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by scorrevole
Sun Oct 31, 2021 11:38 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 41
Views: 4860

Re: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion

This set was quite good overall - a nice return to a regular-season QB tournament for me. A few tossups that I think weren't ideal: It might have just been first-tossup-of-the-day syndrome, but I thought the species tossup was confusing - I negged early (with "animals and humans") but the...
by scorrevole
Fri Dec 25, 2020 5:26 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 PAveMEnT: Jazz Discussion
Replies: 1
Views: 188

Re: Jazz Discussion

I feel like auditory jazz questions are inherently different than normal jazz questions because the only method with which you can get audio questions is by having physically listened to the music (as opposed to reading about it on Wikipedia or jazz books or previous quizbowl questions). I think you...
by scorrevole
Tue Dec 22, 2020 1:49 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Festivus Pop/Rap Audio Packets
Replies: 0
Views: 1580

Festivus Pop/Rap Audio Packets

For the last year or so, members of the Harvard team have been writing each other accessible audio questions (in the same format as MARCATo and PAveMEnT) for fun, around 60% of which are 21st-century pop and EDM (skews more Billboard Top 40 than "quizbowl core"), 25% 21st-century rap, and ...
by scorrevole
Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:33 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 PAveMEnT: Discussion Regarding Specific PAveMEnt Questions
Replies: 5
Views: 364

Re: Discussion Regarding Specific PAveMEnt Questions

I thought this set was really fun to play, and appreciated that it covered a lot of areas of music that hadn't shown up in Marcato. Don't feel like I can speak to too much except the jazz, which as people noted in the Discord is quite hard - I think the conversion stats show which answerlines were t...
by scorrevole
Wed Apr 08, 2020 11:07 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: BoPSS: Score Clues for Pop Music
Replies: 1
Views: 1318

Re: BoPSS: Score Clues for Pop Music

The ideas I've heard so far are very enjoyable and the answerlines are definitely accessible - this is a fun set that people should play!
by scorrevole
Tue Mar 03, 2020 3:12 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 2614

Re: Specific Question Discussion

The title object of a novel by this author is the subject of a Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz poem included in its “Postscript.” This author wrote about a nobleman who imagines an evil twin brother named Ferrante in one novel. In another novel by this writer, two characters enter the secret finis Africa...
by scorrevole
Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 60
Views: 6436

Re: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata

1. Incomplete sentence "A Pope of this name and Henry IV during the Investiture Controversy." in Packet 9, tossup 11 (Gregory). There were some other grammatical things scattered throughout - will update this post with them if I remember where they are. 2. A player buzzed on the Liouville'...
by scorrevole
Wed Feb 26, 2020 12:27 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 2614

Re: Specific Question Discussion

My bad on the Ansel Adams tossup - error is fixed and gender is obscured in power.
by scorrevole
Mon Feb 24, 2020 10:49 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 2614

Re: Specific Question Discussion

Some small notes: I buzzed in on the round 2 tossup on "orbits" at the pronoun and said something to the effect of "inverse-square law systems." I might just be wrong (and was told that I was by better science players than I), but I think that the LRL vector is a constant of mot...
by scorrevole
Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 23
Views: 7836

Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion

I noticed and am appreciative of the great inclusion of female composers in the music distribution - C Schumann, F Mendelssohn, L Boulanger, and Price all came up in questions without sacrificing conversion ability, which was honestly really cool to see. That said, I completely agree with there bein...
by scorrevole
Sat Jan 18, 2020 5:45 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: JORDU: A Jazz Side Event (Summer 2021)
Replies: 33
Views: 11981

Re: JORDU: A Jazz Side Event (Summer 2020)

I don't think I've ever been as excited about anything, ever.
by scorrevole
Wed Nov 13, 2019 4:24 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 2614

Re: Specific Question Discussion

Some power lines that either I or one of my teammates thought might've extended too far were those on Candide, Eve, and New York (photography.) Additionally, one of our players said that he knew the answer to the tossup on "one" in music after the first line but thought it'd be odd to tos...
by scorrevole
Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:08 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Difficulty Discussion
Replies: 3
Views: 478

Re: Difficulty Discussion

This could just be me, but one of the moderators we brought agreed with me that bonus turnover seemed lower than at other tournaments we've played. Hopefully the bonus conversion was in-line with a regs+ difficulty set - the numbers we saw from Triton Fall were roughly what we were expecting from a...
by scorrevole
Mon Nov 11, 2019 8:35 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 2614

Re: Specific Question Discussion

Hey, I thought the set was definitely fun to play! I did want to see the tossup on lit, with the answer line of USA (mentioned Junot Diaz in the body) - I negged with Dominican Republic, probably just because I was tired and heard 'Diaz' and thought of Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but I'm inte...
by scorrevole
Mon Nov 11, 2019 4:19 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 2614

Re: Specific Question Discussion

Hello, this is my first time in a discussion group, so apologies if I'm not up-to-date on standard etiquette and procedure for these things. I'd like to preface my questions by simply saying that I had a great time on HFT this year and my teammates all thought it was pretty fun and mostly fair. Tha...
by scorrevole
Sun Nov 10, 2019 6:44 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 2614

Re: Specific Question Discussion

I think the bonus on Edgar Linton said Linton Heathcliff? Another bonus said Midsummers Night Dream instead of Midsummer Night's Dream. Those come to mind specifically at the moment, and I told a couple more to Mazin over discord. If I remember any more, I'll be sure to say them. Could I see the Ge...
by scorrevole
Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:37 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 2614

Re: Specific Question Discussion

Note that there were some small packetizing errors and typos that we have already found and have fixed for future mirrors. Feel free to still point them out in case we missed any. To reiterate Jon's post, we have tried our best to write good, occasionally creative questions that didn't overreach in ...
by scorrevole
Sun Sep 08, 2019 3:29 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Imaginary Landscape No. 5
Replies: 13
Views: 7015

Re: Imaginary Landscape No. 5

Been a long time coming, but we've cleaned up the stats we had for the HSNCT mirror. Unfortunately, a lot of round 1 stats were lost, so we calculated only based on the next 7 rounds. Apologies for this and any other errors in the stats - please contact me at myue [at] college.harvard.edu about any ...
by scorrevole
Sun Aug 25, 2019 5:45 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: IL5 Online Mirror
Replies: 5
Views: 2510

Re: IL5 Online Mirror

This happened. Here's some stats. Again, apologies for not putting the change in time on the forums - hope everyone had fun anyway! Pts 10 -5 TUH PP20TUH Natan Holtzman 235 28 9 167 28.1 Mia Nussbaum 180 19 2 167 21.6 Chansol Park 175 21 7 167 21.0 Pete Schmidt 160 23 14 167 19.2 Daniel Guo 160 16 0...
by scorrevole
Fri Aug 16, 2019 3:11 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: IL5 Online Mirror
Replies: 5
Views: 2510

Re: IL5 Online Mirror

I'll set this for Sunday 8/25 with a 2pm EDT start time unless there are any major objections - you can fill out this Google form to register, after which a Discord invitation will be sent to you. Many thanks to Ophir for helping me run this. I've heard that the HSNCT mirror went late and many peopl...
by scorrevole
Mon Aug 12, 2019 2:28 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: IL5 Online Mirror
Replies: 5
Views: 2510

IL5 Online Mirror

Fielding interest for an online mirror of Imaginary Landscape No. 5 before the summer ends - poll closes in 3 days. If it ends up being a weekday, we'll start at 7pm, and if it's during the weekend it'll be in the afternoon.
by scorrevole
Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:31 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 57
Views: 3273

Re: Specific Question Discussion

Could I please see the tossup about the letter s, I think it was? Languages often violate the sonority sequencing principle by allowing this sound to precede stops in syllable onsets. This sound may be produced with the tongue tip placed behind either the top or the bottom teeth. The wug test demon...
by scorrevole
Mon Dec 10, 2018 9:10 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: General Set Discussion
Replies: 23
Views: 1365

Re: General Set Discussion

I did not like this year's iteration of the set; there were many questions in the music and chemistry, especially, that were completely out of touch with what high schoolers should be expected to know. Lines upon lines of score clues are not good, there was too much organic / college-level chemistr...
by scorrevole
Sun Dec 09, 2018 8:10 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 57
Views: 3273

Re: Specific Question Discussion

The tossup on third symphonies needs some serious rework. The answerline itself is on the upper end of difficulty for a high school set, even HFT. But, if you're going to have it as a difficulty outlier, do that. (Instead of what was done, below.) I was actually flabbergasted when I read the lead-i...
by scorrevole
Sun Dec 09, 2018 4:33 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 57
Views: 3273

Re: Specific Question Discussion

The question that had scientists as a second part should probably have a do not reveal alternative answerlines directive in the beginning, as the moderator in my room inadvertently revealed the prompt for the first part, which I believe was "scientific revolution". That was suboptimal. Th...
by scorrevole
Tue Nov 20, 2018 5:48 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 57
Views: 3273

Re: Specific Question Discussion

Can I see the Sherlock Holmes bonus? For the third part (of which I believe the answer was "gemstones"), I answered "carbuncle" because the question clued "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", but this was taken as a wrong answer. I'm curious as to why this was not at...
by scorrevole
Sun Nov 18, 2018 10:02 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 57
Views: 3273

Re: Specific Question Discussion

HFT XIII Round 4 wrote: It’s not a writer, but one character with this profession makes flints at Auschwitz, and another works under Max Gottlieb at the Caribbean island St. Hubert. Septimus Hodge wonders “what becomes of free will” when considering the work of a man with this profession. A charact...
by scorrevole
Sun Nov 18, 2018 5:34 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 57
Views: 3273

Re: Specific Question Discussion

Could I please see the tossup on "scientists," as well as, the bonuses on "toruses" and "Pamuk?" Also, round 5 had a Jesus resurrection bonus followed shortly by resurrection in mythology tossup. Both were well written but should probably be in different rounds. It’s n...