Packet 2: Bonus 3
One of this author’s last credits was voicing the 1995 stop-motion video game The Dark Eye, whose gameplay follows the stories of Edgar Allen Poe. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Beat Generation author who popularized cutting up and rearranging sentences. The addict William Lee appears in this author’s novel Naked Lunch.
ANSWER: William Burroughs [or William Seward Burroughs II]
[10m] In The Dark Eye, Burroughs narrates this Poe story, whose limited dialogue includes Prospero ordering his guards at a ball in an abbey to apprehend a cloaked figure.
ANSWER: “The Masque of the Red Death”
[10e] Players can be both the narrator and an old man with a “vulture-like eye” in a level based on a Poe story in which one of these body parts buried underneath a house’s floorboards causes a murderer to confess.
ANSWER: hearts [accept “The Tell-Tale Heart”]
<Mixed/Other Literature — Ganon Evans> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 2
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 15.42 | 100% | 29% | 25% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harpeth Hall | Portland High | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Merrol Hyde A | USN C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Owensboro | Merrol Hyde B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| USN A | Athens Bible School | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| USN B | Franklin Road Academy | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 14 | 13.57 | 100% | 21% | 14% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 20% | 40% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |