Question
In one of a ridiculous number of letters discussing oysters with his Harvard pen pal Cornelius Felton, this author expressed admiration for notorious illegal oyster glutton Edward Dando. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who put remarks about oysters in the mouths of characters like Kit Nubbles and Seth Pecksniff.
ANSWER: Charles Dickens
[10m] This Cockney shoeshine declares that “poverty and oysters always seem to go together” in Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers. This character gives his name to “isms” that combine a fatuous proverb with a humorous attribution.
ANSWER: Sam Weller [or Samuel Weller; accept Wellerisms]
[10h] Dickens introduces this antagonist as an “oyster of the old school whom nobody can open” and likens his profession to “maggots in nuts.” This antagonist’s all-black attire, “irresponsive to any glancing light,” makes him resemble a “larger species of rook.”
ANSWER: Bill Tulkinghorn [or Mr. Tulkinghorn; prompt on Bill] (He is the antagonist of Bleak House.)
<AP, British Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 7.69 | 62% | 8% | 8% |
Data
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | LMM's LLM MLM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Les Missourables | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Jeam Team | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BHSU B | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| var merchants | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |