Question
This writer’s pamphlet Second Thoughts Are Best, which discusses how to improve the London night watch and stop street robberies, was one of several published under the pen name Andrew Moreton. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author believed to have used close to 200 pseudonyms over his career. He presented his best-known novel as the memoirs of its title shipwreck survivor, who is based on Alexander Selkirk.
ANSWER: Daniel Defoe [or Daniel Foe] (The novel is Robinson Crusoe.)
[10h] This novel by Defoe purports to be the military journal of an “English Gentleman” named Andrew Newport who fought under Gustavus Adolphus, and later served Charles I in the English Civil War.
ANSWER: Memoirs of a Cavalier
[10m] Defoe is a leading candidate for the identity of the mysterious Captain Charles Johnson, whose General History of the Pyrates introduced this likely-fictional pirate utopia established in Madagascar by James Misson.
ANSWER: Libertalia [or Libertatia]
<British Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 6 | 8.33 | 67% | 17% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell A | Berkeley A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan | Chicago D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Iowa State | North Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Texas | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |