Arundhati Roy - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

In a novel by this author, a factory continues to manufacture banana jam illegally after the Food Products Organization bans it for being neither jam nor jelly. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author who wrote about a family that owns Paradise Pickles and Preserves. In that novel by this author, Sophie drowns while going to the History House with her twin cousins.

ANSWER: Arundhati Roy (The novel is The God of Small Things.)

[10e] Arundhati Roy is from this country. A plane named after one of the gardens of Paradise explodes in mid-air in The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, who was born in this country.

ANSWER: India [or the Republic of India]

[10h] In Roy’s most recent novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, the hijra Anjum eventually founds the Jannat Guest House, named after the Urdu word for “Paradise,” in one of these places.

ANSWER: graveyards [or cemetery or cemeteries]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	14.29	100%	43%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	10	15.00	90%	50%	10%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	9	14.44	100%	44%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	7	20.00	100%	57%	43%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	88%	63%	0%

Data


Johns Hopkins A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Princeton A	Haverford A	0	10	0	10
Bard A	Rowan A	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins B	Rutgers A	0	10	0	10
Penn B	Penn A	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Penn State A	10	10	0	20
Penn State B	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Miami	UIUC D	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Notre Dame	0	10	0	10
SIUE A	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
WashU C	Purdue C	0	10	0	10
Purdue C	WashU C	0	0	10	10
Indiana B	UChicago D	10	10	0	20
UChicago C	UIUC A	10	10	0	20
WashU B	UIUC B	10	10	0	20
UChicago B	UIUC C	10	10	0	20
Ohio State C (DII)	CWRU A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Kenyon A (UG)	CWRU C (UG)	0	10	0	10
CWRU D (DII)	Kenyon B (DII)	0	10	0	10
CWRU B (UG)	Michigan C (UG)	10	10	0	20
Michigan State C (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	0	10	0	10
Pitt A	Michigan State A	10	10	0	20
Michigan State B (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Ohio State B (DII)	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
Missouri	Iowa	10	10	10	30
Central Oklahoma	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
Oregon State	McGill E	0	10	0	10
Texas C	Colorado College	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Vassar A	10	10	10	30
Vassar B	Texas D	10	10	0	20
NYU B	WUSTL A	10	10	10	30
Florida State University A	UCF A	0	10	0	10
UF B	UCF B	10	10	0	20
UF E	UF F	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Bristol A	10	10	0	20
Southampton A	Cambridge D	10	10	0	20
Birmingham	Durham	10	10	0	20
Southampton B	Oxford B	0	0	0	0
UF D	Florida Tech A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	LSE A	10	10	0	20