immigrating to the United Kingdom - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

A man taking this action pretends to only know two words in English to Kevin Edelman, who steals his box of incense. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this action taken by Saleh Omar at the beginning of the novel By the Sea. In another novel, Obinze takes a job cleaning toilets after he completes this action.

ANSWER: immigrating to the United Kingdom [accept UK or Great Britain in place of “United Kingdom”; accept descriptions like moving to England or taking asylum in the UK; accept immigrating to London; prompt on partial answer] (The other novel is Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.)

[10m] By the Sea is by this Tanzanian-born novelist, who also explored stories of emigrants in exile in his novels Paradise and The Last Gift.

ANSWER: Abdulrazak Gurnah

[10e] The Tanzanian man Daud immigrates to this English city in Gurnah’s novel Pilgrims Way. A group of pilgrims tell stories on their way to this city in a collection by Geoffrey Chaucer.

ANSWER: Canterbury (Gurnah himself also lives in Canterbury.)

<HG, World Literature>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	7	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	24.00	100%	80%	60%
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	10.00	75%	0%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	3	26.67	100%	67%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


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