Question
In a book titled for one of these animals, the author describes it as being about “the efforts of a second-rate philosopher who lived alone in a wood… to train a person who was not human.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of animal that titles a memoir by T. H. White. That memoir inspired an alliteratively-titled memoir by Helen Macdonald about her attempt to train one of these animals in the aftermath of her father’s death.
ANSWER: hawk [accept goshawk or northern goshawk; accept H is for Hawk; accept The Goshawk; prompt on bird]
[10e] Thomas Cromwell trains the falcons that he has named after his deceased wife and children at the opening of Bring Up the Bodies, the second entry of this author’s Wolf Hall trilogy.
ANSWER: Hilary Mantel [or Hilary Thompson]
[10h] The troubled Yorkshire boy Billy Casper finds and trains the title bird in this novel by Barry Hines. You may give either the full title or the shortened one used for Ken Loach’s 1969 film adaptation.
ANSWER: A Kestrel for a Knave [or Kes]
<Morrison, Long Fiction>
Summary
| 2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 33% | 67% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 50% | 100% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Columbia | 03/23/2024 | Y | 7 | 18.57 | 100% | 43% | 43% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
Data
| Free-ish Agents | Tunks et al. | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cleo: 5/7 movie | Williams et al. | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Riley et al. | World's Fair Wiggle Walk | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Present King of James is Bald | Houston Junior College | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |