Question

Late in a novel set in this region, three elderly sisters have their chapel deconsecrated when a priest determines that most of their relics, which were obtained from Rosa, are forgeries. The narrator of that novel set in this region notes that an elegant ceiling decorated with Greek Gods was later hit by a bomb manufactured in Pittsburgh. A noble in this region, who takes astronomical readings with the help of the Jesuit Father (*) Pirrone, contemplates death at a ball before dancing with his daughter-in-law, Angelica. An aristocrat from this region fictionalized his own ancestor as Prince Fabrizio in the novel The Leopard. In one novel, a character, after (10[1])killing McCluskey and Sollozzo, returns to hide in this region’s city of Corleone. For 10 points, Vito Corleone fled from what ancestral island in Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather? ■END■

ANSWER: Sicily [or Sicilia; prompt on Italy]
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Gareth ThorlaksonToronto SproutToronto cDNA11010

Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y1100%0%0%110.00