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Packet 6: Bonus 3

This character compares “a man and his hobby-horse” to “the manner of electrified bodies” when describing his uncle Toby’s fixation on military reenactments. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character, who recounts being circumcised by a falling window while attempting to tell his life story in a 1767 novel by Laurence Sterne, an early work of metafiction.
ANSWER: Tristram Shandy [accept either underlined part, or The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]
[10h] Before being circumcised as an adult, as a baby Tristram Shandy has his nose reconstructed using a whalebone after this incompetent “man-midwife” damages it with forceps during his birth.
ANSWER: Dr. Slop
[10e] In the novel, Tristram Shandy meets a parson with this name, whose death is represented with a blank black page. Hamlet holds the skull of a jester with this name as he declares “Alas, poor [this name]”.
ANSWER: Yorick
<Literature - British, Jamie Burchett> | VAULT II Packet 06

HeardPPBE %M %H %
4414.7782%50%16%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
ExhibitionLambert A1001020ME
HooverLambert B1001020ME
Innovation AChattahoochee A1001020ME
Innovation BNorthview B0000
Johns CreekMidtown1001020ME
Northview AChattahoochee B10101030MHE

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓618.3383%83%17%
Triangle Cup2026-03-13✓320.00100%67%33%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓310.0067%33%0%
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓45.0050%0%0%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓510.0080%20%0%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓320.00100%67%33%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓412.50100%25%0%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓310.0067%33%0%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓512.0080%20%20%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓822.5088%100%38%