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<b><u>Western Schism</u></b> [accept Schism of <b><u>1378</u></b>; accept <b><u>Papal Schism</u></b>; accept Great <b><u>Occidental Schism</u></b>] |
<b><u><em>mēnin</em></u></b> [accept <b><u>rage</u></b>, <b><u>anger</u></b>, <b><u>wrath</u></b>, or synonyms] |
Matthew <b><u>Bourne</u></b> [or Matthew Christopher <b><u>Bourne</u></b>] |
<b><u>embroidery</b></u> [accept <b><u><em>opus anglicanum</b></u></em> until “opus” is read; accept <b><u><em>or nué</b></u></em> until “<em>or</em>” is read; prompt on <u>needlework</u> or <u>sewing</u> or <u>stitching</u>] |
José <b><u>Serebrier</u></b> (“SAIR-uh-bree-YAIR”) |
<b><u>harpsichord</b></u> |
<b><u>three</b></u> [or <b><u>third</b></u>; accept <b><u>third</b></u> inflow, segment <b><u>3</b></u>, or <b><u>third</b></u> spacing; accept portal <b><u>triad</b></u>] |
John <b><u>Wayne</b></u> [or Marion <b><u>Morrison</b></u> or Marion Robert <b><u>Morrison</b></u>; accept “the <b><u>Duke</b></u>”; accept <em>Jesus and John <b><u>Wayne</b></u></em>; accept John <b><u>Wayning</b></u>] |
Frances Power <b><u>Cobbe</b></u> |
<b><u>Turkey</u></b> [or <b><u>Türkiye</u></b>; or Republic of <b><u>Türkiye</u></b>; or <b><u>Türkiye</u></b> Cumhuriyeti] |
<b><u>Gwendolyn</u></b> [accept <b><u>Gwendolyn</u></b> Bennett; accept <b><u>Gwendolyn</u></b> Brooks or <b><u>Gwen</u></b> Brooks] |
Dmitri <b><u>Shostakovich</b></u> [or Dmitri Dmitriyevich <b><u>Shostakovich</b></u>] (The pieces in the first clue are his 24 Preludes, Op. 34. The piece in the second clue is the C major fugue from his Op. 87.) |
<b><u>restaurant</b></u>s [or <b><u>diner</b></u>s or <b><u>cafeteria</b></u>s or <b><u>automat</b></u>s or <b><u>eateries</b></u> or <b><u>café</b></u>s] |
<b><u>violence</b></u> [accept structural <b><u>violence</b></u>; accept <b><u><em>Violence</b></u></em> <em>and the Sacred</em> or <em>La <b><u>violence</b></u> et le sacré</em>; accept <em>Life and Words: <b><u>Violence</b></u> and the Descent into the Ordinary</em>] |
<b><u>Kraken</u></b> [accept <b><u>Krake</u></b> or <b><u>Kraxe</u></b> or <b><u>Krabben</u></b> or <b><u>Horven</u></b>; accept <b><u>poulpe</u></b>; accept <b><u>octopus</u></b> or giant <b><u>octopus</u></b>; accept <b><u>Architeuthis monachus</u></b>; accept <b><u>squid</u></b> or giant <b><u>squid</u></b> until “s... |
<b><u>sugar</u></b>s [or <b><u>saccharide</u></b>s] |
<b><u>Roman emperor</u></b>s [or <b><u>emperor</u></b>s of <b><u>Rome</u></b>; or <b><u>caesar</u></b>s until “Caesarea” is read; or <b><u>princep</u></b>s; prompt on <u>emperor</u>s or synonyms of <u>ruler</u>, but reject “kings” or “dictators”; prompt on <u>Roman</u>s or <u>gentile</u>s or <u>non-Jew</u>s; prompt on ... |
Gustav <b><u>Kirchhoff</u></b> [or Gustav Robert <b><u>Kirchhoff</u></b>; accept <b><u>Kirchhoff</u></b>’s diffraction formula or <b><u>Kirchhoff</u></b>’s laws of spectroscopy] |
Gordon <b><u>Parks</u></b> [or Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan <b><u>Parks</u></b>] (The film is <em>Shaft</em>.) |
Czesław <b><u>Miłosz</u></b> (“CHESS-woff MEE-woash”) |
<b><u>autoionization</u></b> of water [or <b><u>self-ionization</u></b>; accept <b><u>autoprotolysis</u></b>, <b><u>self-dissociation</u></b>, <b><u>autodissociation</u></b>, <b><u>disproportionation</u></b> of water, or word forms; prompt on <u>ionization</u> or <u>protolysis</u> or <u>dissociation</u>; prompt on form... |
<b><u>Java</u></b> [or <b><u>Jawa</u></b>] |
<b><u>Royal Navy</u></b> [or <b><u>British Navy</u></b>; accept <b><u>English Navy</u></b>; prompt on <u>navy</u> by asking “of what country?”; prompt on <u>Royal Society</u> by asking “what other institution was the Royal Society working with?”] |
<b><u>amorphous</u></b> solids [accept <b><u>glassy</u></b> or <b><u>glass</u></b>es or <b><u>vitreous</u></b> solids; prompt on <u>metastability</u> or <u>metastable</u>; prompt on <u>isotropic</u> until read; prompt on <u>non-crystalline</u> or <u>polycrystalline</u> until “crystals” is read; prompt on <u>disorde</u>... |
<b><u>temperature</b></u> [accept absolute <b><u>temperature</b></u>; accept stellar <b><u>temperature</b></u>; accept (effective) CMB <b><u>temperature</b></u> or CMB <b><u>temperature</b></u> anisotropies/fluctuations or CMB <b><u>temperature</b></u> distribution; accept HI (“H-one”) excitation <b><u>temperature</b><... |
<b><u>Tibetan</u></b> [or <b><u>bod</u></b>; accept <b><u>Tibetic</u></b> languages, <b><u>Bod</u></b>ish, <b><u>Dzongkha</u></b>, <b><u>Bhutanese</u></b>, <b><u>Dbus</u></b>-gtsang skad, <b><u>Ü</u></b>-tsang kä, <b><u>Khams</u></b>, <b><u>Khamké</u></b>, <b><u>A-mdo</u></b>’i skad, <b><u>Amdo</u></b>lese, <b><u>Balti... |
Maxim <b><u>Gorky</b></u> [or Alexei Maximovich <b><u>Peshkov</b></u>] (The novel in the first sentence is <em>The Artamonov Business</em>.) |
<b><u>Isfahan</u></b> [or <b><u>Esfahân</u></b>] (The Darb-e Islam is also called the Darb-e Imam.) |
<b><u>Leo</u></b> [or <b><u>Léōn</u></b>; accept <b><u>Leo</u></b> III the Isaurian, <b><u>Leo</u></b> III the Assyrian, <b><u>Leo</u></b> III the Syrian, or <b><u>Leo</u></b> VI the Wise] (Leo VI’s fourth wife was Zoe Karbonopsina.) |
f<b><u>MR</u></b>I [or functional <b><u>magnetic resonance</u></b> imaging; accept <b><u>MRI</u></b> by itself] |
<b><u>symphonies</b></u> by Franz Joseph <b><u>Haydn</b></u> [prompt on <u>symphonies</u> or <em>Paris</em> <u>symphonies</u> or <em>London</em> <u>symphonies</u> by asking “by what composer?”] |
<b><u>OSI</u></b> model [or <b><u>Open Systems Interconnection</u></b> model] |
<b><u>Monster</u></b> group [or Fischer–Griess <b><u>Monster</u></b>; accept <b><u>monstrous</u></b> moonshine] |
<b><u>Ireland</b></u> [or Republic of <b><u>Ireland</b></u>; or <b><u>Éire</b></u> (“AY-ruh”); or Poblacht na h<b><u>Éireann</b></u>; reject “Northern Ireland”] |
<b><u>carbon</b></u> AND <b><u>oxygen</b></u> [accept answers in either order; accept <b><u>C</b></u> in place of “carbon”; accept <b><u>O</b></u> in place of “oxygen”] |
<b><u><em>Water Margin</b></u></em> [or <b><u><em>Shuǐ Hǔ Zhuàn</b></u></em>; or <b><u><em>Outlaws of the Marsh</b></u></em>; or <b><u><em>Tale of the Marshes</b></u></em>; or <b><u><em>All Men Are Brothers</b></u></em>] |
Kenneth <b><u>Arrow</u></b> [accept <b><u>Arrow</u></b>’s impossibility theorem] |
<b><u>Disneyland Paris</u></b> [or <b><u>Disneyland</u></b> Resort <b><u>Paris</u></b>; accept <b><u>Euro Disney</u></b>; prompt on <u>Marne-la-Vallée</u> by asking “What place in that urban area?”; prompt on <u>Disneyland</u>; reject “Walt Disney World”; reject “Paris”] |
<b><u>Doctors Without Borders</u></b> [or <b><u>MSF</u></b> or <b><u>Médecins Sans Frontières</u></b>] |
<b><u>Lopez</u></b> [or <em>Goss v. <b><u>Lopez</em></u></b>; or <em>United States v. <b><u>Lopez</em></u></b>] |
<b><u>number</u></b> of <b><u>cluster</u></b>s [accept <b><u>number</u></b> of <b><u>partition</u></b>s; accept <b><u>number</u></b> of <b><u>table</u></b>s after “Chinese” is read; accept <b><u>number</u></b> of <b><u>centroid</u></b>s until “centroids” is read; accept <b><u>number</u></b> of <b><u>mean</u></b>s until... |
Alice <b><u>Munro</u></b> [or Alice Ann <b><u>Munro</u></b>; or Alice Ann <b><u>Laidlaw</u></b>] |
<b><u>Lense–Thirring</u></b> (“LEN-suh–TEER-ring”) effect [or <b><u>Lense–Thirring</u></b> precession; accept rotational<u> <b>frame-dragging</u></b>] |
Bernardo <b><u>O’Higgins</u></b> [or Bernardo <b><u>O’Higgins</u></b> Riquelme] |
<b><u>fly</u></b>ing [or <b><u>fly</u></b>ing back to Africa; accept <em>The People Could <b><u>Fly</em></u></b> or “Now Let Me <b><u>Fly</u></b>”; prompt on returning to <u>Africa</u> by asking “by what means?”] |
“The <b><u>Oval Portrait</u></b>” |
<b><u>Hōne Heke</u></b> [or <b><u>Heke Pōkai</u></b>; or Hōne Wiremu <b><u>Heke Pōkai</u></b>] (The MP was named Hōne Heke Ngāpua.) |
<b><u>Euripides</u></b> [the play in the first line is <em>The Acharnians</em>.] |
<b><u>oboe</u></b> [accept <b><u>oboe</u></b> da caccia] |
<b><u>Rājasthān</b></u> |
<b><u>Italian</u></b> [or <b><u>I</u><u>taliano</u></b>; or lingua <b><u>italiana</u></b>] (<em>Six Memos for the New Millennium</em> is by Italo Calvino.) |
<b><u>philosopher</u></b>s [accept <b><u>theologian</u></b>s, <b><u>scholastic</u></b>s, or <b><u>philosophe</u></b>s; accept <em>Dictes and Sayings of the <b><u>Philosopher</u></b>s</em> or <em>Liber <b><u>Philosophorum</em></u></b>; prompt on answers like <u>thinker</u>s, <u>scholar</u>s, <u>academic</u>s, <u>teacher... |
Roland <b><u>Dyens</u></b> (“ro-LAWN dee-YAWNCE”) (<em>Skaï</em> or “artificial hide” refers to him not being Argentinian to write a bona fide tango.) |
<b><u>Qīng</u></b> Empire [or <b><u>Qīng</u></b> dynasty, Great <b><u>Qīng</u></b>, Dà <b><u>Qīng</u></b>, or <b><u>Dulimbai Gurun</u></b>; prompt on <u>China</u> or <u>Zhōngguó</u>; prompt on <u>Manchu</u>s, <u>Jurchen</u>s, <u>Mǎnzú</u>, <u>Man-tsu</u>, <u>manju</u>, <u>yí</u>rén, <u>yí</u>dí, <u>tulergi</u> aiman, o... |
William <b><u>Empson</u></b> (The book is <em>Seven Types of Ambiguity</em>.) |
Marija <b><u>Gimbutas</u></b> (“mah-REE-yah GIM-boo-toss”) |
<b><u><em>Doktor Faustus</em></u></b> (by Thomas Mann) |
<b><u>shalom</b></u> [accept <b><u>sholom</b></u>, <b><u>sholem</b></u>, <b><u>sholoim</b></u>, or <b><u>shulem</b></u>; accept “<b><u>Shalom</b></u> Aleichem”; accept Oseh <b><u>shalom</b></u> bi-m’romav; accept sim <b><u>shalom</b></u>; accept <b><u>Shalom</b></u> Zachar; accept <b><u>Shalom</b></u> bayit; accept <b>... |
<b><u>Earth</u></b> [or <b><u>Terra</u></b>; accept <b><u>Earth</u></b>seed; prompt on <u>Hain</u> by asking “what specific planet colonized by Hain?”] |
<b><u>organ of Zuckerkandl</b></u> |
<b><u>gabbro</u></b>s |
<b><u>Switzerland</u></b> [or <b><u>Swiss</u></b> Confederation; accept Confédération <b><u>Suisse</u></b>; accept <b><u>Schweizerische </u></b>Eidgenossenschaft; accept Confederazione <b><u>Svizzera</u></b>; accept Confederaziun <b><u>Svizra</u></b>; accept Confoederatio <b><u>Helvetica</u></b>] |
<b><u>assassin</u></b>s [accept <b><u><em>Assassin</u></b>s: A Film Concerning Rimbaud</em> or <em>The Time of the <b><u>Assassin</u></b>s</em>] |
<b><u>depersonalization</u></b> [or <b><u>depersonalization</u></b>-derealization disorder] |
<b><u>Delhi</b></u> Sultanate [or Saltanat-e <b><u>Dihlī</b></u> or <b><u>Dillī</b></u> Saltanat] |
<b><u>gulag</u></b>s [or <b><u>work camp</u></b>s; or <b><u>labor camp</u></b>s; or <b><u>prison camp</u></b>s; or <b><u>internment camp</u></b>s; accept <b><u>Soviet</u></b> or <b><u>Russian concentration camp</u></b>s or <b><u>concentration camp</u></b>s in the <b><u>USSR</u></b>; prompt on <u>camp</u>s or <u>concent... |
<b><u>Washington</u></b> Commanders [or Washington <b><u>Commanders</u></b>; accept <b><u>Washington Football Team</u></b>; accept Washington <b><u>Redskins</u></b>; prompt on <u>Football Team</u>] |
<b><u>Hawaii</u></b> [or <b><u>Hawai‘i</u></b>; or <b><u>Hawaii</u></b>an Islands; prompt on islands of Hawaii like <u>Oahu</u>, <u>Maui</u>, or <u>Big Island</u>] |
<b><u>Haiti</u></b> [or Republic of <b><u>Haiti</u></b>; or République d’<b><u>Haïti</u></b>; or Repiblik d <b><u>Ayiti</u></b>] (The play is <em>The Tragedy of King Christophe</em> by Aimé Césaire.) |
<b><u>traffic</u></b> [or <b><u>traffic</u></b> flow; prompt on <u>congestion</u>; prompt on <u>Traf-O-Data</u>] |
Nat King <b><u>Cole</u></b> [or Nathaniel Adams <b><u>Coles</u></b>] |
<b><u>Methodism</u></b> [or word forms like <b><u>Methodist</u></b> Church or <b><u>Methodist</u></b> revival; accept <b><u>Wesley</u></b>anism until “Wesley” is read; prompt on Christian <u>revival</u>ism; prompt on <u>evangelical</u> Christianity or word forms until “evangelical” is read] |
<b><u>oxidation</u></b> [accept Jones <b><u>oxidation</u></b>] |
<b><u>rigid</u></b>ity [accept <b><u>rigid</u></b> bodies; accept Born <b><u>rigid</u></b>ity; accept Hawking’s strong <b><u>rigid</u></b>ity theorem; accept geomagnetic cutoff <b><u>rigid</u></b>ity] |
<b><u>pǔ</u></b> [or <b><u>simplicity</u></b>; or word forms of being <b><u>simple</u></b>; accept Bào<b><u>pǔ</u></b>zǐ, <em>The Master Who Embraces <b><u>Simplicity</em></u></b>, or <em>The Tao of <b><u>Pooh</em></u></b>] |
Marquis de <b><u>Sade</u></b> (“sahd”) [or Donatien Alphonse <b><u>François</u></b> de Sade] |
<b><u>Mecca</u></b> [or <b><u>Makkah</u></b>] |
<b><u>Brazil</b></u> [or <b><u>Brasil</b></u>; or Federative Republic of <b><u>Brazil</b></u> or República Federativa do <b><u>Brasil</b></u>] |
<b><u>capacitor</u></b>s [accept parallel-plate <b><u>capacitor</u></b>s or gyrator-<b><u>capacitor</u></b> model] |
<b><u>madrigal</u></b> [or <b><u>madrigaux</u></b>; prompt on <u>song</u>] |
<b><u>risk</b></u> [accept <b><u>risk</b></u> aversion; accept systematic <b><u>risk</b></u>; accept <b><u>beta</b></u> until read] |
<b><u>Krishna</u></b> [accept <b><u>Krishna</u></b> Janmāshṭamī; accept <b><u>Govind</u></b>a or <b><u>Madhav</u></b>a or <b><u>Gopal</u></b>a; accept the International Society for <b><u>Krishna</u></b> Consciousness; prompt on <u>Vishnu</u> until read; prompt on <u>Hari</u>] |
<b><u>volatility</u></b> [or <b><u>volatile</u></b>; accept <b><u>volatile</u></b> organic compounds] |
<b><u>thymine dimer</u></b>s [or <b><u>thymidine dimer</u></b>s or <b><u>T dimer</u></b>s or <b><u>TT</u></b> photo<b><u>dimer</u></b>s; accept <b><u>pyrimidine dimer</u></b>s or cyclobutane <b><u>pyrimidine dimer</u></b>s or <b><u>CPD</u></b>s; accept <b><u>6–4 photoproduct</u></b>s; prompt on <u>dimer</u>s; prompt on... |
<b><u>sea</u></b>scapes [or <b><u>ocean</u></b> or <b><u>water</u></b> paintings; accept paintings of <b><u>ship</u></b>s or <b><u>boat</u></b>s; accept <b><u>nautical</u></b> paintings; prompt on <u>landscape</u>s; prompt on <u>genre</u> scenes] |
<b><u>Minas Gerais</u></b> (“MEE-nuhz zhay-RICE”) |
<b><u>Madeira</u></b> (“muh-DEER-uh”) [accept Autonomous Region of <b><u>Madeira</u></b>] |
cosmic <b><u>inflation</b></u> [or cosmological <b><u>inflation</b></u>; accept <b><u>inflation</b></u>ary epoch; accept old <b><u>inflation</b></u> or new <b><u>inflation</b></u> or slow-roll <b><u>inflation</b></u>; accept Starobinsky <b><u>inflation</b></u>; prompt on <u>expansion</u> of the universe until read] |
<b><u><em>Fountain</em></u></b> (by Marcel Duchamp) |
<b><u>black</b></u> [or <b><u>crna</b></u> or <b><u>chernyy</b></u>] |
Nicolas <b><u>Poussin</u></b> AND Peter Paul <b><u>Rubens</u></b> [accept <b><u>Poussinist</u></b>s AND <b><u>Rubenist</u></b>s] |
<b><u>dinner</u></b> parties [or <b><u><em>cena</em></u></b>; or <b><u>banquet</u></b>s; or <b><u>feast</u></b>s; accept <b><u><em>epula</em></u></b> or <b><u><em>convivia</em></u></b>; prompt on <u>parties</u> or <u>meal</u>s] |
the <b><u>wave</u></b> [or <em>la <b><u>ola</em></u></b>; accept “My Life with the <b><u>Wave</u></b>” or “Mi vida con la <b><u>ola</u></b>”] |
the <b><u>Parthenon</b></u> |
<b><u>market</u></b> [accept “Saturday <b><u>Market</u></b>”; accept “Goblin <b><u>Market</u></b>”] |
<b><u>stain</u></b>ing [or word forms; accept acid-fast <b><u>staining</u></b> or Ziehl–Neelsen <b><u>staining</u></b>] |
<b><u>realism</u></b> [accept word forms such as <b><u>realist</u></b>; accept socialist <b><u>realism</u></b>; accept <b><u>xiànshí zhǔyì</u></b>] |
Alban <b><u>Berg</u></b> [or Alban Maria Johannes <b><u>Berg</u></b>] |
<b><u>Bronzeville</b></u> |
<b><u>deep</u></b> [accept <b><u>deep</u></b> state, <b><u>deep</u></b> politics, <b><u>deep</u></b> events, or <b><u>Deep</u></b>StateMap.Live; accept <b><u>derin</u></b> devlet until “derin” is read; accept security state until “politics” is read] |
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