Question

While in this country, a woman leaves her husband John because everytime he talked all she heard was “babble babble.” In a novel set in this country, the narrator’s father Nestor and uncle Cesar (“say-zar”) played music on a television episode. A character living in this country mistakes snow for dust from a nuclear bomb in a novel told in reverse chronological order. In a novel set in this country, a boy breaks both his arms during the (*) “Tarzan jumping contest.” In that novel set in this country, the protagonist learns to walk in high heels with her friends. A character living in this country who gets assaulted at a carnival wishes to be called (10[1])“Zeze the X.” (10[1])The García girls “lose their accents” while living in, for 10 points, what country which is the setting of The House on Mango Street (10[1])by the Chicana author Sandra Cisneros? ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: United States of America [or USA] (The second clue is from The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents is by Julia Alvarez.)
<SP, American Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Raymond WangCornell EarthCornell Wind11310
Jiming ChenCornell FireRochester A11610
Forrest WeintraubColumbia Ly-αRIT14010
Rohan NanduriRochester CRochester B1470
Ethan MaddoxRochester BRochester C1470

Summary

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