Packet 8: Bonus 10
This figure describes a scene of bioluminescent organisms as “the yellow and blue awakening of singing phosphorus!” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this “indifferent” figure who “struck against” the “unbelievable Floridas.” This figure titles a poem in which it proclaims “I no longer felt myself guided by haulers.”
ANSWER: the Drunken Boat [accept Le Bateau Ivre; accept answers referring to the narrator of “The Drunken Boat”; prompt on partial answers]
[10m] “The Drunken Boat” narrates a namesake poem by this French symbolist author. This poet also wrote the collection A Season in Hell.
ANSWER: Arthur Rimbaud [or Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud]
[10e] In the “Drunken Boat,” the narrator describes a time when the sea brings “dark” examples of these objects with “yellow suckers.” A seminal collection of symbolist poetry by Charles Baudelaire is titled for these objects “of Evil.”
ANSWER: flowers [accept The Flowers of Evil or Les Fleurs du mal]
<Literature - European, Spencer Manning> | VAULT II Packet 08
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 17.86 | 95% | 69% | 14% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leif Eriksen's Striking Appearance | Albanian Rift in the Sky | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Prat Pack | Always Set the Kurve | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Taman's Nepo Babies | Don't Ever Take Sides Against the Family | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| With Less Than 2 Years of Combined Quizbowl Experience | Basileus II: Electric Boogaloo | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 88% | 25% |