Very Important People
To spend a night with this person, the half-giant Galehaut (geh-luh-oh) calls his army off certain victory. After falling into a dungeon, this character seduces his jailer to show up for single combat against Meleagent (mur-lur-ah-john), whose castle he had approached in a cart. This conqueror of the Joyous Gard castle was raised by the Lady of the (*) Lake, giving him his epithet. With Elaine, this man fathered Galahad, who found the Holy Grail. For 10 points, name this Knight of the Round Table who had an affair with King Arthur's wife, Guinevere
Sir Lancelot
This compound and water are the most common combination in a Kalina cycle. Soda ash is formed by saturating salt water with carbon dioxide and this compound in the Solvay process. Solutions of this compound create deadly chloroamines when they are mixed with (*) bleach. Oxygen is reacted with this compound in the first step of the Ostwald process for making nitric acid. An iron catalyst is used when reacting hydrogen and nitrogen to make this compound in the Haber process. For 10 points, name this compound with formula NH3
Ammonia
Port Colborne lies on this body of water and is the final destination of the Welland Canal. The Maumee [maw-MEE] River flows into this body of water, and Sandusky Bay overlooks this lake’s Cedar Point amusement park. The (*) Cuyahoga River flows into this lake’s largest port, and the Niagara River connects this lake to Lake Ontario. Toledo and Cleveland are major cities on, for ten points, what Great Lake bordered to the south by Ohio?
Lake Erie
In one film appearance, this character is framed for stealing a diamond necklace from Lady Holiday. This character portrays Mina Gunn in a film version of Treasure Island. This character is nearly tricked into marrying Constantine in a movie partially titled (*) Most Wanted. This character portrayed Bob Cratchit's wife in the Muppet-themed adaptation of A Christmas Carol. This character often karate chops people while screaming “hi-yah!” For 10 points, name this Muppet that is romantically linked to Kermit the Frog.
Miss Piggy
This president appointed volunteers to give four-minute speeches on topics proposed by the Committee on Public Information. A task force known as “The Inquiry,” which would become Foreign Affairs magazine, was directed by his advisor Edward House. This president's attorney general led efforts to (*) deport socialists during the so-called Palmer Raids. This president called for freedom of maritime navigation and self-determination as part of his Fourteen Points. For 10 points, name this president who led the U.S. into World War I.
Woodrow Wilson
Semi-flexible examples of these molecules can be modeled using the Kratky-Porod model, which is the discrete version of the worm-like model. The thermodynamics of solutions of these molecules is modeled using Flory-Huggins theory. The synthesis of these molecules from 1-alkenes uses (*) Ziegler-Natta catalysts. Initiation, propagation, and termination are the three steps in the chain-growth synthesis of these molecules. Nylon is an example of these molecules. For 10 points, name these long molecules consisting of lots of linked monomers.
Polymers
During a break-in in this novel suggested by Georgie, the protagonist is struck by Dim and left to be arrested. This novel is partially written in a blend of Russian and English called “Nadsat.” In this novel, milk laced with drugs is called “milk-plus” and served to the protagonist at the (*) Korova Milk Bar. The protagonist of this novel no longer enjoys Beethoven after undergoing the Ludovico technique. For ten points, name this novel about Alex and his “droogs,” a work by Anthony Burgess.
A Clockwork Orange
In the lead-up to this case, Louis Martinet formed the Comité des Citoyens with Rodolphe Desdunes. A “random thought” in support of this case's decision was written by future justice William Rehnquist. The plaintiff in this case was represented by Albion (*) Tourgée, who introduced the metaphor of a “color blind justice.” John Marshall Harlan was the only dissenter in this case, which was sparked by an incident on a Louisiana railcar. For 10 points, name this 1896 Supreme Court case that affirmed the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
Plessy v. Ferguson
Team play in this game was popularized by Ken Uston. John Ferguson popularized this game’s strategy of “wonging,” resulting in bans on “mid-shoe entry.” “Insurance” bets may be placed in this game if a face-up card is an ace. A team playing this game was aided by Bill Kaplan and came from (*) MIT. “Card counting” is frowned upon in this game, where the dealer must stand at 17 and where face cards count as 10. For ten points, name this card game in which players try not to “bust” by going over 21.
Blackjack
In H·S·A, the “instantaneous” form of this quantity is computed bzy the Hilbert transform. Certain entities’ intervals of this quantity can be changed by heterodyning. This is the alphabetically-former of the two quantities commonly plotted on spectrograms. Processes like (*) band-pass and band-stop attenuate based on this quantity. Signals with values of this quantity below its “cutoff” value are passed by low-pass filters. The [emphasize] output of a Fourier transform is a function in this quantity’s domain. For 10 points, name this quantity measured in hertz
Frequency
In this play, a character who works for an advertising agency claims he could learn calculus in six days. A racist character in this play rants about how “human life don't mean as much to them as it does to us.” Before a vote in this play, Number Five argues that “anyone who's ever used a (*) switch knife would have never stabbed downward,” making it unlikely that an offstage character killed his father. For 10 points, name this Reginald Rose play in which a character persuades eleven other jurors to change their votes.
Twelve Angry Men
This country’s prime minister attempted to implement a cash handout called the “Digital Wallet.” This country’s Move Forward Party opposes a party led by Paetongtarn Shinawatra and was disbanded for opposing lese-majeste laws which forbid (*) insulting this country’s monarchy. The Chakri dynasty rules this country. For ten points, name this Southeast Asian country ruled by a line of kings named Rama from Bangkok.
Thailand
The Norwegian singer Tix sang a romantic parody of this song to Samira Effendi during Eurovision 2021. John Siegler and John Loeffler wrote the lyrics to this song, which was lip-synced by Smosh in a 2005 “Music Video.” The speaker of this Jason Paige song declares “A heart so true / Our (*) courage will pull us through” after stating his goal to “travel across the land.” The line “I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was” opens, for 10 points, what iconic theme song that is presumably sung by Ash Ketchum?
Pokemon Theme Song or Gotta Catch 'em All
This thinker argued against W. K. Clifford in an essay claiming the title action should only be done if live, forced, and momentous. This thinker contrasted “tough-” and “tender-minded” thinkers in a lecture that uses the example of a squirrel circling a tree. This author of The Will to (*) Believe also described “a new name for some old ways of thinking” in a lecture named for a school founded by C. S. Peirce that understands truth as “cash value.” For 10 points, name this author of Pragmatism.
William James (philosopher)
In this organelle, GalNAc [gal-NACK] transferases add their namesake sugar to serine or threonine. Other glycosylations in this organelle can result in formation of proteoglycans, and other post-translational modifications performed in this organelle include attaching an (*) M6P label to proteins bound for the lysosome. The cis- and trans- networks in this organelle are formed by its cisternae. For ten points, what organelle is responsible for packaging proteins for transport across the cell?
Golgi Apparatus
One character in this work drinks to forget the shame of drinking. A king in this work commands the sun to set, and this novella’s title character allows himself to be bitten by a snake at its end. This novella’s narrator asks adults about an image of a (*) snake eating an elephant and crashes an aircraft into the Sahara desert, where he meets the title character. A rose on the asteroid B-162 is tended to by the title character of, for ten points, what novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?
The Little Prince
Charles Darwin wrote about how this kingdom selectively bred “giants” for its army. A ruler of this kingdom wrote a rebuttal of The Prince called Anti-Machiavel (ant-ee-MAHkee-uh-vel). This kingdom's forces employed an oblique order to win the Battle of Leuthen (LOY-tern). This kingdom invaded Silesia after rejecting Charles VI's (the sixth's) (*) Pragmatic Sanction, which sparked the War of the Austrian Succession. The Treaty of Frankfurt ended a war between France and this kingdom that began in 1870. For 10 points, name this kingdom led by Frederick the Great, a predecessor of Germany.
Prussia
Apollo taught this figure the arts while courting Thalia, who was living with this figure’s mother Calliope. This figure’s head still sang after he was killed by the Maenads. On the journey of the argonauts, this figure protected them from the song of the (*) Sirens. After the death of his wife, this figure traveled to the underworld to convince Hades to let her return to life. For ten points, name this Greek poet who lost his wife Eurydice after looking back at her when leaving the underworld.
Orpheus
In a novel by this author, a woman abandons a plant-cutter for Wildeve, who promises to take her to Paris. This author, who wrote about Eustacia Vye's desire to escape Ogden Heath, described a man drunkenly selling his family for five guineas in another novel. A character created by this author is executed for murdering (*) Alec after sleeping at Stonehenge. This author of The Return of the Native and The Mayor of Casterbridge wrote about Angel Clare falling in love with a milkmaid. For 10 points, what author wrote Tess of the D'Urbervilles?
Thomas Hardy