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Packet 10: Bonus 6

This author described an object as a “mad execution uniform” in a poem about his wife’s first day teaching at Smith College. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poet who chronicled his relationship with his deceased wife in the 1998 collection Birthday Letters.
ANSWER: Ted Hughes [or Edward James Hughes]
[10e] Ted Hughes was married to this confessionalist poet of “Daddy” whose novel The Bell Jar was published the year she committed suicide.
ANSWER: Sylvia Plath
[10m] This Sylvia Plath poetry collection was restructured posthumously by Ted Hughes based on Plath’s “biographical arc.” This collection’s title poem ends by describing a “drive Into the red /Eye, the cauldron of morning.”
ANSWER: Ariel
<Literature - American, Daniel Merida> | VAULT II Packet 10

HeardPPBE %M %H %
3621.39100%64%50%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
An even worse ideaPC Chris Master Race10101030HEM
Booz Allen InternsThe Young Jits10101030HEM
Jeopardy Rejected Ibean BatutuThey'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days010010E
Michael Touse-SquidThey fuck you up your buzz and neg0101020EM
Not Just BikingArmand duplantis fan club10101030HEM
Ostia OrcasI have no buzzer and I must neg10101030HEM
Virginia TechTed Offensive010010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓618.33100%67%17%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓323.33100%67%67%
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓422.50100%75%50%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓427.50100%100%75%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓316.67100%33%33%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓417.50100%25%50%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓420.00100%50%50%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓130.00100%100%100%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓722.86100%71%57%