Packet 10: Bonus 18
Description acceptable. This review claims that, in its “hypertrophic” subject, “the hero has no serious temptations; is lured by no insidious enchantments, perplexed by few problems.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name or describe this infamous review that speculates the British have a “lifelong appetite for juvenile trash.” This review disparages the more positive reaction of W. H. Auden.
ANSWER: “Oo, Those Awful Orcs” [or Edmund Wilson’s review of The Lord of the Rings; accept descriptions of Edmund Wilson’s takedown of J. R. R. Tolkien]
[10e] A hostile essay by Michael Moorcock compares Tolkien’s “conservative” vision to the world of this protagonist of another author’s stories. This trouserless title character lives in the Hundred Acre Wood.
ANSWER: Winnie-the-Pooh [or Pooh Bear; or Edward Bear; accept “Epic Pooh”] (A. A. Milne created Pooh.)
[10m] Tom Shippey’s The Road to Middle Earth bolstered Tolkien’s reputation by situating his fiction in this text-based discipline. Paul de Man wrote of a “return to” this discipline, of which Tolkien was a professor.
ANSWER: philology [accept philologist; accept “Return to Philology”; prompt on comparative linguistics; prompt on historical linguistics]
<HA, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-10
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr. | Stanford B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Not Old! (Old) | Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Team 7 | Team 8 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |