Bonus
Martin steals what he believes to be a long-lost Pieter Breughel (“BROY-gull”) painting in this author’s novel Headlong. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this British author, who wrote a play in which the actress Dotty Otley has difficulty remembering what to do with the prop of a plate of sardines while starring in a play directed by Lloyd Dallas.
ANSWER: Michael Frayn (The play is Noises Off.)
[10e] Several characters try to steal a cow creamer that people keep wrongly insisting is Dutch in The Code of the Woosters, a novel by this creator of the valet Jeeves.
ANSWER: P. G. Wodehouse (“wood-house”) [or Pelham Granville Wodehouse]
[10h] In this far less comical novel, Freddie Montgomery bludgeons a housemaid to death with a hammer when she catches him stealing a painting by a Dutch master. This novel is the first in John Banville’s Frames Trilogy.
ANSWER: The Book of Evidence
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Conversion
Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chicago A | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Cornell A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
Cornell B | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Georgia Tech | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Harvard | LSE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Iowa State | MIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Johns Hopkins | UCF | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Maryland | Waterloo A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Michigan | Winona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
NYU | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
North Carolina B | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Northwestern | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Rutgers | Penn State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Toronto A | Waterloo B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Toronto B | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
UC Berkeley A | Texas | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
UC Berkeley B | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Vanderbilt | Ottawa | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Virginia | RIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
WUSTL B | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Yale | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Summary
Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 21 | 13.81 | 91% | 43% | 5% |