Oscar Wilde - 2024 Penn Bowl

Question

In an original fairy tale by this author, a firework claims he “knew [he] should make a great sensation” after exploding unnoticed. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this author of “The Remarkable Rocket,” collected in A House of Pomegranates. This author’s longer prose efforts include The Picture of Dorian Grey.

ANSWER: Oscar Wilde

[10h] In this short story, Wilde’s longest, the title character learns in a palm reading that he will become a murderer. After killing multiple people to fulfill the prophecy, this story's title character kills the palm reader.

ANSWER: “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime”

[10m] Collected alongside “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” is a story in this genre set at Canterville. M. R. James is best known for his stories in this genre, including “'Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad.’”

ANSWER: ghost stories [prompt on horror or Gothic fiction]

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Summary


2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley	11/02/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU	11/02/2024	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago	11/02/2024	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Florida	10/26/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard	10/26/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite	11/02/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest	10/12/2024	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Texas	11/02/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UK	10/26/2024	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2024 Penn Bowl UNC	10/26/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Chicago B	Illinois C	10	0	0	10
Illinois B	Chicago A	10	0	10	20
MIT	Harvard B	10	0	0	10
BU	Yale B	10	0	0	10
UNC C	Duke A	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	UNC A	10	0	10	20
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan B	10	0	0	10
Ohio State B	Michigan A	10	0	0	10
Ohio State C	Michigan State	10	0	0	10
Carnegie Mellon	Pittsburgh	10	0	0	10
Maryland	NYU A	10	0	0	10
Ill-Advised Buzz	We jopping	10	0	10	20
Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas	Khalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co	10	0	10	20
Statler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl Editors	bruh	10	0	10	20
TOAD	Oh you like geography? Name every Forrest.	10	0	10	20
TAMU	Houston	10	0	0	10
Texas A	Texas B	10	0	10	20
3HK1MM	The Crying of Team 49	10	0	10	20
Four Times I Have Despised My Soul	Oxford School for Quizness	10	0	10	20
Limp Chriskit	Gressenheller A	10	0	0	10
LSE	Say it	10	0	10	20
See it	Sorted	10	10	10	30
WUSTL	Northwestern A	10	0	10	20
Northwestern B	SIUE	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame A	Indiana A	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame B	Indiana B	10	0	0	10
Minnesota	Notre Dame C	10	0	10	20
Purdue	Illinois A	10	0	0	10
UCF	UF B	10	0	0	10
UF C	UF A	10	0	0	10
Yale A	Brandeis	10	0	10	20
Harvard A	Tufts	10	0	0	10
Columbia	NYU B	10	0	0	10
JHU A	JHU B	10	0	10	20
UNC B	RIT A	10	0	10	20