Question
In a novel by Daniel Alarcón, Norma creates works for this medium to rally a wartorn country whose villages have been renamed after numbers. For 10 points each:
[10m] Identify this medium. The even chapters of a novel comprise progressively more deranged works for this medium that intersect with the life of the law student Mario, who falls in love with an older divorcee.
ANSWER: radio [accept radionovelas; accept Lost City Radio; prompt on soap operas or scripts or novelas by asking “what medium are they performed in?”]
[10e] This Peruvian and compatriot of Alarcón interweaved Pedro Camacho’s radio soap operas throughout his novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.
ANSWER: Mario Vargas Llosa [prompt on Vargas or Llosa]
[10h] An episode of Alarcón’s show Radio Ambulante recounts how this author attended the World Congress of Sorcery. The protagonist of a novella by this author learns facts from a Clock Radio after taking up a job as a typist, and visits a fortune teller.
ANSWER: Clarice Lispector (The novella is The Hour of the Star.)
<RK, World Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 63% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 50% | 100% |
| 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 | 10.00 | 50% | 25% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | N | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
Data
| BU | Brandeis A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brandeis B | Bowdoin A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Amherst | Clark House | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Harvard | Tufts A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| MIT | Clark Wilson | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Boston College A | Tufts B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yale | Bowdoin C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Squidward Community College | Missouri | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WashU | Truman | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Virginia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia Tech A | South Carolina | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland | Penn State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Pitt | RIT | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Bowdoin B | Boston College B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UCF B | Florida Tech | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Stanford | Berkeley Past | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UF B | UF C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Valencia | USF | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill A | Carleton A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | Toronto Metropolitan A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | Waterloo Cloze | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Waterloo Basic | Waterloo Aspidistra | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Mississippi State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Johns Creek | Georgia Tech D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Innovation Academy A | Georgia Tech C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lambert | Innovation Academy C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Milton | Innovation Academy B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue B | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois Blue | Notre Dame | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Purdue A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois Orange | SIUE | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cambridge B | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LSE A | Warwick C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Southampton | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Warwick A | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Warwick B | LSE B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont | Anderson et al. | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Jason et al. | SGV Ventures | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| ALCU | U[C]SD | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UCF A | UF A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |