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This author used Anaxagoras’ quip that the “descent to hell is the same from any place” as the epigram for a novel in which a professor starts putting dirt in his wife’s drawer so she won’t find his manuscript. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author, who wrote about a history professor who founds a Party for Disappointed People while trying to finish his massive study Guilt and Innocence in Hitler’s Germany.
ANSWER: William Howard Gass
[10e] In his Cartesian Sonatas, Gass describes this thinker’s theory of monads as “globules of milky fat.” Voltaire mocked this thinker as Dr. Pangloss in Candide.
ANSWER: Gottfried Leibniz
[10m] Jethro Furber, a man with this profession, rails against the improbable luck of Bracket Omensetter in Gass’ debut novel. Hazel Motes pursues the daughter of a man with this profession who wimped out of burning his own eyes in Wise Blood.
ANSWER: preacher [or priest; the first novel is called Omensetter’s Luck.]
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2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y410.00100%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y215.00100%50%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y320.00100%100%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y613.3383%50%0%
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La Clique du ChâteauWaterloo Hatsune010010
Mixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, AdrianLibrary of Babel School of Continuing Studies010010
Waterloo MikuToronto Weary010010
Toronto RoflToronto Joy010010
Florida AFlorida B010010
North FloridaFSU A0101020
BrownBoston College0101020
MITBrandeis0101020
Columbia BCornell A0101020
JHU ARutgers010010
HarvardTufts0101020
John Jay ASwarthmore010010
Cornell BNYU0101020
PittRIT0101020
JHU BUMD A0000
Berkeley AStanford0101020
Berkeley BBerkeley C010010
Texas BOklahoma A0000
Texas AOklahoma B010010
Texas CRice010010
3HK1MMBetrayed by Rita Izzatdust0101020
Broken Hearts10 Negs that Shook the Quiz010010
Yes, ModeratorEdinburgh010010
Foucault's PenndulumFour Neg Omelette1010020
TabearnacleOld London Town010010