Question
In one story in this collection, the narrator compares a mine with a cone-shaped gorge to Dante’s “schematic representations of hell.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this memoiristic short story collection by Primo Levi, which contains the story “Iron.” Levi and his friend steal the title substance from a prison in this collection’s story “Cerium.”
ANSWER: The Periodic Table [or Il sistema periodico]
[10e] In Primo Levi’s If This is a Man, he recites Inferno’s Canto 26 to the French-speaking Jean in this place. Elie Wiesel is sent to this place in Night.
ANSWER: Auschwitz concentration camp [accept lager, the Jewish term Levi uses; prompt on concentration camp or death camp by asking, "Which one?"]
[10h] This Peter Weiss play, once the planned third in a trilogy of plays structured after the Divine Comedy, is split into 11 “cantos,” in which concentration camp victims testify during the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.
ANSWER: The Investigation: Oratorio in 11 Cantos
<Darren Petrosino, European Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 83% | 33% | 17% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 100% | 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% | 80% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
Data
| 3HK1MM | 10 Negs that Shook the Quiz | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Foucault's Penndulum | Edinburgh | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Old London Town | Four Neg Omelette | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Scottish, Irish, Both or Neither | Tabearnacle | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yes, Moderator | Broken Hearts | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |