Question
In a novel by this author, Horacio Oliveira hallucinates that the Traveler’s wife Talita is his love interest, La Maga. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of the novel Hopscotch, which contains a “table of instructions” that suggests two different orders in which to read the chapters.
ANSWER: Julio Cortázar
[10h] In this short story by Cortázar, Roberto Michel stops a woman seducing a teenage boy by taking photographs of them. This story inspired a Michelangelo Antonioni film of the same name.
ANSWER: “Blow-Up” [or Blowup; accept “Las babas del diablo” or “The Devil’s Drool”]
[10e] Cortázar also wrote a play depicting this character and his companion Friday returning to the desert island where he was shipwrecked. This character was originally created in a novel by Daniel Defoe.
ANSWER: Robinson Crusoe [or Robinson Crusoe or Robinson Kreutznaer; accept Adíos Robinson]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 9 | 11.11 | 100% | 11% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 25% | 38% |
Data
| Ohio State B (DII) | Michigan A (UG) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan B (UG) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan State A | Michigan D (UG) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Miami B (UG) | Ohio State A (UG) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Miami A (UG) | Michigan C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Miami C (DII) | CWRU C (UG) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |