Bonus

This author laments a philosopher’s absence in Encyclopaedia Britannica’s 14th edition to open the essay “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author of a story in which he finds a forged copy of the Anglo-American Cyclopaedia detailing the fictional country of Uqbar.
ANSWER: Jorge Luis Borges (The story is “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.”)
[10m] Uqbar’s discovery is credited to “the conjunction of [one of these objects] and an encyclopedia,” as it has a quote reading, “[these objects] and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men.”
ANSWER: mirrors [or espejos]
[10h] This author’s The Library at Night praises a Borges story in which a “Bouvard-and-Pécuchet-like” congress compiles a universal encyclopedia. This Argentine author of A History of Reading recalled reciting pages of Britannica in his memoir With Borges.
ANSWER: Alberto Manguel (The story is “The Congress.”)
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StateYale1010020EM
Chicago AIllinois A1010020EM
Columbia BWinona State100010E
Cornell AJohns Hopkins1010020EM
Cornell BNorth Carolina B0000
Georgia StateFlorida1010020EM
Georgia TechIowa State1010020EM
HarvardChicago B1010020EM
IndianaNorthwestern1010020EM
LSEPenn State1010020EM
MarylandOhio State100010E
OttawaUC Berkeley B1010020EM
RITMichigan100010E
RutgersNorth Carolina A010010M
StanfordWaterloo A1010020EM
Toronto AWUSTL A1010020EM
Toronto BTexas1010020EM
Toronto CMinnesota1010020EM
UC Berkeley AColumbia A1010020EM
UCFIllinois B1010020EM
VirginiaVanderbilt100010E
Virginia TechMIT1010020EM
WUSTL BNYU010010M
Waterloo BBritish Columbia100010E

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2416.2588%75%0%