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<b><u>national anthem</u></b> [prompt on <u>anthem</u>]
SQL (“sequel”) <b><u>queries</u></b> [or <b><u>SQL</u></b> queries; accept <b><u>SQL</u></b> statements/expressions/scripts; accept Structured <b><u>Query</u></b> Language or specific dialects such as My<b><u>SQL</u></b> or Postgre<b><u>SQL</u></b> in place of “SQL”; accept <b><u>SELECT</u></b>s until read; prompt on <u>expression</u>s or <u>script</u>s alone by asking “In what language?”; reject any non-database queries, such as “web queries”]
<b><u>burial site</u></b> of <b><u>Genghis</u></b> Khan [accept <b><u>tomb</u></b> for burial site; accept <b><u>Temüjin</u></b> or <b><u>Chinggis</u></b> Khaan for Genghis Khan; accept any other description indicating that <b><u>Genghis Khan</u></b> was buried there; do not accept “death site of Genghis Khan” or similar answers; do not accept “Mausoleum of Genghis Khan” or “Lord’s Enclosure”]
Lord <b><u>Kitchener</u></b> [or Herbert <b><u>Kitchener</u></b>, 1st Earl <b><u>Kitchener</u></b>; or Horatio Herbert <b><u>Kitchener</u></b>]
<b><u>A minor</b></u> [accept <b><u>A</b></u> alone after “minor” is read, but reject it until then] (Backhaus’s recording is of Grieg’s piano concerto. Robert Schumann borrowed a theme in <em>Dichterliebe</em> from the Romanze in Clara’s piano concerto. The main theme of the first movement of Robert’s piano concerto contains a vowelless spelling of “Chiara.”)
Fermi’s <b><u>golden</u></b> rule [prompt on <u>Fermi’s</u> rule]
string <b><u>sextet</b></u> [accept String <b><u>Sextet</b></u> No. 1 in B-flat major; prompt on <u>string</u>s]
Bolesław <b><u>Prus</u></b> (“prooss”) (The novel is <em>The Doll</em>.)
“<b><u>There must be more money</u></b>”
Artie <b><u>Shaw</u></b> [accept Arthur Jacob <b><u>Arshawsky</u></b>]
United States <b><u>Census</u></b> Bureau [or Bureau of the <b><u>Census</u></b>; or <b><u>USCB</u></b>]
Roy <b><u>Cohn</u></b> [or Roy Marcus <b><u>Cohn</u></b>] (The play in the lead-in is <em>G. David Schine in Hell</em>.)
<b><u>Belgium</u></b> [or Kingdom of <b><u>Belgium</u></b>; or Koninkrijk <b><u>België</u></b>; or Royaume de <b><u>Belgique</u></b>]
<b><u>dual</u></b>ity [or word forms such as <b><u>dual</u></b>izing; accept Pontryagin <b><u>dual</u></b>ity]
<b><u><em>hanbleceya</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>hanblecha</em></u></b>; or <b><u><em>haŋbléčeya</u></b>pi</em>; accept <b><u>vision quest</u></b>s or <b><u>cry</u></b>ing for <b><u>vision</u></b>s; prompt on answers describing <u>receiving vision</u>s]
<b><u>cattle</u></b> industry [or <b><u>meat</u></b> industry; or <b><u>beef</u></b> industry; accept Coal-<b><u>Cattle</u></b> Pact]
<b><u>regulationism</u></b> [or <b><u>regulation</u></b> school]
<b><u>Phrygia</u></b> (“FRIDGE-ee-uh”) [accept <b><u>Mushki</u></b>, <b><u>Lycaonia</u></b>, <b><u>Epictetus</u></b>, <b><u>Pacatiana</u></b>, <b><u>Salutaris</u></b>, <b><u>Phrygian</u></b> cap, <b><u>Phrygian</u></b> dynasty, Dares <b><u>Phrygius</u></b>, <b><u>Phrygian</u></b>s, <b><u>Phryges</u></b>, <b><u>Phruges</u></b>, <b><u>Briges</u></b>, Cata<b><u>phrygian</u></b>s, Hellespontine <b><u>Phrygia</u></b>, Lesser <b><u>Phrygia</u></b>, or Greater <b><u>Phrygia</u></b>; prompt on <u>Anatolia</u> or word forms until “Anatolian” is read; prompt on <u>Asia</u> Minor or Mikra <u>Asia</u>] (The Abbasids sacked Amorium. Iconium is the modern city of Konya.)
<b><u>leather</u></b> [accept <b><u>leather</u></b> cannon; prompt on animal <u>hide</u> or animal <u>skin</u>]
<b><u>Romanian Revolution</u></b> [accept <b><u>Christmas Revolution</u></b> before mention; accept any answer indicating the <b><u>fall</u></b> or <b><u>end</u></b> of <b><u>communism</u></b> in <b><u>Romania</u></b>; accept answers mentioning the <b><u>overthrow</u></b> or <b><u>execution</u></b> of the Nikolai <b><u>Ceacescu</u></b>, Elena <b><u>Ceaucescu</u></b>, or the <b><u>Ceacescu</u></b>s before mention]
James <b><u>Hogg</b></u>
<b><u>neutrino</u></b>s [accept sterile <b><u>neutrino</u></b>s, right-handed <b><u>neutrino</u></b>s, heavy <b><u>neutrino</u></b>s, electron <b><u>neutrino</u></b>s, muon <b><u>neutrino</u></b>s, or tau <b><u>neutrino</u></b>s; accept <b><u>neutrino</u></b> flavor oscillations; accept <b><u>neutrino</u></b> minimal standard model; prompt on <u>nu</u>]
<b><u>gaze</u></b> [or male <b><u>gaze</u></b>; accept <em>The Matrixial <b><u>Gaze</em></u></b>]
<b><u>Rome</u></b> [or <b><u>Roma</u></b>]
<b><u>Hawai‘i</b></u> [or the <b><u>Hawaiian islands</b></u>; accept <b><u>Sandwich</b></u> islands; prompt on specific Hawaiian islands like <u>Kaua‘i</u>, <u>Oahu</u>, <u>Moloka‘i</u>, <u>Lanai</u>, <u>Maui</u>, or the <u>Big Island</u> by asking “what archipelago is that island part of?”] (Robert Aiken founded Diamond Sangha. The Science of Identity Foundation included former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.)
<b><u>Clovis</u></b> culture [accept <b><u>Clovis</u></b>-first model; accept <b><u>Clovis</u></b> points; prompt on <u>Paleo-Indian</u>s] (The Q-L54 haplogroup is one of two “major founding Y-chromosome lineages of the Americas.”)
<b><u>boat</u></b>s [or <b><u>ship</u></b>s] (Thomas Cole’s series is <em>The Voyage of Life</em>.)
<b><u><em>Concert Spirituel</em></u></b> [or <b><u>Spiritual Concert</u></b>s]
House of <b><u>Godwin</b></u> [accept Harold <b><u>Godwin</b></u>son or Tostig <b><u>Godwin</b></u>son; accept Earl <b><u>Godwin</b></u> or <b><u>Godwin</b></u> of Wessex]
<b><u>Mississippi</u></b> [or <b><u>MS</u></b>]
<b><u>Union Pacific</b></u> Railroad Company [accept <em>Platt v. <b><u>Union Pacific</b></u> Railroad Company</em>; prompt on <u>Crédit Mobilier</u> until read by asking “executives from what company created and owned Crédit Mobilier?”] (The Big Fill replaced the dangerous Big Trestle that was decommissioned after six months. Dodge discovered the path on which he was fleeing would make a perfect route for a transcontinental railroad.)
<b><u>salt</b></u>s [or <b><u>ion</b></u>ic compounds; or <b><u>ion</b></u>s; accept <b><u>cation</b></u>s or <b><u>anion</b></u>s; accept <b><u>salt</b></u> bridges; accept <b><u>salt</b></u>ing out; prompt on <u>solute</u>s] (IEC is ion exchange chromatography.)
<b><u>St. Albans</u></b> [accept First Battle of <b><u>St. Albans</u></b>; accept <b><u>Saint Alban</u></b> or <b><u>Albanus</u></b>]
<b><u>category</u></b> theory [accept <b><u>categories</u></b>]
<b><u>Arabic</u></b> [or <b><u><em>al-‘arabiyya</em></u></b>] (Among the linguistic stunts of <em>badī‘</em> in the <em>Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī</em> are palindromic lines and lines without dotted letters, which make up over half the Arabic script.)
Merve <b><u>Emre</b></u>
<b><u>skepticism</u></b> [accept being a <b><u>skeptic</u></b>]
<b><u>central limit</u></b> theorem [or <b><u>CLT</u></b>; accept <b><u>Lindeberg–Lévy</u></b> CLT]
<b><u>Iceland</u></b> [or <b><u>Ísland</u></b>]
<b><u>cosmic ray</u></b>s
<b><u>tennis</u></b> [accept Enfield <b><u>Tennis</u></b> Academy; prompt on <u>athletic</u>s or <u>sport</u>s]
<em>The <b><u>Fire in the Borgo</em></u></b> [or <em>L’<b><u>Incendio di Borgo</em></u></b>]
Pyotr Ilyich <b><u>Tchaikovsky</b></u>
<em>The <b><u>Gentle Art of Making Enemies</b></u></em>
cell <b><u>phone</u></b> [accept mobile <b><u>phone</u></b>; accept <em>Music from Saharan <b><u>Cellphone</u></b>s</em>]
<em>The <b><u>Wretched of the Earth</em></u></b> [or <em>Les <b><u>Damnés de la Terre</em></u></b>]
André <b><u>Breton</u></b> [or André Robert <b><u>Breton</u></b>]
<b><u>solvation</b></u> [or <b><u>dissolving</b></u>; accept <b><u>dissolution</u> </b>or forming a <b><u>solution</u> </b>until “solution” is read; prompt on <u>mix</u>ing until “mix” is read; reject “solubility” or “soluble”]
Eight Principles of <b><u>Yong</u></b> [or close translations; or <b><u>Yǒng</u></b>zì Bā Fǎ; or <b><u>Ei</u></b>ji happō; or <b><u>Vĩnh</u></b> tự bát pháp; or <b><u>Yeong</u></b>ja palbeop; or <b><u>Wing</u></b>zi Baat Faat]
Harry <b><u>Partch</u></b> (That book is <em>Genesis of a Music</em>.)
<b><u>crooked timber</u></b> of humanity [accept “Out of the <b><u>crooked timber</u></b> of humanity, no straight thing was ever made”; or <b><u>Krummholz</u></b> or <b><u>krummem Holze</u></b>; prompt on <u>timber</u> or <u>timber of humanity</u>]
<b><u>tree</u></b>s [accept <em>Some <b><u>Tree</u></b>s</em>]
<b><u>Otto</b></u> [accept <b><u>Ottonian</b></u> dynasty or <b><u>Otto</b></u>nen; accept <b><u>Ottonian</b></u> Renaissance; accept <b><u>Otto</b></u> I or <b><u>Otto</b></u> the Great or <b><u>Otto</b></u> der Grosse; accept <b><u>Otto</b></u> III; accept <em>Justice of Emperor <b><u>Otto</b></u></em> <em>III</em>; accept Gospels of <b><u>Otto</b></u> III or <b><u>Ottonian</b></u> Gospels] (The first sentence refers to one of the Magdeburg Ivories. The third sentence refers to the Liuthar Gospels.)
<b><u>dN/dS</u></b> ratio [or <b><u>Ka/Ks</u></b> ratio or <b><u>omega</u></b>; accept the ratio of <b><u>non-synonymous</u></b> mutations to <b><u>synonymous </u></b>mutations]
Max <b><u>Reger</u></b> (“RAY-gur”) [or Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian <b><u>Reger</u></b>]
<b><u>decolonization</b></u>
<em>The <b><u>Playboy of the Western World</b></u></em> (The line about women in their “shifts” sparked the riot.)
<b><u>Second Opium</b></u> War [or <b><u>Dì’èrcì Yāpiàn</b></u> Zhànzhēng; prompt on <u>Opium</u> Wars or <u>Yāpiàn</u> Zhànzhēng]
<b><u>silane</b></u>s [or organo<b><u>silane</b></u>s; or <b><u>organosilicon</b></u> compounds; or <b><u>silyl</b></u> groups; accept hydro<b><u>silane</b></u>s; accept chloro<b><u>silane</b></u>s; reject “silanols,” “silyl ethers,” “siloxanes,” “silicon,” or “Si”]
<b><u>Percy</u></b> family [accept House of <b><u>Percy</u></b> or de <b><u>Percy</u></b>; accept Henry <b><u>Percy</u></b>]
<b><u>PACE</u></b> [or <b><u>phage-assisted continuous evolution</u></b>]
<b><u>charge density</u></b> [accept surface <b><u>charge density</u></b> or volume <b><u>charge density</u></b>; reject “charge”; reject “density”]
<em>The <b><u>Sellout</em></u></b> (by Paul Beatty)
<b><u>drown</u></b>ing [prompt on ship<u>wreck</u> or descriptions of a <u>disaster</u> at <u>sea</u>]
<b><u>vaginal microbiome</b></u> [or <b><u>vaginal microbiota</b></u>; or <b><u>vaginal</b></u> micro<b><u>flora</b></u>; or <b><u>microbiome</b></u> of the <b><u>female genital</b></u> tract; prompt on <u>vagina</u> or <u>female genital</u> tract or <u>FGT</u>; prompt on human <u>microbiome</u> or <u>microbiota</u> or micro<u>flora</u>; reject “gut microbiome” or equivalents; reject “skin microbiome” or equivalents]
<b><u>Einstein</u></b> field equations [or <b><u>EFE</u></b>; or <b><u>Einstein</u></b>’s equations; accept <b><u>Einstein</u></b> constraint equations; prompt on <u>field</u> equations or vacuum <u>field</u> equations]
<b><u>New Jersey</u></b> [or <b><u>NJ</u></b>]
<em>Classic of <b><u>Mountain</u></b>s and <b><u>Sea</u></b>s </em>[or <em>Guideways through <b><u>Mountain</u></b>s and <b><u>Sea</em></u></b>s or the <em>Table of Classic <b><u>Mountain</u></b>s and <b><u>Sea</u></b>s</em>; accept <b><u>Shān</u></b> <b><u>Hǎi</u></b> Jīng; reject answers given in the alternate order of “Seas” then “Mountains,” like “Classic of Seas and Mountains”]
<b><u>Legalism</b></u> [or <b><u><em>fǎjiā</b></u></em> or <b><u><em>fǎ</b></u></em>]
power <b><u>series</u></b> [accept formal <b><u>series</u></b>; prompt on infinite <u>sum</u>mation]
Buckminster <b><u>Fuller</b></u> [or Richard Buckminster <b><u>Fuller</b></u>]
<b><u>Hugh</u></b> Capet [prompt on <u>Capet</u>]
<b><u>octane</u></b> rating [or <b><u>octane</u></b> number]
video <b><u>nasties</u></b> [or video <b><u>nasty</u></b>]
Abbas <b><u>Kiarostami</b></u>
<b><u>Impeach Earl Warren</u></b> [accept <b><u>impeach</u></b>ing Earl <b><u>Warren</u></b>]
George Frideric <b><u>Handel</b></u> [or Georg Friedrich <b><u>Händel</b></u>] (The second clue refers to <em>Zadok the Priest</em>.)
Thomas <b><u>Bayes</u></b> [accept <b><u>Bayes</u></b>ian inference or <b><u>Bayes</u></b>ian regret or <b><u>Bayes</u></b>ian network or <b><u>Bayes</u></b> network or variational <b><u>Bayes</u></b>ian methods or <b><u>Bayes</u></b> information criteria or <b><u>Bayes</u></b> theorem/law/rule; prompt on <u>VB</u> or <u>BIC</u>]
<b><u>Egyptian</u></b> [or r n <b><u>km.t</u></b> (“er en kemet”); accept Ancient <b><u>Egyptian</u></b>, Middle <b><u>Egyptian</u></b>, Archaic <b><u>Egyptian</u></b>, Old <b><u>Egyptian</u></b>, or Late <b><u>Egyptian</u></b>; prompt on <u>demotic</u> or <u>hieratic</u> or <u>hieroglyphic</u>; reject “Coptic”] (The oldest surviving myth is the “Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor.” The second line refers to the<em> Satire of the Trades</em>.)
Mary Boykin <b><u>Chestnut</u></b> [or Mary Boykin <b><u>Miller</u></b>]
<em>The <b><u>Chairs</b></u></em> [or <em>Les <b><u>Chaises</b></u></em>]
<b><u>Nāder</u></b> Shāh [or <b><u>Nāder</u></b> Shāh Afshar] (Michael Axworthy’s book is <em>The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant</em>.)
hematopoietic <b><u>stem cell transplant</b></u> [or<b><u> HSCT</b></u>; accept <b><u>bone marrow transplant</b></u> or <b><u>BMT</b></u>; accept peripheral blood <b><u>stem cell transplant</b></u> or peripheral <b><u>stem cell transplant</b></u> or PB<b><u>SCT</b></u>; accept <b><u>transplant</b></u>ation in place of “transplant”; prompt on <u>transplant</u>ation; reject “blood transfusion”]
<b><u>avidin</u></b> [or strept<b><u>avidin</u></b> or Neutr<b><u>Avidin</u></b>]
<b><u>VX</u></b> [or <b><u>venom</u></b>ous agent <b><u>X</u></b>; prompt on <u>V</u>-series]
<b><u>hydrogen</u></b> [or natural <b><u>hydrogen</u></b>; or blue <b><u>hydrogen</u></b>; or gray <b><u>hydrogen</u></b>; or green <b><u>hydrogen</u></b>; or <b><u>hydrogen</u></b> fuel; or di<b><u>hydrogenO</u></b>]
Werner <b><u>Heisenberg</u></b>
<b><u>Harrison</u></b> [accept John Scott <b><u>Harrison</u></b>; accept Benjamin <b><u>Harrison</u></b>]
Pablo <b><u>Neruda</b></u> [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí <b><u>Reyes</b></u> Basoalto; accept <b><u><em>Elégie à Pablo Néruda</b></u></em>] (The third sentence refers to Neruda’s Nobel speech.)
<b><u>five</b></u> [or <b><u>panch</b></u>a; or <b><u>panj</b></u>; accept <b><u><em>Panchatantra</b></u></em>]
<b><u>algebraic</u></b> [accept <b><u>algebraic</u></b> numbers or <b><u>algebraic</u></b> integers or <b><u>algebraic</u></b> number fields] (The second sentence is Liouville’s theorem on the rational approximation of algebraic numbers.)
<b><u>Kim</b></u> [accept <b><u>Kim</b></u> Il-sung; accept <b><u>Kim</b></u> Jong-il]
<b><u>centrifugation</b></u> [or word forms like <b><u>centrifuge</b></u>; accept ultra<b><u>centrifugation</b></u>; accept <b><u>sedimentation</b></u> or <b><u>pelleting</b></u> until read]
<b><u>1970</b></u>s [prompt on the ’<u>70</u>s]
<b><u>Muddy Waters</u></b> [or McKinley <b><u>Morganfield</u></b>; prompt on <u>Waters</u>]
<b><u>Astor</u></b> family [accept Nancy <b><u>Astor</u></b>; accept William <b><u>Astor</u></b>, 3rd Viscount Astor; accept <b><u>Astor</u></b> Place Riot; accept <b><u>Astor</u></b> Place Theater; accept Waldorf-<b><u>Astoria</u></b>; prompt on <u>Waldorf</u> until read]
Juan Ramón <b><u>Jiménez</u></b> (“hee-MEH-ness”) [or Juan Ramón <b><u>Jiménez</u></b> Mantecón]
<b><u><em>Rasselas</b></u></em> [or <em>The History of <b><u>Rasselas</b></u>, Prince of Abissinia</em>]
<b><u>silk</b></u>
<b><u>rice</u></b> [or <b><u><em>Oryza</em></u></b> or <b><u><em>O. sativa</em></u></b>; accept Banaue <b><u>Rice</u></b> Terraces; prompt on <u>grain</u>s until read; prompt on <u>cereal</u>s, <u>crops</u>, <u>plant</u>s, <u>food</u>, or equivalents] (The second line refers to the Tai goddess Mae Phosop. Dewi Sri is also called Nyai Pohaci.)

national anthem [prompt on anthem]

SQL (“sequel”) queries [or SQL queries; accept SQL statements/expressions/scripts; accept Structured Query Language or specific dialects such as MySQL or PostgreSQL in place of “SQL”; accept SELECTs until read; prompt on expressions or scripts alone by asking “In what language?”; reject any non-database queries, such as “web queries”]

burial site of Genghis Khan [accept tomb for burial site; accept Temüjin or Chinggis Khaan for Genghis Khan; accept any other description indicating that Genghis Khan was buried there; do not accept “death site of Genghis Khan” or similar answers; do not accept “Mausoleum of Genghis Khan” or “Lord’s Enclosure”]

Lord Kitchener [or Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener; or Horatio Herbert Kitchener]

A minor [accept A alone after “minor” is read, but reject it until then] (Backhaus’s recording is of Grieg’s piano concerto. Robert Schumann borrowed a theme in Dichterliebe from the Romanze in Clara’s piano concerto. The main theme of the first movement of Robert’s piano concerto contains a vowelless spelling of “Chiara.”)

Fermi’s golden rule [prompt on Fermi’s rule]

string sextet [accept String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major; prompt on strings]

Bolesław Prus (“prooss”) (The novel is The Doll.)

“There must be more money”

Artie Shaw [accept Arthur Jacob Arshawsky]

United States Census Bureau [or Bureau of the Census; or USCB]

Roy Cohn [or Roy Marcus Cohn] (The play in the lead-in is G. David Schine in Hell.)

Belgium [or Kingdom of Belgium; or Koninkrijk België; or Royaume de Belgique]

duality [or word forms such as dualizing; accept Pontryagin duality]

hanbleceya [or hanblecha; or haŋbléčeyapi; accept vision quests or crying for visions; prompt on answers describing receiving visions]

cattle industry [or meat industry; or beef industry; accept Coal-Cattle Pact]

regulationism [or regulation school]

Phrygia (“FRIDGE-ee-uh”) [accept Mushki, Lycaonia, Epictetus, Pacatiana, Salutaris, Phrygian cap, Phrygian dynasty, Dares Phrygius, Phrygians, Phryges, Phruges, Briges, Cataphrygians, Hellespontine Phrygia, Lesser Phrygia, or Greater Phrygia; prompt on Anatolia or word forms until “Anatolian” is read; prompt on Asia Minor or Mikra Asia] (The Abbasids sacked Amorium. Iconium is the modern city of Konya.)

leather [accept leather cannon; prompt on animal hide or animal skin]

Romanian Revolution [accept Christmas Revolution before mention; accept any answer indicating the fall or end of communism in Romania; accept answers mentioning the overthrow or execution of the Nikolai Ceacescu, Elena Ceaucescu, or the Ceacescus before mention]

James Hogg

neutrinos [accept sterile neutrinos, right-handed neutrinos, heavy neutrinos, electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos, or tau neutrinos; accept neutrino flavor oscillations; accept neutrino minimal standard model; prompt on nu]

gaze [or male gaze; accept The Matrixial Gaze]

Rome [or Roma]

Hawai‘i [or the Hawaiian islands; accept Sandwich islands; prompt on specific Hawaiian islands like Kaua‘i, Oahu, Moloka‘i, Lanai, Maui, or the Big Island by asking “what archipelago is that island part of?”] (Robert Aiken founded Diamond Sangha. The Science of Identity Foundation included former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.)

Clovis culture [accept Clovis-first model; accept Clovis points; prompt on Paleo-Indians] (The Q-L54 haplogroup is one of two “major founding Y-chromosome lineages of the Americas.”)

boats [or ships] (Thomas Cole’s series is The Voyage of Life.)

Concert Spirituel [or Spiritual Concerts]

House of Godwin [accept Harold Godwinson or Tostig Godwinson; accept Earl Godwin or Godwin of Wessex]

Mississippi [or MS]

Union Pacific Railroad Company [accept Platt v. Union Pacific Railroad Company; prompt on Crédit Mobilier until read by asking “executives from what company created and owned Crédit Mobilier?”] (The Big Fill replaced the dangerous Big Trestle that was decommissioned after six months. Dodge discovered the path on which he was fleeing would make a perfect route for a transcontinental railroad.)

salts [or ionic compounds; or ions; accept cations or anions; accept salt bridges; accept salting out; prompt on solutes] (IEC is ion exchange chromatography.)

St. Albans [accept First Battle of St. Albans; accept Saint Alban or Albanus]

category theory [accept categories]

Arabic [or al-‘arabiyya] (Among the linguistic stunts of badī‘ in the Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī are palindromic lines and lines without dotted letters, which make up over half the Arabic script.)

Merve Emre

skepticism [accept being a skeptic]

central limit theorem [or CLT; accept Lindeberg–Lévy CLT]

Iceland [or Ísland]

cosmic rays

tennis [accept Enfield Tennis Academy; prompt on athletics or sports]

The Fire in the Borgo [or L’Incendio di Borgo]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

cell phone [accept mobile phone; accept Music from Saharan Cellphones]

The Wretched of the Earth [or Les Damnés de la Terre]

André Breton [or André Robert Breton]

solvation [or dissolving; accept dissolution or forming a solution until “solution” is read; prompt on mixing until “mix” is read; reject “solubility” or “soluble”]

Eight Principles of Yong [or close translations; or Yǒngzì Bā Fǎ; or Eiji happō; or Vĩnh tự bát pháp; or Yeongja palbeop; or Wingzi Baat Faat]

Harry Partch (That book is Genesis of a Music.)

crooked timber of humanity [accept “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made”; or Krummholz or krummem Holze; prompt on timber or timber of humanity]

trees [accept Some Trees]

Otto [accept Ottonian dynasty or Ottonen; accept Ottonian Renaissance; accept Otto I or Otto the Great or Otto der Grosse; accept Otto III; accept Justice of Emperor Otto III; accept Gospels of Otto III or Ottonian Gospels] (The first sentence refers to one of the Magdeburg Ivories. The third sentence refers to the Liuthar Gospels.)

dN/dS ratio [or Ka/Ks ratio or omega; accept the ratio of non-synonymous mutations to synonymous mutations]

Max Reger (“RAY-gur”) [or Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger]

decolonization

The Playboy of the Western World (The line about women in their “shifts” sparked the riot.)

Second Opium War [or Dì’èrcì Yāpiàn Zhànzhēng; prompt on Opium Wars or Yāpiàn Zhànzhēng]

silanes [or organosilanes; or organosilicon compounds; or silyl groups; accept hydrosilanes; accept chlorosilanes; reject “silanols,” “silyl ethers,” “siloxanes,” “silicon,” or “Si”]

Percy family [accept House of Percy or de Percy; accept Henry Percy]

PACE [or phage-assisted continuous evolution]

charge density [accept surface charge density or volume charge density; reject “charge”; reject “density”]

The Sellout (by Paul Beatty)

drowning [prompt on shipwreck or descriptions of a disaster at sea]

vaginal microbiome [or vaginal microbiota; or vaginal microflora; or microbiome of the female genital tract; prompt on vagina or female genital tract or FGT; prompt on human microbiome or microbiota or microflora; reject “gut microbiome” or equivalents; reject “skin microbiome” or equivalents]

Einstein field equations [or EFE; or Einstein’s equations; accept Einstein constraint equations; prompt on field equations or vacuum field equations]

New Jersey [or NJ]

Classic of Mountains and Seas [or Guideways through Mountains and Seas or the Table of Classic Mountains and Seas; accept Shān Hǎi Jīng; reject answers given in the alternate order of “Seas” then “Mountains,” like “Classic of Seas and Mountains”]

Legalism [or fǎjiā or fǎ]

power series [accept formal series; prompt on infinite summation]

Buckminster Fuller [or Richard Buckminster Fuller]

Hugh Capet [prompt on Capet]

octane rating [or octane number]

video nasties [or video nasty]

Abbas Kiarostami

Impeach Earl Warren [accept impeaching Earl Warren]

George Frideric Handel [or Georg Friedrich Händel] (The second clue refers to Zadok the Priest.)

Thomas Bayes [accept Bayesian inference or Bayesian regret or Bayesian network or Bayes network or variational Bayesian methods or Bayes information criteria or Bayes theorem/law/rule; prompt on VB or BIC]

Egyptian [or r n km.t (“er en kemet”); accept Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, Archaic Egyptian, Old Egyptian, or Late Egyptian; prompt on demotic or hieratic or hieroglyphic; reject “Coptic”] (The oldest surviving myth is the “Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor.” The second line refers to the Satire of the Trades.)

Mary Boykin Chestnut [or Mary Boykin Miller]

The Chairs [or Les Chaises]

Nāder Shāh [or Nāder Shāh Afshar] (Michael Axworthy’s book is The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant.)

hematopoietic stem cell transplant [or HSCT; accept bone marrow transplant or BMT; accept peripheral blood stem cell transplant or peripheral stem cell transplant or PBSCT; accept transplantation in place of “transplant”; prompt on transplantation; reject “blood transfusion”]

avidin [or streptavidin or NeutrAvidin]

VX [or venomous agent X; prompt on V-series]

hydrogen [or natural hydrogen; or blue hydrogen; or gray hydrogen; or green hydrogen; or hydrogen fuel; or dihydrogenO]

Werner Heisenberg

Harrison [accept John Scott Harrison; accept Benjamin Harrison]

Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; accept Elégie à Pablo Néruda] (The third sentence refers to Neruda’s Nobel speech.)

five [or pancha; or panj; accept Panchatantra]

algebraic [accept algebraic numbers or algebraic integers or algebraic number fields] (The second sentence is Liouville’s theorem on the rational approximation of algebraic numbers.)

Kim [accept Kim Il-sung; accept Kim Jong-il]

centrifugation [or word forms like centrifuge; accept ultracentrifugation; accept sedimentation or pelleting until read]

1970s [prompt on the ’70s]

Muddy Waters [or McKinley Morganfield; prompt on Waters]

Astor family [accept Nancy Astor; accept William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor; accept Astor Place Riot; accept Astor Place Theater; accept Waldorf-Astoria; prompt on Waldorf until read]

Juan Ramón Jiménez (“hee-MEH-ness”) [or Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón]

Rasselas [or The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia]

silk

rice [or Oryza or O. sativa; accept Banaue Rice Terraces; prompt on grains until read; prompt on cereals, crops, plants, food, or equivalents] (The second line refers to the Tai goddess Mae Phosop. Dewi Sri is also called Nyai Pohaci.)