Lord Byron - 2023 ARCADIA at Texas

Question

A rumor that this author drank red wine from a skull inspired a scene in which a caricature of this author “drank hot blood from the skull of his enemy.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author, the basis for the gruesome title character of the novel Glenarvon. Glenarvon’s author, Caroline Lamb, called this man “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.”

ANSWER: Lord Byron [or George Gordon]

[10h] Glenarvon’s full name, along with several of Byron’s real-life traits, were borrowed by another author in creating this character, who kills Aubrey’s lover Ianthe, then marries and kills Aubrey’s sister.

ANSWER: Lord Ruthven [prompt on The Vampyre]

[10e] Lord Ruthven appears in John Polidori’s short story The Vampyre, which he modeled after a horror story that Byron composed during a “ghost writing contest” that also produced this Mary Shelley novel.

ANSWER: Frankenstein [or Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus]

<HG, British Literature>

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2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	N	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	N	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	N	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	N	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	N	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%

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Texas C	HCC	0	0	10	10
Texas A	tag magnet: taylor's version	10	10	10	30
TAMU	Texas B	0	0	10	10