Packet 8: Bonus 18
This animal shares a genus with the spectacled porpoise and Burmeister’s porpoise. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this smallest cetacean, identifiable by dark eye and lip patches. Illegal gillnets set for totoaba in the Gulf of California have endangered this marine mammal.
ANSWER: vaquita [or Phocoena sinus; or P sinus]
[10e] Vaquitas, like other cetaceans, use this sense in which they emit clicks and analyze returning waves to find prey.
ANSWER: echolocation (“echo-location”)
[10m] Vaquitas produce clicks in nasal passages near their blowhole, and those sounds are then focused and directed outward by this fatty organ in the forehead.
ANSWER: melon
<Editors, Biology> | Q. Playoffs 8 (Editors 8)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 19.09 | 100% | 82% | 9% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois A | British Columbia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Johns Hopkins | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| MIT | Georgia Tech C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Northwestern A | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Pittsburgh | Cambridge | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto A | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Vanderbilt | UCLA | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 11 | 19.09 | 100% | 82% | 9% |