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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
Berkeley A	Stanford L	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
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
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
Imperial B	Birmingham	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
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
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
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