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Question

A story by this author concludes “The experiment has failed. We have begun too late.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this British author who took his pen name from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat. This author wrote the stories “The Open Window” and “The Interlopers.”

ANSWER: Saki [or Hector Hugh Munro]

[10h] In this story by Saki, the title objects include a “municipal dust-bin” and a figure of the “distinguished civilian, John Stuart Mill.” Harvey Bope gives the title objects of this story to his nephews, proving their violent tendencies.

ANSWER: “The Toys of Peace”

[10m] The collection The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers includes a story about these animals “of Cernogratz.” “The Interlopers” ends with Ulrich saying the name of these animals to his rival Georg.

ANSWER: wolves [accept a wolf or “The Wolves of Cernogratz”]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	10.00	57%	43%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	18.89	100%	78%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	8	11.25	63%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	7	5.71	43%	14%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	4	7.50	25%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	8	10.00	75%	25%	0%

Data


Rowan A	Bard A	0	0	0	0
Ohio State C (DII)	CWRU A (UG)	10	0	10	20
Oregon State	McGill E	0	0	0	0
Colorado College	Texas C	0	0	0	0
Florida Tech A	UF D	0	0	0	0
Imperial A	Cambridge B	10	0	0	10
Manchester	Cambridge C	10	0	0	10
Kenyon A (UG)	CWRU C (UG)	0	0	0	0
Michigan C (UG)	CWRU B (UG)	0	0	0	0
Michigan State C (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	0	0	0	0
Pitt A	Michigan State A	10	0	10	20
Pitt B (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State A (UG)	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Ohio State B (DII)	10	0	10	20
Southampton B	Oxford B	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia B	10	0	10	20
Haverford A	Princeton A	10	0	0	10
Rutgers A	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	10	20
Penn B	Penn A	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Penn State A	10	0	10	20
Penn State B	Rutgers C	0	0	0	0
Indiana A	Purdue A	10	0	10	20
UIUC D	Miami	10	0	10	20
Northwestern A	Notre Dame	10	0	0	10
Purdue B	SIUE A	10	0	10	20
Purdue C	WashU C	10	0	0	10
Indiana B	UChicago D	10	0	10	20
UIUC A	UChicago C	10	0	10	20
UIUC B	WashU B	10	10	10	30
UIUC C	UChicago B	10	0	10	20
Iowa	Missouri	10	0	0	10
Mississippi State	Central Oklahoma	10	0	0	10
Texas A	Vassar A	10	0	10	20
Texas D	Vassar B	0	0	0	0
WUSTL A	NYU B	0	0	0	0
UCF A	Florida State University A	10	0	10	20
UCF B	UF B	0	0	10	10
UF E	UF F	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Bristol A	10	0	10	20
Southampton A	Cambridge D	10	0	0	10
Birmingham	Durham	10	0	0	10
Warwick A	Imperial B	0	0	0	0
Oxford A	LSE A	10	0	10	20