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Helen Zenna Smith works in this profession in Evadne Price’s novel Not So Quiet. In a novel inspired by The Pilgrim’s Progress, the narrator and B., a man based on William Slater Brown, are fired from this profession on account of suspicious letters. (10[1])While in this profession, the author Stephen (-5[1])Gordon falls in love with Mary Llewellyn near the end of The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall. (10[1]-5[1])An author’s time spent in this profession inspired a protagonist who, after handing out macaroni and cheese, is wounded alongside soldiers by a mortar. The Enormous Room by (10[1])E. E. Cummings is about his time in this profession, (-5[1])which the author John Dos Passos also held in 1917. For 10 points, A Farewell to Arms (-5[1])was inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s (10[1])experience (0[1])helping soldiers in what volunteer job during World War I? ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: ambulance driver [accept member of an Ambulance Corps; prompt on driver by asking “of what vehicle?”; prompt on medic; reject “soldier”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Omer KeskinOxford ACambridge B4210
Sam MooreDurham ADurham B49-5
Ben Russell JonesEdinburghKCL6710
Ian DewanKielImperial B67-5
Elliot CosnettOxford BCambridge C9510
Harrison WhitakerCambridge ABristol105-5
Matt SheldonOxford CImperial A122-5
Andrew FisherSheffieldWarwick12710
Jaime Salamanca CamachoImperial BKiel1280
Michael MaysImperial AOxford C13910
Aisling SkeetDurham BDurham A1390
Kevin FlanaganBristolCambridge A1390