Question
In a novel set in this country, Kerewin stops trying to prevent a mute boy from being beaten by his adoptive father after he breaks her golden guitar. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country, the setting of a novel about the abusive Joe Gillayley’s attempts to raise Simon. This country was the birthplace of an author who wrote a story in which a character visits the grieving Scott family.
ANSWER: New Zealand [or Aotearoa] (The story is “The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield.)
[10e] Māori characters like Kerewin and Joe appear in Keri Hulme’s The Bone People, the first debut novel to win this award for English-language novels that used to be restricted to Commonwealth writers.
ANSWER: Booker Prize [accept the Man Booker Prize or the Booker Prize for Fiction]
[10h] This author of The Rehearsal became New Zealand’s second Booker winner with a novel featuring the Māori greenstone hunter Te Rau Tauwhare (“tay RAH-oo tau-FA-ray”) and the prospector Walter Moody.
ANSWER: Eleanor Catton (The novel is The Luminaries.)
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 8 | 8.75 | 50% | 25% | 13% |
Data
| Columbia A | Vassar | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Cornell C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NYU B | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Penn B | Penn A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia B | Princeton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Bard A | Rowan A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yale A | Princeton B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Haverford | Yale C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |