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Question

The presence of these organisms’ mitochondrial Clade B in pre-Columbian mummies suggests that the returning settlers are responsible for their prevalence in Western Europe. For 10 points each:

[10h] Date meal and water drove out fleas and what other organisms? The divergence of two subspecies of these organisms around 170,000 years ago has been used to approximate the invention of clothing.

ANSWER: lice [or louse; accept head lice, body lice, and pubic lice; accept Phthiraptera] (The Ebers papyrus records how date meal and water drove out lice; There are also arguments that head and body lice diverged 83,000 years ago.)

[10m] The oldest-known sentence written by this region’s inhabitants was inscribed on an ivory comb from Lachish, which begs it to “root out the lice.” The Book of Numbers describes this region as “flowing with milk and honey.”

ANSWER: Canaan

[10e] Unlike lice, these other ectoparasites are rare in the Old World archaeological record. In the Balkans, people spread bean leaves around their mattresses to impale these blood-sucking parasites at night.

ANSWER: bed bugs [or Cimex; accept Cimicidae] (Bean leaves have trichomes which can impale bed bug legs.)

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2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	15.00	50%	63%	38%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	0%	67%	67%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	0%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	50%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	10.00	40%	40%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	12.50	50%	50%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	15.00	50%	67%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	2.50	25%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	12.00	60%	20%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%

Data


Bowdoin A	Boston College B	0	10	0	10
Brandeis B	Bowdoin B	10	10	10	30
Brandeis A	Bowdoin C	0	10	10	20
Clark House	Boston College A	10	0	10	20
Tufts A	Clark Wilson	10	0	0	10
Yale	BU	0	0	10	10
South Carolina	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech C	Virginia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Truman	WashU	10	0	10	20
Truman	WashU	10	0	10	20
Truman	Missouri	10	0	10	20
Truman	Missouri	10	0	10	20
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	0	0	0	0
In the Mood for Buzz	The cult of SGA	0	10	10	20
Social credit go vroom	Madmen and Specialists	10	0	0	10
Paddington in Peru (2024)	Old and Young	0	10	10	20
bingy academy	Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	0	0	0	0
Squidward Community College	Missouri	0	10	0	10
Truman	WashU	10	0	10	20
Truman	WashU	10	0	10	20
Truman	Missouri	10	0	10	20
Truman	Missouri	10	0	10	20
Maryland	Penn State	0	10	10	20
Pitt	RIT	0	0	10	10
Florida Tech	UCF A	0	0	10	10
UF A	UCF B	0	10	10	20
UF B	USF	10	0	0	10
Valencia	UF C	0	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Stanford	Berkeley Past	0	0	10	10
McGill A	Toronto Metropolitan A	0	10	0	10
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Carleton A	10	0	0	10
Waterloo Aspidistra	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Basic	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Waterloo Cloze	0	10	10	20
MIT	Harvard	0	10	0	10
Amherst	Tufts B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Innovation Academy B	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Illinois Orange	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Illinois Blue	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	0	0	0	0
Lambert	Mississippi State	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
SIUE	Purdue B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Warwick C	Bristol	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Warwick A	10	0	10	20
LSE B	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Johns Creek	0	0	0	0
Southampton	LSE A	0	0	0	0
ALCU	Jason et al.	10	10	10	30
Claremont	Anderson et al.	0	10	10	20
U[C]SD	SGV Ventures	10	10	10	30