Question
This novel’s protagonist divides people into three groups, “skiers, allergy sufferers, and drivers,” and refers to her acquaintances by nicknames that she invents, such as Oddball and Dizzy. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel in which Janina, who is obsessed with astrology and translation, investigates the death of a hunter nicknamed Big Foot in a rural village, and comes to believe that animals killed him in revenge.
ANSWER: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
[10m] Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is by this Polish author of Flights and The Books of Jacob, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.
ANSWER: Olga Tokarczuk
[10e] Janina lives near Poland’s border with this other country, which she fantasizes about as a paradise where “nobody quarrels with anyone else.” Tokarczuk’s novel Flights drew comparisons to this country’s author Milan Kundera.
ANSWER: Czechia [or Czech Republic or Ceska republika or Cesko or Czechoslovakia]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 13.00 | 80% | 40% | 10% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
Data
| Bristol | Durham B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Durham A | Cambridge A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Edinburgh | Cambridge B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Imperial A | Warwick | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cambridge C | Imperial B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Kiel | KCL | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Oxford B | Oxford A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Sheffield | Oxford C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |