Question
Answer the following about American journalistic hoaxes, for 10 points each.
[10m] This writer published a fake history of the bathtub, claiming it was controversial in the U.S. before being championed by Millard Fillmore. This writer criticized the South in “The Sahara of the Bozart.”
ANSWER: H. L. Mencken [or Henry Louis Mencken]
[10e] This author complained that a series of 1835 hoax articles about fake discoveries by John Herschel plagiarized his story “The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall.” This author also wrote “The Gold-Bug” and “The Black Cat.”
ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe
[10h] Poe later published a story presented as fact that centers on Monck Mason’s use of one of these objects. A story by another author ends with the narrator telling “you” that an enormous one of these objects that appeared in New York is a “spontaneous autobiographical disclosure.”
ANSWER: balloon [accept gas balloon or hot-air balloon; accept “The Balloon” or “The Balloon-Hoax”] (“The Balloon” is by Donald Barthelme.)
<Fleisig, Short Fiction>
Summary
| 2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Columbia | 03/23/2024 | Y | 7 | 21.43 | 100% | 86% | 29% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Duke | 03/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |