One member of this family was a founding member of the board of Bethesda Softworks before his2020 death. Another member of this family wore a controversial green jacket saying "I really don'tcare". Jared (*) Kushner's wife is a member of this family named Ivanka. A Slovenian former model namedMelania is part of, for 10 points, what family which includes the current U. S. President?
This function is generalized to the complex plane by the gamma function. The number of ways tochoose r objects out of n objects, if order matters, is equal to this function of n divided by this functionof r. This function of n gives the number of ways to (*) order n objects. An exclamation point denotes, for10 points, what function equal to the product of all integers up to the input?
Fielding Yost coached this team to a 49–0 destruction of Stanford in the first Rose Bowl. Thisschool’s alumni include Charles Woodson and Tom Brady. This team plays in the (*) largest footballstadium in America, nicknamed "The Big House". Jim Harbaugh is the head football coach at, for 10 points,what Big Ten university in Ann Arbor known for their intense rivalry with Ohio State?
A sonnet written by this man begins "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent" and discusses hisblindness. This man sought to “justify the ways of God to man” in a Biblically-inspired epic poempartially set in the city of (*) Pandemonium which describes the story of Adam and Eve and the fall ofLucifer. For 10 points, name this English poet who wrote the epic Paradise Lost.
This country's "shame culture" was contrasted with America's "guilt culture" in Ruth Benedict's TheChrysanthemum and the Sword. At the end of World War II, this country issued the Jewel VoiceBroadcast announcing its surrender after (*) nuclear bombs were dropped on its cities of Hiroshima andNagasaki. For 10 points, in what country are ramen and sushi popular foods?
Heavy pollution caused the Cuyahoga River to suffer this type of event in 1969. Labor laws weretightened after a 1911 one of these events killed 146 garment workers in New York City. One of thesedisasters allegedly began in Catherine (*) O'Leary's barn and destroyed much of the city of Chicago. For 10points, name this type of disaster whose prevention is advocated by Smokey Bear.
In this organelle, the protein cytochrome C transfers electrons to complexes II and IV during theoxidation stage of the electron transport chain. This organelle contains its own DNA, which isinherited exclusively from the (*) mother. Cellular respiration occurs in, for 10 points, what organelle thatproduces ATP and is known as the "powerhouse of the cell"?
This man showed horses and a carriage with elongated legs in his version of The Temptation of St.Anthony. This man replaced the headset of a telephone with a lobster in one work, and depicted aswarm of ants on one of many melting (*) clocks in his most famous painting. For 10 points, name thisSpanish surrealist painter of The Persistence of Memory.
This author recalled his experience serving in the air force in World War II in his memoir Going Solo.A book by this author ends when the title character boards the "Great Glass Elevator." In a novel by thisauthor, Miss Honey adopts a schoolgirl who scares away Miss (*) Trunchbull with her telekinetic powers.For 10 points, name this author of Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The Chikyu Hakken project is attempting to receive samples from this region. The asthenosphere isa layer of this region with low resistance where plastic flow occurs. The Moho discontinuity is theupper boundary of this layer, whose (*) convection drives the movement of tectonic plates. For 10 points,name this largest layer of the earth, lying under the crust and above the outer core.
This man won the Battle of Pharsalus against the forces of Pompey the Great, securing victory in acivil war. This man captured the chief Vercingetorix at the end of the Gallic Wars, which he won. Thisman brought his army across the (*) Rubicon in defiance of the Senate, but was eventually assassinated onthe Ides of March. For 10 points, name this Roman dictator who was stabbed by Brutus.
In one book in this language, the protagonist decides to stop growing at the age of three when hereceives a tin drum. Another book in this language depicts Hans Castorp's stay in a Swiss sanitorium.Novels like Steppenwolf were written in this language by Hermann (*) Hesse. Thomas Mann and GünterGrass wrote in, for 10 points, what language in which the memoir Mein Kampf was written by Adolf Hitler?
This goddess and her mother were venerated in the Eleusinian Mysteries, which celebrated herannual reunion with her mother. This goddess's mother caused the earth to become barren whilesearching for her. This goddess ate six (*) pomegranate seeds, meaning that she must spend six months ofevery year in the underworld. The daughter of Demeter is, for 10 points, what goddess abducted by Hades?
The first of these conflicts ended with the Battle of Ascalon, a decisive victory for Godfrey ofBouillon, and resulted in Baldwin I ruling the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The fourth of these militarycampaigns was diverted to sack Constantinople rather than going to the (*) Middle East. Christiansfought Muslims for control of the Holy Land in, for 10 points, what series of medieval religious wars?
In this city, Jan (yahn) Masaryk was likely murdered by being thrown out of a window in 1948, anincident often called its "Fourth Defenestration". Alexander Dubček (doob-check) led from this city,and Jan Palach (yahn pah-lock) set himself on fire in its Wenceslas Square. A namesake 1968 (*)"Spring" prompted a brutal Soviet invasion of, for 10 points, what capital of the Czech Republic?
In 1989, the scientists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons claimed to have accomplished a "cold"version of this process. Tokamaks are used to perform this process by using a powerful magnetic field.This process occurs in (*) stars, transforming hydrogen into helium. For 10 points, name this process inwhich two atoms join together, contrasted with nuclear fission.
24 caprices were written for this instrument by one virtuoso player of it, Niccolò Paganini. TheFour Seasons were a set of concerti composed for this instrument by Antonio (*) Vivaldi. Stradivariusmanufactured many high-quality examples of these instruments. The viola is slightly lower-pitched than, for10 points, what smallest string instrument in the orchestra?
The western part of this country is home to the mountainous Jasper and Banff National Parks. Thiscountry's north contains Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake, as well as Alert, the (*) northernmostpermanent settlement on earth. This country's province of British Columbia contains the city of Vancouver.For 10 points, name this country which includes Alberta, Quebec, and Ontario.
This quantity is defined in units of coulombs per second, and diodes restrict this quantity to onedirection. This quantity can be measured by ammeters, and Ohm's law states that voltage divided by(*) resistance is equal to this quantity. This quantity is measured in units of amperes. For 10 points, name thisquantity that measures the amount of electrical charge flowing through a wire.
After members of one religion perform this action for a day, they end it by having iftar. The pillar ofIslam known as sawm requires every Muslim to perform this action during a certain period that endswith (*) Eid al-Fitr. Between sunset and sunrise during the month of Ramadan, Muslims perform, for 10points, what action of abstaining from eating food?
[10] Name this dystopian novel by George Orwell about Winston Smith's life under the repressive regime of Big Brother, named for the year in which it takes place.
[10] In 1984, Winston has a secret affair with a woman with this name. Mario Vargas Llosa (YO-sa) wrote a novel partially titled for a character with this first name "and the Scriptwriter".
[10] Early in the novel, Winston's suspicions that Julia is a member of a resistance group are confirmed when she hands him a note containing this three-word confession.
[10] Identify this 1770 event in which British soldiers shot and killed several people protesting colonial laws in the capital of Massachusetts.
[10] This dock worker was the first victim of the Boston Massacre. Most historians agree he is both of African and Native American descent.
[10] The Boston Massacre was depicted in an engraving by this silversmith. This freedom fighter orchestrated a signal to light one lantern if British forces were advancing by land and two if by sea in one of his most famous feats.
[10] This word refers to an item defined based on itself, such as a sequence where each number is defined as a function of previous numbers in the sequence.
[10] This term can describe an election to remove a politician in the middle of their term, a notice not to use a certain product, or your ability to remember things like the answer to this bonus.
[10] This word means compensation paid by a government for a historical wrong. Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote an essay in the Atlantic titled "The Case For" this word, arguing that Black Americans should be paid to compensate for a history of oppression.
[10] Name this play about the increasing mistreatment of two black servants by their master's teenage son, the magnum opus of Athol Fugard.
[10] Fugard was from this country, where authors like Nadine Gordimer and Alan Paton wrote about apartheid.
[10] Alan Paton wrote this novel about the elderly Zulu priest Stephen Kumalo who travels to Johannesburg and deals with his son Absalom's murder of Arthur Jarvis.
[10] Most trees are covered in these objects, at least during the summer. These flat green structures allow the trees to "breathe", and during the fall they may change color.
[10] Trees whose leaves change color and fall off every winter are referred to by this term, which is contrasted with "evergreen".
[10] Many evergreen trees fall into this category of plants which bear exposed seeds, whose name comes from the Greek for "naked seed". They are contrasted with angiosperms.
[10] Identify this action, which was also performed on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. A description is acceptable.
[10] This actor shouted "Sic Semper Tyrannis", or "thus always to tyrants", after shooting Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
[10] After the assassination of William McKinley, Congress passed a law to task the Secret Service with protecting the president. The Secret Service was originally a branch of the Treasury Department tasked with preventing this crime.
[10] Name this Caribbean island split between two countries, the French-colonized Haiti in the west and a larger Spanish-speaking country in the east.
[10] This country occupies the eastern portion of Hispaniola. Its tourist attractions include Pico Duarte and Lake Enriquillo, and its capital is Santo Domingo.
[10] This is the most popular sport in the Dominican Republic. David Ortiz, Sammy Sosa, Bartolo Colón, and Albert Pujols are among the many Dominicans who have achieved success as professional athletes in this sport.
[10] Name these self-similar figures which include the Sierpiński triangle, the Cantor set, the dragon curve, and others.
[10] A fractal named for Niels von Koch and this kind of figure can be constructed by starting with a triangle, then adding triangles with smaller bases onto the straight lines, and repeating infinitely.
[10] Fractals have a "Hausdorff" variety of this concept which can be a non-integer and measures the complexity of a fractal. Shapes like circles and squares exist in a plane, which has two of these, whereas solid objects like cubes have three of them.
[10] Describe this action, the focus of Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment. In that experiment, subjects were instructed to do this to “learners” who failed at a word-memorization task, and generally did so despite being told that it could be extremely painful.
[10] Milgram was inspired to conduct the experiment to determine whether the millions of people involved in perpetrating this atrocity could have been merely "following orders". During this event, over six million Jews were killed and millions more forced to flee Europe.
[10] This German-American Jewish philosopher also explored the motivations of Holocaust perpetrators, coining the phrase "the banality of evil" to explain it. She also wrote the books Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism.
[10] Name this Dutch artist known for his tessellations and depictions of paradoxes such as waterfalls which flow into themselves.
[10] Escher's Hand with Reflecting Sphere is an unusual form of this type of artwork, in which the artist depicts themselves.
[10] Escher also painted a paradoxically infinite one of these structures in Ascending and Descending. Marcel Duchamp produced a painting of a "Nude Descending" one of these structures.
[10] The goal of Operation Chattanooga Choo Choo was to bomb tracks for these vehicles, which passengers on the Trans-Siberian Railroad used.
[10] Operations Breakfast, Lunch, Snack, Dinner, Supper, and Dessert were launched to bomb this country neighboring Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
[10] The U.S. occupied New Georgia in Operation Toenails in this war, which also included the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
[10] "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is the official state anthem of this U.S. state. The song claims that this state is "almost heaven" and compares its mountains to a motherly figure.
[10] This is the last name of the singer of "Take Me Home, Country Roads." This is also the name of a city nicknamed the "Mile High City", the capital of Colorado.
[10] The second line of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" mentions both the Blue Ridge Mountains and this Virginia river, the largest tributary of the Potomac. A folk song with the same name as this river says "we're bound away / across the wide Missouri".
[10] Name these word puzzles which contain "Across" and "Down" clues, and consist of a grid in which words must be filled in all the empty squares.
[10] This other kind of crossword more popular in Britain uses clues that contain complex puzzles like anagrams and other wordplay, and typically contains many more black squares than standard crosswords.
[10] A well-known crossword is published every week in the Sunday edition of this newspaper. Its slogan is "All the News that's Fit to Print".
[10] Name this Jewish observance that falls on the seventh day of the week. Observant Orthodox Jews often refrain from work on this day.
[10] The challah bread is covered while this blessing is recited during Shabbat. This blessing is recited over wine or grape juice during the first meal of the Shabbat, on Friday night.
[10] Wine or grape juice is also used to extinguish one of these objects at the end of Shabbat. One of these objects is lit on each day of Hanukkah.
[10] This unit of quantity is equal to the number of particles in 12 grams of carbon-12. The mass of one of these units for a specific element is that element's molecular weight.
[10] One mole is equal to 6.02 x 10 , a number named for this Italian scientist.
[10] One mole of the "ideal" form of this state of matter will occupy a volume of 22.4 liters at standard temperature and pressure. This state of matter expands to fill its containers and is the least dense of the three primary phases.
[10] What mineral which forms the continuous branch of Bowen's reaction series is the most common mineral in the Earth's crust?
[10] Feldspar's molecular structure includes eight atoms of this element, which comprises almost half of the Earth's crust. The primary component of sand is a compound of silicon and this element called silica.
[10] Feldspar typically contains silicon, oxygen, an alkali metal, and this element, the most common metal in the Earth's crust. It is symbolized Al, and is commonly used to make foil.
[10] There is only one known surviving photograph of this Massachusetts poet who spent much of her adult life in isolation. Her poems include "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" and "I heard a Fly buzz— when I died”.
[10] This postmodernist author of The Crying of Lot 49 has managed to stay out of the public eye for six decades. He wrote about Tyrone Slothrop and the V-2 rocket in Gravity's Rainbow.
[10] Novels by the reclusive Cormac McCarthy include Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, two examples of this literary genre. Actor John Wayne is also associated with this broad genre of fiction which frequently involves cowboys, sheriffs, and outlaws.
[10] Name this constellation depicting a hunter from Greek mythology. Its most famous feature is the three stars that make up its belt.
[10] This supergiant variable star, which experienced the aforementioned dimming, is usually the second brightest star in Orion. It forms one of Orion's "shoulders".
[10] Astronomers believed that Betelgeuse's dimming could be a sign that it will undergo one of these events soon. In these events, a massive star collapses in on itself and explodes.
[10] Describe this event was perpetrated by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist group.
[10] Franz Ferdinand's death sparked the beginning of this war which lasted from 1914 to 1918.
[10] This country was the first to mobilize forces to support Serbia, although it withdrew from the war after a 1917 revolution deposed its king Nicholas II.
[10] After this Mesopotamian love goddess is rejected by Gilgamesh, she unleashes the Bull of Heaven on him, leading to the death of his friend Enkidu.
[10] This giant lumberjack in American folklore is accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox.
[10] The goat Heiðrún (HAY-dhroon) grazes from the tree Læraðr (LIE-rah-dhur) atop this location, and produces vast quantities of mead. This giant hall owned by Odin is the final resting place for the einherjar (AIN-hair-yaar), the souls of fallen warriors, who are led to this place by valkyries.