King Leopold’s Soliloquy - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

The speaker of this story claims that “meddlesome missionaries” think “nothing is too trivial to print” for writing about seeing “eighty-one hands drying over a fire.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this satirical story, which includes a pyramid surrounded by rows of skeletons and which was a criticism of the Belgian Congo.

ANSWER: King Leopold’s Soliloquy

[10e] King Leopold’s Soliloquy was written by this American author, who wrote the early time travel story A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.

ANSWER: Mark Twain [accept Samuel Clemens]

[10m] Mark Twain collaborated with Charles Dudley Warner on this satirical novel covering the corruption of post-Civil War US, which is more remembered today for its title rather than its contents.

ANSWER: The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

<GT, American Literature>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	80%	80%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Boston College A	BU	0	10	0	10
Harvard	Boston College B	0	10	10	20
Valencia	UCF B	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Lambert	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Innovation Academy C	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin B	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Amherst	Bowdoin C	0	10	10	20
MIT	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
Tufts B	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
Yale	Clark House	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	North Carolina B	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech B	Virginia Tech A	0	10	10	20
South Carolina	Virginia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Squidward Community College	WashU	0	10	10	20
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	Old and Young	0	10	10	20
Madmen and Specialists	Paddington in Peru (2024)	0	10	10	20
Social credit go vroom	The cult of SGA	0	10	10	20
In the Mood for Buzz	Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	10	10	10	30
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	bingy academy	0	10	10	20
Innovation Academy B	Innovation Academy A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Johns Creek	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Milton	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Innovation Academy B	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
Illinois Blue	SIUE	0	10	10	20
Illinois Orange	Notre Dame	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Bristol	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
LSE A	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Southampton	0	10	10	20
Imperial B	Warwick C	0	0	0	0
Maryland	RIT	0	10	10	20
Pitt	Penn State	0	10	10	20
UF A	UF C	0	10	10	20
UCF A	UF B	0	10	10	20
Florida Tech	USF	0	0	0	0
Berkeley Past	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Stanford	0	10	10	20
Waterloo Aspidistra	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	0	10	0	10
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Carleton A	0	10	0	10
Waterloo Basic	Toronto A	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	0	10	0	10
Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	Toronto Metropolitan A	0	10	0	10
McGill A	Waterloo Cloze	0	10	0	10
SGV Ventures	Claremont	0	10	0	10
Anderson et al.	Jason et al.	0	10	0	10
U[C]SD	ALCU	0	10	10	20