Packet 7: Bonus 14
A poem named for this noun declares “I shall never get you put together entirely” to a “mouthpiece of the dead” in reference to a character from Ouija board sessions. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this noun, which titles an 1883 poem in which they lift a “lamp beside the golden door” for “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
ANSWER: colossus [accept “The Colossus” or “The New Colossus”]
[10e] This author of “The Colossus” performed Ouija sessions with her husband Ted Hughes. She wrote the poem “Daddy” and the novel The Bell Jar.
ANSWER: Sylvia Plath
[10m] The medium Emily Grant Hutchings claimed this author possessed her to write a novel titled for Jasper Herron. This author’s supernatural writings include “The Mysterious Stranger” and a ghost story told by the escaped slave Jim while traveling on a river.
ANSWER: Mark Twain [or Samuel Clemens]
<Mixed/Other Literature — Ganon Evans> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 7
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 18.80 | 76% | 68% | 44% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (not so) Evil Empire | Quaker Oats | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| Copilot, give me a witty team name for an online quizbowl tournament | Bombardino Rizzbaino and the Tung Tung Tung Trio | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Fremd Larpers | ASCA (Ava, Sean, Chris, and Aiden) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| ccny potato salad | washed and braindead!!! | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| son toliver | POA | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 15 | 15.33 | 67% | 60% | 27% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 28.00 | 100% | 80% | 100% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 80% | 80% | 40% |