Question
An author with this surname used pigs to symbolize the “preterite” non-elect of Puritan theology in a novel that references his ancestor’s tract on The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this surname of a fictional villain who chokes on his own blood in an oaken chair while plotting to obtain a vast “eastward” territory.
ANSWER: Pynchon [or Pyncheon] (Thomas Pynchon, the descendent of William Pynchon, coined that usage of “preterite” in Gravity’s Rainbow.)
[10e] Before adding an “e” to the Pynchon name in The House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne added a “w” to his own name to distance himself from an ancestor with this job. This is also the job of the villain Jaffrey Pyncheon.
ANSWER: judges [accept justices or jurists; prompt on magistrates; reject “lawyers”] (John Hathorne was a judge in the Salem Witch Trials.)
[10h] This critic reported that Hawthorne found the idea of Judge Pyncheon “in his own family annals.” This critic’s book Hawthorne lists “no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums” in a passage about the “items of high civilization” absent in American life.
ANSWER: Henry James
<JB, American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 88% | 38% | 13% |
Data
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | We Need New Names | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | Lisan al-Quib | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |