This measure is quantized by fractions of the Von Klitzing constant in a form of the Hall effect. A Wheatstone bridge can determine this quantity that, unlike reactance, leads to Joule heating. Finding the total value for this quantity requires summing the reciprocal value of each component in a parallel circuit. Conductance is the reciprocal of this quantity, which is measured in ohms. For ten points, name this quantity, equal to voltage over current, that opposes the flow of electricity.

This president’s train refused to stop to aid the victims of a platform collapse that killed thirteen people who were waiting to hear him speak on his “Swing Around the Circle” speaking tour, in which this man ranted against the Radical Republicans. Edwin Stanton barricaded himself in his office rather than allow this man to fire him as Secretary of War. The first US president to be impeached was, for ten points, what man who succeeded Abraham Lincoln?

An ancient statue of this deity in Sais, sometimes believed to be Neith, wore a veil to represent the mysteries of nature. According to Plutarch, Nephthys disguised herself as this deity to conceive Anubis. After this deity’s husband was cut apart by this goddess’s brother, Set, this goddess gathered the pieces from across Egypt, and reassembled his body, making him the king of the underworld. For ten points, name this queen of the Egyptian gods who was married to her brother Osiris.

In a novel from this country, Bamford and Maureen Smales flee to the village of the title Black servant to escape a revolution. In another novel set in this country, Absalom is sentenced to death for the murder of Arthur Jarvis, saddening his father, Stephen Kumalo. This country is the setting of Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People and an Alan Paton novel set during this country’s Apartheid era. For ten points, name this country, the setting of Cry, the Beloved Country, which takes place partially in Johannesburg.

In the steampunk space shooter game Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony, the seventeenth century colony of Jamestown is actually this location. In Destiny, the Cabal and Vex fought in Meridian Bay on this planet. The economic real-time strategy game Offworld Trading Company is set on this planet, where Olivia Pierce opens a portal to Hell in the 2016 reboot of DOOM. The Red Faction series is set on, for ten points, what red planet that, in many video games, is the first one colonized by humans?

This country’s Cumann na mBan paramilitary force included sniper Constance Markievicz, who participated in an attack on Saint Stephen’s Green. The Black and Tans formed to fight for this country’s independence, which it gained in a treaty negotiated by Michael Collins. A General Post Office in this country was the central site of its Easter Rising in 1916. This country gained Home Rule in 1922, leaving its northern portion in the United Kingdom. For ten points, name this country governed from Dublin.

The process that creates potable drinking water from seawater is called:

A character in this novel carries a snuff-box filled with parmesan cheese while on a trip funded by Squire Trelawney. This novel’s protagonist follows Doctor Livesey to Ben Gunn’s cave, where he finds Smollett, the captain of the Hispaniola, who had been run off by his ship’s cook, the peg-legged Long John Silver. For ten points, name this Robert Louis Stevenson adventure novel in which young Jim Hawkins survives a mutiny and finds hidden pirate gold.

A planned highway across this region called BR-230 is largely unpaved between Altamira and Benjamin Constant. Most of the state of Mato Grosso is south of this region; Mato Grosso also includes some of the Pantanal wetlands. Contrary to popular belief, the red-eyed tree frog is not native to this region, but piranhas and anacondas are. Dust from the Sahara Desert blows across the Atlantic Ocean to fertilize, for ten points, what massive tropical ecosystem around the longest river in South America?

This author wrote about a slave revolt on the San Dominick in "Benito Cereno," and about Turkey and Nippers, whose coworker starves to death, in another story from The Piazza Tales. In a novel by this author of "Bartleby, the Scrivener," the stuttering title character is executed by Captain Vere for killing John Claggart. In another novel, this author wrote about Ishmael's journey on the Pequod with the obsessive Captain Ahab. For ten points, name this author of Billy Budd and Moby Dick.

A repeated motif in this musical begins with a tritone that represents Bernardo’s sister. A song in this musical alternates between three-four and six-eight time to describe a place where “industry booms” but there are “twelve in a room.” In this musical, “America” is sung by the Sharks, members of a Puerto Rican gang that opposes the white Jets. For ten points, name this Leonard Bernstein musical in which Tony and Maria’s doomed love retells the story of Romeo and Juliet in 1950s New York.

According to “The Tale of the Heike,” an archer from this country once shot down a fan from the top of a ship’s mast. In the 1180s, two clans fought the Genpei War in this country. Seven hundred years later, another civil war in this country, the Boshin War, ended with the restoration of imperial power under Emperor Meiji. For ten points, name this East Asian country that, during its rule by shoguns like Tokugawa Ieyasu, was home to warrior aristocrats called samurai.

This book’s frontispiece includes a Latin quote from the book of Job over a print of a giant holding a sword and staff, whose body is made up of hundreds of people. The final section of this book describes a “Kingdom of Darkness,” and its first part describes the state of nature as a “war of all against all.” A ruler with absolute power should engage in a “social contract” with the citizens according to, for ten points, what book by Thomas Hobbes named for a biblical sea monster?

Sediments in these regions form top-set and bottom-set layers, and the Gilbert type of them marks locations of ancient lakes. An alluvial fan with a bird’s-foot pattern is characteristic of many of these regions, though strong tidal forces prevent the St Lawrence from creating one. One of these regions occurs where the Nile meets the Mediterranean. For ten points, identify this triangular plain at a river’s mouth, shaped like the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.

The linear type of this branch of mathematics is studied with vector spaces. The complex roots of polynomials are the subject of the fundamental theorem of this subject, whose name comes from a ninth-century book by Persian mathematician al’Khwarizmi about “balancing.” This subject is commonly taught first by applying arithmetic to both numbers and variables. For ten points, name this branch of mathematics that solves equations like “three x plus four equals zero.”

This Millennialist religious denomination follows a Governing Body known as God’s “faithful and discreet slave.” This denomination celebrates Memorialization, but does not recognize Christmas, Easter, or birthdays. This denomination’s Weekend Meetings use the “Study Edition” of the Watchtower magazine, and it forbids believers from engaging in military service or receiving blood transfusions. For ten points, name this Christian denomination known for preaching door-to-door.

Discovering the molecular basis for circadian rhythms in this organism earned Jeffrey Hall the 2017 Nobel Prize. The salivary glands of this organism contain large polytene chromosomes. Antenna-pedia mutants of this animal grow legs from their heads, and dumpy mutants have misshapen wings. Thomas Hunt Morgan first observed sex-linked traits in white-eyed members of this species. For ten points, name this insect model organism of genetics whose common name reflects its love for sweet vegetation.

In this novel, a “Voice” gives a set of scientific notebooks to Thomas Marvel, who is shocked to see bread and cheese floating in the air. While trying to start a “Reign of Terror” throughout England in this novel, Griffin describes drugging a cat to reduce its ability to reflect or refract light, and reveals he has done the same to himself. For ten points, name this novel by H.G. Wells in which the title scientist creates a potion that makes him impossible to see.

The group that chartered this ship was forced to take on passengers they called “Strangers,” who had tried to sail on the Speedwell. The journal of William Bradford describes life aboard this ship, whose passengers signed a namesake Compact of laws for the colony they would establish. This ship was supposed to land in Virginia, but storms on the North Atlantic blew it northward. For ten points, name this ship in which the Pilgrims landed near Plymouth Rock.

A collection of fables named for this storyteller includes the French versions of 'Puss in Boots' and 'Sleeping Beauty.' Name this fictional storyteller, who is often depicted as a kindly grandmother or as a wise, maternal bird.

This French fabulist collected and updated European folktales like 'Sleeping Beauty' in The Tales of Mother Goose. Name this author.

In this story from The Tales of Mother Goose, the title girl learns not to talk to strangers after she and her grandmother are eaten by a wolf. Name this story.

This holiday typically lasts five days and celebrates the triumph of good over evil. Name this Hindu festival of lights that marks the day Rama defeated Ravana and returned to Ayodhya with his wife, Sita.

During Diwali, a puja is performed for this goddess of wealth. This consort of Vishnu is often depicted with four arms and sitting on a lotus. Name this goddess.

The last day of Diwali celebrates people with this family relationship. During the celebration, women feed men who have this familial relationship to them, with whom they likely grew up. Name this relationship.

The CEO of this company, Elizabeth Holmes, was indicted for wire fraud in a trial that began in August 2021. Name this health tech company that falsely claimed it could perform elaborate medical tests on mere drops of blood.

Prior to Holmes’ indictment for wire fraud, Theranos itself settled lawsuits for fraud brought by this US regulatory body. This organization, created after the 1929 stock market crash, enforces laws against financial crimes like insider trading and market manipulation. Name this organization.

Prior to the collapse of Theranos, Holmes was often cited as one of the few women to succeed in this California region, whose name is commonly used for the American tech industry. Apple, Google, and numerous other companies founded here have habitually discriminated against women and minorities. Name this region.

