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 (10[1])a tomahawk pipe. “Paul Revere’s Ride” appears in a collection of “Tales of” one of these places by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A novel’s narrator becomes “bosom-friends” with a former prince of Rokovoko at one of these places called Spouter. For 10 points, early 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
Truman FillbrandtUW AUW B4710
Anne FjeldAlbertaUBC7110

Summary

California2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%85.67
Great Lakes2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%102.17
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y6100%0%0%101.50
Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%0%88.67
Overflow2025-02-01Y5100%0%20%72.60
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y2100%0%0%59.00
Southeast2025-02-01Y3100%0%33%90.33
UK2025-02-01Y1070%0%10%92.00