Question

In one of these places, a novel’s narrator puzzles over a “boggy, soggy, squitchy picture” in a “thoroughly besmoked” oil painting. A Decameron-esque collection titled for this sort of place includes multiple stories from a student, a Sicilian, and a Spanish Jew, and is set in Sudbury, Massachusetts. In a novel, an old lady cries out “clam or cod?” in one of these places, where the narrator first meets a man smoking a tomahawk (10[1])pipe. “Paul Revere’s Ride” appears in a collection of “Tales of” one of these places by (10[1])Henry Wadsworth (10[1])Longfellow. A novel’s narrator becomes “bosom-friends” with a former prince of Rokovoko at one of these places called Spouter. (10[1])For 10 points, early chapters of Moby-Dick are set (10[1])in what sort of place where Queequeg (-5[1])and Ishmael are lodgers? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: inns [accept Wayside Inn or Sudbury Inn or Tales of a Wayside Inn; accept Spouter Inn; prompt on hotels or lodges]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Elie AounCase Western AKenyon7310
Rachel FanousMichigan AOhio State A8910
Rohan Navaneetha RajOhio State BMichigan C9110
Biyang ZhangMichigan BCarnegie Mellon A11010
Ruchir KodihalliCase Western BMichigan D11910
Jayden KuCarnegie Mellon BMichigan State126-5
Anton AkroushMichigan StateCarnegie Mellon B13110

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