William Makepeace Thackeray - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

This author’s essay “Going to See a Man Hanged” is about the execution of François Benjamin Courvoisier (“koor-vwah-zee-YAY”), a valet who murdered his employer, Lord William Russell. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author whose novel Catherine satirizes the glamorized criminals of his era’s Newgate novels. An Irishman created by this author is impressed into the Prussian army after pretending to be Lieutenant Fakenham.

ANSWER: William Makepeace Thackeray (The Irishman is the title character of The Luck of Barry Lyndon.)

[10h] This Newgate novel by William Harrison Ainsworth led Courvoisier to kill Lord Russell. Its title character is repeatedly captured by the thief-taker Jonathan Wild and eventually hanged.

ANSWER: Jack Sheppard

[10e] This author also attended Courvoisier’s execution. In “Going to See a Man Hanged,” Thackeray criticizes this man’s unrealistic character Nancy, an associate of Bill Sikes and Fagin.

ANSWER: Charles Dickens [accept Boz] (Nancy appears in Oliver Twist.)

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Summary


2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	24	14.58	100%	42%	4%

Data


Berkeley A	Brown	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	North Carolina A	10	0	10	20
Chicago C	North Carolina B	10	0	10	20
Rutgers	Claremont Colleges	0	0	10	10
WUSTL A	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	Ottawa	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech	Michigan	0	0	10	10
Stanford	Indiana	10	10	10	30
Illinois	Johns Hopkins	10	0	10	20
Kentucky	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
Maryland	NYU	0	0	10	10
Harvard	McGill	10	0	10	20
Cornell A	Minnesota A	10	0	10	20
Minnesota B	Truman State	0	0	10	10
Purdue	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
South Carolina	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	Northwestern	0	0	10	10
Arizona State	Toronto B	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
Virginia	Penn	10	0	10	20
WUSTL B	Florida	0	0	10	10
Texas	Waterloo	0	0	10	10
Yale A	Iowa State	0	0	10	10
Yale B	Duke	10	0	10	20