Question
In a short story by this author, a woman gets a key-shaped scar on her forehead after she marries the Marquis, who plans to behead her. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of the Bluebeard-inspired story "The Bloody Chamber.” This author of Nights at the Circus wrote the Little-Red-Riding-Hood-inspired story "The Company of Wolves."
ANSWER: Angela Carter [or Angela Olive Pearce; or Angela Olive Stalker]
[10m] Another story in Carter's The Bloody Chamber is named for the "Bride" of this animal. A man is sentenced to look behind one of two doors in a Frank Stockton short story titled "The Lady, or [this animal]?"
ANSWER: tiger [accept "The Tiger's Bride"; accept "The Lady, or the Tiger?"]
[10e] In Carter's "The Lady of the House of Love," a bicyclist falls in love with a vampire before going to serve in this war, which is depicted in All Quiet on the Western Front.
ANSWER: World War I [or WWI or the Great War or First World War]
<Literature - British Literature - Short Fiction>
Data
Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
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Thomas Jefferson B | Downingtown STEM | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |