Question
At the end of one story, Madame de Peyrehorade blames recent frosts on one of these objects which was cast from a statue with the inscription “CAVE AMANTEM.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects. In Guy de Maupassant’s “Mademoiselle Fifi,” the Abbe Chantavoine’s only resistance against the Prussian occupation is a refusal to use these objects.
ANSWER: church bells
[10h] Alphonse de Peyrehorade accidentally gives his wedding ring to the title statue of this Prosper Mérimée short story and is killed by the statue on his wedding night.
ANSWER: “La Vénus d’Ille” [or “The Venus of Ille”]
[10e] The narrator compares the math teacher Florabela to the Venus d’Ille, among other unflattering things, in Solenoid, a novel from this country. Tristan Tzara and Eugene Ionesco moved to France from this country.
ANSWER: Romania (Solenoid is by Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu.)
<Literature - European Literature - Short Fiction>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | N | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 40% | 40% |
Data
| Banned from ARGOS | |madam| | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Pahkin' the Ahgo | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Import Pandas | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | BHSU Rebirth | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| hawk two of | Clown Squad | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| BHSU ReFantazio | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northeast by Northwestern | Clown Senpais | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Notre Dame | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WashU | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge | Limp Franceskit | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cien Años de Quizboledad | Simple Vibes | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Defying Suavity | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Walston et. al. | Cope is the thing with feathers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| just one more half-dot bro | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford+ | Cry of the Common Loon | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| throw away your cards, rally in the streets | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Thompson et al. | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | UBC | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |