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 (10[1])for this sort of place (10[1])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 pipe. (10[1])“Paul Revere’s Ride” appears in a collection of “Tales of” one of these places by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (-5[1])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 in what sort of place where Queequeg (10[1])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
Ryan FangStanford BIowa2410
Stephen HeritageNotre Dame ANorthwestern A2910
Rachel EzrielevGeorgetown ANorthwestern B7410
Max KoldaNotre Dame BPurdue92-5
Davis JohnsonPurdueNotre Dame B11010
Amanda ZhaoGeorgetown BNotre Dame C12610

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Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%0%88.67
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