Question
This novel’s second part, published a decade after its first, ends with the protagonist fighting a young man from his hometown whom he calls the Knight of the White Moon. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this novel by Miguel de Cervantes (“sair-VAN-tayz”) about a hapless, windmill-tilting knight, who is accompanied by Sancho Panza.
ANSWER: Don Quixote [or The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha or El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha]
[10h] A person using this pseudonym wrote an unauthorized sequel to Don Quixote, which Cervantes insulted in the novel’s actual second part. One theory holds that this pseudonym referred to a group of friends of Lope de Vega.
ANSWER: Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda (“ah-VAY-ah-NAY-dah”)
[10m] This fictional French writer attempts to produce a second version of Don Quixote, textually identical to the first, in a Jorge Luis Borges (“hor-HAY loo-EES bor-HEZ”) short story.
ANSWER: Pierre Menard [accept either underlined part; accept “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” or “Pierre Menard, Autor del Quijote”]
Summary
| 2023 UMN COOT | 08/19/2023 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
Data
| Our Job is Buzz | Jeff Weiner Fan Club | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Palestrina Sawayama | doubleplusnegfive | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| BHSU | Weird Klaus Barbie | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |