Question
This author once received a tract saying Boy Communists could not be Boy Scouts because “a Boy Scout must salute the Union Jack, which is the symbol of tyranny and oppression.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who discussed the right-wing propaganda of the title publications in “Boys’ Weeklies” and the popularity of King Solomon’s Mines in “Good Bad Books.”
ANSWER: George Orwell
[10h] Herbert Kohl described his Orwell-inspired attempts to write left-wing children’s literature in a book titled for the question, “Should we burn [this character]?” This character is “civilized” by the Rich Lady.
ANSWER: Babar the Elephant [accept Should We Burn Babar?]
[10e] Kohl also critiques the values of this story, which received many propagandistic retellings in Fascist Italy. Its author, Carlo Collodi, wrote it after fighting for Italian unification.
ANSWER: The Adventures of Pinocchio [or Le avventure di Pinocchio; accept The Story of a Puppet or La storia di un burattino]
<JK, European Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 11 | 16.36 | 100% | 55% | 9% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | The Jeam Team | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| We Need New Names | BHSU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |