Packet O: Bonus 4

An archetypal “bum” named for this type of animal titles a cult classic essay collection by John Gierach (“GEER-ack”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of animal that titles a vignette-laden novella by Richard Brautigan set partly in San Francisco. A character named for this type of animal inspires the car salesman Dwayne Hoover to go on a violent rampage.
ANSWER: trout [accept Kilgore Trout; accept Trout Fishing in America; prompt on fishes] (The last sentence is from Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions.)
[10h] This book’s narrator describes fishing for trout with his brother Paul in western Montana. The line “in our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing” opens this collection by Norman Maclean.
ANSWER: A River Runs Through It
[10e] Nick Adams methodically catches a trout over the course of this author’s story “Big Two-Hearted River.” This author also created the elderly fisherman Santiago, who struggles to catch a marlin.
ANSWER: Ernest Hemingway (The latter work is The Old Man and the Sea.)
<TM, American Literature> | Packet O - Editors 1

HeardPPBE %M %H %
1317.69100%46%31%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BrownMIT001010E
Cambridge AEdinburgh A001010E
Central Florida AFlorida C1001020ME
Florida ACentral Florida C001010E
GuelphUBC B001010E
Illinois BPurdue A001010E
Imperial BEdinburgh B001010E
Indiana AIllinois A10101030MHE
Johns Hopkins ANYU A1001020ME
Missouri AMinnesota A10101030MHE
Ohio State AMichigan A0101020HE
UBC AWaterloo A10101030MHE
Virginia Tech AVirginia1001020ME

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
CanadaMain Site✓220.00100%50%50%
FloridaMain Site✓215.00100%50%0%
Great LakesMain Site✓120.00100%0%100%
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓120.00100%100%0%
MidwestMain Site✓220.00100%50%50%
NortheastMain Site✓110.00100%0%0%
OverflowMain Site✓130.00100%100%100%
UKMain Site✓210.00100%0%0%
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓120.00100%100%0%