Question
An epiphany causes Nessa to lose her obsession with this author in a Robert McGill story that uses this author’s name 127 times, titled “Something Something [this author].” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Nobel laureate whose short story collections include Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage and The Moons of Jupiter.
ANSWER: Alice Munro [or Alice Ann Munro or Alice Ann Laidlaw]
[10h] In this story from Hateship, the narrator offends her elderly cousin Alfrida by turning an anecdote about her mother’s death into a published story. This story titles an anthology of Munro’s work from 1995 to 2014.
ANSWER: “Family Furnishings”
[10m] Munro was good friends with Margaret Laurence, whose most widely read novel is titled for an angel of this substance. Carol Shields presented a novel as the diaries of Daisy, whose mother has this substance as a surname.
ANSWER: stone [accept The Stone Angel; accept The Stone Diaries; reject synonyms like “rock”]
<Mitch McCullar, American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 89% | 11% |
Data
| BHSU | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Hang et al., Robert Browning | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Team Name Think Detail | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | I would prefer not to | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| In Search of Things Past | The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | The Canadians | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| remembrance of lost time | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Saint Peter Andre 3000 | [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |