Question
This member of the Scriblerus (“SCRIB-lur-us”) Club wrote the pamphlet Law Is A Bottomless Pit, which created John Bull, a fat man who personified the United Kingdom. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this physician addressed in a poetic “epistle” by Alexander Pope, which coined the phrases “damn with faint praise” and “break a butterfly upon a wheel.”
ANSWER: John Arbuthnot [accept “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”]
[10h] In “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot,” Pope writes that he saw this author’s “neglected genius bloom.” This member of the Scriblerus Club wrote a long poem about “the Art of Walking the Streets of London.”
ANSWER: John Gay (The poem is Trivia.)
[10e] This other member of the Scriblerus Club showed early drafts of his novel Gulliver’s Travels to his friends Pope, Arbuthnot, and Gay.
ANSWER: Jonathan Swift
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 9.00 | 70% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia A | John Jay | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Haverford | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU A | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia C | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn | Vassar | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |