Question
A character manages to win an election for a position of this name after giving a rousing speech that denounces the passivity of Gregory’s speech. For 10 points each:
[10h] In a 1908 novel, Gabriel Syme is elected to what title position in an anarchist group, which he learns is actually full of undercover agents?
ANSWER: Thursday [accept The Man Who was Thursday] (By G.K. Chesterton.)
[10e] The prisoner Friday is rescued and saved from cannibals before being converted to Christianity by the title character of this novel by Daniel Defoe.
ANSWER: Robinson Crusoe
[10m] The novel Saturday, which follows one day in the life of the neurosurgeon Harry Perowne, is by this author who wrote about Briony Tallis in Atonement.
ANSWER: Ian McEwan [or Ian Russell McEwan]
<Benjamin Chapman, Literature - British - Long Fiction> ~22670~ <Editor: Jim Fan>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 15.00 | 94% | 47% | 8% |