Packet 8: Bonus 5
The first quotation from Garner’s Quotations consists of this author’s diary entry “I hope this pen works. Yes, it does.” For 10 points each:
[10e] What New Zealand-born author had Eddie Warren say that tomato soup is “dreadfully eternal” in her story “Bliss”?
ANSWER: Katherine Mansfield
[10h] In the introduction, Dwight Gardner disparages most quote collections except for Bartlett’s, Penguin’s, and this institution’s “book of quotations,” edited by Fred Shapiro. This institution’s press publishes literature in translation in its Margellos World Republic of Letters imprint.
ANSWER: Yale University [accept Yale University Press; accept The Yale Book of Quotations]
[10m] Garner sources a large number of his author quotations from this magazine’s long-running interview series, which includes “The Art of Translation” and “The Art of Fiction.”
ANSWER: The Paris Review
<Editors, World Literature> | H. Prelims 8 - Stanford A + Georgia Tech C + Columbia A + Columbia B
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 12.00 | 100% | 10% | 10% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge | British Columbia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | WashU | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago B | Illinois B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown | Swarthmore | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech B | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | Ohio State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EH |
| Illinois A | Stanford B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Pittsburgh | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland B | UCLA | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | Bruin | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| NYU B | Maryland A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| North Carolina | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Purdue | Minnesota | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Texas | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto B | Northwestern A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Vanderbilt | Northwestern B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | Penn State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 20 | 12.00 | 100% | 10% | 10% |