Question

An Earle Birney poem titled for a verb form of this place describes how “owls in the beardusky woods derided” the speaker. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this type of place that alliteratively names a genre of ballads by Banjo Paterson, such as “Waltzing Matilda.”
ANSWER: the bush [accept Australian bush or Canadian bush; accept “Bushed”; reject “outback”]
[10m] This critic theorized a “garrison mentality” centered on a national fear of a hostile landscape in the book The Bush Garden. A book by this literary critic articulates theories of modes, symbols, myths, and genres.
ANSWER: Northrop Frye [or Herman Northrop Frye] (The second book is Anatomy of Criticism.)
[10h] This person says, “anything planted here / would come up blood” in “dream 1: the bush garden,” part of a poetry collection inspired by this person’s journals. This writer described the difficulties of living in the Canadian wilderness in the memoir Roughing It in the Bush.
ANSWER: Susanna Moodie [or Susannah Strickland; accept The Journals of Susanna Moodie] (Margaret Atwood wrote The Journals of Susanna Moodie.)

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Brown ADuke A1010020
Chicago ACornell A1010020
Chicago BYale A1010020
Chicago CCornell B100010
Georgia Tech AOhio State A10101030
Georgia Tech BPenn State A0000
Harvard AUC Berkeley A1010020
Indiana AMinnesota A1010020
MIT AColumbia A100010
Maryland AFlorida A0000
McGill AVirginia A100010
Northwestern AToronto A10101030
Penn ASouth Carolina A100010
Purdue ANYU A100010
Rutgers AIowa State A100010
Rutgers BJohns Hopkins A100010
Stanford AWUSTL A1010020
Texas ANorth Carolina A100010
Vanderbilt AImperial A100010
WUSTL BIllinois A1010020