Bonus
A novel’s protagonist fantasizes of finding her mother homeless and kicking over her begging plate before learning that she died in this manner. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this cause of death of Cora’s mother Mabel in The Underground Railroad. Delia’s abusive husband Sykes dies in this manner in Zora Neale Hurston’s story “Sweat.”
ANSWER: snakebite [or snake attack; snake venom; or being bitten by a snake; prompt on venom or poisoning or animal attack]
[10m] A rattlesnake bite in a cave on Jackson’s island leads this character to hallucinate a conversation with Voltaire. Those events occur in Percival Everett’s 2024 reimagining of this 19th-century literary character’s story.
ANSWER: Jim [accept James] (He appears in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.)
[10e] Jim Burden saves the title Czech farmer’s daughter from a rattlesnake in this author’s novel My Ántonia.
ANSWER: Willa Cather
<Sheffield B, American Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 18.40 | 96% | 52% | 36% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASU | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Case Western A | Michigan C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | Illinois C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Columbia B | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Columbia C | Penn A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Harvard B | Harvard A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | WashU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Indiana A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Indiana B | Chicago C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Iowa State | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Liberty C | UNC B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| MIT A | Brandeis A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Michigan B | Carnegie Mellon B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Ohio State B | Michigan A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| RIT B | RIT A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rutgers A | Maryland B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley A | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UCLA | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech A | UNC D | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| WashU A | Chicago D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| William & Mary | UNC C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Winona State | Wisconsin A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Yale A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 26.00 | 100% | 80% | 80% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |