Question
A “totem tree” of this species criticizes humans for waging war on the forest in a novel partly narrated by it and a personification of the ebola virus, Véronique Tadjo’s In the Company of Men. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these trees that partly title a Wilma Stockenström novel about an expedition to one. After breaking an iron rod, the hunchbacked title character of an epic uses a branch from one of these trees in order to walk.
ANSWER: baobab tree [or adansonias; or sitou; or kremetart; accept The Expedition to the Baobab Tree]
[10e] After seeing merchants selling leaves from the baobab tree, this character returns from exile to fight the sorcerer king Soumaoro Kanté (“SUE-mah-ROH kan-TAY”) for control of Mali in a Mandinka epic.
ANSWER: Sundiata Keita [or Sunjata Keita; or Son-Jara; or Sogolon Djata; accept the Epic of Sundiata; prompt on Keita]
[10h] The title animal confesses to a baobab tree that he murdered the literary-minded Amédée and a palm-wine tapster in this author’s novel Memoirs of a Porcupine, which uses no punctuation marks apart from commas.
ANSWER: Alain Mabanckou
<Literature - World Literature - Misc Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Hu up Jinning they Tao | Banned from ARGOS | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Import Pandas | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| |madam| | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |