“Roman Fever” - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

In this story, a woman recounts how her grandmother died after being sent into the “deadly cold” to collect flowers for her sister Harriet. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this story in which Mrs. Ansley recounts the death of her grandmother from the title disease. This story ends with the revelation to Mrs. Slade that a rendezvous in a certain city resulted in the birth of her daughter Barbara.

ANSWER: “Roman Fever”

[10e] This author of “Roman Fever” wrote stories such as “Autres Temps” and “The Other Two,” as well as the novels The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence.

ANSWER: Edith Wharton [or Edith Newbold Jones]

[10m] This title character is warned of Roman Fever by Frederick Winterbourne in a novella by a different author where she visits the Colosseum with Giovanelli.

ANSWER: Daisy Miller [or Daisy Miller] (Daisy Miller is by Henry James.)

<JC, Short Fiction/Other Literature>

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	10.00	25%	25%	50%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	18.33	83%	67%	33%

Data


Michigan A	Pittsburgh	0	10	10	20
girl 15 whale i mean they	Art of Premature Signaling	0	10	10	20
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Billy's Bastion	0	10	10	20
Keeping Up With the Cardassians	Too much from you lately	0	10	0	10
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	0	10	10	20
Belmont	Brown	0	0	0	0
BU	Brandeis	0	0	0	0
Lexington	RIT	10	10	10	30
Lexington	RIT	10	10	0	20
Lexington	RIT	10	10	10	30
Lexington	RIT	10	10	0	20
Lexington	RIT	10	0	10	20
Lexington	RIT	10	0	0	10
Lexington	RIT	10	0	10	20
Lexington	RIT	10	0	0	10
CWRU	Haverford B	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Georgetown	0	10	10	20
Rutgers	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
Arizona State University A	UW A	10	10	10	30
UW B	Alberta	0	10	10	20
Cambridge	Manchester	0	10	10	20
Birmingham	LSE	0	0	0	0
Sheffield A	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
SIUE	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Illinois C	WashU Squirtle	0	0	0	0
WashU Bulbasaur	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
Truman State	Illinois A	10	10	10	30
WashU Charmander	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto C	10	10	10	30
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	0	10	10	20
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	Master and Margaritaville	0	10	10	20