Question
The narrator of one story reads in the newspaper that riots are occurring because this title is vacant, then concludes that the holder of this title must be hidden away somewhere. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this title. In an entry dated April 43, 2000, one character claims that it “is a day of the greatest solemnity,” since this title has been filled by none other than that character himself.
ANSWER: King of Spain [accept equivalents; prompt on king or monarch]
[10m] Poprishchin [poh-prish-chin] claims that he is Ferdinand VII, the King of Spain, in a story titled for one of these documents. The narrator of a story titled for one of these documents sees the line “eat people” between the lines of a book.
ANSWER: diary of a madman [or madman’s diary; prompt on diary] (The second story is “Diary of a Madman”by Lu Xun.)
[10e] The story “The Diary of a Madman” is by this Ukrainian-born author of “The Overcoat” and “The Nose.”
ANSWER: Nikolai Gogol [or Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol]
<Literature - European 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% | 83% | 17% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 75% | 25% |
Data
| SIUE | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Squidward Community College | WUSTL J | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Truman State | WUSTL C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |