Packet 2: Bonus 3
The period before the rise of this leader is depicted in Rosa Shand’s The Gravity of Sunlight and Eneriko Seruma’s The Experience. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name the leader served by the Cambridge-educated bureaucrat Bat and the oafish General Bazooka in the novel Snakepit. Mugezi’s grandmother dies the same night this man takes power in the novel Abyssinian Chronicles.
ANSWER: Idi Amin [or Awon’go Idi Amin Dada Oumee] (Snakepit and Abyssinian Chronicles are by Moses Isegawa.)
[10e] Field Marshal Kamini serves as a stand-in for Idi Amin in this author’s satirical A Play of Giants. This Nigerian Nobel-winning playwright called Donald Trump “Idi Amin in white-face” after his visa was revoked in 2025.
ANSWER: Wole Soyinka [or Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka]
[10m] A mix of fact and fiction about Amin’s Uganda was used in this 1998 novel by Giles Foden. This novel, told from the perspective of the doctor Nicholas Garrigan, is titled for a bizarre title assumed by Amin.
ANSWER: The Last King of Scotland
<Editors, World Literature> | K. Playoffs 2 (Editors 2)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 17.50 | 92% | 67% | 17% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cambridge | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago B | Northwestern B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia A | Harvard | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Georgetown | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech A | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois A | UCLA | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Michigan | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Minnesota | MIT | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| North Carolina | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Pittsburgh | WashU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers | Ohio State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | Bruin | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Texas | British Columbia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto A | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HM |
| UC Berkeley A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCF | Swarthmore | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Vanderbilt | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Virginia Tech | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Waterloo | Maryland B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 17.50 | 92% | 67% | 17% |