Lord Byron - 2023 ARCADIA - Buzzpoints App

Question

A rumor that this author drank red wine from a skull inspired a scene in which a caricature of this author “drank hot blood from the skull of his enemy.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author, the basis for the gruesome title character of the novel Glenarvon. Glenarvon’s author, Caroline Lamb, called this man “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.”

ANSWER: Lord Byron [or George Gordon, Lord Byron]

[10h] Glenarvon’s full name, along with several of Byron’s real-life traits, were borrowed by another author in creating this character, who kills Aubrey’s lover Ianthe, then marries and kills Aubrey’s sister.

ANSWER: Lord Ruthven [prompt on The Vampyre]

[10e] Lord Ruthven appears in John Polidori’s short story The Vampyre, which he modeled after a horror story that Byron composed during a “ghost writing contest” that also produced this Mary Shelley novel.

ANSWER: Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%

Data


Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
Ottawa A	McDouble West-Carleton	10	0	10	20
Waterloo	Ottawa B	10	0	10	20
Toronto Ray of Sun in the Sky	Ottawa C	10	0	10	20
James Madison A	Duke	0	0	10	10
South Carolina B	James Madison B	10	0	10	20
North Carolina A	NC State	0	0	10	10
North Carolina B	South Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Birmingham	Bristol	10	0	10	20
Emory A	Georgia A	10	0	10	20
Georgia B	Tennessee A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Oxford	Imperial A	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
Durham	Cambridge A	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Warwick	10	0	10	20
George Washington B	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
Georgetown	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins	Maryland A	10	0	10	20
Kenyon A	Kenyon B	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Ohio State A	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	OSU B	0	0	10	10
Arizona State	Zen and the Art of Buzzing	10	0	10	20
Ganon Evans Fan Club	Boston College	0	0	10	10
Farrellmagnetism	MSU A and Friend	10	0	10	20
Cornell MATLAB	Cornell R	10	0	10	20
Missouri A	Squidward Community College	10	10	10	30
WUSTL H2O	SIUE	0	0	10	10
WUSTL XYZ	Missouri B	0	0	10	10
Texas A	tag magnet: taylor's version	10	10	10	30
TAMU	Texas B	0	0	10	10
Texas C	HCC	0	0	10	10