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Robert <b><u>Muldoon</u></b> [or Robert David <b><u>Muldoon</u></b>] |
<b><u>Urdu</b></u> [prompt on <u>Hindustani</u> or <u>Hindi–Urdu</u>; reject “Hindi”] (The first line refers to the epitaph of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, who wrote that poem and many others.) |
<b><u>ship</b></u>s [or <b><u>boat</b></u>s or <b><u>watercraft</b></u>; or equivalents; accept Noah’s <b><u>Ark</b></u>; accept <b><u>Ark</b></u> Encounter; accept “I Saw Three <b><u>Ship</b></u>s (Come Sailing In)”; accept <b><u><em>Burn the Ships</b></u></em>] |
<b><u>victory</b></u> [accept <b><u>Victoria</b></u>; accept Altar of <b><u>Victory; </b></u>accept <b><u>Nike</b></u> until read; accept Athena <b><u>Nike</b></u> until “Nike” is read] |
Mark <b><u>Antony</b></u> [or Mark <b><u>Anthonie</b></u>; accept Marcus <b><u>Antonius</b></u>] |
<em>The <b><u>Embarkation for Cythera</em></u></b> [or <em>The <b><u>Embarkation to Cythera</em></u></b>; or <em>The <b><u>Voyage to Cythera</em></u></b>; or <b><u><em>Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera</em></u></b>; or <em>L’<b><u>embarquement pour Cythère</em></u></b>; accept reasonable translations mentioning a <b><u... |
<em>The <b><u>Well-Tempered Clavier</em></u></b> [or <em>Das <b><u>Wohltemperierte Klavier</em></u></b>; or <em>Das <b><u>Wohltemperirte Clavier</em></u></b>; accept <b><u><em>WTC</em></u></b>] |
<b><u>scholia</u></b> [or <b><u>scholium</u></b> or <b><u>scholion</u></b>; prompt on <u>marginalia</u>] |
Ludwig <b><u>Erhard</b></u> [or Ludwig Wilhelm <b><u>Erhard</b></u>] |
<b><u>europium</u></b> [or <b><u>Eu</u></b>; accept <b><u>europium</u></b>(III) or <b><u>Eu</u></b>(III); accept <b><u>europium</u></b>(II) or <b><u>Eu</u></b>(II)] |
<b><u>entrepreneur</b></u>s [accept <b><u>Unternehmer</b></u> or <b><u>Unternehmergeist</b></u>; accept cultural/market/political <b><u>entrepreneur</b></u>s or <b><u>entrepreneurial</b></u> spirit; prompt on <u>innovator</u>s or <u>businessmen</u> or <u>businesspeople</u> or <u>founder</u>s of companies or <u>capitali... |
<b><u>Cerberus</b></u> [or <b><u>Kerberos</b></u>] |
<b><u>Judith</b></u> and <b><u>Holofernes</b></u> [or <b><u>Judith</b></u> beheading <b><u>Holofernes</b></u>; or <b><u>Judith</b></u> with the head of <b><u>Holofernes</b></u>; or other scenes describing <b><u>Judith</b></u> and <b><u>Holofernes</b></u>; prompt on <u>Judith and her Maidservant</u> by asking “what scen... |
<b><u>Salaf</u></b>i [or <b><u>Salaf</u></b>ism; or <b><u>Salaf</u></b>iyya; or <b><u>Salaf</u></b>i movement; or <b><u>Salaf</u></b>ist; or revolutionary <b><u>Salafism</u></b>; or <b><u>Salafi</u></b> jihadism; prompt on <u>Wahhab</u>i or <u>Wahhab</u>ism before read with “what Islamic movement is Wahhabism often con... |
Richard <b><u>Neustadt</u></b> [or Richard Elliott <b><u>Neustadt</u></b>] |
Saidiya V. <b><u>Hartman</u></b> |
<b><u>Milan Cathedral</b></u> [or <b><u>Duomo</b></u> di <b><u>Milan</b></u>o, <b><u>Duomo</b></u> of <b><u>Milan</b></u>, <b><u>Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary</b></u>, or <b><u>Basilica cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria Nascente</b></u>; prompt on Basilica of the <u>Nativity of Sai... |
Wolfgang Amadeus <b><u>Mozart</b></u> |
Seamus <b><u>Heaney</b></u> (The poem is “Digging.”) |
George <b><u>H. W. Bush</u></b> [or George <b><u>H</u></b>erbert <b><u>W</u></b>alker <b><u>Bush</u></b>; or George <b><u>Bush Sr.</u></b>; or <b><u>Bush 41</u></b>; prompt on <u>Bush</u>; reject “George W. Bush”] |
Tana <b><u>French</b></u> |
<b><u>Peace Corps</b></u> |
Joh <b><u>Bjelke-Petersen</u></b> (“Joe BYELL-kee Peterson”) [or Johannes <b><u>Bjelke-Petersen</u></b>] |
Gustave <b><u>Flaubert</b></u> (The novel in the first sentence is <em>Bouvard et Pécuchet</em>. The Julian Barnes novel is <em>Flaubert’s Parrot</em>.) |
<b><u><em>Platform</u></b> Sutra</em> [or <em>The <b><u>Platform</u></b> Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch</em>, <em>The Sixth Patriarch’s Dharma Jewel <b><u>Platform</u></b> Sutra</em>, <em>Liùzǔ <b><u>Tánjīng</em></u></b>, or <em>Rokuso <b><u>Dankyō</em></u></b>] |
Auguste <b><u>Comte</u></b> (“cont”) [or Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier <b><u>Comte</u></b>] |
<b><u>minaret</u></b>s [or <b><u>minar</u></b>s; accept <b><u>Charminar</u></b>, Qutb <b><u>Minar</u></b>, or Qutub <b><u>Minar</u></b>; accept <b><u>Malwiya</u></b> or Al-<b><u>Mināra</u></b>t al-Malwiyyah until “Malwiya” is read; prompt on <u>mosque</u>s; prompt on <u>tower</u>s, <u>pillar</u>s, or bell <u>tower</u>s... |
<b><u>Empedocles</u></b> of Acragas |
<b><u>abolition</b></u> of slavery in <b><u>Brazil</b></u> [or <b><u>Brazil</b></u>ian <b><u>anti-slavery</b></u> movement; or <b><u>end</b></u>ing <b><u>slavery</b></u> in <b><u>Brazil</b></u>; or equivalent descriptions, such as <b><u>emancipation</b></u> of slaves in <b><u>Brazil</b></u> or <b><u>manumission</b></u>... |
<b><u>Jew</b></u>s [or <b><u>Jewish</b></u> people; accept Spanish <b><u>Jew</b></u>s or Sephardic <b><u>Jew</b></u>s; accept <b><u>marrano</b></u>s; accept <b><u>converso</b></u>s before mention; accept <b><u>crypto-Jew</b></u>s before mention; prompt on <u>New Christian</u>s] (That traveler is Benjamin of Tudela.) |
<b><u><em>Doryphoros</u> </em></b>[or the <b><u><em>Spear-Bearer</em></u></b>] |
<b><u>Zulu</b></u> Kingdom [or <b><u>Zulu</b></u> Empire; or Kwa<b><u>Zulu</b></u>; accept <b><u>Zulu</b></u>land; accept <b><u><em>Zulu</b></u> Kings and their Armies</em>; accept <em>Olden Times in <b><u>Zulu</b></u>land and Natal</em>] (The likely ahistorical battle was the “Battle of Gqokli Hill.” Theal was the “f... |
James <b><u>Cook</u></b> [or Captain <b><u>Cook</u></b>] |
<b><u>fidchell</u></b> (“FID-kell”) [or <b><u>fidhcheall</u></b> or <b><u>fidceall</u></b> or <b><u>fithchill</u></b> or <b><u>gwyddbwyll</u></b>] |
upright <b><u>bass</u></b> [or double <b><u>bass</u></b>; reject “bass guitar”] (“Major’s Medley” is by Major Holley.) |
<b><u>spin</u></b> [accept Kitaev <b><u>spin</u></b> liquids or <b><u>spin</u></b> ices or <b><u>spin</u></b> glasses or quantum <b><u>spin</u></b> systems or Pauli <b><u>spin</u></b> matrices; accept <b><u>intrinsic angular momentum</u></b>; prompt on <u>angular momentum</u>] |
<b><u>magnetic flux</b></u> [or magnetic <b><u>flux linkage</b></u>; prompt on <u>flux</u> creep or <u>flux</u> pinning] |
<b><u><em>gwerz</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>gwerzioù</em></u></b>] |
<b><u>nuclear accident</u></b>s [or <b><u>nuclear disaster</u></b>s or <b><u>nuclear event</u></b>s; or <b><u>radioactive accident</u></b>s or <b><u>radioactive disaster</u></b>s; or <b><u>radiation accident</u></b>s or <b><u>radiation disaster</u></b>s; accept <b><u>nuclear meltdown</u></b>, <b><u>core meltdown</u></b... |
<b><u>Iraq</u></b> [or Republic of <b><u>Iraq</u></b>] (The Rajiv Joseph play is <em>Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo</em>.) |
<b><u>facet</u></b> joints [or <b><u>zygapophysial</u></b> joints or <b><u>zygapophyseal</u></b> joints or <b><u>apophyseal</u></b> joints or <b><u>Z</u></b>-joints] |
<b><u>shock</b></u> waves [or <b><u>shock</b></u>s; accept oblique <b><u>shock</b></u>s or bow <b><u>shock</b></u>s or normal <b><u>shock</b></u>s; accept anti-<b><u>shock</b></u> body or anti-<b><u>shock</b></u> bodies] (The first sentence refers to Mach reflection and Mach stems.) |
Béla <b><u>Bartók</u></b> [or Béla Viktor János <b><u>Bartók</u></b>; or <b><u>Bartók</u></b> Béla Viktor János] |
<b><u>soda</b></u> [or <b><u>pop</b></u> or <b><u>soft drink</b></u>; accept <b><u>cola</b></u> or orange <b><u>soda</b></u>; accept <b><u>Coca-Cola</b></u>; accept “Having a <b><u>Coke</b></u> with You”; accept “<b><u>Mountain Dew</b></u> Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem”; prompt on <u>drink</u>; prompt on <u>bever... |
<b><u>fox hunt</b></u>ing [accept <b><u>hunt</b></u>ing <b><u>vulpine</b></u>s until “vulpines” is read; accept red <b><u>fox</b></u>es, <b><u>vixen</b></u>s, <b><u>tod</b></u>s, or <b><u>reynard</b></u>s in place of “fox”; prompt on <u>hunt</u>ing or equivalents; prompt on <u>trail hunt</u>ing or <u>hunt</u>ing with <... |
<b><u>Aryan Brotherhood</b></u> [prompt on the <u>AB</u>; prompt on the <u>Aryan Nations</u> by asking “what part?”; prompt on the <u>Brand</u> until read] |
<b><u>Ganesh</u></b>an |
<b><u>Gorgias</b></u> |
<b><u>Severe</u></b> style |
The <b><u>Emergency</b></u> |
<b><u>dawn</u></b> [or <b><u>daybreak</u></b>; or <b><u>break of day</u></b>; accept <b><u>sunrise</u></b>; accept <b><u><em>fajr</em></u></b> until read; accept <em>al-<b><u>Falaq</em></u></b>; prompt on <u><em>suḥūr</em></u> until read by asking “what time follows that?”; prompt on <u>morning</u> or <u>day</u>; promp... |
<b><u>sympathy</u></b> [accept <em>Letters on <b><u>Sympathy</em></u></b>; accept <em>Lettres sur la <b><u>sympathie</em></u></b>] |
<em>The <b><u>Woman in the Dunes</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>Suna no Onna</em></u></b>] |
<b><u>two violins</u></b> [accept <b><u>violin duo</u></b> or <b><u>violin AND violin</u></b> or equivalents; accept <b><u>TwoSet Violin</u></b>; prompt on <u>violins</u> by asking “how many?”; reject “violin”] (The first clue is about Ysaÿe’s Sonata for Two Violins.) |
<b><u>cartularies</u></b> [or <b><u>chartularies</u></b>; or <b><u><em>cartularium</em></u></b>; or <b><u><em>chartularium</em></u></b>; or <b><u>pancarta</u></b>; or <b><u><em>codex diplomaticus</em></u></b>; accept <em>Hemming’s <b><u>Cartulary</em></u></b>; prompt on <u>codex</u> or <u>codices</u>; prompt on <u>roll... |
Italo <b><u>Calvino</b></u> [or Italo Giovanni <b><u>Calvino</b></u> Mameli] (The story in the first sentence is “Without Colors.” The second and fourth sentences are about “The Distance of the Moon.”) |
<b><u>hanging out</u></b> [or deep <b><u>hanging out</u></b>; accept <b><u><em>Hanging Out</u></b>, Messing Around, and Geeking Out</em>] |
<b><u>Sarajevo</u></b> |
<b><u>sodium hydroxide</b></u> [or <b><u>lye</b></u>; accept <b><u>caustic</b></u> soda until “caustic” is read; accept <b><u>NaOH</b></u> until read] |
Gerard Manley <b><u>Hopkins</u></b> (The other poem is “The Windhover.”) |
<b><u>Utagawa</u></b> [accept <b><u>Utagawa</u></b> school; accept <b><u>Utagawa</u></b> Kuniyoshi or <b><u>Utagawa</u></b> Hiroshige] |
<b><u>soil</u></b> samples [or native <b><u>soil</u></b> environment; accept <b><u>dirt</u></b> or <b><u>mud</u></b> in place of “soil”] |
“<b><u>Iron Lady</u></b>” |
<b><u>hut</u></b>s [or <b><u>shack</u></b>s; accept menstruation <b><u>hut</u></b>s; prompt on <u>house</u>s] (The tradition is <em>chhaupadui</em>.) |
<b><u>1950s</u></b> [prompt on ’<u>50s</u>] |
the <b><u>War Room</b></u> [accept descriptions of the <b><u>bunker</b></u> from <b><u><em>Dr. Strangelove</b></u></em> or the <b><u>conference room</b></u> from <b><u><em>Dr. Strangelove</b></u></em>; accept <b><u><em>Dr. Strangelove</b></u> or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb</em> in place of “<em>Dr... |
Jewish <b><u>Messiah</u></b>s [or <b><u>moshiakh</u></b> or <b><u>mashiakh</u></b> or <b><u>meshikh</u></b>im; accept <b><u>sprout of Jesse</u></b> or <b><u>Son of Man</u></b>; accept <b><u>Son of David</u></b> until “David” is read; accept <b><u>anointed</u></b> ones until read; accept <b><u>Messiah</u></b> ben Joseph... |
Eduard <b><u>Čech</u></b> (“check”) [prompt on <u>Stone–Čech</u> compactification] |
<b><u>New Guinea</u></b> [or <b><u>Papua</u></b> or <b><u>Niugini</u></b>; accept <b><u>Papua</u></b> New Guinea] |
<b><u>relaxed</u></b> molecular clock |
<b><u>oil</b></u> industry [or crude <b><u>oil</b></u> industry; or <b><u>petroleum</b></u> industry; accept oil <b><u>refining</b></u> or oil <b><u>refineries</b></u>; accept <b><u>oil field</b></u>s or <b><u>oil well</b></u>s or <b><u>oil derrick</b></u>s; accept oil <b><u>drilling</b></u>; accept oil <b><u>tanking</... |
<b><u>Purple Heart</b></u> |
<b><u>Krishna</u></b> [or <b><u>Kṛṣṇa</u></b>; prompt on <u>Vishnu</u> or <u>Viṣṇu</u>] |
Friedrich <b><u>Schiller</u></b> [or Johann Christoph Friedrich von <b><u>Schiller</u></b>] (The trilogy is <em>Wallenstein</em>. The friend in the lead-in is Goethe.) |
<b><u>Lakshman</u></b>a [or <b><u>Laxman</u></b>a or <b><u>Lakhan</u></b>; accept <b><u>Saumitra</u></b> or <b><u>Ramanuja</u></b>] |
love <b><u>letter</b></u>s [accept <em>The Love <b><u>Letter</b></u></em> or <em>De liefdes<b><u>brief</b></u></em>; accept <em>Lady Writing a <b><u>Letter</b></u> With Her Maid</em>; accept <em>The <b><u>Letter</b></u></em> or <em>De <b><u>brief</b></u></em>; prompt on <u>paper</u>s until “paper” is read] |
<b><u>Quaternary</u></b> Period [prompt on <u>Q</u>] |
the <b><u>Dark Lady</b></u> [accept the <b><u>Dark Lady</b></u> of the Sonnets; prompt on descriptions of the anonymous <u>woman</u> in <u>Shakespeare’s sonnet</u>s; prompt on Emilia <u>Lanier</u> by asking “what figure did Rowse claim she was?”] |
<b><u>prince</b></u> [or <b><u>knyáz</b></u>; accept <b><u>Prince</b></u> Yeletsky, <b><u>Prince</b></u> Gremin, or <b><u>Prince</b></u> Igor; prompt on <u>general</u> or <u>officer</u> until “general” is read by asking “what non-professional title?”] |
<b><u>Rimini</u></b> [accept Francesca da <b><u>Rimini</u></b>; accept Golden Bull of <b><u>Rimini</u></b>; accept Province of <b><u>Rimini</u></b> or Provincia di <b><u>Rimini</u></b>] (The first line refers to the Museo Sulphur in Perticara. A piadina is a flatbread sandwich.) |
<b><u>minimal</u></b>ist [or <b><u>minimal</u></b>ism; or <b><u>minimum</u></b>; or <b><u>minima</u></b>; accept <b><u>minimal</u></b> search; accept Relativized <b><u>Minimality</u></b>; accept Strong <b><u>Minimalist</u></b> Thesis; accept <b><u>minimal</u></b> pair; accept <b><u>Minimalist</u></b> Program] |
<b><u><em>Soul Mountain</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>Língshān</em></u></b>] |
<b><u>Finland</u></b> [or Republic of <b><u>Finland</u></b>; or <b><u>Suomi</u></b> or <b><u>Suomen tasavalta</u></b> or Republiken <b><u>Finland</u></b>] (The lead-in refers to the “Jäger March.”) |
Republic of <b><u>Haiti</u></b> [or République d’<b><u>Haïti</u></b>; or Repiblik d <b><u>Ayiti</u></b>] (The first line is from <em>The Serpent and the Rainbow</em>. The second sentence is about <em>AIDS and Accusation</em>, by Paul Farmer.) |
<b><u>Rostam</b></u> [or <b><u>Rostam</b></u> of Sistan; or <b><u>Rustam</b></u>] (The legendary bird is the Simurgh.) |
<b><u>silica</u></b> [or <b><u>silicon dioxide</u></b> or <b><u>SiO2</u></b>] |
<b><u>Nahḍa</u></b> [or Arab <b><u>Enlightenment</u></b>, <b><u>Awakening</u></b>, <b><u>Renaissance</u></b> or <b><u>Revival</u></b>; or an-<b><u>nahḍa</u></b>] (The unnamed authors are Voltaire and Montesquieu.) |
<b><u>Singapore</b></u> |
<b><u>Ojai</u></b> (“OH-hye”) |
<b><u>humoresque</b></u> [or <b><u>Humoreske</b></u>; accept <b><u><em>Humoresque</b></u>s</em> or <b><u><em>Humoresky</b></u></em>; accept <b><u><em>Humoreske</b></u></em> in B-flat major; accept Six <b><u>Humoresque</b></u>s; accept lyric <b><u>humoresque</b></u> or lyrical <b><u>humoresque</b></u>] |
<b><u>United Kingdom</u></b> [or <b><u>UK</u></b>; or Great <b><u>Britain</u></b>; accept <b><u>England</u></b>] (Darul Iftaa claims surfing the Internet at work to be a “grave sin” based on the concept of <em>taṭfīf</em>.) |
<b><u>water</b></u> [or <b><u>agua</b></u>; accept <b><u>atl</b></u> until “āltepētl” is read, and prompt afterwards] (Xaltocan was built on an artificial island in the brackish portion of Lake Texcoco, limiting its access to fresh water.) |
date <b><u>palm</b></u> trees [or <b><u>date</b></u> palm trees; or <b><u><em>Phoenix</b></u></em>; accept <b><u>Palm</b></u> Sunday; accept <b><u>Tamar</b></u>a or <b><u>Tomar</b></u>; accept Date <b><u>Palm</b></u> of Deborah or <b><u>Tomer</b></u> Devorah; accept <b><u>lulav</b></u>; accept <b><u>palm</b></u>s or <b... |
battle-<b><u>net</u></b>s [accept the battle-<b><u>net</u></b> of Enlil, casting <b><u>net</u></b>s, or fishing <b><u>net</u></b>s] |
<b><u>Vietnam</u></b> [or Socialist Republic of <b><u>Vietnam</u></b>; accept North <b><u>Vietnam</u></b> or <b><u>SRV</u></b>] |
<b><u>helmet</b></u>s [or <b><u>helm</b></u>s; or <b><u>cap</b></u>s; accept helmet <b><u>strap</b></u>s, <b><u>thong</b></u>s, <b><u>crest</b></u>s, or <b><u>plume</b></u>s; accept <b><u>helmet</b></u> of invisibility] |
Marian <b><u>Smoluchowski</b></u> |
<em>Das</em> <em><b><u>Lied von der Erde</u></b></em> [or <em>The</em> <em><b><u>Song of the Earth</u></b></em>] |
<b><u>Rock Springs</u></b> Massacre |
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