Question
Soon after recovering from shattering his leg falling from a tree, a character in this novel breaks it again falling down a set of stairs. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this coming-of-age novel in which a group of boys at a New Hampshire school hurl medicine balls at each other in the game of blitzball.
ANSWER: A Separate Peace
[10m] John Knowles based the blitzball player Brinker on this author. During a debate, William Buckley threatened to “sock” this author of Myra Breckinridge “in the god damn face.”
ANSWER: Gore Vidal [or Eugene Luther Gore Vidal; or Eugene Louis Vidal]
[10e] Boarding school students develop the absurdly elaborate game Eschaton to simulate nuclear warfare in Infinite Jest, a novel by this postmodern author who wrote the essay collection Consider the Lobster.
ANSWER: David Foster Wallace [or DFW]
<Literature - American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
Data
| Bard | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Princeton | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia C | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale | Lehigh A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |