Question

Description acceptable. A passage discussing this scientific field dismisses a “rabble of uncertain, fugitive, half-fabulous” figures in this field as “mere sounds...signifying nothing.” An amateur enthusiast of this scientific field compares his work on it to the unfinished Cathedral of Cologne and mocks the work of William Scoresby. That man concludes two specimens in this field to be (-5[1])“Stoic” and “Platonian” as he studies them while they are tied to the left and right (15[1])sides of him. (15[1])This field uses a classification system of (*) Folio, Octavo, (10[1])and Duodecimo (10[1])in a chapter that gives an anti-Linnaean description (-5[1])of their subjects. That (-5[1])chapter titled for this scientific (10[1])field digresses from Stubb’s recollection of a dream of his captain’s (10[1])pegleg. (-5[1])For 10 points, Ishmael delves (10[1])into what (10[1])branch of marine biology (10[2])in many discursive chapters of Moby-Dick? (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: cetology [or whaleology or whalelore; accept the study of whales or whale biology; prompt on marine biology]
<HG, American Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Raymond WangCornell RSyracuse+Rochester57-5
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeMissouri A7315
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BStanford A7615
Stephen HeritageNotre Dame AIllinois B8510
Ben DahlPurdue AChicago B8710
Raymond ChenToronto Ray of Sun in the SkyOttawa C95-5
Davis JohnsonPurdue BChicago A99-5
Eve FleisigBerkeley ABerkeley C10410
Nathan ZhangCornell MATLABRIT11510
Mattias EhatammWaterlooOttawa B116-5
Maude-Sophie LockmanOttawa AMcDouble West-Carleton12110
Michael HundingIllinois ANotre Dame B12310
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltIndiana12710
Cyrus ZhouWUSTL H2OSIUE12710
John MarvinChicago APurdue B13310
David GayowskiOttawa BWaterloo13410
Ian TheysmeyerOttawa CToronto Ray of Sun in the Sky1340
Will AlstonSGV CapitalI will play anything with a buzzer in front of me13410
Sanjeev UppaluriSyracuse+RochesterCornell R13410
Neal JoshiWUSTL XYZMissouri B13410