Question
Angela Carter quipped that “no daughter of mine should ever be in a position to write” a book titled for this place and suggested an alternate title including the phrase “I Tore Off His Balls.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this building that titles a novel about the author’s affair with the poet George Barker. That Elizabeth Smart novel is titled, “By [this building] I Sat Down and Wept.”
ANSWER: Grand Central Station [or Grand Central Terminal; or GCT; accept By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept]
[10h] By Grand Central Station inspired Carter to join the board of this feminist press founded by Carmen Callil. Now owned by Hachette, this British imprint reissued Gayl Jones’s Corregidora in its green-spined “Modern Classics” line.
ANSWER: Virago Press
[10e] Virago’s Writers as Readers includes an essay by Carter that calls this novel a mix of Bluebeard and Beauty and the Beast. This novel’s protagonist thinks of Bluebeard’s Castle while being led through Thornfield Hall.
ANSWER: Jane Eyre (by Charlotte Brontë)
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 11 | 20.00 | 100% | 82% | 18% |
Data
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | BHSU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Jeam Team | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | We Need New Names | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
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