act common to the game of football or football action or football move --> This travesty was due to Peter Morelli's misinterpretation of the rule calling for this to establish a reception. Defined as a motion only executable by someone with possession, it is sufficient but not necessary for a reception; incident mentioned on Pete Morelli's page; needs article? [4]
Weber bars --> These devices should be able to detect strong gravity waves. a detector using them consists of two metallic cylinders in cryogenic vacuum conditions kept a distance apart. [6]
Joe Christmas (accept either name) --> Perhaps the best-known character in the novel is this mulatto man, who is castrated and killed by Percy Grimm; mentioned in character list for Light in August[8]
Joanna Burden (accept either name) --> Christmas has an affair with this woman but, when she attempts to force him to join a law firm, he murders her. [9]
the Kondo problem --> Kenneth Wilson's seminal paper on renormalization involved the solution to this "problem" of condensed matter physics, which concerns magnetic impurities in non-magnetic metals. [10]
Costaguana --> Joseph Conrad only visited South America for about a week, but his experience helped him to create this fictional country, the location of Sulaco and setting of the novel. [11]
Charles Gould (accept either name) --> Nostromo's boss is this man, the owner of the San Tome mines, whose obsession with the silver leads to his moral degradation and the decay of his marriage; disambig., no mention of the "Nostromo" character [12]
connection coefficients or Christofel symbols --> Possessing three indices that run over the space-time coordinates and represented by a capital "gamma", these quantities can be derived from the metric and are representative of the change in the basis vectors; subsection of Christoffel symbols[14]
Herman Hesse and Harry Haller (accept either name for the latter) --> Name the author of Steppenwolf and its protagonist; no article for "Harry Haller" [15]
Black Eagle Tavern --> Following an awkward dinner at a professor's house, Haller goes to this location for a drink and meets Hermine.[16]
Lorenz-Mie scattering theory --> This model of scattering by spherical centers of arbitrary aspect ratio in an isotropic homogeneous medium is often applicable to colloids. It is named for its German developer and, sometimes, for Lorenz. [19]
Öpik's equations --> Derived by their namesake in 1951, these equations give the probability of collision between two objects orbiting a common star, but contains several unknown factors. [20]
Sir Andrew Undershaft (accept either name) --> This man, Barbara's father, believes that manufacturing weapons is less deadly than poverty. [21]
Lady Britomart --> This woman, Barbara's mother, disagrees with her husband on the spending of his fortune. Her name is taken from The Faerie Queene, in which a like-named character is the personification of chastity.[22]
Rosemary Hoyt (accept either name) --> In Tender Is the Night, Dick and Nicole's eventual divorce is precipitated by his infatuation with this American actress. [26]
mass density (prompt on rho) --> The constancy of this quantity implies that the velocity is divergence-free. It is equal to the dynamic viscosity divided by the kinematic viscosity; leads to Density, different? [27]
Bernarda Alba (prompt on partial answer) --> During the eight-year mourning period that this Garcia Lorca character declares for her second husband, her youngest daughter Adela commits suicide after sleeping with her future brother-in-law Pepe el Romano; leads to The House of Bernarda Alba[28]
wax girl (accept equivalents, so long as they make it clear it's a girl made of wax; prompt on just "girl") --> Anansi was overthrown as king of all men after he got angry at this statue for not heeding him and struck it. Nyame's powers caused Anansi's legs to stick fast and his subjects then beat him. [32]
the Amalekites --> Samuel rejected Saul for the 2nd time after Saul didn't get the job done against this nomadic tribe, who were defeated by the Hebrews at Rephidim during the Exodus; mentioned in Amalek[33]
the biological species concept or the isolation species concept --> This approach, probably the most generally popular, defines a species as a group of individuals fertile with each other but unable to produce fertile offspring with other groups; subection of Species problem, needs own article? [35]
the phylogenetic species concept --> This highly general concept of speciation from the late 1980s defines a species as an irreducible cluster of organisms with a known pattern of ancestry and features enabling distinction from other groups; briefly mentioned in a subsection of Species[36]
charge conjugation-parity symmetry --> This postulated physical symmetry is broken by some weak interactions, specifically those accompanying K-mesons, as was shown in 1964 by Cronin and Fitch. [38]
Ottavia --> In The Coronation of Poppea, this mezzo-soprano role sings "Disprezzeta Regina" after finding out about her husband's affair with Poppea. In act 2, she tries to get Ottone to kill Poppea but instead gets sent off on a ship. [47]
Morris Townsend (accept either name) --> In Henry James' Washington Square, this suitor of Catherine's wants to marry her in order to acquire her fortune. He thinks being a doctor like Catherine's father is practicing a "loathsome profession". [50]
Lavinia Penniman (accept either name) --> This aunt of Catherine's raised her and encourages Townsend to elope with her. [51]
Judith, opera in 3 acts, H57b (accept either underlined part) --> Another important work of Arthur Honegger's early period was this 1925 opera which depicts the killing of an Assyrian general by the title character; leads to a different opera on the same subject
classical action --> The Hamilton-Jacobi equation is derived by requiring that this functional remain extremal under a canonical transformation, as it must be extremal for the classical path according to Hamilton's principle.[52]
eigenvalue problem for A --> For an operator A, this problem consists of finding all the non-trivial operands v such that the operation of A on V is only a scaling of v. The magnitude of that scaling is then this problem's namesake. [54]
the Cassini division --> This feature, almost 3,000 miles wide, is seen from the Earth as the black gap between Saturn's A and B rings; subsection of Rings of Saturn; needs own article? [64]
action --> Name this quantity typically expressed as the closed path integral of a generalized momentum with respect to its associated generalized position, or as the time integral of the Lagrangian.
The Lamentation of Christ --> In this Arena Chapel fresco, a diagonal rock form draws the viewer to the lower left, where figures hunch over the body of Jesus while distressed angels fly overhead; leads to an article on the general theme [66]
d-sub-z squared or d-sub-x squared y squared (do not accept or prompt on partial answer) --> Name either of the two d orbitals that belong to the double degenerate E-sub-g group. In the common octahedral complexes, they have a higher energy because they are closer to the ligand than the other three. [67]
Florestan --> Leonore's husband shares this name with one of Robert Schumann's altar egos; leads to a historical figure instead of a fictional one [68]
Virial Equation --> This is a power series expansion of the ideal gas law, and though it is technically an infinite series, typically the 3rd namesake coefficient is sufficient for most systems.
Van der Waals equation --> This common second-order approximation of the ideal gas law works for high-density gases by utilizing parameters a and b, which take into account the intermolecular forces and size of the molecules.
Operation Desert Shield (do not accept Desert Storm) -->During this "wholly defensive" operation beginning in August 1990, just prior to the Gulf War, Bush, Sr. called on a military deployment to protect the Saudi border and oil fields after Saddam Hussein's forces invaded Kuwait; leads to Gulf War, needs own article? [70]
Tempietto --> Its circular peristyle surrounds a cylindrical cella. Name this work, confined to a narrow courtyard, that marks where St. Peter was said to have been martyred; subsection of San Pietro in Montorio, needs own article
dideoxyribonucleoside triphosphates (that's ddNTP for convenience) --> To sequence DNA, one carries out DNA replication in the presence of these molecules which, if incorporated into a DNA strand, will halt replication due to their lack of a three prime hydroxyl group; leads to dideoxyribonucleotides[74]
"Museé des Beaux Arts" --> W. H. Auden muses about Brueghel's Icarus in this poem, which ends with a description of how the "expensive delicate ship" that observed Icarus' fall "sailed calmly on." [75]
"In Memory of W. B. Yeats" --> This three-part poem, which repeats the line "The day of his death was a dark cold day", describes the titular figure as "silly like us" who Time "pardons for writing well." [76]
Sunflower Sutra --> The narrator claims that "we're not out of our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive." Name this poem, in which the narrator grabs "the skeleton thick" title plant and "stuck it at [his] side like a scepter". [77]
fingerprint region --> The region of an IR spectrum from about 400 to 1600 inverse centimeters is given this name because its complex bands provide a great deal of structural information to identify a molecule; leads to spectroscopy
scissoring, wagging, twisting, and rocking --> For five points each, name any two of the four modes of vibration in chemical bonds besides symmetrical and asymmetrical stretching that are typically probed in IR spectroscopy; first leads to Tribadism, second to "Visual" subsection of Dog communication, third and fourth to disambigs. [78]
"The Shortest Way With Dissenters" --> 27 years earlier, Daniel Defoe made his own satiric modest proposal of killing all of the religious opposition in this pamphlet; most readers thought he was serious. [81]
Mooney-Rivlin solids --> These types of doubly eponymous solids are generalizations of neo-Hookean solids, which were first introduced to deal with large deformations. [82]
"The Candle Indoors" --> This Gerard Manley Hopkins poem asks "Are you beam-blind?" before concluding with another question, "Are you that liar / And, cast by conscience out, spendsavour salt?" [84]
periplanar --> E2 reactions have this kind of transition state, meaning that the hydrogen under attack, the two carbon atoms, and the leaving group all lie on the same flat surface and have bonds breaking and forming in a concerted manner; mentioned briefly in Stereochemistry
Peltier effect --> The Seebeck effect is sometimes merged with this effect, which described the generation of heat from passing a current through two distinct metals joined up like in a thermocouple; subsection of Thermoelectric effect, needs own article? [86]
Sigfried Idyll --> Wagner wrote this symphonic poem for his wife upon the birth of their son, and later used ideas from it when composing the third opera of the Ring Cycle. [87]
Max Gottlieb (accept either or both names) --> This stern and unrelenting outsider was Martin Arrowsmith's medical school mentor, who remains unappreciated despite his discoveries and in the end becomes senile; leads to a production designer [88]
entrainer --> An azeotrope can be separated with the addition of one of these substances that preferentially affects the volatility of one compound more than the other. Benzene can be such a compound for a water and ethanol mixture; disambig. for "entrainment"
Nocturne in Black and Gold: the Falling Rocket (prompt on "Falling Rocket") This painting by Whistler depicts fireworks against a dark background. John Ruskin didn't like this painting, accusing Whistler of "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." [93]
21 centimeter line --> One of the Bohr model's shortcomings was dealing with hyperfine splitting, which is responsible for the production of this radiofrequency spectral line around 1420 MHz used to map much of the hydrogen in the universe. [94]
Bloch theorem --> This theorem, named for a US-Swiss physicist, states that in view of the lattice symmetry, the electron wave functions are periodically modulated free electron waves; it simplifies band structure calculations quite a bit; briefly mentioned in Bloch wave[95]
The Lady of Shalott --> This painting by Hunt features a dark-haired woman in a tower standing in a golden circle with a silver lamp on the right and a halo-encircled Hercules on a tapestry]]; leads to the poem, though Hunt's painting is featured in the article [96]
Jones vector --> Polarization can be conveniently represented using this vector, which has real entries for linear polarization and, unlike the Stokes vector, has an imaginary component for elliptical polarization; one aspect of Jones calculus, needs own article?
join --> This is the order theoretic term for the least upper bound of a subset of a partially ordered set; disambig, exists as Join and meet, needs own article
(Contesse Jeanne Becu) "Madame" du Barry --> Around 1771, Fragonard painted fourteen canvases for the chateau of this last mistress of Louis XV. the Loves of the Shepherds Fragonard presented included such excellent works as the Meeting, but the bitch rejected them in favor of the in-vogue Neoclassical style. [97]
body waves --> The two broadest classes of seismic waves are surface waves and these waves, which travel through the interior of the earth and are not related to a boundary surface. They include P and S waves.
Amelia Sedley --> One of the two protagonists of Vanity Fair, she is at all times lovely and well-mannered. Though her father's business fails, she winds up almost as well-off as she began; mentioned in character list in Vanity Fair (novel)
Rawdon Crawley (either is acceptable) --> The heir apparent to a wealthy dowager, this dragoon is married to Becky Sharp, but squanders his fortune before he even inherits it; mentioned on character list in Vanity Fair (novel)[101]
My Portrait in 1960 --> This 1888 etching shows Ensor as a reclining skeleton with a spider at the left of the painting, implying his state at the titular time. [102]
Ballad of Robin Hood --> This ballad by an unknown author chronicled the adventures of the title bandit, at the end of which he bleeds to death at the hands of a treacherous nun, as Maid Marian pines.
Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens --> This ballad by an unknown author chronicles the destruction of the title character's ship and the drowning of Margaret the Maid of Norway.
U.S.S. Nevada --> The sister ship of the Oklahoma, it was the only battleship to actually get underway, but was attacked and beached to prevent it from blocking the entrance to Pearl Harbor.
U.S.S. Pennsylvania --> The sister ship of the Arizona, it was the flagship of the Pacific Fleet. Lying in drydock at the time of the attack it was the least damaged of the American battleships at Pearl. [105]
Tobin's Q ratio/Tobin's q ratio --> This ratio is the market value of a firm or an overall economy divided by the replacement value of the assets of that firm or economy. [106]
Henry Fleming (either name is acceptable) --> Identify the name of the young Union soldier whose experiences Crane describes in The Red Badge of Courage; disambig.
Coulomb gauge --> In this gauge, the divergence of the vector potential is 0; subsection of Gauge fixing, needs own article?
Egoism (accept "egoistic" or "ego driven") --> This situation, which occurs when people are not well-integrated into society, leads to a lack of collective feeling which can lead to depression and suicide; mentioned on page for Suicide (Durkheim book)
On the Cannibals --> In this essay Montaigne puts forth an early version of cultural relativism arguing for the dignity of Native Americans. Among his arguments was that although some Indians eat their dead this is nothing compared to the atrocities some Europeans inflict on each other.
Sira & Hadith --> The name Sunni is derived from the religious book, Sunnah, on which the group bases its faith. The Sunnah consists of these two portions containing the story of the life of Muhammad and his validated sayings; disambig. for Sira[114]
Razon Vital --> In Modern Theme this rationality for life was suggested as being violated when the modern theme is subjected to living. [115]
sotto in su --> Corregio was a master of this technique, the extreme foreshortening of figures painted on a ceiling to give the illusion that the figures are suspended in air; mentioned as an aspect of Illusionistic ceiling painting, needs own article?
Ode in Honor of St. Cecilia's Day or Alexander's Feast or The Power of Music --> Answer the following about a poem whose grand chorus ends "With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. / Let old Timotheus yield the prize, / Or both divide the crown; / He raised a moral to the skies, / She drew an angel down." Name this Dryden poem that celebrates an event held each November 22nd; second leads to a disambig, third to an album by Kristine W.[117]
Time of the Hero --> Originally published as "La ciudad y los perros", this 1963 novel was Mario Vargas Llosa's first. It concerns the murder of a military school cadet to cover up the theft of an exam.
Markownikoff Rule --> In the addition of hydrogen halides to unsaturated hydrocarbons, the halogen becomes attached to the carbon bearing the lesser number of hydrogen atoms.
Hofmann Rule --> The extended form states, "When two or more alkenes can be produced in a beta-elimination reaction, the alkene having the smallest number of alkyl groups attached to the double bond carbon atoms will be the predominant product"; leads to Woodward-Hoffmann rules[121]
Mercuric Oxide --> In his most famous experiment, Priestly derived the oxygen from this compound. [122]
Type G --> Stars of this spectral class exhibit the lines of metals including calcium, magnesium, and sodium, and include the Sun. [123]
amensalism --> In contrast, this type of interaction occurs when one species harms another, but remains unaffected itself. An example is when a larger tree shades out a smaller one from the sun; subsection of Symbiosis, needs own article? [124]
Les Femmes savants or The Blue Stockings --> In this second to last play of Molière, the household of the bourgeois Chrysale and the three female title characters is the setting for a satire on pedantry and knowledge and a discussion of the role of women in society. [125]
Meyer Wolfsheim (accept either name) --> This Jewish man is said to have fixed the 1919 World Series, and he claims to have made Jay Gatsby out of nothing. He can't be bothered to attend Gatsby's funeral though; leads to The Great Gatsby[127]
T.J. Eckleburg The eyes of this doctor on a billboard are "blue and gigantic-their retinas are one yard high." George Wilson mistakes his eyes for those of God after his wife's death. [128]
"Babi Yar" --> The title of this poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko poem is the site of a 1941 massacre of Ukrainian Jews by the Nazis. The poet denounces Russian anti-Semitism, and includes references to Dreyfus and Anne Frank; leads to the ravine instead of the poem
Gibbs's Paradox --> This paradox arises when two groups of identical particles are initially separated by a partition and the partition is removed. The entropy increases, but it shouldn't. The paradox is resolved by treating the particles as indistinguishable. [129]
body waves --> The two broadest classes of seismic waves are surface waves and these waves, which travel through the interior of the earth and are not related to a boundary surface.
The Bow and the Lyre --> This work by Octavio Paz, subtitled "The Poem, the Poetic Revelation, Poetry, and History," Paz sets out his theory of the essence of poetry and evokes musical imagery as with the two title objects. [130]
Regulatory metabolite --> This is the product or reactant controller that determines whether the operon is repressible or inducible.
Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 --> These atrocities led to the passage of this act that tried to "civilize" the Indians by dissolving all tribal ownership of land and giving families 160 acres as well as citizenship. [133]
intensity --> The brightness or dullness of a hue or color; disambig. [134]
Jimmy Porter (accept either) --> Name the protagonist of each of the following plays: Look Back in Anger by John Osbourne; leads to "Look Back In Anger", needs own article?
Sonnet 5 (accept "Set up no stone to his memory" or "Errichtet keinen Denkstein") --> This sonnet from the first part of the Sonnets to Orpheus exhorts the reader not to mark the grave of Orpheus. It stresses the unity of artists, yet noting the fleeting nature of the creative spirit, which only sometimes "overstays for a few days the bowl of roses"; leads to Shakespeare's fifth sonnet [141]
Syngmann Rhee --> This man whose publications include Japan, Inside Out was elected president of South Korea in 1948. He didn't like the Communists. [142]
Kamáres ware --> This famous style of Middle Minoan pottery characteristically includes many abstract, often spiraling, designs. Pithoi found in this style, named for a site southeast of Phaistos, yield much of what we know of Minoan art. [144]
Incidental Music to Peer Gynt --> Grieg's most famous work is this Opus 23, a work inspired by a play of the same name. It features memorable sections like "Anitra's Dance" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King."
van der Waals Equation --> A generalization of the ideal gas law is this law, which deducts from the volume the amount of volume the molecules take up and an extra term accounting for intermolecular forces. [147]
McCormick Harvesting Machine Company --> For a final ten points, identify the company that owned the plant where the riot began on May 3rd during which there was shooting and a fatality; briefly mentioned on page for International Harvester, needs own article? [148]
Saint Methodius --> The expulsion of the Teutonic clergy by Rotislav of Moravia prompted this saint to travel to Rome with his more famous brother Cyril, with whom he translated the Bible into Old Church Slavonic using a new alphabet. He later became the first Bishop of Moravia; disambig. [150]
Lycurgus --> According to Plutarch, this man suffered with his people through the revolt of the Messinians, and later drew up a constitution that would prevent further troubles with Sparta's helot subjects; disambig.
Chisinau or Kishinev --> 1905 saw a second massacre in this Bessarabian city that had two years earlier seen a pogrom fanned by a blood-libel by Piotr Krushevan. The 1903 pogrom, begun after a Christian woman's suicide in a Jewish Hospital, led to a letter of protest delivered by Roosevelt which was famously rejected by Czar Nicholas II; leads to the city instead of the massacre, briefly mentioned on page for Kishinev pogrom
rudaceous --> Rocks with larger grainsizes, including breccias and conglomerates, bear this adjective. [152]
"k" or k-selection --> Reproduction, another process common to all life, can be divided into two strategies: r-selection, the production of many offspring, and this type of selection, the production of few offspring, like that of humans; subsection of R/k selection, needs own article? [153]
Germanicus Tiberius Caesar --> Marcus Agrippa's daughter Agrippina the Elder married this general who won victories over barbarian tribes and represented to many Romans a new Alexander. On his way from Syria, he died of a strange infection, a mysterious occurrence which cast a shadow of doubt on the Emperor Tiberius himself.
Gaius Caesar Germanicus Caligula --> When this third son of Germanicus was a small child, he welcomed back from battle soldiers who nicknamed him "little boots". He later became a virtual prisoner of Tiberius at Capri, but at age 24 he ascended to the throne. [157]
Raamses II (prompt on Raamses) --> One of Egypt's longest ruling pharoahs, he built the monument at Abu Simbel and battled the Hittites to a draw at Kadesh, although on the temple walls of Thebes he would claim victory. Reports of him being the pharoah of the Exodus are unfounded. [158]
"Fatty" Bolger --> Finally, not all of Frodo's friends go on the journey. One friend remains in the Shire and is nearly killed by the Black Riders. He can perhaps be seen in the movie at Bilbo's "Long-Expected Party", but is cut out of the escape from the Shire. [160]
supply increases --> Given an economic scenario, state whether demand for a product would increase, demand would decrease, supply would increase or supply would decrease, for 5 points each and a 5 point bonus for all correct: Improved encyclopedia-searching technology results in less waste of time writing questions.
demand decreases --> The price of the Judge buzzer system, a complementary good, increases dramatically.
supply decreases --> Michigan freshmen, represented by the Question Writers' Union, demand and receive a wage increase.
demand decreases --> Student Financial Councils across the nation declare CBI is the way to go, and decide to cut all funding to ACF-friendly quizbowl clubs. Answer: [166]
Saint Cecilia's Day --> Purcell composed numerous welcome songs for this feast day, commemorating the patron saint of music; leads to Saint Cecilia
W boson or W particle (Prompt on "intermediate vector boson," "weak boson" or "weakon"; Do not accept Z boson or Z particle as it is chargeless.) --> It is the only gauge boson with an electric charge; leads to W and Z bosons, needs own article? [169]
Irene von Satow --> Name the model whose love Arnold Rubek finds again in the play shortly before their deaths. [172]
Immunex Corporation --> Amgen bought this company in Dec. 2001 for $16 Billion because it couldn't produce its top-selling rheumatoid arthritis medication Enbrel fast enough.
Clym Yeobright --> This nearly blind young man returns to Egdon Heath from Paris thus giving the novel its name.
Diggory Venn (accept either first or last name) --> Clym's sister Thomasin was originally betrothed to this man, but later decided to marry the adulterous Damon; leads to The Return of the Native[173]
Fujita-Pearson Tornado Intensity Scale --> Developed in 1971, it classifies tornadoes after they've hit based on how much damage they've done. Name either co-creator for ten points.
Long Ghost --> In the novel the narrator is accompanied on his many journeys by this man: the ship's doctor, an avid chess player and admirer of salt. [174]
Lumen --> This internal space enclosed by the two ER membranes is an area that is continuous with the outer membrane of the nuclear envelope; disambig.
Translocons --> Proteins synthesized in the Rough ER enter the ER lumen through these tunnels found on the Rough ER's ribosomes. [177]
Discount rate and Federal Funds rate --> For five points each, the Federal Reserve regulates these two key rates, the first of which is the rate it charges for reserves it lends, the second the rate banks charge each other; disambig.
M3 --> For ten points, under the United States' classification system, this is the smallest division of the money supply all private deposits in a bank can be classified under; disambig, mentioned on page for Money supply[178]
Poisson random variable --> This random variable, used as an approximation for a binomial random variable, takes the form e to the negative lambda times lambda to the I, over I factorial; leads to Poisson distribution
Little's Theorem --> This elementary result of queuing theory relates the expected number of customers in a communications system to the average arrival rate and the average system time.
eccentricity --> This quantity is equal to zero for a circle, while it is between zero and one for an ellipse, exactly one for a parabola, and greater than one for a hyperbola; disambig.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone --> Williams's only novel, it follows the widowed title character, who has an affair with Paolo; leads to the film adaptation, mentioned on author's page [181]
Tevye the Milkman or Tevye's Daughters --> This is Alecheim's most famous work, which concerns a tradition-oriented wit who has trouble with his children, who run away. It became the basis for Fiddler on the Roof; former leads to the character, latter leads to a Ukranian film adaptation of the stories [188]
Railroad Stories --> Along with Tevye the Milkman, this is Alecheim's most famous collection. It consists of 21 stories, about the encounters a Jewish salesman has with other passengers on a train. [189]
Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations --> This is Bettelheim's most famous essay, which he claimed was the result of interviews with over 1,500 concentration camp inmates. It argues that the prisoners were complicit and childlike in their obedience to the Nazis.
Dihedral groups --> These groups, also called symmetry groups, represent the possible symmetries of an N-gon and are usually denoted by D-sub-n.
co-set --> This is defined as the set of elements equal to an element of the whole group times some member of a subgroup. They come in left and right varieties, and the fact that they partition the group is used to prove Lagrange's theorem. [190]
Calais or Zetes --> The Harpies got chased away by two brothers who were pretty fast, since their father was the North Wind. Name either; leads to Boreads, do they each need their own article? [191]
Burning of the Houses of Parliament --> The title buildings are now Victorian structures that replaced the eleventh-century ones destroyed in the conflagration depicted in this 1835 painting. [192]
Wolf's sunspot number --> Devised by a Swiss astronomer, this value gauges solar activity by counting sunspots and groups of sunspots.
Robert Martin --> For 15 points, Emma's meddling at first prevents Harriet Smith from hooking up with this farmer on Mr. Knightley's estate, but fear not! Harriet accepts his proposal by novel's end; disambig. [193]
The Cabala --> Thornton Wilder's time studying archaeology in Rome inspired this first novel of his, which is set in the Eternal City.
I band --> This letter represents the region of the sarcomere containing thin lines only; disambig, mentioned on page for Sarcomere, needs own page?
"Elegy for Jane" --> Name these American poems from lines for 10 points each, or for 5 points if you need the author: "Over this damp grave I speak the words of my love: / I, with no rights in this matter, / Neither father nor lover"; Theodore Roethke
l'espirit d'escalier --> English has no parallel to this French phrase, which literally means "spirit of the staircase." It conveniently refers to those witty retorts you think of only after the occasion to use them has passed. [197]
"Design" --> Name the Robert Frost poem from lines: "I found a dimpled spider, fat and white / On a white heal all, holding up a moth"; leads to "Design" as a general idea
retardation --> When plane polarized light enters an anisotropic mineral, it is split into a fast ray and a slow ray. This is the degree to which the slow ray lags the fast one; disambig.
Jum'a-tul-Mubarak --> This Friday festival is analogous to Catholic mass in its weekly frequency and marks the end of weekly prayers. It is sometimes said to be the greatest Muslim festival. [202]
Lord Jeremy Pauncefote --> John Milton Hay actually signed two treaties, one in 1900 and one a year later, effectively freeing the U.S. from international control over the Panama Canal with this British ambassador.
Rowena --> This daughter of Isaac the Jew heals Ivanhoe back to health at the tournament of Ashby, and is later rescued by him from the clutches of the Templar Sir Brian de Bois; leads to the Biblical figure instead of the character in Ivanhoe[206]
Terrence Morris --> Somehow this dude just got worse after his sophomore season, when Steve Francis left, he's also on the Rockets is in his second year and presents some match-up problems as a 6'9" forward who can step outside and take people to the hole. [208]
a lock of golden hair (prompt on just "hair") --> Scylla also identifies a daughter of Nisus King of Megara, whose treacherous love for Minos prompted her to cut this from her father's head; disambig. [209]
Fries rebellion --> In 1798, Congress passed a direct property tax. In Bethlehem, a group of farmers led by its namesake forced federal marshals to release a group of people who had refused to pay the tax.
amensalism --> It occurs when one species is harmed but the other species is unaffected; subsection of Symbiosis, needs own article?
The Blue Nude --> This painting by Matisse was burned in effigy at the armory show. It depicts an abstract monochromatic woman sitting with her legs crossed. [210]
Ausculum --> In the original pyrrhic victory, Pyrrhus held back the Romans at this city but lost one third of his army.
Congress (I) Party --> After her defeat by Desai, Gandhi's supporters split off from the Congress Party to form a new, similarly named, party at the head of which Gandhi returned to the Prime Ministership in 1980. Name that party.
Golden Temple at Amritsar --> Name the religious site on which Gandhi ordered an army attack in 1984, resulting in her assassination. [211]
neutral current interactions --> Among these predictions was that the Z-nought particle should mediate weak interactions in which electric charge is not transferred between particles. Give the general term for such interactions. [212]
theta temperature --> For any given solvent, there exists this temperature, denoted by a Greek letter, at which a polymer behaves as if it were in a vacuum, completely ignoring the existence of the solvent.
Poiseuille-Hagan law or Poiseuille's equation --> Applying when the Reynolds number is less than 2000, this equation relates the volume flow rate of a fluid through a cylindrical tube to the pressure difference between the ends of the tube. [218]
"Portrait of a Lady" --> Identify the following short poems by William Carlos Williams from lines and/or clues: "Your thighs are appletrees / Whose blossoms touch the sky / Which sky? The sky / Where Watteau hung a lady's slipper"; leads to the novel by Henry James
Radames --> Aida is trapped into admitting her love for this captain of the guard in a series of exchanges at the beginning of Act 2; disambig.
Amneris --> This princess of Egypt also loves Radames and is despondent when he chooses an Ethiopian slave over her; leads to Aida[219]
Elinor and Marianne --> These are the two Dashwood sisters whose divergent approaches to relationships with Edward Ferrers and John Willoughby, respectively, display sense and sensibility; first is a disambig, second leads to the national symbol of France
Lucy Steele (accept either name) --> After moving to London to see Mrs. Jennings, this sly young woman reveals to Elinor that she is secretly engaged to Edward, luckily for Elinor, however, she eventually marries Robert Ferrers thus bringing the two together; leads to an Olympic cross-country skier [220]
George-Auguste Escoffier --> This "chef of kings and king of chefs" opened "The Golden Pheasant" in Paris, cooked at the Savoy and Carlton hotels in London, and is noted for his many culinary books. [222]
McCaslin --> A large part of The Bear centers on Isaac's search through his family's lurid past filled with miscegenation and incest. Name Isaac's family - not the Beauchamps; disambig, no mention of family [224]
Ideal of R --> A subring S of a ring R is this if a times x and x times a are both elements of the subring S for all a in the subring S and all x in ring R. [225]
Pedro Perez (accept either) and Master Nicholas --> As the novel begins, his neighbor, the village curate, and the town barber seek to discourage Don Quixote by burning all of his chivalrous romances. Name either of these two men for 10 points; leads to a Cuban Triple jumper[226]
Knight of the Moon or Knight of the White Moon or Sampson Carasco --> After being defeated early on as "the Knight of the Wood" this young student rechallenges Don Quixote in Barcelona under a different name. Identify either the new sobriquet or name the student for the final 10 points; briefly mentioned in "Part 2" subsection of Don Quixote, needs own article? [227]
Shays' rebellion --> Identify this September 1786 uprising led by a Revolutionary War veteran and farmer from Pelham.
Charles I D'Albret --> This French constable and member of a prominent Gascon family led the largely mounted force confronting Henry V at Agincourt. [230]
Cook strait --> North and South Island are separated from one another by this strait.
Walden's rule --> This empirical rule states that the product of molar conductivity is approximately constant for the same ion in different solvents at constant temperature, assuming infinite dilution of an ionic solute.
All-Star --> The Snorks cartoon generally followed the adventures of this little dude whose last name was Seaworhty and whose first name seems to derive from the namesake design on his shirt; leads to a more general article
anther --> Usually yellow in color, this upper part of the stamen has two lobes, each of which contains two pollen sacs; mentioned in "Etymology" subsection of Stamen, needs own article?
pistil -> This female part of a flower contains one or more carpels; subsection of Gynoecium, needs own article? [231]
hoshana raba --> The last day of Sukkot is named for this prayer that is to be given that day, and means "save us" in translation. [234]
Mithras --> Diocletian consecrated a temple to this god of Indo-Iranian origin, as god of light and the sun he killed the cosmic bull and fertilized all vegetation with its blood; leads to Mithraism, the worship of said god [235]
Pepin III --> The Merovingian line came to an end in 751 when this man had himself elected, he would become the first monarch for another dynasty; leads to Pepin the Short, with no mention of being the 3rd of anything [236]
Lodovico --> The last words of the play are spoken by this Venetian who appears on Cyprus along with Gratiano to investigate what has been going on; disambig, mentioned on character list for Othello[237]
pi orbitals --> Benzene has high stabilization energy because electrons in these orbitals are delocalized over the entire ring; leads to pi bonds, no mention of orbitals [241]
"Spring and Fall: To a Young Child" --> Published in 1918, it compares a girl's disappointment at the end of summer to the tragedy of life, beginning "Margaret are you grieving / Over Goldengrove unleaving?" It ends with a suggestion that what the girl is really mourning for is herself; leads to the poet (Gerard Manley Hopkins) instead of the poem [243]
The Polar Sea --> This painting by Caspar David Friedrich originally contained within the collapsing masses of diamond-shaped ice slabs a sinking ship bearing the name "Hope", Friedrich meant it as a warning to explorers striving to penetrate the far reaches of the earth. [245]
LisP or list processor --> It was designed by John McCarthy, who received the 1971 Turing Award for his work in artificial intelligence. Identify this language that really loves its parentheses.
discrete logistic map --> One of the simplest nonlinear systems is this map which can be used to describe the discrete time evolution of a population subject to a growth rate and a fixed constraint.
"The Wall" --> In this short story by Jean Paul Sartre, the narrator feels himself detach from the world of the living as he confronts the idea of his own death by firing squad in front of the title structure; leads to an album by Pink Floyd[249]
metanephridia or metanephridium (don't accept protonephridia; they're different) --> Like most annelids, earthworms utilize these excretory structures, consisting of tubules with internal openings that collect body fluids using a ciliated funnel; mentioned as a subtype of Nephridium, needs own article? [250]
Christopher Newman (accept either name) --> This character takes French lessons from Monsieur Nioche, from whom he buys a painting after meeting his daughter in the Louvre. Identify this titular character of Henry James' The American; disambig. [251]
Claire de Cintre (accept either name) --> Newman loves this woman, the widow of a Marquis whom she had been forced to marry by her mother, Madame de Bellegarde; leads to The American
Mrs. Bread --> This woman owns a document demonstrating that Madame de Bellegarde killed her husband after he wouldn't let Claire marry the Marquis de Cintre. However, Newman destroys the document at the end of the novel. [252]
Hückel Theory --> This theory determines molecular orbital energies of pi electrons in conjugated hydrocarbons, and is the basis of a same-named rule, which states that a cyclic compound is aromatic if it has 4N+2π electrons.
Roothan-Hall Equations --> These equations are closed-shell representations of the Hartree-Fock equation in non-orthonormal basis sets, named for two molecular orbital theorists. [255]
Larissa or Lara Feodorovna Guishar --> After Yuri Zhivago's death, his half-brother Efgrov cares for Tania, his daughter with this wife of Pavel Antipov, with whom he briefly lives in an abandoned farmhouse; leads to a city in Thessaly, Greece
Vladimir Komarovsky (accept either name) --> This unscrupulous lawyer and protector of Lara's mother succeeds in seducing Lara; later, Zhivago sends Lara away with him to safety since he has become an official in the Soviet regime. [257]
Surplus Value --> This Marxist theory holds that capitalists exploit the proletariat by establishing a market price for a commodity at a level far above the amount renumerated to the worker and keep the namesake excess. [258]
Empress Wu Zeitan or Zhao or Hao ---> She started off her rise to power as a junior concubine of Taizong. Name this woman who later ruled in her own name as the sole ruler of the Zhou dynasty and only female emperor of China; second and third lead to disambigs.
Huanzong or Li Longji --> The reign of this grandson of Empress Wu deteriorated after his notorious love affair with the Lady Yang, who was executed during the retreat of the imperial forces from Chang'an. [265]
Milady deWinter (accept either name) --> Mordaunt, the son of this woman executed at the end of The Three Musketeers, returns in Twenty Years After as an emissary for Oliver Cromwell, determined to avenge his mother's death. [266]
Angus mac Og --> The kisses of this Celtic god of youth and beauty turned into singing birds, and he married Caer Ibormeith, the swan-girl of Connacht. [270]
The Berean --> Noyes summarized his views on such subjects as moral perfectionism and sexual promiscuity in this 1847 book. [271]
1st Epistle to the Corinthians (prompt on partial answer) --> The 13th chapter of this epistle contains a famous section on love. Its other topics include marriage, celibacy, and the behavior of women.
United States vs. Harris --> The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 was invalidated by the Supreme Court in this case, which held that the Klan's rights were protected by the 14th Amendment. [272]
Ruff Degradation --> The opposite of Kiliani-Fischer Synthesis is this degradation which shortens by one carbon, by oxidizing a calcium salt with hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by ferric ion. [274]
"Jewish Cemetary" --> Jacob van Ruisdael painted some monumental ruins at the site of this burial ground at Ouderkerk. Longfellow famously wrote about one of these at Newport.
The Way of the Masks or La Voie des Masques --> The Kwakiutl and Salish Indian cultures of the coastal northwest are compared in this 1975 work, which looks at the meaning they place behind the titular artistic and mythical objects which they wear during ceremonies. [277]
"Mystery Dance" --> My favorite cover performed in Satisfaction is this Elvis Costello song, in which he sings "I was underneath the covers in the middle of the night tryin' to discover my left foot from my right," and asks you to tell him how to do the titular move. [278]
dynamic typing --> Since Perl is an interpreted rather than a compiled language, it includes this capability, which allows variables to change the kind of data they can receive at runtime rather than compile time; subsection of type system, needs own article? [279]
Article IV, Section 4 (both parts needed) --> Taney justified his reasoning by reference to this Article and Section of the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to guarantee the states a republican government. [280]
fusiform --> In one example of convergent evolution, many unrelated water animals, like the dolphin and the tuna, evolved to this streamlined body shape; disambig.
Evolutionary relay --> This type of convergent evolution occurs when two independent species acquire similar characteristics in similar ecosystems at different times; leads to Convergent evolution[281]
the cattle of Geryon or obvious equivalents --> leads to Geryon, do the cattle need their own article? [283]
"The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life for Andrews Wanning" --> Its title character is "running to fat, but dependable as they come" and is seen about once a year, despite being angry at being the "mournful cosmic last resort" of a poet. Name this poem that imagines a girl tuning out Matthew Arnold's poetic ramblings and instead fantasizing about the feel of the poet's mustache on her neck.
"a posteriori" --> The Critique of Pure Reason informs us that judgments based on this experiential, rather than innate and necessary, kind of knowledge are potentially subject to exceptions; shares an article w/"a priori", needs own article?
Guermantes --> A more prominent family in Remembrance of Things Past is this clan of bankrupt aristocrats, consisting of a prince and princess and a duke and duchess. The prince marries Madame Verdurin after the princess's death, and the series ends with the narrator's terrible revelation in this family's library; leads to a commune in Seine-et-Marne
Swann --> The narrator befriends Gilberte, a member of this family whose "way" is the title of the first book in the cycle. The patron of this Jewish family dies, allowing the narrator to realize his mortality and the widow to remarry into high society; disambig. [284]
universal constructor or Universal assembler --> This type of self-reproducing machine, proposed by John von Neumann, can copy both itself and the instructions for making further copies within a two-dimensional cellular automaton.
"The White Stocking" --> In this D. H. Lawrence story the marriage of Ted and Elsie Whiston is challenged when the title object is delivered to the house on Valentine's Day as a gift from Sam Adams. Spousal abuse to the face ensues. [286]
Rose Maybud (accept either name) --> Robin Oakapple, the true baronet, is in love with this very proper woman who later falls for Robin's Francophobe foster brother Richard. [288]
"The Bait" --> John Donne begins this poem with "Come live with me, and be my love, / And we will some new pleasures prove," entreats the addressee to some fishing, and closes with "That fish, that is not catch'd thereby, / Alas! is wiser far that I"; disambig, no mention of the poem [289]
ex parte Lambdin P. Milligan --> This 1866 case held that an Indiana citizen was tried by a military tribunal unconstitutionally because open warfare was not happening and Indiana had functioning civil courts. [290]
Ronald Harry Coase --> "The Nature of the Firm" is an early work of this economist, most famous for his theorem, which states that the initial allocation of property rights is irrelevant in a world of zero transaction costs. [291]
Aldol condensation reaction --> Discovered independently by Wurtz and Borodin, this reaction produces an enolate which attacks a ketone and then deprotonates to form a beta-hydroxyl compound, which may then dehydrate.
Notre Dame de Reims --> Chagall created some stained glass windows for this cathedral, built on the site of Clovis' baptism. This edifice is equally well-known for its central portal, with characteristic S-curve statuary. [294]
synaptotagmin-I --> In chemical synapses, the release of vesicles from the presynaptic membrane is regulated by this calcium-sensitive protein in the SNARE complex.
Goldman-Hodgkins-Katz Equation --> This variant of the Nernst Equation gives the membrane potential of a neuron in terms of the internal and external ion concentrations and the relative permeability of the membrane to each ion species. [300]
the Independent Treasury Act --> The Locofocos mostly disbanded in 1840, having achieved their primary aims with the passage of this piece of legislation, proposed by Martin van Buren in 1837. Also known as the "subtreasury bill," it phased out bank notes as acceptable currency, but was repealed by Whighs just a year later. [301]
chelates --> EDTA is an example of one of these complexes, named for a Greek word, in which a ligand is coordinated by a metal ion at two or more points; leads to Chelation
polydentate ligands --> Ligands which are attached to a central metal ion by bonds from two or more donor atoms are referred to by this adjective, and contribute to the stability of the chelate effect. [302]
bound morphemes (do not prompt on "morpheme") --> These are a specific type of linguistic unit that actually have semantic meaning, but as their designation implies, they cannot stand alone. Examples include affixes like "un-" and "-ing"; article exists for "Bound and unbound morphemes", needs own article? [304]
sample (accept "sampling" and "sample size") --> disambig. [306]
Regina Engstrand --> She is the daughter of Captain Alving and Joanna, a former servant of his whom his wife drove out of the house after learning of their affair. Identify this character who grows up believing Jacob Engstrand is her real father and is set to take a position in the orphanage dedicated to Captain Alving.
Oswald Alving --> Although it is never stated explicitly, the play makes it clear that this son of Mrs. Alving is going mad due to inherited syphilis. [307]
cyranoids --> Milgram also asked his subjects to communicate with someone using words from this 3rd person intermediary, and found that they are often fooled by its tone. [308]
transverse Doppler shift (prompt on Doppler) --> Time dilation is responsible for this relativistic effect in which the received frequency is reduced when the emitter moves laterally across the line of sight. Classical physics predicts zero shift.
Feast in the House of Levi --> Veronese is best known for this depiction of the Last Supper, whose title he had to change after the Inquisition took issue with his portrayal of servants and dogs in the painting. [309]
San Ciappelletto --> The first tale of The Decameron involves this man, who cheats a friar but nevertheless is sainted on his deathbed. [310]
CaM kinase II --> Calmodulin activates an autophosphorylating enzyme that remains active when calcium levels decrease. That enzyme belongs to this class of enzymes that phosphorylate proteins. [311]
Swede -> This name is used to refer to the man fought by Johnnie in "The Blue Hotel" and to the star athlete in American Pastoral. It refers to the nationality of the former and the appearance of the latter; redirects to Sweden, needs own article? [313]
"The Indian Burying Ground" --> In this poem, Philip Freneau holds that "The posture that we give the dead / Points out the soul's eternal sleep," and concludes that "The painted chief" will continue to haunt timorous visitors of the titular cemetery. [315]
Hernándo Cortéz, marqués del Valle de Oaxaca --> He ignored a last-second recall from his superior Velazquez, and later defeated a force under Pánfilo de Narvaez sent to clap him in chains and take him back to Cuba.
c-myc --> Burkitt's lymphoma is linked with the translocation of this proto-oncogene on chromosome eight. It is a transcription factor that interacts with BRCA-1, Max, and TRRAP; mentioned as part of the Myc gene family, needs own article? [318]
The Washington Globe --> This party newspaper was established by Francis Blair, in which Kendall and others defended Jackson's policies; leads to the paper's first editor, Amos Kendall[319]
George (from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) --> This man and his wife pretend to have a son, but this man claims a Western Uniontelegram arrived stating that his son crashed into a tree and died after swerving to avoid a porcupine; disambig.
Bunbury (from The Importance of Being Earnest) --> In the third act of the play in which his death is announced, this fake character's creator states that "he was quite exploded," leading Lady Bracknell to ask if he fell victim to a revolutionary outrage; disambig.
Gonzago --> In The Mouse-trap in Hamlet, Lucianus kills this duke, and then gains the affections of his wife Baptista. [320]
Blues --> Theodora's stepfather became bear-keeper for this chariot-racing faction whose supporters sat opposite the imperial box. Justinian supported them before taking the throne, and they later joined their rivals in the Nika riot; leads to the blues in the sense of "I got the..."
Colonel Catchcart --> He gives up the idea of evening prayers upon learning that officers and enlisted men pray to the same god. Identify this military man, assisted by Colonel Korn, who constantly hopes for a feather in his hat, but worries about a black eye.
positive-definiteness --> A [symmetric matrix]] M has this property if for any nonzero X, the quadratic form "x-transpose Mx" is strictly greater than zero.
Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois --> Direct regulation by states of interstate railroads was declared unconstitutional in this 1886 case, which prompted the formation of the Interstate Commerce Comission, but which spelled the end of the Grange's influence. [323]
Nandi --> He took the form of a shark to harass a village of fishermen, prompting the reunion of his master and mistress. Name this immortal who provides the music for the Tandava; disambig.
Zaitsev Product --> E2 reactions will usually form this type of product, by a certain oft-cited rule, which maximizes the number of alkyl substituents attached to a created double bond.
Kheperkheprure Ay --> This grand vizier seized power after Tut's death and attempted to legitimize his four-year rule by marriage. Horemheb desecrated his burial ground and tried to remove all mentions of his name from his mortuary temple. [324]
The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense --> Anna Freud uses children she had analyzed as support for her argument in this 1935 work, which highlights how one of the title entities wards off anxiety and the other negative feelings.
Charles Bon --> This man is Sutpen's first son by a Haitian woman. His half-brother Henry kills him at the gates of Sutpen's estate out of incestuous jealousy over his sister Judith; leads to Absalom, Absalom, needs own article?
Rosa Coldfield --> The story of Thomas Sutpen is told to Quentin Compson partly by this woman, whose sister Ellen had married Sutpen and gave birth to Henry and Judith. [326]
Euler axes --> Quaternions are useful in physics when one needs to describe a rotation matrix, such as one describing the rotation around these eponymous axes; any rotation of a solid body can be described as a motion about these axes. [327]
The Law of One Price or One Price Law --> This law is the basis of PPP and says that generally in the absence of costs like differential taxes in two countries, competitive markets will equalize the prices of identical goods when they are expressed in the same currency.
"Congo" --> In this poem, the speaker warns us that Mumbo Jumbo, god of the title locale, "will hoo-doo you". Name this poem whose speaker sees the titular geographic feature "creeping through the black, / Cutting through the forest with a golden track"; disambig.
Section 8 --> The cause of legal tender was strengthened in 1884 with the case Julliard v. Greenman, which held that Congress had the authority to make greenbacks legal tender by virtue of this section of Article I; disambig. [329]
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea or Gogo no eiko --> Mishima also authored this short novella about Noboru, who kills the titular character, Ryuji, on orders of the Chief after Ryuji commits the titular act by falling in love with Noboru's mother. [331]
Rationalism in Politics --> This famous Oakeshott essay argues against the first titular idea, namely, the notion that man can improve his political environment by applying logic. [332]
Rig --> Heimdall once took some time off from guarding Bifrost and adopted this name while visiting three couples. During these visits he fathered Jarl, Karl and Thrall on Modir, Amma and Edda. [333]
"Nocturne in Black and Gold: Falling Rocket" --> The critic John Ruskin accused the artist of this work of "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face", for which the artist sued him for libel. Name this dark 1874 painting by James Whistler that ostensibly describes a "Falling Rocket".
eutectic point --> On a binary phase diagram, this point represents the relative compositions of the two substances and the temperature at which a solid alloy and homogeneous liquid mixture can coexist; leads to Eutectic system[334]
leakage --> Due to its inherent windowing, the discrete Fourier transform introduces this phenomenon, whereby the frequency spectrum shows non-zero values seeping out from the actual frequency components of the signal; disambig. [336]
Human Growth (don't accept anything else) --> Horney paired neurosis with this two-word idea in the title of a 1950 book, perhaps her most well-known, subtitled "The Struggle Toward Self-Realization." [337]
Rose Maybud (accept either name) --> Robin Oakapple, the true baronet, is in love with this very proper woman who later falls for Robin's Francophobe foster brother Richard. [339]
"The Bait" --> John Donne begins this poem with "Come live with me, and be my love, / And we will some new pleasures prove," entreats the addressee to some fishing, and closes with "That fish, that is not catch'd thereby, / Alas! is wiser far than I"; disambig, no mention of the poem [340]
ex parte Lambdin P. Milligan --> This 1866 case held that an Indiana citizen was tried by a military tribunal unconstitutionally because open warfare was not happening and Indiana had functioning civil courts. [341]
Ronald Harry Coase --> "The Nature of the Firm" is an early work of this economist, most famous for his theorem, which states that the initial allocation of property rights is irrelevant in a world of zero transaction costs. [342]
Aldol condensation reaction --> Discovered independently by Wurtz and Borodin, this reaction produces an enolate which attacks a ketone and then deprotonates to form a beta-hydroxy compound, which may then dehydrate.
Identity and the Life Cycle --> "Ego and Development and Historical Change" and "Growth and Crises of the Health Personality" are the first two papers of this 1959 Erikson study that focuses on building the title concept. [346]
π electrons --> Hückel's rule states that 4n + 2 of these electrons must be available for delocalization to form cyclic planar compounds in which each electron also has a p-orbital; leads to pi bond
PN junction diodes (accept either or NP junction; prompt on "junction") --> For silicon, these may be created by attaching a group 5A-doped silicon to 3A-doped silicon crystal, which results in the creation of a donor-acceptor pathway and carrier-depleted space charge region. [349]
Telipinus --> This last king of the Hittite Old Kingdom promulgated a namesake legal code creating a high court, the pankus, to which even the king was subject; leads to Telipinu, "...inus" not mentioned as alternate name [350]
Grottekvarnen --> Soil was created when the sinews of Ymir were ground up in this great mill of the universe, around whose axis the world revolves. [352]
Chaac (Mayan) or Cosijo (Zapotec) (do not accept Cosijoeza) --> The Mayan rain god was an old man with frog-like features. The Zapotec rain god was a combination of a jaguar and a snake, and shared part of his name with the most famous Zapotec ruler. Name either; disambig. for Chac[356]
chair and boat (accept in either order) --> Give the two common names for the possible stable conformations of cyclohexane, named after the objects they kind of look like; both mentioned in Cyclohexane conformations, do they need their own articles? [357]
medusae --> This free-swimming dispersal stage is the only form of the Cnideria life cycle that occurs in jellyfish; disambig. for "Medusa"
graft chimeras --> Varieties of plant created as a mixture of two genetically different tissues are called graft hybrids, or these, which come up as a shoot from the point of union that contains both species. [359]
chaos --> Systems exhibiting this type of non-linear behavior are typified by pathological sensitivity to initial conditions, which effectively destroys predictive capacity. It often arises due to period multiplication at Hopf bifurcations; disambig.
Lyapunov characteristic exponents (accept "LCEs") --> One of these is positive and real for a Hamiltonian system undergoing chaos. They give the rate of divergence of phase trajectories and are generally denoted by "lower-case sigma". [360]
attractors (grudgingly accept "strange attractors") --> This is the set towards which all phase trajectories are bent. In chaotic systems, they have a banded structure due to a "stretching and folding" process, while dissipative systems tend to have ones at points. [361]
triggers --> Flip-flops switch between states from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0 by means of these input symbols; disambig, mentioned on page for Flip-flop (electronics)[363]
J-K-Master-Slave configuration or type or flip-flop --> This flip-flop inhibits racing by means of two positively and negatively clocked latches. It functions by routing input to the high enable input state in its first section, while its complement only sees input when the input state is low, ensuring that oscillations between high and low states do not occur. [364]
Arnold Rubek --> This sculptor is bored with his wife Maya and enchanted by his muse-like model Irene who disappears before they all climb a mountain in Henrik Ibsen's play When We Dead Awaken.
Johannes Rosmer --> After his invalid wife Beata kills herself, he marries the much prettier Rebecca West. Of course, the two of them decide to kill themselves as well. [365]
The Master --> First encountered by Ivan in a mental asylum, this titular figure of a Bulgakov work is the author of a book about Pontius Pilate; disambig. for "Master"
"Lady with a Little Dog" or "Lady with a Lapdog" --> This woman, whose real name is Anna Sergeyevna, meets Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov for the first time while vacationing in Yalta. [367]
Mie scattering theory --> For scattering by particles with dimensions close to the wavelength of the incoming light, this theory based on scattering by spherical particles works better than Rayleigh scattering.
seperatrices or seperatrix --> In a two-dimensional phase space, these are the lines that bound regions of open and closed phase trajectories. They often contain kinks. [369]
Poincaré-Bendixon theorem --> This theorem states that a closed region of phase space containing no equilibria and having only inwardly-directed phase trajectories crossing its boundary must contain an asymptotically stable limit cycle. It can be used to infer that phase trajectories for distinct initial conditions are non-intersecting. [370]
Tamar --> Jeffers first gained fame with a 1924 collection whose title poem refers to this character with a Biblical name. She has lots of hot incestuous sex with her brother, Lee Cauldwell; disambig, mentioned on author's page [371]
Folly (accept Follie or Moria) --> According to herself, "whoever intends to have children must have recourse to" this deity praised by Erasmus; leads to the word in an architectural sense [372]
Mutability --> In two fragmentary cantos that follow Book VI of The Fairie Queene, Spenser depicts this Titaness, who claims to be sovereign of both gods and men; leads to Immutable object[373]
Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift, D. S. P. D --> This poem begins with an epigraph from La Rochefoucauld, and concludes with a "character" of the author which he imagines overhearing at the Rose. [374]
O(lg n) ("big-O of natural log base two of n") --> Given a description of a procedure, give its asymptotic O run time in the following variables, For example, if given "Find a specific entry in an unsorted list of length n" you'd say "O(n)" or "big-O of n". Find a specific entry in a sorted list of length "n" with a binary search.
O(n lg n) ("big-O of natural n times natural log base two of n") --> Sort a list of length n using mergesort.
O(n3) ("big-O of n cubed" or "big-O of n to the third power") --> Multiply two n-by-n matrices using the grade-school method; that is, calculate each entry via the dot product of the appropriate row and column. [375]
Symphony no. 22 in E-flat major or Philosopher Symphony --> Scored for strings, two French horns, and two English horns, Haydn did not name this 1764 work himself, but its audience appreciated the first movement's reflective tone. [377]
bottleneck effects --> Often a source of genetic drift, these are random evolutionarily unfavorable events which result in drastic reduction of the number of individuals in a population. [378]
If He Hollers, Let Him Go --> In this book, his first novel, Chester Himes dealt with the bigotry endemic in the shipyards of California where he had worked before turning to writing.
cis-conformation --> The conjugated diene in the Diels-Alder reaction must be in this conformation, in which the two identical groups are on the same side of the double bond plane; leads to Cis-trans isomerism[384]
Ring --> It is a set R with two binary compositions, multiplication and addition, which has results "a+b" and "a*b" for any ordered pair (a,b) in R. Name this mathematical construct which also has an additive identity and inverse, additive and multiplicative associativity, additive commutativity and distributivity.
field --> Dedekind introduced this term, which denotes a commutative ring in which all non-zero elements have multiplicative inverses.
David Balfour --> Stevenson continued this Scottish lad's sea adventures in Catriona. He is better known as the protagonist of Kidnapped; disambig.
Du Cote de Chez Swann or Swann's Way --> This section of a larger work depicts the rise of the Verdurin family, which is intertwined with the narrator's recollection of the love of the title character, Charles, for Odette de Crecy; mentioned in In Search of Lost Time[386]
Marcel --> In addition to Charles Swann, the other principal character of Swann's Way is this narrator, who dreads sleeping alone and enjoys eating madeleines; disambig. [387]
Latifundiae --> After the Second Punic War, most private farms had been collectivized into these large cattle ranches and vineyards owned by Roman senators that covered almost all of the arable land.
chelates --> These polydentateligands may form more than one dative bond with a metal. Examples include porphyrin rings and oxalate ions. Their name comes from the Greek for "claw"; briefly mentioned in Chelation, needs own article?
"I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" or number 280 --> Name these poems by Emily Dickinson from lines: "And then I heard them lift a box / And creak across my soul / With those same boots of lead again. / Then space began to toll." [393]
"I Never Saw a Moor" or number 1052 --> "I never saw the sea / Yet I know how the heather looks / And what a wave must be." [394]
Seebeck Effect --> Thermocouples operate by this effect that produces an EMF from when two different temperatures are applied to the two end junctions; subsection of Thermoelectric effect, needs own article?
Bran --> Along with Sceolan, she was one of the celebrated hounds of Finn Mac Cool. She died in the pursuit of a white stag, usually identified as Finn's first wife, either by Finn himself or after following the fawn into a sacred pool; mentioned on page for Finn Mac Cool.
Neptunium-239 --> Uranium-238 is struck with a neutron and subsequently emits an electron. What is the resulting element? Give the mass number; leads to Isotopes of Neptunium[396]
"Saturn Devouring his Children" (accept equivalents for "devouring") --> A wild-haired and wild-eyed giant with a gaping mouth holds a bloody and headless body in this Goya painting. [397]
"Insane Woman with Envy" or "Mad Woman with Envy" or "Envy" --> An elderly female wearing ragged clothing and a bonnet stares at the viewer through eyes rimmed with red and wears a tensed scowl on her face in this unorthodox portrait by Gericault. [398]
Judge Webster Thayer --> For 15 points, This judge presided over the trial in which Sacco and Vanzettti were convicted and sentenced to death. He has often been accused of prejudice for his actions in this trial and the previous trial of anarchist Sergie Zuboff.
"Channel Firing" --> Name the Thomas Hardy poem that begins "That night your great guns, unawares, / Shook our coffins as we lay, / And broke our chancel window-squares. We thought it was the judgment-day"
Sin --> This daughter of Satan opens the gates of Hell to let her father pass through and is portrayed as a beautiful woman with the body of a snake. Her middle is ringed with hounds that constantly burrow into her womb; leads to the concept instead of the character
Maturin (Gray, Charles, Stephen, and Charles again) --> disambig. only mentions Stephen [410]
Sawhorse Diagram --> A solid wedge line stands for a bond. Thin lines emerging from its thick end represent bonds near the viewer while those from the thin end are distant from him.
Airvata --> He is the elephant, frequently shown as white, upon which Indra rides. [412]
Nora Helmer (accept either name) [Stanford wants it known that the correct translation from the Norweigian Et dukkehejm is A Doll House); mentioned in character list for "A Doll's House" [413]
Marie-Charles-Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy --> The man whose handwriting actually matched that found on the incriminating documents, as discovered by military inspector Picquart.
Kimwipes --> Omnipresent in most labs are these economical yet highly useful and delicate paper towel alternatives made by Kimberly-Clark. They are non-abrasive and do not leave stray fibers on your equipment; subsection of Kimberly-Clark[414]
cardiac (it's the cardiac orifice or cardiac sphincter) --> What adjective, indicating proximity to another body part, names the orifice joining the stomach to the esophagus; no link to either the "cardiac sphincter" or "cardiac orifice" [415]
Sofonisba Anguisola --> The Duke of Alba introduced her to the Queen of Spain around the turn of the 17th-century and she painted numerous royal Spanish portraits from then on. Anthony van Dyck painted her likeness as an old woman.
Poisseuille's equation --> It is the equation that governs fluid flow through a pipe or tube and is named for the Frenchman who proposed it.
Ormond-Daytona Beach --> Located at the mouth of the Halifax River, this 23-mile stretch was once used for automobile races for the early years of the 20th century.
Boltzmann's Entropy Equation --> Stated as S equals k natural log of W, it relates the entropy of a system to the natural log of the number of possible states. Answer: [418]
Rydberg or Ry --> When this unit of energy is used, the nth energy level of the hydrogen atom can be expressed as "minus X over a squared". Therefore, the ground state of the hydrogen atom has an energy of -1 of these; disambig. for both, mentioned on page for Rydberg constant[419]
Raglan --> This overcoat in which the sleeves go directly to the neck and without shoulder seams, is named after another marshal who led the British troops at the Battle of Inkerman; disambig. only includes an article on the Raglan sleeve
species-being --> According to Marx, a worker deprived of the qualities of productive work that differentiate man from animals is alienated from this equivalent of human nature; leads to Marx's theory of human nature[420]
Delia --> Written by Samuel Daniel, this collection was inspired by Tasso and Desportes; leads to the given name, author's page doesn't mention the "Delia poems" [421]
Periphetes --> Theseus also finished off this guy, who went by the name of Corynetes or the club-bearer; multiple figures w/same name [422]
"The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" --> It was inspired by the location of the oldest synagogue in the U.S. and includes such lines as "Alvares and Rivera interchange / With Abraham and Jacob of old times."
"Snow-Flakes" --> Longfellow writes about the title objects, "Out of the bosom of the Air, / . . . Over the woodlands brown and bare," [427]
anisotropy factor --> This quantity, symbolized g, describes the degree of directionality in a material's scattering properties.
Terry --> Though On the Road is filled with dysfunctional relationships, by the end of the novel, Sal Paradise, the narrator, actually cares for, and misses, this Mexican migrant worker with whom he lived for some months; not mentioned on disambig. page [430]
"Family of Charles IV" --> In this work, the largest of his royal portraits, completed in 1800, Goya ridicules the pomposity and vulgarity of the Spanish court.
Karl Lindner (accept either name) --> A Raisin in the Sun ends with the Younger family moving to Clybourne Street, even though this man tries to buy them off in the hopes of keeping his neighborhood all-white. [431]
Beneatha --> The play also features a battle for the heart of this woman, Walter Lee's sister, who is college educated and dreams of becoming a doctor, between Joseph Asagai and George Murchison. [432]
neosilicates --> This subclass of the silicates is characterized by a crystal structure of only a single tetrahedron. Its members include garnet, olivine, andalusite, and topaz. [433]
Thyroxine --> It controls the rate of metabolic processes and affects physical development. Its production is stimulated by TSH; one of two hormones mentioned in Thyroid hormones[435]
Figaro (prompt on "Barber of Seville") --> This literary character helps the rakish Count Almaviva elope with the maid Rosina behind the back of her stern father Dr. Bartolo. Name this character, an apothecary and perhaps the most famous fictional barber ever; disambig.
Be fruitful and multiply (accept close equivalents) --> What is the first commandment given by God in the Torah (Old Testament), hint it appears in the first chapter of Genesis; leads to Cultural mandate[436]
Faehmel Family --> One member of this family named Johanna escapes from a sanatorium hoping to murder "Old Wobbly" Vacano. Name this literary family whose patriarch built St. Anthony's Abbey and whose most prominent member, Robert, goes to the Prince Heinrich Hotel every morning to play the title game of a novel. [438]
The Flower Sermon --> Scholars of Zen trace its origins back to Mahakasyapa's ability to gain enlightenment from this event, in which the Buddha simply held the titular object aloft. It started a tradition of direct passage of knowledge from master to student without scripture. [439]
"The soul selects her own society" --> This poem's second stanza begins "Unmoved, she notes the chariot's pausing / At her low gate". The speaker of this poem comments the title entity performs the title action and "Then shuts the door". [442]
Lucas Islands model --> This model imagines a number of producers who wish to match their output to a monotonic increasing supply schedule that is based on overall price, but they don't know what that price is. Name this model developed by a Nobel-winning Chicago school economist which predicts that short-run inflation will cause an increase in output, but long-run inflation will not. It takes its name from the supposed locations of each of the producers. [444]
secondary xylem (prompt on xylem) --> This vascular tissue is found in dicots but not monocots. It arises from differentiation of the inner edge of the vascular cambium and, when hardened into wood, is responsible for a tree's growth rings; mentioned in xylem, needs own article? [447]
"Why I Live at the P.O" --> The action of this work takes place on the 4th of July in China Grove, where Stella-Rondo returns with her daughter Shirley. Name this short story in which Uncle Rondo, Papa-Daddy, and Mama all side with Stella-Rondo against the protagonist, who leaves the house for the title establishment. [448]
"Petrified Man" --> In this Eudora Welty story, the hairdresser Leota visits a freak show with Mrs. Pike where they see the title character, who they discover is actually a convicted rapist running from the law named Mr. Petrie. [449]
pragnanz (accept "pithiness" or word forms) --> Like other Gestalt psychologists, Max Wertheimer believed in this principle, which states that humans tend to view the world as orderly, neat and compact; subsection of Gestalt psychology, needs own article? [450]
Dr. Bernard Rieux --> He is asked to burn the papers of Joseph Grand, who has been continually rewriting the first sentence of his book for years. Name this character who works with Jean Tirrou and Castel to run a volunteer hospital after...[451]
Father Paneloux --> This Jesuit priest living in Oran gives a sermon claiming the death of Othon's young son is a test of faith. He dies after refusing to call a doctor when he becomes sick. [452]
Lucius Tullius Cimber --> This senator was made governor of Bythinia by Julius Caesar, though this didn't keep him from conspiring to kill Caesar. According to Suetonius, he was the one giving the sign for the assassination, by grabbing Caesar by the shoulders and pulling off his tunic. [453]
lock-in amplifiers or lock-in detectors --> These devices allow for detection of low-amplitude narrow-band signals in a noisy input by modulating the input by some fixed reference, which is typically generated by a phase-locked loop. [454]
Mode-locked laser --> This type of laser outputs a periodic train of ultra-short pules, on the pico- to femtosecond timescale. Its name derives from the fixed phase relation between the cavity modes present in the pulses. [455]
"The Mower Against Gardens" --> It concludes that "howsoe'er the Figures do excel / The Gods themselves with us do dwell". Name this poem which describes how "luxurious man" did "after him the World seduce" and which observes that men have searched "through oceans new / To find the Marvel of Peru". [457]
"An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" --> Andrew Marvell admonishes the title character of this poem that "Besides the force it has to fright / the spirits of the shady night / The same arts that did gain a power, must it maintain", although he "march indefatigably on". [458]
Desolation (accept Desolacion) --> This volume includes "The Teacher's Prayer" and a prose poem about "children's hair" which suggests that such hair is even better than an angel's wing for certain posthumous purposes. Name this 1922 book, which was published by an author who in that year moved to Mexico to work for the Ministry of Education; disambig. [459]
green gland or antennary gland --> This gland in the crustacean excretory system is named for the color of the waste it excretes. In organisms such as lobsters, it excretes waste out the top of the organism's head; leads to Coxal gland, no mention of "green gland" as alternate name [461]
"Blockhead Slave" --> This unfinished Michelangelo sculpture depicts a man still encased in marble as he tries to free himself. It was also meant for the tomb of Julius II. [463]
Jamila Singer or Brass Monkey --> This woman is Saleem's sister who becomes a national singing sensation in Pakistan after she is exiled and never appears in public because it would reveal she is Indian. She has a simian nickname; disambig, but prob'ly not the Beastie Boys song [467]
Sophia Western (prompt on "Western") --> Tom Jones eventually falls in love with the daughter of an abusive father who rejects Master Bliill's advances and eventually goes back to Tom despite his dalliances with Molly Seagrim. [468]
Hernan de Cortes --> A critical factor in this man's survival was the capable guiding and translating of a woman known as La Malinche, with whom he eventually fathered Martin. Identify this Spanish conquistador best-known for causing problems for Moctezuma II and the Aztecs after arriving in Mexico looking like Quetzalcoatl. [470]
species-being --> According to Marx, a worker deprived of the qualities of productive work that differentiate man from animals is alienated from this equivalent of human nature; leads to Marx's theory of human nature[471]
Delia --> Written by Samuel Daniel, this collection was inspired by Tasso and Desportes; leads to the given name, author's page doesn't mention the "Delia poems" [472]
Periphetes --> Theseus also finished off this guy, who went by the name of Corynetes or the club-bearer; multiple figures w/same name [473]
"The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" --> It was inspired by the location of the oldest synagogue in the U.S. and includes such lines as "Alvares and Rivera interchange / With Abraham and Jacob of old times."
"Snow-Flakes" --> Longfellow writes about the title objects, "Out of the bosom of the Air, / . . . Over the woodlands brown and bare," [478]
anisotropy factor --> This quantity, symbolized g, describes the degree of directionality in a material's scattering properties.
Terry --> Though On the Road is filled with dysfunctional relationships, by the end of the novel, Sal Paradise, the narrator, actually cares for, and misses, this Mexican migrant worker with whom he lived for some months; not mentioned on disambig. page [481]
"Family of Charles IV" --> In this work, the largest of his royal portraits, completed in 1800, Goya ridicules the pomposity and vulgarity of the Spanish court.
Karl Lindner (accept either name) --> A Raisin in the Sun ends with the Younger family moving to Clybourne Street, even though this man tries to buy them off in the hopes of keeping his neighborhood all-white. [482]
Beneatha --> The play also features a battle for the heart of this woman, Walter Lee's sister, who is college educated and dreams of becoming a doctor, between Joseph Asagai and George Murchison. [483]
neosilicates --> This subclass of the silicates is characterized by a crystal structure of only a single tetrahedron. Its members include garnet, olivine, andalusite, and topaz. [484]
Thyroxine --> It controls the rate of metabolic processes and affects physical development. Its production is stimulated by TSH; one of two hormones mentioned in Thyroid hormones[486]
Figaro (prompt on "Barber of Seville") --> This literary character helps the rakish Count Almaviva elope with the maid Rosina behind the back of her stern father Dr. Bartolo. Name this character, an apothecary and perhaps the most famous fictional barber ever; disambig.
Be fruitful and multiply (accept close equivalents) --> What is the first commandment given by God in the Torah (Old Testament), hint it appears in the first chapter of Genesis; leads to Cultural mandate[487]
Faehmel Family --> One member of this family named Johanna escapes from a sanatorium hoping to murder "Old Wobbly" Vacano. Name this literary family whose patriarch built St. Anthony's Abbey and whose most prominent member, Robert, goes to the Prince Heinrich Hotel every morning to play the title game of a novel. [489]
The Flower Sermon --> Scholars of Zen trace its origins back to Mahakasyapa's ability to gain enlightenment from this event, in which the Buddha simply held the titular object aloft. It started a tradition of direct passage of knowledge from master to student without scripture. [490]
"The soul selects her own society" --> This poem's second stanza begins "Unmoved, she notes the chariot's pausing / At her low gate". The speaker of this poem comments the title entity performs the title action and "Then shuts the door". [493]
Lucas Islands model --> This model imagines a number of producers who wish to match their output to a monotonic increasing supply schedule that is based on overall price, but they don't know what that price is. Name this model developed by a Nobel-winning Chicago school economist which predicts that short-run inflation will cause an increase in output, but long-run inflation will not. It takes its name from the supposed locations of each of the producers. [495]
secondary xylem (prompt on xylem) --> This vascular tissue is found in dicots but not monocots. It arises from differentiation of the inner edge of the vascular cambium and, when hardened into wood, is responsible for a tree's growth rings; mentioned in xylem, needs own article? [498]
"Why I Live at the P.O" --> The action of this work takes place on the 4th of July in China Grove, where Stella-Rondo returns with her daughter Shirley. Name this short story in which Uncle Rondo, Papa-Daddy, and Mama all side with Stella-Rondo against the protagonist, who leaves the house for the title establishment. [499]
"Petrified Man" --> In this Eudora Welty story, the hairdresser Leota visits a freak show with Mrs. Pike where they see the title character, who they discover is actually a convicted rapist running from the law named Mr. Petrie. [500]
pragnanz (accept "pithiness" or word forms) --> Like other Gestalt psychologists, Max Wertheimer believed in this principle, which states that humans tend to view the world as orderly, neat and compact; subsection of Gestalt psychology, needs own article? [501]
Dr. Bernard Rieux --> He is asked to burn the papers of Joseph Grand, who has been continually rewriting the first sentence of his book for years. Name this character who works with Jean Tirrou and Castel to run a volunteer hospital after...[502]
Father Paneloux --> This Jesuit priest living in Oran gives a sermon claiming the death of Othon's young son is a test of faith. He dies after refusing to call a doctor when he becomes sick. [503]
Lucius Tullius Cimber --> This senator was made governor of Bythinia by Julius Caesar, though this didn't keep him from conspiring to kill Caesar. According to Suetonius, he was the one giving the sign for the assassination, by grabbing Caesar by the shoulders and pulling off his tunic. [504]
lock-in amplifiers or lock-in detectors --> These devices allow for detection of low-amplitude narrow-band signals in a noisy input by modulating the input by some fixed reference, which is typically generated by a phase-locked loop. [505]
Mode-locked laser --> This type of laser outputs a periodic train of ultra-short pules, on the pico- to femtosecond timescale. Its name derives from the fixed phase relation between the cavity modes present in the pulses. [506]
"The Mower Against Gardens" --> It concludes that "howsoe'er the Figures do excel / The Gods themselves with us do dwell". Name this poem which describes how "luxurious man" did "after him the World seduce" and which observes that men have searched "through oceans new / To find the Marvel of Peru". [508]
"An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" --> Andrew Marvell admonishes the title character of this poem that "Besides the force it has to fright / the spirits of the shady night / The same arts that did gain a power, must it maintain", although he "march indefatigably on". [509]
Desolation (accept Desolacion) --> This volume includes "The Teacher's Prayer" and a prose poem about "children's hair" which suggests that such hair is even better than an angel's wing for certain posthumous purposes. Name this 1922 book, which was published by an author who in that year moved to Mexico to work for the Ministry of Education; disambig. [510]
green gland or antennary gland --> This gland in the crustacean excretory system is named for the color of the waste it excretes. In organisms such as lobsters, it excretes waste out the top of the organism's head; leads to Coxal gland, no mention of "green gland" as alternate name [512]
"Blockhead Slave" --> This unfinished Michelangelo sculpture depicts a man still encased in marble as he tries to free himself. It was also meant for the tomb of Julius II. [514]
Jamila Singer or Brass Monkey --> This woman is Saleem's sister who becomes a national singing sensation in Pakistan after she is exiled and never appears in public because it would reveal she is Indian. She has a simian nickname; disambig, but prob'ly not the Beastie Boys song [518]
Sophia Western (prompt on "Western") --> Tom Jones eventually falls in love with the daughter of an abusive father who rejects Master Bliill's advances and eventually goes back to Tom despite his dalliances with Molly Seagrim. [519]
Hernan de Cortes --> A critical factor in this man's survival was the capable guiding and translating of a woman known as La Malinche, with whom he eventually fathered Martin. Identify this Spanish conquistador best-known for causing problems for Moctezuma II and the Aztecs after arriving in Mexico looking like Quetzalcoatl. [521]
trolley car problem (accept logical equivalents such as train car) --> Harvard psychologist Joshua Greene has conducted experiments that use fMRI to image the brains of people contemplating this problem. Identify this philosophical problem, first posed by Philippa Foot, in which it is asked what actions are acceptable to prevent the namesake vehicle from running over a group of people. [522]
President Dwight David Eisenhower's Farewell Address or reasonable equivalents including "Eisenhower" and some indication that he gave the speech on the occasion of his leaving office) [523]
The Green Pope or El Papa Verde --> The protagonist is a sorcerer who appeases the river god Motagua by giving him the maiden Mayari in marriage. Name this novel serving as the second volume in a trilogy that fictionalizes the Mnior Cooper Keith as the title figure George Maker Thompson. [524]
Noah Joad (prompt on "Joad") --> This character was deformed at birth when his father tried to deliver him before the midwife arrived, leading to his skull being twisted. Name this character who decides to abandon his family and try to survive by fishing when he reaches the Colorado River. [525]
the Wyatts --> Probably the most famous member of this family is Sir Thomas the Younger, who led a rebellion against Mary I of England that was stopped at the gates of London. Name this English aristocratic family, another member of which was the first governor of Virginia; leads to The Wyatt Family, a professional wrestling team [526]
Pauli exclusion Principle --> Since white dwarves do not undergo fusion, they are supported against collapse by electron degenerate pressure. That pressure is based on this concept that states that multiple fermions with the same properties cannot have the same place in space. [527]
Asch experiments --> Originally advertised as a vision test, it served to test the power of conformity. Name these experiments wherein subjects were asked to describe the lengths of lines, not knowing that the other participants were actors whose matching incorrect answers were scripted ahead of time. [530]
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy -->Susannah fails to pronounce the title character's name correctly, which leads to a mis-christening. Identify this 18th century novel by Laurence Sterne, in which Walter's lofty plans for his son are continually dashed by a series of unfortunate events, including a botched conception and an accidental circumcision. [532]
Corporal Trim --> This corporal, whose real name is James Butler, humors Tristram's Uncle Toby by playing war games with miniature soldiers on his bowling green. However, his real passion was that he "lov'd to advise - or rather to hear himself talk." [533]
wobble base pairing --> A common form of RNA editing sees adenosine deaminated to form inosine, a nucleoside used in this form of base pairing that explains how certain types of tRNA can apparently bond with more than one odon. [535]
boosts --> The matrix form of these transformations on a Minkowski space contains a block of hyperbolic sines and cosines in the upper left, with ones on the rest of the diagonal. They are transformations that couple the space and time components. [536]
Little Nell Trent --> In terms of awful little children, you can't really beat this character from The Old Curiosity Shop who has her life ruined by Daniel Quilp. At least she dies, much to the chagrin of Kit Nubbles and the delight of readers; disambig. [538]
Mrs. Sarah Gamp --> This woman is a loud, opinionated drunk that always carries around an umbrella. She's awful, but at least she's more memorable than the title character of the novel she appears in, Martin Chuzzlewit. [539]
Savitch's Theorem --> An immediate corollary of this important theorem of space complexity named for a UCSD computer scientist is that PSPACE is equal to NPSPACE. The theorem itself shows that only a squared increase in space is needed. [540]
anti-aromaticicity (do not accept or prompt on "aromaticity") --> Cyclobutadiene is an example of an annulene with this property, in which, like a similar property, a molecule contains alternating single and double bonds, but unlike in that property, it contains 4n instead of 4n+2π electrons. [542]
Swann's Way (accept Du Côté de Chez Swann) --> The protagonist is haunted by the childhood memory of a night in Combray when he waited in his bed for a dinner party to end so his mother could come upstairs and comfort him. Name this novel titled after the road Marcel takes to reach the house of a wealthy aesthete married to Odette de Crecy rather than the path he would walk to reach the chateau of the Duke de Guermantes; leads to In Search of Lost Time[544]
Albertine Simonet --> Marcel has a prolonged affair throughout the novel with this lesbian who dies by falling off a horse. [545]
the Infernal Dance --> This notable dance appearing as the 18th movement in the original Firebird score was excerpted by Stravinsky for three concert suites. Prince Ivan is saved when the Firebird charms all the monsters in Kashchei's retinue to perform this frenzied dance. [546]
"Flowering Judas" --> In this Katherine Anne Porter story, the Mexican revolutionary Braggioni endlessly courts the American schoolteacher Laura, who gives the prisoner Eugenio enough narcotics to commit suicide. [547]
Wing Biddlebaum (accept either name) --> This character from Winesburg, Ohio is a schoolteacher, once known as Adolph Meyers, who has a proclivity to caress and stroke young boys unconsciously with his adept hands. [555]
Centaur objects --> The orbits of these objects are mostly confined between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune, and they are given both asteroidal and comet designations. They may originate from the Kuiper belt and the largest of them may be Chariklo.[556]
elan vita or vital impulse --> Shortly before this concept is introduced, it is posited that the nervous system is "a reservoir of indetermination". Identify this concept, which is posited to account for how finalism can allow for biological diversity. [557]
Diotallevi --> This character in Foucault's Pendulum is a cabalist friend of Belbo's who attributes his cancer to participation in "The Game" and partakes in classification of occult works. [558]
Weakly Iinteracting Massive Particles or WIMPs --> These particles are predicted to have a mass on the order of 100 GeV and LuX experiment in South Dakota's Homestake mine is one of many direct detection experiments searching for them. Identify these dark matter candidates, so named because they do not interact through either the strong or the electromagnetic force; disambig. for "wimp" [561]
large scale structure formation --> The dark matter gravitational background formed by WIMPs gives rise to this process, which proceeds in a hierarchical fashion and is described by the Press-Schechter formalism. The end result of this process are such object as galaxy clusters with large voids between them. [562]
Tod Clifton --> Invisible Man climaxes with a race riot in Harlem that erupts after the narrator gives an incendiary sermon at the funeral of this man who worked with the Brotherhood and was killed by a white policeman; leads to Invisible Man, needs own article? [564]
Ras the Exhorter --> During the race riot, this radical black nationalist rides a horse while leading his followers into battle against the Brotherhood. He throws a spear at the narrator; leads to Invisible Man, needs own article? [565]
Pyncheon Family --> One member of this family, Hepzibah, runs a cent-shop in her home to support her brother Clifford, who has been framed for murder by his cousin Judge Jaffrey. Name this literary family, which lives in a house built on a plot of land acquired by a Colonel who falsely accused Thomas Maule of witchcraft to obtain the property. [569]
Phoebe Pyncheon (prompt on "Pyncheon") --> This member of the Pyncheon family comes to live with her aunt Hepzibah after her mother remarries. She represents purity and falls in love with the photographer Holgrave. [570]
Material Safety Data Sheets or MSDSs --> These objects summarize, among other things, the physical characteristics of a chemical, its explosion and fire risk, its potential health risks, procedures for handling spills and first aid procedures in case of exposure. [571]
Ame-no-Uzume-no-mikoto --> Although she's more famous for luring a traumatized deity out of a cave with her alluring dance, this figure also married the guardian kami of the earth, Sarutahiko. Identify this kami, the patroness of art, dancing and the dawn, who placed a golden mirror in a tree to further entice the reticent deity. [573]
moments of the distribution --> For a continuous probability distribution, the nth one of these about some value is given by the integral from minus to plus infinity of the variable minus the value raised to the nth power times the distribution function. Identify these numbers that characterize a distribution, examples of which include the mean and the kurtosis. [574]
