Packet 6: Bonus 14
In a critical review of this author’s book From Bauhaus (rhymes with “cow house”) to Our House, Robert Hughes called him “a late bird [getting] half the worm.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this white suit-wearing author, who chronicled NASA’s Mercury Program in The Right Stuff.
ANSWER: Tom Wolfe [accept Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.; reject “Thomas Wolfe” alone as it generally refers to the 1920s author of Look Homeward, Angel]
[10m] In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Wolfe travels across the country with the Merry Pranksters a few years after their leader Ken Kesey wrote this novel. At the end of this novel, Randle McMurphy is given a lobotomy.
ANSWER: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
[10e] Wolfe’s essay “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast” criticizes the American literary scene for using the epithet “square” to dismiss realism, such as the “dreadful Little Nell scenes” of this author of The Old Curiosity Shop and Oliver Twist.
ANSWER: Charles Dickens
<Mixed/Other Literature — Joel Miles> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 6
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 15.50 | 85% | 60% | 10% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copilot, give me a witty team name for an online quizbowl tournament | ASCA (Ava, Sean, Chris, and Aiden) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Fremd Larpers | (not so) Evil Empire | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| ccny potato salad | Bombardino Rizzbaino and the Tung Tung Tung Trio | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| son toliver | Quaker Oats | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| washed and braindead!!! | POA | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 10 | 16.00 | 80% | 70% | 10% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |