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Question

This technique was first demonstrated on American TV by a musician’s 1972 performance of “Close to You” on The David Frost Show. For 10 points each:

[10h] A namesake unit uses the human voice for what technique? This technique modulates an instrument, commonly a guitar, through a plastic tube in the singer’s mouth.

ANSWER: talk box [reject “vocoder”]

[10e] That performance was by this blind Motown musician, whose 1970s hits included “Isn’t She Lovely,” “Sir Duke,” and “Superstition.”

ANSWER: Stevie Wonder [or Stevland Hardaway Morris]

[10m] In his performance, Wonder used the talkbox to modulate electric “B-3” versions of these instruments made by Hammond. An early use of the electric version of these instruments was the 1962 instrumental “Green Onions.”

ANSWER: organ [or electric organ]

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Summary


Southern California	Main	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	5	12.00	100%	0%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
Northeast	Main	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Pacific	Main	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
California	Main	N	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
Canada	Main	N	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Florida	Main	N	12	13.33	92%	33%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	N	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	N	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
Midwest	Main	N	8	15.00	75%	63%	13%
North	Main	N	10	18.00	100%	70%	10%
Northeast	Main	N	5	18.00	80%	80%	20%
Overflow	Main	N	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Pacific Northwest	Main	N	10	18.00	100%	60%	20%
South Central	Main	N	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Southeast	Main	N	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
UK	Main	N	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	N	7	15.71	86%	71%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	N	7	21.43	100%	86%	29%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	N	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	N	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Claremont A	UCLA C	0	10	0	10
UCLA F	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
USC B	UCSD B	0	10	0	10
McGill B	Ottawa B	0	0	0	0
Toronto H	Guelph A	0	10	0	10
Louisville B	Ohio State C	10	10	0	20
Louisville D	WVU B	0	10	0	10
Louisville A	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Michigan State C	Louisville C	0	10	0	10
Michigan State A	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
VCU A	JMU A	0	10	0	10
George Mason A	Johns Hopkins	0	10	10	20
Penn	Rutgers A	0	10	0	10
Rutgers C	George Mason C	0	0	0	0
Duke A	Liberty A	0	10	0	10
Illinois Blue	Iowa B	0	10	0	10
WashU Grizzlers	Iowa A	0	10	0	10
UNC C	UNC A	0	10	0	10
Amherst A	Boston College B	0	0	0	0
Harvard	Boston College A	0	10	0	10
Tufts B	Southern Connecticut State University A	0	10	0	10
WashU Grolars	William Woods University A	0	10	0	10
Purdue D	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Arizona State B	Alberta A	0	0	0	0
Arizona State A	Washington Pink	0	10	0	10
British Columbia A	British Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	10	20
Tennessee Tech	Georgia Tech F	0	10	0	10