Greetings. I'd have to agree with Mr. Lafer on the Australian geography bonus issue. We need to expand the canon with second and third highest mountains. Heck, over Christmas break, I was planning an ACF Regionals packet, and I was planning on including a 30-20-10 name the country given its mountains bonus with an answer of Australia. I guess great minds really do think alike, although for the record, Mr. Lafer has and would kick my butt. Jason Mueller Wishing he had teammates who were willing to play at ACF tournaments --- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, grapesmoker <no_reply_at_y...> wrote: > > Obviously, it is completely a matter of perspective whether or not > > Mt. > > Townsend should be asked or not, but being the author of this > > particular bonus, I feel a certain need to defend it, especially > > since > > it's been singled out from among the hundreds of bonuses in the > set. > > I hope I didn't make it sound as though I was picking on anyone. > This was just the one question that jumped out at me immediately; > there were many others as well. > > > "Importance" is certainly a silly term to throw around when > talking > > about physical geography, at least in this case, since Kosciusko > and > > Townsend are both basically big lumps of rock. > > I don't think I used the word "importance" in my previous post. I > didn't mean to imply that Townsend was not important or somehow > inferior to Kosciusko, since I don't know enough geography to know > what is and what isn't important. However, when someone who is > considered more or less of an expert (or as much of an expert as any > qb player can be) on the subject draws a blank on it, it gives me > pause. In any case, second highest mountains are rarely asked about > precisely for the reason that they are far, far less well known than > the highest mountain in a given range. > > Anyway, I want to stress again that I didn't mean to pick on your > question, it's just the one I happened to think of first.
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