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Round 18: Tossup 13

Donald Lines Jacobus, who wrote that this field has become “truly democratic” in America, scrutinized inaccuracies in sources like Virkus’s Compendium. “One-place studies” in this field may examine clusters and collaterals. Karin Wulf’s 2025 book on this field in British America describes how its data reified the doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem and how it was diagrammed by John Speed in the King James Bible. (10[1])A “yearbook” in this field was catalogued by the Almanach de Gotha (10[1])(“GO-tah”). Knowledge of this field is recited selectively in tātai hikohiko, (10[1])a Māori approach to whakapapa (10[1]-5[1])(“FAH-ka-pa-pa”). The LDS Church (10[2])runs 4,600 (10[1])centers (10[4])with records in this field, (10[7])whose scholars (10[2])research (10[1])celebrities on a PBS show (10[1])hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (10[1])For 10 points, a philosophical method used by Nietzsche and Foucault is named for what field that produces family trees? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: genealogy [or word forms of genealogies or genealogical; accept family history, family histories, family research, or heritage science; accept ancestry or lineage; accept genealogical method or genetic genealogy; prompt on genetics, heredity, inheritance, kinship, or word forms of any] (Jacobus wrote Genealogy As Pastime and Profession. Wulf wrote Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America. Gates is the host of Finding Your Roots.)

<Editors, Other Academic> | R. Playoffs 9 (Editors 9)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Harvard	64	10
Todd Maslyk	Michigan	Johns Hopkins	76	10
Claire Jones	Chicago A	Columbia A	86	10
Brendan Bethlehem	Cambridge	Toronto B	91	10
Ariel Faeder	Pittsburgh	UCLA	91	-5
Michael Du	Waterloo	Swarthmore	94	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Bruin	94	10
Olin Bose	Columbia B	Ohio State	96	10
William Houston	Chicago B	North Carolina	97	10
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU A	Northwestern A	97	10
Nolan Jones	Purdue	Cornell	97	10
Ryan Fang	Stanford B	Georgia Tech B	97	10
Charles Hang	WashU	British Columbia	102	10
Athena Shadden	Texas	MIT	102	10
Stephen Walsh	Northwestern B	Maryland B	102	10
Evan Schleck	Georgetown	UCF	102	10
Anuttam Ramji	UC Berkeley B	Toronto A	102	10
Truman Hill	Vanderbilt	Minnesota	102	10
Orion Keller	Virginia Tech	Maryland A	102	10
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU B	Penn State	104	10
Aiden Dartley	Rutgers	Georgia Tech A	104	10
Vivian Malouf	UC Berkeley A	Stanford A	105	10
Shardul Parthasarathy	Illinois B	Brown	110	10
Arjun Kala	Illinois A	Georgia Tech C	116	10
Karthik Jayaram	UCLA	Pittsburgh	137	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
Main Site	2026-04-17	✓	24	100%	4%	99.13