A symbol of this religion includes a double-edged sword and a chakram and is called the khanda. Ifmembers of this religion are initiated into the Khalsa, they must carry a dagger and comb to follow the5 Ks. This religion's holy book, the (*) Adi Granth, is considered its last guru. Guru Nanak founded, for 10points, what Indian religion common in Punjab, whose members are known for wearing turbans?
This structure contains flippases, scramblases, and aquaporins, which allow for transport across it.The fluid mosaic model was developed to describe this cellular structure, which comprises aphospholipid (*) bilayer and separates the cytoplasm from the extracellular fluid. For 10 points, name thissemipermeable structure that surrounds the cell.
In one novel by this author, Humpty Dumpty celebrates his "unbirthday" before his untimely fall.The line "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / did gyre and gimble in the wabe" opens this author'snonsense poem (*) "Jabberwocky." Through the Looking-Glass is the sequel to this man's most well-knownwork. For 10 points, identify this author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
While docked in this modern-day country, the USS Maine exploded, prompting the US to enter theSpanish-American War. Many refugees from this country traveled north to Florida by boat. Thiscountry's leader Fulgencio (*) Batista was deposed in 1959 in favor of Fidel Castro. Guantanamo Bay isleased by the United States from, for 10 points, what Caribbean island nation led from Havana?
Note to players: description acceptable. Juliek (YOO-lee-eck) and Moshe the Beadle appear in a novelthat takes place in these locations. An author who died in one of these locations wrote the line "Inspite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart" in the (*) diary she kept inAmsterdam. Elie Wiesel's Night is set in and Anne Frank died in one of, for 10 points, what places whichincluded Auschwitz (ow-shvitz)?
Following this event, thousands of people were stranded in Canadian cities like Gander,Newfoundland by Operation Yellow Ribbon. The passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 forced it to (*)crash-land in Shanksville, Pennsylvania during this event. Al-Qaeda perpetrated, for 10 points, what deadliestterrorist attack in US history, which destroyed the Twin Towers?
These objects may be "seeded" using a small pellet of silver iodide. Their unusual mammatus type iscaused by strong updrafts, and these objects are formed when air temperature moves below the dewpoint in the (*) stratosphere. Rain, snow, and other precipitation are formed by the condensation of watervapor in, for 10 points, what large masses of air which may block out the sun?
This term is used for a pipe in a bagpipes whose note does not change as the pipes are played. Beesdescribed by this word are haploid, do not have stingers, and are the only male bees. In April 2019,London Gatwick Airport was (*) shut down by one of these objects flying around it. The U.S. military hasconducted "strikes" using, for 10 points, what unmanned flying vehicles?
This country contains a man-made island chain shaped like a map of the world. An airline based inthis country sponsors the soccer team Arsenal, whose stadium is named after it. Another airline in thiscountry, Etihad, is based in its city of (*) Abu Dhabi. The world's tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa, is foundin, for 10 points, what country whose largest city is Dubai?
August Burns [this color] in the name of one band, and Anthony Kiedis fronts another band whosename contains this color. In one film, Sean Connery plays the Lithuanian captain of a submarinepartially named for this color. Henry Fleming flees the battlefield in a Stephen (*) Crane book titled for a"Badge of Courage" of, for 10 points, what color which appears along with white on the Canadian flag?
Spartacus led a slave rebellion which rappelled down this mountain to win a battle. The ancientcity of Herculaneum was located near this mountain. Pliny the Elder died during a natural disastercaused by this (*) volcano, whose eruption buried an ancient Roman city in volcanic ash, preserving it. For10 points, name this volcano which destroyed Pompeii.
In uniform circular motion, this quantity always points radially inward. This quantity is the secondderivative of displacement with respect to time, and it equals zero when the forces acting on an objectare (*) balanced. Newton's 2nd law states that force equals mass times this quantity. For 10 points, whatquantity is measured in meters per second squared and describes the change in velocity?
This war began shortly after the strongly Catholic Ferdinand II was elected as Holy RomanEmperor, and some of his representatives were thrown out a window by Bohemian Protestants. Thiswar was ended by the Peace of (*) Westphalia, and it curtailed the power of the Catholic Habsburgs. For 10points, name this Central European war that lasted from 1618 to 1648 and is named for that amount of time.
A scientist from this country believed that one variety of wheat could be transformed into anothervariety by planting during a different season, a theory supported by its leader. This country's nuclearprogram detonated the (*) Tsar Bomba nuclear bomb, and it launched the first satellite, Sputnik. For 10points, Yuri Gagarin was from what country which rivaled the US in the "space race"?
One character in this play is repeatedly called the "Prince of Cats" by his frequent enemy. Thefemale protagonist of this work receives a sleeping potion from a (*) friar, although her lover believes herto be dead and commits suicide out of grief. The Montague and Capulet families are at odds in, for 10 points,what Shakespeare tragedy about two "star-cross’d lovers"?
