Bonus
Two years after his only novel, The Rock Pool, flopped, this author explored his own inability to write a great work of literature in his autobiographical book Enemies of Promise. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this English man of letters who co-founded the literary magazine Horizon with Peter Watson in 1940.
ANSWER: Cyril Connolly
[10e] Connolly is satirized as the character of Everard Spruce, the editor of Survival, in this author’s Sword of Honour trilogy. Charles Ryder befriends the wealthy Catholic Flyte family in his novel Brideshead Revisited.
ANSWER: Evelyn Waugh [or Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh]
[10m] A satirical portrait of Cyril Connolly is the character of Ed Spain in this author’s novel The Blessing. The Radlett family are recurring characters in her novels Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love.
ANSWER: Nancy Mitford [prompt on Mitford]
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Conversion
Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cornell A | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Florida | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Georgia State | Waterloo B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Harvard | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Indiana | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Iowa State | Toronto C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Johns Hopkins | MIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
LSE | Arizona State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
Maryland | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
North Carolina A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
North Carolina B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Northwestern | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Ohio State | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Ottawa | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
Penn State | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
RIT | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Rutgers | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Texas | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Toronto B | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
UCF | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Virginia | Winona State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
WUSTL A | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
Waterloo A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Yale | NYU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 15.42 | 96% | 42% | 17% |