New Age - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Answer the following about zany theories of plant communication from the 1970s, for 10 points each.

[10e] IBM chemist Marcel Vogel drew on this movement to theorize plant communication via energies and crystals. This broad two-word movement that arose in the West in the 1970s involves esoteric spiritual and healing practices.

ANSWER: New Age

[10m] New Age ideas informed an album for plants by Mort Garson titled Mother Earth’s Plantasia, which primarily uses this instrument. Wendy Carlos used this instrument to record the album Switched-On Bach.

ANSWER: Moog (“mohg”) synthesizer [prompt on synthesizers or synths]

[10h] The book The Secret Life of Plants drew on experiments by Cleve Backster that used these devices to theorize that plants have ESP. William Marston, who also created Wonder Woman, invented a prototype of these devices.

ANSWER: polygraphs [or lie detectors]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	23.33	67%	100%	67%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	18.00	60%	60%	60%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	33%	100%	33%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	11.11	33%	44%	33%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	75%	63%	38%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	67%	50%	17%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	27.50	100%	100%	75%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	50%	50%	100%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	11.43	29%	57%	29%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	16.67	67%	67%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	20.00	63%	63%	75%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	0%	25%	50%

Data


Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley B	Berkeley D	10	10	10	30
Stanford B	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
UCSD C	UCSD B	10	0	10	20
Toronto B	Carleton University	10	10	10	30
Waterloo B	Guelph	0	0	10	10
McGill B	Western C	0	0	10	10
McMaster B	Brock	0	10	0	10
Ottawa	Waterloo A	10	10	0	20
Queen's	Simon Fraser	10	10	10	30
Toronto D	Toronto C	10	0	10	20
McMaster A	Toronto F	10	10	10	30
UBC A	Western A	10	10	0	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Western B	0	0	0	0
UC Santa Barbara	UC Irvine	10	10	0	20
Central Florida A	Florida B	0	10	10	20
Florida A	Central Florida B	10	10	0	20
Central Florida C	Florida C	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	Arizona State	10	10	10	30
Michigan A	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
CWRU A	Ohio State B	0	0	0	0
CWRU B	Ohio State C	0	0	0	0
Michigan State	Pittsburgh	10	0	0	10
NC State A	Duke	10	10	10	30
James Madison A	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
James Madison B	VCU	0	0	0	0
Liberty A	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
NC State B	Virginia	0	0	0	0
North Carolina A	William and Mary	0	0	0	0
Wake Forest	South Carolina A	0	0	0	0
North Carolina C	South Carolina B	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	10	10	10	30
UCLA B	UCSD A	10	10	0	20
Illinois B	Illinois A	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
Chicago E	Northwestern C	10	0	0	10
Illinois C	Northwestern D	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Notre Dame A	10	10	10	30
Chicago D	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	Indiana C	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Brandeis B	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth A	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	0	10
Harvard B	Bowdoin A	0	0	0	0
Yale	Bowdoin B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis A	Dartmouth B	10	10	0	20
MIT	Brown	10	10	0	20
Minnesota A	Missouri A	10	10	10	30
Claremont	Washington A	10	10	10	30
Iowa State	Missouri B	10	10	10	30
Texas B	Texas A&M A	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Murray State A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Washington B	10	10	0	20
Bruin	Alabama A	0	0	0	0
Louisville B	Alabama B	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	Georgia Tech C	10	10	10	30
Mississipi State	Louisville A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Sewanee	Vanderbilt B	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech B	WashU B	0	10	10	20
Imperial B	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Imperial C	City St. George's	10	0	0	10
LSE	Durham	0	0	0	0
Manchester	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
Southampton A	Montpellier	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Cambridge B	10	10	10	30
Oxford B	Cambridge C	0	10	10	20
Oxford C	Southampton B	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh A	Cambridge A	10	10	10	30
Warwick B	Cardiff	10	0	0	10
Columbia A	Georgetown	10	10	10	30
Columbia C	John Jay	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins A	0	0	10	10
Vassar	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	0	0
NYU A	Rutgers B	0	0	10	10
NYU B	Maryland C	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Swarthmore	Rutgers A	10	10	10	30
Binghamton A	Binghamton B	0	0	0	0
Cornell C	Cornell A	0	0	10	10
RIT	Penn State	0	10	0	10
Rochester	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh B	UCL	10	0	0	10