Bonus
Due to his daughter’s expensive lifestyle, the vacuum cleaner salesman James Wormold joins MI6, taking up this profession. For 10 points each:
[10e] Before his literary career, Ian Fleming had what profession? Fleming would later create a fictional member of this profession with code number 007 (“double-oh-seven”), James Bond.
ANSWER: spy [or secret agent]
[10h] This MI6 agent satirized the agency in his novel Our Man in Havana. This Catholic novelist was inspired by his time stationed in Sierra Leone to write about the decline of Henry Scobie in The Heart of the Matter.
ANSWER: Graham Greene [or Henry Graham Greene]
[10m] The journalist Thomas Fowler helps assassinate a CIA agent in a Graham Greene novel set in this country, The Quiet American. Tim O’Brien set his short story collection The Things They Carried in this country and the United States.
ANSWER: Vietnam [or Viet Nam; accept North Vietnam or South Vietnam]
<Editors, British Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 106 | 20.38 | 100% | 73% | 31% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claremont A | UCLA C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Claremont B | UCLA F | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Claremont C | UCLA D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCLA A | UC Irvine | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCLA B | UCSD A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCSD B | USC B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| USC A | UC Santa Barbara | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 100% | 71% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 25% | 50% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 56% | 22% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 10 | 21.00 | 100% | 50% | 60% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 21.11 | 100% | 78% | 33% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 23.33 | 100% | 89% | 44% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 27.50 | 100% | 100% | 75% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 12 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 88% | 25% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 23.33 | 100% | 92% | 42% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |