French - 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard

Question

In a novel written in this language, a woman stabs Ousmane for courting another wife. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this language used by Mariama Bâ to write Scarlet Song. The poet of “Black Woman” was elected to a council governing this language that consists of 40 “immortals.”

ANSWER: French [or française; accept Académie française or French Academy]

[10h] Bâ also wrote this novel in which the widow Ramatoulaye (“rah-mah-too-LYE”) writes the title objects to Aïssatou (“ah-ee-sah-TOO”).

ANSWER: So Long a Letter [or Une si longue lettre]

[10e] The first president of this modern-day country, Léopold Senghor, founded a boarding school in it named after Bâ, who was also from this country.

ANSWER: Senegal [or Republic of Senegal or Republique du Senegal]

<SM, Long Fiction>

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	6.00	60%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	40%	60%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	17.50	75%	75%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	11.25	38%	63%	13%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	8	17.50	88%	50%	38%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	10.00	57%	43%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	15.00	63%	50%	38%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	25.00	83%	100%	67%

Data


Brown	Harvard	10	0	10	20
MIT	Belmont	10	10	10	30
RIT	Boston University	10	0	0	10
Brandeis	Lexington	0	0	10	10