Question
Description acceptable. Near the end of a novel, a character returns to this location after being confronted by her husband over her racy emails with “wildinwembley.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name or describe this place that has a central “basin” with buildings named after Hobbes and Locke. In a 2012 novel, a character who grew up in this place becomes a lawyer and “tithes” part of her income to her family here.
ANSWER: the council estate in NW [or Caldwell; prompt on partial answer; accept council house, council flat, corporation house, housing estate, or public housing in place of “council estate”; prompt on less specific answers like apartment complex or housing development]
[10e] The protagonist’s father abandons his family after moving into a council flat in this novel by Douglas Stuart, which follows the title character’s youth in Glasgow and won the 2020 Booker Prize.
ANSWER: Shuggie Bain
[10m] Andrea Levy’s novels draw on her youth at a council estate in London after her parents moved there from this city. In White Teeth, the devout Jehovah’s Witness Hortense is born during a disaster in this city.
ANSWER: Kingston, Jamaica
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |
Data
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Les Missourables | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lisan al-Quib | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | var merchants | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | We Need New Names | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| BHSU B | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Jeam Team | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |