Question
The narrator descriptively weaves through this city from Selborne Avenue to its outer limits in the opening pages of Yvonne Vera’s novel The Stone Virgins. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city that is the pseudonymous surname of an author who wrote a 2022 novel based on Animal Farm. That author also expanded the story “Hitting Budapest” into a novel in which Darling moves to Detroit.
ANSWER: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe [accept NoViolet Bulawayo] (The latter novel is We Need New Names.)
[10e] Nonceba returns to Bulawayo at the end of The Stone Virgins, years after being mutilated by one of these people named Sibaso. The memoir A Long Way Gone and the novel Beasts of No Nation both focus on children in this role.
ANSWER: soldier [accept fighter; accept military or militia]
[10h] Bulawayo is also the setting of Vera’s novel about the nurse Phephelaphi (“fuh-fuh-LA-fee”), titled for one of these creatures. In a novel titled for these creatures, a woman accidentally leaves a purse behind after slapping the powerful host of a dance party.
ANSWER: butterflies [or butterfly; accept mariposas; prompt on insects or Lepidoptera] (The latter novel is In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez.)
<Morrison, Long Fiction>
Summary
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| 2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 100% | 17% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Columbia | 03/23/2024 | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 100% | 57% | 14% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Duke | 03/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Stanford | 03/09/2024 | N | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| Jason Lovers | Clark A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Jeffrey and Dahmers | Clark B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Triple Round Robin Lovers | Labour's Lost Lovers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| 2 days into college and I'm 3 lectures behind | purdoobie brothers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago A Minus Minus | Charlotte Mewing to get that chiseled farmer’s bride jawline | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| BHSU | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Noli Me Tangerine | Nobodaddy but you | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| >:3 | Oh the Missouri | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| malcolm in the middlemarch (Purdue 1) | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| boy's jitches (ft. DMA) | JinAh and Jordan from Wikiquiz | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 1.g4 Test Mixture | Let's Fighting Love | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess) | mnemonists | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Naocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew Hesse | Parden the Interruption | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| chamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia | Sandmännchen im Helikopter | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola | protobowling for soup | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| JJaryland | bruh | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UNC Hunny | Duke | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UNC B | UNC A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Houston Junior College | Free-ish Agents | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Tunks et al. | The Present King of James is Bald | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| World's Fair Wiggle Walk | Cleo: 5/7 movie | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Heat-Oppressed Brains | A VK a Day Keeps the Doctor Away | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| You, Me and the Big G | Eugene o'Negging | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |