Packet 3: Bonus 8
Answer the following about French authors criticizing their society through the lens of a foreign traveler. For 10 points each:
[10e] Two Persians encounter Parisians searching for the philosopher’s stone in a book written in this form by Montesquieu. Epistolary novels are made up of these texts.
ANSWER: letters [accept the Persian Letters]
[10m] Sections critical of excluding women from Françoise de Graffigny’s Letters from a Peruvian Woman were included in this project edited by Denis Diderot that attempted to collect as much of human knowledge as possible.
ANSWER: Encyclopédie [or the Encyclopedia]
[10h] In Anatole France’s novel Penguin Island, a stand-in for this person named Pyrot (“pee-ROH”) is blamed for stealing hay. An 1898 letter attacked attempts to slander this person as “[poisoning] the minds of the meek.”
ANSWER: Alfred Dreyfus (The letter is J'Accuse...! by Émile Zola.)
<Mixed/Other Literature — Ganon Evans> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 3
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 19.62 | 77% | 89% | 31% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athens Bible School | USN C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Merrol Hyde A | Franklin Road Academy | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Portland High | Merrol Hyde B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| USN A | Harpeth Hall | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| USN B | Owensboro | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 16 | 20.00 | 69% | 100% | 31% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 26.00 | 100% | 100% | 60% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 40% | 0% |