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Question

In a novel written in this language, a woman stabs Ousmane for courting another wife. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this language used by Mariama Bâ to write Scarlet Song. The poet of “Black Woman” was elected to a council governing this language that consists of 40 “immortals.”

ANSWER: French [or française; accept Académie française or French Academy]

[10h] Bâ also wrote this novel in which the widow Ramatoulaye (“rah-mah-too-LYE”) writes the title objects to Aïssatou (“ah-ee-sah-TOO”).

ANSWER: So Long a Letter [or Une si longue lettre]

[10e] The first president of this modern-day country, Léopold Senghor, founded a boarding school in it named after Bâ, who was also from this country.

ANSWER: Senegal [or Republic of Senegal or Republique du Senegal]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	6.00	60%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	40%	60%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	17.50	75%	75%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	11.25	38%	63%	13%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	8	17.50	88%	50%	38%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	10.00	57%	43%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	15.00	63%	50%	38%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	25.00	83%	100%	67%

Data


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