One work by this composer consists of 30 variations on an aria, of which every third variation is acanon. This composer wrote 24 preludes and fugues, one for every key, in The (*) Well-Tempered Clavier.For 10 points, name this Baroque composer of Toccata and Fugue in D minor, the Goldberg Variations, and theBrandenburg Concerti.
This state’s Dutch Harbor is the busiest fishing port in America and a center for the crab industry.This state’s city of Nome is the finish line of the yearly Iditarod sled-dog race. The (*) Aleutian Islands,off the west coast of this state, form the southern end of the Bering Sea. For 10 points, name this state home toFairbanks, Anchorage, and the capital of Juneau.
This man's sword had a scabbard which prevented its wearer from bleeding from any wounds. Thisman was mortally wounded despite defeating Mordred at the Battle of Camlann. This son of Uther (*)Pendragon was served by the wizard Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table. For 10 points, whatlegendary English king wielded Excalibur and pulled a sword from a stone?
Groups are examples of these mathematical objects endowed with a binary operation fulfillingcertain properties. A symbol that looks like a circle with a line through it is commonly used to denotean "empty" one of these objects which has no (*) elements. The intersection and union operations can beperformed on, for 10 points, what collections of objects?
One artwork from this country is titled Fine Wind, Clear Morning, and was created in its ukiyo-estyle. A woodblock artist from this country depicted several suffering boats in The Great Wave Off (*)Kanagawa. That artist, Hokusai, created 36 Views of Mount Fuji, a mountain in, for 10 points, what Asiancountry whose modern art includes graphic novels called manga?
[10] The emperor Akbar the Great repealed the jizya, a tax on all subjects of the Mughal Empire that did not adhere to this religion, which the Mughal Empire spread by building mosques.
[10] This Maurya Emperor converted to Buddhism after witnessing mass deaths in his bloody conquest of Kalinga, according to his "rock edicts."
[10] Vasco da Gama, an explorer from this country, spread Christianity in India after sailing to it by rounding the tip of Africa. Another explorer from this country almost completed his circumnavigation of the world, but was killed by Filipino natives.
[10] Name this poet of Canto General who recounted raping a maid in his memoirs. He also abandoned his only child due to her severe birth defects, leaving her to die in the Netherlands with his estranged wife.
[10] Neruda also may have participated in the first assassination plot of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky lost a power struggle to Josef Stalin after the death of this first leader of the Soviet Union.
[10] Neruda also allegedly plagiarized part of a collection partially named for 20 poems about this emotion. An Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem declares, "Let me count the ways" in which she feels this emotion.
[10] Describe this event, which Aeneas flees along with its survivors to go to Italy at the beginning of Virgil's Aeneid. A prophet named Cassandra warns of this event, but because of a curse from Apollo, nobody believes her.
[10] The sack of Troy occurs after Greek soldiers sneak into the city inside this large object, which they pretended to leave as a victory trophy.
[10] The Trojan Horse is discussed in the Odyssey, an epic poem by this ancient Greek author who also wrote the Iliad about the Trojan War.
[10] Name this Illinois senator who supported popular sovereignty and backed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He ran for president in 1860, receiving electoral votes only from Missouri, which he won, and a "fusion ticket" in New Jersey.
[10] Douglas was a member of this political party that today opposes the Republicans.
[10] In 1858, Douglas ran for a Senate seat against this man, who gave the "House Divided" speech in a famous series of debates against him.
[10] Name this type of architectural element. Many Russian churches contain numerous examples of their "onion" types.
[10] This architect designed the dome on top of the Florence Cathedral after it had spent almost a hundred years unfinished.
[10] Another Italian Renaissance-era dome tops the St. Peter's Basilica, the most important church in this smallest country in the world. It is the home of the Pope and the headquarters of the Catholic Church.
[10] Name these disks made of small chunks of rock and dust that surround certain planets.
[10] The rings of this sixth planet from the sun are the most visible planetary rings in the Solar System.
[10] The separation between the A and F rings of Saturn is named for this French astronomer. He also names the "limit" inside which a planet's moon will break up into a ring system.
[10] Name this Danish physicist who developed the Copenhagen interpretation. His namesake model of the atom consists of electrons orbiting a nucleus.
[10] Bohr proposed his model of the atom with Ernest Rutherford, whose namesake experiment involved firing these particles at a gold foil.
[10] The Copenhagen interpretation was rejected by Erwin Schrödinger, who is better known for formulating a thought experiment in which one of these animals is both alive and dead at the same time.
[10] Name this ruler of the Franks who defeated the Lombards at the battle of Pavia and was crowned emperor by Pope Leo III.
[10] Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the leader of a "Holy" empire with this name. An ancient empire with this name was ruled by emperors such as Augustus and Caligula from its namesake Italian city.
[10] Charlemagne's father, Pepin the Short, deposed the last king of this previous ruling dynasty of the Franks known for their long hair. This dynasty ruled between the 5th and 8th centuries, and its first Christian king was Clovis I.
[10] Name this country whose Habsburg emperor, Maximilian I, was installed by Napoleon III before being overthrown and executed in Querétaro City.
[10] The death of the emperor was depicted in this artist's The Execution of Emperor Maximilian. This man also painted Luncheon on the Grass.
[10] Both Napoleon III and Édouard Manet were from this country, which was also led by Napoleon Bonaparte.
[10] Name these halophytic trees which grow in saline and brackish water. The Sundarbans, formed by the Ganges Delta, are a very large forest of these trees.
[10] Many mangroves grow by this state's "Keys", which include Key West and Key Largo. This southeastern U.S. state's major cities include Miami and Orlando.
[10] Mangroves also grow in this massive South Florida swamp that is formed by water flowing from Lake Okeechobee.
[10] The convention featured a speech by Mark and Patricia McCloskey, two St. Louis lawyers who achieved national notoriety after taking this action during a Black Lives Matter protest. A description is acceptable.
[10] Donald Trump may have violated the Hatch Act, a law regulating the use of public resources for political purposes, by delivering his nomination acceptance speech from this location. This official residence of the president is known for its address, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
[10] The convention also was criticized for using this musician's song "Hallelujah" despite having explicitly been denied permission by his estate. A spokesperson for this man's estate said that if the RNC had instead requested to use his song "You Want It Darker", "we might have considered approval of that song".
[10] Name this author of Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son, in addition to a book in which Jonas gains the ability to see colors over the course of the novel.
[10] Lowry wrote this novel, in which Jonas is selected as the Receiver of Memory. Its sequels include the aforementioned Gathering Blue.
[10] Lowry also wrote this historical fiction novel about Annemarie and her Jewish friend Ellen living in Nazi-era Denmark.
[10] Name this mathematician who formulated five postulates of a certain field of math in his book Elements, in which he also proved the infinitude of the primes.
[10] Euclid's Elements was primarily concerned with proofs in this kind of math. This field of math concerns points, lines, shapes, areas, and objects like circles and triangles.
[10] Non-Euclidean geometry violates this one of Euclid's postulates, which states that given a line L and a point P not on that line, exactly one line through P has the namesake property with respect to L.
[10] Name this woman who was born free of original sin, according to the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.
[10] Catholic dogma holds that Mary was endowed "perpetually" with this property. Christians believe that Mary conceived Jesus through the Holy Spirit and therefore maintained this quality despite Jesus's birth.
[10] The doctrine of the Assumption, meanwhile, holds that rather than dying normally, Mary had this kind of event happen to her. Jesus and the prophet Elijah also had this sort of event happen to them at the end of their earthly lives. A description is acceptable.
[10] Name this group 13 element that has atomic number 5, the lightest metalloid.
[10] Boron only needs 6 electrons in its valence shell to be stable, violating this law, which says that an element is stable when its valence shell is filled with 8 electrons.
[10] The octet rule can be tracked using dot diagrams named for this chemist. This man also names a definition of acids as electron pair acceptors.
[10] Name this American playwright of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, the latter of which depicts Willy Loman's relationship with his family.
[10] Near the end of Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman dies in this manner. The authors Ernest Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson both died in this manner after shooting themselves in the head.
[10] Joe Keller, the protagonist of this other Arthur Miller play, kills himself out of guilt after allowing defective parts to be shipped, resulting in the death of 21 pilots.
[10] Benjamin West painted a fanciful depiction of this man "Drawing Electricity from the Sky", in reference to his flying a kite in a thunderstorm.
[10] As President of the Continental Congress, this person presumably signed the Declaration of Independence first, and did so in a famously large and flamboyant manner.
[10] This signee would later become the governor of Massachusetts and the fifth vice president, and his last name would become part of a term for drawing congressional district boundaries for political aims.
[10] Name this judicial body which consists of eight Associate Justices and a Chief Justice, although its composition of nine members is not actually required by the Constitution.
[10] The Supreme Court establishes binding precedent according to the principle of common law, which is observed by the federal government and 49 U.S. states. This state, however, observes a civil law system based on the legal code of Napoleonic France.
[10] The Supreme Court rules on disputes between states, such as a 2002 case finally settling a border dispute between these two states over an island in the Piscataqua River containing Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. ANSWERS: Maine and New Hampshire <Sarma, Social Science> 19. The British music magazine NME named this band’s debut album, Is This It, as the best album of the 2000s. For 10 points each: [10] Name this alt-rock band who included songs like “Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus” and “Ode to the Mets” on their aptly-named 2020 album The New Abnormal.
[10] Name this sexually-transmitted virus. Patients who suffer from it often experience Kaposi's sarcoma, and it may eventually lead to AIDS.
[10] This bacterial disease is one of the most common causes of death for AIDS patients. This disease was historically known as consumption and infects the lungs.
[10] HIV is a member of this class of viruses. They insert a copy of their genome into the DNA of their host cells by using reverse transcriptase, an enzyme which transcribes RNA into DNA.