The Battle of Red Cliffs is fought in a novel from this country. In another novel from this country,Sandy, Pigsy, and the Monkey King accompany a Buddhist monk to Vulture Peak. Romance of the ThreeKingdoms and (*) Journey to the West are two of the Four Great Classics written in, for 10 points, whatcountry home to the poet Li Bai that was formerly ruled by the Ming Dynasty?
Part of the Western border of this state is formed by the Red River of the North. This state's"Northwest Angle" is formed by an unusual border along the Lake of the Woods, which this stateshares with (*) Canada. This state is home to the source of the Mississippi River, which forms part of itsborder with Wisconsin. For 10 points, name this "land of ten thousand lakes" whose capital is St. Paul.
The coat of arms of Moscow depicts a saint killing one of these animals. Drogon, Rhaegal, andViserion are three of these animals in Game of Thrones owned by Daenerys Targaryen. ThorinOakenshield leads an expedition to evict one of these animals, (*) Smaug, from the Lonely Mountain. Theflags of Bhutan and Wales depict, for 10 points, what mythical fire-breathing flying lizards?
Fractures in the crust of these objects result in "starquakes". One type of these objects rotatesrapidly, emits beams of radiation, and are called pulsars. These objects are supported by a namesake(*) degeneracy pressure, preventing them from collapsing into black holes. For 10 points, name theseastronomical objects denser than white dwarfs, entirely composed of their namesake uncharged particle.
This figure's mother dreamed of an elephant entering her womb before he was born. This cousin ofDevadatta married Yasodhara before escaping his father's palace. After seeing a diseased man, acorpse, and a monk, this man meditated under a (*) bodhi tree. The Eightfold Path and the Four NobleTruths were preached by, for 10 points, what man born Siddhartha Gautama who founded an Asian religion?
This politician said that she had broken the "marble ceiling" after being elected to her highestposition, in which she succeeded Dennis Hastert. This politician memorably ripped up her copy of the2020 (*) State of the Union speech. This woman represents California's 12th congressional district, whichcomprises most of San Francisco. For 10 points, name this current Speaker of the House.
This country is home to the world's oldest lighthouse still in use, the Tower of Hercules, in its city ofA Coruña. This country's Basque-speaking minority lives in cities like Bilbao, while its eastern portionis known as (*) Catalonia. The slogan "more than a club" is used by a world-famous soccer team from thiscountry's city of Barcelona. For 10 points, what European country is led from Madrid?
A young girl dances herself to death as part of a pagan ritual celebrating the start of this season inone ballet. This season appears in the title of a ballet whose premiere in Paris caused (*) riots to breakout. Aaron Copland wrote a ballet named for the "Appalachian" variety of this season. For 10 points, IgorStravinsky wrote "The Rite of" what season that comes after winter?
The "nearly free electron" theory describes one form of this phase of matter, which is to theimmediate left of the triple point. In sublimation, this phase of matter turns into a gas, and (*)precipitates formed during reactions are this phase of matter. For 10 points, identify this phase of matterwhich does not expand or flow, and is typically denser than liquids or gases.
Many 16th and 17th century maps incorrectly depicted this modern-day U.S. state as an island.Francis Drake claimed the colony of New Albion in this state. Junípero Serra founded many missionsalong this state's Camino Real. The (*) Donner Party died trying to reach this state, where an 1849 goldrush attracted thousands of migrants. For 10 points, name this “Golden State”.
The speaker of this poem asks its subject "is there - is there balm in Gilead?" before ordering it"back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore". The title animal of this poem is perched on a"pallid bust of (*) Pallas just above my chamber door". "Once upon a midnight dreary" is the opening of, for10 points, what poem by Edgar Allan Poe in which the title bird declares "nevermore"?
This organ is attached to the body wall by the falciform ligament, which separates it into two lobes.Excessive alcohol consumption can cause this organ to become scarred and lose function, a conditioncalled (*) cirrhosis. This organ can become inflamed in hepatitis, and the gallbladder stores bile produced byit. For 10 points, name this largest internal organ.
One man with this surname ran a campaign ad about the prisoner Willie Horton. A recount of"hanging chad" ballots in Florida enabled another man with this surname to narrowly defeat Al Gorein one election. A man with this surname who promised, "Read my (*) lips: no new taxes" later lostre-election in 1992 to Bill Clinton. For 10 points, give this surname of two U.S. Presidents named George.
This leader led a Grand Embassy through Western Europe, which inspired him to Westernize hiscountry by means such as introducing a formalized Table of Ranks for the military. This man's countryfought the Great Northern War against Sweden from (*) 1700 to 1721. For 10 points, what Russian tsarbuilt a capital on the Neva River named for a saint with the same name?
At the end of this novel, the main character is devastated when 511 children "balloon" from hisresidence. In this novel, a rodent named Templeton refuses to help other characters unless he isoffered food. One character in this novel (*) weaves words such as "SOME PIG!" and "TERRIFIC" into thetitle object. For 10 points, name this novel by E. B. White about a certain spider and the pig Wilbur.
Achilles owned two of these animals that were immortal and named Balius and Xanthos. Herculesfed Diomedes to some of these animals that he had raised to eat flesh. These animals were crossedwith fish in the mythical hippocampus. (*) Bellerophon captured a winged example of one of these animalsand used it to try to get to Mt. Olympus. For 10 points, what kind of animal was Pegasus?
The van 't Hoff factor is denoted by the lowercase version of this letter. The element denoted bythis letter is used in a test to detect starch and to treat goiters, or swelling of the thyroid. This letter isused to represent electric (*) current. The square root of -1 is denoted by, for 10 points, what letter thatrepresents both the imaginary number and the element Iodine?
If a matrix has determinant zero, then it cannot have one of these things. Functions that fail thehorizontal line test do not have one of these things, and reflecting the graph of a function across theline y=x gives the graph of this thing for it. For the function f(x)=x ("f of x equals x squared"), thesquare (*) root function serves as this thing. For 10 points, identify these functions which "undo" anotherfunction.
This dynasty's Emperor Wu defeated the Xiongnu (shong-noo), turning them into a Chinesetributary, and established Confucianism. This dynasty was succeeded by the Three Kingdoms Period.Liu Bang founded this (*) longest-reigning Chinese dynasty, succeeding the Qin (chin). For 10 points, namethis Chinese dynasty which reigned from 202 BC to 220 AD and shares its name with the largest Chineseethnicity.
English-Portuguese trade in cloth and this man-made good were analyzed by economist DavidRicardo. Regions like Bordeaux in France and California's Napa Valley contain many (*) vineyards,which grow this drink's main ingredient and then produce it. For 10 points, what alcoholic beverage comes in"red" and "white" varieties, depending on the color of the grapes used to make it?
[10] Name this Impressionist painter well known for his Water Lilies series, a set of depictions of his flower garden in Giverny (zhee-vair-NEE).
[10] This other Impressionist painter painted The Absinthe Drinker and created portraits of bathers such as After the Bath.
[10] Degas also made numerous paintings of people doing this activity, often while wearing tutus and other equipment used for ballet, a form of this activity.
[10] Name this author who also wrote The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
[10] Tolstoy was a native of this country, which Napoleon famously attempted to invade in the winter. Other authors from this country include Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Alexander Pushkin.
[10] The title character of this Tolstoy novel commits suicide by train. It begins by declaring "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way".
[10] There are this many possible such numbers, equal to the value of 4 choose 2.
[10] Two of the numbers, 7887 and 8778, are this kind of number which is the same written both forwards and backwards.
[10] All six numbers must be divisible by this smallest odd prime, because any number whose digits sum to a multiple of this number, like 12 or 39, must be divisible by this number.
[10] Name this novel set in a futuristic dystopia engineered to ensure constant happiness, with five social classes ranging from Alpha to Epsilon. Its protagonist Bernard Marx is exiled at the end of the book.
[10] This English author wrote Brave New World. Some of his other works include The Doors of Perception and Point Counterpoint.
[10] This real-life American industrialist is worshipped by the society of Brave New World, whose calendar counts the number of years since this man's automobile company produced its first Model T car off the assembly line.
[10] Name this organ located inside the skull, the center of the body's nervous system.
[10] This part of the brain derives its name from the Greek word for "seahorse". It is responsible for converting short-term to long-term memories, and humans contain two, one for each side of the brain.
[10] Two other parts of the brain, Broca's area and Wernicke's (VER-nick-uh’s) area, are responsible for this ability, and damage to those areas can cause aphasia, in which they are unable to perform this ability successfully, instead producing meaningless gibberish or repeated syllables.
[10] Name this British Prime Minister who led the country during World War II. In a famous 1940 speech, he said he had nothing to offer but "blood, toil, tears, and sweat".
[10] Churchill was a member of this political party, one of the two major British political parties along with the Labour Party. Its name indicates its center-right policy positions, and its recent prime ministers have included Theresa May.
[10] Churchill resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty after this failed military campaign in the Dardanelles. The anniversary of the landings in this campaign is a national holiday in Australia and New Zealand.
[10] Name these events in which tectonic plates interact, causing the release of seismic waves. They often cause the ground to shake and destroy buildings.
[10] Earthquakes' intensity is measured by this logarithmic scale, which has largely been replaced by the moment magnitude scale. Earthquakes with a value of above 7.0 on this scale are considered "major".
[10] This term is used to describe the point on the Earth's surface directly above where an earthquake started. It is contrasted with the hypocenter.
[10] Name this ethnic group, which today is the largest in South Africa. A province of South Africa is named for this ethnic group and Natal.
[10] This early 19th century Zulu monarch developed the "bull horn" formation and a shorter style of spear as part of his massive military reformation. The expansion of his realm is argued to have triggered the Mfecane (m-fay-thaa-nay), a long period of social upheaval in southern Africa.
[10] The Zulu Kingdom was eventually defeated by this colonial power, whose armies were also involved in the Boer Wars in South Africa. This country's colonial possessions also included Nigeria, Canada, and Australia.
[10] In The Wealth of Nations, Smith argued that division of this term makes workers more efficient. This term, a synonym for "work", is the total human activity required to produce a good.
[10] To illustrate the division of labor, Smith began The Wealth of Nations with an anecdote about visiting a factory for these objects, where every worker had a different job.
[10] Smith's ideas are foundational to this economic system, in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for a profit by corporations. It is often contrasted with communism, in which the means of production are public.
[10] Name this 8th planet, the farthest from the Sun, slightly more massive than its "twin", Uranus.
[10] Neptune's largest natural satellite is this moon, which unusually orbits Neptune in the opposite direction from Neptune's rotation.
[10] Triton's surface is mostly made up of the solid form of this element. The liquid form of this element, which boils at -320 degrees Fahrenheit, is often used as a coolant.
[10] Name these people whose mythology includes the giant Rainbow Serpent, who swallows the Wawalag sisters and then regurgitates them to create the land in one creation myth.
[10] The Aboriginal people, whose groups include the Guugu Yimithirr (koo-koo yih-mih-ter), are native to this country. This landmass was colonized by British explorers who first established a settlement at what is now its largest city of Sydney.
[10] During the colonial period, many Aboriginal groups adopted myths of a white man with this name visiting Australia and changing the social order. An actual British captain with this name made the first European landing on Australia.
[10] Muse's "United States of Eurasia" quotes a piece by this Polish composer of many nocturnes, the Minute Waltz, and the Fantaisie-Impromptu.
[10] Muse was also influenced by this minimalist composer of the operas Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha.
[10] Another of Muse's influences was Heitor Villa-Lobos, a composer from this country where he was born in Rio de Janeiro.
[10] Name this national park, which is home to a geyser named "Old Faithful" because it erupts at regular, predictable intervals.
[10] The majority of Yellowstone National Park is in this least-populous U.S. state, with capital at Cheyenne.
[10] This national park directly south of Yellowstone, the other national park in Wyoming, contains part of a valley called Jackson Hole. This park shares its name with its tallest mountain.
[10] Name this artist known for her hits "everything i wanted" and "bad guy".
[10] Eilish's "you should see me in a crown" was used on the soundtrack to the 2019 edition of this popular soccer video game by EA Sports. It shares its name with the world governing body for soccer.
[10] Eilish also became the youngest person to write and perform a James Bond theme song when she was hired to produce the title track from this 2020 movie starring Daniel Craig as James Bond.
[10] Name this co-founder of Apple who died from cancer in 2011.
[10] Jobs was also an initial investor of this animation company, which was eventually acquired by Disney. At the beginning of this company's films, a lamp squishes the letter "I".
[10] Jobs worked with this other Apple cofounder, who developed the Apple I ("one") and II ("two") computers. On one occasion, Jobs used this man's work to get a $5,000 bonus from Atari while only paying him $350.
[10] This battle was the last of the Revolutionary War, where Lord Cornwallis was defeated by George Washington and the Count de Rochambeau.
[10] These first two battles of the Revolutionary War were fought in towns outside Boston in 1775. Name either.
[10] George Washington secretly crossed the Delaware River and defeated the Hessians in this battle in New Jersey which occurred the day after Christmas.
[10] Name this quantity measured in kilograms. Weight equals this quantity multiplied by gravitational acceleration.
[10] This vector quantity is equivalent to mass multiplied by velocity, and impulse measures the change of this quantity.
[10] This principle named for a German scientist posits that more knowledge about a particle's position means less knowledge about its momentum and vice versa.
[10] Name this event in which millions of oppressed African Americans moved North because of the South's discriminatory practices during the middle of the 20th century.
[10] This organization promoted the Great Migration under the leadership of W. E. B. DuBois. This organization's field secretary, Medgar Evers, was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith, and its newspaper was known as The Crisis.
[10] Medgar Evers was killed in this state, also the site of Emmett Till's murder. This state's capital lies at Jackson.
[10] Name this Jean Craighead George book where Sam Gribley leaves the city to live self-sufficiently in a treehouse in the forest.
[10] Sam tames a peregrine bird of this type, which he names Frightful, to hunt for him.
[10] Sam leaves this state's largest city for its village of Delhi in its Catskill Mountains. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby takes place on this state's Long Island.
[10] Name this last book of the Bible. In it, seven seals are opened and seven trumpets sounded, among other visions of the end of the world.
[10] In Revelation, the Scroll of God reveals this many horsemen of the apocalypse.
[10] This is the last of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and the only one to be explicitly named in Revelation. He comes on a pale horse.