Packet 7: Bonus 8
This author’s jabs included calling William Wordsworth “Turdsworth.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Romantic poet who made fun of Wordsworth as “unintelligible” in the first canto of his poem Don Juan. This author died during the Greek War of Independence.
ANSWER: Lord Byron [or George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron]
[10h] Byron declared Lord Elgin’s theft of the Parthenon marbles as snatching “shrinking Gods to northern climes abhorred” in this long poem about a disillusioned young man traveling across Europe.
ANSWER: “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
[10e] An epigram by Byron encouraged people to pee on the grave of Lord Castlereagh, whose face is worn by “Murder” in this author’s poem “The Mask of Anarchy.” This poet of “To a Skylark” was married to the author of Frankenstein.
ANSWER: Percy Shelley
<Mixed/Other Literature — Ganon Evans> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 7
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 18.08 | 96% | 69% | 15% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Road Academy | Harpeth Hall | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Owensboro | Athens Bible School | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Portland High | Merrol Hyde A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| USN B | USN A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| USN C | Merrol Hyde B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 16 | 16.88 | 94% | 56% | 19% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 100% | 20% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |