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, Lord Byron]
[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, the Modern Prometheus
<HG, British Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| WUSTL XYZ | Missouri B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Missouri A | Squidward Community College | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL H2O | SIUE | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |