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Again, I'd like to hear a response from Bruce.

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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!"

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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.

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Only pets my lease allows: lactobacillus

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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...

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I liked the question about my dad

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Coloring Book - First listened to this picking up trash from the "bad boys" campground by Watauga Lake in Eat Tennessee, made a bad day much better. Haven't listened to either of these yet. You Want it Darker - My favorite album of the year. Just a wonderful examination of memory, history,...

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Thanks for the metal balls. Good enough tchotchke

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Alejandro wrote:Thank you Isaac Kirk-Davidoff for 10 Print! I'm looking forward to reading it.

Welcome!

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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.

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Read Chris Ware's Building Stories for comics class, and it turned out to be just an amazing work of art. It's sold as a literal box of stories revolving around an unnamed woman in Chicago, all printed on a different medium--newsprint, brochure, typical comic book, etc. Fairly expensive and annoyin...

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Following Joey's answer, I'd like to plug Country Breakfasts , by Ken Haedrich, which is really helping me get through finals. It has a SICK recipe for "Paprikash mushrooms on toast." Made it with some hen-of-the-woods I foraged, impressed the :capybara: out of my housemates. That, and all...

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You Want It Darker.

Don't need a bracket.

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Just ordered mine. Will arrive by Christmas Eve. It's not hand made, so Andrew Hart can rest assured that his collage of North Korean movie scenes remains one of a kind.

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Isaac Kirk-Davidoff
firstname.lastname [at] yale.edu
1: Anything R.E.M. (the band, not the stage of sleep) related, preferably live sets/bootlegs
2: Tchotchkes, Tchotchkes and more Tchotchkes
3: Palinka
4: A contemporary novel dealing with landscape and/or emotion.

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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 ...

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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?

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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.

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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 resear...

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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...

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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 ...

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The Nobel Prize is always boring and hollow, it's a prize, they all are. Doesn't mean I can't be happy about this. Doesn't it, though, given what you say in the first sentence? As a fan of Krasznahorkai, one would think you'd be much more cautious in deciding you have reasons to be happy about anyt...

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The Dylan analogy suggests Norman Lear would actually win then. Lear would be an excellent choice, imo. I love this choice. All of you crowing about needing to pick "underheralded, pioneering work from exotic literary traditions" (because a group of Swedes should totally be in charge of t...

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The Dylan analogy suggests Norman Lear would actually win then. Lear would be an excellent choice, imo. I love this choice. All of you crowing about needing to pick "underheralded, pioneering work from exotic literary traditions" (because a group of Swedes should totally be in charge of t...

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ValenciaQBowl wrote:
Krasznahorkai might be my pick, actually.
Yours and presumably fan-of-Bela-Tarr Will Nediger's, too.

And mine!

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Don't quote Donald Trump as a joke, for one.

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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KCRW's Bookworm is the best podcast/radio show I've ever listened to. The host is incredibly insightful--I have no doubt that he'd be one of the best lit players in qb if he ever picked up a buzzer--and its archive span 30 years and most of the culturally important American and world authors from t...

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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...

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Sir, you are certainly short-changing yourself with only a $5 increase in the fees. Good riddance, bump it up! You should not be underpaid for creating such a heartwarmingly creative labour of love! The World Fellowship Center, as a haven for the progressive left in America, would never condone suc...

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This is the official announcement post for the first annual Chocorua Weekend of Quizbowl, to be held in Conway, NH, on the grounds of the World Fellowship Center (where social justice meets nature). We will be running several side events, unique to this site only: NACREOUS: A set entirely about my r...

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I'll be there in an hour or so.

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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? ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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Our Lady Peace wrote:This tournament will feature no questions on what the writers judge to be "Internet content".

I'll play.

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I'm fairly certain I'll be doing this. I'm good at some things.

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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 percen...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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