Packet B: Bonus 3
When poked and stirred, the speaker of this poem is found to contain “A cake of soap, / A wedding ring,” and “A gold filling.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poem, in which “a smiling woman” who is “only thirty,” proclaims “I rise with my red hair and / I eat men like air.”
ANSWER: “Lady Lazarus”
[10e] This author of “Lady Lazarus” described “a man in black with a Meinkampf look” in the poem “Daddy.”
ANSWER: Sylvia Plath
[10h] Ten years after Plath’s death, Robin Morgan accused this man of “the murder of Sylvia Plath” in the poem “Arraignment.” This author’s poem “The Thought-Fox” appears in his collection The Hawk in the Rain.
ANSWER: Ted Hughes [or Edward James Hughes]
<Claremont A, American Literature> | Packet B
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128 | 16.02 | 83% | 34% | 44% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carleton A | McGill C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| McGill A | Carleton B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Ottawa B | Ottawa C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Ottawa D | McGill E | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EH |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | Main | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 25% | 25% |
| Southern California | Main | ✓ | 7 | 11.43 | 86% | 14% | 14% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | ✓ | 4 | 27.50 | 100% | 75% | 100% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | ✓ | 9 | 20.00 | 89% | 56% | 56% |
| Florida | Main | ✓ | 4 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main | ✓ | 11 | 20.00 | 100% | 46% | 55% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 9 | 18.89 | 89% | 56% | 44% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 12 | 13.33 | 83% | 17% | 33% |
| Midwest | Main | ✓ | 9 | 17.78 | 89% | 33% | 56% |
| North | Main | ✓ | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 25% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main | ✓ | 12 | 16.67 | 83% | 33% | 50% |
| Pacific | Main | ✓ | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 38% | 50% |
| South Central | Main | ✓ | 6 | 13.33 | 83% | 33% | 17% |
| Southeast | Main | ✓ | 12 | 20.00 | 92% | 50% | 58% |
| Upstate NY | Main | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 20% | 20% |
| UK (North) | UK | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 20% | 80% |
| UK (South) | UK | ✓ | 7 | 8.57 | 43% | 0% | 43% |