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Question Number
Tossup answer2010DeadAuthorCategoryFirst
Second
Third3020100TotalPPBPart 1 answerPart 2 answerPart 3 answerAuthorCategory
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PACKET 1
Round 1
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1a house fire12280BentleyLiterature - American35531425924017.75Sketches of SpainQuincy Joneselectric instrumentsBentleyFine Arts - Jazz
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2comets21190Kevin WangScience - Astronomy1530152191634015.00rest curethe American Westdime novelsBentleyOther - Other Academic and General Knowledge
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3Scylla15241SmithRMP - Greco-Roman Mythology2032391914614022.75Erwin SchrödingeropticsRichard FeynmanSettleScience - Physics
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4The Migrant Mother22171BentleyFine Arts - Photography36388828224020.50khipuIncan Empiredouble-entry bookkeepingBentleyHistory - World - Latin American
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519th century3370BentleyHistory - Cross, Historiography, and Miscellaneous1321279101474015.25Palaua jailsandBentleyGeography - World
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6iron AND oxygen4351Kevin WangScience - Chemistry53932428804019.00Herman WoukFiddler on the RoofPolandBentleyLiterature - American
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7NRA3730BentleyCurrent Events - U.S.1440331321604021.75Battle of ValmyLouis XVIgreat menParameswaranHistory - European - 1500-1900
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8castles16231SheidlowerLiterature - British - Long Fiction28381010171214019.00Karl Waldemar ZieglertwometallocenesSettleScience - Chemistry
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9San Francisco22171BentleyHistory - American - 1945+32403329804018.75SanskritT. S. Eliot“The Dry Salvages”KeyalLiterature - British - Poetry
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10“Surprise” Symphony22180SmithFine Arts - Music - Classical222381211714015.50behavioral economicsRobert J. ShillergamesBentleySocial Science - Economics
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11Ethiopia3091
Parameswaran
History - World - African2338382313404024.75Pablo de SarasateRomaHungarySmithFine Arts - Music - Romantic
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12Hades9310BentleyLiterature - World and Miscellaneous3822271615904021.75chariotshandheld crossbowCao CaoBentleyHistory - Cross, Historiography, and Miscellaneous
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13divorce15250SmithRMP - Islam1440351421504022.25scabbard of ExcaliburKing ArthurMordredShanmugamRMP - World Mythology
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14Alexander Pushkin12280SmithLiterature - European - Poetry333639324404027.00intermediate value theoremdifferentiationrootsHothemScience - Math
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15cholera13270JangScience - Biology391342132414014.00boxingWheeling, West VirginiaMann ActBentleyHistory - American - 1865-1945
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16Simone de Beauvoir3343BentleyRMP - Philosophy3040161124504021.50Don QuixoteMiguel de CervantesLa GalateaShanmugamLiterature - European - Long Fiction
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17Normandy9301
Parameswaran
History - European - Middle Ages33836332414019.25Rosa BonheurlionshorsesShanmugamFine Arts - Painting - European
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18Urbino11254KeyalFine Arts - Painting - European1431238161244017.00Yunior de Las CasasPulitzer PrizesCubaShanmugamLiterature - World and Miscellaneous
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19turbulence9283BentleyScience - Physics365141162003714.86nirvanaarhatsselfDuffyRMP - Buddhism
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20identical twins3370BentleySocial Science - Other42617413902618.08vitamin B12James Watson AND Francis CrickcholesterolBentleyScience - Biology
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21New DelhiSinghGeography - WorldItalyfluteserialismSmithFine Arts - Music - 1900 to 1970
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PACKET 2
Round 2
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1Albrecht Dürer9238ShanmugamFine Arts - Painting - European3261311215124010.50path dependenceworktemperatureKevin WangScience - Chemistry
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2Sigmund Freud3370BoeyeSocial Science - Other616382181824015.00Gospel of MarkDesiderius ErasmusKing James VersionSmithRMP - New Testament
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3invertible19201HothemScience - Math1337281020824019.50
The Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
Eugene DelacroixPierre-Auguste RenoirBentleyFine Arts - Painting - European
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4King Lear6340BernsLiterature - British - Drama2527361518704022.00Shaolin TempleRed Turban RebellionShanghaiBentleyHistory - World - Asian
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5T cells18220Briana MaginScience - Biology273988191214018.50A Doll’s HouseHenrik Ibsencloset dramasBentleyLiterature - European - Drama
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6New York Times14260BentleyHistory - American - 1945+1123348131814017.00Wilt ChamberlainRobert NozicklibertarianismSmithRMP - Philosophy
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7caving30100BentleyGeography - World197355141834015.25Regents v. BakkeGrutter v. BollingerRichard NixonBentleyHistory - American - 1945+
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8forms3289BernsRMP - Philosophy343710826514020.25elasticstressthixotropySettleScience - Physics
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9hair3190BentleyLiterature - American720405171804016.75SyriaSeneca the YoungerOvidSmithLiterature - World and Miscellaneous
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10War of Spanish Succession18211BentleyHistory - European - 1500-19003927151021904020.25staccatoarpeggiosricochet bowingSmithFine Arts - Music - Romantic
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11homes21172BentleyRMP - Hinduism3626108181224018.00UkraineFive Star MovementIcelandBentleyCurrent Events - World
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12mass7303Kevin WangScience - Physics19402313161104020.50Ada LovelaceAlan TuringStephen WolframBentleyScience - Computer Science
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13Má vlast16186JangFine Arts - Music - Romantic35404431504019.75BulgarsConstantinopleBoris ISuhHistory - European - Classical
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14Baghdad27130BentleyHistory - World - Middle Eastern15361810131344017.25Howards EndE. M. ForsterLeonard BastBentleyLiterature - British - Long Fiction
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15ammonia13270Kevin WangScience - Chemistry721374181714016.25glovescommedia dell’arteCologneBentleyOther - Other Academic and General Knowledge
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16Odin1372HankinRMP - World Mythology11373292724012.75dreamsSalvador DalíL’Age d’OrJorgensenFine Arts - Film
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17Giuseppe Verdi6313LiFine Arts - Opera35271211151134018.50Ezra PoundElizabeth BishopMarianne MooreMaoLiterature - American
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18Out of Africa10282BentleyLiterature - European - Long Fiction33630031703818.16sumptuary lawssamuraiBeninBentleyHistory - Cross, Historiography, and Miscellaneous
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19rubber24160BentleyHistory - Cross, Historiography, and Miscellaneous25285517903118.71mutationDrosophila melanogasterguanineBentleyScience - Biology
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20Japanese3280SmithLiterature - World and Miscellaneous1491176101424.29TroyAchelousa fountainSuhRMP - Greco-Roman Mythology
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21Battle of TrentonBentleyHistory - American - Pre-1865House of LordsThe People’s BudgetMarquess of SalisburyBentleyHistory - European - 1900+
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PACKET 3
Round 3
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1wolves19210BentleyRMP - Greco-Roman Mythology1336371223414021.50drunken“Auld Lang Syne”ScotlandKeyalLiterature - British - Poetry
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2Reichstag Fire12244BentleyHistory - European - 1900+401222102804013.50quarkspionsglueballYangScience - Physics
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3Edith Wharton21172BentleyLiterature - American275373241214017.25clothseashellsgoldBentleyHistory - Cross, Historiography, and Miscellaneous
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4calcium27121BelalScience - Biology1318399131714017.50
The Incoherence of the Philosophers
MetaphysicsThomas AquinasSmithRMP - Philosophy
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5Medea12280BentleyLiterature - European - Drama3313257191224017.75castratiC6Gioachino RossiniJonathan MaginFine Arts - Music - Baroque
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6Auguste Rodin18220ShanmugamFine Arts - Sculpture340100132704013.25
whether or not the Qur’an is created
SunnifiqhBentleyRMP - Islam
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7refugees15250BentleyHistory - World - Miscellaneous2027371417814021.00BLASThomologousdivergent evolutionChenScience - Biology
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8aluminum14260BentleyScience - Engineering and Miscellaneous391220132704013.25Hammurabi CodeAkkadianNippurBentleyHistory - European - Classical
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9Symphony of a Thousand2317SmithFine Arts - Music - Romantic22402820101004022.50hummingbirdFrida KahlocolumnBentleyFine Arts - Painting - World
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10economic recessions29110BentleySocial Science - Economics940309211004019.75apple pickingRobert Frost“Birches”BentleyLiterature - American
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11electrical grid11263BentleyCurrent Events - World2337211415924020.25Cassini-Huygensrings of SaturnRoche limitBentleyScience - Astronomy
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12diffraction patterns32116SettleScience - Physics3139292510414024.75Costa RicaNicaraguaWilliam WalkerBentleyHistory - World - Latin American
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13Cry, the Beloved Country11281SmithLiterature - World and Miscellaneous1237381027304021.75moonlightNutRaHankinRMP - World Mythology
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14plow11281BentleyHistory - Cross, Historiography, and Miscellaneous113370112904012.75
independent AND identically distributed
expected valuenormal distributionBernsScience - Math
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15Rouen22711BentleyFine Arts - Painting - European36381134403919.23GenjiJapanfirefliesBentleyLiterature - World and Miscellaneous
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16John McCain17230
Parameswaran
History - American - 1945+3920281812903922.31Battle of GettysburgLittle Round TopJoshua Lawrence ChamberlainBoreckiHistory - American - 1865-1945
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17Oscar Wilde8311BentleyLiterature - British - Short Fiction202973161543814.74United KingdomRalph Vaughan WilliamsGlastonbury FestivalBentleyFine Arts - Miscellaneous
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18dinosaur bones17230BentleyOther - Other Academic and General Knowledge33248423703419.12TexasOhioPalm Beach CountyBentleyGeography - United States
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19human sacrifice10300SuhRMP - Hebrew Bible8285291723013.67The Human Comedyliterary realismRoland BarthesSmithLiterature - European - Short Fiction
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20reaction rate23134Kevin WangScience - Chemistry1830441913.33context-sensitive grammarNoam ChomskyregularBernsSocial Science - Linguistics
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21Frank Lloyd WrightBentleyFine Arts - ArchitecturerecipesEsperanzaMexicoBentleyLiterature - World and Miscellaneous
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PACKET 4
Round 4
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1temperature2380Kevin WangScience - Earth333171152044013.25Luigi Cherubini
Secret Fraternal Order of Free and Accepted Masons
species counterpointSmithFine Arts - Music - Classical
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2Dulce et Decorum Est21181SmithLiterature - British - Poetry2740221519604022.25learned helplessnesspost-traumatic stress disorderexposure therapyBentleySocial Science - Psychology
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3The Epic of Gilgamesh3370BentleyRMP - World Mythology334233201164015.00
Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize in Literature
GitanjaliendlessSmithLiterature - World and Miscellaneous
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4coins16240
Parameswaran
History - Cross, Historiography, and Miscellaneous7386353204012.75blue lightcircadian rhythmsmagnetic fieldsKevin WangScience - Biology
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5saxophone4351SmithFine Arts - Jazz329285211224017.25Long IslandCulper RingJohn Winthrop the YoungerSheidlowerHistory - American - Pre-1865
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6plasmas3370
Andrew Wang
Science - Physics938154142204015.50The EnchiridionStoicismHeraclitus of EphesusSmithRMP - Philosophy
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7The Glass Menagerie20182NarayanLiterature - American3830141219814020.50astronomical unitparsecabsolute magnitudeKevin WangScience - Astronomy
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8Athens15250
Parameswaran
History - European - Classical1835391718504023.00LedaWilliam Butler Yeats“The Second Coming”ShanmugamLiterature - British - Poetry
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9preludes6331SmithFine Arts - Music - Romantic212031102184011.00nuclear reactorArchangelskNew STARTBentleyCurrent Events - World
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10justice3316BentleyRMP - Philosophy36376628514019.75Ottoman Janissariescoffeea harsh winterBentleyHistory - World - Middle Eastern
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11Fyodor Dostoyevsky7321BernsLiterature - European - Other402200221804015.50integrationn + 1doublet of doubletsKevin WangScience - Chemistry
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12antibodies17230Kevin WangScience - Biology38297722924018.50DiwaliRavanaUke-MochiBentleyRMP - World Mythology
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13Amazon rainforest4360BentleyGeography - World36331129914017.50public fountainsSan Franciscode Young MuseumShanmugamFine Arts - Sculpture
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14Taiping Rebellion6313
Parameswaran
History - World - Asian3913154191704016.75schoolsEdward VIBirminghamBentleyHistory - European - 1500-1900
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15Rumi0355YangRMP - Islam3820159161414018.25HamletmachinesKazuo IshiguroJorgensenLiterature - European - Other
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16The Diary of Anne Frank29110BentleyOther - Other Academic and General Knowledge1137227181324017.50El SalvadorRhodesiaDonbassBentleyHistory - Cross, Historiography, and Miscellaneous
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17James Abbott McNeill Whistler23152MayerFine Arts - Painting - European283910291003917.44Natty BumppoJames Fenimore CooperThe Pilot: A Tale of the SeaBentleyLiterature - American
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18India10300
Parameswaran
Literature - World and Miscellaneous631231231123716.22bowMannerisma militiaBentleyFine Arts - Painting - European
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19commercial whaling18202BentleyHistory - American - Pre-1865636255211003618.61cheeseArtemisCadmusBentleyRMP - Greco-Roman Mythology
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20DNA12280Kevin WangScience - Chemistry1422768912417.92dynamosNikola TeslamagnetohydrodynamicsSmithScience - Physics
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21autobiographyKeyalLiterature - AmericanangleHeinrich Hertzparaxial approximationParameswaranScience - Physics
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PACKET 5
Round 5
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1Enrico Fermi2371BentleyScience - Physics10271031214114011.75Arthur Pigounegative externalitiesBen BernankeBentleySocial Science - Economics
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2Antoni Gaudí3091YaegerFine Arts - Architecture25381310171214019.00Paul RevereConcordcopperBentleyHistory - American - Pre-1865
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the balcony from Romeo and Juliet
4360BentleyLiterature - British - Drama0638063224011.00optical path lengthattenuated total internal reflectionmirrorsSettleScience - Chemistry
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4Qin Shi Huang3730BentleyHistory - World - Asian36238135314019.00newspapersChristianity Today
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
BentleyRMP - Christian Practice
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5circus2371BentleyOther - Other Academic and General Knowledge141371132334013.00Bob FosseDamn YankeescancanBentleyFine Arts - Ballet/Dance
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6singing23170MaoLiterature - American3538231820204024.00Ali BabaArabian Nights’ EntertainmentMorgianaParameswaranLiterature - World and Miscellaneous
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7colors21190SmithRMP - Philosophy24036234404019.50XhosaSouth AfricaShaka ZuluParameswaranHistory - World - African
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8Leonardo da Vinci16240BelalFine Arts - Painting - European839146102314015.25Timofey Pavlovich PninVladimir NabokovbutterfliesBentleyLiterature - American
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9parallel computing41323Kevin WangScience - Computer Science3213371121714020.50domainrRNAcell membraneDuffyScience - Biology
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10England AND Scotland12280BentleyHistory - European - 1500-19001040311021904020.25TennesseeWest VirginiaGavin NewsomBentleyCurrent Events - U.S.