Question
At the end of one story, Madame de Peyrehorade blames recent frosts on one of these objects which was cast from a statue with the inscription “CAVE AMANTEM.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects. In Guy de Maupassant’s “Mademoiselle Fifi,” the Abbe Chantavoine’s only resistance against the Prussian occupation is a refusal to use these objects.
ANSWER: church bells
[10h] Alphonse de Peyrehorade accidentally gives his wedding ring to the title statue of this Prosper Merimee short story and is killed by the statue on his wedding night.
ANSWER: “La Vénus d’Ille” [or “The Venus of Ille”]
[10e] The narrator compares the math teacher Florabela to the Venus d’Ille, among other unflattering things, in Solenoid, a novel from this country. Tristan Tzara and Eugene Ionesco moved to France from this country.
ANSWER: Romania (Solenoid is by Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu.)
<Literature - European Literature - Short Fiction>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 40% | 40% |
Data
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |