Question
This character’s mother escaped hanging in Newgate prison by “Pleading her belly." For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character, whose “fortunes and misfortunes” are recounted in a 1722 novel. This title female criminal leaves Virginia for England after realizing she had married her half-brother Lemuel.
ANSWER: Moll Flanders
[10m] Moll Flanders is a novel by this author, who wrote a novel narrated by the mysterious “H.F.”, A Journal of the Plague Year. Another character of his was inspired by the privateer Alexander Selkirk.
ANSWER: Daniel Defoe [or Daniel Foe]
[10e] This title castaway of a novel by Defoe is stranded on an island for twenty-eight years after being shipwrecked, where he rescues a man named “Friday” and builds a house in a cave.
ANSWER: Robinson Crusoe
<Literature - British Literature - Long Fiction>
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merrol-Hyde | USN C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| USN A | USN B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| USN MS | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snowball Fight 2 | 1/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 FARSI @ Columbia | 12/08/2024 | Y | 11 | 14.55 | 91% | 36% | 18% |