Bonus
At the end of the story in which this character appears, we are told that “his soul swooned slowly, as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe… upon all the living and the dead.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character whose lovemaking with his wife is interrupted when she remembers her old love Michael Furey after hearing “The Lass of Aughrim.”
ANSWER: Gabriel Conroy [or Gabriel Conroy]
[10m] Gabriel Conroy appears in “The Dead,” which is set in this European capital city and appears alongside stories like “Araby” and “Grace” in a 1914 short story collection named for it.
ANSWER: Dublin [or Baile Átha Cliath]
[10e] This Irish author reused many of the characters from his stories in Dubliners in his novel Ulysses. The neologism “riverrun” begins this author’s notoriously difficult novel Finnegans Wake.
ANSWER: James Joyce
<Briticisers, British Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | 11.54 | 100% | 15% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | Imperial B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Bristol | Imperial A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge B | LSE | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Cambridge C | Imperial D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge D | Cardiff | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge E | Cambridge A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Durham A | York | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Durham C | Durham D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Edinburgh A | Edinburgh C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Edinburgh D | Sheffield A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Sheffield B | Durham B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Southampton | Oxford | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Warwick | Imperial C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 100% | 13% | 0% |