fossils - 2024 ACF Winter - Buzzpoints App

Question

The coiner of the word “aquarium,” Philip Henry Gosse, asserted that these objects would exist from the moment of creation in his Omphalos hypothesis. For 10 points each:

[10e] Give this term for the preserved remnants of ancient organisms. Mary Anning found many of these specimens in the cliffs of Lyme Regis, including coprolites and plesiosaurs.

ANSWER: fossils

[10h] Georges Cuvier proposed this theory to explain the fossil record in the 19th century. Charles Lyell’s uniformitarianism replaced this theory, which held that change resulted from climactic events like the biblical flood.

ANSWER: catastrophism [accept catastrophists]

[10m] Lyell’s theory of gradual change inspired both Darwin and this author of Social Statics. This inventor of the paperclip is now infamous for applying the “survival of the fittest” to human societies.

ANSWER: Herbert Spencer

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	17.78	89%	56%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	17.14	100%	43%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	16.25	100%	25%	38%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	9	15.56	89%	44%	22%

Data


Auburn A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Penn A	Bard A	10	0	0	10
Columbia A	Haverford A	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	Lehigh A	10	0	0	10
Penn State A	Princeton A	10	0	10	20
Rowan A	Rutgers A	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins B	Rutgers C	10	0	10	20
UChicago A	Indiana A	10	0	0	10
Miami	UIUC C	10	0	10	20
Purdue A	Northwestern A	10	10	0	20
WashU C	Notre Dame	10	0	10	20
Indiana B	SIUE A	10	0	0	10
UIUC A	UIUC B	10	10	10	30
UChicago C	UIUC D	10	0	10	20
UChicago B	WashU D	0	10	10	20
CWRU B (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	10	0	0	10
Kenyon A (UG)	Kenyon B (DII)	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Pitt A	10	0	10	20
Michigan State A	Michigan B	10	0	10	20
Ohio State C (DII)	Michigan C (UG)	10	0	0	10
UChicago D	Purdue B	10	0	0	10
CWRU D (DII)	Michigan State C (UG)	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A (UG)	Ohio State B (DII)	10	10	10	30
NYU B	Central Oklahoma	10	0	0	10
Oregon State	Mississippi State	10	0	0	10
Missouri	NYU A	10	10	10	30
Texas A	Iowa	10	10	10	30
Colorado College	Texas D	10	0	0	10
Vassar A	Texas B	10	10	0	20
Vassar B	Texas C	10	0	0	10
McGill E	WUSTL A	10	0	0	10
UBC B	UBC A	10	0	0	10
UW B	UW A	10	0	10	20
UF A	Florida State University A	10	0	10	20
UF C	UCF B	10	0	0	10
UCF A	UF D	10	0	10	20
Alberta	SFU	10	10	10	30
UF E	Florida Tech B	10	0	0	10
Florida Tech A	UF F	10	0	0	10
Amherst A	Boston University B	10	10	0	20
Boston University A	Clark A	10	10	0	20
Yale B	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Brown A	Tufts A	10	0	10	20
Yale C	Carabrandeis	10	0	0	10
Diamond Brandeis	Bowdoin A	0	0	0	0
Harvard A	Tufts B	10	0	10	20
MIT A	Brandeises Brew	10	0	10	20
Yale A	Northeastern A	10	0	10	20