Question
Answer the following about Francis Barber, a Jamaican servant to Samuel Johnson who became the chief beneficiary of his will, for 10 points each.
[10e] Barber began living with Johnson as the author finished one of these works for the English language that humorously defines a lexicographer as “a harmless drudge,” among other definitions.
ANSWER: dictionary [accept A Dictionary of the English Language]
[10m] Tobias Smollett helped release Barber from this organization. C. S. Forester’s character Horatio Hornblower serves in this organization.
ANSWER: Royal Navy [or RN; accept the English or British Navy; accept the Senior Service]
[10h] Johnson refused to assign demeaning tasks to Barber, such as sending him to the market to buy this food for Johnson’s spoiled cat Hodge. These food items form a line and follow the title characters of The Walrus and the Carpenter before being eaten.
ANSWER: oysters [prompt on mollusks or bivalves]
<Ganon Evans, Literature - British - Other> ~20821~ <Editor: Jaimie Carlson>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Barrington A | Thomas Jefferson A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |