Bonus

Answer the following about French written works with falsified attributions, for 10 points each.
[10m] Prosper Mérimée had to tell this author that the “Illyric poetry” book La Guzla was a hoax after this poet began to translate it. Mérimée translated a story by this author in which Hermann learns a gambling secret from a dead countess.
ANSWER: Aleksandr Pushkin [or Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin] (The story is “The Queen of Spades.”)
[10h] A fictional German archaeologist “unearthed” this collection, which attempted to lend credence to its supposed Greek origins via sections titled for Pamphylia and Mytilene. Pierre Louÿs (“loo-EESE”) wrote this collection of lesbian poetry.
ANSWER: The Songs of Bilitis [or Les Chansons de Bilitis]
[10e] In the 1860s, Denis Vrain-Lucas forged over 20,000 documents before being caught trying to dupe the French Academy of Sciences into thinking that gravity was first discovered by this author of Pensées (“pawn-SAY”).
ANSWER: Blaise Pascal
<Minnesota A, European Literature>

EditionsHeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
12113.3376%48%10%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Cambridge BManchester1001020ME
Cambridge CSheffield001010E
Cambridge DWarwick A0000
Chicago AIndiana A1001020ME
Chicago BWashU B001010E
Chicago DIllinois C0000
Columbia BMaryland B001010E
Illinois AIllinois B1001020ME
IowaNorthwestern A0000
Johns Hopkins AHaverford A10101030MHE
LSECambridge A001010E
MIT AHarvard A001010E
Maryland APenn A0101020HE
NYU APenn B1001020ME
Oxford AImperial A1001020ME
Rutgers AColumbia C001010E
Stanford BPurdue1001020ME
UBCUW B001010E
Virginia AUNC B100010M
WashU AMissouri100010M
Yale ACornell B1001020ME

Summary

TournamentEditionHeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01110.000%100%0%
Midwest2025-02-01512.0060%60%0%
Northeast2025-02-01110.00100%0%0%
Overflow2025-02-01210.0050%50%0%
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01110.00100%0%0%
UK2025-02-01512.0080%40%0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01618.33100%50%33%