Question
This good titles a 1996 novel by Alessandro Baricco, in which smuggler Hervé Joncour becomes smitten with an Edo-period concubine. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this good also peddled by the father of Sir Thomas Browne. They’re not ashes, but a 1995 travelog with long asides about the production of this good contemplates why Browne said this good was found in the Urn of Patroclus.
ANSWER: silk [accept silkworms; accept Bombyx mori; accept silk moths; accept Seta]
[10m] In this German author’s semi-fictional travelog The Rings of Saturn, the narrator discusses the cultivation of silkworms while walking down the English coastline. This author also included photographs in his novel Austerlitz.
ANSWER: W. G. Sebald [or Winfried Georg Sebald]
[10e] The end of The Rings of Saturn dotes on the black silk robes worn by wealthy ladies at this woman’s funeral. This royal showed a dying Charles Dickens in her journals of visiting the Scottish Highlands with her husband Albert.
ANSWER: Queen Victoria [or Alexandrina Victoria]
<Darren Petrosino, European Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl Florida | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 100% | 20% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| 3HK1MM | Oxford School for Quizness | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | Sorted | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| LSE | See it | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Limp Chriskit | Say it | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Crying of Team 49 | Gressenheller A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |