Question
Robert Eggers used this author’s stories featuring sailors’ speech from Southern Maine as the basis for the accents in the 2019 film The Lighthouse. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of The Country of the Pointed Firs who is praised by ecofeminists for a story in which Sylvia refuses to tell a hunter the location of a bird.
ANSWER: Sarah Orne Jewett (The unnamed story is “A White Heron.”)
[10m] The Country of the Pointed Firs is often compared to this collection in which Doctor Reefy makes “paper pills” in one story. This collection’s last story “Departure” is centered on the journalist George Willard.
ANSWER: Winesburg, Ohio (By Sherwood Anderson.)
[10e] This author of the short story “Paul’s Case” praised Jewett as “the perfection that endures” in the dedication to her novel O Pioneers!
ANSWER: Willa Cather
<Ganon Evans, Literature - American - Short Fiction> ~22188~ <Editor: Chandler West>
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beavercreek | West Point | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Carbondale | Durham AT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chattahoochee | Thomas Jefferson B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Hastings | Belmont | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Johns Creek B | Livingston A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Kinkaid | Northmont A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| McLean B | DuPage County AT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Richard Montgomery B | Lightridge | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Seven Lakes | Okemos | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| University Lab | Heights | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 10 | 19.00 | 100% | 80% | 10% |