Newspeak - 2023 PACE NSC - Buzzpoints App

Question

The eleventh edition of a dictionary in this language is praised for “cutting the language down to the bone” by Syme. For 10 points each:

[10m] : Name this language, the source of the words “doubleplusungood,” “thoughtcrime,” and “doublethink.”

ANSWER: Newspeak

[10e] This author of “Politics and the English Language” created Newspeak for his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

ANSWER: George Orwell [or Eric Arthur Blair]

[10h] This Newspeak word refers to an individual who has been “vaporized,” or removed from existence, because they were caught perpetrating thoughtcrimes.

ANSWER: unperson

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Summary


2023 PACE NSC	06/10/2023	Y	35	18.86	100%	69%	20%

Data


Dunbar	Barrington A	10	10	0	20
Barrington B	Norman	10	10	0	20
Canyon Crest	Belmont	10	10	10	30
Midtown	Carbondale	0	10	0	10
Chattahoochee A	West Point	0	10	0	10
Chattahoochee B	Detroit Catholic Central C	0	10	0	10
Kinkaid	Choate Rosemary Hall	10	10	0	20
Cincinnati Hills Christian	Winston Churchill B	0	10	0	10
Dallas County	Johns Creek B	10	10	0	20
Detroit Catholic Central A	Belvidere	10	10	0	20
Parkway West	Detroit Country Day	10	10	0	20
William Fremd	Hunter B	10	10	0	20
Hunter A	Irvington A	10	10	10	30
Norris	John Adams A	0	10	0	10
John Adams B	Detroit Catholic Central B	10	10	0	20
Winnebago	Johns Creek A	10	10	0	20
Maggie Walker B	Solon	0	10	0	10
Maggie Walker C	Carl Sandburg	0	10	0	10
Stevenson B	Mercer County	0	10	0	10
Mexico	Lincoln-Way East	0	10	0	10
Moberly	Stevenson A	10	10	0	20
Elkhorn North	New Brighton	10	10	0	20
Richard Montgomery	Northmont A	10	10	10	30
Thomas Jefferson C	Plymouth	10	10	0	20
Rockford Auburn A	Maggie Walker A	10	10	0	20
Saint Joseph	Hoover B	10	10	0	20
St. Mark's	Innovation Academy A	10	10	0	20
Thomas Jefferson D	Mira Loma	10	10	0	20
Innovation Academy B	Troy	0	10	0	10
Heights	University Lab	10	10	10	30
Walter Payton	Northmont B	10	10	0	20
Washington	Thomas Jefferson B	0	10	10	20
Waukee	Hinsdale Central	10	10	10	30
Winston Churchill A	Rockford Auburn B	10	10	10	30
Woodland	Thomas Jefferson A	10	10	0	20