Bonus
The Sherlock Holmes story “The Red-Headed League” ends with Holmes quoting a letter from this author to George Sand that claims, “the man is nothing – the work is everything.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who corresponded extensively with Sand in his later years. A review by Sand praises this author’s novel Salammbo and chastises the critics of his first novel, Madame Bovary.
ANSWER: Gustave Flaubert (“flo-BAIR”)
[10h] Echoing Flaubert’s gender-bending remark “Madame Bovary, c’est moi” (“say mwah”), Sand wrote to him, “it seemed to me that I was” this literary hero. In a novella published alongside the novel Atala, this character lives with the Natchez people.
ANSWER: René (“ruh-NAY”) (He is the title character of René by François-René de Chateaubriand.)
[10m] Flaubert wrote this story from his Three Tales in honor of Sand’s sincere sensibilities. In this story, the kind servant woman Felicité (“fuh-lee-see-TAY”) sees a heavenly vision of her stuffed parrot Loulou as she dies.
ANSWER: “A Simple Heart” [or “Un cœur simple”]
<HG, European Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29 | 14.48 | 97% | 41% | 7% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama A | Tennessee A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Bristol | Cambridge B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Bruin A | Georgia Tech D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Cambridge D | Imperial B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Florida A | UCF B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Florida State A | Florida B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois B | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois C | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Indiana A | Missouri S&T | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Iowa | Georgetown B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Louisville A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Missouri | Indiana B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern A | Northwestern B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Notre Dame A | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Notre Dame C | Georgetown A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Oxford A | LSE | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| Sheffield | Oxford C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford B | Notre Dame B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| TAMU | Texas B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Texas A | ASU | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UBC | UW B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | Claremont B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley B | UCSD | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCF C | Valencia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCLA | Claremont A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UW A | Alberta | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Warwick B | Southampton A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WashU A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WashU B | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |