moved to the Dutch Republic, where he developed the basis for his Discourse on (*) Method. For the points, name this French philosopher and mathematician who claimed, "I think, therefore I am." | René Descartes (accept Renatus Cartesius) |
| A September 6, 1983 stamp issued in the Soviet Union commemorates what would have been this man's 1,200th birthday. This man, who once oversaw the library of the House of Wisdom, wrote the treatise (+) The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. This man presented the earliest known systematic quadratic equation solutions in a work sometimes called al- Jabr. (*) For the points, name this ninth-century Persian mathematician who is considered the "father of algebra." | Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi |
| A Florida location of this name contains the Wooden Wonders of the World and Saunders Planetarium. Another location of this name opened during the Century of Progress Exhibition and can now be found in the Palace of Fine Arts. A life-sized (+) coal mine replica and the Apollo Eight command module are among the features of a location of this name in Jackson Park. (*) For the points, identify this name of a science museum in Chicago. | Museum of Science and Industry (prompt on partial answers; prompt on "MSI" or "MOSI") |
| With Baxter Watson and James R. McClintock, this Sumner County native assisted in the creation of Pioneer. (+) Bounties of $50,000 may have inspired an effort by this man, in which a vehicle was employed in Mobile Bay to break a blockade. The USS Housatonic was sunk by a vehicle named after this man, which was largely submerged. (*) For the points, identify this developer of an early Confederate submarine that bore his name. | Horace Lawson Hunley (accept H. L. Hunley; or CSS H. L. Hunley) |
| Traffic in the Tarn valley inspired the creation of this 394 million-euro structure for which one government employed Eiffage. A 2004 fire began on one of the two limestone plateaus of this manmade structure, (+) and the Ministry of Public Works conducted a set of studies that resulted in the abandonment of this structure’s "low" solution. Designed by Norman Foster in the Occitanie Region of France, (*) this is, for the points, what tallest bridge on Earth? | Millau Viaduct (or Viaduc de Millau) |
| A comparative study of Compsognathus and Archaeopteryx by this man found that birds descended from small dinosaurs. Seven months after the publication of another man's On the Origin of Species, (+) this man engaged in a widely publicized 1860 debate against an Anglican bishop named Samuel Wilberforce. (*) For the points, name this English biologist and strong advocate of Darwinian evolution. | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Siegfried Marcus produced the first of a certain class of vehicle that used this device, which was also used in the "Grandfather Clock" design of a vehicle component developed by Maybach and Daimler. Giovanni Battista Venturi lends his name to a tube that is used as the primary (+) metering circuit in these devices, which have generally been replaced in cars with fuel injections since the 1990s. (*) For the points, name these devices in internal combustion engines that combine fuel and air. | Carburetors (accept Carburetter) |
| This scientist, who was once wounded while leading an ambulance corp in the Franco- Prussian War, claimed he "[preferred] going to the ancient languages" when coming up with the name for one quantity he developed. This man's restatement of the Carnot (+) cycle was central to the development of the theory of heat. (*) For the points, identify this German scientist who coined the term "entropy" and names an equation with Benoît Clapeyron. | Rudolf Clausius (or Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius; accept Clausius-Clapeyron Equation) |
| In 2021, the Serum Institute of India announced that it would locally create a product co- developed by this pharmaceutical company that is headquartered at Cambridge Biomedical Campus. (+) This company developed a product that it named for itself and Oxford University. (*) For the points, name this British-Swedish organization that developed a vaccine often marketed as Covishield. | AstraZeneca plc |
| Symantec claimed that it was "highly likely" that Lazarus Group was behind this event, which was brought to an end by Marcus Hutchins after finding a certain kill switch. The EternalBlue exploit developed by the NSA was targeted during this event, which was aimed at devices using the (+) Windows operating system. Involving threats to keep files encrypted if money was unpaid, this is, (*) for the points, what major 2017 ransomware attack? | WannaCry Ransomware Attack |
| This man attacked Herbert Simon’s predictions for technological advancement as “unbridled optimism” in Alchemy and AI. This man drew on Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger to put forward an argument against (+) inorganic symbol manipulation that presaged the field of sub- symbolics. This man criticized the idea of artificial intelligence by arguing for a “role of the body” in intelligence and (*) behavior. For the points, name this American philosopher who wrote What Computers Can’t Do. | Hubert Dreyfus (or Hubert Lederer Dreyfus) |
| The reclamation of the Velabium preceded construction of this system, which began under Tarquinius Priscus and involved the labor of Etruscans and plebeians. During the second century BCE, this originally open-air system contained a more than 100-meter-long covered canal. Marble (+) reliefs were used to decorate the manholes of this system, which functioned as a storm drain. (*) For the points, identify this Roman system with a name meaning "Greatest Sewer." | Cloaca Maxima (accept "Roman Sewer System" or equivalents before "Roman;" prompt on "Greatest Sewer") |
| In his Account of the Recent Discoveries, this man praised the deciphering of a French rival. This man's experiences as an Egyptologist contributed to him being referred to as The Last Man (+) Who Knew Everything in one biography. A method of measuring the elasticity for a material under tension and compression is known as this man’s Modulus. (*) For the points, name this English polymath who was an early promoter of the wave theory of light. | Thomas Young (accept Young's Modulus) |
| A woodcut of a theory put forth by this man can be found in a 1472 version of a work by Lucretius. This man considered strife and love to represent two physical forces that opposed one another and claims that a set of "roots" were representative of (+) Zeus, Aidoneus, Hera, and Nestis. Never using the term "element" in reference to them, (*) for the points, who was this Greek thinker who posited that fire, water, earth, and wind made up the world? | Empedocles |
| The Book of Rites claimed that only three days of the year were needed to service one component of this system, whose name is derived from a character that resembles the pound sign. (+) The gongtian was the central location within this system's square of nine subdivisions, eight of which were subject to private cultivation and one of which was communally cultivated for either a landowner or (*) the government. For the points, name this system of redistributing agricultural land in China. | Well-field System (accept Jǐngtián Zhìdù; accept Wángtián) |
| This man is sometimes said to have married Theano of Crotone. A 3:2 ratio inspired the ratio of frequencies of intervals in a form of tuning that historians have widely named (+) for this man, whose knowledge of a certain type of triple may have inspired one proof. Hailing from Samos, this is, (*) for the points, what Greek mathematician who names a theorem relating to the three sides of a triangle? | Pythagoras of Samos (accept Pythagoras' Theorem) |
| Graduate student supervision reform was inspired by the suicide of a member of this scientist's research group, Jason Altom. This man is the alphabetically first namesake of a doubly eponymous reaction in which an alkyne is formed from an aldehyde. Philip L. (+) Fuchs [[FYOOKS]] co-names that reaction with this man, who has taught at Harvard since 1959. (*) For the points, name this American organic chemist who wrote The Logic of Chemical Synthesis. | Elias James Corey (accept E. J. Corey; accept Corey-Fuchs Reaction) |
| The earliest gas balloon was launched by this scientist, who lent his name to a class of such vehicles that contrasted with one named for the Montgolfier brothers. Joseph Louis (+) Gay-Lussac formulated a result named for this member of the Académie des Sciences. (*) For the points, identify this French chemist whose namesake law describes the heat-induced expansion of gases. | Jacques Charles (or Jacques Alexandre César Charles; accept Charles's Law) |
| Carl Wilhelm Scheele described this gas as an oxide of another element, while Sir Humphry Davy named it and classified it as a pure element. At a high concentration, this oxidant can be toxic and was used as poison gas in World War One, (+) along with a compound of this element called phosgene. This gas was first used by French chemist Claude Berthollet to bleach textiles and fabrics. (*) For the points, name this yellow-green gas commonly used to sanitize swimming pools. | Chlorine (accept Cl) |
| This military engineer and ballista specialist is the origin of the claim that Archimedes discovered buoyancy in his bathtub. This man, who claimed that all buildings should exemplify strength, beauty, and utility (+) in his book De Architectura, compared the symmetry and proportions of temples to that of human bodies. (*) For the points, identify this Roman engineer and architect who names Leonardo da Vinci’s diagram of a nude man. | Marcus Vitruvius Pollio |
| This man made the first description of a solenoid, for which he coined the name. This man theorized a predecessor to the electron that he called the “electrodynamic molecule,” and this man extended the work of Hans Christian Ørsted (+) by showing that the direction of current flow determined if two wires would attract or repel each other. (*) For the points, identify this French physicist who names the SI unit of electric current. | André-Marie Ampère |
| William Lambton was assisted by this man on a project that was originally intended to establish Earth's shape. The Great Trigonometric Survey was once led by this man, for whom (+) Andrew Scott Waugh named a geographic feature. That feature named for this surveyor was, in 1953, climbed by Edmund Hillary and a Sherpa who may have been born in Nepal. (*) For the points, identify this British surveyor who names Earth's tallest mountain. | Sir George Everest (accept Mount Everest) |