Question
This man called himself a “lonely monk walking in rain with a leaky umbrella,” according to an interviewer who completely missed that the expression was a pun roughly meaning “I hold nothing sacred.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this guerrilla leader whose autobiography had earlier been printed in a book by that interviewer, journalist Edgar Snow, the same year this man allied with his rival in the Second United Front.
ANSWER: Mao Zedong [or Chairman Mao; or Mao Tse-Tung]
[10h] This European author misrepresented large parts of his August 1965 interview with Mao in the first of a series of autobiographies that includes Lazarus. In 1934, this author flew over the Rub’ al Khali and claimed to have photographed the capital of the Queen of Sheba.
ANSWER: (Georges) André Malraux
[10e] This author was accused of being a fellow traveler for Mao after writing The Long March, a report of her six-week trip to China in 1955 with her life partner Jean-Paul Sartre.
ANSWER: Simone (Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand) de Beauvoir
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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 83% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Amartya Senpai Notice Me | Chicago B+ | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Epic Games | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland B- | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland B- | Illinois A+ | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland B- | Illinois A+ | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland B- | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Mojo Shojo | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| OSU | WUSTL | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland B- | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland B- | Illinois A+ | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland B- | Illinois A+ | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland B- | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |