plague - 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard

Question

A James Wood essay about Orhan Pamuk describes how these events are often “Orientalized.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this kind of event central to a 2021 Pamuk novel. In an earlier novel about one of these events, a man who lures cats to spit on from his balcony watches an actor die during a performance of Orpheus and Eurydice.

ANSWER: plague [accept pandemic; accept Nights of Plague or Veba Geceleri; accept The Plague or La Peste]

[10e] In his essay “What the Great Pandemic Novels Teach Us,” Pamuk highlights how this author stereotypes Muslims as “fatalists” in A Journal of the Plague Year. This author’s first novel was Robinson Crusoe.

ANSWER: Daniel Defoe [or Daniel Foe]

[10h] Pamuk’s essay also draws parallels between the present day and this novel. A historical appendix about two people falsely accused of spreading the plague was added to this novel in which Don Rodrigo tries to prevent Renzo and Lucia from marrying.

ANSWER: The Betrothed [or I promessi sposi]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	17.78	100%	67%	11%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	7	15.71	100%	29%	29%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	0%	67%

Data


RIT	Belmont	10	10
Harvard	Lexington	10	10
BU	MIT	0	0