Kallocain - 2025 Chicago Open

Question

In this novel, a state-funded live-in maid reports on the activities of a family living in Chemistry City No. 4. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this 1940 dystopian novel by Karin Boye set in a totalitarian world state where Leo Kall develops the title drug, which forces political dissidents to tell the truth when injected.

ANSWER: Kallocain

[10e] Karin Boye wrote Kallocain in this language, also used to write controversial Nobel winner Harry Martinson’s sci-fi epic poem Aniara. Nobel winner Pär Lagerkvist wrote The Dwarf and Barabbas in this language.

ANSWER: Swedish [or Svenska]

[10m] Kallocain was nominated for a “retro” award named for this author. This Luxembourgish American editor founded the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories.

ANSWER: Hugo Gernsback [prompt on Hugos or Retro Hugo Award]

<TH, European Literature>

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Summary


2025 Chicago Open	2025-08-09	Y	12	19.17	100%	50%	42%
California	2025-02-01	N	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	N	5	18.00	80%	80%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	N	6	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	N	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
North	2025-02-01	N	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	N	5	12.00	80%	20%	20%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	N	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	N	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	N	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	N	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	N	8	12.50	88%	38%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	N	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


BHSU B	It's not X, but... defenders	10	10	10	30
One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan	The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo!	0	10	0	10
"real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg	The RAND Coöperation	0	10	0	10
The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School	Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard?	0	10	10	20
Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player"	Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart	10	10	10	30
No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian"	Do re mi fa serving negs	10	10	10	30
I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard)	Enjoying the Hole Experience	10	10	0	20
Floridovician	Please sir, may I have some morb?	10	10	0	20
Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte	8/8/8/8/8/8/2k5/RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66	0	10	10	20
BHSU X	"Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene.	0	10	10	20
Big is moving to Evanston!	Halifax Shipping Services	0	10	0	10
Broken Socal Scene	Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu	0	10	0	10