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I just ordered my gift; it should arrive the 16th.

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Name: Eric Wolfsberg
Email: [email protected]

1: A book from or about Medieval Europe (history, literature, art, or anything else).

2: A book about music that isn't Lives of the Great Composers.

3: Something underrated.

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So apparently I'd forgotten that even if ACF Fall isn't posted on the archive yet, there still totally is public discussion of it and, in fact, a copy of the set. So anyway here are the questions I wrote for the Delaware ACF Fall packet, which were not used due to some combination of being submitted...

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Would it be okay if I post some questions I wrote for our ACF Fall packet? The set hasn't been posted yet, but I'm pretty sure our packet wasn't used since we submitted it really late and there were some content repeats between my questions and things I heard in the set.

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This section of a holy text recalls how the angels were ordered to prostrate before Adam, which Iblis, the Devil, refused to do.

This also occurs in at least Al-Kahf (at 18:50), though at less length.

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Could you post the tossups on Al-Baqarah and swords?

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I think that might have been a joke regarding the dismissal of criticisms about the main site's questions or logistics given by people who weren't at the tournament? Or perhaps I don't understand that you understand that?

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Could the nihilism/[something I forgot]/Pyrrhonism bonus be posted? Thanks.

EDIT: Also, the Mu'tazilite/sunna/hadith one?

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I think this error originates with the rosters our team sent, but my last name is Wolfsberg.

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Is this set clear? Will it be posted?

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An astonishingly minor quipe, but if I recall correctly, the music tossup on the _1800s_ claims that Major General Stanley does know what, precisely, is meant by commissariat, when he, in fact, does not. Also, could I see the tossup on coffins (from Moby-Dick) from Round 8? That was a really cool qu...

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Gonzague Truc wrote:
Cheynem wrote:Would there be any interest in a Skype mirror of NASAT (for those who are not playing one of the in person mirrors)?
Yes

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Thanks!

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Will this set be posted? Are any future mirrors planned?

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Will this set be posted? Are any future mirrors planned?

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Will this set be posted? Are any future mirrors planned?

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Will this set be posted? Is an Oxford mirror happening in the future?

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a) This author wrote about the accidental death of Curly's wife at the hands of the overpowered man-child Lenny in his novella Of Mice and Men. vs. a) This author wrote the novella Of Mice and Men As I understand it, the former format is generally preferred because it is more interesting to listen ...

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Great Bustard wrote:(as it was, High Tech lost in the 1/4s last year to Bethlehem)

High Tech beat us and then lost to LASA.

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I think the tossup on Queen Anne's War described it as a theatre of the 30 Years War, rather than the War of the Spanish Succession.

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Two 10 question tiebreaks on three-team buzzer systems occurred. For the Bowl quarterfinals the top three seeded teams (based on placement in the Saturday Evening pools, then Saturday Evening record, then Saturday Evening points) chose which of the bottom four seeds to play (IIRC, Hunter chose Aubur...

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There was a bunch of clue repetition, both between and within events.

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Can a private forum be created for discussion of question content?

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I'll be attending the University of Delaware. I intend to play quizbowl there.

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Considering how expensive the IHO already was, I don't think that having it in Hawai'i will cause that many more people to not go to it.

Bosa of York · Re: Darien (CT) Invitational (1/30/16) Will standard division stats be posted?

Will standard division stats be posted?

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Columbia is mirroring BISB, not BHSAT.

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Carrie and Lowell

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I'll change my vote to Carrie and Lowell (keeping Hamilton for the other one)

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Hamilton

Currents

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Summertime '06

Hamilton

Currents

Carrie and Lowell- when I was listening to the rest of these so I could vote for Hamilton this was the only other one I actually liked.

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It's worth noting that for most of the subjects that NAQT has more of than mACF sets (e.g. pop culture and current events) packet studying is going to be of limited value; it'd be better just to pay attention to the news or consume media to learn about those. In most other categories most any well-w...

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The Science Bowl website says so. That being said, Science Bowl is a horrible, relentlessly bureaucratic organization that cares more about the Department of Energy's ego than providing meaningful competition and I highly advise you to have nothing to do with it. I think I share this view with most...

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Probably not until after New Trier Varsity (12/19), unless they switch to another set or have done so already.

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Could you post the Caravaggio bonus from round 10? I want to be sure that there are details from the first part that refer to Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes and not to Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes (which I think is a bit better known). Also, I think that The Birth of Tragedy was...

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Speaking as someone who hates trash, I quite liked the trash in this set.

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A NY team has always been difficult because it's hard to coordinate between upstate and downstate and we haven't really had a formal coach. If there is a coach who's willing to coordinate transportation and other things, I might consider going. I can't imagine, though, that the cost and the time wo...

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Gardner's Art Through the Ages has a good deal of Architecture in it, I highly advise it as an starting place for any kind of visual art.

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Could I see the tossup on A Clockwork Orange? The clue about the soundtrack making extensive use of synthesizer didn't seem necessarily unique (though I can't think of another example and, indeed, may just be misremembering an aspect of the clue).

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I was prompted on that towards the end (the fiber optics clue, I think).

Edit: Also I think the Dragon Ball question was in round 7.

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I can't speak for the first clue in the Turner tossup, but his Golden Bough is the subject of the first sentence of of Frazer's, so I would guess that it isn't obscenely too difficult.

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Both Brown B and Tufts B are listed as having won their last game against the other via forfeit, when I assume that at most one of them would have done so (unless, I suppose, they both left before their last game, though perhaps in that case it might have been better to put them both down for a loss).

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This happened. Lexington won, followed by Bethlehem, followed by High Tech A and West Egg A, though I don't know the order of the latter two.

Edit: Also, seconding Casey's request from the other thread for a set-discussion usergroup to be made.

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New answerline standard.

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The 1/1 World lit distribution includes Continental Europe as well?

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1: Bethlehem is still pretty good; High Tech might be less good (though this exact same result occurred last year and we proceeded to win exactly one game against them the rest of the year). 2: I was seriously impressed by Hunter B. What grades were its members in? If they make any improvement Hunte...

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To be more specific, Bethlehem beat High Tech for 1st and East Brunswick beat Hunter B (who are shockingly good!) for 3rd. Combined stats are here.

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In the crossover semifinal, I believe Bethlehem is playing Hunter B and High Tech A is playing East Brunswick A.
Edit: also, prelim stats are at here

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Perhaps, but no one outside of quizbowl knows who he is, whereas everyone (or at least a much larger percentage of the population) knows about Ken Jennings.

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Mike Bentley wrote:The questions have been posted.

This appears not to be true, or if it is I don't see the set on the collegiate section of the packet archive.

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