Question
After being dunked in the water, a character claims to see one of these animals, which prompts another character to grab her foot and kiss it. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these aquatic animals that supposedly swim into holes and get fat off of a certain fruit. These animals title a short story that ends with Seymour Glass abruptly committing suicide.
ANSWER: bananafish [accept “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”; prompt on fish alone]
[10e] Seymour Glass appears in the short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” part of this author’s Nine Stories. He also wrote The Catcher in the Rye.
ANSWER: J. D. Salinger [or Jerome David Salinger]
[10h] Nine Stories also contains this story, in which Eloise Wengler gets drunk with an old friend from college. The title of this story refers to a memory of Eloise spraining her ankle.
ANSWER: “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut”
<Steven Yuan, Literature - American - Short Fiction> ~20679~ <Editor: Chandler West>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 20.29 | 100% | 83% | 20% |
Data
| Dunbar | Chattahoochee A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Hunter B | Chattahoochee B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Solon | Choate Rosemary Hall | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Barrington A | Cincinnati Hills Christian | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Detroit Catholic Central A | Innovation Academy A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Dallas County | Elkhorn North | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Heights | Mira Loma | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Hinsdale Central | Innovation Academy B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Hunter A | Norman | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Irvington A | Thomas Jefferson B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| John Adams A | Rockford Auburn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Creek A | Parkway West | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lake Highland | Carl Sandburg | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Detroit Catholic Central B | Lincoln-Way East | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maggie Walker A | Midtown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Belmont | Maggie Walker C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Woodland | Mexico | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Kinkaid | Moberly | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| New Brighton | Rockford Auburn B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Carbondale | Norris | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| William Fremd | Northmont A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Detroit Catholic Central C | Richard Montgomery | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Detroit Country Day | Saint Joseph | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| St. Mark's | Northmont B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stevenson A | Maggie Walker B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Thomas Jefferson A | John Adams B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Thomas Jefferson D | Mercer County | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Troy | Thomas Jefferson C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| University Lab | Stevenson B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Belvidere | Walter Payton | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Barrington B | Washington | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Plymouth | Waukee | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| West Point | Winston Churchill B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Winnebago | Hoover B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Johns Creek B | Winston Churchill A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |