Question
A poet from this country wrote about a “part vulture, part wolf / part neither” that “seemed to know the harbour” in his poem “The Shark.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country of E. J. Pratt, who was the subject of “Silence in the Sea” by Northrop Frye, a critic from here. A fictional village in this country names The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies.
ANSWER: Canada
[10h] In “Silence in the Sea,” Frye claims that this author’s works were “popular” rather than “serious poetry.” A poem by this author describes the “strange things done in the midnight sun” during a gold rush.
ANSWER: Robert W. Service [or Robert William Service] (The poem is “The Cremation of Sam McGee.”)
[10e] Canadian schoolchildren often recite a poem written during this event that begins “In Flanders fields, the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row.” This event also inspired Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est.”
ANSWER: World War I [or WWI or the First World War or the Great War]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 38% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 86% | 29% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 75% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 11 | 18.18 | 100% | 55% | 27% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
Data
| Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford M | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Alabama A | Emory A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech C | Auburn A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech E | Auburn C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Clemson A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech B | Auburn B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Emory B | Georgia Tech D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Tennesse A | Georgia Tech F | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Tennesse B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | CWRU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Kenyon A (UG) | CWRU D (DII) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan D (DII) | Michigan B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan C (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State C (DII) | Michigan State B (UG) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Kenyon B (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pitt B (UG) | Michigan State C (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU B | Arkansas | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa | Oregon State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Mississippi State | McGill E | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Missouri | Colorado College | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Ole Miss | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas A | Vassar B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Central Oklahoma | Texas C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Texas D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UW A | Alberta | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| SFU | UBC A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UW B | UBC B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UCF A | UF E | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UF D | UCF B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UF B | Florida State University A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UF A | UF C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley A | Stanford L | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| LSE B | Bristol B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Oxford A | Cambridge B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge A | Cambridge C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Southampton | Cambridge D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Durham B | Edinburgh | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| LSE A | Bristol A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Manchester | Imperial A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Durham A | Oxford B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Southampton A | Warwick A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt | Warwick B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Amherst A | Bowdoin B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Williams A | Boston University B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| BU A | Bowdoin A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Tufts B | Brandeises Brew | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Brown A | Harvard A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Tufts A | Carabrandeis | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale B | Clark A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| A Brandeis Supreme | Diamond Brandeis | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | MIT A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northeastern A | Yale C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial B | Birmingham | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |