Question
A novelist from this family wrote a letter ending, “as you are, you are highly annoying” to her son, who left her household after she threw him down the stairs. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this family of an author who tells a long story about caring for a wounded Prussian soldier in Thomas Mann’s novel Lotte in Weimar. The popular 19th-century novelists Johanna (“yoh-HAH-nah”) and Adele were part of this family.
ANSWER: Schopenhauer family [accept Johanna Schopenhauer, Adele Schopenhauer, or Arthur Schopenhauer]
[10e] Adele Schopenhauer’s friend Annette von Droste-Hülshoff wrote an early true crime novella that ends with a curse in this language being found on a beech tree. This language was revived by authors of the Haskalah era.
ANSWER: Hebrew [or Ivrit; reject “Modern Hebrew” or “Israeli Hebrew”] (The novella is Die Judenbuche or The Jew’s Beech.)
[10m] Arthur Schopenhauer loved this author who coined the term weltschmerz and wrote Shandian (“Shandy-in”) squibs like “The Brewery of My Gastric Juice.” This author of Titan was surnamed Richter, but is best known by the French version of his given names.
ANSWER: Jean Paul [or Jean Paul Richter; or Johann Paul Friedrich Richter]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 12.00 | 80% | 33% | 7% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | Les Missourables | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | BHSU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | We Need New Names | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | The Jeam Team | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | var merchants | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |