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Question

These objects will sometimes use the number “419.9” to deter theft. For 10 points each:

[10e] Identify these objects that are often stolen in pranks when they contain something particularly juvenile or out of place, such as one in Wilmington, North Carolina, that indicated the distance to Barstow, California.

ANSWER: highway signs [accept street signs, road signs, interstate signs or any other synonym for “street”; accept mile markers; prompt on signs or markers]

[10h] Residents of the town of Shitterton in this English county countered sign theft by purchasing a sign made of stone. This county’s city of Lyme Regis is the home of Sarah in The French Lieutenant’s (lef-TEN-antz) Woman .

ANSWER: Dorsetshire

[10m] Residents of Bolinas, California constantly steal street signs along this road to deter tourists. A stretch of this road in Big Sur crosses the Bixby Bridge and is often included on lists of the most scenic drives in the US.

ANSWER: California Route 1 [accept State Route 1; accept SR1; accept Cabrillo Highway; accept Shoreline Highway; accept Pacific Coast Highway; accept PCH; prompt on Shoreline or Cabrillo]

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Summary


2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	20.00	100%	0%	100%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	13.33	33%	33%	67%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	N	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
It's Joever	[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]	10	0	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
Rutgers Diaspora	Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery	10	0	10	20
Maryland B+	Maryland A	10	0	0	10
The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs	Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them	10	10	10	30
Dr. Christopher Manners, MD - Samarra, Iraq	Cornell B-	10	0	10	20
Cornell C++	Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	10	0	0	10
The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B	Houston and friends	10	0	0	10
What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU	Hutto Hippos	10	0	0	10
Broken Imperial Nomads	Oxford Hornets	10	10	0	20
Magisters Ludi	Buzzers Karamazov	10	10	0	20
Milan et al.	Cameron et al.	10	0	0	10
The Vulture's Guide to Buzz	Parth et al.	10	0	0	10
Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style	The Passion According to C.H.	10	10	0	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	0	0	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	0	10	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	0	0	0
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	0	10	10
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	0	10	0	10
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
meet the new weird, same as the old weird	UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	10	0	10	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	0	0	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	0	10	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	0	0	0
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	0	10	10