Question
An essay collected in the book String Theory claims that viewing this activity reveals that the highest form of human beauty is “kinetic.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this activity that a 2006 essay compares to a “religious experience” when spectating one of its professionals. In a novel, Michael Pemulis and John “No Relation” Wayne attend a prep school centered on this activity.
ANSWER: tennis [accept Enfield Tennis Academy; prompt on athletics or sports]
[10e] This author of “Roger Federer As Religious Experience” wrote about the Enfield Tennis Academy in the lengthy novel Infinite Jest.
ANSWER: David Foster Wallace
[10h] An essay from Wallace’s collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again couples “Tennis” and “Tornadoes” with a branch of this field. Wallace’s book Everything and More examines the history of a concept in this field.
ANSWER: mathematics [or math; accept trigonometry; accept calculus or derivatives; accept infinity; accept set theory or number theory; accept mathematical logic]
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