Packet 5: Bonus 12
This character begins to cry after realizing that the horses he was using to pull a carriage were in very bad condition. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character, who was kept in a zoo with Montana Wildhack. After World War II, he went to optometry school in Ilium, New York.
ANSWER: Billy Pilgrim [accept either underlined part]
[10e] Billy Pilgrim is the protagonist of this anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut, centered around the firebombing of Dresden.
ANSWER: Slaughterhouse-Five
[10h] While in a mental ward, Billy reads works of Kilgore Trout, an author who is also a protagonist of this other Vonnegut novel. In this novel, Dwayne Hoover goes on a rampage after reading a novel by Trout telling him that he is the only creature in the universe with free will.
ANSWER: Breakfast of Champions
<Literature - American, Hari Ananthakrishnan> | VAULT II Packet 05
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 20.00 | 98% | 63% | 40% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armand duplantis fan club | They'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Booz Allen Interns | Not Just Biking | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Michael Touse-Squid | Hoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish? | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Mountain Dew is Better | An even worse idea | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Ostia Orcas | Virginia Tech | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| PC Chris Master Race | Ted Offensive | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| The Young Jits | I have no buzzer and I must neg | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| They fuck you up your buzz and neg | Jeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutu | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 50% | 25% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 26.00 | 100% | 100% | 60% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 27.50 | 100% | 100% | 75% |