Packet 5: Bonus 2
Answer the following about the contributions of the scientist John Herschel to photography, for 10 points each.
[10h] Hill & Adamson photographed Herschel using this early process, which benefited from Herschel’s discovery that sodium thiosulfate, or “hypo,” is a fixing agent. Henry Fox Talbot invented this process that, unlike the daguerreotype, made reproducible images on paper.
ANSWER: calotype [prompt on talbotype]
[10e] Herschel, who coined the words “photograph” and “snapshot,” also coined the photographic sense of this word to describe the calotype’s initial output. This word denotes an image in which light and dark areas are flipped.
ANSWER: negative [or photonegative]
[10m] This friend and mentee of Herschel photographed him in old age and named one of her sons after him. Her photo Pomona depicts Alice Liddell.
ANSWER: Julia Margaret Cameron
<TM, Other Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-5
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 15.81 | 95% | 40% | 23% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbas I founded the Abbasids | UBC A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players | UBC B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 0% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |