Question
In a novel in this language, a string instrument is played to disguise the sound of a murder weapon being flung into the snow using string and a water wheel. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this language used by a Mystery Writers Club, whose founder wrote “The Case of the Murder on D. Hill” and a story in which a man reshapes a sofa so that he can sit inside of it.
ANSWER: Japanese [or Nihongo] (The author is Edogawa Ranpo, who wrote “The Human Chair.”)
[10m] Mystery fiction influenced this Japanese novel in which a translator of the memoir Air Chrysalis and a hitwoman become entwined with a cult across two different worlds.
ANSWER: 1Q84 (one-Q-eighty four)
[10e] This Raymond Chandler translator wrote mystery-themed novels such as 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
ANSWER: Haruki Murakami
<Literature - World Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
Data
| Ottawa | Toronto Pilk | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto Penguin World War | Toronto cDNA | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Waterloo Bust | Toronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Toronto Sprout | Waterloo Cali | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |