Packet 1: Bonus 8
A long poem repeats that a “Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth” has this quality and “only rock.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Jessie Weston’s From Ritual to Romance inspired a poet’s references to a land with what quality? An old man describes both his brain and the season as having this quality in the last line of “Gerontion.”
ANSWER: dryness [or drought; accept descriptions of having no water; prompt on being a wasteland ]
[10h] T. S. Eliot’s speaker in “The Waste Land” introduces the drought motif with an emblematic statement of modernism by telling the “son of man,” “you know only / A heap of [this two-phrase], where the sun beats.”
ANSWER: “broken images”
[10e] In the mountains where there “is no water but rock,” Eliot describes “not even silence… But dry sterile” this phenomenon. Eliot repeats the Sanskrit word “shantih” in the section “What [this phenomenon] Said.”
ANSWER: thunder [accept “V. What the Thunder Said”]
<Editors, American Literature> | U. Finals 1 (Editors 11)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
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| Chicago A | Stanford A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |