Bonus
This disease titles a short story by Edith Wharton, in which Alida Slade reveals she forged the letter that led to an affair between her husband, Delphin, and Grace Ansley. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this disease, which Daisy Miller eventually succumbs to at the end of her namesake novella.
ANSWER: Roman Fever [accept malaria; prompt on fever]
[10m] Daisy Miller is a novella by this American author of The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw.
ANSWER: Henry James
[10e] In The Turn of the Screw, a governess sees Peter Quint and Miss Jessel, two of these beings. In Edith Wharton’s story “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell,” the Brympton family’s estate is haunted by one of these beings.
ANSWER: ghosts [accept clear equivalents such as spirits or phantoms or spectres]
<MIT A, American Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 90 | 18.44 | 100% | 70% | 14% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 20.00 | 100% | 86% | 14% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 67% | 11% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 11 | 21.82 | 100% | 91% | 27% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 56% | 11% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 67% | 11% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 21.11 | 100% | 89% | 22% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 11 | 17.27 | 100% | 55% | 18% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |