Packet 6: Bonus 17
After this book’s success, its author claimed that Shakespeare had a “second-rate mind” and declared himself “the major literary genius of our century.” For 10 points each:
[10h] What work of existentialism describes characters like the Underground Man as examples of the title figure? This Colin Wilson bestseller was re-evaluated after the failure of its sequel, Religion and the Rebel.
ANSWER: The Outsider
[10e] Wilson, Bill Hopkins, and Stuart Holroyd were all members of this group who came under scrutiny for fascist sympathies. This group of British writers took its name from the title attitude of a John Osborne play.
ANSWER: Angry Young Men [accept “the Angries”] (Osborne’s play is Look Back in Anger.)
[10m] This critic dismissed The Outsider’s “modish nihilism” but recalled that it was the first book he ever bought. This Marxist wrote the screenplay for Wittgenstein, as well as Literary Theory: an Introduction.
ANSWER: Terry Eagleton [or Terence Francis Eagleton]
<Editors, British Literature> | F. Prelims 6 - British Columbia + Texas + North Carolina
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 13.53 | 88% | 41% | 6% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruin | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Cambridge | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | Swarthmore | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia A | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Georgetown | WashU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| Harvard | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Indiana | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Johns Hopkins | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU B | MIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | Maryland B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Purdue | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley B | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCLA | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Virginia Tech | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 17 | 13.53 | 88% | 41% | 6% |