Packet 6: Bonus 2
An obituary reveals that an artist known by the title of this photograph is David Janiak, who refuses to explain his intentions each time he is arrested for disturbing the peace. For 10 points each:
[10h] A performance artist re-creates what photograph in a 2007 novel in which Lianne’s estranged husband, Keith, absconds to Las Vegas to play poker tournaments?
ANSWER: The Falling Man
[10e] This author of Falling Man reacted to 9/11 in the op-ed “In the Ruins of the Future.” An André Kertész (“CARE-tayce”) photograph of the World Trade Center appears on the cover of this author’s novel Underworld.
ANSWER: Don DeLillo
[10m] In this novel, Brita photographs the writer Bill Gray, who fixates on the idea that terrorists, not novelists, alter “the inner life of the culture.” This DeLillo novel opens with a Unification Church wedding in Yankee Stadium.
ANSWER: Mao II
<North Carolina, American Literature> | F. Prelims 6 - British Columbia + Texas + North Carolina
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 14.29 | 71% | 43% | 29% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | Swarthmore | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| Columbia B | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cornell | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Georgia Tech C | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | H |
| Harvard | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Illinois B | Bruin | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Johns Hopkins | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland B | Penn State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| NYU B | MIT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Northwestern A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern B | Brown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Purdue | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Rutgers | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto A | Virginia Tech | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Toronto B | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley B | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| UCF | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCLA | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| WashU | Georgetown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 14.29 | 71% | 43% | 29% |