Question
The majority of this novel consists of the recollections of the narrator while waiting inside a periscope in the Musée des Arts et Métiers (“moo-ZAY day ZAR ay mate-YAY”), which also contains this novel’s title object. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel in which three men use the computer Abulafia to invent an intricate conspiracy theory called The Plan.
ANSWER: Foucault’s Pendulum [or Il pendolo di Foucault]
[10e] The protagonists of Umberto Eco’s novel Foucault’s Pendulum discover a plot for world domination by this medieval order of Catholic knights, who are the guardians of the Holy Grail in The Da Vinci Code.
ANSWER: Knights Templar [or the Templars]
[10h] The Templar plot revolves around controlling these currents of energy, which flow to an “Omphalos” at the center of the earth. Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon describes these forces as a secret communication system through a Hollow Earth.
ANSWER: telluric currents [prompt on Earth currents or currents]
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Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 67% | 50% | 17% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 80% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 17.00 | 100% | 60% | 10% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 18.75 | 88% | 75% | 25% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Bristol | Warwick B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Warwick A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge B | LSE | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Sheffield | Cambridge D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cambridge E | Oxford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Southampton B | Durham | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Cambridge C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Southampton A | Imperial B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU C | Manchester | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Oxford A | Oxford C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |