Question
During a book burning in Yoko Ogawa’s novel The Memory Police, the narrator recalls the saying “Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,” which in real life comes from a play by this author. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of the play Almansor, in which Christians burn Granada during the Spanish Inquisition. This author’s most famous poem draws on a German legend about a mermaid who lures sailors to their doom.
ANSWER: Heinrich Heine (that poem is Die Lorelei.)
[10e] In a novel set during the Spanish Inquisition, because this delusional knight from La Mancha has been reading too many books on chivalry, his housekeeper burns down his personal library.
ANSWER: Don Quixote [accept either underlined part of Alonso Quijano]
[10h] The jury’s still out on whether books are included in the collateral damage of houses being burned down in this author's play The Fire Raisers, although this author did once go into the woods to burn all his manuscripts.
ANSWER: Max Frisch
<Darren Petrosino, European Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 7 | 18.57 | 100% | 57% | 29% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 100% | 40% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell B | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| RIT | JHU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| JHU A | NYU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Swarthmore | John Jay A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | UMD A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UMD B | Pitt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |