A paper first-authored by this scientist theorized that the photon number density became fixed near redshift 2 million, leading to mu-type distortion. This scientist is the first namesake of the dominant mechanism of y-type distortion, whose second-order form allows one to infer peculiar velocities from temperature fluctuations. This scientist is the second namesake of a model in which turbulence causes angular momentum transport, as encoded by the dimensionless parameter alpha. That model of (*) viscosity-driven accretion was developed by this scientist and Nikolai Shakura. This scientist is the first namesake of an effect in which electrons in galaxy clusters cause inverse Compton scattering that imparts anisotropies on the CMB. For 10 points, what Soviet physicist co-names that effect with Yakov Zel’dovich? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 82% | 18% | 9% | 91.44 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Wang | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Floridovician | 69 | 15 |
| Adam Fine | Halifax Shipping Services | Do re mi fa serving negs | 69 | 15 |
| Kai Smith | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 82 | 10 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 88 | 10 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 88 | 10 |
| Billy Busse | BHSU B | Big is moving to Evanston! | 103 | -5 |
| Dan Ni | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Broken Socal Scene | 103 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 103 | 10 |
| June Yin | It's not X, but... defenders | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 103 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 118 | 10 |
| Munir Siddiqui | Big is moving to Evanston! | BHSU B | 120 | 0 |
| Emmett Laurie | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 120 | 0 |
| Kenji Shimizu | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 120 | 0 |