Packet 2: Bonus 6
Answer the following about modernist authors who made surprising conversions to Catholicism, for 10 points each.
[10m] This author described his rejection of modernity and his turn to Catholic mysticism in his memoir Flight out of Time. Before his conversion, this author wrote the “Dada Manifesto” and performed sound poems at the Cabaret Voltaire.
ANSWER: Hugo Ball
[10e] A novelist from this country named Sigrid Undset converted to Catholicism in 1924, scandalizing her Lutheran countrymen. This country was also the birthplace of the pantheistic author of Hunger, Knut Hamsun.
ANSWER: Norway [or Kingdom of Norway or Kongeriket Norge or Kongeriket Noreg]
[10h] This French dramatist and brother of an artist experienced a sudden conversion during a Christmas service at Notre-Dame in 1886. He later dramatized Christian redemption in his plays The Tidings Brought to Mary and The Satin Slipper.
ANSWER: Paul Claudel (Paul Claudel was the brother of Camille Claudel.)
<Editors, European Literature> | B. Prelims 2 - Northwestern A + Virginia Tech + Brown + Penn State
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 14.29 | 100% | 38% | 5% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia A | UCF | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | Georgetown | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Illinois B | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Indiana | MIT | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Maryland B | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| NYU A | Stanford B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| North Carolina | British Columbia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern B | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Pittsburgh | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Stanford A | Bruin | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Texas | Swarthmore | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley A | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| UCLA | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Vanderbilt | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WashU | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 14.29 | 100% | 38% | 5% |