Packet 1: Tossup 12

A eugenicist from this family created the trope of tinfoil hats in his story about Hascombe scientifically simulating the religion of Bugala’s African kingdom, “The Tissue-Culture King.” A woman from this family observes leopard droppings in her memoir of colonial Kenya, The Flame Trees of Thika. (10[1])This family included (10[1])the founder of the X Club and the first director-general (10[1])of UNESCO, (10[1])who (10[1])promoted secular education in (-5[1])British East Africa, (10[1])co-founded Humanists International, (10[1])and coined the term “modern synthesis.” Along with Rolf Niedergerke, (10[1])a physiologist from this family discovered muscles’ sliding filaments. In an 1860 Oxford debate, Samuel Wilberforce asked this (10[1])family’s (10[2])patriarch (10[1])which of his grandparents (10[1]-5[1])was a monkey. (10[2]-5[2])For 10 points, (10[1])what family included “Darwin’s bulldog” (-5[2])and the author who imagined hatcheries of Alpha-pluses (10[1])in Brave New World? (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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