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14. This character asks “Do you repent?” shortly before releasing a man from prison who discovers that his hair has gone entirely white. This is the leadin to the Edmond Dantes tossup. I buzzed shortly after with Javert because I remembered that Jean Valjean's hair also turns white. I have no dou...

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The Korea tossup accepted Joseon until it was read: 12. A protest movement in the former lands of this kingdom began when a group of intellectuals left a declaration of independence with their check at a restaurant. Academics in this kingdom were targeted by the “Short Hair Act,” part of a set of r...

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Can I see the question and answerlines for the Korea tossup? I said Joseon and then said Korea, but I believe the identifier in the question was "this kingdom." A few observations: - There were at least 3 bonus parts on the Netherlands. IIRC, there were two history bonus parts on the Nethe...

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7. Harvard A (projected roster: Jason Golfinos, Thomas Gioia, Luke Minton, Ricky Li) Harvard was a remarkably young and balanced team last year, with two undergraduate teams finishing in the 20-24 range at ACF Nationals. That will change with the arrival of law student Jason Golfinos, who brings de...

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2019 9:28 pm Bless Me, Ultima and Palestinians from Darwish strike me as fine easy parts at the CO level - the former is (or maybe was?) widely assigned in high schools and Darwish comes up all the time.

Can confirm I read Ultima as assigned reading in high school.

AGoodMan

I've talked about how I approach flashcarding here. I hope it can be helpful. The whole thread is actually pretty useful.

AGoodMan

Harvard would love to see a HFT mirror in North Carolina this upcoming season! We know that NCSSM has successfully hosted Grapes of Smath the last couple years, but the student that we corresponded with from the school has graduated. If anyone in NC is interested in mirroring the set, please email u...

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Would any school be interested in hosting a HFT mirror in the NY/NJ region? I know some of the schools here will compete in the HFT main site in November or the Richard Montgomery mirror in January 2020, but we would still love to see a mirror in between those two locations. I believe there are a nu...

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Kinda late to this thread, but Akshay Govindan is definitely OP at science. He has insanely high stats at all 3 nationals, and from having practiced with him, he clearly has very deep knowledge in the subject area. Vote him for #2 science player if you haven't already. akshay govindan of ladue a is...

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I think Solon has hosted tournaments of this kind in the recent past.

AGoodMan

Could I see that debugging tossup? The leadin seemed very generic and possibly also something that could be applied to software testing. But I could be misremembering. I'm also interested in seeing the Roman Navy question. I buzzed with Carthaginian Navy given a description of the tool used against...

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Mirror List 11/9/19 : Triton Fall (UCSD) (San Diego, CA) 11/9/19 : TQBA mirror (Texas) 11/16/19 : HFT Main Site (Cambridge, MA) 11/23/19 : MOQBA Fall Championship at Columbia College (Columbia, MO) 11/23/19 : Michigan State University mirror (Michigan) 12/7/19 : Rockford Auburn mirror (Rockford, IL...

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Hello everyone, Harvard Quiz Bowl is excited to announce the 14th edition of the Harvard Fall Tournament set, HFT XIV . The set will be available for mirrors from 11/9/2019 to the Sunday before the 2020 HSNCT. Production Details Jon Suh will be head-editing the set, including the history, religion, ...

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Harvard would like to preliminarily reserve 11/16 for the HFT Main site.

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As an editor on this year's NASAT, I'm glad we decided on OxO. I just hope OxO is more properly Americanized unlike CamO from last year, which included rather odd questions like the death of Edward II and some obscure British geography questions. Of course, some oddball questions in a set is basical...

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Aaron's Rod wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 6:52 pm I look forward to getting my ass kicked by Mike Cheyne and getting mad about the lack of apocrypha.

Because you mentioned emphasizing "concepts" and "objects," I'd love to know at some point what your guys' preferred translation(s) is/are.

We're going with the NIV.

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Michael Kearney of Yale has joined the writing team. Moses has started churning out questions, and I'll get on it as well once I write enough HFT.

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Do you need staff?

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Does this mean that Terrapin is not happening next season?

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Guess what, I will also be looking forward to being a foot soldier of the Evil Empire :twisted: while working on a J.D. at UChica- Just kidding. Pahk da cah in Hahvahd (Lah School) Yahd. Look forward to being as involved there as allowed by studies and by the state of affairs of life ambitions bein...

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Can I see the Albert Bandura tossup? I feel like I know a fair bit about him but did not recognize any of the power clues. This man and Arthur Benton replaced the heat illusion test of Eysenck and Furneaux with a vibration suggestion test, in a paper discussing primary and secondary suggestibility....

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Can I see the Albert Bandura tossup? I feel like I know a fair bit about him but did not recognize any of the power clues.

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I enjoyed the set overall. I did notice a higher than usual number of video game questions, but I suppose that's editor's discretion.

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Captain Sinico wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 4:07 pm It seems that results for at least a couple tournaments have erased themselves. Here's one and another. According to my records, those used to be the full results for those events. What happened?

Seconding the above: the 2016 Huskie Bowl results are also gone. What happened?

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I am going to post the set on the archives by tomorrow night if no one expresses interest in mirroring in the meantime. I hope high schoolers find it helpful for nationals preparation.

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Another guy who hasn't gotten enough love is Thomas Gioia from Harvard. Playing in DII and somehow being left off of Harvard A at Nats means he hasn't received a lot of attention, but Thomas should definitely be on your literature poll. Don't let his negs at Nats fool you: playing without a history...

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For auditory arts, Michael Yue and Luke Minton should absolutely be considered. At EFT, Michael went 4-2-0 and Luke went 4-1-0 on 11 Music tossups, thus getting every Music tossup (and 8 of them in power). Together, they recorded 25.6ppb on 9 bonuses. At SGI, Michael went 3-4-0 on 9 Music tossups. A...

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I buzzed with something descriptive like "the pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona Expo that Mies van der Rohe designed" at the end of the Barcelona Pavilion tossup. My answer was outright rejected, but I wonder if I could have gotten a prompt?

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I thought the archive / coding / [something] bonus was really cool! My friend had told me about archival coding the day before Nats and I was able to pull a 20.

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This was the best reg+ set I have ever played. If you’re implying that this set was too easy, then, uh, have you considered the possibility that you’re very good at quizbowl, because I think a lot of other people would disagree strongly with that. My apologies if by reg+ you merely mean “harder tha...

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This was the best reg+ set I have ever played.

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I felt that the first bonus from Packet 1 was very nice aside from the third part, which felt disparate from the other two parts. I realize I never responded to this: 1. When “roasted whole...[this foodstuff] makes a considerable figure at a Lord Mayor’s feast, or any other publick entertainment,” ...

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EulerAlert wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 11:38 pm Is there any sort of estimate as to when the set will be on the archives? I'm not sure how long the Southern Illinois League runs for but it looks like the RM mirror was the last one scheduled.

I think we will do a final revision of the set before posting the set probably by the end of April.

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I'm totally a spectator here, but was the 1066 tossup easily converted in most mirrors? It seems a bit difficult.

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This is an extremely minor point, but I need to chime in my agreement with the last couple of posts. One of the reasons I like NAQT is because their tournaments are the only chance I get to hear soccer questions. This time, I didn't even hear a sniff of a soccer bonus part. Yet we had at least two ...

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May I see the tossups on the KKK, Bohemian Rhapsody, John McCain, plane crash, presidential portraits, and Falkland Islands War? 3. A section of this B-flat-major song begins with staccato A-major piano chords. Producer Roy Thomas Baker made at least 160 separate overdubs for this song, and at t...

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I would also say that literature was very, very hard to power. As a lit player, I'd wager I got more history powers than lit powers, which seems a bit strange. The powermarks there could be a bit more generous. Thanks for that feedback; do you have specific questions in mind? I had read "A Goo...

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May I please see the bonus about Purim+Esther and the "A Good Man is Hard to Find" tossup? 1. Before going in front of a king, this woman says, “If I perish, I perish.” For 10 points each: [10] Name this Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus and the cousin of Mordecai. Her story is t...

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I do echo what Stephen said about the reputation of the Harvard team. I worked hard for three years to try to build a respectable quizbowl program there, as did some two dozen other people. We played lots of tournaments, wrote lots of tournaments, hosted lots of tournaments, generally tried to be g...

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Description answerlines were accepted for me. I buzzed in with something like "terrorist attacks during the Munich Olympics" and was accepted.

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I wonder if there will be multiple first buzzes at the “Fear of the Lord” clue for the wisdom tossup.

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I generally enjoyed this set. Thank you to the writers and editors for doing a great job. Some comments from our lit players: a lot of the more “creative” answer lines appeared in the earlier rounds and the more “bread-and-butter” answerlines appeared later.

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I just read my submission on the Nine Years' War, which was changed to say: The Dutch military engineer Menno van Coehoorn (“fon KOO-horn”) defended the Belgian town of Namur (“nah-MOOR”) twice during this war This is incorrect. There were two sieges of Namur, and Van Coehoorn defended against Vauba...

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Can I see the lions myth tossup please? I think it mentioned Balinese myth well into near the middle part of the tossup, which seems pretty difficult.

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I think the Brubeck tossup’s first clue was something like the fourth clue of the Time Out tossup from Regs 17. Not sure what that means, but just throwing that out there.

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Actually, can I also see the Ezekiel TU in full as well please? The lead in confused me.

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Can I see the Jacob tossup in full please?

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I would not get your hopes up too high on being able to play HFT in MN. Last year, there was supposed to be a mirror but it got cancelled since there was like one team that was interested in going. MN high school quizbowl teams seem to hate anything which isn't NAQT. Unfortunately, this is true. Th...

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This is late, but the Editors 2 packet's "boats" myth tossup says

The giantess Hringhorni helps move an enormous one of these items during Baldr's funeral.

My understanding is that Baldr's ship itself is Hringhorni, while it was the giantess Hyrrokkin that moved the ship.

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What do you all think of this question? One people of this area was found to use a bilabial trilled affricate which they hid as it was mocked by neighbouring peoples. A road through this area gives access to the Mapinguari National Park near Lábrea, but also allowed access to forests that were turn...

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