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<b><u>string quartet</b></u>s [prompt on <u>quartet</u>s] |
<b><u>guitar</u></b>s [accept <em>Seven <b><u>Guitar</u></b>s</em>; accept <b><u>Guitar</u></b> Bains; prompt on musical <u>instrument</u> until read] |
<b><u>East West Players</u></b> [prompt on <u>EWP</u>] |
Isak <b><u>Dinesen</u></b> (“DIN-uh-sen”) [or Karen <b><u>Blixen</u></b>] |
<b><u>dance</b></u> [or word forms; accept <b><u>Tanz</b></u> or word forms; accept “The Spanish <b><u>Dancer</b></u>” or “Spanische <b><u>Tänzerin</b></u>”] (The poems clued in the first three lines are, respectively, Sonnets to Orpheus II.18, Sonnets to Orpheus I.25, and Duino Elegy IV. For “The Spanish Dancer” and t... |
<b><u>denticity</u></b> [accept specific word forms like poly<b><u>dentate</u></b> or flexi<b><u>dentate</u></b> ligands] |
<b><u>Ibn Baṭṭūṭa</u></b> (“IB-un buh-TOO-tuh”) [or Abū Abdullah Muḥammad <b><u>ibn Baṭṭūṭah</u></b> or Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Lawātiyy aṭ-Ṭanjiyy <b><u>ibn Baṭṭūṭah</u></b>] (Biru is also known as Oualata.) |
<b><u>Ngũgĩ</u></b> wa Thiong’o (“n’goo-gee wah thee-ON-go”) [or James <b><u>Ngugi</u></b>; prompt on <u>Thiong’o</u>] (<em>I Will Marry When I Want</em> was co-written by Ngũgĩ wa Mirii. The venue is the Kamiriithu Community Education and Cultural Centre.) |
<b><u>cross-coupling</u></b> reactions [or palladium-catalyzed <b><u>cross-coupling</u></b> reactions or <b><u>hetero-coupling</u></b> reactions; accept <b><u>Suzuki coupling</u></b> until “Suzuki” is read; prompt on <u>Suzuki</u> reaction until “Suzuki” is read; prompt on <u>coupling</u> reactions; prompt on <u>aminat... |
<b><u>Mapuche</u></b> people [or <b><u>Araucan</u></b>os; or <b><u>Araucan</u></b>ians; prompt on <u>Pehuenche</u> or <u>Lafkenche</u> by asking “what larger group are those people sometimes considered a part of?”] |
<b><u>natural killer</u></b> cells [or <b><u>NK</u></b> cells] |
William <b><u>Walton</b></u> [or William Turner <b><u>Walton</b></u>] |
<b><u>compensatory lengthen</u></b>ing [prompt on <u>lengthen</u>ing or descriptions of the vowel getting <u>longer</u>] |
<b><u>infected</b></u> by a <b><u>virus</b></u> [accept obvious equivalents; accept answers that name specific viruses like <b><u>TMV</b></u>, <b><u>HIV</b></u>, or <b><u>COVID</b></u>; prompt on <u>infected</u> or synonyms until “points” is read by asking “what type of agent is causing the infection?”] |
Gertrude <b><u>Stein</b></u> |
<b><u>gold</u></b> [accept <b><u>Au</u></b> before read] |
<b><u>emotion</u></b>s [or <b><u>affect</u></b>s; accept <b><u>emotion</u></b> words; accept <b><u>emotion</u></b>al faces; accept <b><u>emotion word–emotion face</u></b> Stroop task; prompt on <u>feeling</u>s; prompt on <u>mood</u>s; prompt on temporary <u>state</u>s; prompt on <u>word</u>s by asking “for what phenome... |
<b><u><em>2666</b></u></em> |
<b><u>monarch of Spain</u></b> [accept <b><u>king of Spain</u></b>; accept <b><u>monarch of Portugal</u></b> or <b><u>king of Portugal</u></b>; prompt on <u>king</u> or <u>monarch</u> by asking “of what domain?”; prompt on <u>ruler of Spain</u> by asking “with what title?”; reject “queen” or “queen of Spain”] (The pain... |
<b><u>Thutmose</b></u> [or <b>Thutmosis</b> or <b><u>Thothmes</b></u>; accept <b><u>Thutmose I</b></u>; accept <b><u>Thutmose III</b></u> or <b><u>Thutmose</b></u> the <b><u>Great</b></u>; accept <b><u>Thutmose IV</b></u>; accept <b><u>Thoth is born</b></u> before mention] (That limestone ruin was the Great Sphinx of G... |
<b><u>C</u></b> major [accept <em>In <b><u>C</em></u></b>] |
Ernst <b><u>Cassirer</b></u> (“kah-SEER-er”) [or Ernst Alfred <b><u>Cassirer</b></u>] |
bank <b><u>run</u></b>s [accept Northern Rock bank <b><u>run</u></b>; prompt on bank <u>fail</u>ures or bank <u>collapse</u>s; prompt on financial <u>panic</u>s or financial <u>crisis</u> or <u>crises</u>; prompt on answers indicating <u>withdraw</u>als from banks or financial institutions; reject “recession(s)”; rejec... |
<b><u>Uganda</u></b> [or Republic of <b><u>Uganda</u></b>] (The first author is Byron Kawadwa. The playwright and scholar are Elvania Namukwaya and Pio Zirimu.) |
<b><u>metapopulation</u></b>s [prompt on <u>population</u>s] |
<b><u>culture-bound</u></b> syndrome [or <b><u>culture-bound</u></b> disorder; or <b><u>culture-specific</u></b> syndrome] |
The <b><u>Invisible Committee</u></b> [or <b><u>Comité Invisible</u></b>] |
<b><u>Philippines</u></b> [or Republic of the <b><u>Philippines</u></b>; or Republika ng <b><u>Pilipinas</u></b>] (The fairy tale is “The Three Friends: the Monkey, the Dog, and the Carabao.” The epic is the <em>Ibong Adarna</em>.) |
<b><u>simple</u></b> groups [accept finite <b><u>simple</u></b> groups] |
the <b><u>sea</u></b> [or <b><u>ocean</u></b>; or <b><u>umi</u></b>; accept <em>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the <b><u>Sea</em></u></b>; accept <em>The <b><u>Sea</u></b> and Poison</em> or <b><u><em>Umi</u></b> to dokuyaku</em>] |
<b><u>Orange</u></b> [or <b><u>Oranje</u></b>; or House of Orange-<b><u>Nassau</u></b>; or Huis van Oranje-<b><u>Nassau</u></b>] |
<b><u>shipwreck</u></b>s [or being <b><u>maroon</u></b>ed; accept descriptive answers indicating a <b><u>disaster</u></b> at <b><u>sea</u></b> or in the <b><u>ocean</u></b>; prompt on thunder<u>storm</u>] |
<b><u>Pyrrho</u></b> of Elis |
<b><u>Country</u></b> [accept Caring for <b><u>Country</u></b>, Welcome to <b><u>Country</u></b>, or Acknowledgement of <b><u>Country</u></b>] |
John <b><u>Brown</u> </b>(<em>The Legend of John Brown </em>is by Jacob Lawrence.) |
<b><u>find</b></u>ing the <b><u>root</b></u>s of a function [or <b><u>find</b></u>ing the <b><u>zero</b></u>s of a function; or <b><u>find</b></u>ing the <b><u>root</b></u>s of a polynomial; or <b><u>find</b></u>ing the <b><u>zero</b></u>s of a polynomial; accept equivalents, such as <b><u>computing</b></u> or <b><u>id... |
<b><u>New</u></b> Museum [or <b><u>New</u></b> Museum of Contemporary Art] |
<b><u>death</b></u> [or word forms like <b><u>dying</b></u>; accept <b><u>mortality</b></u>; accept fear of <b><u>death</b></u>; accept <em>The Denial of <b><u>Death</b></u></em>; accept “A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own <b><u>Death</b></u>”; accept <b><u><em>Death</b></u>: Philosophical Soundings</em>] |
Thomas <b><u>Gray</b></u> |
<b><u>steric</u></b> hindrance [or <b><u>steric</u></b> effects] |
<b><u>Crete</b></u> [or <b><u>Kriti</b></u>; accept <b><u>Cretan</b></u> War or <b><u>Girit</b></u>in Fethi; accept <b><u>Candia</b></u> or Guerra di <b><u>Candia</b></u> or Niccolò da <b><u>Candia</b></u> until “Candia” is read] |
Georgios <b><u>Grivas</u></b> [accept <b><u>Digenis</u></b>] |
<b><u>prisoner</u></b>s [or synonyms like being <b><u>imprison</u></b>ed, in <b><u>prison</u></b>, or <b><u>incarcerated</u></b>] |
<b><u>New Order</u></b> [or <b><u>Orde Baru</u></b>; accept <b><u>Orba</u></b>; accept <b><u>Suharto</u></b>’s government; prompt on <u>Indonesian</u> government until read by asking “under what leader?”] |
<b><u>font</u></b>s [accept baptismal <b><u>font</u></b>s or holy water <b><u>font</u></b>s; or <b><u>fons</u></b>; accept <b><u>baptistery</u></b>; accept <b><u>baptismal bowl</u></b> or <b><u>baptismal basin</u></b>; prompt on <u>bath</u> or <u>basin</u>; prompt on <u>bowl</u>s; reject “tank”] (The Anglican rite is b... |
Don <b><u>DeLillo</u></b> [or Donald Richard <b><u>DeLillo</u></b>] |
kitchen <b><u>knive</u></b>s [accept <b><u>cleaver</u></b>s; prompt on <u>blade</u>s or <u>saw</u>s; reject “swords”] |
<b><u>Gregory</u></b> I [or <b><u>Gregory</u></b> the Great; accept <b><u>Gregorian</u></b> chant] |
<b><u>Voltaire</b></u> [or François-Marie <b><u>Arouet</b></u>] |
<b><u>Temptation of Christ</u></b> [accept descriptions such as <b><u>Jesus being tempted</u></b> in the desert for 40 days and nights or <b><u>Jesus being tempted</u></b> by the Devil; prompt on answers such as <u>Jesus in the desert</u> or <u>Jesus meeting the Devil</u> with “what occurred then?”] |
natural <b><u>logarithm</b></u> [or natural <b><u>log</b></u> or <b><u>ln</b></u>; accept poly<b><u>logarithm</b></u>] |
Alan <b><u>Lomax</b></u> |
Alberto <b><u>Manguel</u></b> (The story is “The Congress.”) |
Patrick <b><u>O’Brian</b></u> [or Richard Patrick <b><u>Russ</b></u>] |
“A <b><u>Simple Heart</u></b>” [or “Un <b><u>cœur simple</u></b>”] |
<b><u>performance anxiety</b></u> [accept <b><u>stage fright</b></u> or <b><u>audience anxiety</b></u>; accept <b><u><em>Performance Anxieties</b></u>: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race</em>; prompt on <u>nerve</u>s, <u>anxiety</u>, <u>panic</u>, <u>fear</u>, or <u>fright</u>; prompt on <u>stress</u>; prompt on <u>c... |
<b><u>Lithuania</b></u> [or <b><u>Lietuva</b></u>, Republic of <b><u>Lithuania</b></u>, or <b><u>Lietuvos</b></u> Respublika] |
<b><u>Cop City</b></u> [or Atlanta <b><u>Public Safety Training Center</b></u>] |
Sean <b><u>O’Casey</u></b> (the unnamed activist is Patrick Pearse; the unnamed play is <em>The Shadow of a Gunman</em>) |
<b><u>Nosferatu</b></u> [or Count <b><u>Orlok</b></u>; accept <b><u><em>Nosferatu</b></u>: A Symphony of Horror</em>; accept <b><u><em>Nosferatu</b></u> the Vampyre</em> or <b><u><em>Nosferatu</b></u>: Phantom der Nacht</em> or <b><u><em>Nosferatu</b></u>: Phantom of the Night</em>; prompt on <u>Dracula</u> until read] |
<b><u>theta</u></b> [accept <b><u>theta</u></b> roles; accept <b><u>Theta</u></b> Criterion; accept <b><u>theta</u></b> grid] (The IPA symbol is θ.) |
<b><u>cross</u></b>es [or <b><u>crucifix</u></b>es; accept <b><u>cross</u></b> necklaces; prompt on <u>necklace</u>s or <u>chain</u>s] |
<b><u>Budai</u></b> [accept <b><u>Qìcǐ</u></b>, <b><u>Pu-tai</u></b>, <b><u>Hotei</u></b>, <b><u>Bùdài</u></b> héshàng, <b><u>Xiào Fó</u></b>, <b><u>Pàng Fó</u></b>, or <b><u>Kuàilè Fó</u></b>; prompt on <u>Laughing Buddha</u>, <u>Fat Buddha</u>, or <u>Happy Buddha</u>; reject “Buddha”] |
<b><u>wind</u></b> [accept <b><u>wind</u></b> power or <b><u>wind</u></b> energy; accept <b><u>wind</u></b> turbines, <b><u>wind</u></b> farms, <b><u>wind</u></b> power stations, <b><u>wind</u></b> power plants, or <b><u>wind</u></b> parks; prompt on <u>air</u>, air <u>current</u>s, <u>circulation</u>, or <u>atmosphere... |
<em>The <b><u>Incoherence of the Philosophers</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>Tahāfut al-Falāsifa’</em></u></b>; prompt on the <u><em>Incoherence</em></u> or the <u><em>Tahāfut</em></u>] (The KCA is the Kalam Cosmological Argument.) |
Henry <b><u>Ford</u></b> [accept <b><u>Fordism</u></b>] |
<b><u>Peter of Spain</u></b> [or <b><u>Peter of Hispania</u></b>; accept <b><u>Petrus Hispanus</u></b>; accept <b><u>Pedro Hispano</u></b>; prompt on <u>Peter</u> or <u>Petrus</u> or <u>Pedro</u>] |
<b><u>elevation</u></b> [accept <b><u>altitude</u></b> or <b><u>height</u></b>] |
<b><u>firing squad</b></u>s [accept mock <b><u>firing squad</b></u>; prompt on <u>executions</u> or mock <u>execution</u>s] (The Juan Rulfo story is “Tell Them Not to Kill Me!”) |
<b><u>Mercury</b></u> |
<b><u>Natasha</u></b> Rostova [or Countess <b><u>Natalya</u></b> Ilyinichna Rostova; prompt on <u>Rostov</u>a] (The Figes book is <em>Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia</em>.) |
Great <b><u>Dismal Swamp</b></u> [accept <b><u>Lake Drummond</b></u>; accept <em>Dred: A Tale of the Great <b><u>Dismal Swamp</b></u></em>; accept <b><u>Dismal Swamp</b></u> Canal Company; prompt on <u>swamp</u> or <u>wetland</u> until “wetland” is read; prompt on <u>North Carolina</u>, <u>NC</u>, <u>Virginia</u>, or <... |
Raya <b><u>Dunayevskaya</u></b> (“DOO-nuh-YEFF-skuh-yuh”) [or Raya <b><u>Shpigel</u></b>; or Rae <b><u>Spiegel</u></b>] |
<b><u>Turkey</u></b> [or Republic of <b><u>Türkiye</u></b>] (The first line describes Orhan Veli Kanık, his poem “Epitaph I,” and the Garip Manifesto. “The Silent Ship” is by Yahya Kemal. The novel is <em>The Forty Rules of Love</em> by Elif Shafak. The memoir is <em>Istanbul: Memories of a City</em>.) |
<b><u>dextran</u></b> [reject “dextrin”] |
<b><u>Thaïs</u></b> (“tah-EESS”) (The play is <em>Paphnutius</em>.) |
<b><u>dejection</u></b> [accept “<b><u>Dejection</u></b>: An Ode”; accept “Stanzas Written in <b><u>Dejection</u></b>, near Naples”] |
<b><u>Senegal</u></b> [or Republic of <b><u>Senegal</u></b>; or République du <b><u>Sénégal</u></b>; or Réewum <b><u>Senegaal</u></b>; or Ndenndaandi <b><u>Senegaal</u></b>] |
<b><u>dead</u></b> [or <b><u>death</u></b>; accept <em><b><u>Death</u></b> and the Dervish</em>; or <em>Encyclopedia of the</em> <em><b><u>Dead</u></b></em>; or <em>The General of the</em> <em><b><u>Dead</u></b> Army</em>; or <em><b><u>Dead</u></b> Souls</em>; or <b><u>mrtvih</u></b>; or <b><u>mjórtvyje</u></b>; or <b>... |
<b><u>abuse</u></b> [accept more specific types like emotional <b><u>abuse</u></b>, psychological <b><u>abuse</u></b>, or child <b><u>abuse</u></b>; accept <em>Conflict is Not <b><u>Abuse</em></u></b>; prompt on <u>harm</u>] |
<b><u>Shaka</u></b> [or <b><u>Shaka</u></b> Zulu; or <b><u>Tshaka</u></b>; or <b><u>Chaka</u></b>; or <b><u>Shaka</u></b> kaSenzangakhona; accept <em>Emperor <b><u>Shaka</u></b> the Great</em>] |
Tennessee <b><u>Williams</u></b> [or Thomas Lanier <b><u>Williams</u></b> III] |
<b><u>Zweig</u></b> [accept Stefan <b><u>Zweig</u></b> or Arnold <b><u>Zweig</u></b>] (The second sentence refers to <em>The Post Office Girl</em> by Stefan Zweig.) |
Albert <b><u>Einstein</u></b> [accept <b><u>Einstein</u></b> field equations or <b><u>Einstein</u></b> tensor] |
Pyotr Ilych <b><u>Tchaikovsky</b></u> |
Robert Louis <b><u>Stevenson</u></b> [or Robert Lewis Balfour <b><u>Stevenson</u></b>; accept <b><u>Tusitala</u></b> until read] |
<b><u>Amazon</u></b> rainforest [or <b><u>Amazon</u></b> jungle; accept <b><u>Amazon</u></b> River or <b><u>Amazon</u></b> River Basin; accept <b><u>Gran Chaco</u></b>; prompt on <u>Brazil</u>] (The first line refers to a common story about the creation of the giant water lily <em>Victoria amazonica</em>. The second li... |
<b><u>rubber</u></b> [or <b><u><em>caucho</em></u></b>; accept India <b><u>rubber</u></b>; accept <b><u>latex</u></b>; accept Amazonian <b><u>rubber</u></b>] |
“<b><u>Paul’s Case</b></u>: A Study in Temperament” |
Abraham <b><u>Lincoln</b></u> |
<b><u>canticle</u></b>s [or <b><u>cántiga</u></b>s; accept <b><u><em>Canticle</u></b> of the Sun</em> or <b><u><em>Cántiga</u></b>s de Santa María</em> or <b><u><em>Canticle</u></b>s of St. Mary</em>] |
<b><u>Mars</u></b> [accept <em>The Man from <b><u>Mars</em></u></b> or <em>The <b><u>Martian</em></u></b> Chronicles] |
<b><u>Polish</u></b> [or <b><u>Polska</u></b>] (The novel in the fourth sentence is <em>Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead</em>.) |
<b><u>dome</u></b>s [prompt on <u>hemisphere</u>s] |
<b><u>anchoress</u></b>es [or <b><u>anchorite</u></b>s; or <b><u>ancrene</u></b>; accept <b><u><em>Ancrene</u></b> Wisse</em>; prompt on <u>hermit</u>s or <u>mystic</u>s] (Dillard’s character is named Julie Norwich.) |
<b><u>libraries</b></u> [or <b><u>library</b></u>; prompt on <u>archives</u>; reject “bookshop(s)” or “bookstore(s)”] |
<b><u>catatonia</b></u> [or <b><u>catatonic</b></u> state; prompt on <u>schizophrenia</u> until read by asking “What condition associated with schizophrenia?”; prompt on <u>psychosis</u>] |
<em>n</em>-<b><u>braid</b></u>s |
<b><u>hard</u></b> problem of consciousness [prompt on the problem of <u>consciousness</u> or descriptions; prompt on <u>explanatory gap</u> until read] (The paper in the first sentence is “The Harder Problem of Consciousness” by Ned Block, and the paper in the second sentence is “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousn... |
<b><u>turbulent</u></b> flow [accept <b><u>turbulence</u></b>] |
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