Question
After hearing coughing from down the hall, this novel’s protagonist finds a man in a filthy room who asks him to boil water for the spaghetti he is making. In this novel, a trumpeter kills his cats after another character is impaled while trying to make love to the Niobe’s (“nigh-OH-bee’s”) figurehead. This novel’s protagonist claims to be Jesus while leading a gang of children called the (*) Dusters. Alfred, the father of this novel’s protagonist, is shot while choking on his party pin. Cat and Mouse and Dog Years chronologically follow this novel, whose protagonist can break glass with his scream and decides to stop growing at age three. Oskar Matzerath is the protagonist of, for 10 points, what novel by Günter Grass? ■END■
ANSWER: The Tin Drum [or Die Blechtrommel]
<Michael Bentley, Literature - European - Long Fiction> ~22840~ <Editor: Joseph Krol>
= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 34 | 94% | 24% | 0% | 76.25 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chris Yoo | Thomas Jefferson B | William Fremd | 49 | 20 |
Elliott Lee | Thomas Jefferson A | Winston Churchill A | 49 | 20 |
Ryan Dai | Carbondale | Lincoln-Way East | 50 | 20 |
Ali Hamzeh | Kinkaid | Dallas County | 52 | 20 |
Arjun Kala | University Lab | Plymouth | 52 | 20 |
Brodie Henry | West Point | Hoover B | 54 | 20 |
Costas Pavlou | Detroit Country Day | St. Mark's | 59 | 20 |
Cindy Gao | Belmont | Barrington A | 65 | 20 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Troy | Detroit Catholic Central A | 66 | 10 |
Camden Williams | Mexico | Choate Rosemary Hall | 66 | 10 |
Abigail Lee | Thomas Jefferson C | Heights | 66 | 10 |
Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Hinsdale Central | 66 | 10 |
Coby Thammavong | Rockford Auburn A | Hunter A | 66 | 10 |
Dominic Apap | Detroit Catholic Central B | Rockford Auburn B | 66 | 10 |
Keefer Lin | Chattahoochee B | Midtown | 66 | 10 |
Kyunghwan Lim | Chattahoochee A | Parkway West | 66 | 10 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Maggie Walker C | 66 | 10 |
Vincent Wang | Irvington A | Northmont A | 67 | 10 |
Monit Karmaker | Stevenson A | Thomas Jefferson D | 73 | 10 |
Rachel Ezrielev | Richard Montgomery | Solon | 77 | 10 |
Evan Lin | Woodland | Dunbar | 81 | 10 |
Varun Venkatagiri | Innovation Academy B | Waukee | 85 | 10 |
Kyan van Beek | Lake Highland | Hunter B | 88 | 0 |
Tanay Bodducherla | Mira Loma | Maggie Walker A | 88 | 10 |
Rohan Dalal | Johns Creek B | New Brighton | 91 | 10 |
Brandon Torres | Carl Sandburg | Barrington B | 99 | 10 |
Jeffrey Xu | Johns Creek A | Canyon Crest | 99 | 10 |
Joseph Harrison | Detroit Catholic Central C | Maggie Walker B | 99 | 10 |
Ella Sheffield | Mercer County | Northmont B | 99 | 10 |
Riona Duncan | Walter Payton | Winston Churchill B | 107 | 10 |
David Bertolasi | Belvidere | Stevenson B | 107 | 0 |
Deven Yeary | Washington | Saint Joseph | 107 | 10 |
Eden Blakemore | John Adams A | Moberly | 122 | 10 |
Ayan Kohli | Hunter B | Lake Highland | 122 | 0 |
Clete Reinberger | Cincinnati Hills Christian | Elkhorn North | 122 | 10 |