paper towns - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

The satirical Bielefeld conspiracy concerns a city in Germany claimed to be one of these places propagated by “SIE.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this term for settlements like Agloe that are often inserted into maps as copyright traps.

ANSWER: paper towns [or phantom settlements]

[10h] Although unrelated, paper townships refer to nominal civil townships in this state that don’t have any real function. Two university slogans inspired the names of paper towns in this state called Beatosu and Goblu, which were included in a map of a bordering state.

ANSWER: Ohio (The slogans referenced in the second part are “Beat OSU” and “Go Blue!”)

[10e] Although it doesn’t actually contain a landmass, the intersection of the Prime Meridian and Equator are often called a “Null” one of these places. “Phantom” examples of these places include Atlantis.

ANSWER: islands [accept phantom islands; accept Null Island]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	40%	80%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	12.50	50%	75%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	15.00	63%	88%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	50%	75%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	17.78	44%	78%	56%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	16.67	83%	83%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	15.00	50%	75%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	10.00	33%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	5	16.00	40%	100%	20%

Data


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