Question
A boundary bisecting a region named for this geographer was proposed by non-sociologist Max Weber to run west of the Tanimbar Islands. Richard Lydekker names the eastern boundary of a region named for this geographer, separating it from Sahul. This geographer built on Philip Sclater’s work to posit Megagaea, Notogaea, and Neogaea as groupings of the six zoogeographic regions in The Geographical Distribution of Animals. The most famous feature named for this geographer has alternate northern extensions proposed by (*) Ernst Mayr and Thomas Huxley and passes through the Makassar and Lombok Straits. The border between land home to Asian fauna and a transitional region towards Australasian fauna, named for this biologist, is his namesake “Line.” For 10 points, name this “father of biogeography” whose discoveries spurred the publication of On the Origin of Species. ■END■
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 31 | 15 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 34 | 15 |
| Adil Haider | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 48 | 15 |
| Micah Colman | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 80 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 124 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 134 | 0 |