Giovanni’s Room - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

Despite being unable to read, Vern and her best friend Lucy memorize this novel in Rivers Solomon’s novel Sorrowland. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this novel in which David has a disastrous gay affair with an Italian bartender in Paris, despite his engagement to his fiancée Hella.

ANSWER: Giovanni’s Room (by James Baldwin)

[10h] The scientific experiments on an all-Black cult in Sorrowland were partially inspired by the Tuskegee Institute, which also inspired this novel’s depiction of a Black school in Naxos. This novel chronicles Helga Crane’s life in Harlem, Copenhagen, and Alabama.

ANSWER: Quicksand (by Nella Larsen)

[10e] In Sorrowland, Vern’s mother describes the cult as “more bountiful than the one in” this author’s novel Paradise. Sethe (“SETH-uh”) is haunted by her dead child in this author’s novel Beloved.

ANSWER: Toni Morrison [or Chloe Anthony Wofford or Chloe Ardelia Wofford]

<CM, American Literature>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	15.00	88%	63%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	6	35.00	133%	117%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%

Data


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