Question
The narrator claims residents of this island call a ship’s figurehead a “poupée,” or doll, such as the one a resident of this island demanded be carved into the shape of his niece. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this island, whose word “pieuvre” [“PYUV-ra”] entered the French lexicon after being popularized by a fictional resident of this island’s wrestling match with an octopus.
ANSWER: Guernsey (“pieuvre” is the Guernésiais word for octopus.)
[10m] The Guernseyman Gilliatt vies for the affection of Deruchette by trying to repair a steam engine in this Victor Hugo novel, written while he was exiled in Guernsey.
ANSWER: Toilers of the Sea [or Les Travailleurs de la mer]
[10e] The Hauteville House, where Hugo wrote Toilers of the Sea, was donated to Paris in 1927 to commemorate the centenary of this literary and artistic movement that rose in reaction to the Industrial Revolution.
ANSWER: French Romanticism [or Romantic movement]
<Darren Petrosino, European Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| NYU A | Columbia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |