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Question

A collection of news clippings in a novel titled for these creatures describes them creating hundreds of “universal languages” and imagines George Bernard Shaw’s response to the question “Do [these creatures] Have Souls?” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these dam-building, pearl-trading creatures taken as slaves after their discovery in Sumatra by Captain van Toch, leading them to engage in an apocalyptic war with humanity in a 1936 novel.

ANSWER: newts [or mloky]

[10e] This Czech author of War with the Newts also touched on the theme of a servant race rebelling against mankind in his play R.U.R., which coined the term “robot.”

ANSWER: Karel Čapek (“chop-ek”)

[10h] Doctor Galen refuses to give his cure for this fictional leprosy-like condition to the rich until world peace is declared in a 1937 anti-war Čapek play.

ANSWER: the White Disease [or the White Plague; or morbus chengi; or Bílá nemoc]

<GT, European Literature>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	1.25	13%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	7	18.57	100%	57%	29%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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