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% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley A | Team 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr. | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Not Old! (Old) | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford B | Team 7 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
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% |