New Age - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet F: Bonus 11

Answer the following about zany theories of plant communication from the 1970s, for 10 points each.

[10e] IBM chemist Marcel Vogel drew on this movement to theorize plant communication via energies and crystals. This broad two-word movement that arose in the West in the 1970s involves esoteric spiritual and healing practices.

ANSWER: New Age

[10m] New Age ideas informed an album for plants by Mort Garson titled Mother Earth’s Plantasia, which primarily uses this instrument. Wendy Carlos used this instrument to record the album Switched-On Bach.

ANSWER: Moog (“mohg”) synthesizer [prompt on synthesizers or synths]

[10h] The book The Secret Life of Plants drew on experiments by Cleve Backster that used these devices to theorize that plants have ESP. William Marston, who also created Wonder Woman, invented a prototype of these devices.

ANSWER: polygraphs [or lie detectors]

<TM, Other Academic> | Packet F - Chicago C, McGill C, WashU A, Chicago B

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
85	16.35	58%	61%	45%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	0	20	EM
Berkeley B	Berkeley D	10	10	10	30	EMH
Binghamton A	Binghamton B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis A	Dartmouth B	10	10	0	20	EM
Bruin	Alabama A	0	0	0	0
CWRU A	Ohio State B	0	0	0	0
CWRU B	Ohio State C	0	0	0	0
Central Florida A	Florida B	0	10	10	20	MH
Central Florida C	Florida C	0	10	0	10	M
Chicago A	Indiana B	10	10	0	20	EM
Chicago D	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10	E
Chicago E	Northwestern C	10	0	0	10	E
Claremont	Washington A	10	10	10	30	EMH
Columbia A	Georgetown	10	10	10	30	EMH
Columbia B	NYU C	10	10	0	20	EM
Columbia C	John Jay	10	10	10	30	EMH
Cornell C	Cornell A	0	0	10	10	H
Dartmouth A	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	0	10	E
Edinburgh A	Cambridge A	10	10	10	30	EMH
Edinburgh B	UCL	10	0	0	10	E
Florida A	Central Florida B	10	10	0	20	EM
Georgia Tech A	Washington B	10	10	0	20	EM
Georgia Tech B	WashU B	0	10	10	20	MH
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10	M
Harvard A	Brandeis B	10	10	10	30	EMH
Harvard B	Bowdoin A	0	0	0	0
Illinois B	Illinois A	0	0	10	10	H
Illinois C	Northwestern D	10	10	0	20	EM
Imperial A	Bristol	10	10	10	30	EMH
Imperial B	Birmingham	0	10	0	10	M
Imperial C	City St. George's	10	0	0	10	E
Indiana A	Purdue B	10	10	10	30	EMH
Iowa State	Missouri B	10	10	10	30	EMH
James Madison A	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10	M
James Madison B	VCU	0	0	0	0
Kentucky	Georgia Tech C	10	10	10	30	EMH
LSE	Durham	0	0	0	0
Liberty A	Liberty C	10	0	0	10	E
Louisville B	Alabama B	0	10	0	10	M
MIT	Brown	10	10	0	20	EM
Manchester	Warwick A	10	10	0	20	EM
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins A	0	0	10	10	H
McGill B	Western C	0	0	10	10	H
McMaster A	Toronto F	10	10	10	30	EMH
McMaster B	Brock	0	10	0	10	M
Michigan A	Michigan B	10	10	0	20	EM
Michigan State	Pittsburgh	10	0	0	10	E
Minnesota A	Missouri A	10	10	10	30	EMH
Mississipi State	Louisville A	10	0	0	10	E
NC State A	Duke	10	10	10	30	EMH
NC State B	Virginia	0	0	0	0
NYU A	Rutgers B	0	0	10	10	H
NYU B	Maryland C	10	10	10	30	EMH
North Carolina A	William and Mary	0	0	0	0
North Carolina C	South Carolina B	0	10	10	20	MH
Northwestern B	Notre Dame A	10	10	10	30	EMH
Ohio State A	Michigan C	10	10	10	30	EMH
Ottawa	Waterloo A	10	10	0	20	EM
Oxford A	Cambridge B	10	10	10	30	EMH
Oxford B	Cambridge C	0	10	10	20	MH
Oxford C	Southampton B	10	10	0	20	EM
Purdue A	Indiana C	0	10	0	10	M
Queen's	Simon Fraser	10	10	10	30	EMH
RIT	Penn State	0	10	0	10	M
Rochester	Cornell B	0	0	10	10	H
Sewanee	Vanderbilt B	0	0	0	0
Southampton A	Montpellier	0	10	0	10	M
Stanford B	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20	MH
Swarthmore	Rutgers A	10	10	10	30	EMH
Texas A	Murray State A	10	10	10	30	EMH
Texas B	Texas A&M A	0	0	10	10	H
Toronto B	Carleton University	10	10	10	30	EMH
Toronto D	Toronto C	10	0	10	20	EH
Toronto Metropolitan	Western B	0	0	0	0
UBC A	Western A	10	10	0	20	EM
UC Santa Barbara	UC Irvine	10	10	0	20	EM
UCLA A	Arizona State	10	10	10	30	EMH
UCLA B	UCSD A	10	10	0	20	EM
UCSD C	UCSD B	10	0	10	20	EH
Vassar	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	10	10	10	30	EMH
Wake Forest	South Carolina A	0	0	0	0
Warwick B	Cardiff	10	0	0	10	E
Waterloo B	Guelph	0	0	10	10	H
Yale	Bowdoin B	0	0	0	0

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	23.33	67%	100%	67%
California (South)	Main Site	✓	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
Canada	Main Site	✓	10	18.00	60%	60%	60%
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	16.67	33%	100%	33%
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	9	11.11	33%	44%	33%
Midwest	Main Site	✓	8	17.50	75%	63%	38%
Northeast	Main Site	✓	6	13.33	67%	50%	17%
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	27.50	100%	100%	75%
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	20.00	50%	50%	100%
Southeast	Main Site	✓	7	11.43	29%	57%	29%
UK	Main Site	✓	12	16.67	67%	67%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	20.00	63%	63%	75%
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	7.50	0%	25%	50%