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
| Cry of the Common Loon | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Stanford+ | Berkeley | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |