Bonus
This series includes an analysis of the figure of the Muselmann in death camps in the volume Remnants of Auschwitz and a history of Western monasticism titled The Highest Poverty. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this series, started in 1995, spanning nine books. It is referred to by the title of its first book, which analyzes the power of sovereigns to define the category of “bare life.”
ANSWER: Homo Sacer (by Giorgio Agamben)
[10e] Homo Sacer’s most recent volume is titled The Use of Bodies, a reference to The Use of Pleasure, the second volume of The History of Sexuality by this French author of Discipline and Punish.
ANSWER: Michel Foucault (“foo-KOH”) [or Paul-Michel Foucault]
[10m] Agamben has argued that this concept from The History of Sexuality was already present in ancient societies. Foucault defined this concept as how states control populations by managing their bodies.
ANSWER: biopower [or biopolitics; or biopouvoir; or biopolitique]
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Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
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Arizona State | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
British Columbia | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Chicago A | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
Chicago B | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Georgia State | Ohio State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Georgia Tech | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Illinois A | RIT | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
Indiana | Yale | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
Iowa State | Florida | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Johns Hopkins | Northwestern | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
MIT | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Minnesota | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
North Carolina A | Ottawa | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Rutgers | Toronto C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Stanford | UCF | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
Vanderbilt | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Virginia Tech | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
WUSTL A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Waterloo A | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Waterloo B | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 20 | 22.00 | 100% | 100% | 20% |