Question
An image of a broken pencil of “today” turning into two sharpened pencils of “tomorrow” circulated after a terrorist attack against this company that prompted Teju Cole to write the essay “Unmournable Bodies.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this satirical magazine whose Paris office was attacked in 2015 due to its provocative depictions of Muhammad.
ANSWER: Charlie Hebdo [or Charlie Weekly] (The pencil illustration was created by Lucille Clerc.)
[10e] Cole deems victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack to be “mournable,” unlike those killed by these aircraft “in Pakistan and elsewhere.” Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in 2022 by one of these unmanned aircraft.
ANSWER: drones [or unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs; accept drone strikes]
[10h] Cole compares “natural and incontestable” deaths by drone strikes to the death of this 16th-century Italian miller, who is the subject of Carlo Ginzburg’s microhistory The Cheese and the Worms.
ANSWER: Menocchio [or Domenico Scandella]
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 100% | 40% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
Data
| TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version | Texas C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| TAMU | HCC | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas A | Texas B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |