Question
A woman on honeymoon dies in a hospital after pricking her finger on a rose in this book’s story “The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this collection of stories about Latin Americans in Europe, such as “The Airplane of the Sleeping Beauty.” It draws on the author’s time as a destitute journalist in Paris.
ANSWER: Strange Pilgrims [or Doce cuentos peregrinos]
[10e] Gabriel García Márquez also drew on his exile in a novella titled for a cock-fighting veteran with this rank. Aureliano Buendía has this rank in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
ANSWER: colonel [or coronel; accept Colonel Aureliano Buendía; accept No One Writes to the Colonel or El coronel no tiene quien le escriba]
[10m] In Strange Pilgrims, two brothers meet this fate after unscrewing the light bulbs in their Madrid apartment. A story from Leaf Storm partly titled for this fate is set in a rocky village where no flowers grow until the title character arrives.
ANSWER: drowning [or ahogo or ahogar; accept “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” or “El ahogado más hermoso del mundo”] (The first story is “Light is Like Water.”)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Arizona State | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |