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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.)

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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


Pitt	RIT	10	10	0	20
Stanford	Berkeley Past	0	10	0	10
McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	Toronto Metropolitan A	10	10	0	20
Toronto A	Toronto B	10	10	10	30
BU	Brandeis A	0	0	0	0
Bowdoin B	Boston College B	0	0	0	0
Harvard	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
MIT	Clark Wilson	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina	10	10	0	20
UF B	UF C	0	0	10	10
Valencia	USF	0	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley A	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
Purdue B	Chicago A	0	10	0	10
Illinois Blue	Notre Dame	10	10	10	30
Cambridge A	Southampton	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Claremont	Anderson et al.	0	10	10	20
Jason et al.	SGV Ventures	0	10	0	10
Brandeis B	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
Amherst	Clark House	10	10	0	20
Boston College A	Tufts B	0	0	0	0
Yale	Bowdoin C	10	10	10	30
North Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Squidward Community College	Missouri	10	10	10	30
WashU	Truman	0	10	10	20
Maryland	Penn State	10	10	0	20
UCF B	Florida Tech	0	0	0	0
UCF A	UF A	10	10	0	20
McGill A	Carleton A	10	10	0	20
Lambert	Innovation Academy C	0	10	0	10
Milton	Innovation Academy B	0	10	0	10
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
Warwick B	LSE B	0	10	0	10
ALCU	U[C]SD	10	10	0	20