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Philip <b><u>Roth</u></b> [or Philip Milton <b><u>Roth</u></b>]
antenna <b><u>array</u></b>s [or array <b><u>antenna</u></b>s; accept <b><u>antenna</u></b>s or <b><u>antenna</u></b>e or <b><u>aerial</u></b>s; accept specific antennas such as <b><u>receiver</u></b>s or <b><u>transmitter</u></b>s; accept specific antenna or telescope arrays such as phased <b><u>array</u></b>s or driven <b><u>array</u></b>s or parasitic <b><u>array</u></b>s or the Very Large <b><u>Array</u></b>; prompt on <u>telescope</u>s or radio <u>telescope</u>s]
<b><u>Bluesky</u></b> [accept <b><u>bsky</u></b>.app; accept <b><u>bsky</u></b>.social; prompt on <u>Authenticated Transfer</u> Protocol, <u>AT</u> Protocol, or <u>ATP</u>roto by asking “which specific site built on that protocol?”]
<b><u>micro</u></b>- [or <b><u>micro</u></b>foundations; or <b><u>micro</u></b>economics; or <b><u>micro</u></b>mort]
Georg <b><u>Simmel</u></b> (“GAY-org ZIM-ull”)
Henri <b><u>Poincaré</b></u> (“awn-REE pwahn-kah-RAY”) [accept <b><u>Poincaré</b></u> conjecture; accept <b><u>Poincaré</b></u> group; accept <b><u>Poincaré</b></u> sections; accept <b><u>Poincaré</b></u> recurrence theorem; accept <b><u>Poincaré</b></u>–Cartan integral invariants]
<b><u>Pict</u></b>s [or <b><u>Picti</u></b>sh people or <b><u>Prydyn</u></b>; accept <b><u>Albidosi</u></b> or <b><u>Cruithni</u></b>; accept <b><u>Fortriu</u></b> or <b><u>Verturiones</u></b> until each is read; accept <b><u>Pict</u></b>land, <b><u>Pict</u></b>avia, <b><u>Pict</u></b>ish beast, <b><u>Pict</u></b>ish dragon, or <b><u>Pict</u></b>ish stones; prompt on <u>Caledonia</u>, <u>Caledonian</u>s, <u>Caledones</u>, <u>Caledonii</u>, or Di<u>calydones</u> until “Caledonians” is read; prompt on <u>Scot</u>s or <u>Scotti</u> until “Scotland” is read; prompt on <u>Celt</u>s, <u>Celt</u>ic, <u>Gael</u>s, <u>Gael</u>ic people, Na <u>Gàidheil</u>, <u>Briton</u>s, <u>Britanni</u>, or <u>Albannaich</u>] (Woolf identified Fortriu’s base as the Firth of Moray rather than further south.)
<b><u>matrix multiplication</u></b> [accept descriptions of <b><u>multiply</u></b>ing <b><u>matrices</u></b>; reject “multiplication” or “scalar multiplication”]
<b><u>Italy</u></b> [or <b><u>Italia</u></b>; or <b><u>Italian</u></b> Republic; or Repubblica <b><u>Italiana</u></b>] (The third sentence refers to Fo’s <em>Mistero Buffo</em>.)
<b><u>Australia</b></u> [or Commonwealth of <b><u>Australia</b></u>]
<b><u>thread</u></b>ing a sea<b><u>shell</u></b> [accept descriptions indicating getting a <b><u>thread</u></b> or <b><u>string</u></b> through a sea<b><u>shell</u></b>]
<b><u>Roatán</b></u>
Peter <b><u>Greenaway</b></u> (The character in the first sentence is Tulse Luper.)
“<b><u>Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind</u></b>”
<b><u>mural</u></b>s [accept <em>Detroit Industry <b><u>Mural</u></b>s</em>; accept <b><u><em>Mural</em></u></b>; prompt on <u>fresco</u>es]
<b><u>Fourteenth</u></b> Amendment
Joseph <b><u>Liouville</u></b> [accept <b><u>Liouville</u></b>’s theorem or <b><u>Liouville</u></b> equation or <b><u>Liouville</u></b>’s equation]
<b><u>potter</u></b>s [accept Oracle of the <b><u>Potter</u></b> or <b><u>Potter</u></b>’s Oracle; accept Daimones <b><u>Keramikoi</u></b> or <b><u>Kerameikos</u></b>; prompt on <u>artist</u>s or <u>crafts</u>men]
<b><u>asthenosphere</u></b> [prompt on <u>mantle</u>]
<b><u>Belousov–Zhabotinsky</u></b> reaction [or <b><u>BZ</u></b> reaction; prompt on <u>clock</u> reactions]
<b><u>cattle raid</u></b>s [accept <b><u>Cattle Raid</u></b> of Cooley or <b><u>Táin</u></b> Bó Cúailnge; accept answers of <b><u>stealing</u></b> or <b><u>theft</u></b> of <b><u>cow</u></b>s or <b><u>cattle</u></b>; prompt on <u>raid</u>s or <u>theft</u> or <u>stealing</u> by asking “of what?”; prompt on <u>invasion</u>s by asking “for what purpose?”]
<b><u>Richard II</u></b> [prompt on <u>Richard</u>]
Hubert <b><u>Dreyfus</b></u> [or Hubert Lederer <b><u>Dreyfus</b></u>] (The portmanteau name is “Dreydegger.”)
<b><u>Chaco</u></b> Canyon [accept <b><u>Chaco</u></b> phenomenon or <b><u>Chaco</u></b> meridian] (The horseshoe-shaped structures are also called <em>herraduras</em>.)
<b><u>proteasome</u></b>&nbsp;(“PRO-tee-uh-sohm”) [accept 26S <b><u>proteasome</u></b>]
<b><u><em>Our Sister Killjoy</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>Our Sister Killjoy</u></b>: or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint</em>]
<b><u>mummies</b></u> [accept answers indicating objects subject to <b><u>mummification</b></u>, such as <b><u>mummified</b></u> people; accept <b><u>mummy</b></u> brown; prompt on <u>coffin</u>s or <u>sarcophagi</u> by asking “what is inside that?”; prompt on <u>bodies</u>; prompt on <u>dead people</u> or <u>dead bodies</u> or <u>human</u>s or <u>corpse</u>s by asking “what process was applied to them?”]
<b><u>Spear of the Nation</u></b> [or <b><u>uMkhonto weSizwe</u></b>; or <b><u>uWs</u></b>; accept <b><u>MK</u></b>; prompt on <u>ANC</u> or <u>African National Congress</u> until read; prompt on <u>uMkhonto</u>] (Paul Landau’s book is <em>Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries</em>. The second sentence refers to Looksmart Ngudle. The 1838 battle was the Battle of Blood River.)
<em><b><u>Absalom, Absalom!</u></b></em>
“Ah! <b><u>si tu savais</u></b>”&nbsp;(“ah! see tew sah-VAY”)
ceramic <b><u>tile</u></b>s [accept <b><u>Tile</u></b>d Kiosk or <b><u>Çinili</u></b> Köşk; accept <em>girih</em> <b><u>tile</u></b>s; accept Iznik <b><u>tile</u></b>s; prompt on <u>ceramic</u>s until read]
<b><u>Puritan</u></b>s [accept <b><u>Separatist</u></b>s or <b><u>separating</u></b> Puritans; accept <b><u>Puritan</u></b> origins thesis, <em>The <b><u>Puritan</u></b> Origins of the American Self</em>, <em>Wayward <b><u>Puritan</u></b>s</em>, or <em>The <b><u>Puritan</u></b> Way of Death</em>; prompt on <u>Pilgrim</u>s, <u>Protestant</u> settlers, <u>Nonconformist</u>s, <u>Independent</u>s, <u>colonist</u>s, or <u>colonial</u> Americans; prompt on <u>American</u>s until read]
<b><u>Jerusalem</u></b> [or <b><u>Yerushalayim</u></b>]
Kerry <b><u>Packer</u></b> [or Kerry Francis Bullmore <b><u>Packer</u></b>]
<b><u>autophagy</u></b> [or <b><u>autophagocytosis</u></b>; reject “phagocytosis”]
Axel <b><u>Oxenstierna</b></u> [or Axel Gustafsson <b><u>Oxenstierna</b></u> of Södermöre]
Julia <b><u>Kristeva</b></u> [or Yuliya Stoyanova <b><u>Krasteva</b></u>]
<b><u>Illinois</b></u> [or <b><u>IL</b></u>] (The 2022 series is the TV version of <em>A League of Their Own</em>. Philip K. Wrigley founded the AAGPBL, the league that the Rockford Peaches played in.)
<b><u>Korean</u></b> mythology [or <b><u>Korea</u></b>; or <b><u>Han'guk</u></b> sinhwa] (The first clue refers to Gameunjang-aegi. The second clue refers to the story of Myongwol and Kungsan.)
Henri <b><u>Bergson</b></u> AND Albert <b><u>Einstein</b></u> [accept Henri-Louis <b><u>Bergson</b></u> in place of “Henri Bergson”]
Niccolò <b><u>Machiavelli</u></b> [or Niccolò di Bernardo dei <b><u>Machiavelli</u></b>; or Nicolas <b><u>Machiavel</u></b>; accept <em>Anti-<b><u>Machiavel</em></u></b> or <em>Discours contre Nicolas <b><u>Machiavel</u></b> Florentin</em>] (Francesco Guicciardini wrote a landmark <em>History of Italy</em> and led Papal armies unde Clement VII.)
<b><u>Australia</u></b> [or Commonwealth of <b><u>Australia</u></b>]
<b><u>dream</u></b>s [accept <b><u>vision</u></b>s or spirit <b><u>vision</u></b>s; accept <b><u>vision</u></b> quests; accept <b><u>dream</u></b>-visions; accept <b><u>dream</u></b>catchers; prompt on <u>wish</u>es; prompt on <u>riddle</u>s by asking “what do they refer to?”]
<b><u>Breton</u></b> [or <b><u><em>brezhoneg</em></u></b>; accept <b><u><em>Breton</u></b> Ballads</em> or <b><u>Breton</u></b> lais]
Michel <b><u>Foucault</u></b>&nbsp;(“foo-KOH”) [or Paul-Michel <b><u>Foucault</u></b>]
<b><u><em>Protagoras</b></u></em>
<b><u>Navaratri</u></b> [or <b><u>Navratri</u></b>; accept <b><u>Nine Nights</u></b> until read; accept <b><u>Durgā Pūjā</u></b> until read; prompt on <u>Golu</u> Festival until read; prompt on <u>Dussehra</u>, <u>Dasara</u>, <u>Dashain</u>, or Vijaya<u>dasha</u>mi until “Dussehra” is read by asking “Dussehra often considered the conclusion of what longer festival?”]
Kurt <b><u>Vonnegut</u></b> (The latter story is “Harrison Bergeron.”)
<b><u>Khmer</u></b> Empire [or <b><u>Kambuja</u></b>desa; or <b><u>Kampuchea</u></b>; accept <b><u>Angkor</u></b> Empire until read] (The first clue refers to Trasak Paem. The third clue refers to Suryavarman I and II’s interactions with the Chola Empire. Phnom Kulen translates to Lychee Mountain.)
<b><u>Snowmass</u></b> Village [accept <b><u>Snowmass</u></b> Process; accept <b><u>Snowmass</u></b> Accord; accept Aspen <b><u>Snowmass</u></b>]
Ronald <b><u>Fisher</b></u> [accept <b><u>Fisher</b></u> information matrix]
Anton <b><u>Arensky</b></u>
<b><u><em>Water Margin</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>Outlaws of the Marsh</em></u></b> or <b><u><em>All Men Are Brothers</em></u></b> or <b><u><em>Shui Hu Zhuan</em></u></b>]
Lavinia <b><u>Fontana</b></u>
<b><u>ox</b></u>en [accept <b><u>cattle</b></u>, <b><u>cow</b></u>, <b><u>bull</b></u>, <b><u>bovine</b></u>, <b><u>bull</b></u>ock, or <b><u>Bydło</b></u>; accept <em>Le <b><u>Bœuf</b></u> sur le toit</em> or <em>The <b><u>Ox</b></u> on the Roof</em>; accept <em>The Angora <b><u>Ox</b></u></em> or <em>Le <b><u>Bœuf</b></u></em> <em>Angora</em>] (Modest Mussorgsky composed <em>Pictures at an Exhibition</em>.)
Le <b><u>Corbusier</u></b>&nbsp;(“luh COR-booz-YAY”) [or Charles-Édouard <b><u>Jeanneret</u></b>]
<b><u>fold</u></b>ing [or protein <b><u>fold</u></b>ing]
<b><u>property</u></b> [accept right to <b><u>property</u></b>, <b><u>property</u></b> rights, <b><u>proprietary</u></b>, or <b><u>property</u></b> rules; accept <b><u>possession</u></b>s, <b><u>estate</u></b>, <b><u>title</u></b>, <b><u>entitlement</u></b>, <b><u>holding</u></b>s, <b><u>taking</u></b>s, <b><u>dominion</u></b>, <b><u>dominium</u></b>, or word forms of any; accept <b><u>ownership</u></b> or <b><u>appropriation</u></b> or word forms until each is read; prompt on natural <u>right</u>s by asking “to what?”; prompt on <u>justice</u> in holdings]
<b><u>harem</u></b> [or <b><u>seraglio</u></b> (“suh-RAL-yoh”); accept Imperial <b><u>Harem</u></b> or <b><u><em>Harem</u></b>-i Hümâyûn</em>]
Daniel Paul <b><u>Schreber</u></b> [or Judge <b><u>Schreber</u></b>; accept <em>The <b><u>Schreber</u></b> Case</em>, <b><u>Schreber</u></b>garten, or <b><u>Schreber</u></b> Garden]
<b><u>Theocritus</b></u>
<b><u>Maine</u></b> [or <b><u>ME</u></b>]
<b><u>Orpheus</u></b> [accept <b><u><em>Orpheu</em></u></b> or <b><u><em>Orfeu</em></u></b>; accept <em>Sonnets to <b><u>Orpheus</em></u></b>] (Rainer Maria Rilke wrote the <em>Sonnets to Orpheus</em>.)
“<b><u>Nevsky Prospect</u></b>” [or “<b><u>Nevsky Prospekt</u></b>”]
<em>The <b><u>Mysteries of Paris</em></u></b> [or <em>Les <b><u>Mystères de Paris</em></u></b>] (by Eugène Sue. The genre is the “city mystery.”)
<b><u>Sìchuān</b></u> (“sitch-WAHN”) [or <b><u>Sǐcuān</b></u>; accept <b><u>Seichyūn</b></u> or <b><u>Sùchhoan</b></u>; accept <b><u>Szechuan</b></u>; accept <b><u>Sichuan</b></u> Giant Panda Sanctuaries or <b><u>Sìchuān</b></u> Dàxióngmāo Qīxīdì or <b><u>Sǐcuān</b></u> Xiongmāor Qīxidǐ]
<b><u>that</u></b> [accept “On Saying <b><u>That</u></b>”; accept <b><u>dthat</u></b> (“D-that”)]
<b><u>drunk</u></b>enness [or <b><u><em>ivre</em></u></b> or <b><u><em>ivre</u></b>sse</em>; or <b><u>intoxication</u></b> or <b><u>inebriation</u></b>; accept “Morning of <b><u>Drunk</u></b>enness” or “<em>Matinee d’<b><u>Ivresse</em></u></b>”; accept “Be <b><u>Drunk</u></b>” or “Get <b><u>Drunk</u></b>” or “Be <b><u>Inebriated</u></b>” or “<b><u><em>Enivrez</u></b>-vous</em>”; accept “The <b><u>Drunk</u></b>en Boat” or “<em>Le Bateau <b><u>Ivre</em></u></b>”] (The poem in the first sentence is “Morning of Drunkenness” by Rimbaud. “Be Drunk” is by Charles Baudelaire.)
<b><u>Maldives</u></b> [or Republic of <b><u>Maldives</u></b>; accept <b><u>Maldive</u></b> Islands or Sultanate of <b><u>Maldives</u></b>]
<b><u>birds</b></u> [accept <b><u>simurgh</b></u> or <b><u>nightingale</u> </b>before they are read; accept <b><u>rukh</b></u> or <b><u>roc</b></u> before <b><u>roc</b></u> is read; accept other types of birds such as <b><u>hoopoe</b></u> or <b><u>chicken</b></u>]
<b><u>condition</u></b> variables [or <b><u>cond</u></b>vars]
Baruch <b><u>Spinoza</u></b> [or Benedict <b><u>Spinoza</u></b>; or Benedictus de <b><u>Spinoza</u></b>; or Benedito de <b><u>Espinosa</u></b>]
<b><u>Oxford</u></b> University
<b><u>Sackler</b></u> family [accept specific family members such as Arthur <b><u>Sackler</b></u>] (Patrick Radden Keefe’s book is <em>Empire of Pain</em>.)
Fernando <b><u>Pessoa</u></b>&nbsp;(“peh-SOH-uh”) [or Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra <b><u>Pessoa</u></b>; prompt on <u>Ricardo</u> Reis or Ricardo <u>Reis</u> until read; prompt on <em>The Year of the Death of Ricardo <u>Reis</em></u> or <em>O Ano da Morte de Ricardo <u>Reis</em></u> until read]
Anne <b><u>Bradstreet</u></b> [or Anne <b><u>Dudley</u></b>] (The poem in the penultimate line is “The Author to Her Book.”)
<b><u>missing middle</u></b> housing
<b><u>fluorine</b></u> [or <b><u>F</b></u>; reject “fluoride”] (“Forever chemicals” include PFAS, or perflouroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The ozone-destroying molecules are CFCs, or chlorofluorocarbons.)
<b><u>door</u></b>s [prompt on <u>relief</u>s]
<b><u>jubilee</u></b>s [accept the Book of <b><u>Jubilee</u></b>s; accept the Extraordinary <b><u>Jubilee</u></b>; prompt on <u>debt relief</u> or <u>debt forgiveness</u> or <u>debt remission</u> or other synonyms for <u>forgiving debt</u>] (The 2011 book is David Graeber’s <em>Debt: The First 5000 Years</em>.)
<b><u>Dixie</u></b> Mission [or <b><u>United States Army Observation Group</u></b>; or <b><u>Díkèxī Shǐtuán</u></b>; or <b><u>Měijūn Guānchá Zǔ</u></b>]
Leo <b><u>Tolstoy</u></b> [or Lev Nikolayevich <b><u>Tolstoy</u></b>] (The second sentence is from <em>War and Peace</em>.)
<b><u>Taipei</u></b> [or <b><u>Taipei</u></b> City; or <b><u>Táiběi</u></b>] (<em>Notes of a Desolate Man</em> is by Chu T’ien-wen. <em>Crystal Boys </em>is by Pai Hsien-yung.)
<b><u>charge transfer</u></b> [or <b><u>charge-transfer</u></b> bands; or <b><u>CT</u></b>; accept metal-to-ligand <b><u>charge transfer</u></b>, ligand-to-metal <b><u>charge transfer</u></b>, intervalence <b><u>charge transfer</u></b>, <b><u>intervalence transfer</u></b>, ML<b><u>CT</u></b>, LM<b><u>CT</u></b>, IV<b><u>CT</u></b>, or <b><u>IT</u></b>; accept <b><u>charge-transfer</u></b> complexes; prompt on photoinduced <u>charge separation</u> or inner sphere <u>electron transfer</u>; prompt on electronic <u>transition</u>s or <u>absorption</u>s until each is read]
<b><u>bird</u></b>s [or <b><u><em>niǎo</em></u></b>; accept <b><u>bird</u></b>-and-flower painting; accept <b><u><em>huāniǎohuà</em></u></b>]
People’s Republic of <b><u>China</u></b>
William <b><u>Burnside</u></b> [accept <b><u>Burnside</u></b>’s theorem or <b><u>Burnside</u></b>’s transfer theorem or <b><u>Burnside</u></b>’s ring]
Marcel <b><u>Proust</u></b>&nbsp;[or Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel <b><u>Proust</u></b>]
<b><u>Philadelphia</b></u> [or <b><u>Philly</b></u>]
<b><u>iliotibial</u></b> band [or <b><u>IT</u></b> band or <b><u>iliotibial</u></b> tract or <b><u>Maissiat’s</u></b> band; accept <b><u>iliotibial</u></b> band syndrome or <b><u>IT</u></b>BS]
<b><u>Descent</u></b> from the Cross [of <b><u>Deposition</u></b> of Christ; accept <b><u>Entombment</u></b> of Christ; prompt on descriptions of <u>taking Christ off the cross</u>]
Jewish <b><u>women</b></u> [or <b><u>isha</b></u>; or <b><u>nashim</b></u>; or <b><u>neshot</b></u>; accept <b><u>niddah</b></u> until read; accept <b><u>Women</b></u> of the Wall or <b><u>Neshot</b></u> HaKotel; accept <b><u>Women</b></u> for the Wall or <b><u>Nashim</b></u> Leman HaKotel]
<b><u>ribāṭ</u></b>s [or <b><u>rubuṭ</u></b>; accept <b><u>Rabat</u></b>]
<b><u>scheduling</u></b> [accept more specific answers such as CPU <b><u>scheduling</u></b> or process <b><u>scheduling</u></b> or task <b><u>scheduling</u></b>; accept <b><u>scheduler</u></b> activations; prompt on time-<u>sharing</u>; prompt on <u>priority assignment</u> or <u>prioritization</u> by asking “that is performed by algorithms for what task?”]
<b><u>quest</u></b> [accept New <b><u>Quest</u></b>; accept <em>The <b><u>Quest</u></b> for the Historical Jesus</em>; reject synonyms]
<b><u>Kennedy</u></b> [accept Edward <b><u>Kennedy</u></b>; accept Ted <b><u>Kennedy</u></b>; accept Robert Francis <b><u>Kennedy</u></b>; prompt on <u>RFK</u>]
habitat <b><u>fragmentation</u></b> [accept population <b><u>fragmentation</u></b>; prompt on <u>habitat loss</u>, <u>habitat destruction</u>, <u>habitat degradation</u>, ecosystem <u>disturbance</u>, <u>deforestation</u>, or forest <u>clearing</u>]
<b><u>Midlothian</u></b> [or <b><u>Midlowden</u></b> or <b><u>Meadhan Lodainn</u></b>; or <b><u>Edinburghshire</u></b> or <b><u>Siorrachd Dhùn Èideann</u></b>; accept <b><u>Midlothian</u></b> campaign; reject “Edinburgh” or “Dùn Èideann”]
“The <b><u>Inextinguishable</u></b>” Symphony [or “<em>Det <b><u>Uudslukkelige</em></u></b>”; or Carl <b><u>Nielsen</u></b>’s <b><u>Symphony No. 4</u></b>, Op. 29; or <b><u>Nielsen</u></b>’s <b><u>Fourth</u></b> Symphony; accept Symphony No. <b><u>4</u></b> or <b><u>Fourth</u></b> Symphony after “Nielsen” is read; accept Carl August <b><u>Nielsen</u></b> in place of “Carl Nielsen”]
<b><u>key exchange</b></u> [accept <b><u>key agreement</b></u>, <b><u>key transport</b></u>, or <b><u>key encapsulation</b></u> until mentioned; prompt on <u>cryptography</u> or <u>encryption</u>]