Question
After a brain-altering operation undertaken in this country, Mary loses her mind and gives birth to the shape-shifting child of an occult deity. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country, whose folk beliefs inspired horror stories by Arthur Machen [mae-ken] like “The Great God Pan.” The dreams of Captain Cat and other residents of this country are the subject of the radio drama Under Milk Wood.
ANSWER: Wales [prompt on the United Kingdom; prompt on Great Britain; reject “England”]
[10e] Arthur Machen’s weird, decadent stories influenced this later writer, who paid homage to him in “The Dunwich Horror” and other eldritch tales from the Cthulhu mythos.
ANSWER: H. P. Lovecraft [or Howard Philips Lovecraft]
[10h] In a Machen story partly titled for this adjective, a girl wanders through a valley seemingly inhabited by malevolent fairies. This adjective partly titles an infamous novel in which Arabella March can turn into a serpent.
ANSWER: white [accept “The White People”; accept The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker]
<Literature - British Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| NYU B | Princeton | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Lehigh B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Bard | Gatherer | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lehigh A | NYU C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |