Question
One poem describes a person from this place whose “grandmother was a Warlock” and “had a cat named Flo,” and suggests that he was unjustly blamed. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this place, the origin of a person who supposedly interrupted a poet while he was on opium, causing one poem that mentions a “stately pleasure-dome” to only be 54 lines long.
ANSWER: Porlock [accept the Person from Porlock]
[10e] This author was allegedly interrupted by the Person from Porlock while writing “Kubla Khan.”
ANSWER: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[10h] A poet with this last name implores “I am hungry to be interrupted” in “Thoughts about the Person from Porlock.” Another author with this last name described a character who meets Clara Bowden after failing to gas himself in a car.
ANSWER: Smith [accept Stevie Smith; or Florence Margaret Smith; or Zadie Smith; or Sadie Adeline Smith] (The unnamed novel is White Teeth.)
<Jaimie Carlson, Literature - British - Poetry> ~22156~ <Editor: Jim Fan>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 15.83 | 86% | 42% | 31% |