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Packet B: Bonus 5

The majority of this novel consists of the recollections of the narrator while waiting inside a periscope in the Musée des Arts et Métiers (“moo-ZAY day ZAR ay mate-YAY”), which also contains this novel’s title object. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel in which three men use the computer Abulafia to invent an intricate conspiracy theory called The Plan.
ANSWER: Foucault’s Pendulum [or Il pendolo di Foucault]
[10e] The protagonists of Umberto Eco’s novel Foucault’s Pendulum discover a plot for world domination by this medieval order of Catholic knights, who are the guardians of the Holy Grail in The Da Vinci Code.
ANSWER: Knights Templar [or the Templars]
[10h] The Templar plot revolves around controlling these currents of energy, which flow to an “Omphalos” at the center of the earth. Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon describes these forces as a secret communication system through a Hollow Earth.
ANSWER: telluric currents [prompt on Earth currents or currents]
<Virginia Tech A, European Literature> | Packet-B_Harvard-A_UNC-B_Virginia-Tech_Waterloo-A_Yale

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Georgia Tech AGeorgia Tech B1010020ME
Georgia Tech CBruin A10101030MEH
Georgia Tech DAlabama A010010E
Louisville ATennessee A1010020ME

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Florida2025-02-01✓313.33100%33%0%
Great Lakes2025-02-01✓613.3367%50%17%
North2025-02-01✓316.6767%67%33%
Overflow2025-02-01✓516.0080%80%0%
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South Central2025-02-01✓220.00100%100%0%
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UK2025-02-01✓1017.00100%60%10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓818.7588%75%25%
Upstate NY2025-02-01✓310.00100%0%0%