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
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 14.77 | 82% | 50% | 16% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Brown Ballers | Basileus II: Electric Boogaloo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Midnight Bus to Vista | Leif Eriksen's Striking Appearance | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Prat Pack | Albanian Rift in the Sky | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| With Less Than 2 Years of Combined Quizbowl Experience | Heauton Timorumenos | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| whatever | Taman's Nepo Babies | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 83% | 83% | 17% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 20% | 20% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 22.50 | 88% | 100% | 38% |