John Arbuthnot - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

This member of the Scriblerus (“SCRIB-lur-us”) Club wrote the pamphlet Law Is A Bottomless Pit, which created John Bull, a fat man who personified the United Kingdom. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this physician addressed in a poetic “epistle” by Alexander Pope, which coined the phrases “damn with faint praise” and “break a butterfly upon a wheel.”

ANSWER: John Arbuthnot [accept “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”]

[10h] In “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot,” Pope writes that he saw this author’s “neglected genius bloom.” This member of the Scriblerus Club wrote a long poem about “the Art of Walking the Streets of London.”

ANSWER: John Gay (The poem is Trivia.)

[10e] This other member of the Scriblerus Club showed early drafts of his novel Gulliver’s Travels to his friends Pope, Arbuthnot, and Gay.

ANSWER: Jonathan Swift

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	10	9.00	70%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%

Data


Stanford B	Berkeley B	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford A	0	10	10
Stanford C	Berkeley A	0	10	10
Cornell B	Binghamton	0	10	10
Cornell A	RIT A	0	10	10
RIT B	Cornell C	0	10	10
GWU A (UG)	Maryland A (Grad)	0	10	10
GWU B (Grad)	Roanoke College A (DII)	0	0	0
UNC A (Grad)	Liberty B (DII)	0	10	10
JMU B (UG)	Liberty C (DII)	0	0	0
William & Mary A (UG)	Maryland B (UG)	0	10	10
Duke A (UG)	Maryland C (DII)	0	10	10
JMU A (UG)	UNC C (UG)	0	0	0
UNC B (UG)	UNC D (DII)	0	10	10
Liberty A (Grad)	Virginia B (UG)	10	10	20
Virginia A (UG)	Virginia C (UG)	10	10	20
Arizona State	Iowa State	0	10	10
Minnesota C	Minnesota B	0	10	10
Texas A&M B	Claremont A	0	10	10
UW A	Iowa A	0	10	10
Texas A	Iowa B	10	10	20
Rice A	Appalachian State	0	10	10
Sorbonne	UBC A	0	10	10
Michigan State A	Texas A&M A	0	10	10
Michigan C	Ohio State A	0	10	10
Michigan B	Ohio State B	0	10	10
Columbia A	John Jay	0	10	10
Haverford	Johns Hopkins	0	10	10
NYU A	Columbia B	10	10	20
Columbia C	NYU B	10	10	20
Penn	Vassar	10	10	20
Geodesic	Alabama	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Harding	0	10	10
Kentucky	Vanderbilt B	10	10	20
MTSU	Tennessee	10	10	20
South Carolina	Vanderbilt A	10	10	20