124 Bluestone Road - 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State

Question

After the protagonist of a novel leaves a carnival with her lover and her daughter, she finds a young woman who has walked out of a stream and fallen asleep in front of this place. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this place, which is “spiteful” and “full of a baby’s venom” in the opening of a novel that describes how it scared away Howard and Buglar.

ANSWER: 124 Bluestone Road [prompt on the house from Beloved]

[10h] Miranda Silver disappears beneath her house, which is hostile to her black girlfriend Ore, in this author’s novel White Is For Witching. In a novel by this author, Bird searches for her white-passing stepsister, whom her mother had sent to Clara.

ANSWER: Helen Oyeyemi (The novel is Boy, Snow, Bird.)

[10e] The white townsfolk ostracize Marie Toussaint in a Tananarive Due novel about a haunted house known by this adjective. A Southern Gothic story by Flannery O’Connor claims a man described by this adjective “is Hard to Find.”

ANSWER: good [accept The Good House; accept “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”]

<CM, American Literature>

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	N	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	N	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	N	6	11.67	50%	50%	17%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	N	6	21.67	100%	67%	50%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	N	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	N	2	25.00	100%	50%	100%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	N	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	N	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Kenyon B	Michigan A	10	10	20
Kenyon A	Michigan B	0	10	10
OSU A	OSU B	10	10	20