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<b><u>bus</u></b> [accept Universal Serial <b><u>Bus</u></b>]
<b><u>enzyme</u></b>s
Daphne <b><u>du Maurier</u></b> [or Dame Daphne <b><u>du Maurier</u></b>, Lady Browning; prompt on “Lady <u>Browning</u>”]
<b><u>Germany</u></b> [or <b><u>Deutschland</u></b>; or Federal Republic of <b><u>Germany</u></b>; or Bundesrepublik <b><u>Deutschland</u></b>; prompt on <u>Sweden</u> or <u>Sverige</u> or <u>Pomerania</u> by asking “What modern-day country did they live and work in?” since technically both were born in Swedish Pomerania] (The other artist mentioned is Caspar David Friedrich.)
<em>The <b><u>New Yorker</b></u></em>
<b><u><em>B</u></b>rachypodium</em> <b><u><em>distachyon</u></b> </em>[accept <b><u><em>B. distachyon</em></u></b>; prompt on <u><em>Brachypodium</em></u>]
<b><u>death</u></b> of <b><u>Shaka</u></b> Zulu [accept <b><u>murder</u></b>, <b><u>assassination</u></b>, or synonyms in place of “death”; accept <em>La <b><u>Mort</u></b> de <b><u>Chaka</em></u></b>] (Kunene’s epic is <em>Emperor Shaka the Great</em>.)
<b><u>nothing</u></b>ness [or absolute <b><u>nothing</u></b>ness; or <em>zettai-<b><u>mu</u></b></em>; or <b><u>negation</u></b>; accept <em><b><u>sunyata</u></b></em> before mention; accept <em>Religion and</em> <em><b><u>Nothing</u></b>ness</em>; or <em>Being and</em> <em><b><u>Nothing</u></b>ness</em>]
<b><u>Ereshkigal</b></u> [or <b><u>Irkalla</b></u>] (The supposed Greek analog is Persephone.)
<b><u>wedding</u></b>s [accept “<b><u>Wedding</u></b> Wind”; accept “The Whitsun <b><u>Weddings</u></b>”]
<b><u>rogue wave</b></u>s [accept optical <b><u>rogue wave</b></u>s; prompt on water <u>wave</u>s or freak ocean <u>wave</u>s; prompt on <u>soliton</u>s]
computer <b><u>chip</b></u>s [or <b><u>microchip</b></u>s, application-specific <b><u>integrated circuits</b></u>, <b><u>IC</b></u>s, or <b><u>ASIC</b></u>s; prompt on printed circuit <u>board</u>s or <u>PCB</u>s; prompt on <u>semiconductors</u> or <u>electronics]</u>
<b><u>hetero</b></u>sexuality [or <b><u>straight</b></u>ness; accept <b><u>het</b></u> or comp<b><u>het</b></u>; accept compulsory <b><u>heterosexuality</b></u> or “Compulsory <b><u>Heterosexuality</b></u> and Lesbian Existence”; accept <em>The Invention of <b><u>Heterosexuality</b></u></em>; reject “heteronormativity”]
Ivan <b><u>Turgenev</u></b> [or Ivan Sergeyevich <b><u>Turgenev</u></b>]
Jawaharlal <b><u>Nehru</b></u>
<b><u>Roger</u></b> <b><u>Ackroyd</u></b> [accept either underlined name; accept <em>The Murder of <b><u>Roger</u></b> <b><u>Ackroyd</em></u></b>; accept “Who Cares Who Killed <b><u>Roger</u></b> <b><u>Ackroyd</u></b>?”]
<b><u>San Francisco Tape Music Center</u></b> [or <b><u>SFTMC</u></b>; accept <b><u>Mills Tape Music Center</u></b> or <b><u>MTMC</u></b>; accept <b><u>Center for Contemporary Music</u></b> or <b><u>CCM</u></b>]
<b><u>carbon dioxide</u></b> [or <b><u>CO2</u></b>]
Free<b><u>mason</u></b>s [or Free<b><u>mason</u></b>ry] (The second line refers to the Scottish Rite.)
<b><u>United States</u></b> of <b><u>America</u></b> [or <b><u>USA</u></b>; accept either underlined part]
Arthur <b><u>Schopenhauer</b></u>
<b><u>inertia</u></b> [accept <b><u>inertial</u></b> measurement unit or moment of <b><u>inertia</u></b>]
Isamu <b><u>Noguchi</b></u>
“<b><u>You Just Don’t Understand</u></b>: Troubled Engagements Between Feminists and IR Theorists” [accept <b><u><em>You Just Don’t Understand</u></b>: Women and Men in Conversation</em>]
<b><u>Persian</b></u> Gulf [accept Gulf of <b><u>Iran</b></u>; accept <b><u>Gulf of Fars</b></u> or <b><u>xalij-e fârs</b></u>; accept <b><u>Arabian Gulf</b></u> or <b><u>Al-Khalīj al-Arabī</b></u>; prompt on <u>Tigris</u> or <u>Euphrates</u> until read by asking “what body of water do they drain into?”; prompt on <u>Arabian</u> Sea or <u>Erythraean</u> Sea or <u>Indian</u> Ocean until read by asking “what body of water is an extension of it?”]
<b><u>American flag</u></b>s [accept any answer indicating the <b><u>flag</u></b> of the <b><u>U</u></b>nited <b><u>S</u></b>tates of America; or <b><u>Old Glory</u></b>; prompt on <u>flag</u>s; prompt on People’s <u>Flag</u> Show] (Rainer and other dancers performed <em>Trio A With Flags</em> wearing nothing except American flags tied around their necks.)
<b><u>vibe</u></b>s [or <b><u>vibe</u></b> shifts; accept “A Theory of <b><u>Vibe</u></b>”] (Monahan claims he coined the term “vibe shift.”)
<b><u>Tanabe–Sugano</u></b> diagrams [prompt on partial answer; prompt on <u>T–S</u> diagrams]
Benito <b><u>Mussolini</u></b> (The two philosophers mentioned are Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile.)
<b><u>Persian</u></b> [or <b><u>Farsi</u></b>; accept <b><u>Dari</u></b> or <b><u>Tajik</u></b>i before read; accept <b><u>Bukhori</u></b> or <b><u>Bukharian</u></b> or Judeo-<b><u>Tajik</u></b>]
Ludwig van Beethoven’s <b><u>Violin Concerto</u></b> in D major, Opus 61
<b><u><em>Measure for Measure</b></u></em>
<b><u>Chinese</u></b> [or Indian <b><u>Chinese</u></b>; or <b><u>Han</u></b> Indians; or <b><u>Hakka</u></b> Indians; accept any description of people with ancestry from <b><u>China</u></b> living in India; prompt on <u>Indochinese</u>; do not accept or prompt on “Indians”]
<b><u><em>Effi Briest</em></u></b> (“breest”)
<b><u>Detroit</b></u>
<b><u>Victoria</u></b>
<b><u>P</u></b>ercy Bysshe <b><u>Shelley</u></b> [prompt on <u>Shelley</u>]
Ned <b><u>Block</u></b> [accept <b><u>Block</u></b>head]
<b><u>singspiel</u></b> (“ZING-shpeel”) [or <b><u>Singspiele</u></b>]
<b><u>law</b></u> [or civil <b><u>law</b></u>; or <b><u>jurisprudence</b></u>; or <b><u>legal</b></u> theory; or <b><u><em>ius</b></u></em>; accept Roman <b><u>law</b></u>; accept Byzantine <b><u>law</b></u>; accept <em>Corpus <b><u>Juris</b></u> Civilis</em> until read] (The motto of Berytus, modern Beirut, was “Berytus Nutrix Legum,” or “Berytus, Mother of Laws.”)
<b><u>fire</u></b> [or <b><u>combust</u></b>ion; or <b><u>burn</u></b>ing; or forest <b><u>fire</u></b>s; or bush<b><u>fire</u></b>s; or brush <b><u>fire</u></b>s; or wild<b><u>fire</u></b>s]
<b><u>Paris</b></u> (The first sentence refers to Roberto Bolaño’s <em>Monsieur Pain</em>.)
Jacques <b><u>Lacan</b></u> [or Jacques Marie Émile <b><u>Lacan</b></u>]
<b><u>Ba’ath</u></b> (“bahth”) Party [or Arab Socialist <b><u>Baʿth</u></b> Party; or <em>Ḥizb al-<b><u>Baʿth</u></b> al-ʿArabī al-Ishtirākī</em>; or Arab <b><u>Ba’ath</u></b> Party]
<b><u><em>Annie Get Your Gun</b></u></em>
<b><u>fire</u></b> [or <b><u>flame</u></b>s; or <b><u>burn</u></b>ing; accept tongues of <b><u>flames</u></b>]
<b><u>resolution</u></b> [accept angular <b><u>resolution</u></b>; accept <b><u>resolving power</u></b>; prompt on <u>angle</u>]
<b><u>Utrecht Caravaggist</u></b>i [or <b><u>Utrecht Caravaggism</u></b>; prompt on <u>Caravaggist</u>i or <u>Caravaggism</u>; prompt on <u>Tenebrist</u>s or <u>Tenebrism</u>; prompt on <u>Utrecht</u><b> </b>school]
<b><u>chitin</b></u>
<b><u><em>Either/Or</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>Enten-Eller</em></u></b>] (by Søren Kierkegaard)
Anton <b><u>Chekhov</b></u>
<b><u>kimono</u></b> [accept <b><u><em>kosode</em></u></b>; accept <b><u><em>furisode</em></u></b>; accept <b><u><em>yukata</em></u></b>]
<b><u>polynomial</u></b>s
<b><u>Cas</u></b> nucleases [or <b><u>CRISPR associated protein</u></b>s; accept CRISPR/<b><u>Cas9</u></b> or <b><u>Cas12</u></b>a or <b><u>Cas13</u></b>a; prompt on DNA endo<u>nuclease</u>s or RNA endo<u>nuclease</u>s until “endonucleases” is read; reject “CRISPR”] (MAGeCK designs GeCKo knockout libraries.)
<b><u>well-made</u></b> play [or <em>pièce <b><u>bien faite</em></u></b>]
Lucille <b><u>Clifton</u></b> [or Thelma Lucille <b><u>Sayles</u></b>] (That poem is “homage to my hips.”)
demographic <b><u>dividend</b></u>
<b><u>occasional</b></u>ism
Franz <b><u>Liszt</u></b> [or <b><u>Liszt</u></b> Ferenc]
Busby <b><u>Berkeley</u></b> [or Berkeley William <b><u>Enos</u></b>]
the <b><u>Moon</u></b> [accept the Earth’s <b><u>moon</u></b>]
<b><u>Romance</u></b> languages
<b><u>Vienna</b></u> [or <b><u>Wien</b></u>; accept <b><u>Vienna</b></u> Philharmonic Orchestra or <b><u>Wien</b></u>er Philharmoniker; accept <b><u>Wien</b></u>er pumpen or <b><u>Viennese</b></u> valves; accept “<b><u>Wien</b></u>er Blut” or “<b><u>Viennese</b></u> Blood,” Op. 354; accept “Tales from the <b><u>Vienna</b></u> Woods” or “Geschichten aus dem <b><u>Wien</b></u>erwald,” Op. 325] (The second clue refers to the “schlep” in a Viennese waltz.)
<b><u>boson</b></u>s [accept gauge <b><u>boson</b></u>s or Nambu–Goldstone <b><u>boson</b></u>s; accept X <b><u>boson</b></u> or Y <b><u>boson</b></u> or W <b><u>boson</b></u> or Z <b><u>boson</b></u> or Higgs <b><u>boson</b></u>; reject specific answers that do not mention “boson”]
laser <b><u>pulse</u></b>s [accept <b><u>pulsed</u></b> lasers; prompt on <u>laser</u>s; prompt on laser <u>peak</u>s or laser intensity <u>peak</u>s by asking “what causes those?”]
<b><u>Brás</b></u> Cubas [or Brás <b><u>Cubas</b></u>; accept<em> The Posthumous Memoirs of <b><u>Brás</b></u> Cubas</em> or <em>Memórias Póstumas de <b><u>Brás</b></u> Cubas</em>]
Mohammed <b><u>Mossadegh</u></b> [or Mohammed <b><u>Mossadeq</u></b>; or Mohammed <b><u>Mossadiq</u></b>]
<b><u>Maccabean</u></b> Revolt [accept revolt of the <b><u>Maccabee</u></b>s or equivalents; accept <b><u>Hasmonean</u></b> revolt; accept the conflict between <b><u>Antiochus IV</u></b> Epiphanes and <b><u>Judea</u></b> or equivalents until “Antiochus” is read; prompt on descriptions of <u>Jew</u>ish revolts until “Jews” is read; prompt on <u>anti-Seleucid</u> revolts until “Seleucid” is read] (According to 2 Maccabees, Antiochus IV massacred Jerusalem after the Romans forced his withdrawal from Egypt in the Sixth Syrian War. The second sentence refers to Jonathan Apphus during Alexander Balas’s rivalry with Demetrius I.)
<b><u>dropout</u></b> [prompt on <u>dilution</u>]
hydrocarbon <b><u>cracking</b></u> [prompt on oil <u>refining</u> or petroleum <u>refining</u>]
<b><u>X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy</u></b> [or <b><u>XPS</u></b>; prompt on <u>photoelectron spectroscopy</u> or <u>PES</u>]
Cécile <b><u>Chaminade</u></b> [accept <b><u>Chaminade</u></b> Music Club]
<b><u>Maasai</b></u> [or Wa<b><u>masai</b></u>; accept <b><u>Maasai</b></u> Mara]
Leon <b><u>Sullivan</u></b> [accept <b><u>Sullivan</u></b> Principles]
<b><u>linden</b></u> trees [or <b><u>lime</b></u> trees; or <b><u>Linden</b></u>bäume; accept “Under the <b><u>Linden</b></u> Trees” or “Unter den <b><u>Linden</b></u>”; prompt on <u>tree</u>s, plants, <u>Baum</u>, <u>Bäume</u>, or <u>Pflanze</u>n until “tree” is read by asking “what type?”]
<b><u>language game</u></b>s [or <b><u><em>Sprachspiel</u></b>e</em>; prompt on <u>language</u>; prompt on <u>game</u>] (The David Lewis paper is “Scorekeeping in a Language Game.”)
<b><u>Senegal</u></b> [or <b><u>Senegaali</u></b>, Republic of <b><u>Senegal</u></b>, République du <b><u>Sénégal</u></b>, or Jumhūriyya al-<b><u>Sinigāl</u></b>]
<b><u>Niger</u></b> River <b><u>Delta</u></b> [accept <b><u>Ogoni</u></b>land, <b><u>Delta State</u></b>, <b><u>Rivers</u></b> State, Oil <b><u>Rivers</u></b>, or <b><u>Bayelsa</u></b>; prompt on lower <u>Niger</u> River, the <u>Delta</u>, southern <u>Nigeria</u>, southeast <u>Nigeria</u>] (The activist is Ken Saro-Wiwa.)
<b><u>Pynchon</u></b> [or <b><u>Pyncheon</u></b>] (Thomas Pynchon, the descendent of William Pynchon, coined that usage of “preterite” in <em>Gravity’s Rainbow</em>.)
<b><u>Māori</u></b> [accept <b><u>tangata whenua</u></b>; prompt on <u>Polynesia</u>ns]
<b><u>fiction</u></b>al [accept being <b><u>make-believe</u></b>; accept <b><u>fictional</u></b>ism or word forms; accept <em>Fact, <b><u>Fiction</u></b>, and Forecast</em>, useful <b><u>fiction</u></b>s, <b><u>fictional</u></b> truths, “Truth in <b><u>Fiction</u></b>,” paradox of <b><u>fiction</u></b>, or “Fearing <b><u>Fiction</u></b>s”; prompt on <u>non-existence</u>, being <u>pretend</u>, or equivalents] (The book in the first line is Walton’s <em>Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts</em>.)
<b><u>Hermitage</b></u> Museum [or State <b><u>Hermitage</b></u> Museum; or Gosudarstvennyj <b><u>Ermitazh</b></u>; prompt on <u>Winter Palace</u> or <u>Zimnij dvorets</u> until “Winter Palace” is read] (Sokurov’s film is <em>Russian Ark</em>.)
“<b><u>Ward No. 6</u></b>” [or “<b><u>Palata No. 6</u></b>”; or “<b><u>Palata nomer shest</u></b>”]
<b><u>Boosey & Hawkes</u></b> Company
Leonora <b><u>Carrington</b></u> [or Mary Leonora <b><u>Carrington</b></u>] (The artworks are <em>How Doth the Little Crocodile</em> and <em>Self-Portrait (The Inn of the Dawn-Horse)</em>. Max Ernst painted <em>Leonora in the Morning Light</em>.)
<b><u>tooth</b></u> of the <b><u>Buddha</b></u> [or <b><u>tooth</b></u> relic of <b><u>Gautama</b></u> Buddha; or <b><u><em>danta dhātu</b></u></em>; or <b><u><em>dat dhātu</b></u></em>; accept <em>The <b><u>Buddha</b></u>’s <b><u>Tooth</b></u>: Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic</em>; prompt on <u>relic</u> of Gautama Buddha, Buddhist <u>relic</u>, <u><em>dant</u>a</em>, <u><em>dhātu</u></em>, <u><em>cetiya</u></em>, or <u><em>sharīra</u></em>] (JVP stands for Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. The LTTE is the Tamil Tigers.)
Garry <b><u>Wills</b></u>
Rosemary <b><u>Tonks</b></u>
Battle of <b><u>Königgrätz</u></b> (“KUR-nik-gretz”) [or Battle of <b><u>Sadowa</u></b>]
<b><u>partial</u></b> [accept <b><u>partial</u></b> correlation or <b><u>partial</u></b> autocorrelation function; accept <b><u>partial</u></b> regression]
<b><u>Google</u></b> [accept <b><u>Alphabet</u></b>]
<b><u>meal</u></b>s [accept word forms such as having <b><u>food</u></b> or having a <b><u>meal</u></b>; accept <b><u>eating</u></b> specific foods such as bread; accept grace after a <b><u>meal</u></b>] (The first clue is referring to “Ya Komimos.”)
<em>The <b><u>New York Review</u></b> of <b><u>Books</em></u></b> [or <b><u>NYRB</u></b>; accept <b><u>NYRB</u></b> Classics]
<b><u>Red</b></u> Sea [prompt on <u>Indian Ocean</u>; prompt on <u>Gulf of Aqaba</u> or <u>Gulf of Suez</u> until “Gulf of Suez” is read by asking “that gulf is an extension of what body of water?”]
<b><u>melanin</u></b> [accept <b><u>neuromelanin</u></b>]
Wigner <b><u>semicircle</u></b> distribution
<b><u>impeachment</u></b> of Warren <b><u>Hastings</u></b> [or the <b><u>trial</u></b> of Warren <b><u>Hastings</u></b>]
<b><u>pilgrim</u></b> [accept <em>The <b><u>Pilgrim</em></u></b>; accept <em>The <b><u>Pilgrim</u></b>’s Progress</em>]
<b><u>pendulum</u></b>s [or <b><u>pendula</u></b>; prompt on simple <u>harmonic oscillator</u>s]
<b><u>medal</u></b>s [or <b><u>medallion</u></b>s; accept <b><u>roundel</u></b>s]

bus [accept Universal Serial Bus]

enzymes

Daphne du Maurier [or Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning; prompt on “Lady Browning”]

Germany [or Deutschland; or Federal Republic of Germany; or Bundesrepublik Deutschland; prompt on Sweden or Sverige or Pomerania by asking “What modern-day country did they live and work in?” since technically both were born in Swedish Pomerania] (The other artist mentioned is Caspar David Friedrich.)

The New Yorker

Brachypodium distachyon [accept B. distachyon; prompt on Brachypodium]

death of Shaka Zulu [accept murder, assassination, or synonyms in place of “death”; accept La Mort de Chaka] (Kunene’s epic is Emperor Shaka the Great.)

nothingness [or absolute nothingness; or zettai-mu; or negation; accept sunyata before mention; accept Religion and Nothingness; or Being and Nothingness]

Ereshkigal [or Irkalla] (The supposed Greek analog is Persephone.)

weddings [accept “Wedding Wind”; accept “The Whitsun Weddings”]

rogue waves [accept optical rogue waves; prompt on water waves or freak ocean waves; prompt on solitons]

computer chips [or microchips, application-specific integrated circuits, ICs, or ASICs; prompt on printed circuit boards or PCBs; prompt on semiconductors or electronics]

heterosexuality [or straightness; accept het or comphet; accept compulsory heterosexuality or “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”; accept The Invention of Heterosexuality; reject “heteronormativity”]

Ivan Turgenev [or Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev]

Jawaharlal Nehru

Roger Ackroyd [accept either underlined name; accept The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; accept “Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?”]

San Francisco Tape Music Center [or SFTMC; accept Mills Tape Music Center or MTMC; accept Center for Contemporary Music or CCM]

carbon dioxide [or CO2]

Freemasons [or Freemasonry] (The second line refers to the Scottish Rite.)

United States of America [or USA; accept either underlined part]

Arthur Schopenhauer

inertia [accept inertial measurement unit or moment of inertia]

Isamu Noguchi

“You Just Don’t Understand: Troubled Engagements Between Feminists and IR Theorists” [accept You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation]

Persian Gulf [accept Gulf of Iran; accept Gulf of Fars or xalij-e fârs; accept Arabian Gulf or Al-Khalīj al-Arabī; prompt on Tigris or Euphrates until read by asking “what body of water do they drain into?”; prompt on Arabian Sea or Erythraean Sea or Indian Ocean until read by asking “what body of water is an extension of it?”]

American flags [accept any answer indicating the flag of the United States of America; or Old Glory; prompt on flags; prompt on People’s Flag Show] (Rainer and other dancers performed Trio A With Flags wearing nothing except American flags tied around their necks.)

vibes [or vibe shifts; accept “A Theory of Vibe”] (Monahan claims he coined the term “vibe shift.”)

Tanabe–Sugano diagrams [prompt on partial answer; prompt on T–S diagrams]

Benito Mussolini (The two philosophers mentioned are Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile.)

Persian [or Farsi; accept Dari or Tajiki before read; accept Bukhori or Bukharian or Judeo-Tajik]

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 61

Measure for Measure

Chinese [or Indian Chinese; or Han Indians; or Hakka Indians; accept any description of people with ancestry from China living in India; prompt on Indochinese; do not accept or prompt on “Indians”]

Effi Briest (“breest”)

Detroit

Victoria

Percy Bysshe Shelley [prompt on Shelley]

Ned Block [accept Blockhead]

singspiel (“ZING-shpeel”) [or Singspiele]

law [or civil law; or jurisprudence; or legal theory; or ius; accept Roman law; accept Byzantine law; accept Corpus Juris Civilis until read] (The motto of Berytus, modern Beirut, was “Berytus Nutrix Legum,” or “Berytus, Mother of Laws.”)

fire [or combustion; or burning; or forest fires; or bushfires; or brush fires; or wildfires]

Paris (The first sentence refers to Roberto Bolaño’s Monsieur Pain.)

Jacques Lacan [or Jacques Marie Émile Lacan]

Ba’ath (“bahth”) Party [or Arab Socialist Baʿth Party; or Ḥizb al-Baʿth al-ʿArabī al-Ishtirākī; or Arab Ba’ath Party]

Annie Get Your Gun

fire [or flames; or burning; accept tongues of flames]

resolution [accept angular resolution; accept resolving power; prompt on angle]

Utrecht Caravaggisti [or Utrecht Caravaggism; prompt on Caravaggisti or Caravaggism; prompt on Tenebrists or Tenebrism; prompt on Utrecht school]

chitin

Either/Or [or Enten-Eller] (by Søren Kierkegaard)

Anton Chekhov

kimono [accept kosode; accept furisode; accept yukata]

polynomials

Cas nucleases [or CRISPR associated proteins; accept CRISPR/Cas9 or Cas12a or Cas13a; prompt on DNA endonucleases or RNA endonucleases until “endonucleases” is read; reject “CRISPR”] (MAGeCK designs GeCKo knockout libraries.)

well-made play [or pièce bien faite]

Lucille Clifton [or Thelma Lucille Sayles] (That poem is “homage to my hips.”)

demographic dividend

occasionalism

Franz Liszt [or Liszt Ferenc]

Busby Berkeley [or Berkeley William Enos]

the Moon [accept the Earth’s moon]

Romance languages

Vienna [or Wien; accept Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra or Wiener Philharmoniker; accept Wiener pumpen or Viennese valves; accept “Wiener Blut” or “Viennese Blood,” Op. 354; accept “Tales from the Vienna Woods” or “Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald,” Op. 325] (The second clue refers to the “schlep” in a Viennese waltz.)

bosons [accept gauge bosons or Nambu–Goldstone bosons; accept X boson or Y boson or W boson or Z boson or Higgs boson; reject specific answers that do not mention “boson”]

laser pulses [accept pulsed lasers; prompt on lasers; prompt on laser peaks or laser intensity peaks by asking “what causes those?”]

Brás Cubas [or Brás Cubas; accept The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas or Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas]

Mohammed Mossadegh [or Mohammed Mossadeq; or Mohammed Mossadiq]

Maccabean Revolt [accept revolt of the Maccabees or equivalents; accept Hasmonean revolt; accept the conflict between Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Judea or equivalents until “Antiochus” is read; prompt on descriptions of Jewish revolts until “Jews” is read; prompt on anti-Seleucid revolts until “Seleucid” is read] (According to 2 Maccabees, Antiochus IV massacred Jerusalem after the Romans forced his withdrawal from Egypt in the Sixth Syrian War. The second sentence refers to Jonathan Apphus during Alexander Balas’s rivalry with Demetrius I.)

dropout [prompt on dilution]

hydrocarbon cracking [prompt on oil refining or petroleum refining]

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy [or XPS; prompt on photoelectron spectroscopy or PES]

Cécile Chaminade [accept Chaminade Music Club]

Maasai [or Wamasai; accept Maasai Mara]

Leon Sullivan [accept Sullivan Principles]

linden trees [or lime trees; or Lindenbäume; accept “Under the Linden Trees” or “Unter den Linden”; prompt on trees, plants, Baum, Bäume, or Pflanzen until “tree” is read by asking “what type?”]

language games [or Sprachspiele; prompt on language; prompt on game] (The David Lewis paper is “Scorekeeping in a Language Game.”)

Senegal [or Senegaali, Republic of Senegal, République du Sénégal, or Jumhūriyya al-Sinigāl]

Niger River Delta [accept Ogoniland, Delta State, Rivers State, Oil Rivers, or Bayelsa; prompt on lower Niger River, the Delta, southern Nigeria, southeast Nigeria] (The activist is Ken Saro-Wiwa.)

Pynchon [or Pyncheon] (Thomas Pynchon, the descendent of William Pynchon, coined that usage of “preterite” in Gravity’s Rainbow.)

Māori [accept tangata whenua; prompt on Polynesians]

fictional [accept being make-believe; accept fictionalism or word forms; accept Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, useful fictions, fictional truths, “Truth in Fiction,” paradox of fiction, or “Fearing Fictions”; prompt on non-existence, being pretend, or equivalents] (The book in the first line is Walton’s Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts.)

Hermitage Museum [or State Hermitage Museum; or Gosudarstvennyj Ermitazh; prompt on Winter Palace or Zimnij dvorets until “Winter Palace” is read] (Sokurov’s film is Russian Ark.)

“Ward No. 6” [or “Palata No. 6”; or “Palata nomer shest”]

Boosey & Hawkes Company

Leonora Carrington [or Mary Leonora Carrington] (The artworks are How Doth the Little Crocodile and Self-Portrait (The Inn of the Dawn-Horse). Max Ernst painted Leonora in the Morning Light.)

tooth of the Buddha [or tooth relic of Gautama Buddha; or danta dhātu; or dat dhātu; accept The Buddha’s Tooth: Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic; prompt on relic of Gautama Buddha, Buddhist relic, danta, dhātu, cetiya, or sharīra] (JVP stands for Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. The LTTE is the Tamil Tigers.)

Garry Wills

Rosemary Tonks

Battle of Königgrätz (“KUR-nik-gretz”) [or Battle of Sadowa]

partial [accept partial correlation or partial autocorrelation function; accept partial regression]

Google [accept Alphabet]

meals [accept word forms such as having food or having a meal; accept eating specific foods such as bread; accept grace after a meal] (The first clue is referring to “Ya Komimos.”)

The New York Review of Books [or NYRB; accept NYRB Classics]

Red Sea [prompt on Indian Ocean; prompt on Gulf of Aqaba or Gulf of Suez until “Gulf of Suez” is read by asking “that gulf is an extension of what body of water?”]

melanin [accept neuromelanin]

Wigner semicircle distribution

impeachment of Warren Hastings [or the trial of Warren Hastings]

pilgrim [accept The Pilgrim; accept The Pilgrim’s Progress]

pendulums [or pendula; prompt on simple harmonic oscillators]

medals [or medallions; accept roundels]