extinction - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 8: Bonus 12

The modern theory of this process was set out in a Parisian lecture series that also established the “principle of correlation of parts.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this process that Thomas Jefferson argued was impossible in a description of the “incognitum.” An Elizabeth Kolbert book titled for an instance of this process relates its discovery in the late 18th century.

ANSWER: extinction [accept equivalents like going extinct or dying out; accept The Sixth Extinction] (Georges Cuvier established the modern theory of extinction.)

[10e] Because he believed in the “economy of nature,” Jefferson tasked these two explorers with finding living mastodons in their expedition through the Louisiana territory.

ANSWER: Merriwether Lewis AND William Clark

[10m] Lewis and Clark also hoped to find one of these mammals in the genus Megalonyx described by Jefferson. Cuvier developed his theory of “lost species” using the bones of one of these xenarthrans he dubbed Megatherium.

ANSWER: giant ground sloths [accept giant sloths; prompt on sloths or Folivora]

<MS, Other Academic> | NAFTA-Packet-8

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	14.88	100%	42%	7%

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Conversion

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

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%