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Question

In David Graeber’s essay “What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?,” he claims that these animals “have a very bad reputation among philosophers,” with the exception of the French. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this animal, which a David Foster Wallace essay questions the ethics of eating after his trip to a festival.

ANSWER: lobsters [accept “Consider the Lobster”]

[10e] A bad trip on mescaline once caused this French writer to hallucinate lobster-like creatures, which may have influenced Antoine Roquentin’s numerous references to crabs in this author’s novel Nausea. He also wrote No Exit.

ANSWER: Jean-Paul Sartre [or Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre]

[10h] This other French writer was famous for walking his pet lobster Thibault on a leash. A “disconsolate Prince of Aquitaine in a ruined tower” is the speaker of this author’s poem “El Desdichado.”

ANSWER: Gérard de Nerval

<CM, European Literature>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	50%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


Virginia Tech A	North Carolina A	0	10	10	20
South Carolina	North Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Virginia Tech C	0	10	0	10
In the Mood for Buzz	Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	10	10	10	30
USF	Florida Tech	0	0	0	0
Valencia	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UF A	UCF A	10	10	0	20
UF C	UF B	0	0	0	0
Berkeley Past	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley B	Stanford	10	10	10	30
McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	Carleton A	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Waterloo Aspidistra	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	Innovation Academy C	0	10	0	10
Johns Creek	Lambert	0	10	0	10
Innovation Academy A	Milton	10	10	10	30
Mississippi State	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Illinois Blue	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Illinois Orange	Notre Dame	10	10	10	30
Purdue B	SIUE	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Southampton	0	10	0	10
LSE A	Cambridge B	10	10	10	30
LSE B	Cambridge A	10	10	0	20
Warwick A	Warwick C	10	10	0	20
Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	Toronto B	10	10	10	30
Toronto Metropolitan A	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	10	10	0	20
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Waterloo Basic	10	10	0	20
Waterloo Cloze	McGill A	10	10	0	20
ALCU	Claremont	0	10	0	10
Anderson et al.	SGV Ventures	10	10	10	30
Jason et al.	U[C]SD	10	10	0	20