Packet 8: Bonus 22
A woman realizes that her memory of a man’s face is like “where acid has dropped on a photograph” in this story, which titles a collection of wartime pieces that includes “Pink May” and “Green Holly.” For 10 points each:
[10h] In what Elizabeth Bowen story does Mrs Drover’s otherworldly ex-fiance come for her during the Blitz?
ANSWER: “The Demon Lover”
[10e] A pilot recuperating in this region during the Blitz meets a girl with a demon lover in Algernon Blackwood’s story “Roman Remains.” Arthur Machen’s (“MAY-kenz”) stories draw on this region’s folklore, which appears in the Mabinogion.
ANSWER: Wales [or Cymru; prompt on Great Britain]
[10m] Two girls encounter a “loathly worm” during the Blitz in this author’s story “The Thing in the Forest.” This author of The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye also wrote a novel with poems by the fictional Christabel LaMotte.
ANSWER: A. S. Byatt [or Dame Antonia Susan Duffy; or Antonia Susan Drabble] (The novel is Possession.)
<HA, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-8
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
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| Team 8 | Not Old! (Old) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |