Bonus

A photograph in this book shows an operating room at Étaples (“ay-TAH-pluh”) cluttered with surgical instruments and severed limbs. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this memoir that describes the author’s time working in the Voluntary Aid Detachment. Its sequel further develops the theme of its author’s friendship with Winifred Holtby.
ANSWER: Testament of Youth (by Vera Brittain)
[10e] Much of Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth takes place during this conflict, during which Wilfred Owen produced poems like “Echoes from the Trenches.”
ANSWER: World War I [or First World War; accept the Great War]
[10m] The opening pages of Testament of Youth compare it with this other memoir, whose author describes his lung being pierced by shrapnel at the Battle of the Somme. It was written five years before a historical novel by the same author that ends with the assassination of Caligula.
ANSWER: Good-Bye to All That (by Robert Graves. The latter novel is I, Claudius.)
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Chicago AWUSTL B0101020EM
Columbia ABritish Columbia0101020EM
Cornell ALSE010010E
FloridaMIT010010E
Georgia StateVirginia Tech10101030HEM
Georgia TechColumbia B0101020EM
IndianaWUSTL A010010E
Iowa StateCornell B0101020EM
MarylandNorth Carolina A0101020EM
NorthwesternOhio State0101020EM
Penn StateIllinois A0101020EM
RITChicago B010010E
RutgersNYU0101020EM
TexasWaterloo B010010E
Toronto AUC Berkeley A0101020EM
Toronto BMinnesota0101020EM
UC Berkeley BJohns Hopkins0101020EM
VirginiaToronto C010010E
Waterloo AHarvard0101020EM
YaleIllinois B0101020EM

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2017.50100%70%5%