Question
The second novel narrated by this character is a parody of The Prisoner of Zenda in which Otto von Bismarck blackmails him into posing as a Danish prince and marrying Duchess Irma of Strackenz. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this cowardly rake whose “papers” form a series of novels by George McDonald Fraser. In his first literary appearance, this creation of Thomas Hughes is expelled from Rugby School for drunkenness.
ANSWER: Harry Flashman [or Sir Harry Paget Flashman; accept The Flashman Papers]
[10e] Flashman is a major antagonist in Hughes's Tom Brown's School Days, which depicts Rugby School under a headmaster with this surname. The headmaster's son of the same surname wrote “Dover Beach.”
ANSWER: Arnold [accept Thomas Arnold or Matthew Arnold]
[10m] Thomas Arnold's outsized influence on the classics-obsessed British public school system is criticized in the third of four biographies collected in this 1918 book by a member of the Bloomsbury Group.
ANSWER: Eminent Victorians (by Lytton Strachey)
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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 83% | 17% |
| 2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style | Parth et al. | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Passion According to C.H. | Milan et al. | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |