Question
In a book titled for one of these two figures, he recounts that the other of these figures spritzed copies of the Four Gospels with incense before kissing them. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two historical figures. In a novel, a fictional version of one of these figures tells the other about two species of tiny gods called Lares (“Larries”) and Penates (“pen-EIGHTIES”), who each stake a claim to the “soul” of Leandra.
ANSWER: Marco Polo and Kublai Khan [accept answers in either order; prompt on Khan]
[10e] The embellishments made to Marco Polo’s encounters with Kublai Khan inspired this author’s novel Invisible Cities, framed as a dialogue between the two.
ANSWER: Italo Calvino
[10m] While they were imprisoned together in Genoa, this Pisan author jazzed up Marco Polo’s story with language plucked from his own Arthurian romance, fittingly titled Roman de Roi Artus.
ANSWER: Rustichello da Pisa [or Rustichello of Pisa; or Rusticiano]
<Darren Petrosino, European Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl Playtest | 10/12/2024 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
Data
| Ill-Advised Buzz | Oh you like geography? Name every Forrest. | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Statler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl Editors | Khalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| TOAD | Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| bruh | We jopping | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |