D. H. Lawrence - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

Paul uses the title object to enter a clairvoyant state and win money for his extravagant mother in this author’s story “The Rocking-Horse Winner.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this author who fictionalized himself as Paul Morel in the autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers and wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover.

ANSWER: D. H. Lawrence [or David Herbert Lawrence]

[10m] In Sons and Lovers, Lawrence describes these objects as “disheveled,” a label he reuses for some of these objects that are torn at by “the boy” in a story titled for their “odour.” In a John Steinbeck story, Elisa gives some of these objects to “the man,” who later tosses them out of his wagon.

ANSWER: chrysanthemums [accept “Odour of Chrysanthemums”; prompt on flowers]

[10h] “Odour of Chrysanthemums” was included as the last story in a collection titled for this Lawrence story, in which the title character is killed by a perpetually-parched orderly in revenge for his abuse.

ANSWER: “The Prussian Officer”

<JC, Short Fiction/Other Literature>

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	80%	80%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	10.00	60%	40%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	10.00	88%	13%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	8.57	71%	14%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%

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Michigan B	Ohio State C	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Michigan D	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	Oberlin	0	0	0	0
Ohio State B	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
UCSD	Claremont A	0	0	0	0
Pittsburgh	Ohio State D	10	10	0	20
Lexington	Brandeis	10	10	0	20
Brown	Harvard	0	0	0	0
Belmont	MIT	0	0	0	0
RIT	Boston University	10	0	0	10
Catholic University of America	George Washington	0	0	0	0
Maryland A	George Mason B	10	0	0	10
CWRU	George Mason C	10	0	0	10
Georgetown	NYU B	10	10	0	20
NYU C	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	0	10
Haverford B	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	0	10
Haverford A	Maryland B	10	0	0	10
Rutgers	NYU A	10	0	0	10
Billy's Bastion	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	10	10	0	20
Too much from you lately	Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	10	10	0	20
Keeping Up With the Cardassians	Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	10	0	0	10
Arizona State University A	Alberta	10	10	0	20
Carleton	Arizona State University B	10	0	0	10
UW B	South Dakota School of Mines	10	0	0	10
Washington Connections	UW A	10	10	0	20
Quatumvirate	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	10	10	0	20
Egypt Airlines Haters	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	10	10	0	20
Free Agents 1	Notre Dame + Epic Games	10	0	0	10
Auburn 2026	Goober Gang	10	10	0	20
Illinois Orange	MSJ	10	10	0	20
Mahjonng Masters	mongeese	10	10	0	20
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	evil women enjoyers	10	10	10	30
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	we need new names	10	10	0	20
Art of Premature Signaling	girl 15 whale i mean they	10	10	0	20
Jason B	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
Warwick A	Sheffield B	10	0	0	10
Warwick C	Warwick B	0	0	0	0
Birmingham	Sheffield C	10	0	0	10
Cambridge	Imperial A	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh	Imperial B	0	0	0	0
LSE	Lancaster	10	10	0	20
Sheffield A	Manchester	10	0	0	10
Master and Margaritaville	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	10	10	0	20
Somehow Paula Deen Returned	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	10	10	0	20
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	10	10	10	30
UCLA A	Caltech	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	Truman State	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Missouri	10	0	0	10
WashU Bulbasaur	SIUE	10	10	10	30
WashU Bulbasaur	SIUE	10	10	0	20
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
WashU Bulbasaur	SIUE	10	10	10	30
WashU Bulbasaur	SIUE	10	10	0	20
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
WashU Squirtle	Chicago A	0	0	0	0
UCLA B	UCSB	0	0	0	0