Question
Answer the following about contenders for the United States' first novel. For 10 points each:
[10m] Many consider The Power of Sympathy, a novel by an author with this surname, to be the first American novel. Another novelist with this surname wrote about the biloquist Carwin and the murderous Theodore in Wieland (“WEE-land”).
ANSWER: Brown [or William Hill Brown; or Charles Brockden Brown]
[10e] Some scholars note that a Thomas Digges novel about Alonso, whose title begins with this word, was the first American novel. This is the first noun in the title of a novel whose protagonist fools his friends into painting Aunt Polly's fence.
ANSWER: adventures [or Adventures of Alonso; or The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]
[10h] This author wrote one of the earliest novels about a schoolgirl convinced by John Montraville to run away with him to the US before being abandoned, titled Charlotte Temple.
ANSWER: Susanna Rowson [or Susanna Halwell]
<Noah Sheidlower, American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 25% | 25% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 88% | 63% | 13% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Florida | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 60% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Playtest | 10/12/2024 | N | 4 | 27.50 | 100% | 100% | 75% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Berkeley B | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern B | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Notre Dame B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Illinois C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois B | Minnesota | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Notre Dame A | Notre Dame C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana A | SIUE | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL | Indiana B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UF A | UF B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UF C | UCF | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan State | Ohio State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Brandeis | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| MIT | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BU | Tufts | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Harvard B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| JHU A | Columbia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton | JHU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| 3HK1MM | Oxford School for Quizness | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Sorted | Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| LSE | See it | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Limp Chriskit | Say it | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Crying of Team 49 | Gressenheller A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas B | Houston | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | TAMU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UNC C | Duke A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| RIT A | UNC B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia Tech A | UNC A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |