the most photographed barn in America - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

Description acceptable. David Foster Wallace’s essay “E Unibus Pluram” praises the “complicated ironies” of a lengthy passage about this location. For 10 points each:

[10h] In a 1985 novel, the protagonist and his colleague, a professor of pop culture who seeks to specialize in “Elvis Studies,” visit what tourist destination, which “no one sees” despite extensively documenting it?

ANSWER: the most photographed barn in America [accept descriptions of a barn that is photographed; accept the barn from White Noise; prompt on barn]

[10e] “E Unibus Pluram” traces this medium’s influence on U.S. fiction. Jack Gladney’s kids are addicted to this medium in Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, whose title refers to the visual static produced by it.

ANSWER: television [or TV]

[10m] This author featured zombie-like, TV-obsessed “Thanatoids” in his novel Vineland. After returning from a Tupperware party, one of this author’s protagonists stares at a TV upon hearing she will execute Pierce Inverarity’s will.

ANSWER: Thomas Pynchon [or Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr.] (The second novel is The Crying of Lot 49.)

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	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	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
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	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
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	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	6	21.67	133%	17%	67%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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