Question
Amna falls in love with an engineer she intended to murder in a novel from this country, The Call of the Curlew. A literary group nicknamed the “hoodlums” was named after a novel from this country about a line of chieftains whose patriarch escapes a plague. An author from this country known as “the dean of [his language’s] literature” was fired from his actual job as a dean of literature for his book on Jahiliyyah poetry. That blind author from this country chronicled his time at the (*) Sorbonne in his memoir The Days. Like Salman Rushdie, an author from this country was stabbed by an extremist for a novel whose title characters are analogs of Adam, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad. Amina breaks her collarbone in a car accident in a novel from this country, Palace Walk. For 10 points, name this home country of Taha Hussein and Naguib Mahfouz. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 78.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 104.25 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 98.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 130.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 71% | 14% | 14% | 118.80 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 20% | 110.60 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 142.40 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 115.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 120.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 116.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 0% | 90.00 |
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