Question

The majority of this novel consists of the recollections of the narrator while waiting inside a periscope in the Musée des Arts et Métiers (“moo-ZAY day ZAR ay mate-YAY”), which also contains this novel’s title object. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel in which three men use the computer Abulafia to invent an intricate conspiracy theory called The Plan.
ANSWER: Foucault’s Pendulum [or Il pendolo di Foucault]
[10e] The protagonists of Umberto Eco’s novel Foucault’s Pendulum discover a plot for world domination by this medieval order of Catholic knights, who are the guardians of the Holy Grail in The Da Vinci Code.
ANSWER: Knights Templar [or the Templars]
[10h] The Templar plot revolves around controlling these currents of energy, which flow to an “Omphalos” at the center of the earth. Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon describes these forces as a secret communication system through a Hollow Earth.
ANSWER: telluric currents [prompt on Earth currents or currents]
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Great Lakes2025-02-01Y613.3367%50%17%
North2025-02-01Y316.6767%67%33%
Overflow2025-02-01Y516.0080%80%0%
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y220.00100%50%50%
South Central2025-02-01Y220.00100%100%0%
Southeast2025-02-01Y420.00100%75%25%
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UC Berkeley AClaremont A1010020
Claremont BUCSD010010
UCLAUC Berkeley B1010020
Florida AFlorida B1010020
UCF CFlorida State A010010
UCF BValencia A010010
Michigan BMichigan A1010020
Michigan CKenyon100010
Case Western AMichigan D0000
Michigan StateCase Western B010010
Ohio State ACarnegie Mellon B10101030
Ohio State BCarnegie Mellon A010010
Iowa StateWisconsin A1010020
CarletonMinnesota B0000
Winona StateWisconsin B10101030
Georgetown APurdue1010020
Northwestern BGeorgetown B1010020
IowaNotre Dame C100010
Stanford BNorthwestern A1010020
Notre Dame ANotre Dame B010010
UW BAlberta010010
UBCUW A10101030
Texas ATAMU1010020
ASUTexas B1010020
Georgia Tech DAlabama A010010
Georgia Tech AGeorgia Tech B1010020
Louisville ATennessee A1010020
Georgia Tech CBruin A10101030
BristolWarwick B010010
Cambridge AWarwick A010010
Cambridge BLSE1010020
SheffieldCambridge D1010020
Cambridge EOxford B010010
Southampton BDurham010010
Imperial ACambridge C1010020
Southampton AImperial B1010020
NYU CManchester1010020
Oxford AOxford C10101030
Cornell BJohns Hopkins A1010020
Haverford AGeorge Washington A10101030
John Jay CollegePenn B100010
Maryland BHaverford B10101030
Maryland ANYU A010010
Columbia CNYU B010010
Columbia BPenn A1010020
Rutgers AVassar A1010020
Cornell DBinghamton A010010
Cornell CRIT B010010
RIT AESF A010010