Packet C: Bonus 5
The album Haunted was released as a companion to this novel by the author’s sister Poe. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this ergodic novel that opens “this is not for you.” In this novel, the explorer Holloway Roberts has a breakdown and attempts to kill his crew while investigating the impossibly long Five and a Half Minute Hallway.
ANSWER: House of Leaves (by Mark Z. Danielewski)
[10m] The house’s owner, Will Navidson, makes one of these things called The Navidson Record. In another novel, the Québécois Wheelchair Assassins and the O.N.A.N. search for one of these things that induces total obsession.
ANSWER: films [or movies; or videos; or motion pictures; accept documentary or documentaries; prompt on pictures or cartridges or discs]
[10e] The latter novel, Infinite Jest, is by this postmodernist author known for his excessive use of footnotes.
ANSWER: David Foster Wallace [or DFW]
<UCSD A, American Literature> | Packet C - Virginia Tech A, Waterloo A, UCSD A, UBC A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | 20.00 | 97% | 58% | 44% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 10 | 19.00 | 90% | 60% | 40% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 20% | 80% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 63% | 38% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 75% | 75% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 50% | 100% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 7 | 14.29 | 100% | 29% | 14% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 20.83 | 100% | 67% | 42% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 26.25 | 100% | 100% | 63% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |