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2023 HSNCT discussion

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This is your question-specific discussion thread for the 2023 NAQT HSNCT.

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If you are planning to play a mirror of the 2023 HSNCT set, please do not read further posts in this thread. (We have one mirror scheduled so far, at Toronto in June; it's possible we may add other mirrors to the calendar.)
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Thank You for helping to run yet another successful iteration of this tournament!

May I please see the tossup on “Invisible Man” from Round 17, as well as the tossup on Lake Michigan from Round 25?
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2023 HSNCT round 17 wrote:This novel's protagonist experiences an "intense feeling of freedom" while eating a street vendor's hot buttered yams. Mary Rambo houses and feeds this novel's protagonist, who introduces the incestuous Jim Trueblood to the trustee Mr. Norton. This novel's first chapter depicts a blindfolded boxing (*) "battle royal" that the unnamed protagonist endures in exchange for a scholarship. For 10 points—name this Ralph Ellison novel.
The round 25 tossup was actually Huron.
2023 HSNCT round 25 wrote:This lake contains a car-free resort island that boasts 14 fudge shops despite a permanent population of about 600. This lake's Manitoulin Island is the world's largest island in a lake. The city of Sarnia, at this lake's far southern tip, is a center of the chemical industry in (*) Ontario. Mackinac Island is in this lake, whose arms include Saginaw Bay and Thunder Bay. For 10 points—name this Great Lake east of Superior.
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May I see the question on aggregate demand? I think the equation clue was ambiguous and applies to GDP as well.
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Could I see the tossup on Victor Emmanuel II? I was confused as to why "Victor Emmanuel" was not a promptable response for that.
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I don't have the tossup, but I believe it was simply just an error that no prompt was in the answerline.
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It was prompted in the match my team played.
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rachelez wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 1:08 pm May I see the question on aggregate demand? I think the equation clue was ambiguous and applies to GDP as well.
2023 HSNCT round 27 wrote:The graph of this quantity against output intersects with a line at 45 degrees to both axes in one economist's namesake "cross" diagram. This quantity equals consumption plus investment plus government spending plus net exports. The (*) Keynes effect helps explain why the graph of this macroeconomic quantity slopes downwards. For 10 points—what quantity abbreviated "AD" is often plotted against aggregate supply?

answer: aggregate demand (or aggregate expenditure or domestic final demand or DFD; accept AD or AE before "AD"; prompt on "demand" or "expenditure")
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Yaj wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 2:31 pm Could I see the tossup on Victor Emmanuel II? I was confused as to why "Victor Emmanuel" was not a promptable response for that.
This was indeed an oversight; the protest committee ruled that we should have prompted (and the question text has been updated accordingly).
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May I see the eye movement tossup?
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2023 HSNCT round 15 wrote:These phenomena are controlled by three pairs of antagonistic muscles, including the lateral and medial rectus muscles. The smooth pursuit type of these phenomena are contrasted with a quick, jumpy type between two or more phases of fixation, called a (*) saccade. Vivid dreaming occurs during a form of sleep featuring "rapid" examples of—for 10 points—what type of motion facilitated by extraocular muscles?

answer: eye movements (or smooth pursuit eye movements; or saccades before "saccade"; or rapid eye movements; accept extraocular movements; accept answers describing the motion of eyes within their sockets; prompt on "twitch(es)" before "pursuit")
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Can I see the tossup on Willy Loman and the paprika tossup?
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I'd like a look at the Git tossup and the CS bonus from I think it was either from the finals or semis. Thanks!
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2023 HSNCT round 16 wrote:This character frantically shushes others as "faint and high" music rises "almost to an unbearable scream." This character describes an 84-year-old man who could be "remembered and loved" just by using a phone in any city in an anecdote about Dave Singleman. (*) Howard Wagner fires this man after he asks for a desk job instead of traveling to Boston. For 10 points—name this father of Biff and Happy in Death of a Salesman.
2023 HSNCT round 24 wrote:This spice names a dream-infiltrating alter-ego in a Yasutaka Tsutsui novel that was adapted into a Satoshi Kon film. A Murcian variety of this spice is made using noras, and unlike the la Vera variety, is unsmoked. This spice, which in Spanish is called (*) pimenton, names the eldest child of Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper on Blue's Clues. Dried red peppers are ground to make—for 10 points—what spice used in goulash?

answer: paprika (accept pimenton after "Murcian" and before "pimenton")
2023 HSNCT round 14 wrote:In this software, the "cherry-pick" command allows previous actions to be chosen by reference and appended to the current HEAD ["head"]. This software's "rebase" command can be used to resolve merge conflicts in commits. This software, which was created by Linux developers, uses (*) branches to track changes in source code. For 10 points—name this version control software whose repositories are stored on a site named for being its "hub."

answer: Git ["ghit"] (accept GitHub after "hub"; do not accept or prompt on "GitHub" before "hub")
2023 HSNCT round 31 wrote:Algorithms are often documented via text that resembles a generic programming language, but ignores syntactic details for clarity. For 10 points each—

A. Programmers refer to such a language-independent, human-readable description as this kind of "code."

answer: pseudocode (accept pidgin code)

B. This programming language named for a British comedy troupe, not a snake, was designed with human readability in mind.

answer: Python (prompt on "Monty Python")

C. Unreadability is a key feature of this joke programming language, whose name references the fact that in it, the only valid characters are spaces, tabs, and newlines.

answer: whitespace
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Can I see the speedrunning tossup, the Whopper tossup, and The Bluest Eye tossup please?
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2023 HSNCT round 23 wrote:In a viral 2021 Twitter thread, BronzeSwords claimed this activity was popular among the "radical left" due to a "lack of work ethic." In 2020 a "Harvard astrophysicist" was hired to defend a YouTuber who cheated in this activity. Recorded frame-perfect inputs are used in a (*) "tool-assisted" form of this activity, whose general categories include "Any%". For 10 points—what activity involves beating a video game in the least time?

answer: speedrunning (accept speedrunner(s); accept speedrunning Minecraft after "Harvard"; prompt on answers mentioning "video game(s)" or "(video) gaming"; prompt on "beat(ing) a (video) game" or equivalents; prompt on "Minecraft" after "Harvard" by asking "What general video gaming activity involving Minecraft?") [The YouTuber was Dream.]
2023 HSNCT round 2 wrote:In 2009 a namesake "sacrifice" campaign allowed one to get a free one of these fast food items for defriending 10 friends on Facebook. This item has hot sauce baked into its bun in its spicy "Angriest" variety. This item features in a jingle stating "You (*) rule, you're seizing the day" that describes it as having "flame-grilled taste with perfect toppers." For 10 points—name this signature burger of Burger King.
2023 HSNCT round 2 wrote:In this novel's prologue, a dog, a cat, and her parents all refuse to play with Jane. This novel's protagonist frequents Mr. Yacobowski's grocery store, and mocks a girl who has a dogtooth using the nickname "Meringue Pie." The death of a baby in this novel is foreshadowed by the failure of marigolds planted by (*) Claudia MacTeer to bloom. Pecola Breedlove desires the title feature in—for 10 points—what Toni Morrison novel?
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Could I see the travelling to florida tossup and the Kryptos bonus?
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2023 HSNCT round 9 wrote:In a May 2023 advisory about this action, LULAC cited hospital screening for immigration status. A senator's official statement claimed that "laughter and mockery" would result if this action was taken to "spread Socialism." In a May 2023 formal advisory against this action, the (*) NAACP cited attempts to "erase Black history" by Ron DeSantis. For 10 points—name this action required to visit Panama City Beach or Disney World.

answer: visiting Florida (or travelling to Florida; accept all equivalent answers indicating both Florida and the notion of a visit or travel; accept clear equivalents)
2023 HSNCT round 11 wrote:For 10 points each—answer the following about Jim Sanborn's sculpture Kryptos, which contains four encrypted messages:

A. Kryptos is on display at the Langley, Virginia headquarters of this U.S. foreign intelligence service.

answer: CIA (or Central Intelligence Agency)

B. The first two passages were encrypted using this kind of polyalphabetic cipher, in which a keyword is used to guide varying Caesar shifts for different plaintext positions.

answer: Vigenere cipher (accept le chiffre indechiffrable)

C. The third passage on Kryptos is a paraphrased quote from this British archaeologist, who described seeing "wonderful things" upon the 1922 opening of a tomb.

answer: Howard Carter
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May I please see the Galway tossup?
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2023 HSNCT round 18 wrote:A person from this city named Tim "will blow from eve to morn," according to a folk song about this city's "piper." An invertible ring showing two hands, a heart, and a crown was originally made in this city's neighborhood of Claddagh. A person from this city "played the (*) fiddle in an Irish band" and "fell in love with an Englishman." For 10 points—what western Irish city names the title "girl" of a 2017 song by Ed Sheeran?
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Can I please see the Justin Verlander, Arizona, and Chad toss-ups.
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2023 HSNCT round 24 wrote:Until 2022, this man had pitched a record eight World Series starts without recording a win. In 2023 this man became the most recent pitcher to secure a win against every MLB team. The record for career strikeouts among active pitchers alternates between him and teammate (*) Max Scherzer. 2023 marked the Mets debut of—for 10 points—what 40-year-old righty who has thrown no-hitters for Detroit and Houston?
2023 HSNCT round 10 wrote:A 1957 plan for this state's capitol building, named "Oasis," included a lattice roof to let in wildlife. A "whirling arrow" logo was inspired by petroglyphs near a home in this state that was built from concrete poured around natural stones. (*) "Desert masonry" was used for a studio in this state, created as an escape from Wisconsin winters. Frank Lloyd Wright built Taliesin West near—for 10 points—what state's city of Phoenix?
2023 HSNCT round 6 wrote:A misreading of Yasutora Sado's name causes Ichigo to give him this name in Bleach. "Pregnant" and "hanging" fragments of partly-punched holes known by this name were disputed in Bush v. Gore. Photoshopped images of Ernest (*) Khalimov intended for the project Sleek'N'Tears are popularly referred to by this name, prefixed by "giga-." For 10 points—what slang term for an alpha male shares its name with a country west of Sudan?
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