Question
Answer the following about novels in which scholars lack basic language competency in an area of ostensible expertise, for 10 points each.
[10e] Jack Gladney tries to hide the fact that he does not know German despite being a professor of “Hitler studies” in this author’s novel White Noise.
ANSWER: Don DeLillo [or Donald Richard DeLillo]
[10h] Despite giving long pronouncements on Dostoevsky and the Russian Church, the scholar Shapiro admits “my Russian is not what it could be” in this novel. Late in this novel, a scholar gets in a car crash while visiting his daughter and is arrested for possession of a firearm.
ANSWER: Herzog (by Saul Bellow)
[10m] Leonard Blorenge, a colleague of this character, reads and speaks no French despite being Chair of French Literature and Language. This Waindell College professor boards the wrong train for a lecture at the start of a novel.
ANSWER: Pnin [or Timofey Pavlovich Pnin] (The novel is Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov.)
<Morrison, Long Fiction>
Summary
| 2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 83% | 33% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Columbia | 03/23/2024 | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 100% | 71% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Duke | 03/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| JinAh and Jordan from Wikiquiz | boy's jitches (ft. DMA) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| 1.g4 Test Mixture | Let's Fighting Love | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| mnemonists | NJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Parden the Interruption | Naocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew Hesse | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Sandmännchen im Helikopter | chamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola | protobowling for soup | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| bruh | JJaryland | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |