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) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| NYU B | Bard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Lehigh A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU C | Lehigh B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Gatherer | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale | Princeton | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |