Question
This author often uses gastronomy as a metaphor to explore government corruption in fictional places like Slaughterhouse Village and Liquorland. For 10 points each.
[10m] Name this winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. This author created a father who sells a boy for 2,140 yuan in a novel in which a man is served a dish called “Stork Delivering a Son” at a banquet.
ANSWER: Mo Yan [or Guan Moye]
[10e] Mo Yan’s most famous work, Red Sorghum, centers on a family that produces a type of this product. While “Alone in the Moonlight,” Li Bai wrote about consuming this product.
ANSWER: wine [or liquor]
[10h] A year before receiving the Nobel Prize, Mo Yan won a writing prize named for this writer for his book Frog. This writer became China’s first Minister of Culture and is known for the novels Spring Silkworms and Midnight.
ANSWER: Mao Dun [or Shen Dehong; or Shen Yanbing]
<Jay Kim, World Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Illinois A | WUSTL | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |