anesthetics - 2024 Chicago Open

Question

One of these substances, like the telegraph, gastric physiology, and Lake Superior’s copper deposits, was the subject of a priority claim by C. T. Jackson. A monument celebrating these substances depicts a generic turban-clad “Good Samaritan.” These substances revealed the “gist of philosophy” to Benjamin Blood. Oliver Wendell Holmes (15[1])coined the word for these substances after a demonstration at which John Collins Warren declared “Gentlemen! (15[2])This is no humbug.” 19th-century hopes for a (*) “unitary hypothesis” of these substances led to the Meyer–Overton correlation of their (10[1])efficacy with solubility (10[1])in olive oil. A “dome” in Boston celebrates William (10[1])Morton’s work with these substances, which grew in popularity (10[1])after John Snow administered one to Queen (-5[1])Victoria (-5[6])during (-5[1])childbirth. For 10 points, 19th-century doctors used ether and chloroform as what substances? ■END■ (10[7]0[1])

ANSWER: anesthetics [or word forms of anesthesia; accept ethers, chloroform, nitrous oxide, or laughing gases until read; accept local, regional, or general anesthesia; accept Ether Monument or Ether Dome until “ether” is read; accept The Anaesthetic Revelation: and the Gist of Philosophy; prompt on drugs or gases]

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Summary


2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	15	93%	20%	53%	103.14

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
John Marvin	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	48	15
Ned Tagtmeier	Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy	Les Missourables	64	15
Henry Goff	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	64	15
Eric Mukherjee	LMM's LLM MLM	Punished "Venom" BHSU	84	10
Natan Holtzman	Lisan al-Quib	The Oldest Men in the World	87	10
Billy Busse	BHSU B	The Empire Bikes Back	96	10
Kevin Wang	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	The Jeam Team	105	10
Joel Miles	Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	112	-5
Walter Zhao	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	113	-5
Arya Karthik	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	113	-5
Ved Muthusamy	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	113	-5
Emmett Laurie	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	113	-5
Jonathan Shauf	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	var merchants	113	-5
Akshar Goyal	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	113	-5
Chris Ray	We Need New Names	The Dyatlov Passement incident	114	-5
Nathan Zhang	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	128	0
Lou	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	128	10
Gautam Kandlikar	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	128	10
Adam Fine	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	128	10
Azura Gollamudi	var merchants	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	128	10
Anwen Kelleher	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	128	10
Robert Wang	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	128	10
Jaskaran Singh	The Dyatlov Passement incident	We Need New Names	128	10