Question
Mad Jack takes a “temperance pledge” until Cape Horn is far behind him in a novel by this author set on the U.S.S. Neversink. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author of the novel White-Jacket. In another novel by this author, the narrator remarks, “Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian” when sharing a bed with Queequeg in the Spouter Inn.
ANSWER: Herman Melville (The other novel is Moby-Dick.)
[10m] An anti-temperance meeting in this novel goes awry after a character kicks a performer into the audience, inciting a riot. At a murder trial in this novel, a lawyer uses fingerprints to prove the innocence of the Capello twins.
ANSWER: Pudd’nhead Wilson (by Mark Twain)
[10h] Robert Johnson advises Aunt Linda to “let [wine] turn to vinegar, and sign the temperance pledge” in this author’s novel Iola Leroy, in which the title character refuses to pass for white to marry Dr. Gresham.
ANSWER: Frances E. W. Harper [or Frances Ellen Watkins Harper]
<Literature - American Literature - Long Fiction>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 83% | 50% | 17% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |