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. (10[1])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 pipe. “Paul Revere’s Ride” appears in a collection of “Tales of” one of these places (10[2])by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (10[1])A novel’s narrator becomes “bosom-friends” with a former prince of Rokovoko (10[1])at one of these places called Spouter. For 10 points, early (10[1])chapters of Moby-Dick are set in what sort of place where Queequeg and Ishmael are lodgers? ■END■

ANSWER: inns [accept Wayside Inn or Sudbury Inn or Tales of a Wayside Inn; accept Spouter Inn; prompt on hotels or lodges]
<HG, American Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Braden BoothMissouriChicago B4710
Charles HangWashU AIllinois B8810
Michael HundingIllinois AIndiana B8810
Jakob MyersIndiana AChicago D9210
John John GrogerWashU BIllinois C10310
Luke KetchumMissoui S&TChicago C11410

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