Packet 15: Bonus 5
In this novel, generations of the Hoel family spanning the 20th century take photographs of an American chestnut tree that survived the blight. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 2018 novel whose nine protagonists include Pat Westerford, who publishes a bestselling book about how forests communicate.
ANSWER: The Overstory (by Richard Powers)
[10e] Michael Christie’s 2020 novel Greenwood similarly works backward through a family’s century-long relationship with an old-growth forest in this country, the home of Yann Martel and Michael Ondaatje.
ANSWER: Canada
[10h] Daniel Mason’s novel North Woods follows 400 years of inhabitants in a Massachusetts cabin, including one of these animals. Ralph and Molly’s uncle obsesses over one of these animals in a novel by Jean Stafford.
ANSWER: mountain lion [or catamount, cougar, puma, Florida panther, deer tiger, suçuarana, or mountain screamer; accept The Mountain Lion; prompt on cat or panther or painter; reject “lion”]
<HA, American Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-Extras
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
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| Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout. | Licence to Bill | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |