Ernesto Sabato - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

The protagonist of a novel by this author learns that his lover Alejandra keeps the decapitated head of her criollo ancestor in a chest. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this novelist and physicist who wrote On Heroes and Tombs. Another novel by this author begins, “I am the painter who killed Maria Iribarne.”

ANSWER: Ernesto Sabato (The other novel is El Túnel.)

[10e] In On Heroes and Tombs, Alejandra’s father Fernando writes a conspiratorial “report” claiming that people with this affliction control the world. This affliction affected Jorge Luis Borges and John Milton.

ANSWER: blindness

[10m] In Sabato’s novel El Túnel, the protagonist cuckolds a blind man with this surname. In a novel by an author with this surname, a clairvoyant woman recovers the decapitated head of her mother Nívea.

ANSWER: Allende [accept Isabel Allende or Isabel Angélica Allende Llona] (The novel is House of the Spirits.)

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2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	11.25	63%	38%	13%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	50%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	7	22.86	100%	86%	43%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	N	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%

Data


Brandeis A	Amherst	0	10	10	20
Bowdoin A	Harvard	0	10	0	10
Clark Wilson	Bowdoin B	0	0	0	0
Bowdoin C	Tufts B	0	0	0	0
BU	Clark House	0	0	0	0
MIT	Boston College B	10	10	10	30
South Carolina	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech C	North Carolina A	0	10	10	20
WashU	Missouri	10	10	10	30
Truman	Squidward Community College	0	10	10	20
Social credit go vroom	In the Mood for Buzz	0	10	10	20
Madmen and Specialists	Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	0	10	10	20
Old and Young	The cult of SGA	0	10	10	20
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	bingy academy	0	10	10	20
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	Paddington in Peru (2024)	0	10	10	20
Pitt	Maryland	0	10	10	20
Penn State	RIT	0	10	10	20
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Florida Tech	UF B	0	0	10	10
UCF B	UF C	0	0	10	10
UCF A	USF	0	10	10	20
UF A	Valencia	0	10	10	20
Berkeley Past	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Stanford	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	Carleton A	0	10	10	20
Waterloo Aspidistra	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Aspidistra	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Aspidistra	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Aspidistra	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Aspidistra	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Aspidistra	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Aspidistra	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Aspidistra	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	10	30
Toronto B	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Basic	McGill A	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan A	Waterloo Cloze	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Innovation Academy A	10	10	10	30
Innovation Academy C	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Milton	Lambert	0	10	10	20
Johns Creek	Mississippi State	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Notre Dame	10	10	10	30
Illinois Blue	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Illinois Orange	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	SIUE	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Southampton	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	LSE A	0	10	0	10
Bristol	LSE B	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Warwick C	0	10	10	20
Brandeis B	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Yale	Boston College A	0	10	10	20