Question
This thinker suggested updating Kant with an “energetic imperative” reading “do not squander energy!” and wrote “Sunday sermons” for Ernst Haeckel’s Monist League. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this chemist who created a color system based on “hue triangles,” coined the term “mole,” and names the standard process for producing nitric acid.
ANSWER: Wilhelm Ostwald [or Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald; accept Ostwald process]
[10h] Ostwald’s energism and anti-atomism allied him with this school of thought, whose Russian followers were attacked in Lenin’s book Materialism and Empirio-criticism. The namesake of this school of thought inspired Douglas Harding’s Headless Way with his “view from the left eye” self-portrait.
ANSWER: Machism [or Machian positivism; or answers indicating the views of Ernst Mach; accept Russian Machists; prompt on positivism, empiricism, or sensationalism by asking “as theorized by whom?”]
[10m] Ostwald devised Weltdeutsch after championing this foremost reformed version of Esperanto, which was created by Louis Couturat and Otto Jespersen. This language’s three-letter name is a suffix meaning “offspring.”
ANSWER: Ido
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 13.33 | 83% | 25% | 25% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | Les Missourables | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| We Need New Names | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | The Jeam Team | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| BHSU B | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lisan al-Quib | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | var merchants | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |