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acf-co24-1-2 | A “Copernican revolution” begun by this thinker inspired a follower to explain how part of the self is “maintained in its radical alterity by the other person.” A theory from this thinker was explained in terms of “enigmatic signifiers” by a scholar who often worked with Jean-Bertrand Pontalis. Max Schur examined the guilt experienced by this thinker after botched surgery conducted by a friend left gauze in Emma Eckstein’s nose. In The Assault on Truth, Jeffrey Masson cites this thinker’s letters to Wilhelm Fliess to explain why this thinker abandoned one theory. This thinker inspired a Hungarian scholar to contrast tender children with the passionate talk they hear. The “confusion of tongues” theory of Sándor Ferenczi was inspired by this thinker’s “seduction theory,” which held that childhood abuse caused hysteria. For 10 points, name this thinker who analyzed his own dream of Irma being given an injection. | Sigmund Freud | Sigmund Freud | [
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acf-co24-1-3 | A 2016 paper by Ueno et al. titled “Extreme-scale [this algorithm] on supercomputers” improves upon Beamer’s direction-optimized “hybrid” variant of this algorithm, which has been used by Riken’s Fugaku to consistently achieve top GTEPS benchmark rankings. This algorithm forms the basis of Lee’s and Hadlock’s algorithms used in ECAD software. It’s not related to the knapsack problem, but the zero–one variant of this algorithm may be used to solve restricted cases of the SSSP problem in “big-O of E” time. The Edmonds–Karp algorithm specifies that this algorithm be used to locate augmenting paths. Level-order traversal of binary trees is typically implemented using this algorithm, which, unlike a related algorithm, is complete and uses a queue to store explored nodes. For 10 points, name this search algorithm contrasted with a depth-first counterpart. | breadth-first search [or BFS; prompt on search until read] | breadth-first search | [
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acf-co24-1-4 | Nathaniel Deutsch debunked a book claiming that this historical political territory was annually traversed in a triangular migration by a “tri-racial” group partly composed of Fulani pastoralists, the Ben-Ishmael tribe. This territory was seen as a testing ground for “ward republics” by a man who wanted to divide it into areas like Assenisipia and Metropotamia. Zane’s Trace cut through this territory, where the “French 500” arrived to settle Gallipolis after William Duer sold them worthless deeds. A university named for this territory created the title Dean of Women for the “do everything” activist Frances Willard. This territory was established by the successor to an act that created a survey system based on 6-mile-wide grids called townships. For 10 points, the formation of states in what territory was governed by a namesake act passed after Thomas Jefferson’s Land Ordinance? | Northwest Territory [or Old Northwest; accept Northwest Ordinance or Northwestern University; prompt on Ohio Lands or Indiana Territory by asking “what territory was that part of during the events clued?”; reject “Northwest Territories”] (The Ishmael family was cast as an Islamic “Fugitive ‘Nation’ of the Old Northwest” in a book by Hugo Prosper Leaming.) | Northwest Territory | [
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acf-co24-1-6 | The image of a crushed frog on a road recurs in a novel titled for this practice that begins by interlacing an account of a boy drawing a seagull with excruciatingly detailed descriptions of a ferry docking at an island. The narrator engages in this practice in Madame Lemercier’s boarding-house in Henri Barbusse’s novel Hell. The title character begins engaging in this practice in a rye field behind the Forest Hotel ten years after attending a ball in Town Beach at which her fiancé Michael left her for Anne-Marie Stretter in The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras. A novel titled for a performer of this practice never makes clear whether the traveling watch salesman Mathias actually murdered the 13-year-old Jacqueline Leduc. For 10 points, name this sexual practice that titles a pioneering nouveau roman by Alain Robbe-Grillet. | voyeurism [accept The Voyeur or Le Voyeur; accept any answer describing the practice of watching others have sex; prompt on watching, looking, spying, or equivalents] | voyeurism | [
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acf-co24-1-7 | In 2015, Strominger et al. showed that a result named for these particles was a Ward identity of certain BMS supertranslations. They’re not photons, but the change in the S matrix when a zero momentum one of these particles is added to a vertex is given by that result, which is Weinberg’s theorem on the “soft” examples of these particles. Two-loop Feynman diagrams of interactions between these particles lead to ultraviolet divergence, but one-loop diagrams are finite due to a Gauss–Bonnet counterterm. The self-interaction of these particles reproduces an action proportional to “square root of negative det g.” These particles are coupled to the stress–energy tensor and hence are only radiated by quadrupole sources. These particles correspond to quantization of the Einstein–Hilbert action. For 10 points, name these spin-2 massless particles that mediate the weakest fundamental force. | gravitons | gravitons | [
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acf-co24-1-8 | A book from this decade used the term “excentric positionality” to describe how man is “neither closest to nor furthest from himself.” In this decade, Hendrik Pos interjected to say that “a completely different language” was being spoken by the two participants in a debate. In this decade, Helmuth Plessner complained about being treated as a mere expositor of the philosophical anthropology that his mentor developed in The Human Place in the Cosmos. Max Scheler turned away from Christianity at the start of this decade and died near its end. At the end of this decade, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics was published by a thinker who had just challenged the Marburg school while debating Ernst Cassirer in Davos. In this decade, the Institute for Social Research was established in Frankfurt. For 10 points, name this decade in which Martin Heidegger published Being and Time. | 1920s [prompt on ’20s] | 1920s | [
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acf-co24-1-9 | A journal entry about people on this body of water ignoring the writer’s boat gave rise to the New Age legend of “invisible ships.” Repatriation efforts have targeted weapons stolen from this body of water, like four-pronged spears and a red mangrove shield. Though she actually lived to its north, the “king plate” gorget given to Cora Gooseberry calls her the “queen” of this body of water. An expedition to this body began the “tyranny of distance” and included Mary Bryant, who was later defended in court by James Boswell. A cape on this body of water is named for Daniel Solander, who visited it as one of the Linnaeus apostles. After the Gweagal people’s land along this body proved “unsuitable,” Arthur Phillip settled nearby at Port Jackson with the First Fleet. For 10 points, Joseph Banks called for penal settlement of what body of water where the HMS Endeavour collected plants? | Botany Bay [prompt on Tasman Sea or South Pacific Ocean] | Botany Bay | [
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acf-co24-1-12 | In a 1971 film, a laundry strike in this city thwarts a man trying to wash his only suit for an interview. In a film set in this city, a bored woman peers through her house’s blinds at its streets, then stares at her oblivious husband, all through opera glasses. A woman wears sunglasses and lipstick for her new job as a saleswoman in this title “big city” of a 1963 film. A jobless aspiring novelist in this city marries his cousin on a whim in a 1959 film titled for his “world.” Two parks in this city are themed on a director’s characters Professor Shonku and Feluda. 1960s films about this city’s women include The Cloud-Capped Star and Charulata. A director from this city, who began as location scout for The River by Jean Renoir, shot in this city’s film hub of Tollygunge for urban scenes in the two sequels to Pather Panchali. For 10 points, Satyajit Ray was from what city in West Bengal? | Kolkata [or Calcutta] (The films mentioned are: Interview by Mrinal Sen; Charulata, Mahanagar, and Apur Sansar by Satyajit Ray. Ray created Professor Shonku and Feluda and was a protégé of Jean Renoir.) | Kolkata | [
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acf-co24-1-14 | A quote from this thinker that translates as “And the soldiers lined the streets? THEY LINED THEM” ends the “Triumphal March” from Coriolan. T. E. Hulme and T. S. Eliot drew on the anti-Romanticism of this thinker’s essays like “The Future of the Intelligentsia.” A synthesis of this thinker’s work and the left-wing author of Reflections on Violence was propounded by the Proudhon Circle. This thinker exempted Jean Moréas, a fellow member of the anti-Symbolist école romane, from his attacks on a vague class of foreigners he dubbed métèques. Georges Sorel abandoned syndicalism for this man’s “integral nationalism.” The Camelots du Roi were the youth wing of a group led by this man that spearheaded riots on February 6th, 1934, in response to Camille Chautemps’s cover-up of the Stavisky Affair. For 10 points, name this anti-Dreyfusard who was the principal ideologue of the monarchist Action Française movement. | Charles Maurras (“mo-ROSS”) | Charles Maurras | [
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acf-co24-1-15 | A play by this author, in which a viper bites a woman named both “Marguerite Ida” and “Helena Annabel,” was mashed up with Olga’s House of Shame by the Wooster Group and revived at the Hebel Theater by Robert Wilson. The Living Theatre’s first piece was this author’s “curtain raiser” Ladies’ Voices. This author implemented a theory of the “play as landscape” in Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. A novel by Wolfgang Koeppen takes its title from a work by this author that ends with a ghostly voice declaiming on “my long life, my long life” after a statue is unveiled at the US Capitol. In a theatrical work with text by this author, Ignatius wonders “if a magpie in the sky on the sky can not cry” after seeing “pigeons on the grass alas.” This author wrote a libretto about Susan B. Anthony for The Mother of Us All. For 10 points, what author collaborated with Virgil Thompson on Four Saints in Three Acts? | Gertrude Stein | Gertrude Stein | [
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acf-co24-1-16 | A once-popular estimate that these places are over 2,000 years old was made by Henry Otley Beyer and disputed by Felix Keesing. Trees grow to cover these places during the three years that Aliguyon and his rivals spend throwing spears at each other in the four-part chanted epic Hudhud. Threats to these places such as the export of lauan mahogany, the golden apple snail, and pheretima worms are detailed in the “coda” of Charles C. Mann’s book 1493, which also covers the marketing of their products by the company Eighth Wonder. The Halsema Highway is a popular road for viewing these places, for which carabao serve as draft animals in Bontoc and Benguet provinces. These places were carved out of the Cordillera region’s mountains by people once known by the exonym Igorot. For 10 points, identify these earthworks used for wet rice cultivation on the island of Luzon. | Ifugao rice terraces [or Banaue rice terraces; accept descriptions of rice terraces in the Philippines, in the Philippine Cordilleras until “Cordillera” is read, or in Luzon until “Luzon” read; prompt on rice terraces by asking “in what country?”; prompt on rice paddies or fields] | Ifugao rice terraces | [
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acf-co24-1-17 | A treatise opposing a king of this name provides a rare scriptural justification for trial by ordeal to uphold one in which a knight fetched a stone from a vat of boiling water. Hincmar of Rheims attacked a king with this name for nonsensically claiming that his wife got pregnant via sodomy with her brother. The Susanna Crystal may depict the attempt of a king of this name to annul his marriage to Theutberga and marry his concubine Waldrada. After being declared co-emperor by the Ordinatio imperii, a man with this name led forces against his father at the Field of Lies in a rebellion sparked by the latter’s remarriage to Judith of Bavaria. A man of this name founded a kingdom that was partitioned in the Treaty of Meerssen and later became the Duchy of Lorraine. For 10 points, give this name of a king of Middle Francia who, with Louis the German and Charles the Bald, signed the Treaty of Verdun. | Lothair [or Lothar; accept Lothair I or Lothair II; accept Lothar I or Lothar II; accept Lothair Crystal] (The first sentence refers to Hincmar’s De Divortio. The kingdom is Lotharingia.) | Lothair | [
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acf-co24-1-19 | Each suite in Schein’s Banchetto musicale begins with this dance and ends with the newer allemande. Joan Ambrosio Dalza paired five of these dances with a saltarello and a piva. Ben Jonson wrote “Hear me, O God” for Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger’s “four-note” one. This elegant dance was usually followed by a hopping afterdance sometimes called the cinquepace. In My Ladye Nevells Booke, this dance is often followed by a piece whose title ends with “to the same.” A piece originally in this AABBCC form opens with a G minor chord and a four-note “falling tear” motif. The faster triple-time galliard was danced after this stately duple-time dance from northern Italy. John Dowland’s air “Flow, my tears” was adapted from a lute piece written as one of these dances titled “Lachrimae.” For 10 points, what dance titles Fauré’s Opus 50 in F-sharp minor, which inspired one “for a Dead Princess” by Ravel? | pavane [or pavan, pavana, padovana, pavian, or pavin; accept “Four-Note Pavan” or “Lachrimae Pavan”; accept Pavane pour une infante défunte or Pavane for a Dead Princess; reject “air” or “ayre”] | pavane | [
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acf-co24-1-20 | Paul Dirac created a method for this process that tangentially injects a mixture of hydrogen and another reactant at the speed of sound into a vortex tube. Lasers with wavelengths around 16 micrometers are used to excite molecules for this process and facilitate the dissociation of a fluoride ion in SILEX procedures. SWUs are units that quantify the effectiveness of this process. Ernest Lawrence invented the calutron at the Y-12 plant to perform an electromagnetic form of this process. A compound commonly called “hex” is forced through a semi-permeable membrane in one technique for this process. “Zippe-type” devices used for this process have rendered gaseous diffusion obsolete. For 10 points, name this process that may use gas centrifugation to increase the relative amount of an element’s 235 isotope in natural samples. | uranium enrichment [accept uranium isotope separation or molecular laser isotope separation of uranium or atomic vapor laser isotope separation of uranium; accept separation of uranium isotopes by laser excitation; accept U in place of “uranium”; prompt on enrichment or isotope separation by asking “of what element?”; prompt on AVLIS or MLIS; prompt on gaseous diffusion until read; prompt on gas centrifugation until read; reject “uranium purification”] | uranium enrichment | [
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acf-co24-2-1 | An opera house in this city staged a Parasite-inspired Rigoletto in 2022 starring Amartüvshin Enkhbat. The younger of two oboist brothers from this city wrote the opera Memet and 65 galant-style fast-slow-fast symphonies in early sonata form listed in the J-C catalog. While working on the opera Lucio Silla, a young Mozart composed six string quartets named for this city. After a conductor was challenged to a duel for refusing to conduct an encore, he banned them entirely at a venue in this city in 1921. The Sammartini brothers worked in this city. Before her Met debut, Leontyne Price became the first African-American to sing a leading role, Aida, at an opera house in this city. Nabucco, Falstaff, and Otello all premiered at an opera house in this city whose upper balcony hosts opinionated snobs called loggionisti. For 10 points, Arturo Toscanini was the longtime music director of what city’s La Scala? | Milan [or Milano; accept Milanese Quartets] | Milan | [
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acf-co24-2-2 | This character confusingly replies “ay, no; no, ay” after comparing his cousin and himself to two buckets in a “deep well.” This character studies his own face in a monologue beginning, “Give me the glass, and therein will I read.” Elizabeth I supposedly exclaimed, “I am [this character], know ye not that?” after the Earl of Essex paid the Lord Chamberlain’s Men to stage a play about him. This character claims that not even “all the water in the rough rude sea / Can wash the balm from an anointed King” in a play in which he wishes to “tell sad stories of the death of kings.” This character seizes the land of his uncle, who had earlier praised an “other Eden” and “sceptered isle” on his deathbed. This character is murdered in Pomfret after surrendering to Gaunt’s son Bolingbroke. For 10 points, name this king whose downfall is covered in the first play in Shakespeare’s Henriad. | Richard II [prompt on Richard] | Richard II | [
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acf-co24-2-3 | Jean Marteilhe wrote a rare memoir of life as one of these people, who were watched by argousins and worked in groups called chiourmes in the scaloccio system. Working as a chaplain to these people inspired Vincent de Paul to found the Lazarists. A statue of the Virgin Mary was supposedly thrown out a window by John Knox during the 19 months he spent as one of these people after being found in St. Andrew’s Castle with the killers of David Beaton. Instead of working in this role, forçats were sent to the Toulon Bagne after a 1748 edict that ended the use of this role as the most common punishment for male convicts in France. In the Mediterranean, captives served in this role while chained to benches on the xebecs used by Barbary pirates. For 10 points, at the Battle of Lepanto, the labor of what people propelled the Holy League’s ships? | galley rowers [or galley slaves; or galériens; accept word forms of rowing or using oars; prompt on slaves, prisoners, convicts, or synonyms; prompt on galley crew, crews, or ship crew, sailors, or boatmen by asking “serving in what role on the ship?”] | galley rowers | [
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acf-co24-2-4 | Sarah Hutton’s revised edition of this thinker’s letters restores “Tracts” that had been cut by Marjorie Hope Nicolson. This thinker’s use of a mentor’s term, “discerpible,” suggests that Descartes was not the target of a book that says a carpenter does “not give Being to the Wood.” Francis Mercury van Helmont introduced this thinker to both kabbalah and Quakerism. This thinker described a “third species” that God uses as an “Instrument” to be nearer to Nature; that concept analogous to a contemporary’s “plastic nature” was termed “Middle Being” by this thinker. This thinker described creation as a single substance composed of infinite “spirit particles.” The Cambridge Platonist Henry More tutored this 17th-century philosopher whose “vitalist” ideas informed Leibniz’s concept of monads. For 10 points, name this woman who wrote The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy. | Lady Anne Conway [or Viscountess Conway or Anne Finch] | Lady Anne Conway | [
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acf-co24-2-5 | A class of these materials is commonly formed via the addition of octenyl-succinic-acid-derivatized starch granules. “Double” examples of these materials, known as O/W/O or W/O/W, are commonly used as vaccine adjuvants due to their increased activity. Types of these materials stabilized by solid particles are named for either Ramsden or Pickering. The presence of essential oils can cause the spontaneous formation of these materials in the ouzo effect. Low-pressure methods of forming these materials, such as by forcing a phase through a membrane, are replacing high-pressure methods such as homogenizers. These materials can be stabilized by amphiphilic surfactants, such as egg yolk lecithin in mayonnaise. These materials can be destroyed by buoyant forces in creaming and by droplet flocculation. For 10 points, name these colloids that are mixtures of two immiscible liquids. | emulsions [accept Ramsden emulsions or Pickering emulsions; prompt on colloids or hydrocolloids until “colloids” is read] | emulsions | [
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acf-co24-2-6 | A man with the combined features of this group was always followed by a cow and four dogs, and listed the earth, pigeons, and infants among his 24 teachers. After this group requested a woman to serve them food in the nude, she spritzed them with water, turning them into babies. Upon being sent to select the greatest member of this group, Bhrigu picked the one who washed his feet after he woke him by kicking his chest. In a contest between members of this group, one of them convinced a ketaki flower to back up his lie that he’d reached the top of a massive pillar of light. A combined image of this group is the best-known sculpture in the caves of Elephanta Island. Some traditions treat Anasuya’s son Dattatreya as an avatar of this entire group, whose vāhanas are the swan Hamsa, the bull Nandi, and Garuda. For 10 points, the Tridevi are married to what group of three gods? | Trimurti [or Trideva; or Brahma AND Vishnu AND Shiva; accept Sadashiva or Maheshmurti; prompt on Hindu gods, devas, or Hindu trinity; prompt on any two of the three; prompt on Harihara] | Trimurti | [
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acf-co24-2-8 | While searching for his lost horse Daylight, this character stumbles upon an abandoned hut plastered with articles about the American Civil War. While working at a sawmill, this character becomes enamored by the novel Lorna Doone, though his copy is later ruined during a risky river crossing. Sergeant O’Reilly tells this person and his brother Jem that their father had been seen wearing a flower-embroidered dress. Before being betrayed by him, this character listens to the schoolteacher Thomas Cardew recite from Henry V. This character’s group begins a series of killings after finding a set of long leather straps and a Spencer repeating rifle. Poorly-punctuated parcels addressed to this man’s daughter in California frame a novel that opens with him being gunned down with Jim Bryne and Steve Hart. For 10 points, name this outlaw whose “true history” titles a Peter Carey novel. | Ned Kelly [or Ned Kelly; accept Edward in place of “Ned”] | Ned Kelly | [
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acf-co24-2-9 | This artist’s adoption of the Eckankar faith inspired his use of copper, yellow, and turquoise as “healing” colors. This artist showed figures in red robes “shaking the tent” in a work painted on birchbark. A documentary about this artist suggests that teenager Scott Dove may have been murdered by drug dealer Gary Lamont. Kevin Hearn sued the Maslak McLeod Gallery after learning that he bought a forged work attributed to this artist, as seen in the Jamie Kastner film There Are No Fakes. In 2024, works attributed to this artist were removed by McGill University due to revelations that child labor had produced thousands of forgeries. This artist established a style of painting espoused by Carl Ray and Daphne Odjig. A member of the Midewiwin society gave the name Copper Thunderbird to this leading member of the “Indian Group of Seven.” For 10 points, name this founder of the Woodlands style of painting. | Norval Morrisseau [accept Copper Thunderbird until read] (Kevin Hearn is a member of Barenaked Ladies.) | Norval Morrisseau | [
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acf-co24-2-11 | Nathaniel Hawthorne loathed the post he was awarded in this city for writing Franklin Pierce’s campaign biography. In this city, one of Robert E. Lee’s pipes was auctioned off during a “Southern Bazaar” that raised funds for Confederate POWs. This city was home to the rival spy networks of Thomas Haines Dudley and James Dunwoody Bulloch. James Waddell ordered the final official lowering of the Confederate flag in this city when he surrendered the Shenandoah. This city was the site of the first US overseas consulate. A shipyard near this city produced the Laird Rams and a sloop that became the focus of damage claims after sinking at the Battle of Cherbourg, the CSS Alabama. This city was the main destination of Confederate blockade runners in a country that suffered a “Cotton Famine” in nearby Lancashire. For 10 points, what port city was the center of the Atlantic slave trade in Britain? | Liverpool | Liverpool | [
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acf-co24-2-12 | A sociologist described how “early exiters” who undertook this process understand a “master status” through “integration, discovery, and learning.” A UCLA sociologist examined “gray area” outcomes of this process through liminality and a form of “non-existence” developed by Susan Coutin. In an “embodied anthropology” of this subject, one scholar lamented being associated with doctors who “don’t know anything.” In the book Lives in Limbo, Roberto Gonzalez examined the impact of the Plyler decision on people who performed this action. Seth Holmes wrote about being caught performing this action in the book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies. Douglas Massey argued that this process became less cyclical due to NAFTA. Rubén Rumbaut coined the term “1.5 generation” for people who do this action as children. For 10 points, people who do what action as children are protected by the DACA policy? | immigration to the United States [or seeking asylum in the United States or equivalents; accept seeking jobs in the United States or equivalents; accept answers mentioning crossing the United States–Mexico border; prompt on immigration or partial answers by asking “to where?”] (The UCLA sociologist is Cecilia Menjívar. Coutin developed “legal non-existence.”) | immigration to the United States | [
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acf-co24-2-14 | This scene marks the only appearance of a “most righteous” character whom Dante is baffled to see in the eyebrow of the eagle of Jupiter in Paradiso. A retelling of this scene is the only surviving work by the author of a lipogrammatic Odyssey, Tryphiodorus. The action of this scene is compared to woodsmen felling a “proud, veteran ash on its mountain summit” after the mist that dulls the protagonist’s mortal sight is cleared, allowing him to see the gods participating in this scene. Rhipheus and Coroebus die in this scene. In this scene, a man agrees to depart after a shooting star appears and his son’s hair is licked with divine fire. Sinon’s treachery allows this scene. In Book II of an epic, the hero’s wife Creusa appears as a ghost as he escapes this scene with his father on his back. For 10 points, name this scene in which Priam is killed in the Aeneid. | fall of Troy [or equivalents of the sack, burning, or taking of Troy; or Book II of the Aeneid until “Book II” is read; accept Ilium or Ilios in place of “Troy”; prompt on Trojan War; prompt on Book II by asking “of what poem?”] | fall of Troy | [
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acf-co24-2-15 | By a theorem of Landau, a nonnegativity condition ensures that these objects exhibit a singularity. A modified operation on arithmetic functions is computed as the inverse Mellin transform of one of these objects in Perron’s formula, which can be used to prove Harald Bohr’s theorem on abscissae of convergence. One of these objects named for Hasse and Weil is associated to an elliptic curve in the analytic statement of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. Two of these objects may be multiplied using their namesake’s form of convolution. When the coefficients of these objects are generated by a character, they are called L-functions and can be used to prove that there are infinitely many primes in arithmetic progressions. For 10 points, the Riemann zeta function is an example of what infinite sums of the form “a-sub-n times n to the negative s,” named for the French-German formulator of the pigeonhole principle? | Dirichlet series (“dee-ree-CLAY”) [accept L-series or L-function or zeta function until read; prompt on series; reject “power series”] | Dirichlet series | [
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acf-co24-2-16 | The Talmud lists a mysterious “portion” about this character alongside Job and the Torah as the writings of Moses. In a thrice-repeated formula, this character orders a sacrifice of seven bulls and seven rams at seven altars. In an infamous inconsistency, God rages at this character for taking a journey just after commanding it. Aramaized fragments of a lost holy book about this character were found in red ink on plaster at Deir ‘Alla. This man is credited with the only Jewish prayer by a gentile, the Ma Tovu, which begins, “How lovely are your tents, O Jacob!” and is one of three blessings he recites while trying to issue curses on behalf of the King of Moab. This man thrice fails to see an angel blocking his path in a story that, apart from the serpent in Genesis, features the Bible’s only talking animal. For 10 points, name this non-Israelite prophet from Numbers who is rebuked by his donkey. | Balaam [or Balaam, Son of Beor; or Bīl‘am; accept Bal‘am bin Ba‘ura] | Balaam | [
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acf-co24-2-17 | An uprising in favor of this ruler was led by “Cyclops,” a gigantic merchant reputed to withstand hammer blows to the chest and eat ostriches in a single sitting. This ruler of the “four tribes” is cast as an ‘Amlaqi who killed King Jadhima of the Tanukhid confederation in al-Tabari’s account. This ruler fortified and alternately names the citadel of Halabiye, the site of many of the “tower tombs,” rock-cut hypogea, and frontal-facing funerary reliefs characteristic of this ruler’s realm. This ruler’s cavalry of “oven-pot men,” or clibanarii, were worn out by extreme heat at the Battle of Immae. Zabdas led an invasion of Egypt under this ruler, who claimed Ptolemaic descent. This ruler was paraded alongside Tetricus of the Gallic Empire after both were defeated by Aurelian. For 10 points, name this spouse of Odaenathus and regent of Vaballathus who led a breakaway state in Palmyra. | Zenobia [or al-Zabba’; or Septimia Bat-Zabbai] (The first clue refers to Firmus’s revolt.) | Zenobia | [
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acf-co24-2-19 | A model of these objects called the Mora 9151P is widely used in one industry in Scandinavia. Ordinary items like underwear and milk are turned into these objects with the help of eccentric accessories like cow-shaped ceramic pitchers in kiwami japan’s YouTube videos. Spalted box elder and iron from the Campo Del Cielo meteorite were used to craft an example of the gyuto type of these objects by Bob Kramer. These objects with heels, bolsters, and choils can be subjected to the “paper test” and the “tomato test.” Asian examples of these objects have a “degree” of 15, making them more effective but less durable than 20-degree Western ones. The two-handled Italian mezzaluna and the light-weight Chinese cai dao are examples of these objects, which are used to create the tiny cubes that make up mirepoix. For 10 points, name these kitchen implements that chefs use to chiffonade and julienne. | kitchen knives [accept cleavers; prompt on blades or saws; reject “swords”] | kitchen knives | [
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acf-co24-2-20 | An ion beam of these two nuclear species, typically accelerated into a titanium target, serves as part of “compact neutron generators.” Research at the NBTF in Italy uses negative ions of one of these nuclear species in neutral-beam injectors that target a mixture of these two species. One of these two species is used in radioluminescent powerless lighting systems, and is produced from the other of these species through neutron capture as a byproduct of CANDU reactors. The 1991 PTE experiment at JET used an 11/89 mixture of these two species, although an optimal 50/50 mix is assumed in Lawson’s criterion. The rarer of these two species is produced from lithium “breeding blankets” using neutrons produced from the fusion of these two species in designs like ITER. For 10 points, what two species used as fuel in modern tokamaks are the isotopes of hydrogen with one and two neutrons? | deuterium AND tritium [accept H-2 or hydrogen-2 or D in place of “deuterium”; accept H-3 or hydrogen-3 or T in place of “tritium”; accept D–T fusion; prompt on heavy water or D2O in place of “deuterium” by asking “what is the specific isotope?”; prompt on hydrogen in place of either “deuterium” or “tritium” by asking “what is the specific isotope?”] | deuterium AND tritium | [
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acf-co24-3-1 | A poem from this movement notes how the “years pass, years in which, I take it, events were not lacking” and repeats the phrase “a pause, a rose, something on paper.” An essay from this movement attacks “official verse culture” and contains quotations that exposed readers to Veronica Forrest-Thompson’s out-of-print theory of “poetic artifice.” A member of this movement advocated the “open text” in “The Rejection of Closure” and, at age 37, wrote a prose poem with 37 sections of 37 sentences, titled My Life. The “West Coast” wing of this movement included Rae Armantrout and Ron Silliman. This movement’s short-lived namesake magazine was edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein. For 10 points, Lyn Hejinian was a member of what loose avant-garde movement, whose name is sometimes stylized with equal signs between each letter? | Language poets [or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry; or Language School; prompt on postmodernism] | Language poets | [
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acf-co24-3-2 | John Toner and Yuhai Tu showed that the formation of these structures is an example of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the Vicsek model. These structures inspired the development of a metaheuristic algorithm that started out with just two rules: velocity matching and “craziness.” Craig Reynolds proposed that each member of these structures obeys rules for separation, alignment, and cohesion in his boids model. Stochastic diffusion search belongs to a field of artificial intelligence that uses the dynamics of these self-organized structures to solve optimization problems. The lateral line organ enables the formation of these structures, especially in the absence of visual information. A murmuration is one of these structures. The mixed-species type of these structures enables some species to forage while others act as sentinels. For 10 points, name these emergent structures that are formed by the collective motion of animals. | flocks [or flocking; accept swarms or swarming or swarm intelligence or particle swarm optimization; accept schools or schooling; accept herds; accept shoals or shoaling; accept colonies of ants, bees, termites, or other animals; prompt on descriptions of groups of animals that move together, such as birds flying or fish swimming, until “animals” is read; prompt on collective motion until read; prompt on self-organized structures until “self-organized” is read; prompt on biological aggregates or biological aggregation] | flocks | [
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acf-co24-3-3 | New Morse Code premiered a piece for cello and flower pots by a composer with this surname inspired by Boris Kerner’s traffic theory and based on a line taken from T. S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets.” A man with this surname who admired Elgar once called A German Requiem “ponderously dull” and “purposely vulgarized music criticism” under the nom de plume “Corno di Bassetto.” An a cappella piece by a composer with this surname uses katajjaq in the Courante and repeats the chant “the detail of the pattern is movement” in the Allemande. An author with this surname interpreted the Ring Cycle as a Marxist allegory in The Perfect Wagnerite. A musician with this surname led his “Gramercy Five” and recorded a hit version of Cole Porter’s “Begin the Beguine”. A young member of the octet Roomful of Teeth with this surname won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music. For 10 points, big band clarinetist Artie shared what surname with the composer of Partita for 8 Voices? | Shaw [accept Caroline Adelaide Shaw, George Bernard Shaw, Artie Shaw, or Arthur Arshawsky] | Shaw | [
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acf-co24-3-4 | In this colony, girls were hired for a short-lived plan to spin spider-silk from golden orb-weavers. Though it was later used in the Maghreb, insurgents in this colony were the first targets of the “oil spot” strategy of an administrator who placed its ethnic groups under a system of indirect rule called the “politics of race,” Joseph Gallieni. Rival ethnic groups in this colony formed the Party for the Disinherited and the MDRM. Frantz Fanon critiqued a book written after the bloody suppression of a 1947 uprising in this colony, Prospero and Caliban by Octave Mannoni. The 1895 “red shawl” rebellion started among a côtier ethnic group in this colony, the Sakalava. This colony was formed after highland members of the Hova caste fought occupiers in a war that ended with their last queen’s exile to Réunion. For 10 points, what colony did the French found by overthrowing Ranavalona III’s Merina Kingdom? | French Madagascar [or Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies; or Colonie de Madagascar et dépendances] | French Madagascar | [
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acf-co24-3-5 | Experiments measuring this quantity’s “time-dependent” form use a probe like coumarin to excite a solvent and track its reorganization, taking advantage of this quantity’s low value in ionic liquids. This quantity is plotted on the y-axis against a solvent’s orientational polarizability on a Lippert–Mataga plot. This quantity is low in wild-type proteins with a rigid chromophore environment that reduces relaxation. A negative version of this quantity appears in photon upconversion. For a polarizable molecule, the causes of this quantity are represented by an up-arrow and a shorter down-arrow between electronic states on a Jablonski diagram. In contrast to Rayleigh scattering, changes in the vibrational energy level lead to this quantity and its “anti-” version. For 10 points, what quantity, which is the difference in maxima between the emission and absorption spectra of an energy transition, is vital to Raman spectroscopy? | Stokes shift [or downshift; accept anti-Stokes shift or upshift; prompt on Raman shift until “Raman” is read by asking “what is the more common form of that quantity?”; prompt on answers mentioning a frequency shift or wavelength shift; prompt on delta-nu or delta-lambda or delta-upsilon; prompt on delta or shift] | Stokes shift | [
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acf-co24-3-6 | This man is born immediately before his sister Norea in the Hypostasis of the Archons. This man is referred to as “son of the Jar” by Yazidis, who believe that he was born after his father put his seed into a jar for 9 months. In the Greek Apocalypse of Moses, this man is bitten by a wild beast while he and his mother travel to retrieve oil from the Tree of Life. A sect named for this man described the creation of a feminine divine entity named Barbēlō in the Apocryphon of John. Basilides, Valentinus, and this man name the major branches of 2nd- and 3rd-century Gnosticism. In some accounts, the male descendants of this man and the female descendants of one of his older brothers begat the Nephilim. This man was conceived after his two older brothers quarreled over offerings of “fruits of the soil” and a fat sheep. For 10 points, name this ancestor of Noah, the third son of Adam and Eve. | Seth [or Shet; accept Shehid ibn Jerr; accept Sethianism] | Seth | [
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acf-co24-3-7 | Broadway producers bent on swapping two acts of a play by this author employed statisticians to compare the number of “chuckles,” “belly-laughs” and “roll-’em in the aisles” for both orders. Late in his career, Alain Resnais directed three film versions of plays by this author, including one whose 16 endings are bisected by a woman’s decision to smoke a cigarette in its opening scene. In a play by this author of Intimate Exchanges, a woman tries to hang, electrocute, and burn herself in the background while the cast repair and clean a kitchen; that play ends with a game of “musical dancing” at a Christmas Eve party. In a trilogy by this playwright based in Scarborough, the title character romances his wife and two sisters-in-law in a fancy dining room, living room, and garden. For 10 points, name this English playwright of social farces like Absurd Person Singular and The Norman Conquests. | Alan Ayckbourn [or Sir Alan Ayckbourn] | Alan Ayckbourn | [
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acf-co24-3-8 | Inability to hedge against changes in this quantity motivated a model created by Brenner and Galai. This quantity names a “tax” that Mark Spitznagel describes as crushing long-term CAGRs. Up-factors and down-factors in a binomial pricing model are determined by time and this quantity. This quantity is plotted versus “moneyness” and “time to maturity” to form its namesake surface. Some “Bastard Greeks” reflect changes in this quantity, a measure of which is multiplied by Gamma and the price squared in the Black–Scholes equation. Plotting the “implied” form of this quantity against strike price can produce this quantity’s namesake “smile.” The “historical” form of this quantity equals the standard deviation of the logarithmic returns of a financial instrument. For 10 points, name this quantity that measures the variation in the price of a financial instrument over time. | volatility [accept implied or historical volatility; prompt on standard deviation or variance] | volatility | [
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acf-co24-3-13 | Men set to engage in this action were found to have stood on a chair at the Red Lyon Inn to receive coins from “Mr. Punch” in a 1774 scandal for Thomas Rumbold and Francis Sykes. People who did this action based on their ability to boil cauldrons on their hearths were known as “potwallopers.” Cartoonists portrayed the Duchess of Devonshire kissing men before they performed this action in an apocryphal instance of the crime of “treating.” This action, which could be controlled by installing its performers in so-called “burgage tenements,” was done by “forty-shilling freeholders” in gatherings called “hustings.” A tiny number of people performed this action at sites like Gatton, Dunwich, and Old Sarum. For 10 points, landowners directed the residents of “rotten boroughs” in what action, which many more property-holders were able to do after the Great Reform of 1832? | voting for Parliament [accept answers indicating votes or voters in British or English parliamentary elections or participating in elections for British Parliament or electing members of Parliament] | voting for Parliament | [
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acf-co24-3-14 | This adjective and “democratic” name the parts of a “dual” system that Ola Tunander illustrated with the Swedish “submarine deceptions.” Aaron Good’s work analyzes an entity denoted by this adjective as a form of Walter Bagehot’s “efficient institution” and builds on Peter Dale Scott, whose work uses this adjective to denote “events” like the JFK assassination. This adjective partly names a “.live” domain that hosts an open-source map of the Russia–Ukraine war. This adjective names a system that was discovered after a model, a hitman for the MİT, and a police chief were killed in a 1996 car crash in Susurluk. In English, this adjective denotes a group referred to as “derin devlet” in Turkey. QAnon followers hope to “disarm” an entity denoted by this adjective that supposedly works against Donald Trump. For 10 points, what adjective denotes secretive structures beneath official politics when paired with “state”? | deep [accept deep state, deep politics, deep events, or DeepStateMap.Live; accept derin devlet until “derin” is read; accept security state until “politics” is read] | deep | [
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acf-co24-3-15 | In a novel titled for this group, the protagonist increasingly identifies with the fictional detective Florian Linden as he spends time with menacing locals like the Wolf and the Lamb and visits a “fortress” of pedal boats inhabited by a burn victim. In a novel titled for this group, the section about the “Mendiluce Clan” ends with Luz crashing her Alfa Romeo into a gas station. In a novel titled for this group, El Quemado takes up war games during Udo Berger’s vacation at the Hotel Del Mar. An “epilogue for monsters” ends a novel partly titled for this group, whose section on the sky-writing poet Carlos Ramírez Hoffman became the author’s novel Distant Star. Though he doesn’t join this group, the title author is drafted into its army in “The Part about Archimboldi” from 2666. For 10 points, a Roberto Bolaño novel is structured as an encyclopedia of what party’s “literature in the Americas”? | Nazi Party [or Third Reich; or National Socialist German Workers’ Party; accept Nazi Germany or Nazism; accept The Third Reich, El Tercer Reich, Nazi Literature in the Americas, or La literatura nazi en América] | Nazi Party | [
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acf-co24-3-19 | A paper on this “contested” concept argues that it functions as “magic words” meaning “Hooray for our side!” and cites Judith Shklar’s claim that this ideal is “meaningless thanks to ideological abuse.” This phrase was popularized by A. V. Dicey, who argued that discretion was anathema to this ideal. Ugo Mattei and Laura Nader argue that this ideal legitimized the plunder of colonized nations. This ideal may be present in a society practicing slavery according to scholars like Joseph Raz, who argue that it is procedural and formal. Popular prerequisites for this ideal require government promulgations to be “prospective, open, and clear” and that “natural justice should be observed.” This three-word phrase names a political ideal that legal bindings apply equally to all people. For 10 points, what three-word phrase names an ideal contrasted with the “rule of man?” | rule of law | rule of law | [
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acf-co24-3-20 | Menander and many Late Antique dictionaries use this place’s vibrating bronze cauldrons as an idiom meaning “chatterbox.” The disguised Odysseus tells both Eumaeus and Penelope a tale in which Odysseus is seen traveling to this place by Pheidon, the king of the Thesprotians. The Iliad describes men with unwashed feet, the Selloi, serving at this place. The Pelasgians decide to adopt names for their gods after visiting this place in Book 2 of Herodotus, which describes a pair of black doves flying out of Egypt and landing in Libya and this place. The Peleiades represented the goddess Dione at this place, where she was seen as the consort of the naios aspect of its central god. Material taken from this place was used to fashion the speaking prow of the Argo. For 10 points, name this place in Ephesus where an oak grove sacred to Zeus became the site of the oldest Hellenic oracle. | Dodona | Dodona | [
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acf-co24-4-1 | To study the total energy of these processes, Graeme Bird invented the DSMC method to simulate them on the VSS and VHS models. These processes occur at a faster rate than expected in harpoon reactions. Yuan Lee and Dudley Herschbach developed a technique in which these processes are generated by collimated beams. To calculate the rate of these processes, the square root of “eight times kB times temperature, divided by the product of pi and the reduced mass” is multiplied by sigma. These processes occur between A, A-star, and M in the Lindemann mechanism. The product of the frequency of these events and the steric factor is the pre-exponential factor. These events are “effective” if they occur with the proper orientation and if their energy exceeds the activation energy. For 10 points, a theory of reaction kinetics is named for what events in which reactants hit each other? | reactant collisions [accept collision frequency or collision theory or effective collisions; accept total collision energy; prompt on chemical reactions until “steric” is read by asking “what specific processes in reactions?”; prompt on crossed molecular beam experiments] (DSMC stands for direct simulation Monte Carlo, VSS stands for variable soft sphere, and VHS stands for variable hard sphere. The term in the fourth sentence is the mean molecule velocity. Sigma is the collision cross section.) | reactant collisions | [
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acf-co24-4-2 | Rooth’s squiggle operator constrains this syntactic feature in Hamblin alternative semantics. This syntactic feature’s effect depends on the position of scalar, additive, or exclusive particles like the adverbs even, also, and only. In Rizzi’s left periphery, this usually ungrammaticalized feature is sandwiched between phrases of a similar feature that comments on known information and is paraphrased with “as for.” Information structure describes givenness, topic, and this feature, which presupposes a certain background and fronts similarly to wh-movement. In it-cleft sentences like “it was SAM who buzzed,” this feature, notated by all-caps, is marked by a wider pitch range. Sentences that differ truth-conditionally only in emphasis exemplify this feature’s “contrastive” type, which applies to reduplication in “I like-like her.” For 10 points, the part of an utterance that conveys new information is stressed via what syntactic feature’s F-marking? | focus [accept contrastive focus, contrastive focus reduplication, focus projection, focus domain, focus particle, or focus phrase; prompt on accent, pitch accent, stress, contrastive stress, syntactic stress, sentence stress, prosodic stress, prominence, emphasis until read by asking “what syntactic feature is behind that?”; reject “topic”] | focus | [
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acf-co24-4-3 | A proverb that claims that these people are birds, not humans, is analyzed in Nuer Religion by E. E. Evans-Pritchard. In Voodoo, three-chambered terracotta plates of sweets are offered to loa representing these people, the Marasa. A “pale fox” from Dogon religion who is condemned to wander the earth looking for one of these people gives his name to Marimba Ani’s critique of “European cultural thought,” Yurugu. Upon the death of one of these people, a babalawo will carve a wooden statue of them that is regularly washed and clothed by its parents. These people are depicted in Ibeji sculptures and traditionally given the names “Taiwo” and “Kehinde” in Yoruba culture. These people battle monsters in a motif common to Ho-Chunk and Navajo myth. For 10 points, many African religions attribute divine significance to the birth of what children, who also appear as heroes in the Popol Vuh? | twins [accept Hero Twins; prompt on babies, children, siblings, brothers, sisters, or boys until “children” is read] | twins | [
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acf-co24-4-4 | One of this author’s characters spends decades living in an underground burrow of tunnels of his own creation, which catches fire one night when struck by lightning. In a novel by this author, Jack offers to clean his girlfriend’s apartment as an excuse to steal the manuscripts she’s been preparing for a blackmailer in a pinstripe suit. In a novel-within-a-novel by this author, the protagonist accidentally kills his sick wife by forcing her to undergo chemically induced convulsion therapy in Switzerland. This novelist created the Swedish immigrant Håkan Söderström, who searches for his brother in the American West. In a novel by this author, Ida Partenza is hired to ghostwrite the autobiography of the financier Andrew Bevel, who made a fortune shorting the stock market in the 1929 crash. For 10 points, name this Argentinian-American author of In the Distance who won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Trust. | Hernan Diaz | Hernan Diaz | [
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acf-co24-4-5 | The agitated Allegro vivace section of this aria refers to a figure described in an Act I aria that the French version replaced with the trill-laden aria “Que n’avons-nous d’ailes”. This aria’s cabaletta begins with the seven-note melody C, high A, F, long C, B, long D, C, but is often sung a step lower. After this aria, its singer’s lover commits suicide at his ancestors’ tomb in “Fra poco a me ricovero.” In this aria, a character sings a theme from the Act I duet “Verranno a te sull’aure” to respond to a “celestial harmony.” A 12-minute ovation followed this aria and its cabaletta, “Spargi d’amaro pianto,” at Joan Sutherland’s Met debut. A flute often replaces the glass harmonica in this thinly-orchestrated scene, in which the disheveled soprano stumbles into the Great Hall wearing a white dress stained with Arturo’s blood. For 10 points, the title character fantasizes of being wed to Edgardo in what scene from a Donizetti opera? | Lucia’s Mad Scene [or “Il dolce suono”; or the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor; accept Lucie de Lammermoor in place of Lucia di Lammermoor; or “Mon nom s’est fait entendre”; accept “Spargi d’amaro pianto” until read; prompt on mad scene] | Lucia’s Mad Scene | [
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acf-co24-4-6 | A ruler of this city was badly injured after falling off a roof during a sword fight with imaginary opponents and got the nickname “mushroom” for losing a court case against an onerous head tax. As a gift for Paul III, a ruler of this city commissioned a featherwork rendition of The Mass of St. Gregory. Goods from this city “rejoiced [the] heart” of Albrecht Dürer when a royal tour brought them to cities like Brussels. The second “judge-governor” of this city presided over a hemorrhagic “great pestilence” that a 2018 study identified as Salmonella. Jean Fleury captured the treasure of a ruler of this city who was hanged from a ceiba tree in Acalan. Foreign accounts claim that a ruler of this city was stoned to death by his subjects, forcing an occupying army to flee this city via its western causeway on La Noche Triste. For 10 points, name this city ruled by Cuauhtémoc and tlatoani like Moctezuma. | Tenochtitlan [or Mexico City, Ciudad de México, San Juan Tenochtitlan, or Mexico-Tenochtitlan] (The first three governors, or juez gobernadores, clued are Luis de Santa María Cipactzin, Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin, and Diego de San Francisco Tehuetzquititzin. The “great pestilence” is also called cocoliztli.) | Tenochtitlan | [
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acf-co24-4-11 | Donald Richie noted that this film’s composer repeatedly used a single chord fading into silence, such as right after a man is shocked upon being presented with a set of all-white clothes. In this film, a shot of a man saying, “she wept, and wept, and wept” is followed by a woman stoically examining the face of a bloody corpse, whose pose resembles that of her fever-stricken son. This film’s opening credits play over tracking shots of empty spaces in its central setting, such as a hall in which yak hair adorns an empty suit of armor. This film’s climactic duel in rippling grass on a windy hill is set to aggressive biwa strumming composed by Tōru Takemitsu. This film’s protagonist, who is played by the star of its director’s Human Condition trilogy, narrates flashbacks to a clan waiting for a warrior to behead him. For 10 points, Tatsuya Nakadai starred in what 1962 samurai film by Masaki Kobayashi? | Harakiri [or Seppuku] | Harakiri | [
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acf-co24-4-13 | This property is progressively reduced in experiments whose results are displayed on vector component plots named for J. D. A. Zijderveld. The high strength of one form of this phenomenon is indicated by Koenigsberger ratios above one. Whether this property’s namesake “fabric” appears linear or planar is used to classify grains as MD or SD. Materials with one form of this property obey the laws of “reciprocity,” “independence,” and “additivity” according to the Thellier laws. Rocks with this property are used to identify APWP tracks, which have led to the discovery of events like the Brunhes–Matuyama event. Layers of chert alternate with layers of a mineral with this property in banded iron formations. The Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis predicted the presence of symmetrical “stripes” of rock with this property near mid-ocean ridges due to seafloor spreading. For 10 points, give this property that lends its name to the iron ore with chemical formula Fe3O4. | magnetism [or magnetic; or paleomagnetism; accept magnetite; accept ferromagnetism or ferrimagnetism or antiferromagnetism or superparamagnetism; accept remanence or remanent magnetization or residual magnetism; prompt on RM; reject “diamagnetism” or “paramagnetism”] | magnetism | [
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acf-co24-4-14 | A man with this job uses false teeth to disguise himself as his dead neighbor, then is tied to a chair until he confesses to being a vampire, in the last play of the Scenes from the Past trilogy. An author with this job satirized it in the play Shadows and the novel Foolsburg before adopting “Aesopian language.” While boasting about his life in this job, a man claims to eat soup delivered from Paris and to have written Norma. The inn room of a man with this job was staged with 15 doors, through which hands holding bankrolls appear, in a 1926 production that developed the “biomechanics” of Vsevolod Meyerhold. In that play, a spendthrift who has the lowest of 14 ranks in this job has his insulting letter read aloud by a postmaster, who freezes with the rest of the cast when a gendarme announces that another man with this job has arrived. For 10 points, people with what career fear the title inspector of a Nikolai Gogol play? | civil servants [or bureaucrats, government officials, clerks, ministers, councilors, registrars, or secretaries; or answers indicating Russian government, bureaucracy, or civil service employees; accept The Government Inspector; accept The Inspector-General or Revizor until “inspector” is read; accept governors or mayors; reject “politicians” or “generals”] (The play in the first sentence is Tarelkin’s Death by Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin, which was also staged by Meyerhold. The second author is Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin.) | civil servants | [
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acf-co24-4-15 | In an article written with a women’s studies scholar, this historian defined history as “the story of who rides whom and how.” This historian remarked, “the greater the prolongation of the ‘a,’ the greater the implicit approbation” in discussing a preacher’s use of the word “ba-ad.” This historian, who claimed to welcome a “coming Viet Cong victory” at a Rutgers teach-in, founded the journal Marxist Perspectives with his wife Elizabeth Ann Fox. This historian identified a transition from “patriarchy” to “paternalism” in a region he characterized as “in, but not of,” capitalism, contrary to the theories of Robert Fogel. This historian explored “resistance within accommodation,” exemplified by shirking and religious practice, in a book that uncovers the “Nat Turner” inside of “Sambo.” For 10 points, name this historian who chronicled the “world the slaves made” in a book titled for a spiritual, Roll, Jordan, Roll. | Eugene Genovese [or Eugene Dominic Genovese] | Eugene Genovese | [
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acf-co24-4-16 | After being harassed by members of this movement, the Shepherds of Good Hope soup kitchen received nearly a million dollars in donations. This movement’s misappropriation of the “Every Child Matters” slogan on Orange Shirt Day was condemned by Phyllis Webstad. This movement, like Wexit and some non-French Yellow Vest protests, was organized by Maverick Party leader Tamara Lich. In May 2024, Pat King stood trial for his role in this movement, which was countered with the gay cowboy anthem “Ram Ranch.” This movement prompted the first-ever invocation of the Emergencies Act, allowing the freezing of its leaders’ bank accounts. This movement began with demonstrations on Parliament Hill in response to its nation’s COVID vaccine border mandates. For 10 points, Justin Trudeau quashed what 2022 series of protest blockades by disgruntled teamsters? | Freedom Convoy protests [or Canada trucker protests; or Canada convoy protests; prompt on answers mentioning drivers or teamsters until “teamsters” is read; prompt on COVID-19 protests until “COVID” is read; prompt on anti-vaccination movement, anti-vax movement, or anti-lockdown movement] | Freedom Convoy protests | [
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acf-co24-4-20 | This head of state allied with the Napist “Governmentals” of the Russian Party against the Constitutionalists of the English Party and the French Party. A legend holds that this leader, like Antoine Parmentier and Frederick the Great, put guards around a shipment of potatoes to stir public interest in the crop. This leader’s government was first recognized by Jean-Pierre Boyer of Haiti. This colleague of Karl Nesselrode helped create Swiss federalism and the Holy Alliance as Alexander I’s foreign minister. In revenge for this leader’s imprisonment of the bey of the Mani peninsula, the Mavromichalis clan assassinated him outside a church in his capital of Nafplion. This former minister of the Septinsular Republic turned down leadership of the Filiki Eteria before establishing the First Hellenic Republic. For 10 points, name this first head of state of independent Greece. | Ioannis Kapodistrias [or John Kapodistrias; or Giovanni Capo d’Istria; or Giovanni Capodistria] | Ioannis Kapodistrias | [
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acf-co24-5-1 | Before talking to a wolf, the speaker of a poem in this collection addresses the night, who presses her loins and breasts upon him, and describes the stars as tied down by ropes. One of this collection’s contributors delivered a letter that told the receiving king to bury him alive, while another was killed by a poisoned robe sent by an emperor. This collection repeatedly alludes to a 40-year war that began after the horse Dahis lost a race. A poem in this collection begins “let us stop and weep,” before describing how the north and south winds toss sands over a lover’s desolate encampment. An enslaved man who became a knight wrote a poem in this collection set at the house of his beloved cousin ‘Abla. The work of Ṭarafah, ‘Antarah, and Imru’ al-Qais appear in this set of qaṣīdas. For 10 points, name this collection of pre-Islamic Arabian poems named for being placed on golden threads. | Hanging Odes [or al-Mu’allaqāt; accept suspended or seven in place of “hanging”; accept poems or qaṣīdas in place of “odes”] | Hanging Odes | [
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acf-co24-5-2 | With Tim Shallice, this person developed a theory of executive function in which “trigger base data” and “contention scheduling” are overseen by a “supervisory attentional system.” David Krakauer built on a phrase coined by this person, contrasting an abacus and a calculator to distinguish complementary and competitive “cognitive artifacts.” With Hutchins and Hollan, this scholar theorized that “gulfs of execution and evaluation” interrupt seven stages of action. A popular-press book by this scholar described turn signals as “the facial expressions of automobiles.” This scholar repurposed a term coined by James J. Gibson to describe how the appearance of an item delimits “what actions are possible.” In a book with a teapot on its cover, this scholar used confusing doors to explain “affordances.” For 10 points, name this scholar who founded user-centered design with his book The Design of Everyday Things. | Don Norman [or Donald Arthur Norman] | Don Norman | [
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acf-co24-5-3 | This actress was the first to sing “We Need a Little Christmas” in a stage musical in which she played a “bosom buddy” of Bea Arthur’s Vera Charles. This actress starred opposite George Hearn in a 1982 PBS broadcast of a musical’s National Tour of a role that she saw as “dotty music hall.” This actress’s debut stage musical role was as the corrupt mayor Cora in Anyone Can Whistle. This actress rose to stardom by originating the role of the title stylish bohemian aunt in Jerry Herman’s 1966 musical Mame. The first words of a character originated by this actress are “Wait! What’s your rush? What’s your hurry?” That amoral, scatterbrained character originated by this actress introduces herself in the song “The Worst Pies in London.” For 10 points, the role of Mrs. Lovett in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd was originated by what British Dame? | Angela Lansbury [or Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury] | Angela Lansbury | [
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acf-co24-5-4 | Roderick MacKinnon crystallized one of these proteins from S. lividans that contains a highly conserved TVGYG sequence. Tetraethylammonium is used to experimentally inhibit these proteins. One of these proteins in humans is mutated in the most common form of Romano–Ward syndrome. That one of these proteins is named for its homology to the Drosophila ether-a-go-go gene and is inhibited in most forms of drug-induced long QT syndrome. The sulfonylurea receptor is found on an ATP-responsive one of these proteins in the islets of Langerhans that deactivates to trigger insulin exocytosis. A mutation in another of these proteins causes Drosophila to twitch under anesthesia and is called shaker. Inward-rectifying types of these proteins maintain the resting potential of neurons. For 10 points, name these proteins that conduct an ion that is exchanged for sodium across the membrane. | potassium channels [or K-channels; accept inward-rectifiers or IRK until “inward-rectifying” is read; prompt on membrane proteins until “membrane” is read; prompt on voltage-gated ion channels by asking “what species is being moved?”] | potassium channels | [
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acf-co24-5-5 | This author included photos of fish fossils in a book explaining such topics as “The Animals Appear” and “The Coming of Men” to a young girl living in the hill town of Mussoorie. A book by this author describes how he embraced Cyrenaic hedonism and got the nickname “Joe” while in England in the chapter “Harrow and Cambridge.” This author describes his wife’s 1936 death in Lausanne in a book whose chapter “The Quest” draws on his earlier book Glimpses of World History. This author of Letters from a Father to His Daughter discussed the Vedas, the recently excavated Indus civilization, and events up through British colonization in a book written in prison at Ahmednagar Fort. The birthday of this author of The Discovery of India is celebrated on Children’s Day. For 10 points, what politician said his country would be free at “the stroke of the midnight hour” in his 1947 “Tryst with Destiny” speech? | Jawaharlal Nehru | Jawaharlal Nehru | [
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acf-co24-5-6 | In a novel titled for this poem, a scholar reading it on a bus to Peter Ramus College decides to remain in the Faraway Hills. This poem’s first lines establish its springtime setting by referring to the “flowering season” when “Europa’s false-hearted abductor” grazes on stars. This poem describes birds like the Dutch gyrfalcon and the Inca osprey in its “falconry scene,” which parallels the shepherds’ wedding in its first part. The first entry in John Crowley’s Ægypt tetralogy is titled for this poem, which follows a shipwrecked youth who washes up in one of its title countryside settings. Sor Juana’s First Dream imitates this poem’s silva form. Critics of this incomplete, two-part poem coined a term meaning “cultivated Lutheranism” to denigrate its ornate style. For 10 points, name this exemplar of culteranismo, a Luis de Góngora poem titled for its depiction of lonely, isolated places. | The Solitudes [or Las Soledades] | The Solitudes | [
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acf-co24-5-7 | Six men labor in a miniature one of these structures, while nine scribes write in an adjacent room, in a typical Egyptian wooden tomb model held at the Met. Words meaning “wall” and “room,” agadir and ghorfa, name the multi-storied examples of these structures attached to ksar citadels in North Africa. The ancient Chinese concept of cháng píng, or “ever-normal,” structures of this type, was adopted by Henry Wallace and supplemented by yearly loans under the New Policies of Wáng Ānshí. Next to Mohenjo Daro’s bath complex stands a building that Mortimer Wheeler dubiously identified as a “great” one of these structures. A passage in Genesis in which these structures are built after a dream of seven lean cows prompted medieval writers to misidentify the Pyramids as these structures. For 10 points, name these often elevated and ventilated storehouses for threshed cereal crops. | granaries [accept Great Granary; accept grain storehouses; prompt on storehouses] | granaries | [
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acf-co24-5-8 | This painting inspired Cornelia Parker to create a 9-meter-tall object that will rust in the forest at Jupiter Artland. Being accused of preventing enjoyment of this painting led John Berger to note that “if a man stole a potato he risked a public whipping.” In Ways of Seeing, the camera zooms out from the center of this painting to reveal the addition of a sign reading “Trespassers Keep Out.” The two subjects of this “conversation piece” are depicted without their heads in a work by Yinka Shonibare. At the center of this painting, barns at Ballingdon Hall peek out from behind trees. Sometimes called a “triple portrait” because of its depiction of land, this painting may have been intended to show a dead bird in an unfinished section. In this painting, a dog sniffs a gun held by a man leaning casually against a tree. For 10 points, name this Thomas Gainsborough portrait of a couple. | Mr and Mrs Andrews (Cornelia Parker sculpted Landscape with Gun.) | Mr and Mrs Andrews | [
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acf-co24-5-10 | The Chronicle of Seert credits this event for inspiring the Rogationtide Fast of Nineveh, which persisted in phases named for Kavad II Sheroe and Emmaus. Peter Sarris traced emphyteutic church rents to this event during a flurry of laws, like the anti-sodomy edict of Novel 141, that were issued after John of Ephesus compared it to God’s winepress. Gregory of Tours blamed this event for Pelagius II’s replacement by Pope Gregory I. The “dust-veil event” preceded this event, which delayed Abraha’s repairs of the Ma’rib Dam. Evagrius Scholasticus dated this event to two years after the Sack of Antioch began the Lazic War. This event of the Late Antique Little Ice Age was traced to the Tiānshān’s enzootics in 2013, when paleogenetics matched its causative agent to the account of Procopius. For 10 points, what recurring disaster from 541 to 750 CE afflicted millions with Y. pestis, including a Byzantine emperor? | plague of Justinian [or Justinianic plague or JP; accept first plague pandemic or early medieval pandemic; accept pandemic of 541–750 or other dates in the 540s until “541” is read; prompt on bubonic plague, pestilence, pandemic, epidemic, disease, outbreak, contagion, or equivalents; reject “Black Death” or “second plague pandemic”] | plague of Justinian | [
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acf-co24-5-11 | In a story, a woman is unnerved by her ability to manipulate one of these things belonging to Sgt. Derek Zeiger, causing him to forget seeing the red wire that led to his friend’s death. Beverly uses a controversial therapy to change one of these things in Karen Russell’s “The New Veterans.” A man keeps seeing one of these things, as well as his shoes on fire under a burning tree, while trying to sleep on a mission cot after surviving a tractor accident. A man who goes by the initials “O.E.” looks at a picture of one of these things and sees a pair of “still, straight, all-demanding” eyes in a “flat, stern, Byzantine” face. A set of these things created by a time-traveling woman appears in the frame story of a collection that includes “The Long Rain.” For 10 points, what images central to Flannery O’Connor’s story “Parker’s Back” also appear on Ray Bradbury’s “Illustrated Man”? | tattoos [prompt on pictures, images, or synonyms; prompt on eyes or faces; prompt on answers like flashbacks or memories by asking “what is the physical representation of that memory?”] | tattoos | [
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acf-co24-5-12 | An object named for this mathematician transforms with conformal metric changes by adding two derivative terms and subtracting an inner product times the gradient. In orbital mechanics, this mathematician names the 2D case of a regularization scheme accomplished with the Kustaanheimo–Stiefel transformation. Parallelograms in curved spaces are named for this formulator of the notion of parallel transport. The fundamental theorem of Riemannian geometry asserts the existence of a natural connection named for this mathematician, which is torsion-free and compatible with the metric. The Leibniz formula for the determinant is most compactly written as a sum with coefficients given by a pseudo-tensor named for this mathematician, which takes the value plus one, minus one, or zero depending on the parity of a permutation. For 10 points, name this Italian differential geometer and namesake of a “symbol” denoted epsilon. | Tullio Levi-Civita (“LEV-ee CHEE-vee-ta”) | Tullio Levi-Civita | [
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acf-co24-5-13 | While tutoring a girl who adores her pekinese Looloo, a character in this novel is horrified by the strength of the rabbit Bismarck. David Lodge’s entry on symbolism in The Art of Fiction is a scene in this novel in which a man forces a terrified mare to stand by a railway crossing. In this novel, friends of the lisping model Pussum mockingly read a letter about the “Flux of Corruption” at a London café, leading the writer’s sister-in-law to grab the letter and walk out with it. This novel is the sequel to a novel that ends with a vision of the “old, brittle corruption of houses and factories” being swept away by the title image in the sky. On a climactic trip to the Alps in this novel, the sculptor Loerke is attacked in the snow by the industrialist Gerald Crich, the intimate “man friend” of Rupert Birkin. For 10 points, name this novel about Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen, a sequel to The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence. | Women in Love | Women in Love | [
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acf-co24-5-14 | In this state, Aaron Henry led the “Loyalists” against the “Regulars” of governor Bill Waller. In 2002, Antonin Scalia’s opinion in Branch v. Smith upheld a redistricting plan in this state that aided the son of his hunting buddy Charles Pickering. This is the home state of Democratic direct mail strategist Hal Malchow, who had himself euthanized in March 2024. After winning exactly half its districts in 1999, this state’s most recent Democrat governor, Ronnie Musgrove, was chosen by its legislature in a since-abolished procedure. A hard-of-hearing senator from this state would have been the sole reviewer of the Nixon tapes in the “Stennis compromise.” A Sovereignty Commission handled desegregation in this state, where the Freedom Democratic Party was founded by Fannie Lou Hamer. For 10 points, name this now solidly-Republican state whose flagship university was desegregated by James Meredith. | Mississippi [or MS; accept Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party or Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission] | Mississippi | [
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acf-co24-5-15 | A theologian of this ethnicity formulated a divine missio Dei that supersedes the expansion of colonial churches in Transforming Mission. Outside the US, the largest hotbed of Messianic Judaism is among this ethnicity, whose Pentecostal families began to immigrate to Israel in the ’90s. A “seer” of this ethnicity prophesied their salvation by the “man in the brown suit,” who is awaited by Southlanders near Orania. People of this ethnicity dominated a government whose “state theology” was denounced in the Kairos Document. This ethnicity’s NGK and NHKA sister denominations derive from a European Reformed church that split in the Doleantie led by Abraham Kuyper. Nationalists of this ethnicity joined a Calvinist secret society called the Broederbond. For 10 points, leaders of what ethnicity’s Dutch churches identified the biblical Exodus with their Great Trek? | Afrikaners [or Africaanders; accept Boers; accept Afrikaner Calvinism or Afrikaner Broederbond; prompt on Dutch, Nederlanders, free burghers, or Huguenots; prompt on White South Africans or Wit Suid-Afrikaners] (The first sentence refers to David Bosch. The third sentence refers to “Siener” van Rensburg.) | Afrikaners | [
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acf-co24-5-16 | The first model of these devices’ behavior was proposed by Meyer, which was the progenitor for the BSIM series of models of these devices. As the resistance of early examples of these devices increased with temperature, they were not susceptible to secondary breakdown. Hitachi used a “vertical groove” geometry to manufacture the first “power” examples of these devices in 1969. CCDs have mostly been replaced in commercial active pixel sensors by ones containing a photodiode and these devices. The circuit symbol for these devices may include a fourth terminal representing the substrate, which can affect the behavior of these devices via the “body effect” or “back-gating.” A “complementary” device made of an n- and p-type pair of these devices is widely used in logic circuits. For 10 points, what most common type of field-effect transistor is named for its three component layers? | MOSFET (“moss-fett”) [or metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor; accept IGFET or insulated gate field-effect transistor; accept pMOS; accept nMOS; accept CMOS (“C-moss”) or complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor; prompt on transistor or field-effect transistor until “transistor” is read; reject “JFET” or “junction field-effect transistor”; reject “bipolar transistor” or “BJT”] | MOSFET | [
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acf-co24-5-17 | Mark Siderits defended an “indeterminate” form of one of these things in a paper on Monima Chadha’s Kantianism. One of these things is often discussed with the example of an overweight man who fasts in the day and eats at night. In a commentary on Dignaga’s apoha theory of universals, Dharmakīrti argued for a “negative” one of these things called anupalabdhi. The example of a gavaya, a buffalo similar to a cow, is often used to discuss one of these things. Through subparts including a hetu “mark,” one of these links the sight of smoke to the stock example of fire on a mountain; that is anumāna, which is second only to pratyakṣa among these things. Though there are classically six of these things, the Nyāya school recognizes four, and the Vaiśeṣika school only two, whose names roughly translate to “inference” and “perception.” For 10 points, name these “sources of knowledge” in Indian epistemology. | pramāṇas [or pramāṇa-śāstra; or prāmāṇyavāda; prompt on pramā by asking “what precursor to that?”; prompt on anupalabdhi or upamāna or anumāna until each is read by asking “that is an example of what things?”] | pramāṇas | [
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acf-co24-5-18 | The so-called “rescues” conducted by these people are romanticized in Jean-Baptiste Debret’s lithographs. Victor Brecheret sculpted a granite monument to these people that protesters graffitied with the word “murderers” in 2013. The “patriarch” of these people fathered the first mixed-race “Mamluks.” These people spread a simplified version of an indigenous language called the língua geral. The regionalists of the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution claimed the heritage of these people, who used a word for feathery-legged birds to denigrate the boots of the newcomers they faced in the War of the Emboabas. In the 1640s, the Mboboré defeated these people’s last raid on the Jesuit reductions. Columns of these people pushed west of the Tordesillas line behind the flag-carriers that gave these people their name. For 10 points, name these prospectors and slave-traders who colonized Brazil. | bandeirantes (“bun-day-RON-chiss”) [or bandeira members; accept bandeirismo or Monument to the Bandeiras; prompt on synonyms of slavers until “slave-traders” is read; prompt on gold prospectors until “prospectors” is read; prompt on synonyms of settlers, colonists, or explorers until “colonized” is read; prompt on Paulistas, Portuguese, or Brazilians] | bandeirantes | [
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acf-co24-5-19 | Many weddings in this city are held in a city block containing 75 tree species, Alice Keck Park. This city’s Cold Spring Tavern was a stopping point on the 40-mile stagecoach route linking it to Los Olivos. This city’s arts district and wine-tasting area, the “Funk Zone,” is home to the sandcastle-shaped MOXI museum. It’s not in Ohio, but Gaylord Nelson organized the first Earth Day after an event centered on this city fouled the coast up to nearby Goleta. It’s not Ann Arbor, but Charlie Munger was ridiculed for designing a dorm building with windowless rooms for this city. This city names a 1969 oil spill and a Franciscan “Queen of the Missions” that was captured in the 1824 Chumash Revolt. The Santa Ynez mountains east of this city provide views of Channel Islands National Park. For 10 points, name this seaside California city about two hours northwest of LA, home to a namesake UC campus. | Santa Barbara, California [accept UC Santa Barbara; accept Mission Santa Barbara or Misión de Santa Bárbara; accept Santa Barbara oil spill] | Santa Barbara, California | [
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acf-co24-5-20 | Midway into this movement, a loud arrival of the tonic in first-inversion tied triplets yields to stringendo descending scales and an abrupt false ending in the Neapolitan, C major. Trombones begin a 3-octave ascent from F-sharp and hand off to trumpets reaching high G at this movement’s climax. After a soft tam-tam hit in this movement, stopped French horns buzz an F-sharp pedal, then a funereal low brass chorale dies away. A half-diminished Tristan sonority opens this movement, and in a stereo effect, first and second violins trade off each note of the descending melody. The G major scherzo preceding this movement evolves into a triumphant march that often invites premature applause. This mold-breaking movement ends softly, taking a contrasting role in place of a limping waltz. For 10 points, name this anguished last symphonic movement by a Russian composer who died of cholera 9 days after its premiere. | finale of the Pathétique Symphony [or Adagio lamentoso; accept Adagio or slow or last or fourth or final movement in place of “finale”; accept Symphony No. 6 in B minor by Tchaikovsky in place of “Pathétique”] | finale of the Pathétique Symphony | [
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