Ampere's law states that the magnetic field's line integral around a loop is proportional to the enclosed value of this quantity. Ohm's law states that (•) voltage equals this quantity times resistance. For 10 points-name this rate of flow of charge, which can be direct or alternating.

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This city's mayor is Mike Duggan [dug-un], who succeeded Dave Bing. This city's art museum hopes to avoid selling paintings to alleviate its (•) bankruptcy and a tentative agreement would not cut the pensions of retired or officers. For 10 points-name this most populous city in Michigan.

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Peggy becomes the state champ of this game on Kiug of tl1e Hill and Big Baug Tlleory characters play it using Klingon words. Parker Brothers released a 6 x 6["six by six"] version called (•) "Super Big." For 10 pointsname this game in which players spell words using letters found on adjacent cubes.

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This president's renomination followed the death of Mark Hanna. He broke up J.P. Morgan's Northern Securities Company, began the building of the (•) Panama Canal, and signed the Pure Food and Drug Act. For 10 points-name this president who succeeded William McKinley.

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This novel's protagonist signs censored leHers with the name "Washington Irving," and eats chocolatecovered cotton provided by Milo Minderbinder. Colonel [kur-null] Cathcart repeatedly increases the number of (•) bombing missions that Yossarian must fly in-for 10 points-what novel by Joseph Heller?

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Mycobacteria [MYE-koh-bacteria] most often infect these organs which can develop edema in heart failure. In cystic fibrosis [fye-BROH-sis], excessive mucus accumulates in them. These organs contain (•) alveoli [alVEE- uh-lye] that are the sites where blood becomes oxygenated. For 10 points-name these paired organs of respiration.

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In Passio11s of the Soul, this man claimed that the pineal gland was where the mind and body interact. He discussed the "wax argument" in Mcditatio11s 011 First Pltilosoplty. (*)For 10 points-name this French thinker who wrote in Discourse 011 the Method, " I think, therefore I am."

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In his orchestration of this piece, Maurice Ravel [ruh-vel] removed one of its recurring "Promenade" movements. This piece ends with the movement "The Great Gate of Kiev,'' and was inspired by works of Viktor Hartmann. (•) For 10 points-what piano suite by Modest Mussorgsky [moh-DEST muss-ORG-skee] depicts a gallery of paintings?

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This author published a poetry collection whose title work claims "I can see a flickerin' flutter." The title character of another work by this author helps "the boy" to build a boat by (•) sacrificing her trunk. For 10 points-name this author of A Ligltt ill tlte Attic and 7/te Giuing Tree.

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John Bercow presides over this organization that first met as a separate body in 1341. It has 650 members, a plurality of which are from the Conservative Party. A chamber at the northern end of Palace of (•) Westminster is home to- for 10 points-what lower house of the British Parlinment?

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Pencil and paper ready. Janine needs to find the distance between the points (5, 14) ["five comma fourteen"] and (3, 9) ["three comma nine"]. She uses the distance formula, which compares the difference between the two .\:-coordinates and the two y-coordinates. (•) For 10 points-what is the distance between (5, 14) and (3, 9)?

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This nation has implemented Operation Sovereign Borders, an effort to stop asylum seekers arriving by boat. Squabbling within its Labor Party led to a power struggle between Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard [GIH-Iard). (•) Tony Abbott now leads- for 10 points- what nation whose capital is Cnnberra [CAN-bruh]?

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The Lamian War was sparked after the 323 BC death of this leader, whose horse Bucephalus (byoo-SEFF-uhluss] died at the Battle of the Hydaspes ["high"-daass-peez]. This man defeated(*) Darius III [duh-RYE-uss "the third") at Gaugamela [gaw-guh-MEE-Iuh] and lssus [IH-suss]. Philip II wns the fnther of-for 10 pointswhat Macedonian conqueror known as "the Great"?

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Diagenesis shades into the burial form of this process, which produces graded groups known as facies [FAYsheez]. It can generate foliated textures, as seen in slate. (•) Hent and pressure feed- for 10 points-what process that produces a namesake class of rocks from sedimentary and igneous rocks?

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This artist painted his mistress Sien [SEEN] in Sorrow and showed six people in a red room with a pool table in Tile Nigltt Cafe. A cypress tree is in front of a dark (*} sky in one of his works painted while he was at a Saint-Remy lsahn-ray-meeJ sanatorium. For 10 points-name this Dutch artist of Starn; Nigltt.

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This state is the setting of John Grisham's A Painted House, and the Duggars live here on the TLC show 19 Kids aud Comrtiug. The Civil War battles of Pea Ridge and Pine Bluff were in this state once governed by (•) Bill Clinton. For 10 points-name this state whose capital is Little Rock .

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At his wedding, this man asked a riddle whose answer was "a beehive in a lion." This judge died after a temple collapsed around him, killing many of the (•) Philistines. For 10 points- name this strongman who had his hair cut off by his wife Delilah.

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While president, this man married Frances Folsom in the only such ceremony at the White House. With Thomas Hendricks as his running mate, he defeated James (•) G. Blaine in the election of 1884. Benjamin Harrison succeeded-for 10 points-what only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms?

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This gas forms a mixture with carbon monoxide called synthesis gas; formation of this gas is the reference point for reduction potentials. Henry Cavendish isolated this diatomic gas, which he called (•) "inflammable air." For 10 points-name this least dense gas, whose molecular formula is H2 ["H two").

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The Masoala [mah-soh-AH-Iuh] Peninsula is in this nation once known as the Malagasy [mah-luh-GAH-see] Republic. Mayotte [may-YOTJ and the Comoros [KAH-muh-ROHZ] are northwest of this nation, which is bordered to the west by the (•) Mozambique [moh-zahm-BEEK] Channel. Antananarivo [AHN-tah-NAH-nahREE- voh] is the capital of-for 10 points-what island nation off the southeast cost of Africa?

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After a coup [koo], this country was governed by the Yushin Constitution. Its first president was Syngman Rhee, who had to relocate his government to Busan [boo-sahn]. Its Sunshine Policy ended after a northern neighbor conducted (•) nuclear tests. For 10 points-name this country whose capital is Seoul ["soul"].

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Euclid added 1 to a product of these numbers to prove there are infinitely many. Cryptography uses large ones, and by the fundamental theorem of algebra, natural numbers past 1 can be (•) factored into a product of them. For 10 points-name these numbers divisible only by one and themselves.

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During the 19th century, this state's Tulare [too-LARE-ee] Lake was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. Its largest lake today is the saline Salton Sea, while its eastern border features the (•) Sierra Nevada and Lake Tahoe [TAH-hoh]. For 10 points-name this state, home to San Francisco Bay.

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