The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

A notice from the “Chief of Ordinance” G.G. appears at the start of this novel warning readers of the various punishments for attempting to find a motive, moral, or plot in the narrative. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this novel which also contains an explanation of its early use of regional vernacular like the Pike-County and South-Western dialects.

ANSWER: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

[10e] The opening lines of Huckleberry Finn warn that readers might have an advantage if they’ve read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which was made by this author, who “told the truth, mainly.”

ANSWER: Mark Twain [or Samuel Langhorne Clemens]

[10m] Huck lies about his family being on a wrecked ship named after this author. This author, who Twain claimed was “in great measure responsible for the war,” wrote a series that included the sub-series Tales of My Landlord.

ANSWER: Sir Walter Scott

<JC, Long Fiction>

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	0%	40%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	100%	0%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	75%	25%	50%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	17.50	100%	13%	63%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%

Data


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