Question
Topics like thalassogens and Euclid’s parallel postulate are discussed in an Isaac Asimov essay collection titled for one of these objects “of the Electron.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this object that titles a novel primarily set in Karhide and Orgoreyn, whose inhabitants adhere to the shifgrethor code of conduct and experience a phase called kemmer according to the lunar month.
ANSWER: left hand [prompt on hand; accept The Left Hand of Darkness; accept The Left Hand of the Electron]
[10e] Chapters devoted to the customs and mythology of the hermaphroditic Gethenians are included throughout The Left Hand of Darkness, a novel by this sci-fi author of the Hainish and Earthsea cycles.
ANSWER: Ursula K. Le Guin [or Ursula Kroeber Le Guin; or Ursula Kroeber]
[10h] The Left Hand of Darkness contrasts two Gethenian religions: the older praises ignorance and practices “foretelling,” while the younger believes their namesake Messianic prophet gained omniscience during a foretelling incident. Name either.
ANSWER: Handdara OR Yomeshta [prompt on Meshe]
<Literature - American Literature - Misc Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |