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Question

Due to his daughter’s expensive lifestyle, the vacuum cleaner salesman James Wormold joins MI6, taking up this profession. For 10 points each:

[10e] Before his literary career, Ian Fleming had what profession? Fleming would later create a fictional member of this profession with code number 007 (“double-oh-seven”), James Bond.

ANSWER: spy [or secret agent]

[10h] This MI6 agent satirized the agency in his novel Our Man in Havana. This Catholic novelist was inspired by his time stationed in Sierra Leone to write about the decline of Henry Scobie in The Heart of the Matter.

ANSWER: Graham Greene [or Henry Graham Greene]

[10m] The journalist Thomas Fowler helps assassinate a CIA agent in a Graham Greene novel set in this country, The Quiet American. Tim O’Brien set his short story collection The Things They Carried in this country and the United States.

ANSWER: Vietnam [or Viet Nam; accept North Vietnam or South Vietnam]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	17.14	100%	71%	0%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	25%	50%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	17.78	100%	56%	22%
Florida	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	10	21.00	100%	50%	60%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	21.11	100%	78%	33%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	23.33	100%	89%	44%
North	Main	Y	4	27.50	100%	100%	75%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	21.25	100%	88%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	23.33	100%	92%	42%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%

Data


Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Boss Bandit	10	0	10	20
Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Little Prince	10	10	10	30
UCSC	Stanford A	10	0	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley Archer Queen	10	0	10	20
Claremont A	UCLA C	10	0	10	20
UCLA A	UC Irvine	10	0	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD A	10	0	10	20
Claremont C	UCLA D	10	0	10	20
Claremont B	UCLA F	10	0	10	20
UCSD B	USC B	10	0	0	10
USC A	UC Santa Barbara	10	0	0	10
McGill A	Ottawa A	10	0	0	10
McGill C	Ottawa C	10	10	10	30
Ottawa B	McGill B	10	10	0	20
Ottawa D	Carleton B	10	0	0	10
Toronto E	McMaster A	10	10	10	30
Toronto A	McMaster C	10	0	0	10
Toronto C	Brock A	10	0	0	10
Toronto G	Queen's A	10	0	0	10
Toronto H	Guelph A	10	0	10	20
McMaster B	Toronto I	10	0	10	20
Toronto B	Waterloo A	10	0	10	20
Toronto D	Waterloo B	10	10	10	30
Waterloo C	Toronto F	10	0	0	10
ERAU Daytona A	Florida A	10	0	10	20
Florida State A	Florida B	10	0	0	10
South Florida A	Florida Tech A	10	0	10	20
Florida Tech B	UCF A	10	0	10	20
Pittsburgh	CWRU C	10	0	0	10
WVU A	Michigan State D	10	0	0	10
William & Mary A	JMU B	10	0	0	10
Liberty A	Duke A	10	0	10	20
Liberty B	Virginia A	10	0	10	20
Liberty C	William & Mary B	10	0	10	20
UNC D	NCSU A	10	0	10	20
NCSU B	Tusculum A	10	0	0	10
UNC C	UNC A	10	0	10	20
UNC B	William & Mary C	10	0	0	10
JMU A	VCU A	10	0	10	20
Louisville B	Ohio State C	10	0	0	10
Louisville D	WVU B	10	10	0	20
CWRU B	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	Louisville A	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	Ohio State B	10	10	10	30
Louisville C	Michigan State C	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Michigan State A	10	10	10	30
Michigan D	Ohio State D	10	0	10	20
George Mason A	Johns Hopkins	10	10	10	30
Lehigh B	Rutgers B	10	0	10	20
Maryland C	Columbia B	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Penn	Rutgers A	10	0	10	20
Princeton	George Mason B	10	0	10	20
George Mason C	Rutgers C	10	0	0	10
Rutgers D	Columbia A	10	10	10	30
Vassar A	Vassar B	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Chicago A	10	0	10	20
Illinois Blue	Iowa B	10	10	10	30
Rose-Hulman A	Illinois Canada	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Illinois Champaign	10	10	10	30
Illinois Orange	Purdue A	10	0	10	20
Indiana B	Illinois Urbana	10	0	10	20
Iowa A	WashU Grizzlers	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
William Woods University A	WashU Grolars	10	0	0	10
Iowa State	Macalester	10	10	10	30
St. Thomas	Michigan Tech	10	10	10	30
Wisconsin A	Minnesota	10	10	10	30
Wisconsin B	Wisconsin C	10	0	10	20
Amherst A	Boston College B	10	10	10	30
Boston College A	Harvard	10	0	0	10
Boston University A	Brown A	10	0	0	10
Brown B	Dartmouth A	10	10	10	30
Williams B	Dartmouth C	10	0	0	10
MIT A	Boston University B	10	0	10	20
Southern Connecticut State University A	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
Tufts C	Brandeis Bach	10	0	10	20
UConn A	Brandeis Beethoven	10	0	10	20
Vermont A	MIT B	10	10	10	30
Amherst B	Vermont B	10	0	0	10
Dartmouth B	Williams C	10	0	10	20
Arizona State B	Alberta A	10	0	10	20
Washington Pink	Arizona State A	10	10	10	30
British Columbia C	Boise State	10	0	10	20
British Columbia A	British Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Washington Atlantic	Washington Chinook	10	0	0	10
Washington Steelhead	Washington Coho	10	0	10	20
Washington Chum	Washington Masu	10	0	10	20
Alberta B	Washington State	10	0	10	20
Kansas State A	Nebraska C	10	0	0	10
Nebraska A	Central Oklahoma A	10	0	10	20
Central Oklahoma B	Nebraska B	10	0	10	20
Harding	Oklahoma	10	0	0	10
Tulsa A	Kansas State B	10	0	10	20
Tulsa B	Rose State	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Tennessee B	10	10	10	30
Auburn B	Vanderbilt B	10	0	10	20
Auburn C	Georgia Tech B	10	0	10	20
Chipola College	Clemson B	10	10	10	30
Georgia A	Clemson C	10	0	10	20
Emory A	Mississippi State A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt A	10	0	10	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Sewanne	Montevallo	10	0	10	20
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech E	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech F	Tennessee Tech	10	0	10	20
Clemson A	Vanderbilt C	10	0	0	10
Binghamton A	ESF	10	10	10	30
Binghamton B	Binghamton C	10	0	10	20
Rochester	Cornell A	10	0	10	20
Cornell B	RIT A	10	0	0	10
Cornell C	RIT B	10	0	0	10