atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

In one novel, a man screams after hearing about this event on his crystal set and points his rifle at a bedridden man. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this event whose occurrence leads Kip to distrust Europeans and leave the Villa San Girolamo. A book-length essay about this event in the New Journalism style follows the lives of six people after it.

ANSWER: atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [prompt on World War II] (The unnamed book is John Hersey’s Hiroshima)

[10m] Kip leaves the Villa San Girolamo after the bombing of Hiroshima in this novel. In this novel, an explorer based on László Almásy is cared for by the nurse Hana.

ANSWER: The English Patient

[10e] The literary Almásy, who is given the title nickname of The English Patient, has his whole body burned in one of these events. One of these accidents leads the boys in Lord of the Flies to be stranded on an island.

ANSWER: airplane crashes

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	3	16.67	67%	33%	67%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	5	16.00	80%	80%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	16.67	78%	67%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	16.67	100%	33%	33%

Data


Michigan D	Ohio State D	0	0	10	10
Claremont B	UCLA A	0	10	0	10
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	UCLA B	10	0	10	20
girl 15 whale i mean they	UCSD	10	0	10	20
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	10	10	10	30
Billy's Bastion	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	0	10	10	20
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Too much from you lately	0	10	10	20
Brown	Brandeis	0	0	10	10
Harvard	RIT	10	0	10	20
CWRU	Rutgers	0	10	10	20
George Mason A	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown	Haverford B	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	Catholic University of America	0	10	10	20
NYU A	NYU C	0	10	10	20
Arizona State University A	UW B	10	10	10	30
UW A	Alberta	0	10	10	20
we need new names	Auburn 2026	0	0	10	10
MSJ	Quatumvirate	0	10	0	10
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	evil women enjoyers	10	10	10	30
Cambridge	Birmingham	0	0	10	10
LSE	Sheffield	0	10	10	20
Sheffield B	Sheffield C	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Manchester	0	0	10	10
Egypt Airlines Haters	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	10	10	10	30
Waterloo C	McGill A	0	10	10	20
Waterloo A	Toronto A	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	Toronto B	0	10	10	20
Mac A	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	10	10
Waterloo B	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	0	10	10	20
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	0	10	10	20
Master and Margaritaville	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	0	10	10	20
Gruh	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	0	10	10	20
SIUE	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Truman State	0	0	10	10
WashU Bulbasaur	Illinois A	0	10	10	20
WashU Charmander	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
WashU Squirtle	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Missouri	10	0	10	20
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Free Agents 1	0	10	0	10
Goober Gang	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	0	0	10	10
Mahjonng Masters	Illinois Orange	0	10	10	20
mongeese	Notre Dame + Epic Games	0	0	10	10