Packet 9: Bonus 14
Answer the following about journeys to the moon in early modern fiction. For 10 points each:
[10e] In this author’s novel Somnium, mysterious daemons transport a student of Tycho Brahe to the moon. In Astronomia nova, this astronomer proposes two of his three laws of planetary motion.
ANSWER: Johannes Kepler
[10m] A buffoonish version of this author fails to fly to the moon using bottles of dew in his satirical novel The Other World. An Edmond Rostand play incorrectly depicted this author as having a giant nose.
ANSWER: Cyrano de Bergerac [accept either underlined; accept Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac]
[10h] Astolfo travels to the moon in Elijah’s flaming chariot to collect the lost wits of this character from a Ludovico Ariosto epic poem, which is titled for him “furioso.”
ANSWER: Orlando [accept Roland; accept Orlando Furioso or The Frenzy of Orlando]
<Long Fiction — Joel Miles> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 9
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 13.85 | 77% | 31% | 31% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harpeth Hall | Merrol Hyde B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Merrol Hyde A | USN B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Portland High | Athens Bible School | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| USN A | Franklin Road Academy | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| USN C | Owensboro | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 16 | 11.25 | 81% | 19% | 13% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 28.00 | 100% | 80% | 100% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 8.00 | 40% | 20% | 20% |