Question

With a friend, this novel’s protagonist uses cigarettes to bribe a wagon driver in order to steal some geese from a house. One character in this novel is described as being able to find everything as though he conjured it out of the air, at one point managing to find four (15[1])boxes of lobsters. In this novel, the sight of a cherry tree reminds a character of his orchard, causing him to run away. This novel’s epigraph says that it “is to be neither an accusation nor a confession and least of all an adventure”. The protagonist of this novel has a guilt-induced chat with the corpse of the (*) French printer Gerard Duval. (10[1])Kat dies after being hit in the head with a shell fragment in this novel, in which the teacher (10[1])Kantorek convinces many students to go to war. For 10 points, Paul Bäumer fights in World War I in what novel by Erich Maria Remarque? ■END■

ANSWER: All Quiet on the Western Front [or Im Westen nichts Neues]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nicholas TunksOur Job is BuzzWeird Klaus Barbie5015
Rob CarsonBHSUdoubleplusnegfive11210
Ethan AshbrookJeff Weiner Fan ClubPalestrina Sawayama13110

Summary

2023 UMN COOT08/19/2023Y3100%33%0%97.67