Packet 7: Bonus 2
David Haglund wrote of the “long shadow” that Zadie Smith cast over these two writers through a 2008 essay that contrasts their attitudes toward 21st-century fiction’s dominant “Balzac–Flaubert model.” For 10 points each:
[10h] What two subjects of Smith’s “Two Paths for the Novel” respectively wrote Remainder and Netherland?
ANSWER: Tom McCarthy AND Joseph O’Neill
[10e] Smith used Netherland’s descriptive prose and “authentic story of a self” to critique a “lyrical” kind of this style. James Wood used Smith’s novel White Teeth to trace a “hysterical” kind of this style.
ANSWER: realism [accept realist; accept lyrical realism; accept hysterical realism]
[10m] The “inauthentic” narrator of Remainder begins his re-enactments with one of these places inspired by a false memory. Robert Laing eats a dog to open a J. G. Ballard novel in which society collapses in one of these places.
ANSWER: apartment building [accept apartment block, apartment complex, tower block, tenement house, or flats; accept High-Rise; prompt on building; prompt on bathrooms or synonyms by asking “in what larger kind of place?”]
<Editors, British Literature> | P. Playoffs 7 (Editors 7)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 11.67 | 96% | 21% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | MIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Brown | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Cambridge | WashU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cornell | Northwestern B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown | North Carolina | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech B | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Indiana | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Johns Hopkins | Bruin | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland B | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Minnesota | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Purdue | Swarthmore | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford B | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Texas | UCLA | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto B | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Vanderbilt | Pittsburgh | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | UCF | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 11.67 | 96% | 21% | 0% |