Dewey Decimal Classification - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 7: Bonus 10

In 1910, Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine founded the Mundaneum, the planned center of a “world city” that would make all collective knowledge accessible on “electric telescopes.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Mundaneum users would locate index cards with a “universal” expansion of what popular classification system, which was created in 1876 by an American librarian?

ANSWER: Dewey Decimal Classification [or DDC; or Dewey Decimal System; prompt on Dewey; prompt on decimal system]

[10m] Otlet moved the Mundaneum to the Hague with the help of this developer of ISOTYPE pictorial statistics. This museum theorist and member of the Vienna Circle names an epistemological analogue to the Ship of Theseus.

ANSWER: Otto Neurath [or Otto Karl Wilhelm Neurath; accept Neurath’s boat, Neurath’s ship, or Neurath’s raft]

[10h] The Mundaneum and Otlet’s computer-like Mondothèque are often compared to this writer’s concept of the “memex.” A 1945 essay by this engineer predicted information storage features like hyperlinks.

ANSWER: Vannevar Bush (The essay is “As We May Think.”)

<HA, Other Academic> | NAFTA-Packet-7

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	16.98	100%	47%	23%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
BHSU	Northwestern	10	10	10	30	EMH
Berkeley A	Team 8	10	10	10	30	EMH
C R A B S	Dour Straits	10	0	0	10	E
Chicago !A	1000000 Delinquents	10	10	0	20	EM
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20	EM
David Foster Gromit	Copán Seethe	10	10	0	20	EM
Dielectrical Materialism	The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	10	0	0	10	E
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20	EM
Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	10	0	0	10	E
Guelph Cloze	The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	10	0	0	10	E
Habitat 67	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	10	10	0	20	EM
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	10	10	0	20	EM
Indiana	Invective Against Swans	10	10	10	30	EMH
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	10	0	10	20	EH
JHU	Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	10	0	0	10	E
Licence to Bill	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	10	0	0	10	E
Licence to C. Wright Mill	I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	10	10	0	20	EM
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	Rosslyn Academic Team	10	0	10	20	EH
Maybe Ever	W&L+Friend	10	10	10	30	EMH
Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	10	0	0	10	E
NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	NYU A	10	0	0	10	E
No Country for Old Quizzers	A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	10	10	0	20	EM
Noah Sheidlower	The "C" Team	10	0	0	10	E
Not Old! (Old)	Stanford A	10	0	0	10	E
Penn State	Mike and Psmith	10	10	0	20	EM
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	Execute Order 6 7	10	10	0	20	EM
Say It Ain't Zhou	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	10	0	0	10	E
St. Marx	Lex	10	0	0	10	E
Stanford B	Team 7	10	0	10	20	EH
Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	10	0	0	10	E
The Fire Neg Time	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	10	10	10	30	EMH
The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	10	0	0	10	E
The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	UBC B	10	10	0	20	EM
The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	10	10	0	20	EM
UBC A	Abbas I founded the Abbasids	10	10	0	20	EM
UNC Charity	Contessa Dora	10	0	0	10	E
Untitled Keyal Team	Shipping Down from Ballston	10	10	0	20	EM
Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	10	0	0	10	E
Vacuous Tortoise	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	10	0	0	10	E
WashU	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	10	0	10	20	EH
Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	You Don't Have the Cards	10	0	10	20	EH
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	[Redacted]	10	0	0	10	E
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	Catholic University A	10	10	0	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	25%	50%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%