A concept created by this thinker is defined as the application of the evolutionary concept of natural selection to human society. Name the English philosopher who coined the term social Darwinism.

This man's song Moon River won an Academy Award, and he wrote Baby Elephant Walk for the movie Hatari! Name the composer who wrote the score for The Pink Panther.

Find a solution for the trigonometric equation such that theta is between 0 degrees and 90 degrees: the tangent of 3 theta minus 1 equals 0.

In Percy Shelley's poem Ozymandias, a pedestal displays what three-word phrase to describe the title character? In Revelation 17:14 and 19:16, this expression is used to describe Jesus Christ.

The most abundant isotope of which actinide element has a half-life slightly greater than the age of the universe, has been used as a fuel in experimental nuclear reactors, and is named for a Norse god?

Thomas Gray wrote a set of Confessions of this man, who led a march on the town of Jerusalem. Popularized by a 1967 Pulitzer Prize–winning William Styron novel, who was the instigator of a failed slave revolt in Virginia in 1831?

The Paris Opera House was the site of a deadly chandelier crash in 1896, elements that inspired what Gothic novel by Gaston Leroux which was later adapted into an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical?

The country of Florin in this book includes the Cliffs of Insanity, the Fire Swamp inhabited by rodents of unusual size, and at least one murderous six-fingered man. Name the novel that details Westley's relationship with Buttercup.

Tachyons are said to be superluminal, meaning they have this property that has not been proven to exist, as it would violate Einstein's theory of relativity. Name this property.

This compound is used in low concentrations as a disinfectant, and in higher concentrations in laundry detergents. What is the compound with the chemical formula $$H_2O_2$$ ?

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's administration was marked by this scandal involving an I‑95 span over the Hudson River. What nickname was given this 2013 political scandal, named for the structure where it took place?

This character is domesticated by Grey Beaver and Weedon Scott in a 1906 novel. Name this half-wolf, half-dog character who titles a Jack London novel.

Which politician's last name precedes the word Agonistes in the title of a 1970 biography by American journalist Garry Wills? This president's reelection campaign was chronicled in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.

In this novel, Jean Louie Latour is a French Jesuit missionary priest who is named the vicar apostolic of New Mexico. Name the novel that centers on Catholicism by Willa Cather.

This route was established in 1926, but parts of it date back to 1857, when the War Department gave orders to build a wagon road along the 35th parallel. Name this road, which became the major thoroughfare for vacationers heading to Los Angeles in the 1950s.

Gelatin is formed when this protein is irreversibly hydrolyzed, reducing the fibrils into smaller peptides. The most abundant protein in the body, what protein is a major building block of skin, bones, muscles, tendons, and ligaments, and is injected to reduce skin wrinkling?

This art form was developed by Thomas Nast, who portrayed crocodiles standing for Catholic bishops in the American Ganges River. Name this art form of Benjamin Franklin's Join or Die illustration.

William L. Shirer wrote a book on the Rise and Fall of this specific regime. The Nazi regime was known by what numeric phrase, the presumed successor to the Holy Roman Empire and the German Empire?

What is the limit of $$(x + 1)/x$$ as $$x$$ approaches $$0$$ from the left?

This river ends with a nearly dry approach to the Gulf of California near Sonora and rises in the Rockies. Name the river that provides water to more than 40 million people from Denver to Los Angeles.

This mathematical function, based on a certain transcendental number, has the set of positive real numbers as its domain and the set of real numbers as its range. This function's derivative is $$1/x$$ . What is the inverse function of $$e$$ to the $$x$$ ?

Materials that display this phenomenon are coated with pigments like zinc sulfide; they absorb light, then re-emit it at a lower intensity for up to several hours. What sort of glow is named for element No. 15?

A common symptom of Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome is this condition’s “hemolytic” type. A person who has red blood cells that are too small or too few in number is said to have what condition?

The 1812 Overture specifically commemorates which bloodiest single-day battle of the French invasion of Russia that left the French momentarily victorious? Book 3 of War and Peace heavily discusses this battle.

The bluesy middle section of this piece opens with a slow B-flat trumpet solo and is said to represent homesickness. Four taxicab horns of different pitches feature in which “rhapsodic ballet” by George Gershwin?

One of these places is the home of the Altamira Paleolithic paintings, mainly of mammals such as bison, boar, deer, and horses. Lascaux in France contains paintings created deep in what subterranean structures?

NASA launched a space mission with this name in 2023 to explore planetary cores by orbiting a metallic asteroid. This name is shared by a mortal woman who is later turned into a goddess loved by Cupid. What is the name?

In which state was the last eruption of a supervolcano in what is now the US? About 640,000 years ago, this state was the site of the massive eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera.

The central image of this speech was used by Abigail Adams in a letter to Mercy Otis Warren and in the Gospel of Matthew 3:25. Abraham Lincoln gave which speech upon accepting the Illinois Republican nomination to run for US Senator against Stephen Douglas?

This family descended paternally from a Welsh noble family, and their claim to the throne stems from their descent from John Beaufort, an illegitimate son of John of Gaunt. What is this royal family that took the throne of England after the Battle of Bosworth Field and the death of Richard III?

This third husband of Julia the Elder retired to Capri, after which the prefect Sejanus took power. Macro was a Praetorian prefect thought to have helped Caligula come to power by smothering which emperor?

Which Edgar Allan Poe short story ends with the line, “The French Army has captured the city of Toledo and the Inquisition has fallen into its enemies’ hands.”? This story depicts a swinging metal axe as one of the two torture devices.

This poet noted that “Old Time is still a-flying” in a poem that opens “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.” Name this English poet of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.”

This word describes a valve whose lack of a third flap can lead to regurgitation or stenosis. What word can refer to either the premolar tooth or the left atrioventricular or mitral valve of the heart?

This philosopher argued that we could never have true knowledge about complex ideas, and he outlined the missing shade of blue thought experiment. Name this Scottish empiricist philosopher, whose magnum opus was An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

This was the first person to be a member of both the National Women’s Hall of Fame and the Astronaut Hall of Fame. Name this first American woman in space.

Which chief justice wrote the majority opinion in Miranda v. Arizona and led the commission that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy?

This politician won his first election against Mark Green. In 2002, who gave up being CEO of his financial software and media company to take on the role of New York City mayor?

“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” laments which Shakespearean title character, long after he says, “Tell me, my daughters... Which of you shall we say doth love us most”?

In 1968, inventor Douglas Engelbart gave the first public demonstration of this device, which was known as an XY position indicator for a display system. What is this computer accessory that got its name because the original had a cord like a tail?

What is the geometric mean of $$4$$ and $$25$$ ?

The name of this state comes from a Spanish word meaning snow-clad. Name this state whose sites include Red Rock Canyon, and which shares the Hoover Dam with Arizona.

An example of this chemical structure is nitric oxide. What term describes the structure of molecules whose bond angles are set at $$180$$ degrees?

The George W. Bush Presidential Library is in what city, where the president returned after the White House? This city's Dealey Plaza was the site of the JFK assassination.

These are the only planets that can make solar transits from our perspective. One of these planets lacks an atmosphere, while the other may have a sulfuric acid cycle. Name these two closest planets to the Sun.

The psychologist who led the CIA's harsh interrogation program at Guantanamo Bay defended the use of what technique to make prisoners talk, though opponents have repeatedly called it "torture"? In this technique, a cloth covers the face of a victim, after which liquid is poured on top.

The protagonist of this play is mailed two cards illustrated with black crosses, which is said to represent Dr. Rank's syphilis diagnosis. What play ends with Nora Helmer slamming the door on her husband, written by Henrik Ibsen?

Bill Gates once spent $31 million for one of this artist's sketchbooks. Lady With an Ermine is by what Renaissance artist, who depicted the Vitruvian Man?

This man once stated, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." What author chose to go to jail rather than support the Mexican-American War by paying a poll tax, as recounted in his essay "Civil Disobedience"?

This man served under Andrew Jackson in the Creek Wars, during which he was wounded at Horseshoe Bend. The governor of Tennessee and Texas, who was this first president of the Republic of Texas?

In quantum mechanics, this quantity is the orbital operator that results from the product of the position and momentum operators. In classical mechanics, this quantity is the product of moment of inertia and angular velocity. What quantity is conserved like its linear kind and is responsible for keeping a rotating object rotating?

Aside from 1, this is the only Fibonacci number that is a perfect cube. It is the smallest counting number greater than 1 that is neither prime nor semiprime. What number is the answer to the equation $$\log_2(4x)=5$$ ?

These devices' ITER and JET types heat hydrogen to millions of degrees. Used in nuclear fusion research for magnetic confinement of plasma, what device has a name that is an acronym for Russian words meaning toroid or magnetic confinement?

These people's Old Oraibi pueblo, settled in the 12th century, may be America's oldest continuously inhabited community. Name these people who live on a reservation in northeast Arizona.

Marco and Giuseppe are the title characters of an operetta set in this city by Gilbert and Sullivan. Name this Italian setting of The Gondoliers, who work on the canals.

Now endangered, Scotland's indigenous breed of heavy draft horse, originating around 1700, has what name, which pulls from a river that runs through Glasgow?

A political scientist with this first name won the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Arab-Israeli conflict and had the surname Bunche. A man with what first name replaced MLK Jr. as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and had the last name Abernathy?

This politician established the Council of Four Hundred. One of the seven wise men of Greece, whose namesake code of laws replaced Draco's shockingly severe laws and provided the foundation of Athenian democracy?

What city of more than 400,000 people was first begun around 1100, was the capital of an empire until 1532, was taken by the Spanish in 1533 after the battle of Cajamarca, and today flies a rainbow flag to represent the Inca territory?

These animals named a steppe that flourished during the Last Glacial Maximum. As permafrost continues to thaw, activists in Russia are warning of a "gold rush" for ivory from what prehistoric mammals?

Faraday cages nullify these regions completely, and these subjects of the Stark Effect have a potential that is called voltage. Give the two-word name of these regions of space by which charges interact, proffered by Faraday, which are similar to their magnetic counterparts.

A novelist from this country wrote the story of Kris Kelvin, who studies the title planet Solaris. Stanislaw Lem is a sci-fi writer from what country, home to the author of The Captive Mind, Czeslaw Milosz?

This book includes chapters on Daniel Webster and Thomas Hart Benton. Give the title of the Pulitzer Prize–winning book, a collection of eight short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity, by John F. Kennedy.

This is the only conic section with one and only one squared variable. This is the type of curve defined by the equation $$10 - y = x^2 + 3x$$ . In which conic section is the downward path of a projectile a mirror image of the upward path?

Which Major League Baseball team won the 2017 World Series but was later found guilty of cheating during its games? Jim Crane owns this team, which is named after its city's Johnson Space Center.

What type of boisterous Spanish courtship dance, which gradually increases in speed and features sudden pauses in the music, lends its name to a movie ticket service?

At the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, a team of scientists found evidence of an animal called loriciferans, which can live entirely without what molecule? Humans breathe out carbon dioxide and breathe in this molecule.

This object was originally made at the Whitechapel Foundry, London, and first arrived in August of 1752. Name this object that became cracked after it was run on George Washington's birthday.

This scientist co-named a set of singularity theorems with Roger Penrose, and he theorized that black holes emit radiation. A Brief History of Time was written by what British physicist?

An A with a circle over it is a symbol for what unit of length, which is one hundred-millionth of a centimeter? This unit is also the last name of the character Rabbit in several John Updike novels.

This man originated phrases like "It is easy to be brave from a safe distance" and "It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds." Name this author who wrote "A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth" in one of his fables.

During World War II, General Joseph Stilwell became the first American ever to command an army in this country. Following a united effort to defeat Japan, the Communists and Nationalists in what country renewed their civil war in 1946?

Bagpipes have several pipes known by this name, which are not fingered but rather make a constant, harmonizing note throughout play. Give this name of a musical effect in which one note is sounded throughout most of a piece.

This country's national anthem is "Gloria al Bravo Pueblo," and it adopted the bolivar unit of money. The petroleum industry provides most of the export earnings of what South American country?

On a Keynesian cross diagram, real GDP is plotted against the aggregate type of this quantity. What quantity decreases for inferior goods as income rises and varies inversely with price?

In this piece, the timpani and bass drum represent a set of hunters, who show up as the orchestra starts playing. Strings represent the title character of what piece by Sergei Prokofiev?

This book was originally titled On the Road to West Egg, named for the town where a character meets a man with owl-eyed glasses. Name this novel whose title character hosts elaborate parties attended by Nick Carraway.

From the 1500s to the 1800s, the Levant Company regulated trade between England, the Levant, and what empire, which was ruled by sultans named Osman and Mehmed?

Franz Schubert composed the most often-performed version of Ave Maria, but which French composer wrote one to be superimposed over a Bach prelude? This composer also wrote the opera Faust.

During what century did the ontological argument, as formulated by St. Anselm, seek to prove the existence of God; Pope Gregory VII forbade all Catholic priests to marry at the Synod of Rome; and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches split apart in the Great Schism?

A group of people named for these structures included the Adena culture and lived over 3,000 years ago in the present-day US. The Hopewell culture built examples of what structures, which included one named for Monks?

The murder of Herschel Grynszpan led to this event, in which a department store owned by Nathan Israel was attacked in 1938. Nearly 300 German synagogues were destroyed amid what "Night of Broken Glass"?

This character is said to "doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus." Name the character who is told to "beware the Ides of March" and states, "Et tu, Brute?"

Some scientists believe that negative Kelvin temperatures are related to what type of energy, which is thought to be causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate?

What is the general term for a strip of material used for final trimming or finishing of carpentry work, often where a wall meets a floor or a ceiling, and often decorative? Examples of this type of material include baseboard, casing, crown, and wainscoting.

These things can belong to any of four classes: spontaneous, natural errors, repair errors, or induced. Deletions and substitutions are two types of what changes in DNA sequences?

Nahum and Zephaniah both foretold the destruction of this large city, which was also prophesied by Jonah. What is this capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire whose ruins lie across the Tigris River from modern-day Mosul, Iraq?

This woman admits she's not as pure as some women, likening them to white bread and herself to a barley loaf. A five-time widow, what character explains that what women want is sovereignty over their husbands in a tale from The Canterbury Tales?

20th Century Broadway Musicals — Given the name of the book, name the musical: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.

20th Century Broadway Musicals — Given the name of the book, name the musical: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.

20th Century Broadway Musicals — Given the name of the book, name the musical: The Trapp Family Singers by Maria Trapp.

20th Century Broadway Musicals — Given the name of the book, name the musical: Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon.

20th Century Broadway Musicals — Given the name of the book, name the musical: The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare.

20th Century Broadway Musicals — Given the name of the book, name the musical: The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop.

20th Century Broadway Musicals — Given the name of the book, name the musical: The Once and Future King by T. H. White.

20th Century Broadway Musicals — Given the name of the book, name the musical: Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare.

20th Century Broadway Musicals — Given the name of the book, name the musical: Stories by Sholom Aleichem.

20th Century Broadway Musicals — Given the name of the book, name the musical: The Matchmaker or The Merchant of Yonkers by Thornton Wilder.

Genesis: Who dreamed of a ladder stretched to heaven?

Genesis: Who breathed a sigh of relief when his father sacrificed a ram instead?

Genesis 11 concerns the building of which structure?

Genesis: Who grew up in Ur and at age 75 moved to Canaan?

What nation from North Carolina became the sixth to join the Iroquois League in 1722?

Architectural Wonders of the Modern World: This San Francisco bridge, known for its distinctive orange color, was completed in 1937.

Architectural Wonders of the Modern World: What tunnel beneath the Strait of Dover connects the United Kingdom and France?

Architectural Wonders of the Modern World: What became the world's tallest freestanding structure in 1976 and remains the tallest in the Western Hemisphere?

Architectural Wonders of the Modern World: What dam on the Parana River between Brazil and Paraguay is the largest operating hydroelectric facility in the world, larger in generating capacity than China's Three Gorges Dam?

Classical Music: Finnish composer Jean Sibelius is best known for what patriotic 1899 composition?

Classical Music: What was composer Jean-Baptiste Lully doing with a cane when he slammed it on his toe, later dying of an abscess?

Classical Music: Which major key has six sharps?

Classical Music: What composer's 96th symphony was called the Miracle Symphony because nobody died when a chandelier fell?