Question
In a short story, residents of a town only care about these objects and cabbages, and are horrified when the Devil corrupts one of them. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects central to the short story “The Devil in the Belfry.” In another story, an ebony-colored one of these objects appears in the last of seven different-colored rooms.
ANSWER: clocks (The second story is “The Masque of the Red Death”.)
[10e] This author wrote the stories “The Devil in the Belfry” and “The Masque of the Red Death.” He also wrote “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe
[10m] In Poe’s short story “A Predicament,” Signora Zenobia gains this condition due to a clock. In a short story by a different author, Brom Bones pretends to have this physical condition to scare Ichabod Crane.
ANSWER: being headless [accept any answer indicating a person without a head; prompt on being dead or being a ghost] (The second story is “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 67% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 22.50 | 100% | 83% | 42% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 78% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 78% | 22% |
Data
| Claremont B | UCLA A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UCLA C | UCLA B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UCLA D | UCLA E | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont C | UCSD | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont A | USC | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |