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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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY821.25100%100%13%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY823.75100%100%38%
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY621.67100%67%50%
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1222.50100%92%33%
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY917.78100%67%11%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY518.00100%60%20%
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY920.0089%78%33%
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY922.22100%100%22%

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West Virginia A (UG) CWRU A (UG) 0101020
CWRU B (DII) Miami A (UG) 0101020
Jefferson County Scholars (DII)Michigan C 10101030
Michigan A (UG) Michigan B (UG)10101030
Michigan State A Michigan State B 0101020
Ohio State A (UG) CWRU C (UG)0101020
Ohio State B (DII) Miami B (UG) 10101030
West Virginia B (UG) Michigan D (UG)0101020