Packet 1: Bonus 4
Percival Everett’s novel Erasure criticizes this industry’s obsession with marketing Black trauma and stereotypes. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this industry, whose three largest companies are HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Scribner’s.
ANSWER: book publishing [or publishers; prompt on books]
[10h] June publishes a memoir about Chinese laborers by her recently deceased friend Athena in this author’s novel Yellowface. Rin enrolls in a military school of the Nikan Empire in this author’s novel The Poppy War.
ANSWER: R. F. Kuang [or Rebecca F. Kuang]
[10e] Concerns that this character was considered a “heroic figure” led Ian Fleming to ask his publishers to stop printing his books. This British secret agent has the codename 007 (“double O seven”).
ANSWER: James Bond [prompt on James]
<Long Fiction — Ganon Evans> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 1
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 20.77 | 100% | 89% | 19% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 16 | 20.00 | 100% | 81% | 19% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 100% | 20% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 100% | 20% |