Question
The speaker of a poem states that if one of these objects is taken away, then the “dreadful void” left behind would be “Eternity, Eternity.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects. The name Archibald Ormsby-Gore was given to one of these objects owned by the poet John Betjeman that inspired a fictional one of these objects owned by a young Lord in a novel.
ANSWER: teddy bear [prompt on stuffed animal or toy; prompt on bear] (The poem is “Archibald” by Betjeman.)
[10m] That teddy bear, Aloysius, is the beloved possession of Sebastian Flyte during his time at Oxford in this 1945 novel.
ANSWER: Brideshead Revisited (by Evelyn Waugh)
[10e] Perhaps the most beloved teddy bear in British literature is Winnie-the-Pooh, who appears in the works of this author and father of the real-life Christopher Robin.
ANSWER: A. A. Milne [or Alan Alexander Milne]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Yale A | Brandeis A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |