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<b><u>1990s</u></b> [prompt on ’<u>90s</u>] (The first line refers to Yasser Arafat’s Johannesburg address.)
<b><u>transcendental</u></b> [or <b><u><em>transzendentale</em></u></b>; accept <b><u>transcendental</u></b> deduction or <b><u>transcendental</u></b> aesthetic or <b><u>transcendental</u></b> idealism; accept “<b><u>Transcendental</u></b> Arguments”; accept <em>Kant’s <b><u>Transcendental</u></b> Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense</em>]
<b><u>modernismo</u></b> [or <b><u>modernista</u></b>s; prompt on <u>modernism</u> or word forms] (The second line refers to “Wring the Neck of the Swan” by Enrique González Martínez.)
<b><u>locus control region</u></b>s [or <b><u>LCR</u></b>s]
<b><u>esophagus</b></u>
<b><u><em>Nihon Shoki</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>Nihongi</em></u></b>; or <b><u><em>Chronicles of Japan</em></u></b>]
<b><u>graphene</b></u> [accept bilayer <b><u>graphene</b></u>; prompt on <u>carbon</u>; reject “graphite”; reject other carbon allotropes like “nanotubes”]
<b><u>Shivājī</u></b> I [or Chhatrapati <b><u>Shivājī</u></b>rāje Bhosle; or <b><u>Shivaji</u></b> Shahaji Bhonsale; accept Chhatrapati <b><u>Shivaji</u></b> Terminus or Chhatrapati <b><u>Shivaji</u></b> Maharaj Terminus; prompt on <u>Shiv</u> Sena; reject “Shivājī II”]
Palace of <b><u>Westminster</u></b> [or Houses of <b><u>Parliament</u></b>; accept any answer indicating the building where the <b><u>Parliament</u></b> of the United Kingdom assembles; prompt on House of <u>Lords</u> or <u>Lords</u> Chamber or House of <u>Commons</u> or <u>Commons</u> Chamber by asking “What larger building is that in?”; prompt on <u>Big Ben</u> or <u>Elizabeth Tower</u> by asking “What larger building is that part of?”; reject “Westminster Abbey”]
Frederick Douglass’s <b><u>fight</b></u> with Edward <b><u>Covey</b></u> [accept <b><u>battle</b></u> or <b><u>struggle</b></u> or synonyms in place of “fight”; accept Mr. <b><u>Covey</b></u>, <b><u>Edward</b></u>, or descriptions like the slave-<b><u>breaker</b></u>, <b><u>farmer</b></u>, farm-<b><u>renter</b></u>, <b><u>boss</b></u>, or <b><u>master</b></u> in place of “Edward Covey”] (Paul Gilroy’s <em>The Black Atlantic</em> compares the scene to Hegel’s master-slave dialectic.)
Scott <b><u>Ross</b></u>
<b><u>yoga</u></b> [accept the <b><u><em>Yoga</u></b> Sutras of Patañjali</em>; accept <em>Patañjali <b><u>yoga</u></b>-sūtra</em>; prompt on <u>meditation</u>] (The author was Kuṇḍalinī.)
<b><u>Bangladesh</u></b> [or People’s Republic of <b><u>Bangladesh</u></b>; or Gôṇôprôjātôntrī <b><u>Bāṅlādēś</u></b>]
Herman <b><u>Melville</b></u>
<b><u>erectile dysfunction</u></b> [or <b><u>ED</u></b>; accept <b><u>impotence</u></b> or <b><u>impotent</u></b>; prompt on <u>sexual dysfunction</u>] (TURP is transurethral resection of the prostate.)
Arthur <b><u>Miller</u></b> [or Arthur Asher <b><u>Miller</u></b>]
<b><u>fishtail</u></b> points [or <b><u>Fell</u></b> points]
<b><u>cello</u></b> [or violin<b><u>cello</u></b>]
<b><u><em>Chhāndogya</em></u></b> (“CHAHN-doh-gyuh”) <em>Upanishad</em> [or <b><u><em>Chhāndogyopanishad</em></u></b>]
<b><u>circle of justice</u></b> [or <b><u>circle of equity</u></b>, <b><u>circle of power</u></b>, <b><u>daire-i adalet</u></b>, <b><u>daire-e adalet</u></b>, or <b><u>dairat al-adala</u></b>]
<b><u>argillite</b></u>
Jacobus Henricus <b><u>van ’t Hoff</u></b> (“van utt HOFF”) [accept <b><u>van ’t Hoff</u></b> equation or <b><u>van ’t Hoff</u></b> plot or <b><u>van ’t Hoff</u></b> factor]
<b><u>Tinatin</u></b> [or <b><u>Thinatin</u></b>]
<b><u>Aztec</u></b> Empire [or <b><u>Mexica</u></b>s; accept <b><u>Triple Alliance</u></b>]
Sam <b><u>Shepard</u></b> [or Samuel Shepard <b><u>Rogers</u></b> III]
<b><u>Thutmose III</u></b> [or <b><u>Thutmose the Great</u></b>; accept “Thutmosis” or “Thothmes” in place of “Thutmose”; prompt on <u>Thutmose</u> or <u>Tuthmosis</u> or <u>Thothmes</u>]
Thomas <b><u>Bernhard</u></b> [or Nicolaas Thomas <b><u>Bernhard</u></b>] (The novel is <em>Correction</em>.)
<b><u>tropical</u></b> [accept <b><u>tropical</u></b> geometry]
<b><u>scale-free</b></u> networks [or <b><u>power law</b></u> networks]
<b><u>Cimbrian</u></b> War [or <b><u>Cimbric</u></b> War; accept equivalents mentioning a war against the <b><u>Cimbri</u></b> and Teutones]
<b><u>Svalbard</u></b> [or <b><u>Spitsbergen</u></b>; accept <b><u>Svalbard</u></b> Global Seed Vault or <b><u>Svalbard</u></b> globale frøhvelv; accept <b><u>Svalbard</u></b> Treaty or <b><u>Spitsbergen</u></b> Treaty] (The “Kings Bay affair” occurred in Ny-Ålesund. The Noordsche Compagnie settled Smeerenburg.)
<b><u><em>Maggie</u></b>: A Girl of the Streets</em>
<b><u>Delian</u></b> League
<b><u>South Dakota</u></b> [accept <b><u>SD</u></b>] (Activist Russell Means proposed Porcupine as the capital for the “Republic of Lakotah.”)
David <b><u>Hume</u></b> [accept <b><u>Hume</u></b>’s principle; accept <b><u><em>Hume</u></b>’s Skeptical Crisis</em>]
<b><u>Jean Paul</u></b> [or <b><u>Jean Paul</u></b> Richter; or <b><u>Johann Paul</u></b> Friedrich Richter]
Ijon <b><u>Tichy</u></b> (“EE-yohn TEE-hee”) [or <b><u>Ijon</u></b> Tichy]
<b><u>Syria</u></b> [or <b><u>Syria</u></b>n Arab Republic; or al-Jumhūriyyah al-ʿArabiyyah as-<b><u>Sūriyyah</u></b>]
<b><u>tritone</u></b> [accept <b><u>tritone</u></b> substitution; accept <b><u>augmented fourth</u></b> or <b><u>diminished fifth</u></b> until “For 10 points” is read]
<b><u>Kartini</u></b> (“KAHR-tee-nee”) [or Radén Ajeng <b><u>Kartini</u></b> or Radèn Adjeng <b><u>Kartini</u></b> or Radén Ayu <b><u>Kartini</u></b> or Radèn Ajoe <b><u>Kartini</u></b>; accept <b><u>Kartini</u></b> Day or Hari <b><u>Kartini</u></b> or Dina <b><u>Kartini</u></b>; accept <b><u>Kartini</u></b> Schools or Sekolah <b><u>Kartini</u></b>]
<em>The <b><u>Women of Algiers</b></u></em> [or <b><u><em>Women of Algiers</b></u> in their Apartment</em>; or <b><u><em>Femmes d’Alger</b></u> dans leur appartement</em>]
Chaim <b><u>Soutine</b></u> [or Chaim-Iche Solomonovich <b><u>Sutin</b></u>]
<b><u>rag</u></b>s [or <b><u>stracci</u></b>, or <b><u>straccio</u></b>; accept <em>Venus of the <b><u>Rags</em></u></b> or <em>Orchestra of <b><u>Rags</em></u></b> or <em>Venere degli <b><u>stracci</em></u></b> or <em>Orchestra di <b><u>stracci</u></b> – Quartetto</em>; prompt on <u>clothing</u><b> </b>or <u>clothes</u> or <u>cloth</u>s]
<b><u>bread</u></b> [or <b><u>dough</u></b>; accept flat<b><u>bread</u></b>; accept <b><u>pastry</u></b> or <b><u>pastries</u></b> or pastry <b><u>dough</u></b>; accept specific breads or doughs such as <b><u>sourdough</u></b> bread or <b><u>baguette</u></b> or <b><u>pizza</u></b> dough] (Ken Forkish’s book is <em>Flour Water Salt Yeast</em>.)
Jerry <b><u>Goldsmith</u></b> [or Jerrald King <b><u>Goldsmith</u></b>]
Leonhard <b><u>Euler</u></b> [accept <b><u>Euler</u></b>ian circuit]
volcanic <b><u>eruption</u></b>s [or word forms of <b><u>erupt</u></b>ing; prompt on <b><u>volcano</u></b> or <b><u>volcanic</u></b> activity; prompt on caldera formation] (The lake is Crater Lake.)
<b><u>overreach</u></b>ing [accept the <b><u>overreacher</u></b> or Sir Giles <b><u>Overreach</u></b>; prompt on <u>reach</u>ing]
Dylan <b><u>Thomas</b></u> [or Dylan Marlais <b><u>Thomas</b></u>] (The first two stories are “The Orchards” and “A Visit to Grandpa’s.”)
<b><u>literacy</u></b> [accept being <b><u>lettered</u></b> or word forms of being <b><u>literate</u></b>; accept <b><u>read</u></b>ing or <b><u>writing</u></b>; accept antonyms like <b><u>illiteracy</u></b>; accept <em>The <b><u>Lettered</u></b> City</em> or <em>La ciudad <b><u>letrada</em></u></b>, Nicaraguan <b><u>literacy</u></b> campaign, Cuban <b><u>literacy</u></b> campaign, or Campaña Nacional de <b><u>Alfabetización</u></b>]
<b><u>fiber optic</u></b>s [or <b><u>optical fiber</u></b>s; prompt on optical <u>waveguide</u>s; prompt on <u>fiber</u>s] (OTDR stands for optical time-domain reflectometer. APC stands for Angled Physical Contact and UPC stands for Ultra Physical Contact.)
<b><u>rhetoric</u></b> [or <em>The <b><u>Rhetoric</u></b> of Fiction </em>or <em>A <b><u>Rhetoric</u></b> of Motives</em>]
the first <b><u>Earth Day</b></u>
<b><u>SETI</u></b> [or <b><u>search for extraterrestrial intelligence</u></b>; prompt on <u>search for extraterrestrial life</u>; prompt on descriptions of <u>look</u>ing for <u>alien</u> life]
<b><u>village</u></b>s [accept <b><u>Village</u></b> Prose or <em>The <b><u>Village</em></u></b>; accept <b><u>derevnya</u></b>]
Margot <b><u>Fonteyn</u></b> (“MAR-go fon-TAIN”) [or Dame Margaret Evelyn <b><u>de Arias</u></b>; or Margaret Evelyn <b><u>Hookham</u></b>]
<b><u>garbage</u></b> [or <b><u>junk</u></b>, <b><u>trash</u></b>, <b><u>waste</u></b>, or <b><u>detritus</u></b>; accept “<b><u>Junk</u></b>man’s Obbligato”]
Mikhail <b><u>Bulgakov</u></b> [or Mikhail Afanasyevich <b><u>Bulgakov</u></b>]
<b><u>Bell</u></b>’s inequality [or <b><u>Bell</u></b>’s theorem; accept <b><u>Bell</u></b> test]
<b><u>Taliesin</u></b> (“tal-YES-in”) [accept <b><u>Gwion Bach</u></b> until read] (The poem in the first line is <em>The Spoils of Annwn</em>.)
Imperial <b><u>Diet</u></b> [or <b><u><em>Reichstag</em></u></b>; or <b><u><em>Dieta</u></b> Imperii</em>; or <b><u><em>Comitium</u></b> Imperiale</em>; or <b><u>Diet</u></b> of the Holy Roman Empire; accept the Eternal <b><u>Diet</u></b> of Regensburg or <em>Immerwährender <b><u>Reichstag</em></u></b>]
<b><u>octahedral</u></b>
<b><u>loneliness</u></b> [accept synonyms like <b><u>isolation</u></b>; accept answers about a <b><u>lack</u></b> of social <b><u>connection</u></b>; accept <b><u>loneliness</u></b> epidemic; reject “solitude”]
<b><u>Trimurti</u></b> [or <b><u>Trideva</u></b>; or <b><u>Brahma</u></b> AND <b><u>Vishnu</u></b> AND <b><u>Shiva</u></b>; accept <b><u>Sadashiva</u></b> or <b><u>Maheshmurti</u></b>; prompt on Hindu <u>god</u>s, <u>deva</u>s, or Hindu <u>trinity</u>; prompt on any two of the three; prompt on <u>Harihara</u>]
<b><u>Welsh</u></b> [or <em><b><u>Cymraeg</u></b></em>]
word <b><u>order</u></b> [or word forms of <b><u>order</u></b>ing or word <b><u>position</u></b>; or Wort<b><u>stellung</u></b>; accept clausal <b><u>order</u></b> or NP <b><u>order</u></b>; prompt on <u>symmetry</u>, <u>asymmetry</u>, anti<u>symmetry</u>, language <u>structure</u>, or sentence <u>structure</u>; prompt on <u>syntax</u> or <u>syntactical</u> until “syntactical” is read; prompt on <u>topical</u>ity, <u>focus</u>, <u>prominence</u>, or topic-<u>prominent</u> by asking “encoded by what parameter?”]
Robert <b><u>Nozick</u></b> (All early clues come from Nozick’s <em>Philosophical Explanations</em>.)
<b><u>president</u></b> [or <b><u>président</u></b>; accept <b><u>President</u></b> of Senegal or <b><u>Président</u></b> de la république du Sénégal] (Senegal’s first president was Leopold Senghor.)
<b><u>R</u></b>ichard <b><u>Strauss</u></b> [prompt on <u>Strauss</u>]
A. E. <b><u>Housman</u></b> [or Alfred Edward <b><u>Housman</u></b>]
<b><u>logic</u></b> [or <b><u>reasoning</u></b>; accept <b><u>induction</u></b> or <b><u>deduction</u></b> before mentioned; or <b><u>logico-epistemology</u></b>; prompt on <u>epistemology</u> until mentioned; prompt on <u>philosophy</u> before “epistemology”]
<b><u><em>Mac Flecknoe</em></u></b> (by John Dryden)
<b><u>Babylon</u></b> [or <b><u>Babel</u></b>; accept Hanging Gardens of <b><u>Babylon</u></b>]
<b><u>Asante</u></b> Empire [or <b><u>Ashanti</u></b> Empire, <b><u>Asante</u></b> Kingdom, <b><u>Asante</u></b> Confederacy, or <b><u>Asante</u></b>man; accept <b><u>Asante</u></b>hene; accept <b><u>Kumasi</u></b> Kingdom or <b><u>Kumasi</u></b>hene until “Kumasi” is read] (Clues include the Asantemanhyiamu assembly, the destoolings of Osei Kwame and Kusi Obodom, Asantehemaa Konadu Yaadom, the enslaved awowa class, and Osei Kwadwo’s bureaucratic reforms.)
<b><u>David</u></b> [prompt on the author of the <u>Psalm</u>s until “Psalms” is read or the Penitential <u>Sinner</u> until “penitential” is read by asking “who was traditionally credited with writing those poems?”; prompt on <u>Charles</u> II until “sonnet” is read by asking “who is the actual character in the poem?”]
<b><u>Edwards</u></b> syndrome [or trisomy <b><u>18</u></b>]
the <b><u>Encyclopedia</u></b> [or <em>L’<b><u>Encyclopédie</u></b> ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers</em>]
<b><u><em>Giant Steps</b></u></em>
<b><u>Spain</u></b> [or <b><u>España</u></b>; accept <b><u>Spanish</u></b> Civil War or guerra civil <b><u>española</u></b> or guerra de <b><u>España</u></b>; prompt on <u>Catalonia</u>] (The photograph of the woman wearing heels is <em>Woman training for a Republican militia</em> by Gerda Taro.)
<b><u>African National Congress</b></u> [or <b><u>ANC</b></u>; accept <b><u>South African Native National Congress</b></u>; accept <b><u>Spear of the Nation</b></u> or <b><u>uMkhonto we Sizwe</b></u> or <b><u>MK</b></u> until “Spear of the Nation” is read]
Robert <b><u>Schumann</b></u>
<b><u>variable-frequency</u></b> drives [or <b><u>VFD</u></b>s; accept <b><u>AC</u></b> drives or <b><u>variable-speed</u></b> drives or <b><u>AC variable-speed</u></b> drives or <b><u>AC variable-frequency</u></b> drives or <b><u>VFD inverter</u></b>s or <b><u>variable-voltage variable-frequency</u></b> drives or <b><u>VVVF</u></b> drives]
<b><u><em>H</u></b>elicobacter <b><u>pylori</em></u></b> [or <b><u><em>H. pylori</em></u></b>]
Karl Barry <b><u>Sharpless</u></b> [accept <b><u>Sharpless</u></b> epoxidation or <b><u>Sharpless</u></b> dihydroxylation]
<b><u>Dada</u></b> [or word forms like <b><u>Dada</u></b>ism or <b><u>Dada</u></b>ist]
“<b><u>Trotsky and the Wild Orchids</u></b>” (by Richard Rorty)
<b><u>Cuba</u></b> [or Republic of <b><u>Cuba</u></b>; or<em> </em>República de <b><u>Cuba</u></b>] (The artist in the first sentence is Tania Bruguera.)
seasonal <b><u>flu shot</u></b> [or <b><u>influenza vaccine</u></b>; or <b><u>flu vaccine</u></b>s; accept <b><u>vaccine</u></b>s against <b><u>swine flu</u></b> or <b><u>avian flu</u></b>; accept <b><u>vaccine</u></b>s against <b><u>H1N1</u></b> or <b><u>H3N2</u></b> until “H3N2” is read; prompt on <u>vaccine</u>s or <u>shot</u>s] (Influenza B/Yamagata went extinct after 2020 quarantining.)
Pura <b><u>Besakih</b></u>
<b><u>Myers-Briggs</u></b> Type Indicator [or <b><u>MBTI</u></b>]
<b><u><em>shimenawa</em></u></b> [prompt on <u>rope</u>s]
<b><u>missile</u></b>s [accept cruise <b><u>missile</u></b>s, intercontinental ballistic <b><u>missile</u></b>s, <b><u>ICBM</u></b>s, anti-ballistic <b><u>missile</u></b>s, <b><u>ABM</u></b>s, <b><u>guided</u></b> weapons, <b><u>missile</u></b> silos, <b><u>V-2</u></b>, <b><u>Titan</u></b> II, <b><u>Atlas</u></b>, or Nike <b><u>Zeus</u></b>; accept <b><u>Minuteman</u></b> until read; prompt on <u>rocket</u>s by asking “used in what devices?”; prompt on thermo<u>nuclear</u> weapons, <u>nuke</u>s, <u>warhead</u>s, <u>explosive</u>s, payload, <u>ballistic</u> systems, <u>weapon</u>s of mass destruction, <u>WMD</u>s, or <u>payload</u>; reject “bombs” or “bombers”]
chemical <b><u>reaction</u></b>s [accept chemical <b><u>reaction</u></b> networks; prompt on <u>transition state</u> formation]
<b><u><em>Prometheus Bound</b></u></em> [or <b><u><em>Promētheús Desmṓtēs</b></u></em>; or <b><u><em>Prometheus Vinctus</b></u></em>]
standard <b><u>size</u></b>s [or <b><u>sizing</u></b> systems; accept <b><u>dimension</u></b>s; prompt on <u>S</u>, <u>M</u>, <u>L</u>, <u>XL</u>, or <u>XXL</u>; prompt on <u>small</u>, <u>medium</u>, <u>large</u>, <u>extra-large</u>, or <u>extra-extra-large</u>; prompt on <em>Tom of Finland <u>XXL</em></u>; prompt on <u><em>S,M,L,XL</em></u>]
<b><u>stress</b></u>
Sir <b><u>Kay</u></b> [or <b><u>Cai</u></b>; or <b><u>Cei</u></b>; or <b><u>Kex</u></b>; or <b><u>Keu</u></b>]
Olivier <b><u>Messiaen</u></b> (“mess-YAWN”) [or Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles <b><u>Messiaen</u></b>]
Michel <b><u>Fokine</b></u>
<b><u>New York</b></u> [accept <b><u>NY</b></u>]

1990s [prompt on ’90s] (The first line refers to Yasser Arafat’s Johannesburg address.)

transcendental [or transzendentale; accept transcendental deduction or transcendental aesthetic or transcendental idealism; accept “Transcendental Arguments”; accept Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense]

modernismo [or modernistas; prompt on modernism or word forms] (The second line refers to “Wring the Neck of the Swan” by Enrique González Martínez.)

locus control regions [or LCRs]

esophagus

Nihon Shoki [or Nihongi; or Chronicles of Japan]

graphene [accept bilayer graphene; prompt on carbon; reject “graphite”; reject other carbon allotropes like “nanotubes”]

Shivājī I [or Chhatrapati Shivājīrāje Bhosle; or Shivaji Shahaji Bhonsale; accept Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus or Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus; prompt on Shiv Sena; reject “Shivājī II”]

Palace of Westminster [or Houses of Parliament; accept any answer indicating the building where the Parliament of the United Kingdom assembles; prompt on House of Lords or Lords Chamber or House of Commons or Commons Chamber by asking “What larger building is that in?”; prompt on Big Ben or Elizabeth Tower by asking “What larger building is that part of?”; reject “Westminster Abbey”]

Frederick Douglass’s fight with Edward Covey [accept battle or struggle or synonyms in place of “fight”; accept Mr. Covey, Edward, or descriptions like the slave-breaker, farmer, farm-renter, boss, or master in place of “Edward Covey”] (Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic compares the scene to Hegel’s master-slave dialectic.)

Scott Ross

yoga [accept the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali; accept Patañjali yoga-sūtra; prompt on meditation] (The author was Kuṇḍalinī.)

Bangladesh [or People’s Republic of Bangladesh; or Gôṇôprôjātôntrī Bāṅlādēś]

Herman Melville

erectile dysfunction [or ED; accept impotence or impotent; prompt on sexual dysfunction] (TURP is transurethral resection of the prostate.)

Arthur Miller [or Arthur Asher Miller]

fishtail points [or Fell points]

cello [or violincello]

Chhāndogya (“CHAHN-doh-gyuh”) Upanishad [or Chhāndogyopanishad]

circle of justice [or circle of equity, circle of power, daire-i adalet, daire-e adalet, or dairat al-adala]

argillite

Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff (“van utt HOFF”) [accept van ’t Hoff equation or van ’t Hoff plot or van ’t Hoff factor]

Tinatin [or Thinatin]

Aztec Empire [or Mexicas; accept Triple Alliance]

Sam Shepard [or Samuel Shepard Rogers III]

Thutmose III [or Thutmose the Great; accept “Thutmosis” or “Thothmes” in place of “Thutmose”; prompt on Thutmose or Tuthmosis or Thothmes]

Thomas Bernhard [or Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard] (The novel is Correction.)

tropical [accept tropical geometry]

scale-free networks [or power law networks]

Cimbrian War [or Cimbric War; accept equivalents mentioning a war against the Cimbri and Teutones]

Svalbard [or Spitsbergen; accept Svalbard Global Seed Vault or Svalbard globale frøhvelv; accept Svalbard Treaty or Spitsbergen Treaty] (The “Kings Bay affair” occurred in Ny-Ålesund. The Noordsche Compagnie settled Smeerenburg.)

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Delian League

South Dakota [accept SD] (Activist Russell Means proposed Porcupine as the capital for the “Republic of Lakotah.”)

David Hume [accept Hume’s principle; accept Hume’s Skeptical Crisis]

Jean Paul [or Jean Paul Richter; or Johann Paul Friedrich Richter]

Ijon Tichy (“EE-yohn TEE-hee”) [or Ijon Tichy]

Syria [or Syrian Arab Republic; or al-Jumhūriyyah al-ʿArabiyyah as-Sūriyyah]

tritone [accept tritone substitution; accept augmented fourth or diminished fifth until “For 10 points” is read]

Kartini (“KAHR-tee-nee”) [or Radén Ajeng Kartini or Radèn Adjeng Kartini or Radén Ayu Kartini or Radèn Ajoe Kartini; accept Kartini Day or Hari Kartini or Dina Kartini; accept Kartini Schools or Sekolah Kartini]

The Women of Algiers [or Women of Algiers in their Apartment; or Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement]

Chaim Soutine [or Chaim-Iche Solomonovich Sutin]

rags [or stracci, or straccio; accept Venus of the Rags or Orchestra of Rags or Venere degli stracci or Orchestra di stracci – Quartetto; prompt on clothing or clothes or cloths]

bread [or dough; accept flatbread; accept pastry or pastries or pastry dough; accept specific breads or doughs such as sourdough bread or baguette or pizza dough] (Ken Forkish’s book is Flour Water Salt Yeast.)

Jerry Goldsmith [or Jerrald King Goldsmith]

Leonhard Euler [accept Eulerian circuit]

volcanic eruptions [or word forms of erupting; prompt on volcano or volcanic activity; prompt on caldera formation] (The lake is Crater Lake.)

overreaching [accept the overreacher or Sir Giles Overreach; prompt on reaching]

Dylan Thomas [or Dylan Marlais Thomas] (The first two stories are “The Orchards” and “A Visit to Grandpa’s.”)

literacy [accept being lettered or word forms of being literate; accept reading or writing; accept antonyms like illiteracy; accept The Lettered City or La ciudad letrada, Nicaraguan literacy campaign, Cuban literacy campaign, or Campaña Nacional de Alfabetización]

fiber optics [or optical fibers; prompt on optical waveguides; prompt on fibers] (OTDR stands for optical time-domain reflectometer. APC stands for Angled Physical Contact and UPC stands for Ultra Physical Contact.)

rhetoric [or The Rhetoric of Fiction or A Rhetoric of Motives]

the first Earth Day

SETI [or search for extraterrestrial intelligence; prompt on search for extraterrestrial life; prompt on descriptions of looking for alien life]

villages [accept Village Prose or The Village; accept derevnya]

Margot Fonteyn (“MAR-go fon-TAIN”) [or Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias; or Margaret Evelyn Hookham]

garbage [or junk, trash, waste, or detritus; accept “Junkman’s Obbligato”]

Mikhail Bulgakov [or Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov]

Bell’s inequality [or Bell’s theorem; accept Bell test]

Taliesin (“tal-YES-in”) [accept Gwion Bach until read] (The poem in the first line is The Spoils of Annwn.)

Imperial Diet [or Reichstag; or Dieta Imperii; or Comitium Imperiale; or Diet of the Holy Roman Empire; accept the Eternal Diet of Regensburg or Immerwährender Reichstag]

octahedral

loneliness [accept synonyms like isolation; accept answers about a lack of social connection; accept loneliness epidemic; reject “solitude”]

Trimurti [or Trideva; or Brahma AND Vishnu AND Shiva; accept Sadashiva or Maheshmurti; prompt on Hindu gods, devas, or Hindu trinity; prompt on any two of the three; prompt on Harihara]

Welsh [or Cymraeg]

word order [or word forms of ordering or word position; or Wortstellung; accept clausal order or NP order; prompt on symmetry, asymmetry, antisymmetry, language structure, or sentence structure; prompt on syntax or syntactical until “syntactical” is read; prompt on topicality, focus, prominence, or topic-prominent by asking “encoded by what parameter?”]

Robert Nozick (All early clues come from Nozick’s Philosophical Explanations.)

president [or président; accept President of Senegal or Président de la république du Sénégal] (Senegal’s first president was Leopold Senghor.)

Richard Strauss [prompt on Strauss]

A. E. Housman [or Alfred Edward Housman]

logic [or reasoning; accept induction or deduction before mentioned; or logico-epistemology; prompt on epistemology until mentioned; prompt on philosophy before “epistemology”]

Mac Flecknoe (by John Dryden)

Babylon [or Babel; accept Hanging Gardens of Babylon]

Asante Empire [or Ashanti Empire, Asante Kingdom, Asante Confederacy, or Asanteman; accept Asantehene; accept Kumasi Kingdom or Kumasihene until “Kumasi” is read] (Clues include the Asantemanhyiamu assembly, the destoolings of Osei Kwame and Kusi Obodom, Asantehemaa Konadu Yaadom, the enslaved awowa class, and Osei Kwadwo’s bureaucratic reforms.)

David [prompt on the author of the Psalms until “Psalms” is read or the Penitential Sinner until “penitential” is read by asking “who was traditionally credited with writing those poems?”; prompt on Charles II until “sonnet” is read by asking “who is the actual character in the poem?”]

Edwards syndrome [or trisomy 18]

the Encyclopedia [or L’Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers]

Giant Steps

Spain [or España; accept Spanish Civil War or guerra civil española or guerra de España; prompt on Catalonia] (The photograph of the woman wearing heels is Woman training for a Republican militia by Gerda Taro.)

African National Congress [or ANC; accept South African Native National Congress; accept Spear of the Nation or uMkhonto we Sizwe or MK until “Spear of the Nation” is read]

Robert Schumann

variable-frequency drives [or VFDs; accept AC drives or variable-speed drives or AC variable-speed drives or AC variable-frequency drives or VFD inverters or variable-voltage variable-frequency drives or VVVF drives]

Helicobacter pylori [or H. pylori]

Karl Barry Sharpless [accept Sharpless epoxidation or Sharpless dihydroxylation]

Dada [or word forms like Dadaism or Dadaist]

“Trotsky and the Wild Orchids” (by Richard Rorty)

Cuba [or Republic of Cuba; or República de Cuba] (The artist in the first sentence is Tania Bruguera.)

seasonal flu shot [or influenza vaccine; or flu vaccines; accept vaccines against swine flu or avian flu; accept vaccines against H1N1 or H3N2 until “H3N2” is read; prompt on vaccines or shots] (Influenza B/Yamagata went extinct after 2020 quarantining.)

Pura Besakih

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator [or MBTI]

shimenawa [prompt on ropes]

missiles [accept cruise missiles, intercontinental ballistic missiles, ICBMs, anti-ballistic missiles, ABMs, guided weapons, missile silos, V-2, Titan II, Atlas, or Nike Zeus; accept Minuteman until read; prompt on rockets by asking “used in what devices?”; prompt on thermonuclear weapons, nukes, warheads, explosives, payload, ballistic systems, weapons of mass destruction, WMDs, or payload; reject “bombs” or “bombers”]

chemical reactions [accept chemical reaction networks; prompt on transition state formation]

Prometheus Bound [or Promētheús Desmṓtēs; or Prometheus Vinctus]

standard sizes [or sizing systems; accept dimensions; prompt on S, M, L, XL, or XXL; prompt on small, medium, large, extra-large, or extra-extra-large; prompt on Tom of Finland XXL; prompt on S,M,L,XL]

stress

Sir Kay [or Cai; or Cei; or Kex; or Keu]

Olivier Messiaen (“mess-YAWN”) [or Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen]

Michel Fokine

New York [accept NY]