This city’s namesake empire took control of much of what is now Spain in the 200s BCE. For ten points each, Name this Phoenician city, the capital of an empire built by Hamilcar Barca and his son Hannibal.

Carthage laid claim to the Iberian peninsula to strengthen their position in a Punic War against this republic based in Italy, which later ruled the territory they called “Hispania” under emperors like Trajan and Hadrian. Name this republic.

Rome completed its conquest of Hispania under this first emperor, who defeated Mark Antony and established the Pax Romana. Name this emperor.

The Carboniferous period may have resulted from an inability of decomposers to deal with a new molecule, lignin, being incorporated into this structure. For ten points each, Name this rigid structure that allows plant cells, but not animal cells, to withstand turgor pressure. It is found outside the cell membrane.

Unlike the walls of fungi, which are composed of chitin, plant walls are made of this glucose polysaccharide. Name this polysaccharide.

Primary plant walls also contain varying amounts of this galactose polymer that is plentiful in apples and citrus fruits. This molecule is the gelling agent in jams and jellies. Name this molecule.

René Descartes names a type of product created by listing ordered pairs that combine elements from these objects. For ten points each, Give this mathematical term for an unordered collection of numbers. The elements of these groups are usually written inside curvy braces.

The set with no elements is described by one of two adjectives; give either. One of these two adjectives is also used to indicate a missing value in a database.

If two sets have no elements in common, then their intersection will be the empty set. In that case, this type of diagram for the sets will display two non-overlapping circles. More commonly, one of these diagrams has two circles with an overlapping section in the middle. Name this diagram.

This composer wrote the Holberg Suite and a musical suite that accompanies a Henrik Ibsen play about a folk hero. For ten points each, Name this Norwegian composer who included songs like “Anitra’s Dance,” “Solveig’s Song,” and “The Death of Ase” in his Peer Gynt Suite.

This mysterious-sounding song from the Peer Gynt Suite gradually grows louder and faster to represent Peer being chased. For ten points each, Name this song from the Peer Gynt Suite.

The song In the Hall of the Mountain King is set in the home of one of these mythical Scandinavian creatures. These humanoid creatures often have tails, and may turn to stone in the sunlight. For ten points each, Name these creatures.

William Travis wrote “VICTORY OR DEATH” in a plea to “the People of Texas & All Americans in the World” during the siege of this fort. Name this San Antonio fort that was besieged by Santa Anna’s forces in early 1836.

Another defender of the Alamo was this man, whose proficiency with a long-bladed knife led its type to be named for him. For ten points each, Name this man.

This frontiersman and hater of Andrew Jackson died alongside James Bowie and William Travis while defending the Alamo. For ten points each, Name this man.

This list’s one-hundred-tenth and final object, a dwarf satellite galaxy, was added in 1967, nearly two hundred years after its first publication. For ten points each, Name this catalog of astronomical objects compiled by a French astronomer in the eighteenth century. In this catalog, M45 is the Pleiades cluster, and M31 is the Andromeda galaxy.

Messier referred to most of his objects by this term. However, we now know that only a handful are really these interstellar dust clouds. Two of these objects are M16 and M1, nicknamed the “Eagle” and the “Crab.” For ten points each, Name this term.

M42 is the nebula named for this constellation, which contains the stars Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka in its belt. For ten points each, Name this constellation.

As a baby, this mythical Greek king is sent out to die because his parents fear he will fulfill a dire prophecy. For ten points each, Name this mythical Greek figure who fulfills part of the prophecy when he kills his father, Laius [LAH-yuss], and becomes the king of Thebes in a series of plays by Sophocles.

As a baby, this mythical Greek king is sent out to die because his parents fear he will fulfill a dire prophecy. For ten points each, Oedipus becomes the king of Thebes by solving a riddle posed by this mythical creature, which has the body of a lion and the head of a human.

As a baby, this mythical Greek king is sent out to die because his parents fear he will fulfill a dire prophecy. For ten points each, Oedipus fulfills the second part of his prophecy by marrying Jocasta, a woman who unknowingly has this familial relationship with Oedipus.

In 2017, an armed, all-female unit was established in Zimbabwe to help combat this crime. A common form of this crime is killing elephants for their ivory.

In 2017, an armed, all-female unit was established in Zimbabwe to help combat this crime. For ten points each, Black rhinos have nearly gone extinct due to poaching in this African region. This grassland is the namesake of a national park in Tanzania, and reaches the Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya.

In 2017, an armed, all-female unit was established in Zimbabwe to help combat this crime. For ten points each, During migration season, thousands of wildebeests and this striped equine cross the Serengeti in search of new grass.

The two D-lines are indicative of sodium when light from the Sun is analyzed by this method. For ten points each, Name this technique in which the light given off by a heated element is separated into a characteristic pattern of emission lines.

The two D-lines are indicative of sodium when light from the Sun is analyzed by this method. For ten points each, Sodium’s two D-lines are found in this color of the visible spectrum, which is also the color of potassium chromate solution and lead [led] iodide solid.

The two D-lines are indicative of sodium when light from the Sun is analyzed by this method. For ten points each, Two violet, one blue, and one red line are found in the Balmer spectral series of this element, the simplest and most abundant element in the universe.

This poem claims it will “justify the ways of God to man.” For ten points each, Name this epic poem by John Milton that follows the creation, temptation, and downfall of Adam and Eve.

Paradise Lost fulfills its title when Adam and Eve take “their solitary way” and leave the paradise of this biblical garden.

Despite the angels’ efforts, Eve is tempted by this character, who was called Lucifer before the Angelic War. This figure thinks it is “better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”

Zeus seduced this woman while in the form of a swan. This woman had four children with Zeus, including Helen of Troy.

Zeus took the form of gold coins falling from the sky to seduce the princess Danaë. Afterwards, Danaë gave birth to this hero, who freed Andromeda and killed Medusa.

Zeus seduced Europa by turning into one of these animals. Io, another woman seduced by Zeus, was turned into one of these animals by Hera.

Democrat Pat Schroeder described this man’s presidency as “Teflon-coated” because “nothing sticks to him.” For ten points each, Name this president who somehow survived scandals like the Iran-Contra Affair during his two terms in office in the 1980s.

Before becoming president of the United States, Ronald Reagan was the governor of this state.

While governor of California, Ronald Reagan legalized the “no-fault” form of this process. Ronald Reagan was the first US president to have gone through this process.

This country’s prime ministers have included Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter, who ruled with an iron fist during the Emergency, and who ordered Operation Blue Star. For ten points each, Name this modern country led for much of the sixties through eighties by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from its capital, New Delhi.

When she declared a state of emergency, Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay spearheaded a population control strategy in which poor men and women were forced to undergo this medical procedure.

Gandhi’s time in office came to an abrupt end when she was assassinated by her bodyguards, who were followers of this religion. They were angry over Gandhi’s attack on this religion’s Golden Temple in Operation Blue Star.

According to Noether’s theorem, quantities like mass and electric charge have this property in a closed system because the physical laws that describe them are symmetric. For ten points each, Give this term that means that a measurable quantity of a system does not change over time. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy has this property.

Conservation of this quantity, which is equal to moment of inertia times angular speed, explains why a rotating figure skater starts spinning faster when she pulls her arms toward her body.

When two objects experience this type of collision, the system’s linear momentum will be conserved, but its kinetic energy will not.

In a poem named for one of these animals, a free one “leaps / on the back of the wind” while a caged one “sings / with a fearful trill / of things unknown / but longed for still.” For ten points each, Name this animal whose “wings are clipped” and who “sings of freedom.”

“Caged Bird” was written by this American poet and civil rights activist. Her autobiography series begins with the similarly named book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Angelou recited her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” for the 1993 inauguration of this forty-second president of the United States, whose wife ran for the same office in 2016.

This David Shore show is about the autistic Shaun Murphy. In the pilot of this show, Shaun saves a young boy who has been struck by falling glass at an airport. Fill in the blank: The answer is _________.

Station-19 is a spin-off of this eighteen-season show, developed by Shonda Rhimes, in which Meredith Grey works at Grey Sloan Memorial in Seattle. Its title is a reference to a classic medical text. Fill in the blank: The answer is _________.

This longest-running American soap opera debuted in 1963, and starred John Beradino and Emily McLaughlin until their respective deaths in the 1990s. Its current cast is led by Maurice Benard, who plays the mobster Sonny Corinthos. Fill in the blank: The answer is _________.

Lewis sculpted a series of depictions of this fictional Ojibwe warrior and his wife, Minnehaha, who appear in a namesake 'Song' written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Fill in the blank: The answer is _________.

Lewis created a shockingly realistic sculpture of this Egyptian pharaoh lying dead across her throne. This ruler committed suicide with an asp after losing the Battle of Actium. Fill in the blank: The answer is _________.

Although many of her works have been destroyed, Lewis’s surviving masterpiece is a sculpture of this biblical woman, an Egyptian maidservant who was the mother of Abraham’s first son, Ishmael. Who is she?