graphite - 2024 PLAYTIME - Buzzpoints App

Question

Note to players: Pencil and paper may be helpful. The only known large-scale solid deposit of this material was found near Grey Knotts fell, where it was erroneously named “plumbago.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this allotrope of carbon whose soft flakiness when rubbed against paper and parchment led it to become a popular material for writing. Due to a naming mistake, this material is often called “lead” in modern pencils.

ANSWER: graphite

[10h] Note to players: Three answers required. Though pencil graphite is labeled “0” through “4” in the United States, most of the world uses a grading system that includes the numbers 1 to 9 alongside these three letters.

ANSWER: H AND B AND F [accept in any order]

[10m] After developing the first pencil made from graphite powder, Joseph Hardtmuth founded a stationery company that shares its name with this jewel, which is Persian for “Mountain of Light.” This large cut diamond sits in the middle of the Crown of Queen Elizabeth.

ANSWER: Koh-i-Noor diamond

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	18.75	100%	75%	13%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	18.89	100%	78%	11%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	20.00	100%	86%	14%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	18.33	83%	83%	17%

Data


girl 15 whale i mean they	Art of Premature Signaling	10	0	0	10
Claremont B	Jason B	10	0	10	20
UCLA A	Caltech	10	10	10	30
UCLA B	UCSB	10	0	0	10
UCSD	Claremont A	10	0	10	20
Billy's Bastion	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	10	0	10	20
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Too much from you lately	10	0	10	20
Keeping Up With the Cardassians	Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	10	0	0	10
Lexington	Brandeis	10	10	10	30
Harvard	Brown	10	0	10	20
MIT	Belmont	10	0	10	20
RIT	Boston University	10	0	0	10
Catholic University of America	George Washington	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	George Mason B	10	0	10	20
CWRU	George Mason C	10	0	0	10
Georgetown	NYU B	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	NYU C	10	10	10	30
Haverford B	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	0	10
Haverford A	Maryland B	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Rutgers	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Ohio State C	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan D	10	0	0	10
Michigan C	Oberlin	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	Ohio State B	10	0	10	20
Pittsburgh	Ohio State D	10	0	10	20
Quatumvirate	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	10	0	10	20
Four Generalists in Search of a Power	Egypt Airlines Haters	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame + Epic Games	Free Agents 1	10	0	10	20
Auburn 2026	Goober Gang	10	0	0	10
MSJ	Illinois Orange	10	0	10	20
Mahjonng Masters	mongeese	10	10	10	30
evil women enjoyers	Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	10	0	10	20
Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	Gruh	10	0	10	20
we need new names	Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	10	0	0	10
Birmingham	Sheffield C	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Cambridge	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
LSE	Lancaster	10	0	0	10
Manchester	Sheffield A	10	0	10	20
Warwick A	Sheffield B	10	0	10	20
Warwick B	Warwick C	10	10	10	30
Arizona State University A	Alberta	10	0	10	20
Carleton	Arizona State University B	10	0	0	10
UW B	South Dakota School of Mines	10	0	10	20
UW A	Washington Connections	10	10	10	30
Master and Margaritaville	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	10	0	10	20
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	10	0	10	20
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	10	0	10	20
Mac A	UBC	10	0	10	20
McGill A	Toronto C	10	0	10	20
Ottawa A	McGill B	10	0	10	20
Simon Fraser	Waterloo A	10	0	10	20
Toronto A	Toronto B	10	0	10	20
Toronto D	Guelph	10	10	10	30
Waterloo B	Toronto Metropolitan	10	0	10	20
Waterloo C	Toronto E	10	0	0	10
Truman State	Illinois A	10	0	10	20
Iowa State	Illinois B	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Missouri	10	0	10	20
WashU Bulbasaur	SIUE	10	10	10	30
WashU Bulbasaur	SIUE	10	10	0	20
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
WashU Bulbasaur	SIUE	10	0	10	20
WashU Bulbasaur	SIUE	10	0	0	10
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	WashU Squirtle	10	0	10	20