Question
In this novel, the wet nurse Jeanne Bussie insists that a character is possessed by the devil. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel by Patrick Süskind about an 18th-century Parisian with a heightened sense of smell, who murders teenage girls in order to create the title product.
ANSWER: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer [or Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders]
[10h] Perfume’s main character is this orphan who, after seven years living as a hermit in a cave, realizes that he was shunned by society because he himself doesn’t smell of anything.
ANSWER: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (“gren-WEE”) [accept either underlined part]
[10e] Grenouille’s seclusion in the cave is one of Perfume’s many allusions to the two-part play Faust, which was written by this earlier German author of Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship.
ANSWER: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Summary
| 2023 UMN COOT | 08/19/2023 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
Data
| Our Job is Buzz | Palestrina Sawayama | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Weird Klaus Barbie | doubleplusnegfive | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| BHSU | Jeff Weiner Fan Club | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |