Question
Albert Mathieu Favier proposed this project to Napoleon I and suggested using enormous chimneys for it. A Puck cartoon depicts a lion-riding Garnet Wolseley fleeing from the result of this project. Edward Watkin and Alexandre Lavalley’s proposal for this project was nixed by the British military over concerns that it would aid foreign invasions. The completion of this project influenced the location of a refugee camp known as (*) “The Jungle” that was cleared in 2016. Henry Marc Brunel invented the gravity corer while proving the feasibility of this project, showing that the Strait of Dover was made of chalk. For 10 points, what project, when completed in 1994, connected Kent to the Pas-de-Calais? ■END■
ANSWER: digging a tunnel under the English Channel [accept digging the Chunnel or digging the Channel Tunnel; prompt on digging a tunnel by asking “where?”; prompt on connecting Great Britain to Europe by asking “how?”]
<GT, European History>
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Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 86.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 75% | 111.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 17% | 80.83 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 103.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 6 | 100% | 67% | 17% | 69.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 60% | 109.25 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 20% | 67.80 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 93.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 83.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 110.50 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 60% | 102.60 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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James Byrne | Bristol | Imperial B | 15 | 15 |
Owen Riley | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 27 | -5 |
Lucas Johns | Warwick A | LSE A | 30 | -5 |
James Mangraviti | Boston College B | Tufts A | 35 | 15 |
Owen Iredale | Imperial A | Cambridge A | 39 | 15 |
Will Alston | SGV Ventures | Jason et al. | 41 | -5 |
Mitchell Hackett | The cult of SGA | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 45 | -5 |
Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan A | Waterloo Basic | 46 | -5 |
Pranav Srambikkal | Lambert | Georgia Tech D | 51 | -5 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Chicago B | 53 | -5 |
Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Purdue A | 53 | -5 |
Nicholas Nguyen | UF C | UCF A | 55 | -5 |
Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Innovation Academy A | 55 | -5 |
Zach Joseph | Notre Dame | SIUE | 55 | -5 |
James McCurley | Harvard | Bowdoin B | 58 | 15 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina A | 58 | -5 |
Michael Du | Waterloo Aspidistra | Toronto B | 59 | 15 |
Derek Fino | Clark House | Bowdoin C | 61 | 15 |
Ben Fleishman | BU | Tufts B | 61 | 15 |
James Tang | Waterloo Cloze | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 61 | 15 |
Joel Miles | Paddington in Peru (2024) | In the Mood for Buzz | 64 | 15 |
Andrew Zeng | Madmen and Specialists | Old and Young | 64 | -5 |
Max Kurzman | North Carolina B | South Carolina | 67 | 15 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech B | Virginia Tech C | 69 | 10 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Berkeley A | 73 | 10 |
Anderson Wang | Anderson et al. | ALCU | 73 | 10 |
Ted Gan | Penn State | Pitt | 74 | 10 |
James Wang | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 74 | 10 |
Gareth Thorlakson | Toronto A | McGill A | 74 | 10 |
Iris Creighton | Cambridge B | LSE B | 74 | 10 |
Akshay Seetharam | Claremont | U[C]SD | 74 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley Past | 77 | -5 |
Biniam Alaro | UF A | UF B | 80 | -5 |
Evan Lucca | Bowdoin A | Clark Wilson | 87 | 10 |
Brendan Baumer | UCF B | USF | 88 | 10 |
June Yin | WashU | Squidward Community College | 96 | -5 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | Maryland | 98 | 10 |
Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 98 | -5 |
Ian Droessler Wilson | Innovation Academy B | Mississippi State | 98 | 10 |
Harry Crane | Warwick C | Warwick B | 98 | 10 |
Andres Cordoba | Yale | Amherst | 101 | -5 |
Kevin Le | Carleton A | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 104 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois Blue | Illinois Orange | 107 | 10 |
Fred Garvey | Truman | Missouri | 108 | 10 |
Alexander Nichols | UCF A | UF C | 109 | 10 |
Tegan Kapadia | bingy academy | Social credit go vroom | 110 | 10 |
Fahian Joy | Amherst | Yale | 112 | 10 |
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech A | 113 | 10 |
Kylan Powell | Squidward Community College | WashU | 113 | 10 |
Skand Parvatikar | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 113 | 10 |
Mike Cheyne | Old and Young | Madmen and Specialists | 113 | 10 |
Khang Le | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | The cult of SGA | 113 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia | Florida Tech | 113 | 0 |
Aidan Bernardo | Florida Tech | Valencia | 113 | 0 |
Graham Cope | UF B | UF A | 113 | 10 |
Eric Chen | Berkeley Past | Berkeley B | 113 | 10 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo Basic | Toronto Metropolitan A | 113 | 10 |
Louis Harney | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 113 | 10 |
Lucas Ardelean | Innovation Academy A | Georgia Tech B | 113 | 0 |
Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech D | Lambert | 113 | 10 |
Michelle Luo | Johns Creek | Milton | 113 | 10 |
Max Hodes | Chicago B | Chicago A | 113 | 10 |
Ryan Happel | SIUE | Notre Dame | 113 | 0 |
Aneesh Shotriya | Purdue A | Purdue B | 113 | 10 |
Albert Nyang | LSE A | Warwick A | 113 | 10 |
Travis Tu | Jason et al. | SGV Ventures | 113 | 10 |