Question
This author wrote a series of stories for The New Yorker about Hyman Kaplan, a night school student who signs his name with asterisks between every letter. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Jewish humorist whose book The Joys of Yiddish defines “chutzpah” as the quality of a man who murders his parents and then pleads to the court that he’s an orphan.
ANSWER: Leo Rosten [or Leo Calvin Rosten]
[10e] In a story by this author, an eleven-armed Jewish alien who recommends The Joys of Yiddish tries to form a minyan. This “New Wave” sci-fi author wrote the story “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.”
ANSWER: Harlan Ellison [or Harlan Jay Ellison]
[10m] In a review of Jewish erotica, this author of Barney’s Version notes that The Joys of Yiddish lacks a definition for schmutz. One of this author’s characters enters film distribution in order to buy up land around a lake in Sainte-Agathe.
ANSWER: Mordecai Richler (The novel is The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.)
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Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
Data
| Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | Saint Peter Andre 3000 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | Team Name Think Detail | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |