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<b><u>Sejong</b></u> the Great [or <b><u>Yi Do</b></u>; accept Grand Prince <b><u>Chungnyeong</b></u>]
Milan <b><u>Kundera</b></u>
<b><u>Toynbee</u></b> [accept Arnold Joseph <b><u>Toynbee</u></b>; accept <b><u>Toynbee</u></b> Hall]
<b><u>kurtosis</u></b> [accept excess <b><u>kurtosis</u></b>]
Emmett <b><u>Till</u></b> (Those poems are “Black, Poured Directly into the Wound,” “Emmett Till,” and <em>A Wreath for Emmett Till</em> by Marilyn Nelson.)
<b><u>Tikal</u></b> (“tih-KAHL”) [or Yax <b><u>Mutal</u></b> or Yax <b><u>Mutul</u></b> or First <b><u>Mutal</u></b>]
Jonathan <b><u>Edwards</u></b> [accept <b><u>Edwards</u></b>’s Dictum]
<b><u>Saint George</u></b>’s Night Uprising [or <b><u>Jüriöö</u></b> ülestõus]
Samuel <b><u>Beckett</u></b> [or Samuel Barclay <b><u>Beckett</u></b>]
<b><u>Safed</u></b> [or <b><u>Tzfat</u></b>; or <b><u>Sfat</u></b>] (The story is “The Widow of Safed,” as attested in <em>Tree of Souls</em> by Howard Schwartz. The scholar is Isaac Luria.)
<b><u>Herod</u></b> [accept <b><u>Herod</u></b> I or <b><u>Herod</u></b> the Great; accept “out-<b><u>Herod</u></b>ing” or Magnus <b><u>Herodes</u></b>]
grammatical <b><u>case</b></u>s [accept specific cases such as the nominative <b><u>case</b></u>; accept <b><u>case</b></u> filter or <b><u>case</b></u> marking]
<b><u>Indonesia</u></b> [or Republic of <b><u>Indonesia</u></b>; or Republik <b><u>Indonesia</u></b>; prompt on Dutch East <u>Indies</u>]
<b><u>oak</u></b> trees [or <b><u><em>Quercus</em></u></b>]
<b><u>equal</u></b>ity [accept <b><u>egalitarian</u></b>ism]
mammals evolving to live <b><u>in the water</u></b> [accept equivalents like <b><u>becoming aquatic</u></b> or going <b><u>from land to sea</u></b>; accept answers indicating evolution into <b><u>whale</u></b>s or <b><u>cetacean</u></b>s; prompt on abilities that promote an aquatic lifestyle such as <u>swimming</u>, <u>diving</u>, or <u>breath-holding</u> by asking “what lifestyle is facilitated by that ability?”; reject “breathing underwater” as cetaceans must still breathe air to survive (that’s what blowholes are for)]
<b><u>laminar</b></u> flow [accept <b><u>laminar</u> </b>flow hood or <b><u>laminar</b></u> flow cabinet; accept <b><u>laminar</b></u> flow reactor]
<b><u>John</u></b> [accept <b><u>John</u></b> Ruganda or <b><u>John</u></b> Kani; accept <b><u>Bonisile</u></b> Kani]
<b><u>Easter</u></b> Island [or <b><u>Rapa Nui</u></b>; or Isla de <b><u>Pascua</u></b>]
<b><u>B-flat</u></b> major [reject “B” or “B-flat minor”]
<b><u>San Antonio</u></b> Spurs [or San Antonio <b><u>Spurs</u></b>]
Marshall <b><u>Sahlins</u></b> [or Marshall David <b><u>Sahlins</u></b>]
<b><u>World War II</u></b> [or <b><u>WWII</u></b>; accept the <b><u>Blitz</u></b> or the <b><u>Phoney War</u></b>; prompt on the outbreak of <u>war</u>; reject “the Great War” or “the European War”]
<b><u>epsilon</u></b>
<b><u>conjure</u></b> [accept <b><u>cunjuh</u></b>, <b><u>conjuration</u></b>, <b><u>conjuring</u></b>, or word forms; accept <b><u>goopher</u></b> or word forms until “goophered” is read; accept<em> The <b><u>Conjure</u></b> Man Dies</em> or <em>The <b><u>Conjure</u></b>-Woman</em>; prompt on <u>hoodoo</u> or <u>root</u>work; prompt on <u>magic</u>, <u>spell</u>casting, <u>fortune-tell</u>ing, or synonyms]
<b><u>oxygen</u></b> [accept diatomic <b><u>oxygen</u></b> or di<b><u>oxygen</u></b> or <b><u>oxygen</u></b> gas or liquid <b><u>oxygen</u></b> or triplet <b><u>oxygen</u></b> or singlet <b><u>oxygen</u></b>]
<b><u>Hecate</u></b> [or <b><u>Hekate</u></b>; prompt on <u>Trivia</u>]
“<b><u>Is the Rectum a Grave</u></b>?”
<b><u>rose</u></b>s [accept <em>The <b><u>Rose</u></b> of the World</em>, <b><u><em>Roza</u></b> Mira</em>, or Seraphim <b><u>Rose</u></b>]
<b><u><em>Aedes</em></u></b> [accept <b><u><em>Aedes</u></b> aegypti</em> or <b><u><em>Aedes</u></b> albopictus</em>]
Anne <b><u>Hutchinson</u></b> [or Anne <b><u>Marbury</u></b>]
<b><u>Paul</u></b> Polydoris [or Paul <b><u>Polydoris</u></b>; accept <b><u>Polly</u></b>]
<b><u>Vandal</u></b> Kingdom
<b><u>coefficient</b></u> of <b><u>thermal expansion</b></u> [or <b><u>CTE</b></u>; or <b><u>thermal expansion coefficient</b></u>; accept <b><u>coefficient</b></u> of linear <b><u>thermal expansion</b></u>; accept isobaric <b><u>thermal expansivity</b></u>; prompt on <u>alpha</u>; prompt on <u>coefficient</u> of <u>expansion</u> or (volume) <u>expansion coefficient</u>; reject “thermal expansion”] (TMA stands for thermomechanical analysis.)
<b><u>Dutch</u></b> [or <b><u>Nederlands</u></b>] (<em>The Darkroom of Damocles</em> is by Willem Frederik Hermans.)
Ralph <b><u>Kirkpatrick</u></b> [prompt on <u>K</u>.]
<b><u>breastfeeding</u></b> [or <b><u>nursing</u></b>; accept wet <b><u>nursing</u></b>; prompt on <u>feeding</u>, <u>taking care of babies</u>, <u>parenting</u>, or <u>child-rearing</u>; prompt on <u>pumping</u> or <u>lactation</u>; reject “formula feeding”]
<b><u><em>Inherit the Wind</b></u></em>
<b><u>Kingdom</b></u> of God [or <b><u>Kingdom</b></u> of Christ; or <b><u>Kingdom</b></u> of Heaven; or <b><u>heavenly kingdom</b></u>; or <b><u>basileíā</b></u> toû Theoû; or <b><u>basileíā</b></u> tō̂n Ouranō̂n; or <b><u>malkuta</b></u> dishmaya; accept <b><u>Kingdom</b></u> Now theology or doctrine of two <b><u>kingdom</b></u>s or <em>The <b><u>Kingdom</b></u></em> <em>of God is Within You</em>; prompt on <u>dominion</u> or <u>dominion theology</u> or <u>dominion of God</u> before “dominion”] (The first clue refers to Tolstoy Farm.)
<b><u>vow</b></u>s [or <b><u>oath</b></u>s; accept similar answers; accept Bodhisattva <b><u>vow</b></u>s; accept <b><u>samaya</b></u> until read; prompt on <u>precept</u>s or <u>rule</u>s until “precepts” is read; prompt on becoming a <u>bodhisattva</u>; prompt on <u>conversion</u> to <u>Buddhism</u> by asking “through what method?”]
<b><u>Perseus</b></u>
<b><u>piano quintet</u></b> [prompt on <u>quintet</u>; prompt on <em>Trout <u>Quintet</em></u> or <em>Forellen<u>quintett</em></u>]
Royal Dutch <b><u>Shell</b></u> [or <b><u>Shell</b></u> Oil; accept <b><u>Shell</b></u> Nigeria or <b><u>Shell</b></u> Petroleum Development Company; accept <b><u>Shell</b></u> USA or <b><u>Shell</b></u> Oil Company; accept <b><u>Shell</b></u> UK; accept <b><u>Royal Dutch Petroleum</b></u> Company or <b><u>Koninklijke Nederlandse Petroleum</b></u> Maatschappij until “Royal Dutch” is read; prompt on <u>Werkspoor</u> by asking “it is a subsidiary of what company?”] (The third line refers to the 1969 Curaçao Uprising. MOSOP is the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People.)
<b><u><em>Lyrical Ballads</b></u></em> [or <b><u><em>Lyrical Ballads</b></u>, with a Few Other Poems</em>] (The first poem is “The Idiot Boy.”)
<b><u>bodies</u></b> [or <b><u>body</u></b>; accept <b><u><em>Bodies that Matter</em></u></b> or <b><u><em>Extraordinary Bodies</em></u></b> or <em>The <b><u>Minority Body</em></u></b>]
Octavio <b><u>Paz</u></b> [or Octavio <b><u>Paz</u></b> Lozano] (The poem is “Sunstone.”)
<b><u>Djenné-Djenno</u></b>&nbsp;(“JEN-ay&nbsp;jen-OH”) [or <b><u>Jenne-Jeno</u></b>; or <b><u>Djenné-Jeno</u></b>; or <b><u>old Djenné</u></b>; or <b><u>ancient Djenné</u></b>; prompt on <u>Djenné</u>]
<b><u>Texas</u></b> [or <b><u>TX</u></b>]
<b><u>poly-A</b></u> tails [accept <b><u>polyadenylation</b></u>; accept <b><u>polyadenylate</b></u> polymerase; accept (cryptic) <b><u>poly-A</b></u> sites or (cryptic) <b><u>polyadenylation</b></u> sites]
<b><u>Jesus</u></b> Christ [or Jesus <b><u>Christ</u></b>] (“Crucifixion” is the tenth section of “Requiem.”)
Samuel <b><u>Beckett</b></u> [or Samuel Barclay <b><u>Beckett</b></u>]
<em>The <b><u>Anarchist Cookbook</em></u></b> [accept <em>The <b><u>Anarchist’s Cookbook</em></u></b>]
<em>The <b><u>Quiet American</em></u></b> (The Burdick and Lederer novel is <em>The Ugly American</em>.)
<b><u>symmetry break</b></u>ing [or equivalents that use a word form of “break,” like a system experiencing <b><u>broken symmetries</b></u>; accept explicit, spontaneous, continuous, global, or local <b><u>symmetry break</b></u>ing; after “overlap” is read; accept <b><u>replica symmetry break</b></u>ing; prompt on <u>phase transition</u>s until “<em>not</em>” is read; until “defect density” is read, prompt on descriptions of the <u>formation</u> of topological <u>defect</u>s or <u>creation</u> of topological <u>defect</u>s by asking “defects form at the boundaries of domains for which what process has had a different outcome?”] (The second sentence refers to replica symmetry breaking. The third sentence refers to the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition.)
Ingmar <b><u>Bergman</b></u> [or Ernst Ingmar <b><u>Bergman</b></u>; reject “Ingrid Bergman”]
<b><u><em>Holy Sonnets</b></u></em> [or <b><u><em>Divine Meditations</b></u></em> or <b><u><em>Divine Sonnets</b></u></em>; prompt on <u>sonnets</u> by John Donne] (The poem in the first line is “As due by many titles I resign.”)
the <b><u>library</b></u> from <em>The <b><u>Name of the Rose</b></u></em> [accept the <b><u><em>finis Africae</b></u></em> until read; accept <em>Il <b><u>nome della rosa</b></u></em> in place of “<em>The Name of the Rose</em>”; prompt on <u>library</u> by asking “from what work of literature?”; prompt on the <u>Aedificium</u> by asking “what location within the Aedificium?”; prompt on the <u>abbey</u> from <em>The Name of the Rose</em> by asking “what location within the abbey?”]
<em><b><u>Ars Poetica</u></b></em> [or <em>The</em> <em><b><u>Art of Poetry</u></b></em>]
Vijay <b><u>Iyer</u></b> (“EYE-ur”)
<b><u>color</b></u> [or <b><u>colour</b></u>; accept skin/fur/coat/hair/body/mantle <b><u>color</b></u>; accept skin <b><u>tone</b></u> or skin <b><u>darkness</b></u>; prompt on <u>melanin content</u> or similar answers that involve <u>melanin</u>]
<b><u>niacin</u></b> [or <b><u>nicotinic</u></b> acid; or <b><u>nicotinate</u></b>; or <b><u>pyridine-3-carboxylic</u></b> acid; or <b><u>pyridine-3-carboxylate</u></b>; or vitamin <b><u>B3</u></b>; accept <b><u>nicotinamide</u></b> or <b><u>niacinamide</u></b>; reject “nicotine”]
<b><u>kayak</u></b>s [or <b><u>qajaq</u></b>; accept <b><u>kayak</u></b> roll or <b><u>kayak</u></b> angst; prompt on <u>boat</u>s or water<u>craft</u>s until “boats” is read] (The first sentence is about Eenoolooapik. The penultimate sentence is the story of Sedna.)
<b><u>Al-Hakim</u></b> bi-Amr Allah [or <b><u>Abu Ali al-Mansur</u></b>; prompt on the “<u>Mad Caliph</u>”] (The ban on <em>mulukhiyah</em> is today observed by the Druze.)
<b><u>hallmark</u></b>s [accept “<b><u>Hallmark</u></b>s of Cancer”]
<b><u>maqām</u></b>āt [or <b><u>maqām</u></b>s]
<b><u>Catherine</b></u> Morland [prompt on <u>Morland</u>] (Jane Austen wrote <em>Northanger Abbey</em>.)
Sergei <b><u>Prokofiev</u></b> [or Sergei Sergeyevich <b><u>Prokofiev</u></b>]
<b><u>prelude</u></b>s
La <b><u>Pléiade</u></b>&nbsp;(“lah play-YAHD”) [or the <b><u>Pleiades</u></b>; or the <b><u>Brigade</u></b>]
<b><u><em>skaz</b></u></em>
<b><u>crane</u></b>s [or <b><u>Gruid</u></b>ae; accept <b><u><em>Grus</em></u></b> or <b><u><em>Balearica</em></u></b>; accept whooping <b><u>crane</u></b>s, sandhill <b><u>crane</u></b>s, grey crowned <b><u>crane</u></b>s, red-crowned <b><u>crane</u></b>s, <b><u>sarus</u></b> cranes, or other specific species; accept dāndǐng <b><u>hè</u></b>, <b><u>tanchō</u></b>zuru, <b><u>zuru</u></b>, or <b><u>durumi</u></b>; accept International <b><u>Crane</u></b> Foundation; prompt on <u>Gruiformes</u> or <u>Grues</u>]
<b><u>Baghdad</b></u> (The first line refers to Abu Bakr al-Razi. The second line refers to Hunayn ibn Ishaq.)
<b><u>Tibet</u></b> [or <b><u>Böd</u></b>; or <b><u>Zàngqū</u></b>; accept <b><u>Tibet</u></b>an Plateau; accept Greater <b><u>Tibet</u></b>]
<b><u>Peloponnesian</b></u> War
Oscar <b><u>Wilde</b></u>
Ken <b><u>Paxton</u></b> [or Warren Kenneth <b><u>Paxton</u></b> Jr.]
<b><u>coin</b></u>s [accept <b><u>currency</b></u>, <b><u>money</b></u>, silver <b><u>coin</b></u>s, or gold <b><u>coin</b></u>s; accept specific coins such as <b><u>pennies</b></u>, <b><u>sovereign</b></u>s, or <b><u>livre</b></u>s; prompt on <u>bullion</u>, precious <u>metal</u>s, <u>silver</u>, or <u>gold</u>]
Edwin <b><u>Walker</b></u>
<b><u>complete</b></u>ness [or Cauchy <b><u>complete</b></u>ness; or <b><u>complete</b></u> spaces; accept <b><u>completion</b></u> of a metric space or <b><u>completing</b></u> a metric space; accept <b><u>Cauchy</b></u> spaces until read; accept B-<b><u>complete</b></u>ness; prompt on <u>Banach</u> spaces or <u>second category</u> spaces until “Maurice Fréchet” is read] (The result about non-empty complete spaces is a consequence of the Baire category theorem.)
Charles <b><u>Olson</b></u>
<b><u>temperature</u></b> [or air <b><u>temperature</u></b>; or average atmospheric <b><u>temperature</u></b>; or ambient <b><u>temperature</u></b>; accept <b><u>thermal</u></b> comfort; prompt on <u>climate</u> change; prompt on global <u>warm</u>ing; prompt on <u>weather</u>; prompt on <u>AC</u> or <u>air con</u>ditioning by asking “what variable does that affect?”] (ASHRAE is the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.)
Derek <b><u>Walcott</u></b> [or Derek Alton <b><u>Walcott</u></b>] (The second sentence describes the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. The play in the second and third sentence is <em>Ti-Jean and His Brothers</em>.)
<b><u>khan</u></b> [or <b><u>khagan</u></b>; accept Genghis <b><u>Khan</u></b> or Chinggis <b><u>Khan</u></b>; prompt on <u>emperor</u>]
<b><u>self-assembly</u></b> [accept <b><u>self-organization</u></b>; or word forms like <b><u>self-assembled</u></b>]
<b><u>Commerce</u></b> Clause [or Interstate <b><u>Commerce</u></b> Clause]
<b><u>suppression of the Jesuit</u></b>s [accept answers that describe <b><u>reducing</u></b> the influence of the <b><u>Jesuits</u></b> in Europe; accept descriptions of the <b><u>expulsion</u></b> or <b><u>removal of the Jesuit</u></b>s from Latin America (or any specific countries there-in); accept <b><u>Society of Jesus</u></b> or <b><u>Jesuit Order</u></b> in place of <b><u>Jesuit</u></b>s; prompt on <u>anti-Catholic</u> sentiment or <u>anti-Jesuit</u> sentiment]
<b><u>Seven Against Thebes</b></u> [or <b><u>Hepta epi Thēbas</b></u>; or <b><u>Septem contra Thebas</b></u>] (Statius wrote the <em>Thebaid</em>.)
the <b><u>past</u></b> [or <b><u>past</u></b>ness; accept <em>Silencing the <b><u>Past</em></u></b> or usable <b><u>past</u></b>] (The Boym book is <em>The Future of Nostalgia</em>. Carl Becker’s remark on “robbing the past” to create the “specious present” appears in “Everyman his Own Historian.”)
<b><u>pressure</u></b>
Francis Scott <b><u>Key</b></u>
<b><u>Haymarket</b></u> Riot [or the <b><u>Haymarket</b></u> Affair or the <b><u>Haymarket</b></u> Massacre or the <b><u>Haymarket</b></u> Incident; accept the <b><u>Haymarket</b></u> Square Riot]
<b><u>pollen</u></b> [or <b><u>pollen</u></b> grains; accept <b><u>pollen</u></b> cores or <b><u>pollen</u></b> tubes]
Republic of <b><u>Lebanon</u></b> [or the <b><u>Lebanese</u></b> Republic; or <b><u>Lubnān</u></b>; or Al-Jumhūrīyah <b><u>Al-Lubnānīyah</u></b>]
sun<b><u>light</u></b> [accept <b><u>photon</u></b>s; accept <b><u>photochemical</u></b> energy; accept <b><u>sun</u></b> or <b><u>solar</u></b> energy; prompt on <u>energy</u>]
<b><u><em>New Horizons</b></u></em>
<b><u>famine</u></b>s [accept <b><u>starvation</u></b>, <b><u>malnutrition</u></b>, or <b><u>mass hunger</u></b>; prompt on <u>food insecurity</u>; prompt on <u>genocide</u>]
<b><u>Rodgers</u></b> [accept Richard <b><u>Rodgers</u></b>; accept Mary <b><u>Rodgers</u></b>; prompt on Adam <u>Guettel</u> until read]
<b><u>trap</u></b>s [accept shallow <b><u>trap</u></b>s or deep <b><u>trap</u></b>s]
“<b><u>Duns Scotus’s Oxford</u></b>”
<b><u>twin</u></b>s [accept Hero <b><u>Twin</u></b>s; prompt on <u>babies</u>, <u>children</u>, <u>sibling</u>s, <u>brother</u>s, <u>sister</u>s, or <u>boy</u>s until “children” is read]