Packet I: Bonus 17
This adjective is used in the name of a literary review magazine edited by Wendy Lesser that features “symposium”-style cultural essays where numerous authors write on one topic. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this adjective that appears in the title of a novel where the one-legged George Fewkoombey murders William Coax with his own prosthetic leg before being falsely convicted and hanged for the drowning of Mary Sawyer.
ANSWER: Threepenny [accept The Threepenny Review; accept Threepenny Novel; accept The Threepenny Opera]
[10e] Fewkoombey appears in this author’s Threepenny Novel. This playwright also created The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and Elisabeth Hauptmann.
ANSWER: Bertolt Brecht
[10m] Garga and the lumber merchant Shlink metaphorically spar in a Brecht play titled for being in the jungle of one of these places. The “Alabama Song” is sung in a Brecht opera about the “Rise and Fall of” one of these places called Mahagonny.
ANSWER: city [accept In the Jungle of the City; accept Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny]
<Southampton B, European Literature> | Packet I - McGill B, UCLA A, Michigan B, Georgia Tech C, Southampton B
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 11.25 | 90% | 23% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Tech B | Mississipi State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Louisville B | Kentucky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tennessee A | Sewanee | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Tennessee B | Alabama A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Vanderbilt B | WashU A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| WashU B | Bruin | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 6.67 | 50% | 17% | 0% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 8.00 | 80% | 0% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 11.25 | 100% | 13% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |