Question

The Heresy of the Hound affected a religious movement founded in this decade, the lightly-satirical Church ov MOO (“moo”). The Neo-Templar Order of the Solar Temple gained notoriety in this decade for actions it took in Quebec and Switzerland. Late in this decade, Hon-Ming Chen claimed he would perform three miracles shortly before God would become visible on TVs worldwide. During this decade, a pair of leaders known as Ti and Do (-5[1])announced a readiness (10[2])to achieve the Evolutionary Level (10[1]-5[1])Above Human. (10[2])The Chen (-5[1])Tao UFO religion predicted the apocalypse in this decade, during which Marshall Applewhite (10[1])and 38 followers (10[1])committed (10[2])ritual (10[1])suicide (10[2])in San (-5[1])Diego (10[1])to coincide (-5[1])with the (10[1])approach of (10[1])Comet Hale-Bopp. (10[2])For 10 points, Millenarian movements like Heaven’s Gate (-5[1])assigned significance (10[1])to the last years of what decade because of the turning of the (10[1])third millennium? ■END■ (10[5])

ANSWER: 1990s [prompt on ‘90s] (The Church ov MOO is considered the first internet religion.)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%25%107.08

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Gio MazzeoVirginia AClaremont A70-5
John MarvinChicago BStanford A7310
Ian ChowToronto AMIT A7310
Anirudh BharadwajPenn AMcGill A7810
Noah SheidlowerColumbia AChicago C78-5
Jacob EgolDuke AOhio State A8010
Joel MilesMinnesota ATexas A8010
Keegan MartinNYU AJohns Hopkins A82-5
Jonathan ShaufNorth Carolina ANorthwestern A9510
Alex SchmidtPenn State AWUSTL B9810
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AWUSTL A9910
Caleb KendrickMaryland AYale A9910
Matthew SiffYale BIllinois A10010
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia Tech BRutgers A10110
Alex AkridgeIndiana AUC Berkeley A10110
Tracy MirkinFlorida ACornell A103-5
Conor ThompsonIowa State ASouth Carolina A10410
Anson BernsBrown AChicago A106-5
James StevensonMichigan APurdue A10810
Nicholas TunksMinnesota BVanderbilt A11010
Lexi TermanRutgers BHouston A11210
Qingyu ZhangFlorida BUC Berkeley B11210
Albert ZhangColumbia BImperial A120-5
Arjun NageswaranHarvard ACornell B12210
Enoch YuenImperial AColumbia B13510
Jonathan LauJohns Hopkins ANYU A13810
Jonathan TranCornell AFlorida A13810
Dean Ah NowClaremont AVirginia A13810
Robert CondronChicago CColumbia A13810
Matt JacksonChicago ABrown A13810