Packet 8: Bonus 17
The subjects of this author’s Cautionary Tales for Children include Henry King, “Who chewed bits of String, and was early cut off in Dreadful Agonies.” For 10 points each:
[10m] What author of much light verse wrote The Path to Rome? George Bernard Shaw jokingly portmanteau’d this Catholic of French origin with his close friend G. K. Chesterton.
ANSWER: Hilaire Belloc [or Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc; accept Chesterbelloc]
[10e] Belloc’s parodic Bad Child’s Book of Beasts promises to make children “as dainty as the Cat / And as” this animal “discrete.” One of these animals goes to sea with a pussycat in a poem by Edward Lear.
ANSWER: owl [accept “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat”; prompt on bird]
[10h] Belloc satirized the British Empire in a chapbook about a journey through Africa, The Modern Traveller, in which Captain Blood declares “no matter what happens, we have got” this thing “and they have not.”
ANSWER: “the maxim gun” [prompt on gun]
<Editors, British Literature> | H. Prelims 8 - Stanford A + Georgia Tech C + Columbia A + Columbia B
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 13.68 | 84% | 37% | 16% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Cambridge | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Bruin | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | WashU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown | Swarthmore | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech B | Toronto A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Illinois A | Stanford B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Illinois B | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Indiana | Waterloo | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Maryland A | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Northwestern A | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Pittsburgh | MIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Purdue | Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rutgers | North Carolina | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Texas | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley B | Brown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| UCLA | Maryland B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Virginia Tech | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 19 | 13.68 | 84% | 37% | 16% |