Packet 20: Bonus 15
At the end of this play, a character mortally wounded by a falling log states his panache (“puh-NOSH”) remains with him. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Edmond Rostand play in which the title character writes love letters to Roxane because the cadet Christian is too shy to approach her.
ANSWER: Cyrano de Bergerac
[10e] Cyrano makes many jokes about this abnormally large feature of his. In the Carlo Collodi novel Pinocchio, this body part of a wooden doll grows when he lies.
ANSWER: the nose [or nez; accept Cyrano’s nose or Pinocchio’s nose]
[10m] As Cyrano is dying, his friends lament that this real-life playwright has plagiarized Cyrano’s work. In a work by this playwright, Argan hides underneath a table as a religious fraud attempts to seduce his wife.
ANSWER: Molière [or Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] (The play is Tartuffe.)
<NYU B, European Literature> | Packet F
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 111 | 17.84 | 100% | 47% | 32% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claremont B | UCLA F | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Irvine | UCLA A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Santa Barbara | USC A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| UCLA C | Claremont A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| UCLA D | Claremont C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCSD A | UCLA B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCSD B | USC B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 18.57 | 100% | 57% | 29% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 25% | 50% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 100% | 22% | 22% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 10 | 19.00 | 100% | 50% | 40% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 38% | 38% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 33% | 44% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 56% | 22% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 12 | 19.17 | 100% | 58% | 33% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| South Central | US | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 20.83 | 100% | 67% | 42% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |