Question

Before being sniped at the 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, John Sedgwick remarked that the enemy couldn’t perform this action. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this action typically performed with Nitro Express weapons. The speaker of a 1936 essay titled for this action remarks “Never tell me that the dead look peaceful” after seeing a crushed Indian man.
ANSWER: shooting an elephant [accept “Shooting an Elephant”; accept synonyms such as hitting an elephant or killing an elephant or hunting an elephant; prompt on shooting or hunting or killing or shooting or hunting or killing an animal with “Shooting/Hunting/Killing what?”]
[10e] In the 1800s, elephant guns were used to hunt the “Big Five” on these African hunting trips, whose enjoyers popularized khaki clothing and pith hats.
ANSWER: safaris
[10h] The elephant hunter Allan Quatermain follows a map made with blood to Kakuanaland in this H. Rider Haggard novel that popularized the “lost world” genre.
ANSWER: King Solomon’s Mines
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Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y616.67100%67%0%
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y616.67100%50%17%
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y412.50100%25%0%
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y316.67100%67%0%
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y420.00100%100%0%

Data

NYU BBard010010
Columbia ALehigh A1010020
NYU CLehigh B010010
NYU AGatherer1010020
YalePrinceton1010020
Columbia BRutgers1010020