Packet 6: Bonus 10
This affliction is the subject of a poem by 18th-century one-hit-wonder Matthew Green, who wrote that “Monkeys have been / Extreme good doctors” for it. For 10 points each:
[10h] What title affliction is addressed in a Pindaric ode by Anne Finch that contrasts real sufferers with the fool who “to imitate the wits / Complains of thy pretended fits?”
ANSWER: spleen [accept “The Spleen: a Pindaric Poem”; accept “The Spleen: An Epistle to Mr. Cuthbert Jackson”; accept Matthew Green’s nickname “Spleen Green”]
[10e] This essay laments that the male world of Augustan poetry forced Finch, “whose mind was tuned to nature and reflection… to anger and bitterness.” This Virginia Woolf essay imagines Shakespeare’s fictional sister, Judith.
ANSWER: “A Room of One’s Own”
[10m] In a scene that seems to reference Finch’s poem, a bag of “sighs, sobs and passions” from the Cave of Spleen triggers a character’s fury over this object. This object is set in the stars to add “new glory to the shining sphere.”
ANSWER: the lock of hair [or Belinda’s hair] (from Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”)
<HA, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-6
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 17.91 | 98% | 70% | 12% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbas I founded the Abbasids | The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UBC A | UBC B | 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% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 83% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 100% | 40% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |