Question
In a nonfiction book titled for one of these animals, the author suggests replacing wheat with grasses in the chapter "Accepting History and Creating the Future." For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this animal that titles a nonfiction book subtitled "Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?" by Bruce Pascoe, in which he controversially argues that a certain ethnic group constructed dams and practiced aquaculture.
ANSWER: emus [or Dark Emu]
[10m] Two villains try to steal an Aboriginal sculpture in the novel Seven Emus by Xavier Herbert, who won a prize named for this author. This feminist author wrote about Sybylla Melvyn in My Brilliant Career.
ANSWER: Miles Franklin [or Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin]
[10e] Irene finds a baby's skull "as fragile and powdery as an emu egg" in this author's 2017 novel A Long Way From Home. Two characters bet over moving a glass church across Australia in his novel Oscar and Lucinda.
ANSWER: Peter Carey
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Summary
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 7 | 14.29 | 86% | 43% | 14% |
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
Data
10 Negs that Shook the Quiz | Edinburgh | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Betrayed by Rita Izzatdust | Broken Hearts | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Foucault's Penndulum | Tabearnacle | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Yes, Moderator | Four Neg Omelette | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Scottish, Irish, Both or Neither | Old London Town | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |