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Packet 8: Bonus 10

This figure describes a scene of bioluminescent organisms as “the yellow and blue awakening of singing phosphorus!” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this “indifferent” figure who “struck against” the “unbelievable Floridas.” This figure titles a poem in which it proclaims “I no longer felt myself guided by haulers.”
ANSWER: the Drunken Boat [accept Le Bateau Ivre; accept answers referring to the narrator of “The Drunken Boat”; prompt on partial answers]
[10m] “The Drunken Boat” narrates a namesake poem by this French symbolist author. This poet also wrote the collection A Season in Hell.
ANSWER: Arthur Rimbaud [or Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud]
[10e] In the “Drunken Boat,” the narrator describes a time when the sea brings “dark” examples of these objects with “yellow suckers.” A seminal collection of symbolist poetry by Charles Baudelaire is titled for these objects “of Evil.”
ANSWER: flowers [accept The Flowers of Evil or Les Fleurs du mal]
<Literature - European, Spencer Manning> | VAULT II Packet 08

HeardPPBE %M %H %
4217.8695%69%14%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
CambridgeBirmingham B0101020ME
SouthamptonBath0101020ME
SouthperialBirmingham A001010E
WarperialOxford001010E

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VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓415.00100%50%0%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓420.00100%75%25%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓310.00100%0%0%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓415.00100%50%0%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓313.3367%67%0%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓522.00100%80%40%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓821.25100%88%25%