Previous bonus - Next bonus

Packet 9: Bonus 9

A memoir claims that a publisher with this surname was a serial liar who attacked his own company under the name “Professor Patrice Rousel” to drum up publicity. For 10 points each:
[10m] The founder of the Dalkey Archive Press and the author of The Dalkey Archive both used what surname? Another novel by that author who wrote under this surname features footnotes about the mad scientist De Selby.
ANSWER: O’Brien [accept Flann O’Brien or John O’Brien; accept Brian O’Nolan] (The unnamed novel is The Third Policeman.)
[10h] This William Gaddis superfan described his fractious time with John O’Brien in the memoir Dalkey Days. This critic surveyed works like A True Story and Blanquerna in the idiosyncratic The Novel: An Alternative History.
ANSWER: Steven Moore
[10e] When he discovered Gaddis, Moore abandoned his early project to create a multivolume glossary for this novel. Joseph Campbell wrote a “skeleton key” to this James Joyce novel, which begins with the word “riverrun.”
ANSWER: Finnegans Wake
<HA, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-9

HeardPPBE %M %H %
4215.9598%57%5%

Back to bonuses

Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
LexThe Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals1001020ME
WashUMaybe Ever001010E
[Redacted]St. Marx1001020ME
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian BW&L+Friend001010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/2026✓417.50100%75%0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC01/17/2026✓220.00100%100%0%
2025 NAFTA Online02/14/2026✓415.00100%50%0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/2026✓316.67100%67%0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/2025✓510.00100%0%0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/2025✓514.00100%40%0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/2025✓313.33100%33%0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/2025✓316.67100%67%0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/2025✓620.00100%67%33%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/2025✓518.00100%80%0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond12/20/2025✓215.0050%100%0%