Question
To bribe this person, one character blackmails Ralph so she and Raymond de Chelles can marry. For 10 points each:
[10e] In Edith Wharton’s novel The Custom of the Country, Undine Spragg aspires to bribe what head of the Catholic Church?
ANSWER: the Pope
[10m] This other character created by Edith Wharton is a resident of Starkfield, Massachusetts who is married to Zeena.
ANSWER: Ethan Frome [accept either underlined portion]
[10h] In the novel, Ethan Frome and his love Mattie Silver fail to kill themselves in this manner. A description is acceptable.
ANSWER: crashing their sled into a tree [accept synonyms of “crashing”; prompt on partial answer]
<Literature - American Literature - Short Fiction>
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Boone Academy | Hunter B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Hastings A | Hunter A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Hastings B | Downingtown STEM | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Mather A | Eastchester | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Mather B | BASIS-Independent Brooklyn | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Mather C | North Babylon B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Trinity A | Stuyvesant B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Trinity B | Great Valley | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| moving finger A | East Brunswick A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| moving finger B | Stuyvesant A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| moving finger C | East Brunswick B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snowball Fight 2 | 1/11/2025 | N | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 FARSI @ Columbia | 12/08/2024 | Y | 11 | 17.27 | 100% | 27% | 46% |