Question
This author was credited with popularizing a folktale in which a cunning turtle feeds a monkey’s corpse to its friends before tricking them all into drowning. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who wrote El filibusterismo as a sequel to his novel in which Maria Clara chooses to become a nun after the death of the mestizo Crisóstomo Ibarra.
ANSWER: José Rizal [or José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda] (The folktale is “The Monkey and the Turtle” and the novel is Noli Me Tángere.)
[10e] Nick Joaquin, a Filipino author who wrote about Rizal, used a pen name inspired by this character. An essay by Miguel de Unamuno claims that Rizal is an Oriental version of this gentleman of La Mancha created by Cervantes.
ANSWER: Don Quixote (The Unamuno essay is “Rizal: The Tagalog Hamlet.” Joaquin’s pen name was “Quijano de Manila.”)
[10m] Rizal wrote the poem “Mi último adiós,” or “My Last Farewell,” before dying in this manner. One Hundred Years of Solitude opens with Colonel Aureliano Buendía facing death in this manner.
ANSWER: firing squad [prompt on execution; prompt on getting shot]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia A | Penn B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Vassar | Princeton B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |