Packet 7: Bonus 6
The second of two novels by George R. Stewart recently reissued by NYRB follows one of these events dubbed “Spitcat.” For 10 points each:
[10h] What kind of event is the subject of a 1992 work of nonfiction by Norman Maclean, who contrasts his own advanced age with that of the title “young men”?
ANSWER: wildfires [or forest fires or bushfires or brushfires; accept firestorm; prompt on fire; prompt on Young Men and Fire] (George R. Stewart wrote Storm and Fire.)
[10e] Philip Connors’ memoir of his work as a fire lookout, Fire Season, was called the “[this book] of the wildfire” in a review by Donovan Hohn. This transcendentalist book begins, “I went to the woods to live deliberately.”
ANSWER: Walden; or, Life in the Woods (by Henry David Thoreau)
[10m] This writer, whom Edward Abbey called the “heir” to Thoreau, muses on prairie fire signals and concludes “everywhere I look I see fire” in one of many theological reflections from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
ANSWER: Annie Dillard [or Annie Doak]
<Editors, American Literature> | G. Prelims 7 - Georgia Tech A + Berkeley A + Bruin + Georgetown
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 14.29 | 95% | 43% | 5% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | UCF | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago A | Texas | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago B | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech B | UCLA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Georgia Tech C | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | WashU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Johns Hopkins | Stanford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | Virginia Tech | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| NYU A | Northwestern B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| NYU B | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | Swarthmore | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Purdue | Maryland B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto A | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Vanderbilt | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia | North Carolina | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | Pittsburgh | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 14.29 | 95% | 43% | 5% |