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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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY920.00100%89%11%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY920.00100%78%22%
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY717.1486%86%0%
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1416.4379%86%0%
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY918.89100%78%11%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY120.00100%100%0%
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY721.43100%86%29%
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY921.11100%78%33%

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Miami A (UG) Michigan C 10101030
Miami C (DII) CWRU C (UG)010010
Michigan A (UG)Ohio State B (DII)10101030
Michigan B (UG)Jefferson County Scholars (DII)0101020
Michigan State A Michigan D (UG)0101020
Michigan State B Ohio State C (DII) 010010
Ohio State A (UG) Miami B (UG) 0101020
West Virginia A (UG) West Virginia B (UG) 0101020
CWRU B (DII) CWRU A (UG) 0101020