At the end of this novella’s first section, its protagonist looks around for a man in a straw hat on the platform while waiting for a tram. The protagonist of this novella starts regularly seeing a barber who dyes his hair following a dream about a Dionysian “stranger-god.” In this novella, the recently-ennobled author of the The Abject is unsettled by multiple red-haired foreigners and is told that the smell of (*) disinfectant is really just the “sirocco.” After eating overripe strawberries, this novella’s protagonist dies of cholera while obsessing over a fourteen-year-old Polish boy called Tadzio (“TAH-joe”). Gustav von Aschenbach (“GOO-stahv von ASH-uhn-BACK”) is the protagonist of, for 10 points, what Thomas Mann novella set in Italy? ■END■
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 33 | 85% | 52% | 0% | 67.39 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braden Booth | Dallas County | Canyon Crest | 26 | 20 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Troy | William Fremd | 40 | 20 |
| Brodie Henry | West Point | Stevenson B | 40 | 0 |
| Evan Lin | Woodland | Rockford Auburn A | 46 | 20 |
| Arnav Lahoti | St. Mark's | Maggie Walker A | 47 | 20 |
| Arjun Kala | University Lab | Solon | 47 | 20 |
| Monit Karmaker | Stevenson A | Parkway West | 47 | 20 |
| Abigail Lee | Thomas Jefferson C | Barrington B | 50 | 0 |
| Costas Pavlou | Detroit Country Day | Richard Montgomery | 50 | 20 |
| Nathan Wu | Plymouth | Mira Loma | 52 | 20 |
| Elliott Lee | Thomas Jefferson A | Detroit Catholic Central A | 53 | 20 |
| Jeffrey Liu | Hinsdale Central | Irvington A | 57 | 20 |
| Ali Hamzeh | Kinkaid | Winston Churchill A | 59 | 20 |
| Rohan Kher | Barrington A | Thomas Jefferson B | 60 | 20 |
| Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Winston Churchill B | 63 | 0 |
| Cindy Gao | Belmont | Johns Creek A | 63 | 20 |
| Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Northmont A | 63 | 20 |
| Uma Mukhopadhyay | Chattahoochee A | Thomas Jefferson D | 63 | 20 |
| Joy An | Choate Rosemary Hall | Walter Payton | 63 | 20 |
| Evan Schleck | Hunter A | Dunbar | 64 | 20 |
| Dominic Apap | Detroit Catholic Central B | Moberly | 71 | 10 |
| Camden Williams | Mexico | Chattahoochee B | 73 | 10 |
| Charles Heydt | Midtown | Maggie Walker C | 75 | 10 |
| Kyan van Beek | Lake Highland | Belvidere | 80 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Johns Creek B | Lincoln-Way East | 80 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Heights | New Brighton | 81 | 10 |
| Ryan Dai | Carbondale | Carl Sandburg | 83 | 0 |
| Clete Reinberger | Cincinnati Hills Christian | Mercer County | 87 | 10 |
| Mary McVeigh | John Adams B | Northmont B | 102 | 10 |
| Colette Kendrick | Winston Churchill B | Innovation Academy A | 112 | 10 |
| Joseph Harrison | Detroit Catholic Central C | Waukee | 112 | 0 |
| Anwitha Vempati | Waukee | Detroit Catholic Central C | 112 | 0 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Carl Sandburg | Carbondale | 113 | 10 |
| Isaac McCollum | Hoover B | Norris | 113 | 0 |
| Brielle Rach | Rockford Auburn B | Hunter B | 113 | 0 |
| Moxie Strom | Hunter B | Rockford Auburn B | 113 | 0 |
| Varun Venkatagiri | Innovation Academy B | Elkhorn North | 113 | 10 |