Question
The narrator of Cat’s Cradle has a “Bokononist vision of unity” after seeing this “screwy” German name on a stone angel at a cemetery and recognizes it as his own. For 10 points each:
[10e] Give this surname of the screwball American author of Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five.
ANSWER: Vonnegut [accept Kurt Vonnegut]
[10h] Before recounting Edgar Derby’s death to Valencia in Slaughterhouse Five, Billy Pilgrim imagines his tombstone with this six-word phrase written on it, which then appears as an illustration on the next page.
ANSWER: “Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt”
[10m] A drawing of Kilgore Trout’s grave reading “Life is no way to treat an animal” appears in this Vonnegut novel. The car salesman Dwayne Hoover freaks out after consuming cocktails in a Holiday Inn in this novel and believes his gay son Bunny to be a robot.
ANSWER: Breakfast of Champions [or Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday]
<Literature - American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
Data
| Lehigh B | Bard | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU B | Yale | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | NYU C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Princeton | Lehigh A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia C | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |