Question
A Canadian author named after this fruit won the Ferro-Grumley Award for a book about a woman who hides her learning disability from her coworkers and girlfriend. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this fruit, which is the first name of that author of Sunnybrook. The speaker of a Li-Young Lee poem titled for this fruit is slapped by Mrs. Walker for confusing the word for this fruit with a similar-sounding word.
ANSWER: persimmons [accept Persimmon Blackbridge or “Persimmons”]
[10e] Separate Ferro-Grumley Awards were given for gay and lesbian fiction until 2009, when this author of Fun Home won the award for a collection of her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For.
ANSWER: Alison Bechdel
[10h] Jam befriends Fruitbat and Junior in a chat room in a Persimmon Blackbridge novel titled for a “Highway” of this substance. An Elizabeth Wurtzel memoir partly titled for this substance follows Lizzie, a mentally ill Harvard undergraduate with dreams of becoming a music critic.
ANSWER: Prozac [accept Prozac Highway or Prozac Nation]
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Summary
| 2024 ESPN @ Stanford | 03/09/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Free Agents | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stanford | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |