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Question

A James Wood essay about Orhan Pamuk describes how these events are often “Orientalized.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this kind of event central to a 2021 Pamuk novel. In an earlier novel about one of these events, a man who lures cats to spit on from his balcony watches an actor die during a performance of Orpheus and Eurydice.

ANSWER: plague [accept pandemic; accept Nights of Plague or Veba Geceleri; accept The Plague or La Peste]

[10e] In his essay “What the Great Pandemic Novels Teach Us,” Pamuk highlights how this author stereotypes Muslims as “fatalists” in A Journal of the Plague Year. This author’s first novel was Robinson Crusoe.

ANSWER: Daniel Defoe [or Daniel Foe]

[10h] Pamuk’s essay also draws parallels between the present day and this novel. A historical appendix about two people falsely accused of spreading the plague was added to this novel in which Don Rodrigo tries to prevent Renzo and Lucia from marrying.

ANSWER: The Betrothed [or I promessi sposi]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	17.78	100%	67%	11%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	7	15.71	100%	29%	29%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	0%	67%

Data


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