Question
This artist won the Pulitzer Prize for an editorial cartoon showing a house teetering from “world control” to “world destruction” on an atomic bomb. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this cartoonist best known for a series about Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, who creates absurdly complex analog machines to accomplish simple tasks.
ANSWER: Rube Goldberg [or Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg]
[10h] Goldberg won the Pulitzer while cartooning for this defunct newspaper. This printer of the “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” editorial never retracted six articles claiming that John Herschel had discovered bat-winged moonmen.
ANSWER: The Sun [accept The New York Sun] (The last clue refers to the Great Moon Hoax.)
[10m] Rube Goldberg also made several cartoon parody versions of these works for the company Pathé. The film Citizen Kane features a fictional one of these works that parodies a real-life one called The March of Time.
ANSWER: newsreels
<Henry Atkins, Other Academic>
Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 89% | 0% |
Data
| BHSU | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Quasicrystal Silence | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | remembrance of lost time | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Team Name Think Detail | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Canadians | I would prefer not to | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | In Search of Things Past | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |