Question
In a novel by this author, a character decides to take his family to Honduras and invents an ice-making machine that doesn’t require electricity called “Fat Boy.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of the travelogues The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express. This author wrote about Allie Fox in his novel The Mosquito Coast.
ANSWER: Paul Theroux [or Paul Edward Theroux]
[10e] Theroux described riding through England in The Kingdom by the Sea, whose title is from this author’s poem “Annabel Lee.” In The Mosquito Coast, the Foxes leave from Baltimore, the home of this poet of “The Raven.”
ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe
[10m] Allie Fox was based on the father of this character, who narrates a novel where he travels to Africa titled for another character “Abroad.” This character witnesses a feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons.
ANSWER: Huckleberry Finn [or Huckleberry Finn; accept Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] (The first novel is Tom Sawyer Abroad.)
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
Data
| Columbia A | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell C | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Haverford | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |