Packet 1: Bonus 17
As proof of state evasion in Zomia, James C. Scott cited an “escape” form of this process that is similar to a “fire-stick” form used by Aboriginals. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this process that comes in a “swidden” type, which relies on a rotating fallow system.
ANSWER: agriculture [or farming; accept swidden agriculture or slash-and-burn agriculture or fire-stick farming; accept answers specifying growing crops; prompt on cultivation]
[10h] Name this novelist who included flashbacks of a fire at Coulibri in Wide Sargasso Sea, which ends with Antoinette Cosway being locked in an attic and called Bertha by her husband.
ANSWER: Jean Rhys (“reese”) [or Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams]
[10e] James C. Scott argued that the use of slash-and-burn agriculture in Southeast Asia was motivated by it being harder to tax than this crop that’s grown in hard-to-relocate paddies.
ANSWER: rice [or Oryza sativa]
[10e] Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea depicts the marriage of Mr. Rochester to Bertha Mason as a prequel to this novel by Charlotte Brontë.
ANSWER: Jane Eyre
[10h] Slash-and-burn agriculture in the Amazon is cited to oppose the “pristine myth” in this Charles C. Mann book, which dispels the idea that the Americas were an unpopulated wilderness in its title year.
ANSWER: 1491 [or 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]
[10m] While trapped in the attic, Antoinette’s fragmented internal monologue is narrated via this technique. In Good Morning, Midnight, Rhys uses this technique to express Sasha’s thoughts as an uninterrupted “flow.”
ANSWER: stream of consciousness
<Editors, Other History> | Packet A
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 107 | 16.54 | 100% | 47% | 19% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia A | Maryland C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | H |
| George Mason A | Rowan | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| George Mason B | George Mason C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | H |
| Johns Hopkins | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | H |
| Maryland A | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | MH |
| Maryland B | Penn | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | MH |
| NYU A | Rutgers C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | MH |
| Rutgers A | NYU C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | H |
| Rutgers B | Vassar B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | MH |
| Rutgers D | Lehigh A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | H |
| Stony Brook | Princeton | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | H |
| Vassar A | Lehigh B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | H |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 43% | 14% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Florida | US | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 10 | 15.00 | 100% | 40% | 10% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 56% | 22% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 11 | 14.55 | 100% | 36% | 9% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 44% | 44% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| South Central | US | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 15.83 | 100% | 58% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |