Question
The speaker of this story claims that “meddlesome missionaries” think “nothing is too trivial to print” for writing about seeing “eighty-one hands drying over a fire.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this satirical story, which includes a pyramid surrounded by rows of skeletons and which was a criticism of the Belgian Congo.
ANSWER: King Leopold’s Soliloquy
[10e] King Leopold’s Soliloquy was written by this American author, who wrote the early time travel story A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
ANSWER: Mark Twain [accept Samuel Clemens]
[10m] Mark Twain collaborated with Charles Dudley Warner on this satirical novel covering the corruption of post-Civil War US, which is more remembered today for its title rather than its contents.
ANSWER: The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
<GT, American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 100% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
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| Squidward Community College | WashU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |