Question
Shaun compares life in one of these places to Las Meninas in a Samantha Harvey novel set in one of these places that won the 2024 Booker Prize. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this sort of place where the psychologist Kris Kelvin is visited by a copy of his dead wife sent by a sentient ocean. That novel set in this sort of place is Solaris by Stanisław Lem (“stah-NEE-swoff lem”).
ANSWER: space stations [or research stations in space; accept spaceships; accept International Space Station or ISS; accept Solaris Station; prompt on research stations or research facilities]
[10e] Lem also explored alien contact in a novel titled The Man from [this planet]. This planet is the setting of a Ray Bradbury novel titled for its “Chronicles.”
ANSWER: Mars [accept The Man from Mars or The Martian Chronicles]
[10h] Lem wrote more lighthearted stories of space travel in his series The Star Diaries, which features the adventures of this recurring Lem character, who also appears in the novel The Futurological Congress.
ANSWER: Ijon Tichy (“EE-yohn TEE-hee”) [or Ijon Tichy]
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Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 16.00 | 90% | 70% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Illinois A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois B | Chicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Illinois C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Indiana A | Indiana B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Missouri | WashU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WashU A | Missoui S&T | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |