Packet 9: Bonus 14
Answer the following about journeys to the moon in early modern fiction. For 10 points each:
[10e] In this author’s novel Somnium, mysterious daemons transport a student of Tycho Brahe to the moon. In Astronomia nova, this astronomer proposes two of his three laws of planetary motion.
ANSWER: Johannes Kepler
[10m] A buffoonish version of this author fails to fly to the moon using bottles of dew in his satirical novel The Other World. An Edmond Rostand play incorrectly depicted this author as having a giant nose.
ANSWER: Cyrano de Bergerac [accept either underlined; accept Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac]
[10h] Astolfo travels to the moon in Elijah’s flaming chariot to collect the lost wits of this character from a Ludovico Ariosto epic poem, which is titled for him “furioso.”
ANSWER: Orlando [accept Roland; accept Orlando Furioso or The Frenzy of Orlando]
<Long Fiction — Joel Miles> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 9
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 13.85 | 77% | 31% | 31% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chelsea | White Cloud A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Coldwater | New Buffalo A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| DeWitt B | Rockford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Detroit Catholic Central A | Traverse City Central A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Detroit Country Day A | U of D Jesuit | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Hillsdale Academy A | Williamston | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Hillsdale Academy C | Taylor | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Hillsdale Academy D | DeWitt A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| New Boston Huron | Holt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Okemos A | Detroit Catholic Central C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Okemos B | Troy B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Rockford B | New Buffalo B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Traverse City Central B | Hillsdale Academy B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Troy A | Grand Ledge | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Utica Academy | Detroit Catholic Central B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| White Cloud B | Detroit Country Day B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 16 | 11.25 | 81% | 19% | 13% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 28.00 | 100% | 80% | 100% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 8.00 | 40% | 20% | 20% |