Packet 10: Bonus 1
A 1979 class on the literature of failure taught by William Gaddis assigned a book by an author with this last name to demonstrate “the vulgarized application of pragmatism for gain.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this last name of the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People. A philanthropist with this last name who wrote “The Gospel of Wealth” names a university in Pittsburgh with Andrew Mellon.
ANSWER: Carnegie [accept Andrew Carnegie or Dale Carnegie]
[10m] The course assigned this novel, whose protagonist Jurgis Rudkis becomes a socialist after being exploited by labor bosses. This novel’s author commented that he “aimed at the public’s heart” but “hit it in the stomach.”
ANSWER: The Jungle (by Upton Sinclair)
[10h] The course also assigned this author’s novel Play it as it Lays. This author of The White Album described her experience of grief after the death of her husband John Gregory Dunne in the 2005 memoir The Year of Magical Thinking.
ANSWER: Joan Didion
<Mixed/Other Literature — Joel Miles> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 10
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 13.68 | 68% | 58% | 11% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (not so) Evil Empire | ASCA (Ava, Sean, Chris, and Aiden) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| ccny potato salad | Copilot, give me a witty team name for an online quizbowl tournament | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 16 | 11.88 | 69% | 50% | 0% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 100% | 0% |