Question
An author known primarily for writing in the languages of these two countries chronicled an artistically inclined lineage of the title animals in Memoirs of a Polar Bear. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two countries. A student from one of these two countries falls in love with a dancer from the other in the short story “The Dancing Girl.”
ANSWER: Japan and Germany [accept answers in either order] (Memoirs of a Polar Bear is by Yoko Tawada. "The Dancing Girl" is by Mori Ōgai.)
[10m] At the start of this novel, a then-37-year-old Japanese man recalls the sensory details of the Hamburg meadow where his plane lands. In Germany, this novel was published as Naoko’s Smile.
ANSWER: Norwegian Wood [or Noruwei no mori]
[10e] This author expressed frustration with his frequent collaborator Alfred Birnbaum for his “flat, literal, artless” translation of his novel Norwegian Wood.
ANSWER: Haruki Murakami
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Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia B | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | UMD A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| John Jay A | JHU B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU | UMD B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Pitt | JHU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |