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% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players | UBC A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UBC B | Abbas I founded the Abbasids | 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% |