Edwidge Danticat - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

A prostitute tells her sleeping son that her “suitors” are the ghost of his father brought by an angel in a story by this author set in the fictional town of Ville Rose. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this author who included “Night Women” and “The Children of the Sea” in a collection whose Creole title references a traditional way of requesting permission to tell a story.

ANSWER: Edwidge Danticat

[10e] Ville Rose is in this home country of Danticat, where she set many of the stories in Krik? Krak!. The book Tell My Horse chronicles research by another author into the voodoo traditions of Jamaica and this country.

ANSWER: Haiti [or Republic of Haiti or Republique d’Haiti or Repiblik d Ayiti]

[10m] A Danticat novel narrated by Sophie Caco is titled for these things along with “Breath” and “Memory.” This is the first noun in the title of a novel whose protagonist tells Pheoby Watson about her life in its frame story.

ANSWER: eyes [accept Breath, Eyes, Memory or Their Eyes Were Watching God]

<JC, Short Fiction/Other Literature>

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	15.00	88%	63%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	20.00	75%	75%	50%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	18.89	100%	67%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	11.67	100%	0%	17%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	18.75	100%	50%	38%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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