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. A scholar in this novel finishes the book Romanticism and Christianity during a freezing winter in eastern Connecticut.
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.)
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Summary
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Data
| Free Agents | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |