Question
John Skelton described his works of this type as “ragged/tattered and jagged” due to his tendency to use Latin or French words. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these works. To describe the Tay Bridge disaster, William McGonagall created a notoriously bad doggerel, which is a type of this work.
ANSWER: poems [or poetry; accept verse]
[10h] This American humorist wrote a doggerel poem about the “bovine ilk / one end is moo, the other milk.” This poet remarked “candy/is dandy/but liquor/is quicker” in his “Reflection on Ice-Breaking.”
ANSWER: Ogden Nash [or Frederic Ogden Nash]
[10e] The host interrupts Sir Thopas’s (“top-es’s”) obnoxious doggerel poetry in this collection about a group of storytelling pilgrims by Geoffrey Chaucer.
ANSWER: The Canterbury Tales
<Ganon Evans, Literature - British - Poetry> ~22916~ <Editor: Jim Fan>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 16.39 | 100% | 50% | 14% |