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108 poems	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: This author “made death his ladder to the skies” in an elegy written by his friend Fulke Greville, who also wrote a biography of this author. The elegy “The Doleful Lay of Clorinda” was written for this man, whose niece wrote the prose romance Urania. This uncle of Mary Wroth created a speaker who laments how...	This uncle of Mary Wroth created a speaker who laments how “words came halting forth, wanting invention’s stay” while trying to find “fit words to paint the blackest face of woe.” This author’s line“‘Fool,’ said my Muse to me, ‘look in thy heart, and write’” is from a series of 108 poems inspired by Penelope Devereux, ...
108 times	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: One of these objects is used to represent the Buddhist concept of mujō, or impermanence, at the beginning of The Tale of the Heike. The noh play Dōjōji, which uniquely uses this object as a prop, adapts the story of Kiyohime, a folk character who legendarily killed a monk with one of these objects. One of the...	These objects, called ghaṇṭā (“GUN-tah”) in Pāḷi, are used 108 times to celebrate Japanese New Year.
108 main temples	num_prefix_multiple_lower	Question: Andal, an important female devotee of this deity, married this deity's reclining form of Ranganatha at Srirangam and thus merged within him. 12 Azhwargal [aar-vaar-guhl] worshiped this deity, whose 108 main temples are called the Divya Desams. After a sage observed a boy merging with a (+) tree, this deity's ...	12 Azhwargal [aar-vaar-guhl] worshiped this deity, whose 108 main temples are called the Divya Desams.
108 suitors	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: To bring peace between Pisa and Elis, 16 women performed this action at Hera’s Temple in Olympia, thus creating the Herean Games. In the Iliad, Helen is first seen performing this action. While being chased by King Tereus, two women are turned into nightingales after earlier communicating via this activity. I...	Melantho revealed to Eurymachus that a woman performed and then undid the results of this activity to deter 108 suitors.
108 bandits	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: A couple in this novel who are nicknamed “the Ogress” and “the gardener” run an inn where guests are killed and used as meat filling for food. In this novel, a character is tattooed on the face instead of being executed for murdering his wife. A character in this novel sees a sign warning not to cross a ridge...	In this novel, Gāo Qiú (“ch’yoh”) pursues the “Stars of Destiny.” For 10 points, name this Chinese classical novel by Shī Nài’ān (“shurr nye-AHN”) in which Sòng Jiāng leads a group of 108 bandits.
108 specific postures	num_prefix_multiple_lower	Question: Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. A simplified, secular form of this practice is nicknamed “the 24.” Arthur Rosenfeld hosted a PBS program that instructed this practice for longevity and taught that chewing food 36 times can enhance the sensitivity, or “listening power,” outlined in this pract...	Unlike repetitive qìgōng (“chee-gong”), this balance-promoting practice’s “frames” link up to 108 specific postures.
108 texts	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: One of these texts repeatedly declares "I am the food!" after explaining the five "sheaths" of food, breath, mind, understanding, and bliss. The method of "neither this, nor that," or neti neti, was introduced in these texts, which typically end by proclaiming "Peace! Peace! Peace!" In one of these texts, a f...	This set of roughly 108 texts founded the tradition of Vedanta, meaning "after the Vedas."
108 K	num_prefix_upper	Question: Mass loss to a binary partner can form extremely low-mass white dwarfs composed primarily of this element. A degenerate core of this element will uniformly heat up until 108 K (“ten to the eighth Kelvin”), at which point it will produce an enormous pulse of energy that is quickly converted into thermal expans...	A degenerate core of this element will uniformly heat up until 108 K (“ten to the eighth Kelvin”), at which point it will produce an enormous pulse of energy that is quickly converted into thermal expansion.
108 karanas	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: One work argues that this action should be done when a character attains good fortune, but not when a young woman is enraged or deceived. A woman refuses to perform this action and insists on becoming a nun with a magic begging bowl in Manimekalai [“ma-nee-MAY-ka-lai”], one of the Five Great Tamil Epics. Afte...	The 108 karanas of this practice are described in the (*) Natya Shastra.
108 degrees	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: Playfair's axiom is equivalent to Euclid's postulate of this number, which is known as the parallel postulate. This is the middle number in the only prime triplet. The internal angles of a regular polygon with this many sides measure (*) 108 degrees. This is the smallest integer whose square root is greater t...	The internal angles of a regular polygon with this many sides measure (*) 108 degrees.
