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Question

An author with this surname designed the cover of the first edition of a play whose ending lines may have been suppressed in a translation by Paul Selver due to their Biblical references. For 10 points each:

[10m] Give this surname of brothers who collaborated on Adam the Creator. In a play by an author with this surname, which ends with characters being compared to Adam and Eve, Helena works for the Humanity League.

ANSWER: Čapek (“CHAH-pek”) [accept Karel Čapek or Josef Čapek]

[10e] Josef Čapek was said by his brother to be the true inventor of this word for an automaton popularized by the Karel Čapek play R.U.R.

ANSWER: robot [accept Rossum’s Universal Robots or Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti]

[10h] The brothers Čapek collaborated on a satirical play titled “Pictures from the” life of these creatures. One of these creatures is frozen along with Ivan Prisypkin for 50 years in a play by Vladimir Mayakovsky.

ANSWER: insects [or bugs; accept Pictures from the Insects’ Life or The Insect Play or The Bedbug or Klop or Ze života hmyzu]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Canada	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	18.57	100%	57%	29%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	14.00	100%	30%	10%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	20.00	100%	80%	20%
South Central	Main	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	11.67	92%	17%	8%
UK	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley B	Berkeley E	0	10	0	10
Berkeley D	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Stanford C	10	10	0	20
Claremont Scripps	Claremont Pitzer	0	10	0	10
USC	UCLA A	0	10	0	10
UCLA B	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	10	10	0	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCLA C	0	10	0	10
UCLA D	UCSB	10	10	0	20
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	UCI	0	10	0	10
ERAU A	ERAU B	0	10	0	10
FSU	Melbourne A	0	10	0	10
FIU	UCF A	0	10	0	10
UF A	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UF E	UF B	0	10	0	10
USF	Melbourne B	0	10	0	10
CWRU D	Pitt B	0	10	0	10
MSU B	Kenyon A	10	10	0	20
CWRU B	MSU A	0	10	0	10
OSU A	OSU D	10	10	10	30
South Carolina A	Clemson A	0	10	0	10
Liberty C	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Liberty A	10	10	10	30
Liberty B	James Madison	0	10	0	10
NC State	Roanoke	0	10	0	10
South Carolina B	Virginia B	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Virginia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Tennessee B	Tusculum	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Virginia A	10	10	0	20
North Carolina C	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	OSU B	10	10	0	20
Pitt A	OSU C	10	10	10	30
Pitt C	Kenyon B	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Rowan A	0	10	0	10
Lehigh A	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
Swarthmore A	Lehigh B	10	10	0	20
WashU A	Missouri A	0	10	0	10
WashU B	Missouri B	10	10	0	20
Truman State	WashU C	0	10	0	10
William Woods	WashU D	0	10	0	10
UIC	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	Kentucky	10	10	0	20
Illinois C	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Indiana B	Louisville B	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Notre Dame C	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame D	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Chicago A	10	10	0	20
Louisville A	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Minnesota A	Carleton	0	10	0	10
St. Thomas	Iowa State	0	0	0	0
Macalester A	Macalester B	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Orlando	Yale B	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin	Nebraska	0	10	0	10
BU	Brown C	0	10	0	10
BC B	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin B	Amherst B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Clemenceau	MIT B	0	10	0	10
Tufts A	Brandeis Lloyd George	10	10	0	20
BC A	Brandeis Wilson	0	0	0	0
Brown A	Amherst A	0	10	0	10
Brown B	Tufts B	0	10	0	10
Cornell-UG	Williams	10	10	0	20
Harvard	MIT A	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth	Yale A	0	10	0	10
Minnesota B	Minnesota C	0	10	0	10
Alberta	British Columbia C	0	10	0	10
British Columbia B	British Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Simon Fraser	British Columbia D	10	10	0	20
Washington B	Washington A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern C	Iowa	0	10	0	10
Alberta B	McGill D	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	Arizona State A	10	10	10	30
Northwestern B	Texas A	0	10	0	10
Ohio	UTD B	10	10	0	20
Rose State	Tulsa	0	10	0	10
Texas B	UCO	10	10	10	30
Arizona State B	UTD A	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State A	Auburn B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Bruin A	0	10	0	10
Cornell-DII	RIT B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	10	10	0	20
Alabama B	Huntsville B	0	10	0	10
Sewanee A	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Huntsville A	UAB A	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt B	Auburn A	10	10	0	20