Packet 9: Bonus 5
Theodore Winthrop’s novel John Brent invented a fake slang for these people, who hunt a girl in the Sierras in a 19th-century Broadway hit for Joaquin Miller. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this group that served as villains for many 19th-century dime novels. Members of this American group force Lucy into marriage in the first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet.
ANSWER: Mormons [or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; or LDS; accept Danites; accept The Danites, or, the Heart of the Sierras]
[10e] Violent Mormons featured in novels from this genre like Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage. Alan LeMay’s The Searchers and Charles Portis’s True Grit are novels in this genre.
ANSWER: Westerns [or Western fiction or Western novels; prompt on historical fiction or historical novels]
[10h] This author wrote Mormon Country for Erskine Caldwell’s American Folkways series. This founder of creative writing at Stanford wrote about John Wesley Powell in Beyond the Hundredth Meridian and lectured on the West as “living space.”
ANSWER: Wallace Stegner [or Wallace Earle Stegner]
<Editors, American Literature> | R. Playoffs 9 (Editors 9)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 16.25 | 100% | 50% | 13% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | WashU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Bruin | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | Ohio State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Georgetown | UCF | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Georgia Tech B | Stanford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Illinois A | Georgia Tech C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Illinois B | Brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Johns Hopkins | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| MIT | Texas | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Maryland A | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| North Carolina | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern B | Maryland B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Penn State | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Pittsburgh | UCLA | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Purdue | Cornell | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Rutgers | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Toronto A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Vanderbilt | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | Swarthmore | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 16.25 | 100% | 50% | 13% |