Question
After returning from 33 years abroad, Spencer Brydon becomes fixated on a character of this type who, unlike him, works in business, sports a pince-nez, and is missing two fingers on one hand. For 10 points each:
[10m] What type of character lives in a Manhattan house nicknamed “The Jolly Corner”? In a novella, Miles exclaims the name of one of these characters with the phrase “Peter Quint, you devil!”
ANSWER: ghost [accept synonyms including specter or apparition or phantom or poltergeists or spirits; accept an alter-ego; prompt on dead characters; prompt on a servant or a valet with “What non-occupational quality does the character apparently have?”]
[10e] This author of “The Jolly Corner” wrote The Turn of the Screw.
ANSWER: Henry James
[10h] This prolific author of ghost stories described a woman who mysteriously wakes up in an empty snowbound house in “All Souls.” A less freaky story by this author set near the Colosseum ends with the retort “I had Barbara.”
ANSWER: Edith Wharton [or Edith Newbold Jones] (The last story is “Roman Fever.”)
<Literature - American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 8.33 | 50% | 17% | 17% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 83% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
Data
| Princeton | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lehigh A | Columbia C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NYU B | Gatherer | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Bard | NYU C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rutgers | Lehigh B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia B | Yale | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn State B | Michigan B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina | Iowa | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio | Michigan C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL | Ohio State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL | Belmont | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech A | USN A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | MTSU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL C | SIUE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Truman State | WUSTL J | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL A | Squidward Community College | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto Penguin World War | Ottawa | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl | Toronto Sprout | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Waterloo Cali | Toronto cDNA | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto Pilk | Waterloo Bust | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |