Round 10: Tossup 17
A scene in this novella describes how “a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment” after the death of a character whose body “flopped like a fish.” A character in this novella threatens to get a man with a crooked back “strung up on a tree,” and later bemoans how she married a man who wears a Vaseline-filled glove. In this novella, Carlson shoots the handyman Candy’s aging dog. In this novella, a character who dreams he’ll “live on the fatta the lan’” is killed to stop him from being lynched for strangling Curley’s wife. For 10 points, what John Steinbeck novella ends with George shooting Lennie? ■END■
ANSWER: Of Mice and Men
<Editors, American Literature> | Packet K
= Average correct buzz position
Buzzes
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | TUH | Conv. % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | 5 | 100% | 0% | 67.00 |
| UK (South) | UK | 8 | 88% | 25% | 62.43 |
| Northern California | US | 1 | 100% | 0% | 63.00 |
| Southern California | US | 7 | 100% | 0% | 72.86 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | 5 | 100% | 20% | 88.80 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | 9 | 89% | 11% | 89.25 |
| Florida | US | 1 | 100% | 100% | 112.00 |
| Great Lakes | US | 12 | 100% | 8% | 80.42 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | 9 | 89% | 33% | 88.88 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | 12 | 100% | 8% | 78.33 |
| Midwest | US | 9 | 100% | 0% | 72.22 |
| North | US | 1 | 100% | 0% | 66.00 |
| Northeast | US | 12 | 100% | 0% | 75.33 |
| Pacific | US | 9 | 89% | 22% | 88.88 |
| South Central | US | 4 | 100% | 25% | 66.50 |
| Southeast | US | 13 | 100% | 15% | 75.08 |
| Upstate NY | US | 5 | 100% | 20% | 83.80 |