Question
Because it remained populated after a devastating series of 1860s epidemics, the town of Skidegate (“SKID-uh-git”) in British Columbia displayed a notably high number of these objects. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these objects whose “house frontal” style typically displays a family crest. The Haida artist Albert Edenshaw created many of these tall objects.
ANSWER: totem pole [prompt on crest pole]
[10h] Albert Edenshaw’s nephew Charles was known for carvings made from this mineral, which the Haida mined near Skidegate. This mineral is sometimes called “black slate,” in contrast to the redder catlinite used for pipes by Plains nations.
ANSWER: argillite
[10m] Charles Edenshaw is the great-great-uncle of Haida artist Bill Reid, who was shown many argillite miniature carvings of these objects during a visit to Skidegate. One of these objects forms the base of Reid’s sculpture Spirit of Haida Gwaii.
ANSWER: canoes [prompt on boats; reject “kayaks”]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 15.33 | 100% | 53% | 0% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Lisan al-Quib | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Les Missourables | The Jeam Team | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
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| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |