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Question

This word is repeated in the title of a 9th-century laboratory book by the Persian scholar al-Rāzī that describes alchemical ways to produce materials like caustic soda. For 10 points each:

[10h] Give this adjective that titles a semi-mythological biography of Genghis Khan, which is the oldest work of Mongol literature.

ANSWER: secret [accept the Secret of Secrets or Book of Secrets or Sirr al-Asrar; accept the Secret History or Secret History of the Mongols]

[10e] al-Rāzī is credited as the first physician to distinguish smallpox and this other infectious disease, whose modern vaccine is combined with ones for mumps and rubella in MMR.

ANSWER: measles

[10m] Centuries after al-Rāzī, this ruler’s grandson Ulugh Beg sponsored Persian scholars in several hospitals and observatories. This Turco-Mongol conqueror created several pyramids of skulls and walked with a limp.

ANSWER: Timur [or Tamerlane or Tamburlaine; or Timur the Lame or Timur Lenk or Timur-i Lang; or Temür Küregen or Timūr Gurkānī; accept Timurid Empire or Timurid dynasty or the Timurids or Gūrkāniyān]

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Northern California	Main	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	18.57	86%	71%	29%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	10	21.00	100%	70%	40%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	18.89	100%	89%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	18.57	100%	71%	14%
North	Main	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	17.50	88%	75%	13%
South Central	Main	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
Southeast	Main	Y	11	19.09	100%	82%	9%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%

Data


Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Little Prince	0	10	10	20
Berkeley Archer Queen	UCSC	0	10	10	20
Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Mighty Miner	10	10	10	30
Stanford B	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
UCSD B	Claremont B	0	10	10	20
UCSD A	UC Irvine	10	10	10	30
UC Santa Barbara	Claremont C	10	0	10	20
UCLA C	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
UCLA E	Claremont A	0	10	10	20
USC B	UCLA F	0	10	0	10
USC A	UCLA D	0	10	0	10
Carleton A	Carleton B	0	10	0	10
McGill A	Ottawa D	0	10	10	20
McGill C	Ottawa A	0	10	10	20
McGill B	Ottawa B	0	10	10	20
McGill E	Ottawa C	0	10	0	10
Florida A	UCF A	10	10	10	30
South Florida A	Florida B	0	0	0	0
Florida Tech A	Florida State A	0	10	10	20
ERAU Daytona A	Florida Tech B	0	10	0	10
CWRU B	Michigan State C	10	10	10	30
CWRU C	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Louisville D	10	10	10	30
Michigan A	Louisville C	0	10	10	20
Michigan State B	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Pittsburgh	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
CWRU D	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
Michigan State A	CWRU A	10	10	10	30
WVU A	Ohio State C	0	10	0	10
UNC A	JMU A	0	10	10	20
JMU B	Virginia Tech A	0	10	10	20
William & Mary C	Liberty A	0	10	10	20
UNC D	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
NCSU A	Liberty C	0	10	10	20
William & Mary A	UNC B	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech B	UNC C	0	10	10	20
NCSU B	VCU A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech C	William & Mary B	0	10	10	20
NYU B	George Mason C	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Princeton	10	10	10	30
Penn	Lehigh B	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Rutgers D	0	10	0	10
Stony Brook	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin A	Iowa State	0	0	10	10
Wisconsin C	Macalester	0	10	10	20
St. Thomas	Minnesota	0	10	0	10
Amherst B	Brandeis Mozart	0	10	10	20
Boston University A	Brandeis Bach	10	10	10	30
Tufts A	Brandeis Beethoven	0	10	10	20
Brown A	Dartmouth B	10	10	10	30
Vermont A	Dartmouth C	0	10	0	10
Southern Connecticut State University A	Harvard	0	10	10	20
MIT B	Amherst A	0	10	0	10
Tufts C	Williams C	0	10	0	10
Williams A	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
MIT A	UConn A	0	10	10	20
Vermont B	Brown B	0	10	10	20
Boston College B	Williams B	0	10	10	20
Alberta B	Arizona State A	0	10	0	10
Arizona State B	British Columbia A	10	0	10	20
British Columbia B	Washington Chinook	0	10	10	20
Washington Chum	Washington Sockeye	0	10	10	20
Washington Atlantic	Washington Coho	0	10	10	20
Washington State	Washington Masu	0	10	10	20
Washington Pink	Boise State	0	10	0	10
Washington Steelhead	Texas	0	10	10	20
Central Oklahoma B	Kansas State B	10	10	10	30
Tulsa B	Kansas State A	0	10	0	10
Murray State College B	Oklahoma	0	10	10	20
Nebraska C	Nebraska A	0	10	10	20
Harding	Nebraska B	0	10	0	10
Murray State College A	Rose State	0	10	10	20
Alabama A	Auburn A	0	10	10	20
Auburn B	Chipola College	0	10	0	10
Clemson B	Emory A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt B	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt C	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Clemson C	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech F	Montevallo	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Sewanne	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee Tech	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10	20
Lehigh A	Johns Hopkins	0	10	10	20
Durham B	Edinburgh C	0	10	0	10
York	Durham C	0	10	10	20
Sheffield B	Durham D	0	10	10	20
Durham A	Edinburgh D	0	10	10	20
Sheffield A	Edinburgh B	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	Rochester	0	10	10	20
RIT A	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	Binghamton C	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	RIT B	0	10	10	20
Cornell D	Cornell C	0	10	10	20