Question
A trucker drives across this state to go on a disappointing date with a schoolteacher in a story from Maile Meloy’s (“MY-lee ma-LOY’s”) collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this state, the setting of The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir by Richard Hugo. Hugo spearheaded a regionalist movement in this state while working at its flagship university under Leslie Fiedler.
ANSWER: Montana [or MT]
[10m] One of Hugo’s students at the University of Montana was this Blackfeet novelist who set Winter in the Blood on the Belknap Reservation. His novel Fools Crow is a landmark work of the Native American Renaissance.
ANSWER: James Welch [accept Jim Welch]
[10e] Hugo’s most-anthologized poem is titled for “degrees of” this color in the Montana town of Philipsburg. An author with this surname used Montana as a setting in The Border Legion and wrote Riders of the Purple Sage.
ANSWER: gray [accept “Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg” or Zane Grey]
<TH, American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 9.23 | 69% | 15% | 8% |
Data
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Les Missourables | Lisan al-Quib | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | The Jeam Team | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BHSU B | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| var merchants | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |