Question

Amna falls in love with an engineer she intended to murder in a novel from this country, The Call of the Curlew. A literary group nicknamed the “hoodlums” was named after a novel from this country about a line of chieftains whose patriarch escapes a plague. An author from this country known as “the dean of [his language’s] literature” was fired from his actual job as a dean of literature (-5[1])for his book on Jahiliyyah poetry. That blind author from this country chronicled his time at the (*) Sorbonne in his memoir The Days. Like Salman Rushdie, (-5[1])an author from this (-5[1])country was stabbed by an extremist for a novel whose title characters are analogs of Adam, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad. Amina breaks her collarbone in a car accident in (10[1])a novel from this country, Palace Walk. For 10 points, (10[1])name this home country of Taha Hussein and Naguib Mahfouz. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Egypt [or Misr] (The second sentence refers to Mahfouz’s novel The Harafish. The third-to-last sentence refers to The Children of Gebelawi.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Seraphina Charlotte FooCambridge AWarwick A69-5
Cormac BeirneLSE BImperial A95-5
Albert NyangLSE AImperial B99-5
Antoni KluzowskiWarwick BBristol12810
Michael WuSouthamptonWarwick C13810
Chris LevesleyWarwick ACambridge A14810
Charlie LowmanImperial BLSE A14910
Rahim DinaImperial ALSE B14910

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