Question
During a ghost hunt at a Vermont farmhouse, this movement’s founder met Henry Steel Olcott. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this mystical movement based out of Adyar, India. Koot Hoomi was one of the mahatmas, or Ascended Masters, of this esoteric movement.
ANSWER: Theosophy [or Theosophical Society]
[10h] Theosophy founder Helena Blavatsky believed in this idea that a fluid aether consisting of astral light contained all memories and knowledge and could be accessed through clairvoyance.
ANSWER: Akashic records
[10e] Theosophy inspired this synesthetic Russian composer’s Prometheus: Poem of Fire. His Mysterium was intended to be played in the Himalayas to signal the dawn of a new world.
ANSWER: Alexander Scriabin [or Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Claremont A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Rutgers A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago C | Michigan A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Duke A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida B | MIT A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Iowa State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Houston A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| McGill A | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Minnesota A | Penn A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Rutgers B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Illinois A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Purdue A | Florida A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Indiana A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Yale A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |