Bonus

Answer the following about authors who wrote mystery novels involving trees, for 10 points each.
[10e] This prolific author began including courtroom elements in her mystery novel Sad Cypress, one of the dozens of books she wrote featuring Hercule Poirot (“air-KYOOL pwa-ROH”).
ANSWER: Agatha Christie [or Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan; or Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller]
[10m] Squire Vane disappears among a grove of possibly eldritch “peacock trees” in this author’s mystery novella The Trees of Pride. This Catholic author also wrote The Napoleon of Notting Hill and created the priest-detective Father Brown.
ANSWER: G. K. Chesterton [or Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
[10h] Toby suffers from PTSD in this author’s 2018 mystery thriller The Witch Elm. Adam is found crawling out of the woods with slashes on his back in this American-Irish author’s novel In the Woods, which is part of her Dublin Murder Squad series.
ANSWER: Tana French
<TH, British Literature>

EditionsHeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
11516.00100%60%0%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Brandeis BHarvard A100010E
Carnegie Mellon BCarnegie Mellon A100010E
Chicago AIndiana B1010020EM
Chicago BIllinois C1010020EM
Harvard BBrandeis A100010E
Illinois AChicago D1010020EM
KenyonMichigan D100010E
MIT ABrown A100010E
Michigan ACase Western A1010020EM
Michigan CCase Western B1010020EM
Ohio State AMichigan B1010020EM
Ohio State BMichigan State1010020EM
Virginia AVirginia Tech A100010E
WashU AIndiana A1010020EM
WashU BMissouri S&T1010020EM

Summary

TournamentEditionHeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
Great Lakes2025-02-01616.67100%67%0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01110.00100%0%0%
Midwest2025-02-01520.00100%100%0%
Northeast2025-02-01310.00100%0%0%