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Louis Moreau <b><u>Gottschalk</b></u>
<em>A <b><u>Midsummer Night’s Dream</em></u></b> [or <em>Ein <b><u>Sommernachtstraum</em></u></b>]
<b><u>Cassandra</u></b> [or <b><u><em>Kassandra</em></u></b>]
French <b><u>horn</b></u>
mass <b><u>density</u></b> [prompt on <u>rho</u>]
David Foster <b><u>Wallace</b></u>
<b><u>chirped pulse amplification</u></b> [prompt on <u>CPA</u>; prompt on partial answers]
<em>The <b><u>Skin of Our Teeth</b></u></em>
dipole <b><u>antenna</u></b>s [or dipole <b><u>antennae</u></b>]
<b><u>Northwest</u></b> Territory [or Old <b><u>Northwest</u></b>; accept <b><u>Northwest</u></b> Ordinance or <b><u>Northwestern</u></b> University; prompt on <u>Ohio</u> Lands or <u>Indiana</u> 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.)
<b><u>photographer</b></u> [prompt on <u>artist</u>; prompt on <u>portraitist</u>]
<b><u>Conservative</u></b> Party of <b><u>Canada</u></b> [or <b><u>CPC</u></b>; accept just <b><u>Conservative</u></b> Party or <b><u>CP</u></b> after “Canada” but prompt before; prompt on <u>Tory</u> Party or <u>Tories</u>; prompt on His Majesty’s Loyal <u>Opposition</u> by asking “what specific group within that?”; reject “Progressive-Conservative”; reject “PC”]
<b><u><em>Night</b></u></em> [or <b><u><em>Un di Velt Hot Geshvign</b></u></em>, or <b><u><em>And the World Remained Silent</b></u></em>]
<b><u>IgM</b></u> [or <b><u>immunoglobulin M</b></u>; accept (X-linked-) hyper<b><u>immunoglobulin M</b></u> syndrome or hyper-<b><u>IgM</b></u> syndrome; prompt on <u>antibody</u> or <u>antibodies</u>; prompt on <u>immunoglobulin</u> or <u>Ig</u>]
<b><u>Poisson</u></b> bracket
W. H. <b><u>Auden</u></b> [or Wystan Hugh <b><u>Auden</u></b>]
<b><u>René</u></b> (“ruh-NAY”) (He is the title character of <em>René</em> by François-René de Chateaubriand.)
<b><u>George IV</u></b> [or <b><u>George Augustus Frederick</u></b>; prompt on Prince <u>George</u>; prompt on the Prince <u>Regent</u> until “regent” is read]
<b><u>ultra·cold</u></b> neutrons [prompt on <u>cold</u> or <u>very cold</u>]
<b><u>automatic</u></b> writing [or <b><u>automatism</u></b>; prompt on <u>random</u>ness or <u>chance</u> or <u>improvisation</u>al writing; reject “exquisite corpse”]
<b><u>shortest path</b></u> problem [accept <b><u>pathfinding</b></u>]
<b><u>Mabinogion</u></b> [accept the <b><u>Mabinogi</u></b> or Four Branches of the <b><u>Mabinogi</u></b> or <em>Pedair Cainc Y <b><u>Mabinogi</em></u></b>]
laboratory <b><u>mouse</u></b> [or laboratory <b><u>mice</u></b>; or <b><u><em>Mus musculus</em></u></b>; or <b><u><em>M. musculus</em></u></b>]
<b><u>fascism</u></b> [or <b><u>fascismo</u></b>; accept <b><u>fascist</u></b>; accept “Ur-<b><u>Fascism</u></b>”]
<b><u>Kamehameha I</u></b> [or <b><u>Kamehameha the Great</u></b>; prompt on <u>Kamehameha</u>]
<b><u>Nepal</u></b> [or Federal Democratic Republic of <b><u>Nepal</u></b>; accept Kingdom of <b><u>Nepal</u></b>] (The second clue refers to the <em>Divyopadesh</em> by Prithvi Narayan Shah.)
<b><u>absinthe</b></u> [accept <em>L’<b><u>Absinthe</b></u></em> or <em>The <b><u>Absinthe</b></u> Drinker</em> or <em>Le <b><u>Buveur d’absinthe</b></u></em>; prompt on <u>liquor</u> or <u>alcohol</u> or <u>spirit</u>s; reject “wine” or “beer”; prompt on <u>glass</u> by asking “what is in the glass?”]
Graham <b><u>Greene</u></b> [or Henry Graham <b><u>Greene</u></b>]
<b><u>Cyclades</u></b> [or <b><u>Kyklades</u></b>; accept <b><u>Cycladic</u></b> art; accept <b><u>Syros</u></b>; accept <b><u>Paros</u></b> or <b><u>Naxos</u></b> until each is read; prompt on <u>Greece</u>, <u>Hellas</u>, <u>Elláda</u>, or <u>Ellás</u>; prompt on South <u>Aegean</u> or <u>Eyéo</u> Pélagos until “Aegean” is read;
<b><u><em>howz</em></u></b> (“hose” or “howz”) [accept <b><u>Hauz</u></b> Khas, <b><u>Hauz</u></b>-i Alai, or <b><u>Hauz</u></b>-i Shams; accept <b><u>Hauz</u></b> Khas Complex or <b><u>Hauz</u></b> Khas Village]
<b><u>flooding</b></u> of the <b><u>Nile</b></u> [or the <b><u>Nile flooding</b></u> or equivalents; prompt on <u>flood</u> by asking “of what body of water?”]
<b><u>body size</b></u> [or <b><u>body mass</b></u>; or <b><u>body length</b></u>; or <b><u>body volume</b></u>; prompt on similar answers without “body”; prompt on descriptions of <u>big</u>ness or synonyms; prompt on <u>size</u>, <u>mass</u>, <u>length</u>, or <u>volume</u> by asking “of what?”; reject “limb length” or equivalents] (Haldane wrote “On Being the Right Size.” The penultimate sentence refers to abyssal gigantism.)
Hans <b><u>Holbein</b></u> the Younger [or Hans <b><u>Holbein</b></u> der Jüngere; accept <b><u>Holbein</b></u> carpets; accept <b><u>Holbein</b></u> stitch] (The painting in the first sentence is <em>The Ambassadors</em>.)
<b><u>Canary Islands</u></b> [or <b><u>Canaries</u></b>; accept Islas <b><u>Canarias</u></b>]
<b><u>Confucian</u></b>ism [or <b><u>Rú</u></b>jiā; or <b><u>Ru</u></b>ism; accept Korean <b><u>Confucian</u></b>ism or Neo-<b><u>Confucian</u></b>ism]
German <b><u>peasant</b></u>s [or German <b><u>peasantry</b></u>; or <b><u>Bauer</b></u>; accept German <b><u>Peasant</b></u>s’ War; accept <b><u>farmer</b></u>s; or <b><u>serf</b></u>s; or <b><u>agriculturalist</b></u>s; prompt on <u>Protestant</u>s or <u>Anabaptist</u>s by asking “what social class did they mostly belong to?” prompt on the <u>lower class</u> or the <u>poor</u>; prompt on <u>rebel</u>s or <u>militia</u>s or <u>soldier</u>s; prompt on <u>subject</u>s or <u>citizen</u>s; prompt on <u>German</u>s]
<b><u><em>Gaspard de la Nuit</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>Gaspard of the Night</u></b>; — Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot</em>; or <b><u><em>Gaspard de la Nuit</u></b> — Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot</em>]
“The <b><u>Fury of Aerial Bombardment</u></b>”
<b><u>CO2</b></u> <b><u>concentration</b></u> [accept <b><u>pCO2</b></u> or partial <b><u>pressure</b></u> of <b><u>CO2</b></u>; accept descriptions of the <b><u>amount</b></u> or <b><u>levels</b></u> of <b><u>CO2</b></u> in the atmosphere; accept <b><u>CO2 emission</b></u>s or descriptions of the amount of <b><u>CO2 produced</b></u> by humans; accept <b><u>carbon dioxide</b></u> in place of <b><u>CO2</b></u>; prompt on answers that give <u>carbon</u> in place of <b><u>CO2</b></u>]
<b><u>Thiazi</u></b> AND <b><u>Skadi</u></b> [accept <b><u>Thjazi</u></b> or <b><u>Thiazzi</u></b> or <b><u>Tjasse</u></b> or <b><u>Thiassi</u></b> or <b><u>Tjasse</u></b> or <b><u>Thiassi</u></b> in place of “Thiazi”; accept <b><u>Skade</u></b> or <b><u>Skathi</u></b> or <b><u>Öndurgud</u></b> or <b><u>Öndurdís</u></b> in place of “Skadi”]
Marcus Licinius <b><u>Crassus</u></b> Triumvir
<b><u>rotaxane</u></b>s
<b><u>Anabaptist</u></b>s [or <b><u>Anabaptism</u></b>; prompt on <u>Mennonite</u>s by asking “what larger denomination did they split from?”; reject “Baptists”]
Abbie <b><u>Hoffman</u></b> [or Abbot Howard <b><u>Hoffman</u></b>]
<b><u>Pindar</b></u> [or <b><u>Pindar</b></u>os]
<b><u>Moon</b></u> [accept Sun Myung <b><u>Moon</b></u> or <b><u>Moon</b></u> Sun-Myung or <b><u>Moon</b></u> Yong-Myeong; accept Sean <b><u>Moon</b></u> or Hyung Jin <b><u>Moon</b></u> or <b><u>Moon</b></u> Hyung Jin; accept Justin <b><u>Moon</b></u> or Kook-Jin <b><u>Moon</b></u> or <b><u>Moon</b></u> Kook-Jin]
<b><u>holonomic</u></b> [accept <b><u>holonomic</u></b> constraints]
<b><u>Glenville</u></b> shootout
<b><u>Black Mountain</u></b> poets
<b><u>Lincoln</b></u> [accept Aaron of <b><u>Lincoln</b></u> or Little Saint Hugh of <b><u>Lincoln</b></u>]
<b><u>E minor</b></u> [or <b><u>e moll</b></u>; accept Symphony No. 9 in <b><u>E minor</b></u> or Symfonie č. 9 <b><u>e moll</b></u>; accept Symphony in <b><u>E minor</b></u>, Op. 32; reject “E” or “E major” or “G major”] (The first line refers to the <em>Gaelic Symphony</em>.)
<b><u>beta-gal</b></u>actosidase [accept <b><u>lactase</b></u> until “lactose” is read; accept <b><u>LPH</b></u>; accept <b><u><em>lacZ</b></u> </em>until read; prompt on <u>gal</u>actosidase; prompt on glycoside <u>hydrolase</u>s, glycosyl <u>hydrolase</u>s, <u>GH</u>s, or exo<u>glycosidase</u>s]
<b><u>Carolingian</b></u> dynasty [or <b><u>Carlovingian</b></u>s or <b><u>Karolinger</b></u>, accept <b><u>Carolingian</b></u> Renaissance; accept <b><u>Carolingian</b></u> minuscule] (Einhard wrote about the translation of Saints Marcellinus and Peter.)
<b><u>night</u></b> [or “The <b><u>Night</u></b>, the Porch”]
<b><u>intelligence</b></u> [accept <b><u>intelligence</b></u> quotient or <b><u>IQ</b></u> until read; accept fluid or crystallized <b><u>intelligence</b></u>; accept the theory of multiple <b><u>intelligence</b></u>s; accept the triarchic theory of <b><u>intelligence</b></u>; accept “Giftedness According to the Theory of Successful <b><u>Intelligence</b></u>”; prompt on <u>knowledge</u> or <u>smart</u>ness; prompt on <u>learn</u>ing ability]
<b><u>good soup</u></b> [or <b><u>bonne soupe</u></b>]
<b><u>Buddha</u></b> statue [prompt on <u>statue</u> or <u>sculpture</u> by asking “Of what?”]
<b><u>Eid</b></u> (“eed”) [accept <b><u>Eid</b></u> al-Fitr or <b><u>Eid</b></u> al-Adha; prompt on <u>feast</u>s; prompt on Islamic <u>holiday</u>s; prompt on descriptions of celebrations associated with the <u>Muslim</u> faith; prompt on <u>end of Ramadan</u>]
<b><u>Q</u></b>uincy <b><u>Jones</u></b> [or <b><u>Q</u></b>uincy Delight <b><u>Jones</u></b> Jr.; prompt on <u>Jones</u>]
<b><u>Valley Forge</b></u> [prompt on <u>Pennsylvania</u> or <u>PA</u> until “Philadelphia” is read; prompt on <u>Chester</u> County or <u>Montgomery</u> County] (As told in Parson Weems’s <em>Life of Washington</em>, Potts, a practicing Quaker, had encountered Washington praying in the snow at Valley Forge.)
the <b><u>floating man</u></b> [or <b><u>flying man</u></b>; or <b><u>man suspended in air</u></b>; or <b><u>hanging man</u></b>; or al-<b><u>rajul al-mu‘aliq</u></b>]
<b><u>alloy</u></b>s [accept high-entropy <b><u>alloy</u></b>s or multi-component <b><u>alloy</u></b>s]
<b><u>two</u></b> times the <b><u>covariance</u></b> of <em>X</em> and <em>Y</em> [accept equivalents like <b><u>twice</u></b> the <b><u>cov</u></b>ariance; reject “covariance” or other answers that omit the factor of two]
<b><u>nice</u></b>ness
Ada <b><u>Limón</u></b> (“lee-MOHN”) (The second poem is “I Remember the Carrots.”)
Uncle <b><u>Boonmee</b></u> [accept <em>Uncle <b><u>Boonmee</b></u> Who Can Recall His Past Lives</em>; prompt on <u>Uncle</u>] (The first sentence is from the short film <em>A Letter to Uncle Boonmee</em>.)
Francis <b><u>Ponge</u></b> [or Francis Jean Gaston Alfred <b><u>Ponge</u></b>]
<b><u>boar</u></b>s [accept Calydonian <b><u>Boar</u></b>; accept <b><u>sow</u></b>s; prompt on <u>pig</u>s]
<b><u>weft</u></b> [or <b><u>woof</u></b>]
<b><u>Fibonacci</u></b> [or Leonardo <b><u>Bigollo</u></b>; accept <b><u>Fibonacci</u></b> numbers or <b><u>Fibonacci</u></b> sequence; accept <b><u>Fibonacci</u></b> hashing or <b><u>Fibonacci</u></b> heaps or <b><u>Fibonacci</u></b> trees or <b><u>Fibonacci</u></b> search]
<b><u>debtors’ prison</b></u>s [accept synonyms such as <b><u>jail</b></u> in place of “prison”; prompt on <u>prison</u>s or <u>jail</u>s or other synonyms]
<b><u>convection</u></b> [accept <b><u>convective</u></b> derivative]
<b><u>Horace</b></u> [or Quintus <b><u>Horatius</b></u> Flaccus]
<b><u>Nine</u></b> of <b><u>Sword</u></b>s [prompt on <u>Lord of Cruelty</u> by asking “what number and suit does that card have?”]
Julian <b><u>Schwinger</b></u> [or Julian Seymour <b><u>Schwinger</b></u>; accept <b><u>Schwinger</b></u> parametrization, <b><u>Schwinger</b></u> functions, <b><u>Schwinger</b></u> limit, or Lippmann–<b><u>Schwinger</b></u> equation] (The second sentence refers to the Schwinger–Dyson equation.)
<b><u>Fortuna</u></b> [or <b><u>Fortune</u></b>; accept <b><u>Fortuna</u></b> Primigenia; accept <b><u>Fortuna</u></b> Virilis; accept “<b><u>Fortunae</u></b> Plango Vulnera”; prompt on <u>Tyche</u>; prompt on <u>Luck</u> or Lady <u>Luck</u>] (The lead-in is about “Fortunae Plango Vulnera.” Pliny the Elder said “Fortuna favors the bold.”)
<b><u>scatter</u></b>ing [accept inverse <b><u>scatter</u></b>ing transform; accept Rayleigh <b><u>scatter</u></b>ing or Compton <b><u>scatter</u></b>ing]
<b><u>factories</u></b> [or <b><u>factory</u></b> buildings; or manufacturing <b><u>plant</u></b>s; accept Fagus <b><u>Factory</u></b> or Fagus Shoe <b><u>Factory</u></b> Fagus <b><u>Fabrik</u></b> accept AEG Turbine <b><u>Factory</u></b> or AEG-Turbinen<b><u>fabrik</u></b>; accept Van Nelle <b><u>Factory</u></b> or Van Nelle<b><u>fabriek</u></b>; accept or Fagus <b><u>Werk</u></b> until “Werkbund” is read]
<b><u>dwarf</u></b> stars [accept brown <b><u>dwarf</u></b>s or white <b><u>dwarf</u></b>s]
<b><u><em>Água Viva</em></u></b> [or <em>The <b><u>Stream of Life</em></u></b>]
<b><u>estimator</b></u>s [accept any kind of <b><u>estimator</b></u>s; accept statistical <b><u>estimation</b></u>, <b><u>estimate</b></u>s, or maximum likelihood <b><u>estimation</b></u>; prompt on <u>statistic</u>s] (The sentence about bounding estimator variance references the Cramér–Rao bound.)
<b><u>Israel</u></b> [or State of <b><u>Israel</u></b>; or Medīnat <b><u>Yīsrā’ēl</u></b>; or Dawlat <b><u>Isrā’īl</u></b>]
<b><u>Belyayev</u></b> circle
<b><u>Charioteer</b></u> of <b><u>Delphi</b></u> [or <b><u>Iniohos</b></u>; accept <b><u>Henikhos</b></u> or the <b><u>Rein-Holder</b></u>; accept <b><u>L’Aurige</b></u>; prompt on <u>Delphos</u>]
Hermann <b><u>Staudinger</b></u>
<b><u>chimeric antigen receptor</u></b>s [or <b><u>CAR</u></b>s; accept <b><u>chimeric antigen receptor</u></b> T-cells or <b><u>CAR</u></b> T-cells]
<b><u>guitar</b></u> [accept blues <b><u>guitar</b></u>; accept electric <b><u>guitar</b></u>] (The artist who died was Stevie Ray Vaughan.)
argument from <b><u>queer</u></b>ness [prompt on moral <u>error</u> theory or moral <u>anti-realism</u> until “error” is read]
<b><u>Dalai Lama</u></b> [or the 14th <b><u>Dalai Lama</u></b>; or or Tenzin <b><u>Gyatso</u></b> or Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin <b><u>Gyatso</u></b> or Lhamo <b><u>Thondup</u></b>; prompt on <u>Lama</u>]
Lizzie <b><u>Borden</u></b> [or Lizzie Andrew <b><u>Borden</u></b>] (The stories are “Lizzie’s Tiger” and “The Fall River Axe Murders” by Angela Carter.)
<b><u>Bangladesh Liberation</b></u> War [or <b><u>Muktijuddho</b></u>; accept <b><u>Bangladesh</b></u> War of <b><u>Independence</b></u>; accept <b><u>Bangladesh Genocide</b></u>; accept <b><u>Bangladeshi</b></u> in place of “Bangladesh”; prompt on <u>Pakistani</u> Civil War; prompt on the <u>Indo-Pakistani</u> War of 1971 by asking “during what conflict did the Indo-Pakistani War break out?”; prompt on Operation <u>Searchlight</u> until read] (The alteration of <em>Birangona</em> to <em>barangona</em> changed the meaning from “heroine” to “penetrated” or “prostitute.” Fazle Hasan Abed founded BRAC, the world’s largest NGO. The word <em>insāniyat</em> is translated as “humaneness” or “humanity.”)
<b><u>Agni</u></b> [accept <b><u>agni</u></b>cayana]
<b><u>India</u></b> [or Republic of <b><u>India</u></b>; or <b><u>Bhārat</u></b> Gaṇarājya]
<b><u>L</u></b>yndon Baines <b><u>Johnson</u></b> [or <b><u>LBJ</u></b>; prompt on <u>Johnson</u>]
<b><u>Diocletian</b></u> [or <b><u>Diocles</b></u> or Gaius Aurelius Valerius <b><u>Diocletian</b></u>us; accept <b><u>Jovius</b></u> or <b><u>Dukljan</b></u>; accept anno <b><u>Diocletiani</b></u>]
<b><u>journalist</u></b> [or <b><u>reporter</u></b> or member of the <b><u>press</u></b> or a foreign <b><u>correspondent</u></b>; accept <b><u>newspaper</u></b> writer; prompt on <u>writer</u>] (Waugh’s novel is <em>Scoop</em>.)
Robert <b><u>Keohane</u></b> (“KOH-hane”) [or Robert Owen <b><u>Keohane</u></b>]
<b><u>perfect</u></b> [or <b><u>perfect</u></b>ion; or <b><u><em>perfecto</em></u></b>; or <b><u><em>perfectum</em></u></b>; accept Greater <b><u>Perfect</u></b> System; accept <em>tempus <b><u>perfect</u></b>um</em>; prompt on <u>perfect authentic cadence</u> by asking “Which specific property?”]
Leon Battista <b><u>Alberti</b></u>
<b><u>manganese</b></u> [or <b><u>Mn</b></u>; accept <b><u>manganese</b></u> dioxide or <b><u>Mn</b></u>O2] (The violet-colored oxidizing agent is potassium permanganate.)

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

A Midsummer Night’s Dream [or Ein Sommernachtstraum]

Cassandra [or Kassandra]

French horn

mass density [prompt on rho]

David Foster Wallace

chirped pulse amplification [prompt on CPA; prompt on partial answers]

The Skin of Our Teeth

dipole antennas [or dipole antennae]

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.)

photographer [prompt on artist; prompt on portraitist]

Conservative Party of Canada [or CPC; accept just Conservative Party or CP after “Canada” but prompt before; prompt on Tory Party or Tories; prompt on His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition by asking “what specific group within that?”; reject “Progressive-Conservative”; reject “PC”]

Night [or Un di Velt Hot Geshvign, or And the World Remained Silent]

IgM [or immunoglobulin M; accept (X-linked-) hyperimmunoglobulin M syndrome or hyper-IgM syndrome; prompt on antibody or antibodies; prompt on immunoglobulin or Ig]

Poisson bracket

W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden]

René (“ruh-NAY”) (He is the title character of René by François-René de Chateaubriand.)

George IV [or George Augustus Frederick; prompt on Prince George; prompt on the Prince Regent until “regent” is read]

ultra·cold neutrons [prompt on cold or very cold]

automatic writing [or automatism; prompt on randomness or chance or improvisational writing; reject “exquisite corpse”]

shortest path problem [accept pathfinding]

Mabinogion [accept the Mabinogi or Four Branches of the Mabinogi or Pedair Cainc Y Mabinogi]

laboratory mouse [or laboratory mice; or Mus musculus; or M. musculus]

fascism [or fascismo; accept fascist; accept “Ur-Fascism”]

Kamehameha I [or Kamehameha the Great; prompt on Kamehameha]

Nepal [or Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal; accept Kingdom of Nepal] (The second clue refers to the Divyopadesh by Prithvi Narayan Shah.)

absinthe [accept L’Absinthe or The Absinthe Drinker or Le Buveur d’absinthe; prompt on liquor or alcohol or spirits; reject “wine” or “beer”; prompt on glass by asking “what is in the glass?”]

Graham Greene [or Henry Graham Greene]

Cyclades [or Kyklades; accept Cycladic art; accept Syros; accept Paros or Naxos until each is read; prompt on Greece, Hellas, Elláda, or Ellás; prompt on South Aegean or Eyéo Pélagos until “Aegean” is read;

howz (“hose” or “howz”) [accept Hauz Khas, Hauz-i Alai, or Hauz-i Shams; accept Hauz Khas Complex or Hauz Khas Village]

flooding of the Nile [or the Nile flooding or equivalents; prompt on flood by asking “of what body of water?”]

body size [or body mass; or body length; or body volume; prompt on similar answers without “body”; prompt on descriptions of bigness or synonyms; prompt on size, mass, length, or volume by asking “of what?”; reject “limb length” or equivalents] (Haldane wrote “On Being the Right Size.” The penultimate sentence refers to abyssal gigantism.)

Hans Holbein the Younger [or Hans Holbein der Jüngere; accept Holbein carpets; accept Holbein stitch] (The painting in the first sentence is The Ambassadors.)

Canary Islands [or Canaries; accept Islas Canarias]

Confucianism [or Rújiā; or Ruism; accept Korean Confucianism or Neo-Confucianism]

German peasants [or German peasantry; or Bauer; accept German Peasants’ War; accept farmers; or serfs; or agriculturalists; prompt on Protestants or Anabaptists by asking “what social class did they mostly belong to?” prompt on the lower class or the poor; prompt on rebels or militias or soldiers; prompt on subjects or citizens; prompt on Germans]

Gaspard de la Nuit [or Gaspard of the Night; — Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot; or Gaspard de la Nuit — Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot]

“The Fury of Aerial Bombardment”

CO2 concentration [accept pCO2 or partial pressure of CO2; accept descriptions of the amount or levels of CO2 in the atmosphere; accept CO2 emissions or descriptions of the amount of CO2 produced by humans; accept carbon dioxide in place of CO2; prompt on answers that give carbon in place of CO2]

Thiazi AND Skadi [accept Thjazi or Thiazzi or Tjasse or Thiassi or Tjasse or Thiassi in place of “Thiazi”; accept Skade or Skathi or Öndurgud or Öndurdís in place of “Skadi”]

Marcus Licinius Crassus Triumvir

rotaxanes

Anabaptists [or Anabaptism; prompt on Mennonites by asking “what larger denomination did they split from?”; reject “Baptists”]

Abbie Hoffman [or Abbot Howard Hoffman]

Pindar [or Pindaros]

Moon [accept Sun Myung Moon or Moon Sun-Myung or Moon Yong-Myeong; accept Sean Moon or Hyung Jin Moon or Moon Hyung Jin; accept Justin Moon or Kook-Jin Moon or Moon Kook-Jin]

holonomic [accept holonomic constraints]

Glenville shootout

Black Mountain poets

Lincoln [accept Aaron of Lincoln or Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln]

E minor [or e moll; accept Symphony No. 9 in E minor or Symfonie č. 9 e moll; accept Symphony in E minor, Op. 32; reject “E” or “E major” or “G major”] (The first line refers to the Gaelic Symphony.)

beta-galactosidase [accept lactase until “lactose” is read; accept LPH; accept lacZ until read; prompt on galactosidase; prompt on glycoside hydrolases, glycosyl hydrolases, GHs, or exoglycosidases]

Carolingian dynasty [or Carlovingians or Karolinger, accept Carolingian Renaissance; accept Carolingian minuscule] (Einhard wrote about the translation of Saints Marcellinus and Peter.)

night [or “The Night, the Porch”]

intelligence [accept intelligence quotient or IQ until read; accept fluid or crystallized intelligence; accept the theory of multiple intelligences; accept the triarchic theory of intelligence; accept “Giftedness According to the Theory of Successful Intelligence”; prompt on knowledge or smartness; prompt on learning ability]

good soup [or bonne soupe]

Buddha statue [prompt on statue or sculpture by asking “Of what?”]

Eid (“eed”) [accept Eid al-Fitr or Eid al-Adha; prompt on feasts; prompt on Islamic holidays; prompt on descriptions of celebrations associated with the Muslim faith; prompt on end of Ramadan]

Quincy Jones [or Quincy Delight Jones Jr.; prompt on Jones]

Valley Forge [prompt on Pennsylvania or PA until “Philadelphia” is read; prompt on Chester County or Montgomery County] (As told in Parson Weems’s Life of Washington, Potts, a practicing Quaker, had encountered Washington praying in the snow at Valley Forge.)

the floating man [or flying man; or man suspended in air; or hanging man; or al-rajul al-mu‘aliq]

alloys [accept high-entropy alloys or multi-component alloys]

two times the covariance of X and Y [accept equivalents like twice the covariance; reject “covariance” or other answers that omit the factor of two]

niceness

Ada Limón (“lee-MOHN”) (The second poem is “I Remember the Carrots.”)

Uncle Boonmee [accept Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives; prompt on Uncle] (The first sentence is from the short film A Letter to Uncle Boonmee.)

Francis Ponge [or Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge]

boars [accept Calydonian Boar; accept sows; prompt on pigs]

weft [or woof]

Fibonacci [or Leonardo Bigollo; accept Fibonacci numbers or Fibonacci sequence; accept Fibonacci hashing or Fibonacci heaps or Fibonacci trees or Fibonacci search]

debtors’ prisons [accept synonyms such as jail in place of “prison”; prompt on prisons or jails or other synonyms]

convection [accept convective derivative]

Horace [or Quintus Horatius Flaccus]

Nine of Swords [prompt on Lord of Cruelty by asking “what number and suit does that card have?”]

Julian Schwinger [or Julian Seymour Schwinger; accept Schwinger parametrization, Schwinger functions, Schwinger limit, or Lippmann–Schwinger equation] (The second sentence refers to the Schwinger–Dyson equation.)

Fortuna [or Fortune; accept Fortuna Primigenia; accept Fortuna Virilis; accept “Fortunae Plango Vulnera”; prompt on Tyche; prompt on Luck or Lady Luck] (The lead-in is about “Fortunae Plango Vulnera.” Pliny the Elder said “Fortuna favors the bold.”)

scattering [accept inverse scattering transform; accept Rayleigh scattering or Compton scattering]

factories [or factory buildings; or manufacturing plants; accept Fagus Factory or Fagus Shoe Factory Fagus Fabrik accept AEG Turbine Factory or AEG-Turbinenfabrik; accept Van Nelle Factory or Van Nellefabriek; accept or Fagus Werk until “Werkbund” is read]

dwarf stars [accept brown dwarfs or white dwarfs]

Água Viva [or The Stream of Life]

estimators [accept any kind of estimators; accept statistical estimation, estimates, or maximum likelihood estimation; prompt on statistics] (The sentence about bounding estimator variance references the Cramér–Rao bound.)

Israel [or State of Israel; or Medīnat Yīsrā’ēl; or Dawlat Isrā’īl]

Belyayev circle

Charioteer of Delphi [or Iniohos; accept Henikhos or the Rein-Holder; accept L’Aurige; prompt on Delphos]

Hermann Staudinger

chimeric antigen receptors [or CARs; accept chimeric antigen receptor T-cells or CAR T-cells]

guitar [accept blues guitar; accept electric guitar] (The artist who died was Stevie Ray Vaughan.)

argument from queerness [prompt on moral error theory or moral anti-realism until “error” is read]

Dalai Lama [or the 14th Dalai Lama; or or Tenzin Gyatso or Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso or Lhamo Thondup; prompt on Lama]

Lizzie Borden [or Lizzie Andrew Borden] (The stories are “Lizzie’s Tiger” and “The Fall River Axe Murders” by Angela Carter.)

Bangladesh Liberation War [or Muktijuddho; accept Bangladesh War of Independence; accept Bangladesh Genocide; accept Bangladeshi in place of “Bangladesh”; prompt on Pakistani Civil War; prompt on the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 by asking “during what conflict did the Indo-Pakistani War break out?”; prompt on Operation Searchlight until read] (The alteration of Birangona to barangona changed the meaning from “heroine” to “penetrated” or “prostitute.” Fazle Hasan Abed founded BRAC, the world’s largest NGO. The word insāniyat is translated as “humaneness” or “humanity.”)

Agni [accept agnicayana]

India [or Republic of India; or Bhārat Gaṇarājya]

Lyndon Baines Johnson [or LBJ; prompt on Johnson]

Diocletian [or Diocles or Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus; accept Jovius or Dukljan; accept anno Diocletiani]

journalist [or reporter or member of the press or a foreign correspondent; accept newspaper writer; prompt on writer] (Waugh’s novel is Scoop.)

Robert Keohane (“KOH-hane”) [or Robert Owen Keohane]

perfect [or perfection; or perfecto; or perfectum; accept Greater Perfect System; accept tempus perfectum; prompt on perfect authentic cadence by asking “Which specific property?”]

Leon Battista Alberti

manganese [or Mn; accept manganese dioxide or MnO2] (The violet-colored oxidizing agent is potassium permanganate.)