Question
Oliver Sacks and Paul Alan Cox proposed that consumption of cycad-eating fruit bats was the cause of a neurodegenerative disease endemic to this island’s Chamorro people. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Micronesian island. In 2010, representative Hank Johnson asked whether an influx of troops would cause this American territory in the Marianas to tip over and capsize.
ANSWER: Guam [or Guåhan]
[10h] The most common name for Guam disease is a combination of these two Chamorro words, one referring to ALS-like symptoms, the other referring to the Parkinsons-like symptoms that present afterward. Name both.
ANSWER: lytico AND bodig [accept lytico-bodig disease]
[10m] Oliver Sacks also examined high rates of this condition caused by a hurricane-induced bottleneck on Pingelap atoll. Frithiof Holmgren developed a test for this condition after an 1875 railway crash in Lagerlunda.
ANSWER: total color blindness [or achromatopsia, maskun, color vision deficiency, CVD; accept red-green color blindness]
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Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 11.11 | 100% | 11% | 0% |
Data
| I would prefer not to | Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Quasicrystal Silence | remembrance of lost time | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Saint Peter Andre 3000 | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Team Name Think Detail | Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Canadians | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU | wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |