Hollow Earth - 2023 BHSU - Buzzpoints App

Question

Edmond Halley's version of this theory, which hypothesized that escaping gas created the Aurora Borealis, was functionally disproved by Nevil Maskelyne and Charles Hutton's Schiehallion experiment. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name or describe this crank geophysical theory propounded in the 19th century by John Cleves Symmes, who described a series of concentric shells connected by holes at the North and South Poles.

ANSWER: Hollow Earth [accept descriptive answers indicating that the Earth has some sort of significant interior space]

[10m] Predecessors to the Hollow Earth theory include classical myths about caves leading to the underworld; for example, in the Aeneid, Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl descend through a cave near this volcanic crater lake in southern Italy.

ANSWER: Lake Avernus [or Lago d'Averno]

[10h] In Hindu cosmology, asuras and nagas inhabit the seven levels of this subterranean region, located below the earthly realm of Prithvi and above the hellish Naraka.

ANSWER: Patala [or Patalaloka; prompt on Nagaloka]

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Summary


2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%

Data


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