Packet 10: Bonus 12
A good-for-nothing heir discovers his ability to migrate his soul between this city’s corpses in Robert Montgomery Bird’s novel Sheppard Lee. For 10 points each:
[10h] What city’s Gothic novels include Rebecca Rush’s Kelroy and George Lippard’s The Killers? After sleepwalking outside this city, a novel’s title character falls into a cave, murders a big cat, then drinks its blood.
ANSWER: Philadelphia (The unnamed novel is Edgar Huntly by Charles Brockden Brown.)
[10e] Sheppard Lee accidentally kills himself while searching for some of this substance left by Captain Kidd. A stranger arrives to distribute this substance in Mark Twain’s “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg.”
ANSWER: gold [accept gold coins; prompt on coins]
[10m] In George Lippard’s The Quaker City, Devil-Bug runs a secret high society brothel in a hall named for these people. Lucifer leaves one of these people to die on a rock in the Pyrenees in a Gothic novel by Matthew Lewis.
ANSWER: monks [accept abbots; accept The Monk; accept The Quaker City, or, The Monks of Monk Hall]
<HA, American Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-10
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 16.33 | 97% | 50% | 17% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley B | Not Old! (Old) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr. | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Team 8 | Team 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 83% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |