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- Fri Apr 07, 2017 3:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
- Replies: 63
- Views: 27000
Re: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
Ran into nyu. They called me Jesus. I said I'm no false prophet. They said I'm just the messiah. I have to disagree but Jacob sez I'm the naqt messiah.
- Thu Apr 06, 2017 6:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
- Replies: 63
- Views: 27000
Re: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
Who will watch my home place , I wonder, as I think of being away from my sourdough starter for a weekend? I'll be standing by this cracker barrel the whole weekend, ready for conversatin' and sharing the dee-stinct observations that come. why are you like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksm12...
- Thu Apr 06, 2017 5:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
- Replies: 63
- Views: 27000
Re: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
Who will watch my home place, I wonder, as I think of being away from my sourdough starter for a weekend?
I'll be standing by this cracker barrel the whole weekend, ready for conversatin' and sharing the dee-stinct observations that come.
I'll be standing by this cracker barrel the whole weekend, ready for conversatin' and sharing the dee-stinct observations that come.
- Mon Apr 03, 2017 8:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
- Replies: 63
- Views: 27000
Re: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
Y'all know if this had been published by The Baffler Rob would have shared it without a question.Auks Ran Ova wrote:"What the hell are you talking about?"The Stately Rhododendron wrote:What do you folks say?
- Mon Apr 03, 2017 7:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
- Replies: 63
- Views: 27000
The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
Aww, Horseapples! Nationals are coming up, so let's stand by the ol' cracker barrel and ask each other "what's the frequency, Kenneth?" I swear, we've got a real chance this year. I may be an ol' country boozer, but John Barleycorn can' take away all of my grey matter. Stephen's been doing his scien...
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 10:30 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 9364
Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion
I was being a jerk, my bad. I meant no disrespect with "trivia," for me, that term applies to all quizbowl questions (and there's nothing wrong with that!)
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 9364
Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion
Again, I'd like to hear a response from Bruce.
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 2:01 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime Errors and Errata
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1714
Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime Errors and Errata
The Danube tossup says that it ends in the Ukraine, when the delta is mostly in Romania. After a cursory examination of Google Maps, it seems that it technically ends in Ukraine (the border runs along the river through the delta until just before it reaches the Black Sea, at which point it leaves t...
- Mon Mar 06, 2017 1:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 9364
Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion
Jerry's post is right. I'd add that Ike's right that people go in the weeds deep with Marx. They just don't go into Scorpion and Felix ! If you want to tie in Marx's other writings to his philosophy, why not ask about his ( actually published !) journalism? Or his (partially published in English, fu...
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 2:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 9364
Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion
I don't know where the 1990's tossup went, but I buzzed on political history clues. Yeah, that was fairly political, if you ask me. I may have overstated my claim, (though Sam's examples were are still fairly "political," the Indians one, fx). On the whole though, I think there was 1: an inordinate...
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime Specific Discussion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 10941
Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime Specific Discussion
Might is Right is pretty well known--you're probably joking, but it's a work of Social Darwinism, not a random text by an anime Nazi, and it was a guiding text in the Church of Satan (albeit through plagiarism). An anime Nazi of the 1890s! Maybe "a reactionary fellow who spends all his pennies on M...
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 (T)TIaC: Discussion of language and vulgarity
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3143
Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion
The Earl Butz quote was gratuitous. Regarding the Key toss-up, the moderator instructions tell the mod to substitute for the n-word if the moderator is not comfortable reading it. But what about the players hearing the question? You surely must have known that some moderators wouldn't read the n-wo...
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:26 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime Specific Discussion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 10941
Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime Specific Discussion
Ike, what was your thought process in that alt-right bonus? To get a 30, you'd have to have red a specific white-supremacist pamphlet by some anime nazi. How many people do you think have actually heard of Might is Right?
Also, yoga is not a "pseudo science!"
Also, yoga is not a "pseudo science!"
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 9364
Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion
The history in this set was not good at all. It was insanely uneven, filled with difficulty cliffs, weirldly lacking in any kind of social history at all and overflowing with ridiculous answer lines.
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:17 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: Frustrations
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3647
Re: Frustrations
I'm really frustrated because our team is really good, but we always finish second to one of the best teams in our state. This season we finished second in conference, second at a local tournament in December, second in sectionals last year, second in history bowl, and now we will not have the oppo...
- Tue Dec 20, 2016 3:39 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Continuing to rethink the distribution
- Replies: 54
- Views: 18111
Re: Continuing to rethink the distribution
Announcing this now: during my senior year, I will produce one or two or three packets of a set I will call ANQ (Actor-Network Questions). Everything will be an assemblage. Instead of a distribution we will have disjunctures and differences.
- Wed Dec 07, 2016 2:00 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: On Exactitude in Science Writing
- Replies: 45
- Views: 20535
Re: On Exactitude in Science Writing
I found your OP useful, Joelle. This (inexactitude) happens all the time with my areas of expertise and it's frustrating that it remains a problem. If you remember last year, I, too, faced plenty of grumbles for posting about my disagreements wrt Anthro, culminating in an argument with Matt Jackson ...
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 4:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 Terrapin Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 71
- Views: 9031
Re: 2016 Terrapin Specific Question Discussion and Errata
Could I see the anthro TU on "war"? I liked it (especially since I had taken a class on the anthropology of war!) but I remember having some issue with the wording?
- Thu Nov 10, 2016 3:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Thought Monstrosity (Summer 2017)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8252
- Sun Oct 30, 2016 3:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PB 2016: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 82
- Views: 12576
Re: PB 2016: Specific Question Discussion
I thought the anthro here was fine (even with the perennial bonus on Ruth Benedict). I do have one quibble: the tossup on functionalism seemed to slide between structural functionalism and functionalism quite a bit, even though they're fairly distinct.
- Thu Oct 27, 2016 3:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11254
Re: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"
The Roosevelts were slightly closer in time period; I sometimes prompt on them, I sometimes don't. Maybe I'm just wacky--there was only one member of the House of Orleans to be king of France--so I might accept "Orleans" for Louis-Philippe. Coincidentally, I'm doing some historical research into th...
- Thu Oct 27, 2016 12:37 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11254
Re: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"
Your overall point is correct, but I don't think there's anything wrong with taking Pahlavi by itself (to be fair, I see nothing wrong in taking Johnson by itself either for LBJ). There are only two Pahlavi dynasty members and one is not often asked about in high school--to me, this would be like j...
- Fri Oct 14, 2016 3:43 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: I need a movie!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5265
Re: I need a movie!
Not a movie, but the episode "Bambi" of the show The Young Ones (highly recommended in general) centers on the main characters going on University Challenge (the same QB analogue as in Starter for 10). It also features Mötorhead, if you're into that. Great choice! Pi is my favorite movie about know...
- Fri Sep 30, 2016 11:51 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Ensuring future team success?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4741
Re: Ensuring future team success?
Don't quote Donald Trump as a joke, for one.
- Tue Sep 13, 2016 12:06 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Stimulants and Rituals for Quizbowl
- Replies: 28
- Views: 16691
Re: Stimulants and Rituals for Quizbowl
intimidate the competition *annoy the competition THE SETTING: HSNCT 2014, Round 21 Will Overman sits down in the room with the rest of Maggie Walker, as well as star moderator and Mad Men-era literary expert Andrew Hart. Wow, what a wonderful day, he thinks, I wonder who the next competitor is, I ...
- Sun Aug 14, 2016 1:14 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Stimulants and Rituals for Quizbowl
- Replies: 28
- Views: 16691
Re: Stimulants and Rituals for Quizbowl
At my first-ever college tournament, I asked one of my teammates to punch me, in the hopes that this would give me an adrenaline rush and cause me to perform better in our final game. Said teammate declined and also quit quizbowl after the tournament. Part of me wonders if that would have worked. I...
- Thu Aug 11, 2016 1:43 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Stimulants and Rituals for Quizbowl
- Replies: 28
- Views: 16691
Re: Stimulants and Rituals for Quizbowl
Throughout High School, I did some basic core workouts before games. In my more indolent college days, I've been doing these less, but they work to wake you up and to intimidate the competition. Generally, I do some combination of push-ups, planks, dolphin kicks, butterfly kicks and sit-ups. Don't s...
- Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Barbarism of Specialization
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4986
Re: The Barbarism of Specialization
One nitpick I have with this (though I generally agree) is that, sometimes, in the process of making clues for generalists, you end up with questions with no relevance to specialists. That is, questions that are only relevant to quizbowl. SS questions, for example, historically relied on things like...
- Thu Jun 30, 2016 5:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Maryland summer practice
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7231
Re: Maryland summer practice
I'll be there in an hour or so.
- Sun May 08, 2016 10:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2016: Don't Vote for Jerry Kramer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 22955
Re: Player Poll 2016: Don't Vote for Jerry Kramer
There can be some real negativity going on in this world and, as a microcosm of that, in quizbowl. I am in a good mood, sitting in the Cradle of Forestry in the beautiful Pisgah National Forest and I'd thought I'd celebrate the nicest, friendliest people in quizbowl. Who says nice guys finish last? ...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2016 Discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 23516
Re: ACF Nationals 2016 Discussion
I am a strong supporter of the back-to-the-classroom method, but Caleb's post here and Isaac's in the ICT thread are not only wrong about what is actually taught in the classroom, but dangerously proscriptive. By God, faced with such views - I'd have to agree more with Westbrook, who is in polar op...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 7:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2016 Discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 23516
Re: ACF Nationals 2016 Discussion
The lovely TU on Kieslowski mentions in the first line a scene in Bleu where Juliette Binoche's character watches a man play the recorder while stirring sugar into her coffee. A truly lovely scene and an excellent choice for a lead-in. However, she stirs coffee into a bowl of vanilla ice cream duri...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 4:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2016 Discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 23516
Re: ACF Nationals 2016 Discussion
Two minor corrections: The lovely TU on Kieslowski mentions in the first line a scene in Bleu where Juliette Binoche's character watches a man play the recorder while stirring sugar into her coffee. A truly lovely scene and an excellent choice for a lead-in. However, she stirs coffee into a bowl of ...
- Mon Apr 18, 2016 8:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Maryland Trash (name TBD): sometime
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4491
Re: Maryland Trash (name TBD): fall 2016
I'll play.Our Lady Peace wrote:This tournament will feature no questions on what the writers judge to be "Internet content".
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 7:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Team Formation
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13520
Re: Chicago Open Team Formation
I'm fairly certain I'll be doing this. I'm good at some things.
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 7:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion: 2016 DI ICT
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12002
Re: Question-specific discussion: 2016 DI ICT
In 2010 this process was used in an attempt to delay implementation of a global warming law until unemployment dropped below 5.5 percent. In 2015 a lawyer tried to use this process to mandate the execution of "sodomites." This process was used in 1978 to cap property (*) taxes at 1 percent; in 1994...
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 11:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion: 2016 DI ICT
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12002
Re: Question-specific discussion: 2016 DI ICT
Sorry, misremembered the 2nd bonus part, Matt. Andrew, I don't think I implied you wrote the question. I took the Mad Men thing as a joke, too. I think I was kind of a d*** in that post, though, and I'm sorry. Will, I think people would get mad if phrenology was like 1/4 of their neuroscience distro...
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 2:15 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion: 2016 DI ICT
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12002
Re: Question-specific discussion: 2016 DI ICT
I'd love to see/know who wrote the bonus (in one of the early rounds) on Benedict/honor culture/emic/etic. It was awful and seemed to be written from the perspective that Anthropology hasn't changed since 1960. Ruth Benedict has NEVER came up in a single Anth. class I've taken. Flipping through the ...
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 1:35 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 ICT: "Comment on my questions" thread
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4882
Re: "Comment on my questions" thread
Corry- liked the mention of Mick Taussig in Amazon (though the linking is kind of weird, he didn't do much work with people on the Amazon proper) Will- I loved the mention of Carlos Casteneda (haven't heard about him since my phase of reading Pinchbeck and McKenna). I have to say though - he's not r...
- Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Nats Predictions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4325
Nats Predictions
A song about barley for each prediction: I predict me and Aiden will continue our developing inter-team rapport by mouthing "nice" to each other after buzzes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkRiKeg7TPg - Corn rigs an' barley rigs I will continue to get mad at people who assume interests of mine bas...
- Sun Apr 03, 2016 3:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MYSTERIUM General Discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5131
Re: 2016 MYSTERIUM General Discussion
How did people like the Buddhism in this set? I was using answerlines that (to my knowledge) haven't came up in quizbowl before (but come up in Buddhist Art History/Religious Studies classes). It's a small part (1/2) of the set, but I was curious to see how it played out.
- Sun Mar 27, 2016 9:25 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: How to deal with a failed HS QB career?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5459
Re: How to deal with a failed HS QB career?
Competition is unhealthy. It sounds like you're stressed out and see parts of your life as meaningless. I don't blame you, waiting to hear back from colleges is stressful. Still, you should focus on the good quizbowl has done for you. Why don't you make a cup of tea and draw something? I was bummed ...
- Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:54 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2016 General Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12403
Re: ACF Regionals 2016 General Discussion
"Imaginary Communities" I hope you didn't get points for saying "Imaginary Communities," because otherwise you should give those points back. I'd say it was just a typo, but, while we had a bye that round, I did turn to Stephen and confidently show him my notebook, where I had written "Imaginary Co...
- Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion: 2016 Division I SCT
- Replies: 58
- Views: 19933
Re: Question-specific discussion: 2016 Division I SCT
I don't want to hammer this point too hard, because it seems like the discussion is getting a bit sidetracked, but obviously the way a quizbowl subdistribution is filled is not by having X slots, making a list of the X most-important topics in that particular area, and then writing X questions on t...
- Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2016 General Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12403
Re: ACF Regionals 2016 General Discussion
Of the anthro: liked the "Imagined Communities" (I assume Chris Ray wrote it, no?) and the "celts" TU disliked the Benedict TU. Please package her ideas in more imaginative ways than duuurrrr this woman wrote about that country Japan durrr here's a description of minor, lame work I found on wikipedi...
- Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 SCT general discussion
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4037
Re: 2016 SCT general discussion
Really enjoyed the Anthro in this set (as an Anthro major). The mention of Appadurai (even tho I find him... prolix) in the India TU, the "salvage ethnography" bonus and the truly fantastic "documentary" TU all spring to mind as examples of quizbowl talking about things people in Anthropology actual...
- Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion: 2016 Division I SCT
- Replies: 58
- Views: 19933
Re: Question-specific discussion: 2016 Division I SCT
Whimsy is fine if it's not determining who gets to go to nationals and who doesn't . I'm glad to hear that Jason wrote the tossup as an "interesting approach" to the subject instead of on account of any notion of potential humorous value, but in any case it was neither humorous nor interesting. We ...
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 4:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion: 2016 Division I SCT
- Replies: 58
- Views: 19933
Re: Question-specific discussion: 2016 Division I SCT
The question on George Zimmerman's paintings was a terrible, terrible idea.
- Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Midseason College Poll
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10401
Re: Midseason College Poll
Of course, our team at Penn Bowl was lacking in Grace and I. Obviously, it's no great shakes if I'm not there. But Grace is the shining green light of the Yale Quizbowl team.
- Fri Dec 04, 2015 12:39 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Vocabulary: A Brief Lesson for Teams
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6663
Re: Vocabulary: A Brief Lesson for Teams
Registering for a tournament means: "We have gotten clear commitments from all our players that they are free that weekend, and are willing and able to attend the tournament. That is to say, coaches in Missouri frequently register before getting clear student commitments because the tournaments fil...