108 “Stars of Destiny”	num_prefix_multiple_lower	Question: After he’s caught eating beef without permission, a character in this novel is cursed to walk at superhuman speed. An antagonist in this novel rises from a street urchin to a marshal after impressing a prince with his football skills. This novel begins with a black cloud splitting into a hundred golden rays a...	For 10 points, name this classical Chinese novel written by Shi Nai’an about the 108 “Stars of Destiny.”
108 commentaries	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: The earliest of these texts, which contains six “family books” of hymns written by members of particular clans, took 25 years for Max Müller to critically translate. Each of these texts contains a section whose name means “forest books,” which describe sacrifices. These texts were preserved by what is often c...	These texts are accompanied by around 108 commentaries called the Upanishads (“oo-PUH-nee-shuts”).
108 manifestations	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: One of these figures names a “method” led by the “Supreme Master,” who operates the Loving Hut restaurant chain and motivated a 1999 ban on “heretical teachings.” Medieval paintings depicted one of these figures with a flask and willow branch to evoke the “water moon.” A six-syllable chant ascribed to one of ...	One of these figures with either 33 or 108 manifestations, who may be androgynous, says “gone, gone, gone beyond” in a dialogue with Śāriputra in a “perfection of wisdom” text.
108 kilometers	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: In November 2021, this world leader inaugurated a billion-dollar partnership with China’s CRI and CCI firms to upgrade 108 kilometers of track to high-speed rail. In 2020, Richard Grenell brokered an agreement between this leader and a smaller neighboring country to restore flights between their capitals for ...	In November 2021, this world leader inaugurated a billion-dollar partnership with China’s CRI and CCI firms to upgrade 108 kilometers of track to high-speed rail.
position 108	num_suffix	Question: This molecule can be removed by ABHD17 (“A-B-D-H-17”). Th17 (“T-H-17”) differentiation is partly driven by adding this molecule to position 108 of STAT3 (“stat-three”). This molecule is added to the yeast casein kinase Yck2p (“Y-C-K-two-P”) by Akr1p (“A-K-R-one-P”), which contains several copies of a conserve...	Th17 (“T-H-17”) differentiation is partly driven by adding this molecule to position 108 of STAT3 (“stat-three”).
108 canonical forms	num_prefix_multiple_lower	Question: In several tales from The Clear Mirror, this “self-arising” figure manifests as statues made of clay or wood. In another tale, white and green tears shed by this figure become forms of a three-eyed goddess who, like this figure, guards against “eight great perils” including thievery. In a tale named for the S...	Strings of 108 mala beads correspond to this figure’s 108 canonical forms.
108 heroes	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: A painting by this artist depicts a pig tusk crest on the costume of a boy whose face is composed of the twelve zodiac signs, which is similar to several works by this artist that depict human faces made out of tiny people. Some works by this artist depict several of a certain type of animal contorting their ...	In a more well-known work by this creator of a print series depicting the 108 heroes from Water Margin , a princess recites a spell from a handscroll as Mitsukuni cowers beneath a massive skeleton ripping through a curtain wall.
108 afflictions	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: In the Mù huànzi jīng (“moo HWAHN-dzuh jing”), the Buddha advises a king to use variants of these objects made from the ariṣtaka, which represent 108 afflictions . Possessed Candomblé practitioners might wear adenla, or conical Yoruba (“YO-roo-ba”) crowns adorned with birds and these objects, which form veils...	In the Mù huànzi jīng (“moo HWAHN-dzuh jing”), the Buddha advises a king to use variants of these objects made from the ariṣtaka, which represent 108 afflictions .
108 strikes	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: Participants in tantric rituals use one of these objects in the left hand, as is typical for images of tantric deities like Vajrasattva, since this object is the “female” counterpart of the “male” vajra. That form of these objects represents prajña, or wisdom, and is called the tribu. In the Yayoi period, one...	Japanese New Year is celebrated with 108 strikes on—for 10 points—what musical instruments made of metal?
108 words	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: Mary Oliver’s Poetry Handbook uses this poem as its main example of the masterful use of sound, describing how its “guttural mutes” are softened until the third stanza’s proliferation of k sounds. According to the textbook How Does a Poem Mean?, this poem’s second stanza introduces a “foil” who seems to say “...	This poem, 88 of whose 108 words are monosyllabic, has the rhyme scheme (read slowly:) AABA BBCB CCDC DDDD, with the last two lines being identical.
108 years earlier	num_prefix_multiple_lower	Lead In: A man who hypothesizes that this event was caused by a vein of sulfur ignores another man’s entreaties to provide him with wine and oil. For 10 points each: Question: An earthquake 108 years earlier provides the setting for this German author’s story, “The Earthquake in Chile.” The title noblewoman places an ...	An earthquake 108 years earlier provides the setting for this German author’s story, “The Earthquake in Chile.” The title noblewoman places an advertisement in a newspaper to try to find out who impregnated her in his novella The Marquise of O.
108 gopis	num_prefix_single_lower	Lead In: Followers of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu consider him to be an avatar of this figure. For 10 points each: Question: Krishna spent his youth among the 108 gopis who tended these animals. Ghee, a product of these animals, is poured into a fire in yajnas and used to light lamps in pujas. Answer: cows [or cattle; accep...	Krishna spent his youth among the 108 gopis who tended these animals.
108 people	num_prefix_single_lower	Lead In: The protagonist of a play titled for one of these places contracts his friend General Du to drive away Sun the Flying Tiger so that he can marry his beloved. For 10 points each: Question: In Romance of the Western Chamber, Sun the Flying Tiger and his followers are these people. 108 of these people live in a ...	108 of these people live in a marsh in Shi Nai’an’s (“shurr nye-AHN’s”) novel Water Margin.
108 avatars	num_prefix_single_lower	Lead In: This figure’s historical residence is known as the Potala Palace. For 10 points each: Question: Tibetan Buddhism considers the Dalai Lama to be an incarnation of this bodhisattva of infinite compassion, who has 108 avatars. Guanyin [“gwaan-yn”] is often depicted as a female variant of this figure. Answer: Av...	Tibetan Buddhism considers the Dalai Lama to be an incarnation of this bodhisattva of infinite compassion, who has 108 avatars.
108 heavenly spirits	num_prefix_multiple_lower	Lead In: In this novel, Chao Gai is not included in the Stars of Destiny despite being one of its founders, as he dies before the Grand Assembly can take place. For 10 points each: Question: Name this classic Chinese novel, in which Song Jiang leads a group of rebels consisting of 108 heavenly spirits and earthly fien...	Name this classic Chinese novel, in which Song Jiang leads a group of rebels consisting of 108 heavenly spirits and earthly fiends.
108 Spirits	num_prefix_single_lower	Lead In: For ten points each, answer the following about gold in literature: Question: This work inspired the later Chinese novel The Plum in the Golden Vase, also known as The Golden Lotus. At the beginning of this work, which is attributed to Shi Na’ian, Marshal Hong frees the 108 Spirits from their imprisonment. A...	At the beginning of this work, which is attributed to Shi Na’ian, Marshal Hong frees the 108 Spirits from their imprisonment.
108 men	num_prefix_single_lower	Lead In: Minor characters in this novel such as Pan Jinlian are given the starring role in the sexually explicit novel The Plum in the Golden Vase. For 10 points each: Question: Song Jiang is the leader of this group of outlaws, who were a group of banished spirits accidentally reborn on earth as 108 men. This group o...	Song Jiang is the leader of this group of outlaws, who were a group of banished spirits accidentally reborn on earth as 108 men.
108 outlaws	num_prefix_single_lower	Lead In: This novel was banned by the Bedford, New Hampshire school district in 2010 after a parent complained about its sexual content. For 10 points each: Question: This Chinese classic is sometimes translated as Outlaws of the Marsh for its tales of 108 outlaws who became heroes during the Song dynasty. Answer: Wa...	This Chinese classic is sometimes translated as Outlaws of the Marsh for its tales of 108 outlaws who became heroes during the Song dynasty.
108 year drought	num_prefix_multiple_lower	Lead In: Answer the following about fan altercations, for 10 points each: Question: In a 2003 playoff game at Wrigley Stadium, Steve Bartman caught a baseball that an outfielder from this team was going to catch. This team finally won the World Series in 2016 after a 108 year drought. Answer: Chicago Cubs	This team finally won the World Series in 2016 after a 108 year drought.
108 canonical examples	num_prefix_multiple_lower	Lead In: The term Svādhyāya denotes the method of learning, memorization, and practice that enabled this broad class of texts to be orally transmitted. For 10 points each: Question: The chronologically latest of the śruti texts are the 108 canonical examples of these philosophical commentaries on the Vedas. They conta...	The chronologically latest of the śruti texts are the 108 canonical examples of these philosophical commentaries on the Vedas.
108 of these things	num_prefix_multiple_lower	Lead In: This religious movement ran the largest wiretapping operation ever investigated, and poisoned hundreds of people with salmonella to try to influence an election in Oregon. For 10 points each: Question: Followers of the Bhagwan wore orange robes and carried a set of 108 of these things called malas. In Catholi...	Followers of the Bhagwan wore orange robes and carried a set of 108 of these things called malas.
109 degrees Fahrenheit	num_prefix_multiple_lower	Question: One city in this country exceeded a mean temperature of 109 degrees Fahrenheit in May 2022. Six died in a military helicopter crash in this country’s province of Balochistan. A former cricket star who led this country, Imran Khan, has been put on trial for contempt of court. In this country, floods in (*) Sin...	One city in this country exceeded a mean temperature of 109 degrees Fahrenheit in May 2022.
109 place	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: This man criticized a woman for using an expensive jar of nard to wash Jesus’ feet, claiming that it could have been sold for money to help the poor. A Gnostic gospel named for this man portrays him as the only disciple to understand the teachings of Jesus. When speaking about this man, Peter quoted a verse f...	When speaking about this man, Peter quoted a verse from Psalms 109 that said “May his days be few; may another take his (*) place.” This man was singled out by being given a piece of bread at the Last Supper, after which he identified Jesus with a kiss.
109 yards	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: The Miami Dolphins came back from a 24-0 deficit against this team, only to lose in overtime in the "Game No One Should Have Lost". While on this team, Antonio Cromartie returned a missed field goal for 109 yards, the longest play in NFL history. Despite having the #1 ranked offense and defense in 2010, this ...	While on this team, Antonio Cromartie returned a missed field goal for 109 yards, the longest play in NFL history.
109 degrees	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: Structures that lack this effect are the subject of Sachse-Mohr theory. The [1,2]-sigmatropic step of the Demjanov (“DEM-yan-off”) rearrangement is driven by this effect, which also is used to thermally drive Cope rearrangements and the R·O·M·P reaction. The potential increase in this effect prevents fluxiona...	For 10 points, name this effect that occurs when sp3-hybridized carbon atoms in a ring don’t have bond angles of 109 degrees.
109 aphorisms	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: This author wrote "In the struggle between yourself and the world, hold the world’s coat," which is one of 109 aphorisms he wrote while in Zurau. Georg Bendemann drowns himself in a river after his father condemns him in this author’s story “A Judgment.” A title character created by this author chafes at the ...	This author wrote "In the struggle between yourself and the world, hold the world’s coat," which is one of 109 aphorisms he wrote while in Zurau.
109 meetings	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: This document was more wide-reaching than the Allgemeines Landrecht in Prussia of the previous century. Article 7 of this document made allowances to past systems such as the ius commune. It was divided into one book for persons and two for property. Its provision that "the husband owes protection to his wife...	Louis-Joseph Faure was one of the four authors of this system, although its namesake attended 57 of the 109 meetings in which it was drafted.
109 years	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: With “the shriek of babies being ground beneath blue-hot rollers,” a character in this story politely says: “Hate. Let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate you since I began to live.” This story invokes the mythical Hvergelmir, roc, and Hurakan to describe a massive bird that creates hurricanes when it flap...	At the ice cavern where they all journey in search of canned food, the narrator of this story uses Benny biting the flesh off Gorrister’s face as a distraction to stab both of them with icicles, killing them after 109 years of them being kept alive as torture.
109 degree bond angles	num_prefix_multiple_lower	Question: The point group corresponding to this molecular geometry has eight C3 elements, but no C4 or C5 elements. Addition-eliminations to ketones form an anionic intermediate with this geometry. Coordination complexes with this geometry split the d orbitals so that three are high-energy. Umbrella inversions during S...	This geometry, which is represented using wedges and dashed lines, occurs at any saturated carbon atom with sp3 hybridization and 109 degree bond angles.
109 schoolgirls	num_prefix_single_lower	Question: After following a trail of candy wrappers and soda bottles left by a rebel army, a nun was able to rescue 109 of 139 schoolgirls abducted from the St. Mary’s College in Aboke in this country. To curb the influence of Christianity in a kingdom in this modern country and, as some accounts claim, punish some men...	After following a trail of candy wrappers and soda bottles left by a rebel army, a nun was able to rescue 109 of 139 schoolgirls abducted from the St. Mary’s College in Aboke in this country.