An author who used this language imagined the eradication of death in his story “In the Year One Million.” Speculative short stories from English and this language comprise anthologies set 100 years after pivotal events in the title countries. In a story in this language, ointment from the dandan fish helps a man breathe during his tour of an underwater kingdom with a merman. A boy self-discovers the laws of nature after a gazelle raises him on an (*) island in a book in this language that was translated into Latin as Philosophus Autodidactus. In a story in this language, automatons guard the City of Brass, where inhabitants are imprisoned by King Solomon. A prince flies a mechanical ebony horse in a story in this language translated by Antoine Galland. For 10 points, name this language used to tell proto-sci-fi stories to King Shahryar. ■END■
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyrus Zhou | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | The RAND Coöperation | 63 | 15 |
| Sam Macchi | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 65 | 15 |
| Will Alston | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 65 | 15 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | Do re mi fa serving negs | 77 | 15 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 78 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 78 | 10 |
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | Floridovician | 81 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | It's not X, but... defenders | 81 | 10 |
| James Orefice | Enjoying the Hole Experience | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 92 | 10 |
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 128 | 10 |