Packet 2: Bonus 2
Samuel Johnson made edits to both this poem and a sarcastic response by George Crabbe that asked “Is there a place, save one the poet sees, / A land of love, of liberty, and ease?” For 10 points each:
[10m] What 1770 poem in heroic couplets laments the loss of “light labour,” “the rural virtues,” and a “bold peasantry” while describing “Sweet Auburn”?
ANSWER: “The Deserted Village” (by Oliver Goldsmith)
[10h] While surveying the ruin of the deserted village, Oliver Goldsmith’s speaker claims “Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey / where” two things happen. Name either.
ANSWER: “wealth accumulates” OR “men decay”
[10e] In The Task, William Cowper (“Cooper”) similarly wrote that “God made [this place], and man made the town.” A Thomas Gray elegy is set in a churchyard described by this word.
ANSWER: country [accept “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”]
<HA, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-2
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 14.42 | 98% | 44% | 2% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |