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At the end of a short story in which this object is found in the ruins of a Templar preceptory, a colonel walks out of the Globe Inn and throws this object “as far into the sea as a very brawny arm could send it.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this bronze object with two Latin inscriptions, one of which the protagonist, Parkins, translates as “Who is this who is coming?”.
ANSWER: the whistle from “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”
[10e] That whistle appears in M. R. James’s story “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad,” which takes its title from a poem by this author. This author’s poem “To a Mouse” supplied the title of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.
ANSWER: Robert Burns [or Rabbie Burns]
[10m] James praised this author’s ability to inspire terror and wrote an introduction to his novel Uncle Silas. This Irish Gothic author wrote the vampire novella Carmilla.
ANSWER: Sheridan Le Fanu (“LEFF-un-yoo”) [or Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StateNorth Carolina B0101020EM
British ColumbiaMichigan010010E
Chicago AToronto B0101020EM
Chicago BIllinois A0101020EM
Columbia AWinona State0101020EM
Cornell AMaryland0101020EM
HarvardVanderbilt010010E
Illinois BWUSTL A010010E
LSENorth Carolina A0101020EM
MITCornell B010010E
NYUToronto C10101030HEM
Ohio StateUC Berkeley B010010E
OttawaWaterloo A0101020EM
StanfordGeorgia State0101020EM
TexasToronto A10101030HEM
UC Berkeley AColumbia B0101020EM
UCFNorthwestern0101020EM
VirginiaRutgers010010E
Virginia TechJohns Hopkins10101030HEM
Waterloo BGeorgia Tech010010E
YaleFlorida010010E

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2117.62100%62%14%