Question
An author with this surname used pigs to symbolize the “preterite” non-elect of Puritan theology in a novel that references his ancestor’s tract on The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this surname of a fictional villain who chokes on his own blood in an oaken chair while plotting to obtain a vast “eastward” territory.
ANSWER: Pynchon [or Pyncheon] (Thomas Pynchon, the descendent of William Pynchon, coined that usage of “preterite” in Gravity’s Rainbow.)
[10e] Before adding an “e” to the Pynchon name in The House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne added a “w” to his own name to distance himself from an ancestor with this job. This is also the job of the villain Jaffrey Pyncheon.
ANSWER: judges [accept justices or jurists; prompt on magistrates; reject “lawyers”] (John Hathorne was a judge in the Salem Witch Trials.)
[10h] This critic reported that Hawthorne found the idea of Judge Pyncheon “in his own family annals.” This critic’s book Hawthorne lists “no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums” in a passage about the “items of high civilization” absent in American life.
ANSWER: Henry James
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Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 88% | 38% | 13% |