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A collection of news clippings in a novel titled for these creatures describes them creating hundreds of “universal languages” and imagines George Bernard Shaw’s response to the question “Do [these creatures] Have Souls?” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these dam-building, pearl-trading creatures taken as slaves after their discovery in Sumatra by Captain van Toch, leading them to engage in an apocalyptic war with humanity in a 1936 novel.
ANSWER: newts [or mloky]
[10e] This Czech author of War with the Newts also touched on the theme of a servant race rebelling against mankind in his play R.U.R., which coined the term “robot.”
ANSWER: Karel Čapek (“chop-ek”)
[10h] Doctor Galen refuses to give his cure for this fictional leprosy-like condition to the rich until world peace is declared in a 1937 anti-war Čapek play.
ANSWER: the White Disease [or the White Plague; or morbus chengi; or Bílá nemoc]
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