Question
Abdul Rahman’s monumental Cities of Salt quintet depicts how lower-class Bedouins in the oasis town of Wadi al-Uyoun grapple with the discovery of this resource by Western imperialists. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this commodity. An Upton Sinclair novel titled for this resource loosely inspired Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 film There Will Be Blood.
ANSWER: oil [or petroleum or gasoline]
[10h] This Indian academic, who coined the term “petrofiction” in an essay on Cities of Salt, criticized the role of imperialism in causing climate change in The Great Derangement. This man wrote the 2008 novel Sea of Poppies.
ANSWER: Amitav Ghosh
[10m] The consequences of Western oil exploration in this country are chronicled in Helon Habila’s petrofiction novel Oil on Water. An environmental activist against Royal Dutch Shell in this country also wrote the novel Sozaboy.
ANSWER: Nigeria [or Federal Republic of Nigeria] (The activist is Ken Saro-Wiwa.)
<AS, World Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 43% | 14% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| RIT | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State | Pitt | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |