Isak Dinesen - 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell

Question

The Nobel Committee decided not to award the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature to this author to avoid honoring too many Scandinavians. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this author, who depicted a French maid winning the lottery in “Babette’s Feast.” This author of Seven Gothic Tales recounted her life on a Kenyan coffee plantation in a memoir.

ANSWER: Isak Dinesen [or Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke]

[10e] In 1974, Eyvind Johnson, an author from this country, accepted a Nobel having previously argued that Scandinavians were overrepresented. Plays by August Strindberg were premiered in this country’s capital, Stockholm.

ANSWER: Sweden

[10m] The 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to an Italian poet with this last name. In one novel, a hunchbacked character with this first name serves as the bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral.

ANSWER: Quasimodo [accept Salvatore Quasimodo]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	8	21.25	100%	100%	13%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	23.75	100%	100%	38%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	6	21.67	100%	67%	50%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	12	22.50	100%	92%	33%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	17.78	100%	67%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	9	20.00	89%	78%	33%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	22.22	100%	100%	22%

Data


Syracuse	Binghamton A	10	10	10	30
Cornell B	U of Rochester A	0	10	10	20
Cornell E	Cornell D	0	10	10	20
U of Rochester B	Cornell G	0	10	10	20
ESF	Cornell A	0	10	10	20
Cornell F	Penn State	0	10	10	20
RIT A	Binghamton B	0	10	10	20
RIT B	Cornell C	0	10	10	20