Fernanda Melchor - 2023 Chicago Open

Question

This author’s novel Paradais is set in a gated community in Veracruz, where the incel Franco lives. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Mexican author who wrote about the murder of a woman known as the Witch of La Matosa in the novel Hurricane Season.

ANSWER: Fernanda Melchor

[10e] A journalist by training, Melchor originally conceived Hurricane Season as an investigative nonfiction novel similar to this book about the murders of the Clutter family.

ANSWER: In Cold Blood (by Truman Capote)

[10m] Before In Cold Blood, an author from this country depicted extrajudicial murders in the nonfiction novel Operation Massacre. Outlaws like “The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan” and “The Widow Ching – Pirate” appear in another book from this country.

ANSWER: Argentina [or Argentine Republic or República Argentina] (The book is A Universal History of Infamy by Borges.)

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Summary


2023 Chicago Open	08/05/2023	Y	9	14.44	89%	33%	22%

Data


In Search of Things Past	BHSU	0	10	0	10
Evans Hall destruction awaiters	Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness	0	10	10	20
remembrance of lost time	I would prefer not to	0	10	0	10
Quasicrystal Silence	Team Name Think Detail	0	0	0	0
[moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled?	The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.)	0	10	0	10
The Canadians	Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too	10	10	0	20
The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub	Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill	10	10	10	30
wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp	Saint Peter Andre 3000	0	10	0	10
Curse you, Periplus the Platypus!	Hang et al., Robert Browning	0	10	10	20