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Packet 7: Bonus 8

This author’s jabs included calling William Wordsworth “Turdsworth.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Romantic poet who made fun of Wordsworth as “unintelligible” in the first canto of his poem Don Juan. This author died during the Greek War of Independence.
ANSWER: Lord Byron [or George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron]
[10h] Byron declared Lord Elgin’s theft of the Parthenon marbles as snatching “shrinking Gods to northern climes abhorred” in this long poem about a disillusioned young man traveling across Europe.
ANSWER: “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
[10e] An epigram by Byron encouraged people to pee on the grave of Lord Castlereagh, whose face is worn by “Murder” in this author’s poem “The Mask of Anarchy.” This poet of “To a Skylark” was married to the author of Frankenstein.
ANSWER: Percy Shelley
<Mixed/Other Literature — Ganon Evans> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 7

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ChelseaWilliamston1001020ME
ColdwaterTaylor001010E
DeWitt BTraverse City Central B1001020ME
Detroit Catholic Central ADeWitt A1001020ME
Detroit Catholic Central CNew Buffalo B1001020ME
Detroit Country Day AHolt001010E
Grand LedgeDetroit Catholic Central B001010E
Hillsdale Academy ADetroit Country Day B1001020ME
New Boston HuronHillsdale Academy C001010E
Traverse City Central AHillsdale Academy D10101030MHE
Troy AOkemos B0000
Troy BRockford B001010E
U of D JesuitNew Buffalo A001010E
Utica AcademyHillsdale Academy B10101030MHE
White Cloud AOkemos A10101030MHE
White Cloud BRockford A1001020ME

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Rube Goldberg XIX11/20/2025✓1616.8894%56%19%
SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS11/20/2025✓522.00100%100%20%
SPOOKY IX11/20/2025✓518.00100%80%0%