Packet 13: Bonus 6
In a work by this poet, a girl follows a wolf into a forest and later brutally slays him with an axe. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Scottish lesbian poet of “Little Red Cap,” who in 2009 became the first woman to hold the position of British Poet Laureate.
ANSWER: Carol Ann Duffy
[10m] Duffy mythologized a member of this profession in her 2010 poem “Achilles.” The line “early though the laurel grows/It withers quicker than the rose” appears in a poem titled for a person with this profession from the collection “A Shropshire Lad.”
ANSWER: athlete [accept runner or soccer player; accept “To an Athlete Dying Young”]
[10e] The line “What race? What sour grapes?” appears in a poem by Duffy titled for the fictional wife of this Ancient Greek author, who wrote fables such as “The Tortoise and the Hare.”
ANSWER: Aesop
<Literature - British, Daniel Merida> | VAULT II Packet 13 (Finals 1)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 22.86 | 100% | 71% | 57% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armand duplantis fan club | Not Just Biking | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |