Packet 1: Bonus 16
The title poem of this collection describes “great slime kings” that “were gathered ... for vengeance.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poetry collection. In this collection, the author mourns his brother, who is buried in “a four-foot box, a foot for every year” in the poem “Mid-Term Break.”
ANSWER: Death of a Naturalist
[10e] Name this fifth Roman emperor who allegedly fiddled during the Great Fire of Rome.
ANSWER: Nero [or Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; or Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus]
[10m] Death of a Naturalist is a poetry collection by this Irish poet. This poet repeated the line “between my finger and my thumb / the squat pen rests” in his poem “Digging.”
ANSWER: Seamus Heaney (“SHAY-mus HEE-nee”) [or Seamus Justin Heaney]
[10h] After the Great Fire of Rome, Nero claimed a destroyed neighborhood on the Oppian Hill to build this complex. The Colosseum was later built on the site of this complex, taking its name from a statue of Nero as Sol.
ANSWER: Domus Aurea [or Golden House]
[10e] In 1999, Heaney released his translation of this Old English epic poem, notably translating its first word, “hwaet,” as “so.” In this poem, the title Geatish warrior kills the monster Grendel.
ANSWER: Beowulf
[10m] Besides the Colosseum, the Domus Aurea’s ruins were also built over by Titus and Trajan with two of these locations. In ancient Rome, hypocausts in these locations used stacks of tiles to heat their caldaria and tepidaria.
ANSWER: baths [or bathhouses; or thermae; or balneae]
<UBC A, British Literature> | Packet A
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 108 | 15.09 | 99% | 42% | 10% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia A | Maryland C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| George Mason C | George Mason B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Johns Hopkins | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| NYU A | Rutgers C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| NYU B | Maryland A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Penn | Maryland B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Rowan | George Mason A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Rutgers A | NYU C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Rutgers B | Vassar B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Rutgers D | Lehigh A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Stony Brook | Princeton | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Vassar A | Lehigh B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 7 | 18.57 | 100% | 71% | 14% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 11.43 | 100% | 14% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 10 | 20.00 | 100% | 70% | 30% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 11 | 12.73 | 100% | 27% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 89% | 33% | 11% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| South Central | US | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 16.67 | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |