An anthropologist with this surname argued that languages spoken at higher elevations have more ejectives and ones spoken in drier climates use fewer vowels. One researcher with this surname proposed the immediacy of experience principle to explain a group’s focus on describing the concrete present, violating Hockett’s design features. That linguist with this surname argued that speakers of one language (*) hide a lateralized double flap and bilabial trill from outsiders. With Edward Gibson, a linguist with this surname argued that center embedding and conjunction are rare or absent in a “whistling” language that may also lack numerals. For 10 points, give this surname of the author of Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes, who argues that Noam Chomsky’s theory of universal recursion is debunked by the Pirahã language. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 82% | 0% | 0% | 101.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ophir Lifshitz | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 67 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 69 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 83 | 10 |
| Seth Ebner | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Big is moving to Evanston! | 108 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 108 | 10 |
| Natan Holtzman | The RAND Coöperation | Halifax Shipping Services | 110 | 10 |
| Tim Morrison | BHSU B | Floridovician | 118 | 10 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | It's not X, but... defenders | 126 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | BHSU X | 126 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Broken Socal Scene | 127 | 0 |
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 127 | 0 |
| Dan Ni | Enjoying the Hole Experience | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 127 | 0 |
| Mike Bentley | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 127 | 0 |