For 10 points, name the Russian playwright of The Cherry Orchard, who also wrote Uncle Vanya and The Three Sisters.

For 10 points, in the Chekhov play where Konstantin Treplev commits suicide years after shooting the title bird as a gift for Nina, name the play.

For 10 points, in The Seagull, Treplev kills the title bird with one of these weapons; Chekhov claimed that if one of these is shown on stage, it must be fired.

For 10 points, name these high‑thrill rides often found at amusement parks like Six Flags and Cedar Point, which feature up‑stop wheels and magnetic fins and include “hyper,” “giga,” and “inverted” types. An iconic one opened in 1927 at Coney Island as the Cyclone.

For 10 points, name the ballet with music composed by Igor Stravinsky that allegedly caused a riot at its first performance.

For 10 points, The Rite of Spring unusually opens with a high solo for which large, double‑reed woodwind instrument?

For 10 points, name the Russian ballet dancer who created the choreography for the premiere of The Rite of Spring, which some of the outrage may have been directed at.

For 10 points, John Philip Sousa wrote marches such as The Stars and Stripes Forever for what country’s military, a country also home to ragtime composers of pieces like Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer?

For 10 points, give the name of the colony personally owned by Leopold II in a “Free State,” where the Force Publique terrorized workers extracting rubber; the colony’s name is shared by two modern‑day nations led from Kinshasa and Brazzaville.

For 10 points, Leopold I ruled which European country whose 1830 independence movement was kicked off by a performance of the opera La muette de Portici?

For 10 points, the Force Publique cut which body parts off workers who failed to meet rubber quotas and later used these body parts to hold their knives when tapping rubber trees?

For 10 points, name the author of A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea, who also wrote “Hills Like White Elephants,” in which a man tries to convince Jig to get an abortion, and another novel in which the great DiMaggio is idolized by a friend of Manolin.

For 10 points, name the poet who asks “What happens to a dream deferred?” and writes “my soul has grown deep like the rivers” in “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”

For 10 points, Hughes belonged to a literary movement named for a “renaissance” of which New York City neighborhood?

For 10 points, a man drones a “drowsy syncopated tune” in a poem by Hughes titled for the “Weary” form of which kind of music?

For 10 points, name the scientist who developed A and B coefficients from work on stimulated emission, introduced a cosmological constant while trying to model a static universe via his field equations, won the 1921 Nobel Prize for the photoelectric effect, and formulated $$E=mc^2$$ .

For 10 points, name the task last achieved in men’s singles by Rod Laver in 1969, which a Serbian athlete nearly accomplished before losing the 2021 U.S. Open final to Daniil Medvedev.

For 10 points, the U.S. Open and Wimbledon are two of the four Grand Slam events in which racket‑and‑ball sport played by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal?

For 10 points, name the Serbian athlete who nearly achieved the calendar‑year Grand Slam in 2021 but was deported before the 2022 Australian Open for being unvaccinated.

For 10 points, name the enlightened figure who saw the “four sights,” revealed the Four Noble Truths in a sermon at Deer Park, followed the Eightfold Path, meditated under a bodhi tree to attain nirvana, and founded a namesake Asian religion.

For 10 points, name the substances that have low pH values and are often contrasted with bases. These can be classified into monoprotic and polyprotic types.

For 10 points, name the scientist who defined acids as electron‑pair acceptors; his namesake dot structures help visualize bonding.

For 10 points, name the acid once produced in high concentrations by the Lead chamber process before being replaced by the contact process; it is the diprotic strong acid commonly used as the electrolyte in lead‑acid batteries.

For 10 points, name the leader of North Korea who is claimed by a national myth to be a demigod, reportedly drove cars at age three, disappeared in April 2020 prompting rumors he was gravely ill, oversaw ICBM tests in 2022, and met Donald Trump at a 2018 summit.

For 10 points, name the method used by Pontius Pilate to execute Jesus, a form of execution also used by pirates and others who had kidnapped Spartacus.

For 10 points, name the former gladiator who led a major slave revolt against the Roman Republic beginning in 73 BC, whose followers were executed along the Appian Way by Crassus.

For 10 points, shortly after beginning his revolt, this leader and his men set up a position on which volcano, later famous for destroying Pompeii in 79 AD, from which they used vines to descend on Roman soldiers? Name the volcano.

For 10 points, name the Arthur Miller play in which flute music plays in the background, the protagonist gifts stockings to “the Woman,” a fountain pen is stolen by former high‑school football star Biff, and the play ends with the protagonist crashing his car to provide life insurance for his family.

For 10 points, name the weather phenomena that form over warm water and are rated from 1 to 5 on the Saffir–Simpson scale; they are also classified as a 12 on the Beaufort scale.

For 10 points, what is the calm region at the center of a hurricane called?

For 10 points, the lowest value of which atmospheric quantity typically occurs in a hurricane’s eye and is measured with a barometer?

For 10 points, name the popular programming language that uses indentation instead of curly brackets, emphasizes readability with keywords like “and” and “not,” and is named after a British comedy group while sharing its name with a type of snake.

For 10 points, name the Midwestern city home to a sculpture known as “the Bean” and to the Willis Tower.

For 10 points, “The Bean,” officially titled Cloud Gate, was designed by which British‑Indian artist who has been criticized for the exclusive licensing of the color Vantablack?

For 10 points, the sculpture Flamingo in Chicago’s Federal Plaza, painted in its namesake shade of red and described as a “stabile,” is by which artist known for mobiles?

For 10 points, name the Japanese warrior class who launched the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877, are exemplified by leaderless ronin who avenged their master before committing suicide, and followed a Bushido code with swords like the wakizashi and katana.

For 10 points, in 1833 mistrust of the Second Bank of the United States led federal money to be deposited in “pet” examples of what kind of financial institutions?

For 10 points, which U.S. president, the first from the Democratic Party, sought to destroy the Second Bank of the United States by vetoing its recharter bill?

For 10 points, earlier in its existence, the Second Bank of the United States was taxed by which state, the defendant in the Supreme Court case that established implied powers in McCulloch v. Maryland?

For 10 points, name the process by which water diffuses across a semipermeable membrane, whose rate reaches equilibrium in an isotonic solution; its reverse is used to purify salt water for drinking. A quantity denoted $$\Pi$$ , equal to $$MRT$$ times the van’t Hoff factor, is the namesake “pressure” of this process.

It was observed that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech…at the schoolhouse gate” in a Supreme Court case involving students wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. Which Supreme Court case is described?

A photo taken during an anti–Vietnam War march on a five‑sided government building shows a protester placing a flower in the barrel of a soldier’s gun. Abbie Hoffman failed to levitate this Arlington, Virginia building. What is the name of this building?

A symbolic form of protesting the Vietnam War involved burning government documents issued to those registered in Selective Service. What were these documents called?

An artist from a certain country painted a series of fifty‑three “stations” of one of its major roads, and its woodblock printing tradition is called ukiyo‑e, or “pictures of the floating world.” Katsushika Hokusai painted many scenes of Mount Fuji, including The Great Wave off Kanagawa. From which country did this artist come?

Name the nationwide survey conducted every 10 years in the United States that, in 2020, allowed participants to respond online or by phone.

Besides counting people, results from the U.S. decennial survey are used to reapportion seats in which legislative body that makes up Congress along with the Senate?

The U.S. Census Bureau is under which cabinet department, currently led by a secretary who succeeded a department that split from Labor in 1913?

Harra trees are native to mangroves on the island of Qeshm, and oil fields in this body of water were the subject of a 1990s war named after it. One country has built stadiums overlooking this body of water for a recent World Cup. This body of water connects to the Gulf of Oman by the Strait of Hormuz and is named for the ancient name for Iran. What gulf is described?

Saprotrophic fungi absorb nutrients from decaying matter. What is the general term for organisms that obtain energy by consuming detritus, such as earthworms?

Some xylophagous fungi digest lignin found in a material that termites also digest and that is found in the bark and interior of trees. What is this material?

Soft‑rot fungi secrete an enzyme that can digest a glucose polymer found in plant cell walls. Which polymer do they break down?

A winged horse from Greek mythology, discovered at the Pirene fountain, created the Hippocrene spring on Mount Helicon. The brother of Chrysaor, he was stung by a gadfly on the way to Mount Olympus and helped Bellerophon defeat the Chimera. What is this horse’s name?

Name the actress who repeatedly described her former husband as a “monster” in a defamation case and who saw limited screen time in Aquaman 2.

Amber Heard was once married to an actor who played Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean series and recently won a defamation lawsuit against her. Who is this actor?

In 2019, Amber Heard wrote an opinion piece published by a newspaper whose slogan is “democracy dies in darkness.” Which newspaper ran that piece?

This character sends the title “Five Orange Pips” to one victim, fakes his death at Reichenbach Falls in “The Final Problem,” and is outwitted in “A Scandal in Bohemia” by a crush, Irene Adler. Professor Moriarty is his nemesis, and he resides at 221B Baker Street with Dr. Watson. Which detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle is described?

Name the Joseph Heller novel with a paradoxical title that features the character Milo Minderbinder buying Egypt’s cotton.

Catch‑22 focuses on a bombardier’s desire to leave the military. This protagonist is inspired by his tentmate Orr’s escape to Sweden. What is this character’s name?

In Catch‑22, the protagonist questions whether a certain figure is all‑powerful and all‑good, noting that he is the father of Jesus. Which figure is this?

Establishments vandalized by the hatchet‑wielding Carrie Nation violated a United States policy enforced by the Volstead Act and later repealed by the 21st Amendment. Supporters of this policy were called “drys,” while opponents were called “wets.” What was this nationwide policy banning alcohol called?

One thinker argued that social harmony arises when behavior matches what is entailed by certain words in a concept called the “rectification of names.” In China, the most common family type of these words is Wang. What words used to identify people are described?

The rectification of names was promoted by an ancient Chinese philosopher whose sayings are compiled in the Analects. Who is this philosopher?

Confucius taught that people should respect certain elders—a virtue called filial piety—including bringing honor to them and caring for them in their later years. Whom should one respect, according to this teaching?

A ghostly Red Skull presides over one of these items on Vormir, and Doctor Strange wields the Eye of Agamotto to house one. Possessing all six allows one character to destroy half of all life with a snap. What colorful items from the Marvel Cinematic Universe are described?

The Golden Law ended slavery in one South American country, completed by its Golden Law in the 1880s. Which country passed this law and is the only one in the Americas with Portuguese as its official language?

The Golden Law was passed by a monarch with a specific given name; two rulers with this name reigned immediately after the country’s independence from Portugal. What was this monarch’s given name?

When an animal from “darkest Peru” is raised by Uncle Pastuzo and Aunt Lucy and loves marmalade, and another gets mistaken for a Heffalump after getting trapped in a Very Big Pit, what type of animals are Winnie‑the‑Pooh and Paddington?

The aye‑aye species is the largest nocturnal primate in the world. Name the primates whose most widely recognized species is the “ring‑tailed” one, endemic to Madagascar and closely related to the Malagasy people’s homeland.

These primates are endemic to a biodiverse island nation separated from mainland Africa by the Mozambique Channel and home to most baobab trees. What is the name of this island nation?

Lemurs are the only primates other than humans to possess blue pigmentation in certain organs, and they have large examples that help them see at night. Which organs are being described?

A process in which plants use light energy to make sugar involves stomata absorbing carbon dioxide; cyanobacteria undergoing it produce much of Earth’s oxygen. A version in arid climates concentrates a molecule around the enzyme RuBisCO at night. What is this process called?

In 2012, a particle found at the Large Hadron Collider explains how the W and Z bosons acquire mass. Name this particle.

The Higgs boson is thought to have a value of zero for a quantum property that bosons typically have as integers and that is an intrinsic form of angular momentum. What is this property called?

The Large Hadron Collider is based in Switzerland at a facility that currently hosts 23 member states and is the largest particle physics lab in the world. What is the name of this facility?

A leader who persecuted Jews in his country in retribution for the supposed “Doctors’ Plot” enforced forced collectivization that caused the Holodomor in Ukraine. He signed a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany that was later broken by invasion. Who was this Soviet leader?

Geographical features exemplified by Honshu and Hokkaido form parts of the Japanese archipelago; there are 6,852 of these in Japan. What features are these?

Amaterasu and Susanoo were born from Izanagi’s eyes while he performed a purifying action in a river; visitors to Shinto shrines use water for the same action before presenting themselves to kami. What is this action called?

When Susanoo insulted Amaterasu, she hid in one of these locations, plunging the world into darkness; in Greek myth, Amalthea raised the infant Zeus in one on Mount Ida. What type of location is described?