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Question

The hypodermic needle model, or “magic bullet” theory, presupposes that consumers of these things are neutral, passive, and uncritical. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name these things. An early opponent of the hypodermic needle model, Marshall McLuhan called these things “the message” in an aphorism from his book on understanding these things.

ANSWER: media [or the medium; accept mass media]

[10m] The hypodermic needle model was refuted by a school of communication studies based at this university, where McLuhan spent decades as head of the Centre for Culture and Technology. Literary crtic Northrop Frye was influenced by McLuhan’s notion of figure and ground as part of that school based at this university.

ANSWER: University of Toronto [or U of T]

[10h] This other member of the Toronto school of communications presaged McLuhan’s “medium is the message” with the notion that media are inherently “biased” towards time or space in his The Bias of Communication.

ANSWER: Harold Innis

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	6.00	40%	20%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	4.00	40%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	0%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	6.25	50%	13%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	12.22	67%	44%	11%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	5.00	33%	17%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	18.75	88%	75%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	15.00	83%	50%	17%

Data


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