The satirical Bielefeld conspiracy concerns a city in Germany claimed to be one of these places propagated by “SIE.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this term for settlements like Agloe that are often inserted into maps as copyright traps.
ANSWER: paper towns [or phantom settlements]
[10m] Name this author who wrote about Mrs. Cheveley blackmailing Robert Chiltern in the play An Ideal Husband.
ANSWER: Oscar Wilde [or Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde]
[10h] Although unrelated, paper townships refer to nominal civil townships in this state that don’t have any real function. Two university slogans inspired the names of paper towns in this state called Beatosu and Goblu, which were included in a map of a bordering state.
ANSWER: Ohio (The slogans referenced in the second part are “Beat OSU” and “Go Blue!”)
[10e] Wilde wrote about Lord Illingworth’s illegitimate son in a play titled for A Woman of No [this word]. Jack Worthing is swapped as a baby by Miss Prism in a Wilde play titled The [this word] of Being Earnest.
ANSWER: importance [accept word forms; accept no importance or A Woman of No Importance]
[10e] Although it doesn’t actually contain a landmass, the intersection of the Prime Meridian and Equator are often called a “Null” one of these places. “Phantom” examples of these places include Atlantis.
ANSWER: islands [accept phantom islands; accept Null Island]
[10h] This playwright wrote an adaptation of A Woman of No Importance that was used for the TV show Talking Heads. This author of The Habit of Art wrote about pupils of Cutlers’ Grammar School in The History Boys.
ANSWER: Alan Bennett
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