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, a man 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 (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 60% | 40% | 40% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
Data
| Penn State A | Iowa | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan A | Ohio State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan C | Case Western | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ohio | WUSTL | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |