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American Academic Challenge (CANCELLED)

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Edit, 4/29/15 - This tournament has been cancelled. - mod JP

Since this tournament is catering to a national field, but (at least in the first year) is not being considered a "national championship", in the true sense of the phrase, I decided to post it both to here and to "regular season tournament announcements".

http://www.americanacademicchallenge.com/

The American Academic Challenge is an open high school quiz bowl competition with a national field. The three previous iterations of the AAC were held from 1993 to 1995 at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville. (http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/American_Academic_Challenge) The 2015 AAC will be held at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel in Chattanooga, Tennessee on May 22-24, 2015 (Memorial Day weekend), so as not to conflict with either NAQT high school tournament or PACE NSC. We anticipate sticking to this scheduling philosophy in future years, so that any team that competes in AAC does not have to miss one of the two recognized all-subject tossup-bonus format national championship tournaments to do so, at least from a scheduling standpoint.

Please note that the qualification method that was used in the 1990s version of the competition will NOT be used this time - there is no need to do anything to register for the new AAC other than to fill out the registration form (linked to on the website, below) and mail the check. No essays. :P Registration at AAC for this year is open to any interested school - in future years, qualification standards will almost certainly be implemented, but in year one we're pretty much going to take all comers.

The soft field cap for the 2015 AAC is 48 teams, and the hard cap is set at 60 teams, due to hotel space limitations.

The matches will follow an exciting multi-period format featuring pyramidally-structured tossups, bonuses, category rounds (albeit not a "sixty-second" round in the :chip: sense) and the innovative Answer Auction round. Also, unlike certain :chip: s I could name, when we say that our question distribution is "heavily academic in nature", we mean it. The exact distribution will be published during the fall of 2014, but I anticipate it being close to a "happy medium" between the NAQT HSNCT and PACE NSC distributions (less focused on current events, geography and trash than NAQT, but still containing enough of those subjects where it's not a completely academic event like NSC).

if anyone on this board would be interested in doing one of these two things:

1. Mirroring or writing an original side tournament to be played during AAC weekend, or,
2. Serving as a staffer for the 2015 AAC (you will receive a $400 stipend, as well as having lodging and food covered for the tournament's duration)....

Please drop me an e-mail at [email protected] as soon as possible. Staff invitations will most likely start going out around the beginning of 2015, and due to the small size of the field, we'll only be bringing in a limited amount of staff, so let me know ASAP if you're interested. If you have any questions about the AAC in general, e-mailing me is probably the quickest way to get in touch, since while I check this board on a regular basis, I don't check it daily.

http://www.americanacademicchallenge.com/

--Scott Blish, co-tournament director, American Academic Challenge 2015
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Re: American Academic Challenge, May 22-24, 2015, Chattanoog

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Is there a sample packet to show participants what they can expect from this event?
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Re: American Academic Challenge, May 22-24, 2015, Chattanoog

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My Lit at LIT would probably be available as a side tournament, even though I will not be at the tournament.
Info at: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16549&p=291729#p291729.
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Re: American Academic Challenge, May 22-24, 2015, Chattanoog

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Charlie:

There will be a sample packet posted, mostly likely in mid-November when I'm the middle of the process of writing the questions. The link to that packet will be posted in this thread when it becomes available. It wouldn't do too much good to post packets that were used in the old version of AAC, since those 3 tournaments were played before the modern standards of the game developed and that question style would not be acceptable for a good tournament in the modern era.

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Re: American Academic Challenge, May 22-24, 2015, Chattanoog

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They're a little later than I wanted them to be (since I'm currently right in the middle of AAC question-writing crunch), but at the bottom of this post, please find sample AAC tossups and an Answer Auction round (they will also be posted on the AAC website at americanacademicchallenge.com in the next few days), so that people can see the sort of material they will be dealing with.

First, the tournament structure. Like HSNCT, each team that participates in AAC 2015 will be guaranteed ten (10) preliminary round matches. The method of determining who plays who in the preliminary rounds will be random blind draw. However, there are three important points to be made about the draw:

1. The draw, although random, will be completely transparent and public, and will be simulcast live on Youtube and Google Plus as it happens, on a date to be announced shortly after the field is set.
2. No team will play another team from their own school in the 10 preliminary round matches.
3. No team will play another team more than once in the 10 preliminary round matches (no repeat prelim games).

The tournament playoffs will be double-elimination. Depending on final field size, either the top 8, 16 or (in the case of reaching the 60-team hard cap) 32 teams in won-loss record, PLUS WON-LOSS RECORD TIES, will qualify for the championship playoff. In other words, in a 40-team field, the championship playoff would be a seeded double-elimination affair in which the top 16 teams ranked by won-loss record in the 10 prelim matches (with PPG the tiebreaker), PLUS ANY TEAM BELOW THE TOP 16 WITH THE SAME WON-LOSS RECORD AS THE 16th PLACE TEAM, would take part.

The game format will take place in five (5) rounds:

1. EIGHT (8) TOSSUPS, worth 5 pts. each
2. ANSWER AUCTION ROUND - This round consists of one question with multiple answers, posed to both teams. The teams bid back and forth ("Name That Tune" Bid-a-Note style) on how many correct answers they can give without giving an incorrect answer. If the team winning the bid makes their bid, they get 40 points and the round ends. If the team misses one before making their bid, the opposing team needs to give ONE correct answer that wasn't previously given. If they do that, they get 20 points, and can continue to name correct answers not previously given for an extra 5 points per answer, until they run out of possible answers, miss, or voluntarily stop. If they miss, they lose all of the accumulated bonus points, but keep the 20. They can stop at any time and keep all accumulated points, ending the round. If they cannot give the one answer needed for the 20, the original team gets one more shot at giving a correct answer, for 10 points.
3. BONUS ROUND - up to TEN (10) TOSSUPS, worth 10 pts. each. The team that answers a tossup correctly gets a chance at one of five (5) four-part bonuses, 5 pts. per part, for a maximum of 20 pts. Any tossups not gotten to in round 3 (due to reaching the fifth bonus) will be moved to the beginning of round 5 and will be worth 15 pts. each. The bonus parts at AAC will NOT bounce back to the opposing team.
4. CATEGORY ROUND - Teams will choose from four (4) categories and attempt to answer, as a team, 10 questions in that category. To assure that each team hears all 10 questions in their category, no overall clock will be used in the AAC Category Round, but a STRICT 5-second limit will be adhered to on each question, and bouncebacks to the opponents will be immediate.
5. FIFTEEN (15) TOSSUPS, PLUS ANY TOSSUPS REMAINING FROM ROUND 3, worth 15 pts. each.


There will be side tournaments available for play by players and team staff at AAC 2015, including, but not limited to, the Colin Cantwell literature tournament, an all-tossup sports tournament written by chief AAC writer Scott Blish, a possible 20-20 format set written by Wilmington Charter, a possible solo tournament, and others. We would be very interested in looking into mirroring any side tournaments not mentioned above that may be run at the 2015 HSNCT, SSNCT, NSC and/or NASAT - contact Scott Blish at [email protected] if you're planning to write and run such a tournament.

To register for AAC 2015, please fill out the form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XK996u ... 8/viewform


ROUND 1 (TOSSUPS only, 5 pts. apiece)

1. In a hallucination, the title figure of this novel tells one of the characters that he is poor and misguided and that he will have some "fun" with him, a pronouncement which causes that character to faint in terror. In this novel, meetings between the characters are called through the use of a conch shell that grants its holder the right to speak; that shell is eventually destroyed by the same boulder that Roger accidentally kills Piggy with. What is this novel about British schoolboy plane crash survivors on a deserted island, written by William Golding?

ANSWER: Lord of the Flies

2. During his first stint in a certain federal office, this politician designated Caleb Cushing as Minister Plenipotentiary and sent him to China to negotiate an 1843 treaty, which inaugurated American diplomatic relations with that nation. While in the Senate, this Secretary of State from 1841-1843 and 1850-1852 replied to a pro-nullification argument by South Carolina Senator Robert Hayne using the phrase "Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable." Name this "Great Triumvirate" member along with John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay, a legendary Massachusetts orator who backed the Compromise of 1850.

ANSWER: Daniel Webster

3. In 1903, Giants manager John McGraw derisively compared the Philadelphia Athletics to one of these animals, causing A's manager Connie Mack to make this animal the official team mascot. An annoyingly useless possession is colloquially referred to as a (*) "white" one of these animals, and one named Topsy was electrocuted by Thomas Edison to demonstrate what he perceived as the "dangers" of alternating current. What is this animal, the only one to possess four knees and only member of the order Proboscidea, examples of which in entertainment include Bart Simpson's friend Stampy and Dumbo?

ANSWER: elephant (accept "white elephant" before the (*))

4. This deity, who is not normally associated with Buddhism, is mentioned in that religion's tantras under the name of Upaya. One of the avatars of this deity's wife Durga was the main object of worship of the nineteenth-century cult of assassins known as the Thuggees. The Ganges River flows through the hair of this deity, who is often pictured crushing a dwarf underfoot in his role as the cosmic dancer Nataraja. Name this blue-throated father of the elephant-headed Ganesha, the Hindu god of destruction.

ANSWER: Shiva

5. One positively-charged example of this general class of compound contains four consecutive CH2 incremental units single-bonded to each other, with the fourth of those units also single-bonded to an NH3-positive ion; that basic example of this class consists of another NH3-positive group bonded to one of the two central carbons. (*) In the Miller-Urey experiment, some of the 20 types of these compounds were synthesized from inorganic materials such as sulfur and carbon dioxides and water. What are these molecules that form proteins when they are linked together with peptide bonds?

ANSWER: amino acids (prompt on "lysine" or "Lys" or "K" before the (*)

6. A "pseudo-" one of these mathematical constructs named after E.H. Moore and Roger Penrose can be used to find best-fit solutions to linear equation systems that lack a unique solution. If a matrix possesses full row and column rank, it has one of these, but it is simpler to determine its existence for any matrix by checking to see if its determinant is any non-zero value. What is this type of object which, when multiplied by another object, returns the identity, and which can be symbolized by a superscript negative one?

ANSWER: inverse

7. In a short story by this author, two men, both of whom are wearing overcoats one size too small for them, eat ham and eggs at a diner without ever taking their gloves off, after which they tie up the cook and a customer in the kitchen and wait for a man who never arrives. This author of "The Killers" also wrote a novel in which a survivor of the Battle of Caporetto walks in the rain after his lover Catherine dies giving birth to a stillborn child. Name this author who created Frederic Henry, the protagonist of A Farewell to Arms.

answer: Ernest Hemingway

8. This artist created a kneeling angel as part of a project to decorate the Arca of St. Dominic in a Bologna church dedicated to that same saint. This artist read a faulty translation of chapter 34 of the Book of Exodus, which caused him to depict a certain figure with horns in a sculpture located at Saint Peter in Chains in Rome. Who was this artist who is known for that depiction of a horned Moses on the tomb of Pope Julius II, as well as his work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

ANSWER: Michelangelo Buonarroti (accept either name)

ROUND 2 - ANSWER AUCTION QUESTION: There are 21 men who served as Vice President of the United States during the 20th century. How many of those Vice Presidents can you name?

ANSWER AUCTION ANSWERS (alphabetically by last name):
Spiro Agnew, Alben W. Barkley, George H.W. Bush, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Curtis, Charles G. Dawes, Charles W. Fairbanks, Gerald Ford, John Nance Garner, Al Gore, Jr., Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Thomas Marshall, Walter Mondale, Richard Nixon, Dan Quayle, Nelson Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, James S. Sherman, Harry S Truman, Henry Wallace


ROUND 3 TOSSUPS - 10 pts. each

1. A kidney and brain expressed protein known as KIBRA is thought to be directly associated with the rate at which this phenomenon decreases over any given period of time. The effects of KIBRA on this phenomenon can be counteracted, and improvement in the quality of this phenomenon obtained through strengthening of the synapses in the hippocampus. However, recent research has shown that the "working" type of this isn't affected by damage to the hippocampus. What is this phenomenon that also consists of flashbulb, sensory, short-term and long-term varieties?

ANSWER: memory

2. In this novel, the protagonist stops at a pub called the Three Jolly Bargemen to pick up his friend Joe, who is drinking rum with a man named Wopsle who drunkenly recites lines from Shakespeare's Richard III. Provis is a pseudonym used by one character in this novel; that character made a fortune in sheep farming in Austtalia, and leaves that fortune to the protagonist when he dies after drowning a swindler named Compeyson in the Thames River during a fight. What is this novel in which the convict Abel Magwitch serves as an unseen benefactor to the protagonist, Philip "Pip" Pirrip?

ANSWER: Great Expectations

3. Instruments that can sense this effect are generally integrated into ferrite rings so that stray magnetic fields, such as that of the Earth, will not affect the readings of those instruments. Klaus von Klitzing's research on changes of resistance caused by this effect earned him a Nobel Physics Prize; he is generally given credit for discovering the situational "quantum" form of this effect. What is this name for the potential difference created across an electrical conductor by a magnetic field?

ANSWER: Hall effect

4. One song written about this river tells it to "roll on, roll on.....Your power is turning our darkness to dawn", and was penned by Woody Guthrie expressly for the Bonneville Power Administration. The Channeled Scablands are a landscape located in this river's plateau that was created by the Missoula Floods. Much of this river's energy is harnessed by the Grand Coulee Dam, and the Snake River is this river's largest tributary. What is this river that forms the majority of the border between Washington and Oregon?
ANSWER: Columbia River

5. The first chapter of this author's 1997 novel, which is set during the final game of the 1951 National League pennant playoff at the Polo Grounds, was also released as a separate novella entitled Pafko at the Wall. Oliver Stone's film JFK is thought to have liberally borrowed much of its plot from this author's 1988 novel about Lee Harvey Oswald, Libra, and he also wrote a novel featuring a college professor with a Dylar-addicted wife, who is trying to deal with an "airborne toxic event". Name this reclusive postmodern American author of Underworld and White Noise.

answer: Don DeLillo

6. A type of programming that is described by this adjective uses an algorithm developed by George Dantzig to perform optimization using cones that are the corners of polytopes; that method for performing this type of programming is the (*) "simplex" method. In computer science, this adjective describes the type of time in which a worst-case sequential search operates, and mathematical equations of this type include any and all functions with degree number one. What is the name for this property that describes equations with form y=mx + b?
ANSWER: linear (accept simplex or simplex method before the (*))

7. Before this battle, Francis Pickens sent Johnson Pettigrew to meet with a U.S. Army major, claiming that he had an unwritten agreement with the outgoing President of the United States that the troops under that major's command would remain at Fort Moultrie. Much of this battle was observed from a point called The Battery by Mary Boykin Chesnut, who recorded the account in her diary, and the aforementioned major, Robert Anderson, was defeated but lost no troops in the actual fighting and only two to accidents. What was this April 1861 battle off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, that was the first battle of the U.S. Civil War?

ANSWER: Battle of Fort Sumter

8. This artwork was concurrently produced with a lesser-known companion piece called The Charge of the Mamelukes. The most prominent feature of this painting's background is the outline of a town from which a steeple prominently rises; that skyline is most likely used to represent a barracks from which the hat-wearing and musket-using figures depicted on its right side came. What is this painting whose central figure is a doomed white-shirted figure with his hands in the air, which depicts the "Execution of the Defenders of Madrid" and is named for the day that execution took place, created by Francisco Goya?

ANSWER: The Third of May, 1808: Execution of the Defenders of Madrid (or El Tres de Mayo de 1808 en Madrid; or Los Fusilamientos de la Montaña del Principe Pio; or Los Fusilamientos del Tres de Mayo)

9. A member of this football team simultaneously became the first non-quarterback and first defensive player to win a Super Bowl MVP award, as well as the only player from the losing team to be named the game's MVP. That player, Chuck Howley, had two interceptions in this team's 16-13 loss to the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl V (5), the first of this team's eight Super Bowl appearances, of which five were wins. The most recent of those wins was against the Pittsburgh Steelers, who had beaten them in two previous Super Bowls, in Super Bowl XXX (30). What is this NFL team that plays its home games at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, known by some as "America's Team"?

ANSWER: Dallas Cowboys (accept either city or nickname)

10. One novel by this author tells the story of Christopher Banks, a detective who returns to China during the tumultuous 1930s to search for his long-missing father, an English opium businessman, and mother. This author of When We Were Orphans also wrote about a pianist with amnesia in The Unconsoled, and another novel by this author features characters such as the deceased proto-fascist Lord Darlington, Miss Kenton, and a butler named Stevens. Who is this British author of Japanese birth who wrote The Remains of the Day?

ANSWER: Kazuo Ishiguro

ROUND 4 - CATEGORY ROUND

ROUND 5 TOSSUPS (15 pts. each)

1. A chemical rearrangement that is named for its discoverer, Howard Zimmerman, or alternately, for this compound, converts a 1,4-diene or an allyl-substituted aromatic ring to a cyclopropane. This compound is the product of the destructive distillation of acetic acid when various hydroxides are present, and when this compound is burned, it produces water and carbon dioxide in a ratio of two molecules to one. What is this compound, the primary component of natural gas, which has formula (*) CH4?

ANSWER: methane (accept CH4 before the (*))

2. This puzzle was first publicized in the west in 1883 by the originator of the cannonball problem, French mathematician Edouard Lucas (*). According to legend, the universe will come to an end after a version requiring a minimum of 2^64 – 1 [read: "2 to the 64th power minus 1"] moves is solved. Reve’s puzzle is a four-peg version of what puzzle frequently solved with recursion, due to its repetitive moves of differently sized disks?

ANSWER: Towers of Hanoi (accept Tower of Brahma; accept Lucas’s Tower until (*); accept N. Claus de Siam)

3. In the depiction of this mythological figure in Hesiod's Works and Days, it is said that Hermes gave her "a shameful mind and deceitful nature" and that Aphrodite "shed grave upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limits." Zeus ordered this woman's creation by Hephaestus to punish humanity for Prometheus' theft of fire from the gods, and this wife of Epimetheus became the first woman in Greek mythology. Name this mythological figure to whom a gift was given with a specific instruction that she disregarded, causing a myriad of woes to flood the world and leaving only hope behind.

ANSWER: Pandora

4. In one of this man's novels, two professors at an unnamed New England College engage in wife-swapping affairs with their spouses Utch and Edith, which goes horribly awry when Utch suddenly leaves for Europe and takes her husband's passport with her. This author of The 158-Pound Marriage is known for his many allusions to the sport of wrestling in his works, and one of his protagonists, known by his first and middle intitials T.S., is a wrestler who marries his coach's daughter Helen, and whose father was a dying ball turret gunner. Who is this American author of A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Cider House Rules, and The World According to Garp?

ANSWER: John Irving

5. A current-carrying coil can be regarded as a magnetic one of these entities if it experiences a torque when placed in an external magnetic field, or if it generates its own intrinsic magnetic field for distant points along its axis. The electric field of these entities falls off in inverse proportion to the cube of the distance. Any nonpolar molecule has a quantity of zero for this entity's namesake "moment". What is this charge configuration in which a positive and negative charge are separated by a short distance?

ANSWER: dipole

6. Former Basel mayor Johann Rudolf Wettstein oversaw the execution of seven leaders of this group of people during a 1653 war in Switzerland named for them. The German name for this class of people is bauer, and an English group of them were incited to take up arms against Richard II partially by an open-air sermon by John Ball, an excommunicated Lollard priest who was later hanged, drawn and quartered for his role in that unsuccessful 1381 rebellion. What is this class of poor, agricultural people who alternatively name that rebellion which was led by Wat Tyler?

ANSWER: peasants (accept villeins or farmers; reluctantly accept serfs)

7. Uptake of lipoproteins such as LDL by these entities leads to the generation of lipid-rich foam cells. One example of these biological structures uses actin filaments, filopodia and lysosomes to carry out its primary function. Cells of this type that are found in the liver are called Kuppfer cells. Along with neutrophils, these are one of the two main types of phagocytic cells in the body of a mammal, and can help to present antigens to helper T cells. What are these special types of white blood cells that attack and destroy pathogens, whose name comes from the Latin for "large eaters"?

ANSWER: macrophages

8. The three male figures in a tempera-on-wood painting called the Tondo all held this (*) particular position at some point in their lives; that painting is one of the few extant contemporary depictions of these figures on wood. The larger of the two figures in the First Door, or Prima Porta, statue in the Vatican's Braccio Nuovo is one of these people; the other, much smaller figure is Cupid, bizarrely riding a dolphin. A column named for another one of these people celebrates a military victory over the Dacians. Who are these rulers, examples of which include Geta, Caracalla, Septimius Severus, Trajan and Augustus?

ANSWER: Roman emperors (accept all of Caracalla, Geta and Septimius Severus before the (*), although that buzz is quite unlikely - prompt if any one or two of those figures is said before the (*))

9. In a play named for one of these figures, the boy apprentice Rafe moves from London to Moldavia, where he falls in love with a princess who has always wanted to try English beer. That 1607 Francis Beaumont play is named for one of these figures "of the Burning Pestle". Lady Bertilak is married to a man of this profession in an epic poem named for two of these men, and a story told by one of these people tells of two people of his profession who fall in love with an Athenian princess named Emily, Arcite and Palomon. Name these characters, literary examples of which include the first storyteller of The Canterbury Tales and Gawain.

ANSWER: knights

10. One major influence on the career path of these people was an 1896 newspaper article announcing the accidental death of a German named Otto Lilienthal, and they were aided by previous work done by Sir George Cayley. The most prominent accomplishment of these people took place at a site called Kill Devil Hills; the first attempt failed on December 14, but three days later four successful attempts were made in one day, December 17, 1903. Who were these owners of a Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop who invented the first heavier-than-air airplane?

ANSWER: Wright brothers (or Orville and Wilbur Wright)

11. Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand was the first person to use this term to refer to politics, naming an 1818 weekly periodical he co-founded with Louis de Bonald after a hypothetical advocate of it. One of the earliest books advocating this philosophy is Robert Filmer's 1680 book Patriarcha, and the Rockford Institute is one of the foremost think tanks associated with the "paleo-" type of it. William Kristol, Allan Bloom and William F. Buckley, Jr. were more modern proponents of this school of thought. What is this political philosophy school that promotes the advocacy and retention of traditional customs and thought?

ANSWER: conservatism (accept word forms - do not accept "reactionary" or "libertarian" or any form of those terms, as the Chateaubriand clue eliminates them)

12. Gerhard Falk classified these phenomena into "existential", where the subject of this phenomenon has little or no control over its acquisition, and "achieved", or earned, types. A more prominent social scientist classified these phenomena into "bodily", "moral" and "tribal" types, and also claimed that people who experience these phenomena firsthand go through five distinct phases, in his 1963 book entitled for these phenomena. Name these phenomena that are the subject of a work by Erving Goffman, which refers to embarrassment or shame at not being able to live up to the standards set by others.

ANSWER: stigmas

13. Although he did not compose it, this musician's 1942 #1 pop hit "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" is played at all Western Michigan University home football and basketball games. Both Etta James and Beyonce Knowles have covered this musician's composition "At Last", and his sidemen and women included cornetist Bobby Hackett, vocalist Kay Starr and saxophonist Tex Beneke, who took over his band after this man disappeared without a trace over the English Channel in 1944. Who was this big band trombonist and bandleader best known for "In the Mood", his theme "Moonlight Serenade", and the namesake song of this tournament's site, "Chattanooga Choo Choo"?

ANSWER: Glenn Miller

14. The narrator of this story twice uses the terms "eye-like" and "vacant" to describe the title entity, and compares another character in the story to a "lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his most intense excitement." Two literary works contained in this story are the story The Mad Trist and the poem "The Haunted Palace". A character in this work dies from fright when he sees that a character whom he believed to be dead is still alive; that sister of his, Madeline, had been mistakenly buried alive by Roderick. What is this Edgar Allan Poe story that ends when the title structure sinks into a lake?

ANSWER: "The Fall of the House of Usher"

15. There were four main classifications of these polities, of which Class B were former Schutzgebiete and Class A consisted of places like Hatay, Syria and Mesopotamia that had once been controlled by the Ottoman Empire. Article 22 of the founding document of their controlling body established these things, which were mostly converted to Trust Territories when that controlling body permanently disbanded in 1946. What were these former German and Ottoman colonies, control of which was passed to the victorious Allied Powers by the newly-founded League of Nations in the aftermath of World War I?

ANSWER: League of Nations mandates
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Re: American Academic Challenge, May 22-24, 2015, Chattanoog

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FYI, this event has been cancelled per the event organizer. He emailed me saying that only three teams had registered as of a month ago.

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I have heard word that this event was cancelled. Is this true? Has there been a formal announcement that I missed?
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Matthew J wrote:I have heard word that this event was cancelled. Is this true? Has there been a formal announcement that I missed?
I'm not sure if there was an official announcement, but it definitely has been cancelled.
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Matthew J wrote:I have heard word that this event was cancelled. Is this true? Has there been a formal announcement that I missed?
Our school also registered for this tournament, and we received the email that it was cancelled, too.
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Re: American Academic Challenge, May 22-24, 2015, Chattanoog

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The AAC has been cancelled due to lack of interest. The few teams that had registered have been notified, and any entry fees submitted have been refunded.
Scott M. Blish
Cheval, FL
Cornell 1990-92, 1997
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