Question
A line about this concept is written on a postcard before the line “A healthy atmosphere stinks of stupidity!” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this concept that Ludvik writes is “the opium of the people,” leading him to be interrogated by the authorities, in Milan Kundera’s novel The Joke.
ANSWER: optimism [accept “Optimism is the opium of the people!” or “Optimismus je opium lidstva!”]
[10e] The original quote, “Religion is the opium of the people,” was written by this thinker who reused ideas from his absurdist novel Scorpion and Felix in the essay “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis-Napoleon.”
ANSWER: Karl Marx [or Karl Heinrich Marx]
[10h] This character from a 1931 “nivola” agrees with Marx’s statement, telling his pupil Lazaro “Let us give them opium so that they can sleep and dream.” Angela discovers that this priest doesn’t believe in God.
ANSWER: Don Manuel [or Don Emmanuel; or Saint Manuel; or Saint Emmanuel; accept San Manuel Bueno,
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 20 | 0.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
Data
| Johns Hopkins A | Iowa State A | 10 | 10 | ||
| Maryland A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | ||
| Cornell B | Claremont A | 10 | 10 | ||
| South Carolina A | Indiana A | 10 | 10 | ||
| McGill A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | ||
| Rutgers A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | ||
| Virginia A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | ||
| Ohio State A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | ||
| Minnesota A | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 10 | ||
| NYU A | Brown A | 10 | 10 | ||
| Illinois A | Florida B | 10 | 10 | ||
| Georgia Tech A | Michigan A | 10 | 10 | ||
| Texas A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | ||
| Yale A | Rutgers B | 10 | 10 | ||
| WUSTL A | Florida A | 10 | 10 | ||
| Georgia Tech B | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | ||
| Stanford A | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | ||
| Toronto A | Yale B | 10 | 10 | ||
| Chicago B | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | ||
| North Carolina A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 |