Question
Answer the following about literary mongooses, for 10 points each:
[10e] The mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi saves a family living in India from two cobras in a story from this author’s The Jungle Book.
ANSWER: Rudyard Kipling [or Joseph Rudyard Kipling]
[10m] Derek Walcott wrote that “The plots are forced, the prose sedate and silly” in the poem “The Mongoose,” which he wrote as part of his vicious feud with this author of A Bend in the River.
ANSWER: V. S. Naipaul (“NYE-paul”) [or Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul]
[10h] In this 2007 novel, a mongoose helps protect a sci-fi obsessed teen from a fukú (“foo-KOO”) curse when he falls in love with the prostitute Ybon (“ee-BON”).
ANSWER: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (by Junot Díaz)
<Joseph Krol, Literature - World and Miscellaneous> ~20373~ <Editor: Joseph Krol>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 16.86 | 100% | 49% | 20% |
Data
| Lincoln-Way East | Barrington B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Belmont | Kinkaid | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Thomas Jefferson B | Canyon Crest | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Carbondale | Stevenson A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Carl Sandburg | New Brighton | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Innovation Academy A | Chattahoochee B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Detroit Catholic Central A | Dallas County | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Detroit Catholic Central B | Hoover B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Detroit Catholic Central C | Washington | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maggie Walker A | Dunbar | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Heights | Parkway West | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Hunter B | West Point | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Irvington A | Mexico | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| John Adams A | Rockford Auburn B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| John Adams B | Innovation Academy B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Creek B | Thomas Jefferson D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Mira Loma | Woodland | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Moberly | Lake Highland | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Norris | Belvidere | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northmont A | Choate Rosemary Hall | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northmont B | Maggie Walker B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Richard Montgomery | Plymouth | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rockford Auburn A | Detroit Country Day | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Saint Joseph | Elkhorn North | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| St. Mark's | Solon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stevenson B | Norman | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Barrington A | Thomas Jefferson A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Thomas Jefferson C | Chattahoochee A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Creek A | Troy | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Hunter A | University Lab | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Walter Payton | Midtown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Mercer County | Waukee | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maggie Walker C | Winnebago | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| William Fremd | Winston Churchill A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Winston Churchill B | Hinsdale Central | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |