Packet 4: Bonus 5
This author’s essay “Modern Fiction” urges writers to be concerned with spiritualism rather than materialism. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author, who imagined a sister of William Shakespeare in an essay that argues women must have money and the title place to write fiction.
ANSWER: Virginia Woolf [or Adeline Virginia Woolf] (The unnamed essay is “A Room of One’s Own.”)
[10e] Along with Woolf’s habitual target Arnold Bennett and John Galsworthy, “Modern Fiction” attacks this author as a materialist. This author’s novels The Invisible Man and The Time Machine pioneered science fiction.
ANSWER: H. G. Wells [or Herbert George Wells]
[10h] The final section of “Modern Fiction” remarks on the anti-materialist influence of literature published in this language. The Woolf family’s Hogarth Press specialized in translations from this language, including the short story “The Gentleman from San Francisco” and a censored chapter of the novel Demons.
ANSWER: Russian [or Russkiy] (“The Gentleman from San Francisco” is by Ivan Bunin. Demons is by Dostoevsky.)
<Long Fiction — Joel Miles> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 4
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 15.00 | 85% | 50% | 15% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athens Bible School | Merrol Hyde B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Franklin Road Academy | USN C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Merrol Hyde A | Owensboro | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Portland High | USN A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| USN B | Harpeth Hall | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 16 | 13.75 | 88% | 44% | 6% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 80% | 80% | 60% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 40% | 0% |