Question

It’s not The Odyssey, but a story from this collection features a character who blinds a one-eyed giant using hot-iron spits. Antoine Galland added a story to this collection whose title character marries Princess Badroulbadour. A blindfolded tailor sews together the body of a woodcutter after he is killed in a story from this collection. The slave girl Morgiana (10[1])pours boiling oil (-5[1])on (10[1])thieves in that story from this collection in which the phrase “Open Sesame”opens (10[2])a (10[1])treasure-filled cave. The stories of this collection are told to Shahryar by Scheherezade to (10[1])delay her execution. For 10 points, name this collection of stories featuring characters like Ali Baba, Sinbad, and Aladdin. ■END■

ANSWER: The Arabian Nights [or One Thousand and One Nights; or The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments; or Kitab Alf Layla wa Layla]
<Literature - World Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ashish KumbhardareRowanUniversity of Delaware B5810
Nitya Nigam (UG)Columbia BPrinceton61-5
Zaid Asif (DII)NYU ANYU C6210
Ivy Chen (DII)PrincetonColumbia B7510
Alex Shi (DII)Swarthmore BPenn7510
Geoffrey Wu (UG)Columbia AMaryland7610
Shadmehr Khan (UG)RutgersLehigh9010

Summary

2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers)10/14/2023Y6100%0%17%72.67