origin of human language - 2024 Chicago Open

Question

Description acceptable. This event grew out of the “putting the baby down” strategy according to Dean Falk. A proliferation of books on this event, like Ernest Renan’s, led the SLP to ban all discussion of it (15[1])in 1866. Naïve theories of this event were given mocking names like pooh-pooh, yo-he-ho, bow-wow, and ding-dong by Max Müller. (15[1])A book titled for this event by Merritt Ruhlen uses “multilateral comparison” to speculate about its first results in a discredited extreme of the tendency of (*) “lumpers” versus “splitters.” Robin Dunbar suggests (-5[1])that this event made “manual grooming” obsolete (-5[1])as a bonding mechanism. (10[1])A just-so story (-5[1])that connects this event to mimicry of animals like sheep (-5[1])is offered in (10[2])J. G. Herder’s treatise titled for it, (10[2])which is often collected with Jean Jacques Rousseau’s. For 10 points, what event around 300,000 years ago (-5[1])saw humans (10[1]-5[1])gain a unique symbolic ability? ■END■ (10[4]0[3])

ANSWER: origin of human language [accept emergence or invention or evolution or synonyms in place of “origin”; accept synonyms of speech, gossip, motherese, or baby talk in place of “language”; accept the origin of proto-language, proto-world, or proto-sapiens; accept On The Origin of Languages, De l’Origine Du Langage, Essai sur l’origine des langues, or Ursprung der Sprache; prompt on linguogenesis]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Lou	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	35	15
Natan Holtzman	Lisan al-Quib	The Oldest Men in the World	55	15
Ved Muthusamy	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	87	-5
Anuttam Ramji	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	94	-5
Matt Weiner	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	98	10
Nick Jensen	LMM's LLM MLM	Punished "Venom" BHSU	101	-5
Iain Carpenter	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	111	-5
Eric Chen	Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy	Les Missourables	114	10
Conor Thompson	Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	114	10
Aseem Keyal	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	121	10
John Lawrence	BHSU B	The Empire Bikes Back	121	10
Walter Zhao	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	138	-5
Chris Ray	We Need New Names	The Dyatlov Passement incident	140	10
Corry Wang	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	The Jeam Team	140	-5
Nathan Zhang	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	146	0
Ryan Westbrook	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	146	0
Vincent Du	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	146	10
Andrew Hart	Punished "Venom" BHSU	LMM's LLM MLM	146	10
Rasheeq Azad	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	var merchants	146	10
Jorrest Weintraub	The Jeam Team	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	146	0
John Marvin	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	146	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	15	80%	13%	40%	115.17