Question
This short story ends with a man observing that he "had never slept in a better bed." For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this frequently-anthologized short story by Richard Connell. This story’s protagonist is tracked down on Ship-Trap Island by General Zaroff, who amuses himself by hunting humans as the title prey.
ANSWER: "The Most Dangerous Game" [prompt on "The Hounds of Zaroff" by asking "what is the more common title?"]
[10e] Margot shoots her husband while on safari in this author's story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber."
ANSWER: Ernest Hemingway
[10h] People play a legal game of human-hunting in "Seventh Victim," a story by an author with this first name. An author with this first name wrote a poem ending "And the hunter home from the hill," and wrote about the abducted orphan David Balfour in Catriona ("Katrina").
ANSWER: Robert [accept Robert Sheckley or Robert Louis Stevenson] (David Balfour is the protagonist of Kidnapped.)
<Literature - American Literature - Short Fiction>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 36 | 16.94 | 56% | 89% | 25% |