Question
Answer the following about fog and mist in British fantasy fiction, for 10 points each.
[10m] An amnesia-inducing mist settles over post-Arthurian Britain in this novel about the elderly couple Axl and Beatrice.
ANSWER: The Buried Giant (by Kazuo Ishiguro)
[10h] In a novel by this author, residents of the town of Lud-in-the-Mist deal with an influx of fairy fruit. The line “I want a holophrase” opens a typographically striking long poem by this author whose speaker strolls through a postwar city.
ANSWER: Hope Mirrlees [or Helen Hope Mirrlees] (The long poem is Paris: A Poem.)
[10e] Shasta senses a mysterious presence in the fog in this author’s novel The Horse and His Boy, part of a series of seven novels by this author that also includes Prince Caspian and The Magician’s Nephew.
ANSWER: C. S. Lewis [or Clive Staples Lewis] (The series is The Chronicles of Narnia.)
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| WUSTL B | Penn A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |