Question
In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the Communists erase Clementis from a photograph, but forget to erase one of these objects that he had loaned to Gottwald. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of object, one of which is a “motif in the musical composition that is” the painter Sabina's life. Though Tomáš finds this object erotic during sex, her lover Franz is confused by it.
ANSWER: hat [accept bowler hat]
[10e] The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is by this Czech author, who created Sabina in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
ANSWER: Milan Kundera
[10h] The “surplus hat” in the photograph baffles the protagonist of this novel, who reads The Book of Laughter and Forgetting to better understand her crush, Ivan, during her freshman year at Harvard.
ANSWER: The Idiot (by Elif Batuman)
<CM, European Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 67% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 28.00 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 80% | 80% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 80% | 60% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| Squidward Community College | Missouri | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WashU | Truman | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |