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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2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh2024-11-16Y714.29100%43%0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern2024-11-16Y1021.00120%50%40%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State2024-11-16Y914.44100%44%0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online2024-11-16Y720.00100%57%43%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida2024-11-16Y412.50100%25%0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford2024-11-16Y815.0088%63%0%

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Bard ARowan A1010020
Johns Hopkins AColumbia B1010020
Princeton AHaverford A010010
Johns Hopkins BRutgers A010010
Penn BPenn A010010
Columbia APenn State A1010020
Purdue AIndiana A010010
MiamiUIUC D010010
Northwestern ANotre Dame010010
SIUE APurdue B1010020
WashU CPurdue C010010
Purdue CWashU C001010
Indiana BUChicago D1010020
UChicago CUIUC A1010020
WashU BUIUC B1010020
UChicago BUIUC C1010020
Ohio State C (DII)CWRU A (UG)010010
Kenyon A (UG)CWRU C (UG)010010
CWRU D (DII)Kenyon B (DII)010010
CWRU B (UG)Michigan C (UG)1010020
Michigan State C (UG)Michigan D (DII)010010
Pitt AMichigan State A1010020
Michigan State B (UG)Pitt B (UG)010010
Ohio State A (UG)Michigan A1010020
Ohio State B (DII)Michigan B1010020
Penn State BRutgers C010010
MissouriIowa10101030
Central OklahomaMississippi State010010
Oregon StateMcGill E010010
Texas CColorado College010010
Texas AVassar A10101030
Vassar BTexas D1010020
NYU BWUSTL A10101030
UF DFlorida Tech A010010
Florida State University AUCF A010010
UF BUCF B1010020
UF EUF F010010
Cambridge ABristol A1010020
Cambridge BImperial A1010020
ManchesterCambridge C010010
Southampton ACambridge D1010020
BirminghamDurham1010020
Imperial BWarwick A010010
Oxford ALSE A1010020
Southampton BOxford B0000