Re: NAQT SCT Remarks

For once we're going to disagree on something Raj ;)
Having moderated this past weekend I recall that question pretty 
well -- I thought the tossup was poorly written -- beginning with a 
reference to the Grand Inquisitor section (albeit not by "name") will 
allow way too many people who have never read the book to power it; 
but the section is indeed often characterized as a "prose poem" -- in 
fact, a couple years ago an ACF tossup with "Grand Inquisitor" as the 
answer used that lead-in.  It's probably in Benet's or some such 
source.

As for another question (not sure if it was in the Div. I set) -- 
there certainly are not 77 avenues in Manhattan (the avenues run 
north/south)...
my 3 cents, Nathan

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, tgallows <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
>      Besides the typo on the Pendleton question, two other (more
> significant) errors I noticed were (1) a tossup referring to the 
Grand
> Inquisitor section of Brothers Karamazov as a poem, and (2) a bonus
> asking about the designer of Seagram Building which did not accept
> Philip Johnson as an answer.  I think those were the only two where 
my
> team actually lost the points because of an error in the question.  

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