Question
A poetic riddle affixed to one of these objects angers a man called “Captain Shrimp” in a 1637 satirical history. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this kind of object. Edgar’s hair is ordered to be cropped in “true pumpkin shell fashion” after Governor Endicott destroys one of these title objects in a Nathaniel Hawthorne story.
ANSWER: maypoles [accept “The May-Pole of Merry Mount”; prompt on poles or trees]
[10e] In New English Canaan, maypole erector Thomas Morton uses the name “Captain Shrimp” for the Puritan Miles Standish, who is the subject of this poet’s narrative poem The Courtship of Miles Standish.
ANSWER: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
[10h] Fredy Perlman used Hawthorne’s “The May-Pole of Merry Mount” to counter the characterization of Hawthorne presented in this 1964 book, which uses Hawthorne’s notes about a train near Sleepy Hollow to introduce a recurring theme of technology intruding upon nature in American literature.
ANSWER: The Machine in the Garden [or The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America] (The Machine in the Garden is by Leo Marx. Perlman’s critique appears in his The Machine against the Garden.)
<Literature - American Literature - Short Fiction>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| BHSU ReFantazio | WashU | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Music to Help You Stop Smoking | BHSU Rebirth | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| hawk two of | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |