Question
The protagonist of a novel by this author learns that his lover Alejandra keeps the decapitated head of her criollo ancestor in a chest. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novelist and physicist who wrote On Heroes and Tombs. Another novel by this author begins, “I am the painter who killed Maria Iribarne.”
ANSWER: Ernesto Sabato (The other novel is El Túnel.)
[10e] In On Heroes and Tombs, Alejandra’s father Fernando writes a conspiratorial “report” claiming that people with this affliction control the world. This affliction affected Jorge Luis Borges and John Milton.
ANSWER: blindness
[10m] In Sabato’s novel El Túnel, the protagonist cuckolds a blind man with this surname. In a novel by an author with this surname, a clairvoyant woman recovers the decapitated head of her mother Nívea.
ANSWER: Allende [accept Isabel Allende or Isabel Angélica Allende Llona] (The novel is House of the Spirits.)
<HG, World Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 63% | 38% | 13% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 50% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 7 | 22.86 | 100% | 86% | 43% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
Data
| Imperial A | Southampton | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | LSE A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Bristol | LSE B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Warwick B | Warwick A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cambridge B | Warwick C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |