text
stringlengths
16
1.25k
<b><u>pavane</u></b> [or <b><u>pavan</u></b>, <b><u>pavana</u></b>, <b><u>padovana</u></b>, <b><u>pavian</u></b>, or <b><u>pavin</u></b>; accept “Four-Note <b><u>Pavan</u></b>” or “Lachrimae <b><u>Pavan</u></b>”; accept <b><u><em>Pavane</u></b> pour une infante défunte</em> or <b><u><em>Pavane</u></b> for a Dead Princess</em>; reject “air” or “ayre”]
carbol <b><u>fuchsin</u></b> [or <b><u>carbolfuchsin</u></b>; or <b><u>Castellani’s paint</u></b>; accept basic <b><u>fuchsine</u></b>]
<b><u>Russia</b></u> [or <b><u>Russia</b></u>n Empire, Imperial <b><u>Russia</b></u>, or <b><u>Rossiy</b></u>skaya Imperiya]
<b><u>2,3-BPG</u></b> [or <b><u>2,3-bisphosphoglyceric acid</u></b> or <b><u>2,3-bisphosphoglycerate</u></b>; accept <b><u>2,3-DPG</u></b> or <b><u>2,3-diphosphoglyceric acid</u></b> or <b><u>2,3-diphosphoglycerate</u></b>]
<b><u>Rojas</u></b>&nbsp;(“ROH-hahss”) [accept Fernando de <b><u>Rojas</u></b> or Francisco de <b><u>Rojas</u></b> Zorrilla]
<b><u>vision</b></u> [or <b><u>visual</b></u> experience; accept synonyms like <b><u>see</b></u>ing or <b><u>sight</b></u>; prompt on <u>perception</u> by asking “what specific kind of perception?”; prompt on <u>experience</u> by asking “what specific kind of experience?”]
<em>A <b><u>Woman Under the Influence</b></u></em>
<b><u>death</u></b> [accept <b><u><em>Death</u></b> of a Salesman</em>; accept <em>Variations on the <b><u>Death</u></b> of Leon Trotsky</em>; accept <em>Hydriotaphia, or the <b><u>Death</u></b> of Doctor Browne</em>; accept <b><u>assassination</u></b> or <b><u>murder</u></b> after “encyclopedia” is read]
<b><u>Riga</b></u>
Joyce Carol <b><u>Oates</b></u>
<b><u>Ustaše</u></b> [or <b><u>Ustaša</u></b> or <b><u>Ustasha</u></b>s or <b><u>Ustashe</u></b>s; accept Neo-<b><u>Ustaša</u></b>s, <b><u>HRB</u></b>, <b><u>CRB</u></b>, <b><u>HNO</u></b>, <b><u>Crusaders</u></b>, <b><u>Križari</u></b>, or <b><u>Škripari</u></b>; until “Croatia” is read, accept <b><u>Croatian Revolutionary</u></b> Brotherhood, <b><u>Hrvatsko Revolucionarno</u></b> Bratstvo, Ustaša – <b><u>Croatian Revolutionary</u></b> Movement, <b><u>Hrvatski narodni otpor</u></b>, <b><u>Croatian National Resistance</u></b>, or Ustaša – <b><u>Hrvatski revolucionarni</u></b> pokret; reject “Otpor”] (Jovan Radulović wrote <em>Pigeon Hole</em>, which was banned until the 1980s. Ivan Goran Kovačić wrote “The Pit,” and Bogdan Bogdanović designed the <em>Stone Flower</em>.)
<b><u>reverse transcriptase</u></b> [accept <b><u>RT</u></b>]
<b><u>1810s</b></u> [prompt on <u>10s</u>] (The group on Lake Geneva included the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and John Polidori. Flaugergues discovered the Great Comet of 1811.)
<b><u><em>Our Town</b></u></em>
<b><u>Central Europe</b></u> [or <b><u>Mitteleuropa</b></u>; accept <b><u>Middle Europe</b></u>, East-<b><u>Central</b></u> Europe, <b><u><em>Europe Central</b></u></em>, or <b><u>Central Europe</b></u>an University; prompt on <u>Europe</u>]
<b><u>oṃ maṇi padme hū</u></b>ṃ [accept <b><u>oṃ maṇi padme om</u></b> or <b><u>oṃ maṇi padme hūn</u></b>g] (The mantra roughly means “The jewel [is] in the lotus.” Kamenetz used the spelling “JUBU,” in all caps.)
<b><u>street</u></b>s [accept “Sandra <b><u>Street</u></b>” or <em>Miguel <b><u>Street</em></u></b>]
<b><u>kastom</u></b> [accept <b><u>custom</u></b>; accept <b><u>kastom</u></b> dancing or <b><u>kastom</u></b> villages]
“<b><u>Preludes</u></b>”
<b><u><em>Islamey</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>Islamey</u></b>: Oriental Fantasy</em>]
<b><u>civil servant</u></b>s [or <b><u>bureaucrat</u></b>s, government <b><u>official</u></b>s, <b><u>clerk</u></b>s, <b><u>minister</u></b>s, <b><u>councilor</u></b>s, <b><u>registrar</u></b>s, or <b><u>secretaries</u></b>; or answers indicating Russian <b><u>government</u></b>, <b><u>bureaucracy</u></b>, or <b><u>civil service</u></b> employees; accept <em>The <b><u>Government</u></b> Inspector</em>; accept <em>The <b><u>Inspector</u></b>-General</em> or <b><u><em>Revizor</em></u></b> until “inspector” is read; accept <b><u>governor</u></b>s or <b><u>mayor</u></b>s; reject “politicians” or “generals”] (The play in the first sentence is <em>Tarelkin’s Death</em> by Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin, which was also staged by Meyerhold. The second author is Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin.)
<b><u>Arcadia</u></b> [accept <b><u>arcádia</u></b> or <b><u>Arcadi</u></b> or <b><u>Arcades</u></b> ambo; accept Academy of <b><u>Arcadia</u></b> or Nova <b><u>Arcádia</u></b>] (The quote in the second line comes from <em>Eclogue VII</em>. The penultimate line describes Philip Sidney’s <em>Arcadia</em>.)
“<b><u>My Favorite Things</b></u>”
Walt <b><u>Whitman</u></b> (The other poem is “A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg.)
the <b><u>Opie</u></b>s [accept Iona <b><u>Opie</u></b> or Peter <b><u>Opie</u></b>]
<b><u>amniotic</u></b> fluid [accept <b><u>amniotic</u></b> sac]
<b><u>Korean</u></b> [or <b><u>Hanguk</u></b>-eo] (The novel is <em>The Vegetarian</em>.)
<b><u>ball</b></u>s [or <b><u>parties</b></u>; or Walpurgis Night <b><u>Ball</b></u>; or Good Friday <b><u>Ball</b></u>; or “After the <b><u>Ball</b></u>”; accept answers such as <b><u>ball</b></u>s from <em>War and Peace</em> or <b><u>ball</b></u>s from <em>The Master and Margarita</em>; prompt on <u>dance</u>s until read; prompt on <u>celebration</u>s until read; prompt on <u>Walpurgis Night</u> until read by asking “what type of event on that night?”] (The story described in the first sentence is Tolstoy’s “After the Ball.”)
Khrushchev <b><u>Thaw</u></b> [or <b><u>De-Stalin</u></b>ization or word forms; or <b><u>ottepel</u></b>; or <b><u>destalin</u></b>izatsiya; accept First <b><u>Thaw</u></b> or Second <b><u>Thaw</u></b>; prompt on <u>Khrushchev</u> era until “Khrushchev” is read; prompt on <u>post-Stalin</u> era, <u>Soviet</u> era, <u>Cold War</u>, or equivalents of any] (Clues include Vladimir Pomerantsev, “The Heirs of Stalin” by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and the Mayakovsky Square poetry readings.)
<b><u>Confucian</u></b>ism [or <b><u>Rú</u></b>jiào or <b><u>Ruism</u></b>; accept <b><u>Nho</u></b> giáo] (Jiǎ Bǎoyù appears in <em>The Dream of the Red Chamber</em>.)
<b><u>Gayomart</u></b> [or <b><u>Kayomart</u></b>; or <b><u>Keyumars</u></b>; or <b><u>Kiomars</u></b>]
<b><u>Remus</b></u>
<b><u>Taliesin</u></b> [or <b><u>Taliesin</u></b> West; or <b><u>Taliesin</u></b> North; or <b><u>Taliesin</u></b> East; or <b><u>Taliesin</u></b> Spring Green]
<b><u>ground</u></b> [accept <b><u>ground</u></b> bass; accept <b><u>Ground</u></b> in C minor, Z. 221; accept “Two in One upon a <b><u>Ground</u></b>” or “Three Parts upon a <b><u>Ground</u></b>”; reject “round”]
<b><u>Taweret</u></b> [or <b><u>Tawaret</u></b>; or <b><u>Taueret</u></b>; or <b><u>Taurt</u></b>; or <b><u>Tuat</u></b>; or <b><u>Tuart</u></b>; or <b><u>Twert</u></b>; or <b><u>Thoeris</u></b>; or <b><u>Taouris</u></b>; or <b><u>Toeris</u></b>]
Friedrich <b><u>Hölderlin</b></u> [or Johann Christian Friedrich <b><u>Hölderlin</b></u>]
<b><u>arabesque</u></b> [or <b><u><em>Arabeske</em></u></b>]
<b><u>float</u></b>s [accept <b><u>float</u></b>ing-point numbers or <b><u>FP</u></b>]
<b><u>four-momentum</b></u> [or <b><u>momentum–energy</b></u> or <b><u>momenergy</b></u>; prompt on <u>momentum</u> or <u><em>p</u></em>]
<b><u>voyeur</u></b>ism [accept <em>The <b><u>Voyeur</em></u></b> or <em>Le <b><u>Voyeur</em></u></b>; accept any answer describing the practice of <b><u>watching</u></b> others have <b><u>sex</u></b>; prompt on <u>watch</u>ing, <u>look</u>ing, <u>spy</u>ing, or equivalents]
<b><u>phosphatase</b></u>s (“FOSS-fah-TACEs”) [accept protein <b><u>phosphatase</b></u>s, alkaline <b><u>phosphatase</b></u>s, acid <b><u>phosphatase</b></u>s, calf-intestinal alkaline <b><u>phosphatase</b></u>, Antarctic <b><u>Phosphatase</b></u>, or placental alkaline <b><u>phosphatase</b></u>; reject “dephosphorylases”]
Thomas <b><u>Kuhn</u></b> [or Thomas Samuel <b><u>Kuhn</u></b>]
Bulwer-<b><u>Lytton</b></u> [or <b><u>Bulwer</b></u>-Lytton; accept Robert Bulwer-<b><u>Lytton</b></u>; accept Lord <b><u>Lytton</b></u>; accept Edward <b><u>Bulwer</b></u> or Edward George Earle Lytton <b><u>Bulwer</b></u>; prompt on Owen <u>Meredith</u> until read]
Tsitsi <b><u>Dangarembga</b></u> (The essay collection is “Black and Female.”)
<b><u>Ukrainian</u></b> [or <b><u><em>ukrainska</u></b> mova</em>]
<b><u>Kashmir</u></b> [or Valley of <b><u>Kashmir</u></b>; accept <b><u>Jammu and Kashmir</u></b>; accept <b><u>Jammu</u></b>] (The shrine in the second sentence is Hazratbal Shrine. The “Lion of Kashmir” is Sheikh Abdullah.)
<b><u>rainbow</u></b>s [accept <b><u>Rainbow</u></b> Serpent]
<b><u>Babylon</u></b> [or <b><u>Bābilim</u></b> or <b><u>Kan dig̃irak</u></b> or <b><u>Babbar</u></b> or <b><u>Babbir</u></b> or <b><u>Pambalu</u></b> or <b><u>Babalu</u></b> or <b><u>Karduniash</u></b>; accept King of the Wide Land of <b><u>Babylon</u></b>; accept Old <b><u>Babylonian</u></b> period]
<b><u>Indus</b></u> River [or <b><u>Sindhu</b></u>; or <b><u>Mehran</b></u>; accept <b><u>Indus</b></u> River Valley; or <b><u>Indus</b></u> Valley or <b><u>Indus</b></u> Basin; accept <b><u>Indus</b></u> Valley Civilization; accept <b><u>Ravi</b></u> River or <b><u>Irvātī</b></u> or <b><u>Hydraotes</b></u>; accept <b><u>Beas</b></u> River or <b><u>Vipāśā</b></u> or <b><u>Hyphasis</b></u>; accept <b><u>Sutlej</b></u> River or <b><u>Satadru</b></u> or <b><u>Hesudrus</b></u>; accept <b><u>Soan</b></u> River or <b><u>Swan</b></u> River or <b><u>Sawan</b></u> River or <b><u>Sohan</b></u> River until mention]
<b><u>absolute</u></b>ness [accept <b><u>absolute</u></b> formulas or <b><u>absolute</u></b> formulae]
<b><u>Roman</u></b> Roy AND <b><u>Logan</u></b> Roy [accept <b><u>Romulus</u></b> Roy in place of “Roman”; prompt on the <u>Roy</u>s] (from <em>Succession</em>)
<b><u>bride</u></b>s [or <em>The Bartered</em> <em><b><u>Bride</u></b></em>; or <em>The Tsar's</em> <em><b><u>Bride</u></b></em>; or the "<b><u>Bridal</u></b> Chorus"]
Gabriel <b><u>Okara</u></b> [or Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain <b><u>Okara</u></b>]
<b><u>topological sort</b></u> [or <b><u>topological ordering</b></u>; accept <b><u>toposort</b></u>; prompt on <u>sort</u>ing or <u>order</u>ing]
Émile <b><u>Borel</b></u> [or Félix Édouard Justin Émile <b><u>Borel</b></u>; accept <b><u>Borel</b></u> equivalence relation, <b><u>Borel</b></u> determinacy theorem, <b><u>Borel</b></u> hierarchy, <b><u>Borel</b></u> sigma-algebras, or <b><u>Borel</b></u> sets]
<b><u>surface energy</u></b> [accept <b><u>sigma sub ns</u></b>; prompt on <u>energy</u>; prompt on <u>sigma</u>]
<b><u>phonology</b></u>
<em>Les <b><u>Préludes</b></u></em>
<b><u>antiferromagnetism</b></u> [or <b><u>antiferromagnetic</b></u> materials; prompt on <u>magnetism</u> or <u>magnetic</u> materials or materials with <u>magnetic</u> ordering; reject “ferromagnetism,” “diamagnetism,” “paramagnetism,” or any other more specific forms of magnetism] (The first sentence refers to spin valves.)
<b><u>sugar</u></b> [or <b><u>azúcar</u></b>; or <b><u>sugarcane</u></b>; or <b><u><em>Saccharum</em></u></b>] (Rama’s concept is “narrative transculturation.” Ortiz’s book is <em>Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar</em>.)
<b><u>wendigo</b></u> [or <b><u>windigo</b></u>, <b><u>wetiko</b></u>, <b><u>wintiko</b></u>, or <b><u>wijigo</b></u>]
<b><u>Maine</b></u>
Tommaso<b> <u>Campanella</u></b> [or Giovanni Domenico <b><u>Campanella</u></b>]
<b><u>Mathieu</u></b> groups [prompt on sharply <u>multiply transitive</u> groups]
<b><u>Glaucon</b></u>
<b><u>enjamb</u></b>ment
<b><u>800</u></b> dollars
viral <b><u>latency</u></b> [or <b><u>latent</u></b>; accept <b><u>lysogeny</u></b> or <b><u>lysogenic</u></b> cycle; prompt on chronic (viral) <u>infect</u>ion; prompt on <u>dormancy</u> or <u>dormant</u> until “dormancy” is read]
<b><u>flood</b></u>s [or Great <b><u>Flood</b></u>; accept more specific answers like <b><u>flooding of the Yellow River</b></u> or <b><u>flooding of the Yangtze River</b></u>]
Shirley <b><u>Hazzard</b></u>
<b><u>nucleic acid</b></u>s [accept <b><u>DNA</b></u> until read; accept <b><u>RNA</b></u> until read and specific forms of RNA such as m<b><u>RNA</b></u> or t<b><u>RNA</b></u> until “RNA” is read; accept <b><u>oligo</b></u>nucleotides; accept <b><u>primer</b></u>s; prompt on <u>polymer</u>s; prompt on <u>oligomers</u>]
Saint <b><u>Anthony</b></u> [accept <em>The Temptation of St. <b><u>Anthony</b></u></em>] (The earlier painting is Bosch’s <em>Temptation of Saint Anthony</em>.)
“<b><u>EPICAC</u></b>”
<b><u>Stetson</u></b>s [prompt on <u>hat</u>s, cowboy <u>hat</u>s, or campaign <u>hat</u>s]
<b><u>brown dwarf</u></b> stars [or <b><u>brown dwarf</u></b>s; accept <b><u>brown dwarf</u></b> desert or methane <b><u>brown dwarf</u></b>s; prompt on <u>dwarf</u> stars; prompt on <u>failed star</u>s or <u>star</u>s until read]
George <b><u>Sand</u></b> [or Amantine Lucile Aurore <b><u>Dupin</u></b> de Francueil]
<b><u><em>şehzade</em></u></b>&nbsp;(“shay-zah-DEH”) [or <b><u><em>shâhzâde</em></u></b>&nbsp;(“shah-zah-DEH”); accept <b><u>Ottoman</u></b> crown <b><u>prince</u></b> or <b><u>heir-apparent</u></b> to the <b><u>Ottoman</u></b> Empire; prompt on crown <u>prince</u> or <u>heir</u>-apparent by asking “in which Empire?”; prompt on <u>children</u> of the <u>Ottoman Sultan</u> or <u>children</u> of the <u>Ottoman Emperor</u>; reject “Ottoman Sultan,” “Ottoman Emperor,” or “Ottoman Caliph”]
<b><u>Comecon</u></b>&nbsp;(“COM-uh-CON”) [or <b><u>Council for Mutual Economic Assistance</u></b>; accept <b><u>CMEA</u></b> or <b><u>CEMA</u></b>]
<b><u>Cincinnati</u></b> [accept <b><u>Cincinnati</u></b> Tablet; prompt on <u>Cincinnatus</u>] (The third sentence refers to Lane Theological Seminary.)
<b><u>Mercosur</u></b> [or <b><u>Southern Common Market</u></b>; or <b><u>Mercosul</u></b>]
<b><u>georgic</b></u>s [accept <em>The <b><u>Georgic</b></u>s</em>; accept <b><u><em>Georgic</b></u>a</em>; prompt on <u>didactic</u> poem until “didactic” is read; prompt on <u>pastoral</u>s or <u>bucolic</u>s or descriptions of poems to do with <u>agriculture</u> or <u>farming</u>; reject “eclogues”] (The first clue appears in <em>The Life of Samuel Johnson</em>; the 1697 translation is by John Dryden.)
<b><u>DMSO</u></b> [or <b><u>dimethyl sulfoxide</u></b>; accept deuterated <b><u>DMSO</u></b> or <b><u>dimethyl sulfoxide</u></b>-d6; prompt on <u>DMF</u> or <u>dimethylformamide</u> until “Pummerer” is read by asking “what is the other non-cyclic solvent commonly used?”] (The cyclic relative is sulfolane, another polar aprotic solvent with an oxygen–sulfur double bond.)
<b><u>Algeria</u></b> [or People’s Democratic Republic of <b><u>Algeria</u></b>; accept “My <b><u>Algeria</u></b>nce”] (The author is Albert Camus.)
<b><u><em>Don Giovanni</b></u></em>
<b><u>phosphorescence</u></b> [prompt on <u>luminescence</u>; reject “fluorescence”]
<b><u>shoot</u></b>ing an <b><u>apple</u></b> off the <b><u>head</u></b> of one’s child [prompt on <u>archery</u> or <u>shoot</u>ing by asking “what is the target?”; prompt on <u>shoot</u>ing an <u>apple</u> or <u>apple-shot</u> or <u>Apfelschuss</u> by asking “off of what?”; prompt on <u>shoot</u>ing at one’s <u>child</u> or <u>shoot</u>ing at the <u>head</u> of one’s child]
<b><u>Pashtun</u></b>s [or <b><u>Pakhtun</u></b>s; or <b><u>Pathan</u></b>s; accept <b><u>Pashto</u></b>; prompt on <u>Kabuliwala</u>; prompt on <u>Afghan</u>s or <u>Afghani</u>s until “Afghanistan” is read] (The Mumbai don is Karim Lala. The activist is Abdul Ghaffar Khan, who led the Khudai Khidmatgar movement.)
<b><u>clarinet</b></u>
<b><u>nudity</u></b> [or being <b><u>nude</u></b>; or <b><u>naked</u></b>ness; accept equivalents like being <b><u>unclothed</u></b>; accept answers mentioning display of the <b><u>genitals</u></b> or equivalents; prompt on <u>sexual</u>ity or <u>sexual</u>ized by asking “as depicted via what visual characteristic?”] (Leo Steinberg coined the phrase <em>ostentatio genitalium</em>, or “display of the genitals,” in <em>The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion</em>.)
<b><u>Athena</b></u> [or Pallas <b><u>Athena</b></u>]
<b><u><em>C. elegans</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>C</u></b>aenorhabditis <b><u>elegans</em></u></b>; prompt on <u><em>Caenorhabditis</em></u>] (SID-1 and SID-2 are responsible for environmental RNA uptake; lin-4 is the first discovered microRNA.)
<b><u>Chicago</u></b> City <b><u>Council</u></b> [accept phrases like <b><u>Chicago</u></b>’s <b><u>council</u></b>; accept <b><u>Chicago</u></b>’s board of <b><u>aldermen</u></b> or <b><u>alderperson</u></b>s until “alderpersons” is read; prompt on <u>Chicago</u> government or <u>Chicago</u>’s legislature; prompt on the <u>council</u> or <u>Council</u> Wars by asking “of what city?”; prompt on <u>alderperson</u>s or <u>aldermen</u> until “alderpersons” is read by asking “of what city?”] (Richard M.&nbsp;Daley bulldozed Meigs Field Airport. “Good government guys” have opposed aldermanic privilege/prerogative.)
Nayib <b><u>Bukele</b></u> [or Nayib Armando <b><u>Bukele</b></u> Ortez]
<b><u>diastereomer</u></b>s [or <b><u>diastereoisomer</u></b>s; prompt on <u>stereoisomer</u>s; reject “enantiomers”]
<b><u>obsidian</u></b> [or <b><u>perlite</u></b>; prompt on <u>rock</u> or igneous <u>rock</u> or volcanic <u>rock</u>; prompt on <u>glass</u> or volcanic <u>glass</u>]
<b><u>masnavi</u></b>&nbsp;(“mass-nuh-VEE”) [or <b><u>mathnawi</u></b>; or <b><u>mathnavi</u></b>; accept <b><u><em>Spiritual Couplet</u></b>s</em> or <b><u><em>Masnavi</u></b>-ye-Ma'navi</em>; prompt on <u>couplet</u>s or <u>distich</u>s] (<em>Book of Eternity</em> is by Muhammad Iqbal. <em>The Walled Garden of Truth</em> is by Sanā'ī.)
<b><u>discount</u></b>ing [or delay <b><u>discount</u></b>ing; or temporal <b><u>discount</u></b>ing; or <b><u>discount</u></b> function; or exponential <b><u>discount</u></b>ing; or hyperbolic <b><u>discount</u></b>ing; or <b><u>discount</u></b> factor; or <b><u>discount</u></b> rate; accept <b><u>time preference</u></b>; or exponential <b><u>time preference</u></b>; or hyperbolic <b><u>time preference</u></b>]
Athenian <b><u>wall</u></b>s [or the Long <b><u>Wall</u></b>s; or Themistoclean <b><u>Wall</u></b>s; prompt on <u>gate</u> or <u>Sacred Gate</u> with “what larger structure was this part of?”; do the same with <u>Dipylon</u> until mentioned]
<b><u>Mitsunobu</u></b> reaction
<b><u>AFL</u></b> [or <b><u>American Federation of Labor</u></b>; accept <b><u>AFL</u></b>-CIO]