Question
Lady Dedlock faints after Mr. Tulkinghorn reads an affidavit relating to this case written by the deceased man Nemo. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this long-running Chancery case about a disputed inheritance that is central to the novel Bleak House.
ANSWER: Jarndyce and Jarndyce [or Jarndyce v Jarndyce]
[10e] This author used Jarndyce and Jarndyce to critique the legal system of Victorian England in Bleak House. He also wrote Oliver Twist.
ANSWER: Charles Dickens
[10m] In this other Dickens novel, a lawyer points out that the defendant looks just like another lawyer, Sydney Carton. Madame Defarge knits the names of people going to die in this novel set during the French Revolution.
ANSWER: A Tale of Two Cities
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 89% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 78% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 86% | 86% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 14 | 16.43 | 79% | 86% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 78% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 7 | 21.43 | 100% | 86% | 29% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 21.11 | 100% | 78% | 33% |
Data
| Appalachian State B | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke B | Liberty B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC D | James Madison A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UNC A | NC State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UNC B | Liberty A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| VCU | Liberty C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Virginia Tech A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Virginia Tech B | UNC C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| William & Mary | Tusculum | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |