Question
Description acceptable. After he is sent to the hospital following a foot race at a celebration for this event, Gikonyo finally manages to forgive his wife and accept her out-of-wedlock child as his own. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this event celebrated in the novel A Grain of Wheat, when Mugo mysteriously refuses to make a speech and then later steps forward to reveal that he betrayed the hero Kihika.
ANSWER: Kenya’s independence from the United Kingdom [accept equivalent descriptions; accept Uhuru no Kazi; accept Jamhuri Day; accept Madaraka Day or self-rule (because even though the novel doesn’t refer to it as such the event/day are more or less equivalent)]
[10e] This author wrote about Kenya’s independence in A Grain of Wheat and also wrote the novel Petals of Blood.
ANSWER: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
[10h] In this other novel, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment in Luanda on the brink of Angola’s independence and lives for 30 years off growing vegetables and catching pigeons on the balcony.
ANSWER: A General Theory of Oblivion [accept Teoria Geral do Esquecimento]
<AS, World and Other Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 80% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Johns Hopkins | George Washington A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| George Washington B | Georgetown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgetown | George Washington A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland B | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |