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 @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |