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acf-regs25-16-2 | When this politician told an ailing president he prayed for him, the president responded, “Which way, Senator?” This politician defended Jesse Wayne Brazel, who admitted to shooting Pat Garrett. Albert Jennings Fountain disappeared after leaving this politician’s Three Rivers Ranch, leading him to defend Oliver Lee. An event centered on this cabinet member led to McGrain v. Daugherty, allowing Congress to compel testimony. John B. Kendrick led an investigation into an event centered on this politician before an inquiry by Thomas Walsh. Harry Sinclair and Edward Doheny bribed this New Mexico politician, making him the first cabinet member to be imprisoned. For 10 points, name this Interior Secretary who leased Elk Hills oil fields to private companies in the Teapot Dome Scandal. | Albert Fall [or Albert Bacon Fall] | Albert Fall | [
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acf-regs25-16-3 | One of these characters, who is the only named character in his novel, has his name changed in a dream in which the protagonist talks to The Chauffeur. In a story within a novel, a train-hopping young man hides from these characters in a bell tower while in a town filled with them. In another novel, a freezer full of the heads of these characters, which are being used to create a magic flute, inspires a man to kill the murderous Johnnie Walker. In that novel, an illiterate man uses his ability to talk to these characters for his job of finding them. While searching for one of these characters at his wife’s behest, the protagonist discovers a dried-up well in “The Thieving Magpie,” the opening section of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. For 10 points, name these recurring pets in the novels of Haruki Murakami. | cats [or felines; accept kittens or kitty or kitties; prompt on pets or animals] (The first three sentences are from, respectively, A Wild Sheep Chase, 1Q84, and Kafka on the Shore.) | cats | [
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acf-regs25-16-4 | Performers of this activity steal money from a girl’s fishbowl before she loses it in a storm grate in Jafar Panahi’s film The White Balloon. Gabal learns this activity from his father-in-law and uses it to strike a deal with the gangsters in The Children of Gebelawi. This activity provides an alternate title for a Sol Bloom song often called “The Poor Little Country Maid.” A woman modeled on the artist’s lover Jadwiga watches a man do this activity in The Dream by Henri Rousseau, who titled a 1907 painting for a performer of it. This activity often involves an item called a pungi. The cover of Edward Said’s Orientalism shows Jean-Léon Gérôme’s painting of this activity, which does not actually induce hypnosis. For 10 points, what activity involves playing an instrument to draw a reptile out of a basket? | snake charming [accept snake charmers; accept serpent charming; prompt on charming by asking “of what?”; prompt on answers like playing music or playing a flute by asking “for what purpose?”] (The Sol Bloom song is also often called “The Streets of Cairo.”) | snake charming | [
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acf-regs25-16-5 | The one-electron term of the Breit–Pauli Hamiltonian multiplies this quantity to a spin–orbit interaction term over a double summation. Using the “self-consistent field” method, this quantity equals the ratio of the expectation for the radius of a hydrogen orbital to that of a hydrogen-like orbital. This quantity multiplies radius in the exponential term of a Slater-type orbital. Factors of 0.30 and 0.35 for various orbitals are used to calculate this quantity by Slater’s rules. This quantity is divided by the square of covalent radius to obtain the Allred–Rochow electronegativity. Shielding from inner-shell electrons decreases this quantity below the atomic number. For 10 points, name this quantity that roughly describes the electric force experienced by an electron in an atom, denoted “Z-sub-e-f-f.” | effective nuclear charge [accept Z-sub-eff until read; reject “nuclear charge” or “atomic number”] | effective nuclear charge | [
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acf-regs25-16-6 | One politician with this name patronized the philosopher Athenodoros Cordylion, who lived with him in Rome in his old age. Another leader with this name may have been killed by Gaius Marius the Younger while fighting Marsic forces at Fucine Lake. While serving under Glabrio in fighting the Seleucids at Thermopylae, a general with this name led a decisive surprise attack on the Aetolians. A man with this name praised the utility of cabbages in his De Agri Cultura. After the Battle of Thapsus, a man with this name committed suicide in Utica to avoid Julius Caesar’s clemency. Greek influence on Roman culture was opposed by a 184 BCE censor with this name known as “the Elder.” For 10 points, a man of what name repeatedly ended speeches with “Carthage must be destroyed”? | Cato [accept Marcus Porcius Cato or Lucius Porcius Cato or Cato the Younger or Cato the Elder; prompt on Porcius by asking “what cognomen do those men share?”] (The first and fifth lines refer to Cato the Younger. The second line refers to Lucius Porcius Cato, grandson of Cato the Elder.) | Cato | [
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acf-regs25-16-7 | This organism contains the novel photoreceptor protein LITE-1, which is extremely efficient at processing blue and ultraviolet light. The transmembrane proteins SID-1 and SID-2 provide input molecules for one process in this organism controlled by lin-4, a heterochronic regulator that accumulates at this organism’s L2 stage of development. This organism was the first to have its full nervous system mapped. A team led by John Sulston determined that this organism’s hermaphroditic form has exactly 959 somatic cells. Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering RNA interference in this organism, whose use as a model was popularized by Sydney Brenner. For 10 points, the first multicellular organism to have its full genome sequenced is what species of nematode worm? | C. elegans [or Caenorhabditis elegans; prompt on Caenorhabditis] (SID-1 and SID-2 are responsible for environmental RNA uptake; lin-4 is the first discovered microRNA.) | C. elegans | [
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acf-regs25-16-8 | During an interview to promote one of these works, a creator of one called Take a Left repeats “mutter, mutter, mutter, mutter” to mock the so-called “corporation” next to him. While making one of these works, a man talks to his “daily self-loathing” and a white “Inwood Daddy,” two of his personified “Thoughts.” A man starts out making these works, has an affair with Gussie, and feuds with Charley Kringas in reverse chronology scenes about the life of that man, Franklin Shepard. A queer Black usher develops one of these works in Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop, which itself is one of them. One of these works billed as a “gay romp with Adolf and Eva,” the intentionally bad Springtime for Hitler, appears in The Producers. For 10 points, what works include Merrily We Roll Along, created by Stephen Sondheim? | musicals [or stage musicals; or musical theatre; accept musicals-within-a-musical; accept stage revues; prompt on plays or theatre or stage works; prompt on songs by asking “for what larger works?”] (The song in the first sentence is “Franklin Shepard, Inc.” from Merrily We Roll Along.) | musicals | [
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acf-regs25-16-10 | This faculty was studied in an experiment in which a Charlie Chaplin mask was rotated; that experiment into this faculty was conducted by Richard Gregory. At William Wundt’s lab, George Stratton pioneered experiments using devices studying this faculty, one of which he combined with a harness. David Marr created a three-stage computational model for measuring this faculty’s processing. LogMAR and a chart named for Herman Snellen measure this faculty. An experiment named for this faculty, in which infants are placed on a platform while their parent calls for them behind transparent plexiglass, was developed by Eleanor Gibson. This faculty, which names a “cliff,” is used to perceive the phi phenomenon and other illusions. For 10 points, the occipital lobe processes what faculty that perceives color? | vision [or visual perception or visual acuity; or sight or eyesight; accept color vision; accept depth perception; prompt on perception] | vision | [
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acf-regs25-16-11 | Shao Yong developed a method for this practice that relies on natural observation and is named after the plum blossom. This practice was performed by assessing the “five elements” based on the Shénxiāng Quánbiān. A method for this practice connects the twelve Earthly Branches, representing time, to the bāzì. A method for this practice was largely replaced by the three-coin method. The King Wen sequence for this practice arranges broken and unbroken lines. A text concerning this practice was accompanied by a set of commentaries called the Ten Wings. Yarrow stalks were used for this practice to generate hexagrams. The I Ching primarily concerns this practice, for which the Shang Dynasty used ox or turtle bones. For 10 points, name this practice commonly used in ancient China to predict the future. | divination [accept synonyms like telling the future or fortune-telling until “predict” is read; accept I Ching divination; accept scapulimancy; accept cleromancy; accept suan ming; accept mei hua yi shu; prompt on astrology] | divination | [
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acf-regs25-16-12 | In a novel by this author, a man who collects junk uses a broken umbrella to explain his desire to create a new language. In that novel by this author, an academic reveals that Humpty Dumpty and Columbus’s egg inspired his pseudonym Henry Dark. At the end of a novel by this author, the narrator receives a red notebook, implying that a man who walked in patterns spelling “THE TOWER OF BABEL” was the writer Fanshawe. This author, who died in 2024, was married to novelist Siri Hustvedt. Blue spends over a year alone in an apartment watching Black in this author’s novella Ghosts, which follows a novel in which this author’s identity is assumed by the mystery writer Daniel Quinn. For 10 points, name this author of City of Glass, which is part of his postmodern detective series The New York Trilogy. | Paul Auster [or Paul Benjamin Auster] | Paul Auster | [
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acf-regs25-16-13 | Kemeny and Oppenheim’s “indirect” view of this process was one of many classified by Kenneth Schaffner. Explanation and this process conflict with empiricism according to a paper that coined the term “incommensurable” by Paul Feyerabend. Ernest Nagel’s model of this process uses “bridge laws” to link scientific theories. An “ism” named for this process is divided into “good” and “greedy” versions in Darwin’s Dangerous Idea and follows the analytic-synthetic distinction as the second of Quine’s “Two Dogmas of Empiricism.” This word denotes the process of explaining a complex phenomenon via a more fundamental one, which is often used in a negative sense to imply oversimplification. For 10 points, a logical fallacy is named for doing what process “to absurdity,” or ad absurdum? | reduction [or word forms such as reducing or reductive; accept scientific reduction; accept greedy reductionism; accept reductio ad absurdum] (Feyerabend’s paper is “Explanation, Reduction, and Empiricism.”) | reduction | [
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acf-regs25-16-14 | An artist with this first name painted a possible political allegory in which an approaching dog in the lower-left corner is repelled by a large white swan. This is the first name of an artist whose careers as a brewer and innkeeper influenced paintings like Beware of Luxury and The Dancing Couple. That artist with this first name painted rowdy genre scenes like The Feast of Saint Nicholas and inspired two “interiors” in a series by Joan Miró. Many of the 34 paintings attributed to an artist with this first name are set in a room of his home with checkered floors and a shining window on the left. Those paintings include one in which a foot warmer sits on the floor behind a domestic worker as she pours the title liquid. For 10 points, give this first name of the Dutch Golden Age painter of The Milkmaid. | Jan (“yahn”) [or Johannes; accept Jan Asselijn or Jan Steen or Jan Vermeer or Johannes Vermeer] (The first painting is The Threatened Swan by Jan Asselijn. Miró’s series is Dutch Interiors.) | Jan | [
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acf-regs25-16-15 | In a cubic lattice, a BEC can undergo a phase transition between a superfluid and these materials when the ratio of U to J exceeds 36. Symmetry classes denoted “A” correspond to a type of these materials in a so-called “periodic table” containing ten classes. These materials satisfy a criterion of “effective Bohr radius times the cube root of electron density” being less than about 0.2 to 0.4. Other materials may unexpectedly become these materials due to the Peierls distortion. The Hubbard model correctly predicts the behavior of nickel oxides acting as these materials, as first proposed by Nevill Mott. These materials lose their behavior and begin to produce a current beyond the breakdown voltage. For 10 points, name these materials with a high band gap, thus making them poor conductors of electricity. | insulators [accept Mott insulators or Chern insulators or Peierls insulators or topological insulators] | insulators | [
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acf-regs25-16-16 | The late stages of this colony saw the leadership of the so-called “reactionary lawyers” challenged by a party composed of “verandah boys.” The Watson Commission investigated riots in this colony, during which protesting veterans were killed in the Christiansborg Crossroads shooting incident. Five of the “Big Six” were included in the Coussey Committee to write a new constitution for this colony, leading the excluded member to launch the “Positive Action” campaign. Charles Arden-Clarke appointed a future prime minister as “Leader of Government Business” in this colony after that leader’s release from Fort James. That proponent of Pan-Africanism founded the Convention People’s Party in this colony. For 10 points, what British colony gained independence under Kwame Nkrumah? | Gold Coast [accept British Ghana; prompt on Ghana] | Gold Coast | [
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acf-regs25-16-18 | Finger taps, tongue clicks, and heel stomps are interspersed throughout a piece in this genre included in the collection The Garden of Eden. A “Bible” of this genre by Rudi Blesh inspired a revival that included the composer of three “ghost” entries in this genre, William Bolcom. The first instrumental piece to sell more than a million printed copies was a work in this genre; that work’s composer created an opera company named for this genre to tour his opera A Guest of Honor. Gunther Schuller founded an ensemble for playing music in this genre such as “The Cascades” and “Easy Winners” by a composer who was grouped into this genre’s “Big Three” along with Joseph Lamb and James Scott. For 10 points, a club in Sedalia, Missouri may have inspired a piece in what genre by Scott Joplin? | ragtime [or rags] | ragtime | [
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acf-regs25-16-19 | In this novel, a lacemaker burns his wood carving of the Creation after his wife angers him by suggesting a cathedral sculptor added a woman’s face to a male saint. In this novel, a Polish grandmother realizes her husband drowned when she discovers his riding whip in the flood water. In this novel, a teacher is horrified to learn that she had caned a troublemaking child with a heart condition. After her lover Anton leaves for the Boer War, a girl in this novel engages in a sapphic romance with the schoolteacher Winnifred, who later marries the girl’s coal baron uncle. This novel follows three generations of a Nottingham family from the patriarch Tom to Ursula Brangwen, who also appears in its sequel Women in Love. For 10 points, name this D. H. Lawrence novel titled for a multicolored symbol. | The Rainbow | The Rainbow | [
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