Bonus
In a novel set in this region, Philip falls in love with the widow of his deceased guardian Ambrose, but comes to suspect that she is poisoning him and may have poisoned Ambrose too. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this region. In a historical novel set here, Dona dresses as a boy so she can join in the adventures of her lover Jean-Benoit Aubéry.
ANSWER: Cornwall [accept Kernow; prompt on South West England; prompt on England; prompt on Great Britain; prompt on the United Kingdom]
[10e] This author used Cornwall as the setting for those two novels, My Cousin Rachel and Frenchman’s Creek. The estate of Manderley is located in Cornwall in her novel Rebecca.
ANSWER: Daphne du Maurier (“doo MORE-ee-ay”)
[10m] In du Maurier’s novel The House on the Strand, Magnus Lane develops a drug that allows people to do this action. At the end of an 1899 novel, a man proves that he did this action by showing two white flowers given to him by a creature who died in a forest fire.
ANSWER: time travel [accept traveling to the future or traveling to the past] (That novella is H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine.)
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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina A | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |