David Levine’s work on rural English textiles inspired this book’s section comparing patterns of involution based on death inventories. This book cites its author’s earlier The Making of a Hinterland to dispute that formal state ownership of land impeded economic development. This book calculates that colonialism opened 25 million “ghost acres.” The “fortunate freak” that steam engines could solve Yorkshire coal deposits’ drainage problems is cited in this book as the trigger for a (*) trend break. This California School book argues that many “surprising resemblances” can be found between England and the Yangtze delta until the Early Modern period. For 10 points, name this Kenneth Pomeranz book that popularized a term for the economic gap that emerged between Western Europe and East Asia. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 58% | 8% | 42% | 97.86 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corry Wang | Broken Socal Scene | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 48 | 15 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | BHSU B | 54 | -5 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 79 | 10 |
| Emmett Laurie | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 98 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | Halifax Shipping Services | 101 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 105 | 10 |
| Will Alston | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | BHSU X | 106 | -5 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | It's not X, but... defenders | 108 | -5 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 112 | 10 |
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 116 | -5 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Do re mi fa serving negs | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 118 | 10 |
| Tejas Raje | BHSU B | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 122 | 10 |
| Dan Ni | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 123 | 0 |
| Akshar Goyal | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 123 | 0 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | The RAND Coöperation | 123 | 0 |
| Conor Thompson | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Big is moving to Evanston! | 123 | 0 |