Question
In a story from this collection, a group of four people tell stories after a flood traps them in a granary. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Isak Dinesen collection which contains the stories “The Deluge at Norderney” and “The Supper at Elsinore.”
ANSWER: Seven Gothic Tales
[10e] Dinesen’s Seven Gothic Tales also contains a story in which a Prioress is revealed to be one of these creatures. A paw from one of these creatures grants three twisted wishes in a story by W.W. Jacobs.
ANSWER: monkey [accept “The Monkey’s Paw”]
[10h] An impotent prince fails to get his friend to impregnate his wife in a story from Seven Gothic Tales titled for this city. While in this city, one poet wrote a section of a poem that repeats the line “pull down thy vanity.”
ANSWER: Pisa [accept “The Roads Round Pisa”] (The other clue refers to Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos.)
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 63% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell Wind | Rochester A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell Earth | RIT | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rochester B | Cornell Fire | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia Ly-α | Rochester C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |