Question
Description acceptable. During a “game” a couple plays during one of these events, a man confesses to returning a sweater and ripping a woman’s photograph out of a fashion magazine. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this kind of event that causes a couple to “weep for the things they now knew” after sharing insecurities, such as their stillborn child, each night.
ANSWER: power outage [accept electrical outage or blackout or power failure; accept descriptions such as the power being out]
[10e] “A Temporary Matter,” along with the stories “This Blessed House” and “The Third and Final Continent” are stories in this author’s collection Interpreter of Maladies.
ANSWER: Jhumpa Lahiri [or Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri]
[10m] In this other story from Interpreter of Maladies, Miranda bemoans that she can’t wear a cocktail dress while acting as Dev’s mistress. Rohin defines this story’s title as “loving someone you don’t know.”
ANSWER: “Sexy”
<Literature - American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 60% | 40% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 67% | 67% | 67% |
Data
| WUSTL A | Squidward Community College | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Truman State | WUSTL J | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL C | SIUE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |