Bonus
The title character of this novel contracts a skin disease called “dragonhide” before being swallowed by the earth and waking up in a kind of hospital that uses incurable patients for power and food. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel in which another character, Duncan Thaw, calmly anticipates an apocalyptic ending while sitting in a hilltop cemetery after meeting his creator, Alasdair Gray.
ANSWER: Lanark [or Lanark: A Life in Four Books]
[10m] Lanark is largely set in Unthank, a dystopian version of this city devoid of daylight. This city is the setting of Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain and James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late.
ANSWER: Glasgow
[10e] Gray wrote Lanark a decade before Poor Things, a send-up of this Mary Shelley novel about a scientist who reanimates dead matter.
ANSWER: Frankenstein [or Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus]
<UCSD, British Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 | 12.78 | 100% | 25% | 3% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binghamton A | ESF A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Brandeis A | Harvard B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge B | Southampton A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Cambridge E | Warwick A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Carleton | Wisconsin B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cornell B | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Cornell D | Cornell C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Duke | Liberty B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Florida A | Valencia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Florida B | UCF C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Florida State A | UCF B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| George Washington A | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Imperial A | Oxford B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Imperial B | Oxford C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Iowa | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Louisville A | Bruin A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| MIT A | Dartmouth A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Manchester | Cambridge A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Maryland A | Maryland B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Michigan B | Michigan D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Michigan C | Michigan A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Michigan State | Ohio State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota B | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Missouri | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| Northwestern A | Notre Dame B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern B | Notre Dame C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers A | Haverford A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Sheffield | LSE | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Tufts A | BU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UW A | Alberta | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UW B | UBC | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Vanderbilt A | Alabama A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech A | UNC B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| William & Mary | Wake Forest | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Wisconsin A | Winona State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |