Question
While leaving one of these places, the protagonist of a story compares it to a “nightmare boat” and ignores a woman telling her to look for “collateral beauty.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this sort of place that sets the short story “People Like That Are The Only People Here.” Janet returns to one of these places to see her father after visiting a planetarium in Alice Munro’s story “The Moons of Jupiter.”
ANSWER: hospitals [accept pediatric oncology wards or “Peed Onk”]
[10h] This author drew on her son’s cancer diagnosis for “People Like That Are The Only People Here,” which is part of her collection Birds of America. This author also wrote Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?.
ANSWER: Lorrie Moore [or Marie Lorena Moore]
[10e] Keltjin becomes a nanny for a family with no child in the year after this event in Moore’s novel A Gate at the Stairs. This historical event is the subject of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
ANSWER: 9/11 [or September 11 attacks or World Trade Center attacks]
<HG, American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Warwick | Birmingham | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oxford | Cambridge B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Durham | Bristol | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Edinburgh | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial B | Cambridge A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |