Question
The protagonist of a novel by this author has the alter ego Abbé Dalla Piccola (“AH-bay DAHL-la PICK-oh-la”) and compiles The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In another novel by this author, an editor employed by Mr. Garamond uses the password “No” to log on to a computer called “Abulafia.” In a different novel by this author of The Prague Cemetery, a series of murders mirroring the Seven Trumpets include an herbalist whose head is crushed with a globe and a body found in a vat of blood. Those deaths, orchestrated by the blind monk Jorge of Burgos, are investigated by Adso of Melk and William of Baskerville in a novel by this author. For 10 points, name this Italian author of Foucault’s Pendulum and The Name of the Rose. ■END■
ANSWER: Umberto Eco
<Literature - European Literature>
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Ivy Chen (DII) | Princeton | Penn | 108 | 10 |
Frank Paz (DII) | Swarthmore A | Columbia A | 111 | 10 |
Wade Rogers (DII) | Fordham | Swarthmore B | 128 | 0 |
Mukhil Krishnan (DII) | Lehigh | University of Delaware B | 128 | 10 |
Rio Lucenet (UG) | NYU C | NYU B | 128 | 10 |